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      The front cover is missing from this linen book for children published in 1895 but the title is, "The ABC of Animals". A few pages as well as the back cover are shown. This paper book was owned by the Smith family who settled and farmed Lot 34, Con 1 …

      Canada Games was formed in 1886 by its British parent, Copp Clark.

      In another TTHS digital record, you can read the essay written in about 1902 that Dr. Anson Buck wrote on the history of Palermo in Trafalgar Township. About one of the major village businesses, the Palermo Creamery, he wrote "In the year 1895 Harry Heeks established a creamery and ran …

      A list of the honourary members of the (London, England) Royal Geographical Society as at September 30, 1921 includes in its list, "Greenly, Major-Gen. Walter Howorth, C.B., C.M.G., D.S.O. Titley Court, Herefordshire ; and Trail Farm, Palermo, Ontario."

      The village of Palermo was at the intersection of Dundas Street and Old Bronte Road. The Palermo community is referenced back in the 1841 census. Palermo is one of the many Halton name connections to the life and times of Lord Horatio Nelson, British Admiral (1758-1805). Nelson was in Palermo, …

      As early as 1817, settlers in Trafalgar Township were proud of their butter and cheese making businesses. In 1817, Robert Fleming Gourlay, a Scot whose sympathy lay with farmers, not British government and who had previously provided information on the poor in the United Kingdom at the request of the …

      This paper book was owned by the Smith family who settled and farmed Lot 34, Con 1 SDS (near Palermo) in the 1800's through to the early 1970's when the farm was expropriated for Bronte Provincial Creek Park. Only those pages shown here were photographed; the whole catalogue was not …

      Demarius Norton moved from Tapleytown to Palermo at the time of her marriage to Andy Wilkinson. All of her children were born in Palermo, including her daughter shown here, who was called Ethel, not Clara. Demarius Norton 1854-1942 was one of three children of John Norton and Elizabeth Clark of …

      George Henry Wilkinson 1842-1916 and wife Maria Patterson 1863-1939. George Wilkinson was one of the seven sons and three daughters of francis Wilkinson and Clarissa Simons.

      Morley 1886-1931 was the only child of George Wilkinson and Maria Patterson

      Clarissa Simons' father Bildad Simons was one of the first settlers of Trafalgar Twp. A land patent for lot 30 1 SDS was granted to him in 1806 as settlement duties had been fulfilled. Francis Wilkinson and Clarissa Simons were married 2 November 1831. Clarissa 1807-1886 & Francis 1795-1884. Their …

      Please look through all the pages to your right of unknown photos of family members in the Wilkinson Norton Family Album. They are most likely relatives of Robert Wilkinson of Palermo and Louisa Norton of Saltfleet.

      Demarius Norton 1854-1942 was the third Norton sibling to marry a child of Francis & Clarissa (Simons) Wilkinson of Palermo. She married James Andrew Wilkinson 1850-1934. There children were Herbert 1882, Kenneth, Samuel, and Clara Wilkinson 1884.

      In the background is the Palermo Church. The house is on the corner of Hwys 5 and 25.

      Early land registry records and Trafalgar census records from 1851, 1871, 1881 use the family surname spelling, "Hagar". However, the 1861 census and the family gravestones in the Palermo cemetery use the spelling "Hager". Please research under both spellings.

      Children’s choir, Palermo united church, Palermo, Ont. Mrs Darlington on the organ, Ethel Wettlaufer directing. The girl at top left is Janice Bullock. The dark haired boy in the second row is her brother Murray. April 6th.

      Children’s choir, Palermo United church, Palermo, Ont. Mrs Darlington on the organ, Ethel Wettlaufer directing. The girl at top left is Janice Bullock. Her brother Murray is in the second row on the far right. April 6th.

      Ethel Wettlaufer is at the bottom left. The lady on Ethel’s left is Gwen Lister. Ethel Wettlaufer taught at the Palermo public school, 1940's-1950's. She married Eckhardt Reiner Elton Wettlaufer in 1924. Book III, page 66 of the Nelson Women's Institute Tweedsmuir History has a handwritten history of the Palermo …

      Oldest son of John Peter Inglehart and Elizabeth (Betsy) Fisher. William Cyrus farmed at Con 2, SDS, Lot 31, Trafalgar Twp, Nelson Cty. He built the house known as "Oakhurst" in the late 1800s with his second wife, Eleanor. William Cyrus was married twice. The certificate for his first marriage …

      Built by William Cyrus Inglehart in the late 1800’s. In the Historical Atlas of Halton County, 1877, William Cyrus and his family lived and farmed at Con 2, SDS, Lot 31, Trafalgar Township. He settled in 1823, was born in Canada, had a PO address at Palermo, and his occupation …