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      S.S. #14 Trafalgar, Glenorchy School, located on the flats of the Sixteen Mile Creek on Fourth Line just below Lower Baseline Road. You can see the school was on the floodplain flats of the Sixteen Mile Creek on the Fourth Line, just south of Lower Baseline. People remember the river …

      George Ludlow, b.1805 England, married Frances Cruise b. 1815, Ireland, in 1835 in Trafalgar Township. The family home was at the west of Burnhamthorpe Road, where it meets the Sixteen creek, now the address is 1495 Burnhamthorpe Road West. Children: Jennie b. 1838 married Samuel DEARING Martha b. 1843 married …

      The family home was at the west of Burnhamthorpe Road, where it meets the Sixteen creek, now the address is 1495 Burnhamthorpe Road West.

      George LUDLOW b. 1805 England married Frances CRUISE b. 1815 Ireland. They married in 1835 in Trafalgar Twp. Children: Jennie b. 1838 married Samuel DEARING Martha b. 1843 married John SLACER Mary b. 1848 married Arthur BEATTY Barbara b. 1851 married George LONG Elizabeth b. 1854 married Thomas FREEMAN Lilly …

      Linked are photographs of the log cabin.

      S.S. No. 14, Glenorchy school was also known as Pleasant Valley School. The school was on the floodplain flats of the Sixteen Mile Creek on the Fourth Line, just south of Lower Baseline. People remember the river ice pushing up against the old school. A small building on the site …

      Please note that "Glenorchy" was also spelled "Glenorky" at times - by the Milton newspaper, The Canadian Champion and the Oakville Independent Star in the 1930's and 1940's, and by the Acton Free Press in 1925, for example.

      Photographs in the collection are courtesy of Janet (Lees) Timbrell and Ross Wark, camp leaders 1957-1959. This is one of a series of photographs and memories of working as a leader at one of the Oakville Recreation Commission summer day camps in the late 1950's. To see all the records, …

      Ruth (McCann) Brownridge taught the school in the 1930's.

      There is one other photograph of this house in the Trafalgar Township Historical Society collection, taken in 2010 or 2011 - search by the address "4022 Fourth Line" to find it.

      Google Maps has the address as 4030 Fourth Line. To see the Google Maps photograph, enter "43.4787804,-79.764091" into the Google search query box and click on "maps" rather than "search" or pressing "return" on your keyboard.

      A link to other photographs of this log cabin, including one with family descendent George Long is provided for your further information.

      Counseler Janet Lees with day campers at the Pine Ridge Camp location of the Oakbille Recreation Commission Day Camps in July 1956. This Rotary Park site was closed in the 1980's. The old bridge crossing the Sixteen Mile Creek at Henderson Park was demolished and a new one built in …

      Counseler Janet Lees with day campers at the Pine Ridge Camp location of the Oakbille Recreation Commission Day Camps in July 1956. This Rotary Park site was closed in the 1980's. The old bridge crossing the Sixteen Mile Creek at Henderson Park was demolished and a new one built in …

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      Construction of the level bridge crossing of the Sixteen Mile Creek at Glenorchy sometime in the 1980's. This was the second bridge to be built here. It was built on the same abutments as the first, but in 2001, the crossing became a bicycle/pedestrian crossing only as the area is …

      The Askin family were early settlers in the area of Glenorchy, Agerton and Lisgar in Trafalgar Township. In Census records, Eli Askin is listed as a carpenter. Listing in the 1896 Morrey's Business Directory - Halton, Waterloo and Wellington, (Ingersoll: Union Publishing Co., 1896), page 174: Askin , Eli , …

      The Askin family were early settlers in the area of Glenorchy, Agerton and Lisgar in Trafalgar Township. The children attended S.S. #14, Glenorchy School and the family lived on Lot 21, Con.2 NDS, or at Fourth Line near Lower Base Line, near the east branch of the Sixteen Mile Creek. …

      The Glenorchy (aka Glenorky) schoolhouse was located on the flats of the Sixteen Mile Creek on Fourth Line just below Lower Baseline Road. It was also known as "Pleasant Valley School". The building shown here is the shed protecting the well, the school building can faintly be seen behind it …

      The annual photograph of students attending Glenorchy School sometime in the mid to late 1930's. The schoolhouse was located on the flats of the Sixteen Mile Creek on Fourth Line just below Lower Baseline Road. It was also known as "Pleasant Valley School". In the front row right on the …