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      The Vorvis Trophy was annually presented to a person who has consistently contributed to sports in Whitby. Harry Vorvis, the trophy's creator, was the owner of Maple Leaf Billiards. He first presented the trophy in 1948.

      The Brooklin hockey team previously won this title in the 1954-1955 season.

      Black and white photograph showing the member of the Whitby Mall Florist minor hockey team. The team is posing with trophies. Back row: Ben LaHaye (coach), John Allen, Joe McCullough, Gary Roberts, Dave Donaldson, unknown, unknown, Bill Callen, Gord Van Kessel, unknown. Fron row: John Phillips, Steve Gibson, Dave Westcott, …

      Myrtle Public School was located on the south side of Myrtle Road (Concession 9), west of Highway 12. It was built in 1880, closed in 1965, and demolished in 1978.

      William Paxton was born at Durham, England on April 15, 1791. He married Elizabeth Liddle, formerly Mrs. John Dryden, in England in 1819. The family came to Whitby Township in 1820 and he lived for many years in Port Perry. Liddle died at Whitby Township on September 1, 1855. Later, …

      James Hamilton Nicholson was born in Ireland in 1853 and was married at Belfast, Ireland on February 1, 1876. He then went to Iowa in the United States and arrived in Whitby about 1878. From 1904 until his death he was a furniture dealer and undertaker. He died at Whitby …

      James Ironside Davidson was born at Monquhitter, Aberdeenshire, Scotland, on June 8, 1818, settled on Lot 1, Concession 8, Pickering Township, near the village of Balsam, in 1842. He began breeding Clydesdale Horses and Shorthorn Cattle in 1859. In 1871 he began importing animals from the famous breeder, Amos Cruickshank, …

      This photo is printed on page 47 of "100 years of Brooklin schools".

      This photo was printed on page 43 of "100 years of Brooklin schools".

      This picture has been printed on page 7 of "100 Years of Brooklin Schools". In the identifying information, the book identified Alfred Spencer as "Lewis Dehart", Miss Stillman as "Miss A. Fruere", Eva Brooklin as Eva "Brooking", and John Lawrence as "Ivory Jakeman". It is unclear at this time which …

      This photograph has been printed on page 8 of "100 Years of Brooklin Schools". In the identifying information, the book identified Ella Stainton in the back row as "Effie Lyons". It is unclear at this time which is correct.

      This shop was located at 1200 Dundas Street East and dates back as early as the 1820s. It was demolished in 1963. It was part of the Hamer's Corners settlement.

      This house was located at 1344 Brock Street South. The home was built in 1859 on the west side of Brock Street between Highway 401 and the Canadian National Railway. It was demolished in 1970 to make way for the GO Transit parking lot. It was the residence of John …

      All Saints' Anglican Church was built in 1865-66 at 300 Dundas Street West. The photographer, E. Mackintosh, was located at 59 Granby Ave., Toronto.

      Reverend A. Fordyce Barr was Rector of All Saints' from 1907 to 1911. A surplice choir was formed by Rev. Barr in 1909.

      Samuel Robert Wickett was born at Milton-Demarel, Devon, England, on June 21, 1844, and came to Canada in 1855. He was in business at Geneva, near Oshawa from 1866 to1870 and in 1870 purchased the Powell Tannery in Brooklin. When his tannery at Brooklin was destroyed by fire in 1881, …

      Thomas Manderson was born in Scotland in 1837 and came to Canada in 1848, when his family settled in King Township, York County. In 1864 the Manderson family moved to Lot 11, Concession 1, Reach Township, where Thomas Manderson was a farmer the rest of his life. He took over …

      Agnes Wickfield Dow was a daughter of Whitby lawyer John Ball Dow. She was born at Whitby on October 16, 1879. In 1912, she married Geoffrey Clive St. Jermain Steadman. He died at Montreal in 1915 and she travelled to England with her son where they lived with her brother-in-law …

      Robert Peter Perry was a son of Robert Ebenezer Perry, the eldest son of Whitby's founder Peter Perry. He was born at Whitby on September 2, 1850, and attended Upper Canada College in Toronto. In 1869 he and his father moved to Bracebridge where Robert Ebenezer Perry opened a store …

      George Tait Mathison, son of David and Elizabeth Mathison, was born in Ontario about 1862. He died at Whitby on December 27, 1929 and is buried at Union Cemetery, Oshawa.