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      The technology embedded in today's digital camera photographs such as GPS location, compass orientation so we know which way the photographer was facing, date, even time of day will do more to help historians with these questions in the future.

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      Painting of Town Park's waterfront view.

      The cancelled stamp on this card is a 2 cent, of King Edward VII wearing the Ermine Robes of State. King Edward died in 1910 and it wasn't until 1911 that the new series of stamps with King George V were issued. The first lighthouse was knocked over in a …

      This is a hand coloured postcard photograph of Bronte Beach, taken prior to 1910. The photograph was commissioned for local sale by the Bronte postmaster, Joseph S. Flumerfelt. Bronte Post Office was located on Bronte Road, south of Lakeshore on the west side. It was closed after Oakville took over …

      Between 1908 and 1909, a water system was installed through Oakville. The system reservoir was built near Lake Ontario between Kerr and Wilson Streets. Building this system, meant fire department services could be better organized. This photograph is mounted as a post card.

      The post mark says SHERIDAN SEP 17 ONT. The stamp is a 1 cent Canada Postage stamp of King Edward VII wearing the Ermine Robes of State.

      |The stamp is of King Edward VII wearing the Ermine Robes of State. The postmark is "BRONTE OCO7 10 ONT.". According to the Branscombe book, by the time of this postcard, fishing boats were more often gas-powered. The heavily populated, industrial and shallow western end of Lake Ontario was becoming …