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  • Mack School of Nursing Graduating Class and Staff
    Mack School of Nursing Graduating Class and Staff
    Image       Slide File Number: 01.2-B-2 The Mack School of Nursing started in 1874 under the Nightingale System. It's founder was Dr. Theophilus Mack and it was Canada's first training school for nurses. The school closed in the 1970s.
    Image     Slide File Number: 01.2-B-2 The Mack School of Nursing started in 1874 under the Nightingale System. It's founder was Dr. Theophilus Mack and it was Canada's first training school for …
    St. Catharines Public Library
  • Mulholland House
    Mulholland House
    Image       This splendid residence was built in 1878 by Robert Mulholland, a wealthy merchant. The Mulhollands later moved to Port Hope. It is the best example of the Italianate style in Cobourg. It was later owned by first the Hoppers and then the Blacks around the turn of the century. William …
    Image     This splendid residence was built in 1878 by Robert Mulholland, a wealthy merchant. The Mulhollands later moved to Port Hope. It is the best example of the Italianate style in …
    Cobourg Public Library
  • Victoria College and Faraday Hall
    Victoria College and Faraday Hall
    Image       Victoria College, which began as the Upper Canda Academy officially opened in 1836. It became a degree-granting institution in 1842 with Egerton Ryerson as its first principal. The College granted degrees in Arts, Science, Law, Medicine and Divinity. Faraday Hall was added to the College in 1878. Victoria College still …
    Image     Victoria College, which began as the Upper Canda Academy officially opened in 1836. It became a degree-granting institution in 1842 with Egerton Ryerson as its first principal. The College granted …
    Cobourg Public Library
  • Mill Street (Cassels Road) looking east from Baldwin Street
    Mill Street (Cassels Road) looking east from Baldwin Street
    Image       The Masonic Hall shown in this photograph was built in 1871 and demolished in 1951. The Methodist Church shown in this photograph was built in 1867.
    Image     The Masonic Hall shown in this photograph was built in 1871 and demolished in 1951. The Methodist Church shown in this photograph was built in 1867.
    Whitby Public Library
  • Man
    Man
    Imagemystery       Condition: Very poor. Very stained with barely any contrast left. Splotches all over the image area.
    Imagemystery     Condition: Very poor. Very stained with barely any contrast left. Splotches all over the image area.
    St. Marys Museum
  • Several people playing croquet in front of the residence of Richard Hatch, c.1878
    Several people playing croquet in front of the residence of Richard Hatch, c.1878
    Image       This frame house at 110 Dundas Street East was built in the 1850s or 1860s on the north side of Dundas Street, east of Brock Street. The home was built for Richard Hatch, a hardware dealer who came to Whitby in 1864. Later, this house was owned by Lyman T. …
    Image     This frame house at 110 Dundas Street East was built in the 1850s or 1860s on the north side of Dundas Street, east of Brock Street. The home was built …
    Whitby Public Library
  • Indenture between Drusilla R. Tuck and John F. Tuck
    Indenture between Drusilla R. Tuck and John F. Tuck
    Text       Indenture between Drusilla R. Tuck and John F. Tuck Source: Jackie Alls Acquired: October 1995
    Text     Indenture between Drusilla R. Tuck and John F. Tuck Source: Jackie Alls Acquired: October 1995
    Cobourg Public Library
  • Man in Scottish dress
    Man in Scottish dress
    Imagemysterycomment       Condition: Good but browned and worn.
    Imagemysterycomment     Condition: Good but browned and worn.
    St. Marys Museum
  • Garden City: Public and Private Gardens in Early Toronto
    Garden City: Public and Private Gardens in Early Toronto
    CollectionImageText       Early Toronto residents, politicians and local entrepreneurs transformed the City by creating public gardens and offering services and supplies to the gardening industry. As a result of their efforts, nineteenth century Toronto emerged as a more liveable community and a popular tourist attraction.
    CollectionImageText     Early Toronto residents, politicians and local entrepreneurs transformed the City by creating public gardens and offering services and supplies to the gardening industry. As a result of their efforts, nineteenth …
    Toronto Public Library
  • Jean Baptiste et Julie Ménard
    Jean Baptiste et Julie Ménard
    Image       Jean Baptiste et Julie Ménard, accompagnés de leurs enfants, Joseph, Alfred et Alberte. M. Ménard était cultivateur à Plantagenet
    Image     Jean Baptiste et Julie Ménard, accompagnés de leurs enfants, Joseph, Alfred et Alberte. M. Ménard était cultivateur à Plantagenet
    Bibliothèque Publique de Clarence-Rockland
  • Vue de Plantagenet
    Vue de Plantagenet
    Image       à gauche: moulin carder, au centre: digue(dam) sur la rivière Nation; à droite: moulin à farine; extrême droite: moulin à scie.
    Image     à gauche: moulin carder, au centre: digue(dam) sur la rivière Nation; à droite: moulin à farine; extrême droite: moulin à scie.
    Bibliothèque Publique de Clarence-Rockland
  • Children of John & Charlotte (Marshall) Norton?
    Children of John & Charlotte (Marshall) Norton?
    ImageText       Possibly the children of John Norton and Charlotte Marshall who married on 7 January 1865. Their eldest son Thomas Walter was known by his middle name, Ernest & Annie.
    ImageText     Possibly the children of John Norton and Charlotte Marshall who married on 7 January 1865. Their eldest son Thomas Walter was known by his middle name, Ernest & Annie.
    Trafalgar Township Historical Society
  • Paris Fire Brigade Steamer, 1878
    Paris Fire Brigade Steamer, 1878
    Image       This photograph shows the Paris fire brigade's steam-powered fire engine in 1878. This was the first mechanical water-pumping engine used in Paris, and was the subject of some great interest when it was first purchased in 1877. This image was printed on page 123 of At the Forks of the …
    Image     This photograph shows the Paris fire brigade's steam-powered fire engine in 1878. This was the first mechanical water-pumping engine used in Paris, and was the subject of some great interest …
  • LH1228 Henry Edmund Morphy Portrait
    LH1228 Henry Edmund Morphy Portrait
    Image       Henry Edmund Morphy was a prominent lawyer in the Oshawa region. Born in Quebec in December 1852, he married Miriam Maria Pellatt in 1880, and they had four children: John Apsley (he died the year of his birth), Emily-Irene, Miriam, and John Aubrey.
    Image     Henry Edmund Morphy was a prominent lawyer in the Oshawa region. Born in Quebec in December 1852, he married Miriam Maria Pellatt in 1880, and they had four children: John …
    Oshawa Public Libraries
  • Hatch and Brothers Hardware and Appliances
    Hatch and Brothers Hardware and Appliances
    Image       This three-storey brick store was located at 111 Brock Street North (on the east side of Brock Street, north of Dundas Street). It was operated by Samuel and Richard Hatch and later Samuel's sons Fred and Frank Hatch from 1874 to 1904. The business was founded in Whitby about 1864.
    Image     This three-storey brick store was located at 111 Brock Street North (on the east side of Brock Street, north of Dundas Street). It was operated by Samuel and Richard Hatch …
    Whitby Public Library
  • James Forrest, Charles Patterson and George Stevenson.
    James Forrest, Charles Patterson and George Stevenson.
    Image       These gentlemen were Cobourg Firefighters who perished in the 1878 Windsor Hotel Fire on the north east corner of Swayne and Division Streets, Cobourg. Originally six fire fighters were trapped : the above-mentioned along with Walter Grieve, F. W. Beebe and G. W. Alexander, all of Cobourg. As this was …
    Image     These gentlemen were Cobourg Firefighters who perished in the 1878 Windsor Hotel Fire on the north east corner of Swayne and Division Streets, Cobourg. Originally six fire fighters were trapped …
    Cobourg Public Library
  • David Leslie Briggs, c.1878
    David Leslie Briggs, c.1878
    Image       David Leslie Briggs was born at Whitby Township, east of Myrtle, on June 30, 1848. About 1873 he went into partnership with David A. Brown in a general store at Myrtle, called Brown & Briggs. After the store burned down in 1889, he went into business in Toronto with his …
    Image     David Leslie Briggs was born at Whitby Township, east of Myrtle, on June 30, 1848. About 1873 he went into partnership with David A. Brown in a general store at …
    Whitby Public Library
  • 25 Main Street West, Athens
    25 Main Street West, Athens
    ImageText       William Layng built this house and a blacksmith shop in 1878. It was called the “West End Carriage Shop.” Mr. Layng had worked for Duncan Fisher for five years previous to this. Later, Mr. James Hudson continued the business as a blacksmith. Later residents were Mr. and Mrs. Peat, and …
    ImageText     William Layng built this house and a blacksmith shop in 1878. It was called the “West End Carriage Shop.” Mr. Layng had worked for Duncan Fisher for five years previous …
    Township of Athens & Area Heritage Society
  • Hiram George Norton
    Hiram George Norton
    Image       Hiram George Norton 1876-1947 son of Hiram C. & Elizabeth (Wilkinson) Norton. Hiram G. Norton spent the first two years of his life with his parents and brother in Forest, Ontario but then the family moved back to Tapleytown, Saltfleet Township. The parents of Hiram C. Norton were Elizabeth and …
    Image     Hiram George Norton 1876-1947 son of Hiram C. & Elizabeth (Wilkinson) Norton. Hiram G. Norton spent the first two years of his life with his parents and brother in Forest, …
    Trafalgar Township Historical Society
  • Pionniers au travail.
    Pionniers au travail.
    Image       Jean Clément dit "Lauvièse", sur une charette avec un attelage de deux chevaux.
    Image     Jean Clément dit "Lauvièse", sur une charette avec un attelage de deux chevaux.
    Bibliothèque publique du canton de Russell
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