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      Early surveyors, like William E. Logan, used Rochon micrometer telescopes and targets (disk on a calibrated pole) to measure distance. Each microscope had a different calibration and therefore a different range. The instruments were calibrated against a distance measured with a surveyors chain (also known as Gunter’s chain). One chain …

      Directory listing for the Town of Brantford 1969-1870, includes a map, brief description and alphabetical listing of the residents and businesses from the County of Brant Gazeteer and Directory 1869-1870 by James Sutherland.

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      This building was located at the east side of Brock Street South midway between Dundas and Colborne Streets. The store was built in 1858 and was destroyed by fire on October 16, 1877. From 1858 to 1866 it was known as Hamilton and Roberts and was run by James Hamilton …

      Miriam Maria Morphy (nee Pellatt) was born 7 Dec 1856 in Kingston, the daughter of Henry Pellatt and Emma Mary Holland and the sister of Sir Henry Pellatt. She married H. E. Morphy (a young lawyer) in 1880. They had three children: Emily-Irene, Miriam and John Aubrey. She passed away …

      John Ball Dow was born at Glen Dhu farm, lot 23, concession 3, Whitby Township, on November 29, 1851. A graduate in law from Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario in 1875, he was a lawyer in Whitby until 1907 when he was appointed Clerk of the Ontario County Court and …

      Ira A. Ferguson & Sabrina Edmonds December 30th 1869 Northumberland Co, Murray Twp. Witnessed by Phebe Edmonds & John Abernathy, Minister W. E. Norman – Methodist Episcopal

      In 1857 Thomas Dumble built this Gothic Villa on the corner of George and Havelock Street. He was originally from Cornwall but he and his wife had lived in Dromore, County Down, Ireland which is why they chose this name. Their son John Henry also lived at Dromore and with …

      Shown here is Ever Ready Company in front of the Early Cobourg Fire Hall, located on the west side of the market square. This photo was taken before 1870.

      This was NOT Peacock School. It was an unfunded local school.

      Reprint Framed

      Jane Amelia Millar (1849 - 1904) married in 1869 Isaac Abraham Whatmough (1842 - 1911). This may be her marriage portrait.

      P.K. Dayfoot and his sister Jennie

      Side-wheel steamer, Sheboygan; walking beam; built 1869, Manitowoc, Wis. by C.S.Rand; ran about 40 years between Chicago and Milwaukee; 623 gross tons; discarded. Listed Ship Masters' Assoc. Directory, 1903 & 1909; Beers, History of the Great Lakes, Vol. 1, p.886.

      Rev. Matthew Gold was born at Winsford, Somerset, England on 28 February 1835. He arrived in Canada around 1855 settling at Almonds and becoming a teacher at Almonds School in Pickering Township. In later life, he was a supply minister and superintendent of Missions in Manitoba Saskatchewan and Alberta. Gold …

      Freeman's Band taken in Dundas Ontario in 1869

      Robert McLaughlin's Carriage Shop built at Enniskillen in 1869 - forerunner of Oshawa's General Motors of Canada automotive plants. The carriage shop had increased from four employees to eight. The small boy in the photograph is George W. McLaughlin.

      Carriage works at Enniskillen

      Gagen & Fraser is listed as operating in Toronto in 1878-1896.

      George Kirton is listed as operating photography business in Woodstock, Ont., in 1869-1892.