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      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.

      This land indenture between Annie Grundy & family members and Ada Freehauf trades a lot of land in Paris for $400. The lot is identified as the east halves of lots 1 and 2 on the east side of Franklin Street according to the Peter Gardner survey. The location of …

      The decree leading to this auction was made in January, 1878, and the booklet may have been prepared then. The auction took place on April 23rd, 1878, while Jones’s handwriting marks his copy as having being filed in May, 1878.

      Harley Cemetery is an active cemetery in Brant County (Burford Township), under the jurisdiction of the Corporation of the County of Brant. It is located at 125 Harley Rd (Brant Road #202). Range 5-9

      Harley Cemetery is an active cemetery in Brant County (Burford Township), under the jurisdiction of the Corporation of the County of Brant. It is located at 125 Harley Rd (Brant Road #202). Range 8-8

      Harley Cemetery is an active cemetery in Brant County (Burford Township), under the jurisdiction of the Corporation of the County of Brant. It is located at 125 Harley Rd (Brant Road #202). Range 3-6

      This indenture documents the finalization of the sales of the properties which had belonged to Hiram Capron at his death. His will had specified land to be left to his wife, certain daughters and Banfield; however, other children were not accounted for, and many of his lands were not explicitly …

      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.

      Condition: Good but browned and worn.

      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 …

      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. …

      à gauche: moulin carder, au centre: digue(dam) sur la rivière Nation; à droite: moulin à farine; extrême droite: moulin à scie.

      Jean Baptiste et Julie Ménard, accompagnés de leurs enfants, Joseph, Alfred et Alberte. M. Ménard était cultivateur à Plantagenet

      Condition: Very poor. Very stained with barely any contrast left. Splotches all over the image area.

      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 …

      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 …

      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.

      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 …

      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 …

      A black and white print of the Trafalgar Castle building that was used on the Ontario Ladies' College letterhead and for advertising.