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 Unknown, Whitby, The Best Residential Town near Toronto (1914), 1907     This brick house was built about 1853 by Thomas Dow, and was the office of the first bank in Whitby, The Bank of Montreal, from 1853 until 1860s. The house was located on the south side of Gilbert Street between Brock and Byron Streets (at 117 Gilbert Street West). It …

 Unknown, Whitby, The Best Residential Town near Toronto (1914), 1914     This house is located at the north-east corner of Mary and Pine Streets (at 201 Pine Street). It was built in the 1850s and demolished in 1976. Owners of this house were the Armstrong family, W.H. Higgins, C.F. Stewart, J.B. Laidlaw, and Frank Lloyd Beecroft. The home was called "The …

 Unknown, Whitby, The Best Residential Town near Toronto (1914), 1914     This brick house was located on the block bounded by Centre, James, King and Burns Streets (at 918 Centre Street South). It was built in the 1850s by James Wallace and in the 1860s and 70s was the residence of Chester Draper, owner of Whitby Harbour. The verandah around the …

 Unknown, Whitby, The Best Residential Town near Toronto (1914), 1914     This house was located in the block bounded by Byron, Dundas, and Centre Streets (at 114 Byron Street North). It was built before 1850 and is believed to have been the residence of Peter Perry. It was later the residence of his son Robert Perry who added an Italianate brick …

 Unknown, Whitby, The Best Residential Town near Toronto (1914), 1914     St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church was built in 1859 at 508 Byron Street South. It served as a Presbyterian church until 1968.

 Rous & Mann, Whitby, The Best Residential Town near Toronto (1914), 1914     Black and white negative of a photograph of an image of Byron Street that was printed in Whitby, the Best Residential Town near Toronto in 1914. View looking north toward John Street shows a tree-lined Byron Street with a house visible at left.

 Rous & Mann, Whitby, The Best Residential Town near Toronto (1914), 1914     This image appeared in the 1914 publication, Whitby, The Best Residential Town Near Toronto.

 Whitby, The Best Residential Town near Toronto (1914), 1914     Between 1913-1914, the first docks and piers of concrete were built at Whitby harbour.

 Unknown, Whitby, The Best Residential Town near Toronto (1914), 1914     Heydenshore Park was a summer resort established around 1900 east of Whitby Harbour. A number of cottages were built there starting in 1900 and were demolished in 1965 when the private park was sold to the Whitby Public Utilities Commission. In 1971 Heydenshore Park was sold to the Town of …

 Whitby, The Best Residential Town near Toronto (1914), 1914     The first Whitby Horse Show was held in the Town Park on 15-16 July 1913. The president was Fred Hatch, the vice president was Thomas Cussion, and the secretary was Albert W. Jackson. One other horse show was held in Whitby in 1914 but after that the events were discontinued …