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      “Former Chief Dead at 74” George Wright, a founding member of the Trafalgar Township Fire Department and its chief for 20 years, died recently at the Oakville Trafalgar Memorial Hospital. He was 74 years of age. Wright was appointed deputy chief of the department on its formation in 1939 and …

      Ethel and Eckhardt were part of a double wedding on this day. Ethel's sister Mary Grace married Harry Leedham at the same time. Eckhardt was the youngest son of Elizabeth and George Wettlaufer who had moved their family to farm in Trafalgar Township in about 1896. Their farm was called …

      St. Luke’s Anglican Church, Palermo, built 1845, is now being raised and a foundation will be built under it. Surrounding it is a quaint country churchyard in which tombstones bear the names of pioneer families of Palermo, sheltered by pine trees whose bare roots reach out like gnarled hands.

      Stanley Wood, husband of Ethel, had owned and run the Palermo general store. After Stanley's death, Mac and Myrtle McGill took it over.

      Mrs Ada Hill, a prominent resident of Palermo, through playing music entirely by ear, has marked ability in that line. She can and has filled in when the pianist of an orchestra form the city failed to turn up. She is a past president of the Palermo Women’s Institute, a …

      The Palermo general store, W.P. Sargent, grocer.

      A Time for Romance… and invitations (Oakville Journal) Kay Craig

      Debby Graydon and Janet Lees (Centre) are two of more than a score of OTHS feminine students who are assisting recreation director Jack Ross at the day camp and eleven playgrounds in the area. Leslie and Wendy Cherington seem to feel that Debby and Janet are definitely tops. Many among …

      Forty members of Alpha Beta sorority were at Oakville Service stations, washing cars to raise money for Cancer Fund Campaign. Isabel Agnew, Wendy Milne, Valerie Wakelin, Jane Ovens, Janet Lees, and Sheena Craig.

      Official Opening of Thomas A. Blakelock High School, Thursday, Mar. 27, 1958.

      Official Opening of Thomas A. Blakelock High School, Thursday, Mar. 27, 1958. Thomas A. Blakelock Two feet of snow and biting wind greeted a Yorkshire lad of twenty-two when he stepped off the train in Toronto on a March day in 1906. Equipped with a kit of carpenter’s tools, ninety …

      Official Opening of Thomas A. Blakelock High School, Thursday, Mar. 27, 1958.

      Official Opening of Thomas A. Blakelock High School, Thursday, Mar. 27, 1958.

      “Died, In Milton, on Thursday, March 2nd, 1939, Maria Deforest, widow of the late John Albert Featherstone. Remains resting in C. R. Turner’s funeral parlors until Saturday noon. Funeral from her late residence, Court St. on Saturday, March 4th, at 4 pm. Interment in Evergreen Cemetery, Milton."

      “Married. Ford-Featherstone – At the home of the bride’s mother, Milton, Ont., on Sept. 17th, 1921, by Rev E.W. Brearley, M.A. Mary Bell, daughter of Mrs. John Albert Featherstone, to Robert R. Ford, son of Mr. and Mrs. J.A. Ford, Omagh, Ont.”

      Clipping from Oakville Record; “Bob” Ford Wins New Chevrolet Coach Robert Ford won this car as first prize for selling the most subscriptions to the Oakville Beaver Record Star newspaper in 1936. Though the family was very excited about their prize they were unable to keep the car, as the …

      “Died, in Trafalgar, on Wednsday August 5th 1896, James R. Ford, Aged 72 years. Funeral from his late residence, Lot 2, Conc. 5, Trafalgar, on Friday, 7th inst, at 2 pm to Omagh Presbyterian Cemetery. Friends and acquaintances will please accept this invitation.

      Died in Trafalgar Township on Friday, April 14th, 1939, John Albert Ford Beloved husband of Margaret Newell, in his 80th year. The funeral will take place from his late residence, Omagh, on Monday, April 17th, at 2 pm. Service in Omagh Presbyterian Church at 2:30 pm. Interment in Omagh Presbyterian …

      Funeral Card for Mary Margaret Newell, widow of John Albert Ford, July 29 1953. Crossing the Bar Sunset and evening star And one clear call for me And may there be no moaning of the bar When I put out to sea Twilight and the evening bell And after that …

      This photograph was taken in the 1930's.