Results

      Newspaper photo of the Palermo General Store located in the centre of the business district.

      Newspaper photo of a home in Palermo belonging to the late Dr. Anson Buck.

      Notice of retirement for George Cullingham, one of Palermo's oldest residents.

      Photo caption: “Oakville’s volunteer brigade were hosted by the women’s auxiliary at its 25th anniversary. Mrs. Dora Wright (left) holds one end of the cake as fireman Bill Cook, District Chief George Wright, and District Deputy Chief Eldon Perkins prepare to cut it with an axe. Mrs. Jessie Perkins supports …

      ...

      Mrs. G.S. Wood was wife of Stanley Wood who had owned and run the Palermo general store. (After Stanley's death, Mac and Myrtle McGill took it over.)

      Photographs in the collection are courtesy of Janet (Lees) Timbrell and Ross Wark, camp leaders 1957-1959. This is one of a series of photographs and memories of working as a leader at one of the Oakville Recreation Commission summer day camps in the late 1950's. To see all the records, …

      Four pilots from the RCAF base at Centralia will perform formation aerobatics today at the national air show starting at 2 pm over the CNE waterfront. They will take their Harvard trainers through a series of gyrations carefully rehearsed weeks in advance of the show. Studying their plans are flying …

      A short history of the Oakville hardware store started by James N. McGregor

      A train, on its way to the Canadian National Exhibition and the Chicago World’s Fair, stopped in front of Oakville Motors, owned by A.J. Gurry for a promotional picture.

      A small clipping from the Hamilton Spectator describing J.L. Breckon as a missing persons.

      There was a school in Palermo as early as 1819. It was one of 3 public schools in Trafalgar Twp. The first school may have been on the same property as the ones built in 1844, 1875 & 1942 or it may have been across the road near the cemetery. …

      Mrs. Darlington was the organist and choir director for 40 years. Mrs. G.S. Wood was wife of Stanley Wood who had owned and run the Palermo general store. (After Stanley's death, Mac and Myrtle McGill took it over.) The Wood family farm was just east of the intersection of Bronte …

      Miss Gladys McCleary was a long-time teacher at McCurdy's Corners School, Ninth Line and Derry Roads which was S.S.#8. She became a school inspector and later a trustee. Halton County has honoured her work by naming a school after her. Please see the link provided here. S.S. #7 was the …

 Toronto Daily Star (1892-1971), 4 Nov 1929     A newspaper article about the 60th or diamond anniversary of Sheridan United Church in 1929.

 Oakville-Trafalgar Journal, 29 Mar 1956, Section 1, p. 1, column 1     Newspaper article about the expansion of the Queen Elizabeth Highway which required the demolition of the little village of Sheridan, Ontario.

      ...

      Although the newspaper is identified only as "The Star" in the photo bylines, it is likely the Oakville Record Star which was published from 1949 to 1962 by Wilder and Tina Brickenridge. It was sold in 1962 to the Toronto Star.

      The surname "Conover" was changed by the family from the Dutch, "Coevenhoven" or "Van Coenhoven".

      Information and photographs of Holyrood house, the Lefebvre family and the history of the property in the Trafalgar Township Historical Society digital collection were shared by Mr. Roy Lessels in May 2016. Roy's father was the head grounds keeper for the estate from 1929 to 1945, in the employ of …