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      "A tintype, also known as a melainotype or ferrotype, is a photograph made by creating a direct positive on a thin sheet of metal coated with a dark lacquer or enamel." Tintypes enjoyed their widest use during the 1860s and 1870s. (Wikipedia)

      "A tintype, also known as a melainotype or ferrotype, is a photograph made by creating a direct positive on a thin sheet of metal coated with a dark lacquer or enamel." Tintypes enjoyed their widest use during the 1860s and 1870s. (Wikipedia)

      "A tintype, also known as a melainotype or ferrotype, is a photograph made by creating a direct positive on a thin sheet of metal coated with a dark lacquer or enamel." Tintypes enjoyed their widest use during the 1860s and 1870s. (Wikipedia)

      The William Dow (1777-1855) settled at Whitby Township in 1833 after having arrived in Canada from Banffshire, Scotland. They took up residence at Glen Dhu farm on Concession 3. William Dow was well known throughout Ontario for his agricultural improvements, especially in the production of great crop yields. William Dow …

      Collection of records from the Richard Bell Family Fonds at Brock University c.1850 to 1950.

      Frederick W. Barron founded this school which stressed moral and physical as well as intellectual development. In the 1840s he became the third principal of Upper Canada College. Barron married the widow of Thomas Gore, who happened to have a large home and property, Glenavy, suitable for a boy's boarding …

      Sarah Jane Dryden was born in Whitby Township on February 16, 1846 and was married to Leonard Burnett of Pickering at the Rossin House, Toronto on January 5, 1870. Her husband was Liberal candidate for South Ontario in 1896 and they lived at Greenbank. She died in Reach Township on …

      William Paxton was born at Durham, England on April 15, 1791. He married Elizabeth Liddle, formerly Mrs. John Dryden, in England in 1819. The family came to Whitby Township in 1820 and he lived for many years in Port Perry. Liddle died at Whitby Township on September 1, 1855. Later, …

      Frank (on the left) and his brother Alfred Lucas. They were the children of Hannah and Cecil Lucas.

      John Breckon (1803-1882) was married to Isabella Blair (1811-1911)

      In choosing to follow the shoreline of Lake Superior, CPR rejected the inland route. Points of access to bring supplies to the men were from the end of the track or along the lake. The CPR was able to supply a number of locations at once and build a number …

      Also P3448

      Samuel J. Gallagher (1843 - 1911), was born in Canada, the third son of Samuel Gallagher and Mary (née Sullivan), who emigrated from County Cork, Ireland and bougth 100 acres of part Lot 8, Con 6, East Flamborough, in 1844. In 1870 Samuel married Henrietta Dougherty (1847 - 1925) in …

      Mrs. Seth Hubbell (Rachel Almira Kellogg) (1834-1911) was born at Haldimand Township, Upper Canada on November 1, 1834. On August 20, 1851, she and Seth Hubbell were married at Whitby Township, Canada West. She died at Elk Rapids, Michigan, USA on September 23, 1911 and is buried at Maple Grove …

      Maria Elmina Warren was born at Darlington Township on February 5, 1835. She was the seventh child of William Warren and Clarissa Lynde. She was married in 1855 to George Wallace, a Whitby merchant who died in 1868. Mrs. Wallace died at Whitby on January 29, 1928 and is buried …

      S. Douglas Cornell belonged to the eighth generation of Cornells in Americas. Douglas came to Buffalo with his father and graduated from Hobart in 1860. There he excelled in oratory and dramatics, talents he exercised later as stage manager of the Buffalo Amateurs. After graduation he began an active business …

      Centre figure possibly D'Arcy Boulton.

      Condition: Okay. Contrast/detail lost. Speckled; very yellowed/browned and dirty.

      Sailing ships were hauled in and out by steam tugs, but steamships came right up to the east side of East Pier.The Cobourg Harbour Co. was incorporated and began operating in about 1830, starting with this pier. This first pier began near the entrance to the present trailer park, extended …

      Robert Sinclair was born in Whitby Township in 1849. He was the son of William Sinclair and Margaret Prentice. He and his brother Alex, both of whom never married, carried on the family farm, Glenrath, after their father's death in 1899. Robert Sinclair died at Glenrath, lot 18, Broken Front …