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      From the Taras Shevchenko Museum website: "First Ukrainian Immigration to Canada Over one hundred years ago, on September 7, 1891, Ivan Pylypiw and Vasyl Eleniak, two 33-year peasants from the village of Nebyliw in Eastern Galicia, stepped off the steamship Oregon in Montreal. Their arrival signaled the beginning of three …

      Note the two women standing on the bridge. Their long dresses and the power lines indicate this photograph may have been taken around 1920.

      George and Polly King had 11 children. They enjoyed many family gatherings over the years on the family farms along Dundas at the Sixteen, and on the Sixteen flats. When they all got together with their children and grandchildren, it was a large gathering.

      Laura's parents were George and Mary Ann, called Polly, King who owned the property on Highway 5 (Dundas Street) in Trafalgar Township called The Pines. Laura married George Lockhart Spence on April 8, 1909 and their children were Hester Louise Spence, Lillian Mary Spence and William Kenneth Spence. Extended family …

      Laura's parents were George and Mary Ann, called Polly, King who owned the farm on Highway 5 (Dundas Street), Trafalgar Township, called The Pines. Laura was born the year after her father had joined the Toronto Police force. He had been a policeman in London, England before emigrating. Laura's mother, …

      The ceremony was performed by Rev. C.D. Farris. Although Carol was born in Toronto, her parents moved their family to Trafalgar Township when the children were still young to join their King family relatives. Carol's parents were Ettie (King) and Ern Hopper. Ettie was the 8th child of George and …

      The children of this happy family spanned 24 years.

      Jessie Mary(Caverhill) and George Herbert King were married September 14, 1910 in Trafalgar,Ontario by Rev. G.G. McRobie in the Presbyterian Church at the Sixteen River, Knox Sixteen. George purchased the Kaitting house on Dundas Highway in 1910. They had six children: Mary Elizabeth, Muriel Thurlo, Howard Caverhill, Harriet Jean, Donald …

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      The newspaper, The Hamilton Spectator, ran this photograph of Jessie, her husband George and their son, Gordon King of Kingsholm Farm on February 2, 1959. The newspaper article describes the celebration at Trafalgar Memorial Hall where George King was given the Fairy Trophy, the Halton and Peel Trophy and the …

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      Linked is a Toronto Star newstory about the unsuccessful efforts to save this house by the Trafalgar Township Historical Society and other concerned Oakville citizens. Also, the Heritage Report for the Town of Oakville provides more photographs, an architectural description of the house, and the history of Emily Biggar and …

      A link to the present-day Munn's school website is included for futher information.

      The citation of the Report is: Proudfoot’s Hollow (AiGw-203) August 1989 excavation, archaeologist John R. Triggs (license #89-198c). The archives of the Trafalgar Township Historical Society has a print copy of the report.

      Click on Pages, Select to see more photographs of the old school taken in 2015. You can find the other Trafalgar Township Historical Society photographs of the old schoolhouse by searching for, "Sixteen School, S.S. #16, Trafalgar Township".

      In December 1971, January 1972, Parks Canada photographed those buildings that were 100 or more years old. This Canadian Inventory of Heritage Buildings was a Centennial Project. The Trafalgar Township Historical Society has worked with Parks Canada and Library and Archives Canada to find these photographs in the area of …

      George Chalmers was a Lowland Scot who, after emigrating to the Township of Trafalgar, started as a general merchant at Munn's Corners about 1820. He began to buy up land along the Sixteen where it crosses Dundas Street in 1816. There he built a saw mill. Chalmers lived in a …

      In December 1971, January 1972, Parks Canada photographed those buildings that were 100 or more years old. This Canadian Inventory of Heritage Buildings was a Centennial Project. The Trafalgar Township Historical Society has worked with Parks Canada and Library and Archives Canada to find these photographs in the area of …

      The main image in this record is a page from the autograph book of Mary Powell, drawn by her uncle, Allan Cullingworth. Mary trained at Normal School and worked as a teacher, starting in the late 1930's in Brantford, in the one-room school at Rockton, then to Peterborough, Ontario schools. …

      A lovely silk hand-stitched and embroidered postcard sent from France by Canadian soldier George Hawkins to his friend in Trafalgar Township, Ruth Cullingworth. These postcards were made by French people trying to exist in the thick of the war to sell to soldiers.