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      Carol is about 8 or 9 months old in this photograph so it was taken just before the year end of 1927 or early 1928.

      According to some internet geneology information, Jennie (and likely also her husband)is buried in the Brandon Municipal Cemetery but as of this writing, only a portion of those graves are searchable online and hers is one that is not online.

      A Biggar family album page showing Hettie with her grandchildren. Hettie had been educated at the Wesleyan Female College for young women in Hamilton, she was an accomplished musician and played for the church until forced to stop at age 98, she helped manage the successful family farm and property …

      According to some internet geneology information, Jennie is buried in the Brandon Municipal Cemetery but as of this writing, only a portion of those graves are searchable online and hers is one that is not online.

      The family is buried at St. Jude's Cemetery, Oakville. The surname spelling on their headstone is "Bigger" but the spelling "Biggar" has also been commonly used by the family.

      The notice of the death of this active farm wife and active leader of area community and church groups appeared in the January 5, 1899, p. 2, column 2, Milton newspaper, Canadian Champion, in the Oakville Gleanings section. The notice says, "The death occurred last Saturday of the wife of …

      The house photograph is from the website of and with the permission of Jeremy Borsos, linked in this record for your further information. Mr. Borsos has a project that "us[es] postcards and letters as a device to measure change against the current state of their intended stopping places...." He points …

      A link to a 2003 photograph of the house is in this record for your information. A link to another photo connected with this house, that of a barn raising on the farm when it was owned by R.D. Fleming, is in this record for your further information.

      The spelling of Hettie's middle name is sometimes "Almira", sometimes "Elmira". The Biggar family surname is also sometimes spelled "Bigger" in records and on their gravestones.

      Clockwise: the younger boy standing to our right is Wilbert Bigger, Dewart Fleming, in the chair is Clara Bigger, Edith Fleming is sitting on our left and Annie Fleming stands behind her.

      Michael L. Bigger is listed on the 1859 Tremaine Map of Halton County as owning the property, Lot 15, Concession 2 NDS Trafalgar Township, running north from Burnhamthorpe Road on the east side of 6th Line. As well as establishing and growing the Glenclare Farm, he Michael was a farm …

      Daniel Munn gave the land on which the first school in the Trafalgar Township was built in 1809. This substantial log structure served until 1852 as both school and church. In 1852 a new brick school with a cottage roof with a bell was built on the site of the …

      The invitation was sent to close friends and neighbours, Albert and Hettie Biggar of Glenclare Farm on 6th Line at Burnhamthorpe, Trafalgar Township, Halton County. (In the future year of 1916, their son Wilbert would mary Mary Ethel Conover.) When the long invitation is folded, each side of the front …

      The father of R.D. Fleming, Alex Fleming had married Millie Munn. They lived with Millie's father (King Henry Munn) on the Munn family farm and raised their family there. They also owned land on Lot 14 1 SDS and Lot 15 1 NDS. This Munn farm was later owned by …

      The photograph is shown courtesy of the Town of Oakville Heritage Planning Services Department.

      This shows one of the historical panels now in the Memorial Park in Oakville which also has the Trafalgar War Memorial at 120 Oak Park Boulevard. The large photograph is of the Hays' Sales Arena taken in the 1950's, on one section of the former Hays farm, Lot 14, Con. …

      This shows one of the historical panels now in the Memorial Park in Oakville which also has the Trafalgar War Memorial at 120 Oak Park Boulevard. The large photograph is an aerial photograph of Lot 15, Con. 1 SDS Trafalgar Township. This land, as the panel explains, was originally granted …

      The Town of Oakville has constructed a heritage memorial now in the Memorial Park in Oakville which also has the Trafalgar War Memorial at 120 Oak Park Boulevard. The panels commemorate area farming settlers on Con.1, Lots 13, 14 and 15, SDS, Trafalgar Township. The Jones, Munn, Hays, Sullivan and …

      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 …

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