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      For more information about this diary with photographs of the American visitors entitled "Adventures of the American Four Among the Pine Stumps of Canada", please click on the links in this record. Ann and Joseph are buried at St. Stephen's Anglican Cemetery in Hornby, Halton County (Steeles and 9th Line). …

      Two other digital records are linked to this record with further information. Joseph and Ann Hall were the Drumquin hosts of the "American Four". The other record linked here has several pages from the journal. A descendent of James Bailey, David Helsel, has put together photographs of Joseph and Ann …

      Gordon Perdue had worked as a schoolteacher but became general manager of the Oakville Basket Company while serving as elected Chair of the local school board from 1949. The school was located at 124 Dorval Drive on the southwest corner of Rebecca Street and Dorval, Oakville, Ontario. It was sold …

      This photograph taken by George Stuart Atkins have been shared with the Trafalgar Township Historical Society by the Bronte Historical Society. The Bronte Historical Society has a wealth of information on the Bronte area of Halton County, Ontario. A link to their website is provided for your further information.

      Linked for your further information is a newspaper article detailing the start and growth of Trafalgar Township's schools.

      Counseler Janet Lees with day campers at the Pine Ridge Camp location of the Oakbille Recreation Commission Day Camps in July 1956. This Rotary Park site was closed in the 1980's. The old bridge crossing the Sixteen Mile Creek at Henderson Park was demolished and a new one built in …

      A formal photograph of the Shea family taken at the front entrance to the farmhouse, Lot 7 Concession 2 NDS Trafalgar Township in 1897. This is located just west of where the intersection of 8th Line and Burnhamthorpe Road East would be if the Eighth Line came up to Burnhamthorpe, …

      This photograph was donated to the Trafalgar Township Historical Society by a long-time Palermo area family. We don't know if any of these men were members of the family, employees of either company or what the connection with Trafalgar Township was. However, in looking closely at the photograph for information, …

      This landscape photograph of the members of the Junior Boy Farmers was donated to the Trafalgar Township Historical Society by a farm family of several generations based in Palermo, Ontario. Unfortunately, we don't have any idenfication for the people in the photograph. The young men and their mentors are standing …

      A panoramic photograph to commemorate the 1913 annual Sunday School picnic of Palermo Methodist Church, (later Palermo United Church). Unfortunately, we have no record of names for this congregation photograph. Using a magnifying glass to read what the little banner on the lapel of the young lady in the front …

      Information on Minnie Campbell is taken from the excerpts of the book freely shown on the internet: Race, Nation, and Reform Ideology in Winnipeg, 1880s-1920s By Kurt Korneski, starting on page 92. Information about Dr. Buck appears in footnote 3, page 113. Linked here for your further information. More information …

      Snider's school was first built on land owned by Ephraim Post Concession 1, Lot 6, NDS. We know S.S. #4 was in use by 1877 and the 1878 Atlas shows it right on the corner on the southwest side of Ninth Line and Burnhamthorpe Road. The 200 acre Lot 6 …

      Snider's school was first built on land owned by Ephraim Post Concession 1, Lot 6, NDS. We know S.S. #4 was in use by 1877 and the 1878 Atlas shows it right on the corner on the southwest side of Ninth Line and Burnhamthorpe Road. The 200 acre Lot 6 …

      You can see the reflection of what looks like a shed with a chimney in the big first floor window. Perhaps it was specifically for the bee business of Harvey Smith.

      Page 4 of the Milton Canadian Champion article describing the 65th wedding anniversary of William and Maria is linked here for your further information as to the names of their children, and thus clarifying entries on the bible registry pages in this record.

      Born in Palermo, Halton County, Norm and his brother William Donald, called Don, helped with the Wood family general store, telephone switchboard and post office when their father, George Stanley Wood, called Stan, died prematurely. Active members of the community, Stan and mother Ethel were musicians. Stan sang in area …

      Please note: the deed is dated December 14, 1807 in the 48th year of "our reign" - or the reign of George III. George III reigned from 1760-1820. Francis Gore was Lieutenant Governor of Upper Canada from 1806-1811 and again from 1815-1817.

      This photograph is in the Trafalgar Township Historical Society digital collection courtesy of the Heritage Planner, District East/Central, Town of Oakville.

      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 …

      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 …