The Police force of Trafalgar Township started a marching band in 1956. Bandmaster was Constable John Robson. Harry Wilson, Trafalgar Police Inspector, was band manager. Trafalgar policeman, George Stalkfish also taught how to play the instruments. In this record is a copy of the 52 page diary kept by Ted ...
The Police force of Trafalgar Township started a marching band in 1956. ...
Family and friends who worked to build a barn for Robert Devant Fleming. The family was connected by marriage to the Munns among others. The Fleming family farmed at Munn's Corners, Lot 15 Concession 1 SDS, at Dundas and 6th Line for over 100 years. A link to the newspaper ...
Family and friends who worked to build a barn for Robert Devant ...
Two photographs taken at different times of members of the Bigger family sleighing in winter. It looks like Michael Bigger is on the porch seeing them off. In the main photograph, the ladies are dressed for church perhaps, but also carrying furs for warmth. In the second photograph, the snow ...
Two photographs taken at different times of members of the Bigger family ...
There is no date on this family photograph but it was likely taken around 1910. A consulted expert has provided this date because, he explains, the silo in the background required mechanized equipment to get the grain into it. This photograph is showing new technology for both the silo and ...
There is no date on this family photograph but it was likely ...
Two photographs of Hettie are in this record. The second was perhaps taken at the time of her graduation from the Wesleyan Female College in Hamilton or perhaps her engagement to Albert Biggar, circa 1883. The main record photograph is of Hettie in 1913. Hettie and Albert were married on ...
Two photographs of Hettie are in this record. The second was perhaps ...
Preparing the field for planting. The wooden scraper is just for levelling the field. It can't deal with rocks because it is just a wooden board and has no metal edge to protect it. Glenclare Farm was Lot 15, Concession 2 NDS Trafalgar. This land had been settled by Michael ...
Preparing the field for planting. The wooden scraper is just for levelling ...
Wilbert Biggar is driving the tractor and grandson Harold Biggar can be seen on the hay binder, Hettie Biggar is to our right behind the tractor. The hay binder takes the hay, bundles it into a sheaf and ties binder twine around it. Harold has put his hat on a ...
Wilbert Biggar is driving the tractor and grandson Harold Biggar can be ...
Two photographs taken at different times, with different people and different horses but in the same spot with the same wagon at Glenclare Farm, on work days. The primary photograph shows brother and sister, Wilbert and Clara Biggar. The secondary photograph is of father Albert and son Wilbert.
Two photographs taken at different times, with different people and different horses ...
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 ...
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 ...
This shows one of the historical panels now in the Memorial Park ...
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 ...
The Town of Oakville has constructed a heritage memorial now in the ...
384 Dundas Street West is well west of Sixth Line, just west of today's Towne Blvd. It is Lot 19 Concession 1, SDS. In 1862 according to the Robert Warnock book, A Sketch of the County of Halton Canada West, William Y. Pettit lived on Lot 19 Concession 1, SDS ...
384 Dundas Street West is well west of Sixth Line, just west ...
384 Dundas Street West is well west of Sixth Line, just west of today's Towne Blvd. It is Lot 19 Concession 1, SDS. In 1862 according to the Robert Warnock book, A Sketch of the County of Halton Canada West, William Y. Pettit lived on Lot 19 Concession 1, SDS ...
384 Dundas Street West is well west of Sixth Line, just west ...