The Wood House at Palermo
Description
- Media Type
- Image
- Item Type
- Photographs
- Description
- This is the home in which Stanley and Ethel Wood raised their family in Palermo, Halton County, in the middle of the 20th century. The house still stands in early 2016, in fact it is for sale.
Today, the beautiful garden shown in this picture does not exist.
G.S. Wood and his wife, Ethel, owned the general store with post office on the northeast corner of Bronte Road and Hwy. 5 in Palermo, Trafalgar Township, during the 1930's, 1940's and 1950's. (The intersection today is Old Bronte Road and Dundas Street in Oakville.) Ethel ran the Palermo telephone switchboard out of the store for the rural area. A link to a newspaper article showing her at the switchboard is provided for your further information.
The Palermo General Store was one of two at Palermo. Over the years, other proprieters and post masters/mistresses of this general store and post office besides Lawrence Hagar were James, Dobson, G.S. Wood, R.B. McGill, W.P. Sargent and Eva Nussey.
Active members of the community, Stan and Ethel were involved musicians. Stan sang in area music festivals and a newspaper clipping linked to this record shows Ethel as one of the junior choir leaders while their sons, Norman and Donald, are choir members.
There was a family farm just east of Bronte Road on Upper Middle Road. - Notes
- This photograph was a black and white photo which has been hand-tinted to colour it. Therefore, it was taken before the 1960s.
- Subject(s)
- Personal Name(s)
- G. Stanley Wood, August 24, 1892-December 22, 1945 married Fannie Ethel (called Ethel) (Popplewell) Wood, September 14, 1898-October 12, 1987. Stan and Ethel had two sons ; William Donald Wood, b. April 5, 1920 d. June 21, 2003 ; Dr. James Norman Wood, b.June 4, 1925 d.May 26, 2013. Parents of Stanley Wood: William Wood, August 6, 1849-August 14, 1940 and Maria Ann (Bumby) Wood, October 20, 1850-February 27, 1944. Other children of William and Maria were: Thomas Harry Wood, b.1888 d.October 20, 1918. Anna (called Ann) M. (Wood), 1883-1974. Married William Grice. Jen (Wood). Lottie (Wood). Nell (Wood). Ada (Wood). Gert (Wood). William and Maria as well as Ethel and Stanley, Thomas and Anna are buried in Appleby Pioneer Cemetery.
- Local identifier
- TTCSW000549
- Collection
- Trafalgar Township Historical Society
- Language of Item
- English
- Geographic Coverage
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Ontario, Canada
Latitude: 43.43341 Longitude: -79.78293
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- Recommended Citation
- The Wood House at Palermo
- Contact
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Trafalgar Township Historical Society Sponsor: Jeff Knoll, Local & Regional Councillor for Oakville Ward 5 – Town of Oakville/Regional Municipality of Halton
