Colour Photograph of 1499 Dundas Street East, ca1977
Description
- Media Type
- Image
- Item Type
- Photographs
- Description
- This was the farmhouse at 1499 Dundas Street East or Lot 6 Concession 1 NDS in the area of Ninth Line and Dundas. Unfortunately, it is demolished but we have a number of photographs of the farmhouse taken in different years - the latest being 1991, some with members of the Conover family who owned the property in the late 1800s into the 1900s.
There is no date on this photograph, but the shrubs are the same as in the 1977 photographs. There is no shrubbery at the house front in the 1991 photographs.
In the family photographs of the Conovers, taken around 1915, you will immediately notice the front of the house in older days had a full veranda across it. In these 1977 and in the later 1991 photographs, there is only a small front step roof to shelter people from the weather while knocking at the door. But the outline of the full veranda is still on the house bricks. You will also notice that the former verandah on the west side of the back wing has been replaced by a weather-proof sunroom that would be a lovely shelter in cooler weather.
Other owners/residents connected with this Lot were Ezekiel Post who drew this lot in 1816 and built a tavern on it. He also sold 1/2 acre to the public school trustees for S.S. #4, Snider's School, Trafalgar Township in 1873. Ezekiel's house still stands on Ninth Line (in June 2017). Arthur Conover who came from Ireland and settled part of the Lot in 1841 farming and raising stock, and John McLean in 1856.
- Notes
- These photographs are in the Trafalgar Township Historical Society digital collection courtesy of the Heritage Planner, District East/Central, Town of Oakville.
- Date Of Event
- 1977
- Subject(s)
- Personal Name(s)
- William Russell Conover, called Russell, was born on December 15, 1851 in Trafalgar Township. He died in 1940 as per his gravestone in the Erindale Cosmopolitan Cemetery in Mississauga. He and Charlotte McGowan married on January 13, 1886. Charlotte McGowan was born on August 1, 1859 in Trafalgar Township. She died on January 15, 1927. Their children were: Mary Ethel, called Ethel, b.February 26, 1888 d.April 3, 1949. Ethel and Wilbert Bigger married on February 26, 1916. Charles Wilmer, called Wilmer, b.February 13, 1891 d.1964. His wife was Eva E. Barber Conover, 1915 - 1992. They are buried at Springcreek Cemetery, Clarkson Road, Mississauga, Ontario. Lottie Luena, called Luena, b.September 4, 1894 d.1986. Luena is buried with her parents at the Cosmopolitan Cemetery, St. Peter's Anglican Church, Erindale, Mississauga.
- Local identifier
- TTCVS000558
- Collection
- Trafalgar Township Historical Society
- Geographic Coverage
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Ontario, Canada
Latitude: 43.51681 Longitude: -79.71632
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- Copyright Statement
- Copyright status unknown. Responsibility for determining the copyright status and any use rests exclusively with the user.
- Recommended Citation
- Colour Photograph of 1499 Dundas Street East, ca1977
- 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
