Merton School Trip to The Cave Which Had Sheltered William Lyon Mackenzie, ca1915
Description
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- Image
- Item Type
- Photographs
- Description
- This school trip photograph was likely taken at the mouth of the "Devil's Cove" on Twelve Mile Creek. One of children is Amy Breckon, 1905 – 1956. She would have been a student at Merton school circa 1910-1920.
Others have identified this as the "Devil's Cave". The cave was north of the QEW (or Lower Middle Road) and south of Upper Middle Road, about half way up the east side of the cliffs on Twelve Mile Creek. There is an artesian spring in the cave which created a pool a couple of feet deep, called "Devil's Pool" by local children. Legend says that William Lyon Mackenzie hid in this cave during his flight to the United States. There is another rumour that someone found the stock of a gun in it. The cave is now closed. - Notes
- Merton school S.S.#15 was first a log building. A brick one was built in 1857 that was demolished to make way for the Queen Elizabeth Way, and the third school that was built in 1923 closed in 1958 when the new Palermo Public School on Old Bronte Road was opened. The very few Merton area children then went north up Bronte Rd. to school.
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- Local identifier
- TTOIDRB0004
- Collection
- Trafalgar Township Historical Society
- Language of Item
- English
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Ontario, Canada
Latitude: 43.4473682625124 Longitude: -79.6665048808289
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- Recommended Citation
- Merton School Trip to The Cave Which Had Sheltered William Lyon Mackenzie, ca1915
- 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
