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    The technology embedded in today's digital camera photographs such as GPS location, compass orientation so we know which way the photographer was facing, date, even time of day will do more to help h

    Please look through all the pages to your right of unknown photos of family members in the Wilkinson Norton Family Album. They are most likely relatives of Robert Wilkinson of Palermo and Louisa Nort

    This house was demolished in 1965. Post's Corners was one of the first hamlets in the area known as Trafalgar Township. It was located at the intersection of what is now Trafalgar Road (or Seventh Li

    This store, gas station and ice cream booth on the south-west corner of Trafalgar Road (7th Line) and Dundas Street was photographed about 1940. The two-storey central building in this photograph is

    St. Luke’s Anglican Church, Palermo, built 1845, is now being raised and a foundation will be built under it. Surrounding it is a quaint country churchyard in which tombstones bear the names of pione

    Board of Education float in the July 1, 1967 celebration parade for Canada's Centennial. The float is going south, just at the intersection of Kerr Street and Elmwood Drive.

    A parade to celebrate Canada's Centennial years, 1867-1967 on July 1, 1967. The photograph was taken on Kerr St., Oakville, looking west across Kerr St. to the Elmwood Street intersection. Morris dan

    English double decker bus in Oakville's July 1, 1967 parade celebrating Canada's 1867-1967 Centennial year. The photograph was taken just as the bus was at the intersection of Kerr Street and Elmwood

    Jim and Janet worked for several summers in 1957-1959 as a leader at the Oakville Recreation Commission Pine Ridge Day Camp program on the Rotary camp site on Lower Base Line (which separates Oakvill

    Official Opening of Thomas A. Blakelock High School, Thursday, Mar. 27, 1958. Thomas A. Blakelock Two feet of snow and biting wind greeted a Yorkshire lad of twenty-two when he stepped off the train

    Early land registry records and Trafalgar census records from 1851, 1871, 1881 use the family surname spelling, "Hagar". However, the 1861 census and the family gravestones in the Palermo cemetery us

    Because this clearly shows the bridge having 4 supports, it is likely the bridge over the Sixteen between Cornwall Road to the south and Cross Avenue on the north, just west of Trafalgar Road.

    In the early 1900s the Independent Order of Foresters or I.O.F. chose Oakville as the location for their orphans' home. It was located at 53 Bond Street. The home was part of their plan to care for c

    John Bingham Colton was the son of Jacob and Mary Ann Colton.

    George William Colton 1856-1907 Lot 3 Concession 4, Omagh

    James was born in Halton County in 1885 but later moved to Woodbridge which is where this farm was located. The sketch was done by a friend of the family.

    Guy was the son of Hannah and John Bussell. They are buried at St. Stephen's Anglican Church, Hornby, Trafalgar Township.

    Both the Dent and Bradley families ran general stores on the northwest corner of Trafalgar and Dundas. Leslie Bradley took over the store from the Carpenter family in 1925 and was postmaster. The Den

    The 1881 Census spelling of Post is "Poast". Thompson Egbert, son of Ephraim and Jane, is listed as "Thomas" and in the 1871 Census, Ephraim is spelled "Ephrom". A relay of horses was kept at the Inn

    This intersection was called Post's Corners, later Postville.