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    Full length, sepia, portrait of man with short hair and moustache, wearing dark three piece suit. His right hand is on wooden fence. Hat on stone post on right. Photo pasted on board. Faded

    Men working in a sawmill with a team of oxen in Farlton near Hornby.

    3 unidentified men logging at the Limehouse Pond.

    A view of the village from the lime kilns across the railway tracks. Logs are stacked in the foreground in preparation for firing the kilns.

    A view across the Silver Creek valley showing the Charles Kennedy Saw Mill at Wildwood (now The Watchtower property).

    This scene was colourized as a postcard, EHS21851.This postcard was sent to Mrs. A. Darragh, c/o F. Newby, Gravenhurst, Ont. The post cancellation is dated 14 August 1909. Note: Gertrude Darragh McCu

    Work crew in action.

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    George Chisholm at Brocklebanks Saw Mill. The oxen are "Buck and Bright". George Chisholm used to walk them to the Aberfoyle Fair to show them.

    The steam engine is a 60 Rumley. It is set up for work at Darlington’s bush on 3rd Line, Milton, in 1930.

    Brothers Albert & Elmer Downs working with their steam saw mill in 1961.

    Colborne Street is now Lakeshore Road, Oakville. The central public library now occupies the site where Central School was located, at Navy and Rebecca Streets.

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    Pictures of Elmer Downs' saw-mill which he moved round the country cutting down and sawing lumber.

    John White was born in Ireland in 1811. He came to Canada with his mother and step-father in 1823 eventually moving to Halton County. He married Mehitabel Post in 1836 and they had one son. He marrie

    This is an image of one of Steve Nease's original drawings, held in the Steve Nease Editorial Cartoon Collection at the Oakville Public Library.

Daily Journal Record, 1 Sep 1967, p. 24     Canadian Motorist