Shopping in Palermo
Description
- Media Type
- Image
- Item Type
- Photographs
- Description
- The general store and post office at Palermo, the Halton County village at the intersection of the Dundas Highway (now Dundas Street, Oakville) and Highway 25 (now Old Bronte Road). This photo was taken ca1920.
Palermo had two general stores at its peak in the 1920s. It was a thriving community from the arrival of the first settlers in 1806, well situated between Lake Ontario and Milton, between Toronto and Hamilton on the Dundas Highway. But widening first Dundas Street after World War II and again in the 1990's, moving houses to Old Bronte Road, and making the intersection with Bronte Road so large in more recent years, damaged the village. As I write in 2016, further widening of Dundas Street east of the intersection with Bronte Road puts the heavy, dirty traffic lanes within a few feet of the of the designated historic one-room schoolhouse.
This store stood on the north-east corner of the Dundas Hwy and (what is now) Old Bronte Road. The store is now long gone. It is the store that was started by Lawrence Hagar (and should have been a designated heritage building) - it is distinguished by its double entrance doors.
Over the years, other proprieters and post masters/mistresses of this general store and post office were James, Dobson, G.S. Wood, R.B. McGill, W.P. Sargent and Eva Nussey.
- Inscriptions
- Unfortunately the photograph is not in focus so the text is not clear.
Over the Entrance: Post Office.
On the Entrance Doors: Salada Tea ; Comfort Soap.
Sign Behind the Gas Pump: Mar?enour ; ? ; ?int ; ?ood
On the Gas Pump: Red? or perhaps ACO? ; Sentry ; ? ; ? - Subject(s)
- Local identifier
- OIKW0181
- 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
- Shopping in 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
