Lindsey Family in front of the Hornby General Store
Description
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- Photographs
- Description
- Bill Lindsay, owner of Hornby Store, with Mr. & Mrs. Will Chisholm in the buggy with daughter Margaret. This is the earlier wood-frame store which burned down in 1929. The store was called "Lindsay's" under his proprietorship.
Other postmasters and proprietors of the store were: Wilmar James Thompson store proprietor and postmaster from about 1946 till 1963 ; William (Bill) Cooley who retired when the post office closed in 2008. - Notes
- Hornby was unofficially centered around the intersection of Trafalgar Road and Steeles but in reality, it is so widespread, people refer to "Hornby East" and "Hornby West". It spread into both Esquesing and the old Trafalgar Townships. The store has always been at Steeles and Trafalgar, now (in 2017) it is at the Steeles and Hornby Road intersection. The village was named for Hornby Castle in England because of a family connection.
- Subject(s)
- Personal Name(s)
- William John Lindsay B: 1869-Halton ; D: 1949-Hornby (Hornby Presby. Cemetery) Married (1) Rachel Brooks B: 1873-Halton ; D: 1905 Esquesing (Hornby Presby. Cemetery) Married (2) Alice Maude Brooks B: 1887-Esquesing ; D: 1971-Esquesing (Evergreen Cemetery) Note: William John owned a general store called "Lindsays" After his first wife (Rachel) died, he married her sister (Alice)
- Local identifier
- TTOIIMS0104
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Ontario, Canada
Latitude: 43.56681 Longitude: -79.83293
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- Donor
- Irene M. Saunders
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- Copyright status unknown. Responsibility for determining the copyright status and any use rests exclusively with the user.
- 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
