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    Mabel (Bridgman) Smith was born and raised in Zimmerman, Nelson Township, Halton County. Zimmerman was at Appleby and 2nd Lines.

    This post office is now part of the John Sopinka Court House. The marvellous old marble hall with the postal wickets and large tables still exists on the ground floor running north from Main Street a

    The house photograph is from the website of and with the permission of Jeremy Borsos, linked in this record for your further information. Mr. Borsos has a project that "us[es] postcards and letters a

    The post card front says, "St. Valentine's Greeting" but it was sent on May 11, 1908 so it must have just been handy for use as well as being so pretty. Mary's parents owned a hotel in Hagersville, H

    A postcard sent from England by Ron Powell who had enlisted in the Canadian Forestry Corp. He came back to work on the farm in Oakville in April 1919 and married Ruth Cullingworth that October. They

    Main Street was known as Colborne Street and later renamed Lakeshore Road. This view is looking East from the intersection of Lakeshore Road and Thomas Street

    Trafalgar Township was one of the first three townships in Halton County. The land was purchased from the Mississaugas in 1805. Most of the community we now know as Oakville, Ontario was once Trafalg

    One hundred and ninety-eight members of St. Jude's were in the armed forces in the First World War. Eighteen did not return.

    The stamp is Canada, 2 cents with King George V in the uniform of the Admiral of the Fleet which stamp was reissued until 1928.

    The Town of Oakville's "back concession" was renamed Burnhamthorpe Road as of January 1, 1967. Burnhamthorpe Road east of 9th Line became part of Mississauga in 1974. Thus, Heritage Mississauga has a

    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

    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.

    Bottom reads: "Apples in the bloom, Niagara St. Catharines line."

    St Stephen’s Anglican church, 14996 Steeles Ave, (at Ninth Line) Hornby. The main body of the church was built in 1837.

    For further information about the house, click on the link to the undated Town of Oakville Heritage Assessment Report for the property. This is underneath the photograph, under "Other Web Sites". The

    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

    Raphael Tuck & Sons Ltd. were publishers and printers in London, England, from the mid 1800s into the early twentieth century. They began in 1866 selling pictures and frames, then their first picture

    Postcard of the Hotel Gibson

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    Reverse-Oakville's historic Customs House, a two-storey building in classical design, was built by Robert Kerr Chisholm in 1856, just east of "Erchless" the Chisholm family home. His father, Oakville