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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

    Artist's drawing of the Eastern bank of the Sixteen Mile Creek in Oakville

    From the Taras Shevchenko Museum website: "First Ukrainian Immigration to Canada Over one hundred years ago, on September 7, 1891, Ivan Pylypiw and Vasyl Eleniak, two 33-year peasants from the villag

    Ruth Mary Ann Joyce was the daughter of George and Esther (Brown) Joyce who emigrated from Ireland in 1856-7, settling on a farm south-east of Milton, near Omagh, Ontario. Mary's parents died when sh

    Note the horse and buggy going up the hill in the top picture, and it's hard to see, but possibly two people with a car to the right. These steep valley hillside roads were sometimes referred to by l

    A cleaned up version of the map is also included in this record, courtesy of Mr. David Hobden. Click on "select" under the title above here. You can move the image around with your mouse to focus on

    The above information is taken from http://www.oakvillehistory.org/pdf/1841%20census.pdf

    Note the two women standing on the bridge. Their long dresses and the power lines indicate this photograph may have been taken around 1920.

    George and Polly King had 11 children. They enjoyed many family gatherings over the years on the family farms along Dundas at the Sixteen, and on the Sixteen flats. When they all got together with th

    Laura's parents were George and Mary Ann, called Polly, King who owned the property on Highway 5 (Dundas Street) in Trafalgar Township called The Pines. Laura married George Lockhart Spence on April

    Laura's parents were George and Mary Ann, called Polly, King who owned the farm on Highway 5 (Dundas Street), Trafalgar Township, called The Pines. Laura was born the year after her father had joined

    The ceremony was performed by Rev. C.D. Farris. Although Carol was born in Toronto, her parents moved their family to Trafalgar Township when the children were still young to join their King family r

    The children of this happy family spanned 24 years.

    Picture is hand dated 1917.

    Ron was also often called by his first name,Frank. Mary married Thomas Kenyon Harold Choate on June 30, 1948. Mary and Ken lived happily in Ken's home town of Peterborough, Ontario. Muriel married Ke

    Joseph died in March 1916 and his son, George, is not in uniform here so we know it was taken before the fall of 1915. Hazel would have been about 10 years old in 1913 and I think she looks a little

    Mary, my mother, remembered walking up and down the Sixteen "hogsbacks" to reach her grandparents who lived on the Jemmima Biggar farm, on the north east side of the Sixteen and the "Dundas highway".

    The girls are dressed in practical playclothes and shoes.

    This photograph was probably taken at a family home in England just before they emigrated to Canada as family labels say F.R. Powell is 16 years old in the photograph and the family emigrated in 1908

    Jemmima Bigger, born September 9, 1826 died May 9, 1909, buried in Munn's Cemetery, Trafalgar, Ontario. Richard and Elizabeth's son Joseph Edward and his wife, Mary Anne, were my mother's grandparent