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    This work was adapted from a PowerPoint presentation, consisting of 80 slides of East Colborne properties. The accompanying notes include historic and contemporary photographs, ownership details, support documents, and local history.

   

   

   

   

    Lot 32, Con. 7, Cramahe Township CASTLETON CEMETERY RELATIONSHIP PROJECT Goal: To create a relationship web showing the connections by birth or marriage for all those buried in the Castleton Cemetery, at Castleton, Ontario PRINICPAL SOURCES: - ancestry.com user-submitted data - cemsearch.ca - findagrave.com - maccoubrey.com - census and vital ...

   

    This image was captured by a DJI Mavic 2 Pro in December 2022. It shows the Lake Ontario shoreline in Salem looking east.

    This image was captured by a DJI Mavic 2 Pro in April 2022. It shows the solar farm off Highway 31 in the foreground and the Keeler Centre in the background looking North.

    This image was captured in December 2022 with a DJI Mavic 2 Pro. It shows Ogden Point Quarry looking southwest from Highway 31.

    This image was captured by a DJI Mavic 2 Pro in October 2022. It shows the Cramahe Township Municipal Office. Cramahe Township Public Library and mural in the left background.

    This image was captured by a DJI Mavic 2 Pro in October 2022. It shows the north side of King Street west of Victoria Square.

    Please see the link on the right of this catalogue record to link to the book's text. Publisher: Bill Metcalf, [Highgate Hill, Qld.], 2019.

    Caption by Lenna Broatch (2022): "Corner of King Street and Park Street as it was called. Griffis Drug store, a view of the United Church before the steeple was shortened. C. Early 1940's." Photograph lent by Frank Griffis from his father's Bill Griffis Collection. Park Street is now known as ...

    Caption by Lenna Broatch (2022): "Victoria Square before WWII monument was in place." Photograph lent by Frank Griffis from his father's Bill Griffis Collection. Image blurred.

    Caption by Lenna Broatch (2022): "I believe this to be Miss Emily Spilsbury (1858-1947). I recall my mother speaking of her carriage & horse passing by the Hubble home on her way to the Willoughby cottage at Lake Ontario. She lived at 57 King Street East, Colborne." Photograph lent by ...

    Caption by Lenna Broatch (2022): "Wood sidewalk replaced by concrete." Photograph lent by Frank Griffis from his father's Bill Griffis Collection. The photograph was taken near Vincent Gibbon Cornwell's store as evidenced in the awning printed with the initials V.G.C. on the side. Cornwell was the owner of Cornwell Custom ...

    The right hand side of the photograph was stamped with the date of processing 'Jun 59'- when the negative was made into a photograph, not the date of the image itself.

    Caption by Lenna Broatch (2022): "Horse race at track located where the Keeler Centre located c.1930’s." Photograph lent by Frank Griffis from his father's Bill Griffis Collection.

    Acknowledgements v Introduction vii Chapter One: Peter Hvistendahl Metcalf 1 Chapter Two: Maria Stoker 13 Chapter Three: Establishment of Cramahe Township and the Village of Colborne 17 Chapter Four: William Wallace Rose 29 Chapter Five: Agnes May Peebles 33 Chapter Six: Peter H and Maria Metcalf 39 Chapter Seven: William ...