Ontario Ladies' College, April 23, 1970

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Creator

Brian Winter, Photographer

Media Type

Image

Item Type

Negatives

Description

A black and white photograph showing the front entrance of the Ontario Ladies' College. A flag and the coat of arms for the Reynolds family are visible on the front of the entrance.

Notes

Trafalgar Castle was built for Nelson Gilbert Reynolds (1814-1881), Sheriff of Ontario County from 1852 to 1881. Trafalgar Castle was designed by Toronto architect, Joseph Sheard and built between 1859 and 1862. The Sheriff lived in Trafalgar Castle from 1862 until 1874 when he sold the building to the Methodist Church of Canada for use as a ladies college. Ontario Ladies' College is now known as Trafalgar Castle School, and is located at 401 Reynolds Street.

A stained-glass window at the top of the grand staircase in Trafalgar Castle portrays the coats of arms of the sheriff and his wife along with their Latin mottos and heads of the kings and queens of England. The coat of arms is also carved over the front entrance of the castle and on wooden furniture still found in the main hall.

Date of Original

23 April 1970

Dimensions

Width: 2 in
Height: 2 in

Subject(s)

Buildings
Castles & palaces
Schools
Ontario Ladies' College (Whitby, Ontario)

Personal Name(s)

Winter, Brian ; Reynolds, Nelson Gilbert ; Sheard, Joseph,

Corporate Name(s)

Trafalgar Castle ; Ontario Ladies' College ; Methodist Church of Canada

Local identifier

A2013_004_385

Collection

Whitby Online Historic Photographs Collection

Geographic Coverage

Whitby

Ontario, Canada

Latitude: 43.8785945204076 Longitude: -78.9331274920654

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