Hornby General Store, 2005
Description
- Media Type
- Image
- Item Type
- Photographs
- Description
- Hornby general store, with postmaster Bill Cooley. Photographed on December 5, 2005. Mr. Cooley retired and the post office closed in 2008. A link to the page 3 newspaper story in the Independent & Free Press (Georgetown, ON), 16 Apr 2008 is in this record for your further information.
Wilmar James Thompson was proprietor of the Hornby store and postmaster from about 1946 till 1963. The Thompson's purchased the business from Fred Robertson (perhaps it was "Robson" or "Robinson", not sure). Mr. Robertson later owned the old brewery property on the 8th Line [that would have been Brains Brewery], raising mink, and later still standard bred horses.
In 1910 through 1917, the store owner and postmaster was William John (called Will) Lindsay. The store was called "Lindsay's" under his proprietorship.
- 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.
- Date Of Event
- December 5, 2005
- Subject(s)
- Local identifier
- TTOIBJB0008
- Collection
- Trafalgar Township Historical Society
- Geographic Coverage
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Ontario, Canada
Latitude: 43.56681 Longitude: -79.83293
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- Copyright Statement
- Copyright status unknown. Responsibility for determining the copyright status and any use rests exclusively with the user.
- Recommended Citation
- Hornby General Store, 2005
- 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
