Postcard; Drive on Becket Mountain
Description
- Media Type
- Image
- Text
- Item Type
- Postcards
- Description
- A postcard sent to Mabel Bridgman by Hazel M. Walker. The photograph is of a road winding up around a steep hill with buildings on the top of the "mountain" on the left. A fence zigzags up the hills and a buggy and horse can be seen in the lower left hand corner.
The postcard title is, "Drive on Becket Mountain". Beckett Drive runs out of Queen Street South in downtown Hamilton, and winds up the escarpment. The Drive is named after the Becket or Beckett family who were area landowners.
The stamp is a 1 cent Canada postage, King Edward VII wearing the Ermine Robes of State. - Notes
- Mabel was born and raised in Zimmerman, Nelson Township, Halton County. Zimmerman was at Appleby and 2nd Lines. She was a collector of postcards of Hamilton, sometimes swapping them with friends, as per notes on some of them.
- Inscriptions
- Verso of Postcard, preprinted text: Canadian Souvenir Postcard ; This space for correspondence ; This space for address only.
Address is: Miss Mabel Bridgman, Zimmerman, Ont.
Message is: Dear Mabel, Arrived home safely. One of the boys got on at Station and so I had company up. When I got home, discovered that I had lost one of my little gold cuff pins. If I lost it in your house or in the rig, you will know whom it belongs to or you might inquire if I lost it at Walkers. I might have dropped it when I got out of the rig, or in their dining room. If you get it give it to Uncle Sam & they will see that I get it when he comes. [I hope you] did not [mind] the long drive home last night. Yours, Hazel M. Walker.
Front of card: Drive on Becket Mountain ; Hamilton, Canada ; Stanley Mills Co., Limited of Hamilton, Canada 1109.
Handwritten: 28 Barton Street East. June 22, 1906. This is the road we take to go to Ancaster. "Hazel". - Date of Original
- June 22, 1906
- Subject(s)
- Personal Name(s)
- Mabel Lizella Bridgman, b.July 2, 1884 in Zimmerman,Nelson Township, m. Arthur Albert Smith on March 20, 1920 in Lowville, d.1962 in Palermo, Trafalgar Township
- Local identifier
- TTLVP000253
- Collection
- Trafalgar Township Historical Society
- Language of Item
- English
- Geographic Coverage
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Ontario, Canada
Latitude: 43.41681 Longitude: -79.83293
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- Copyright status unknown. Responsibility for determining the copyright status and any use rests exclusively with the user.
- Recommended Citation
- Postcard; Drive on Becket Mountain
- 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
