Rural Route #1, Bronte, Mail Contract, 1918
Description
- Media Type
- Image
- Text
- Item Type
- Contract drawings
- Description
- A quick search of the newspapers archived in Halinet shows that rural routes needing a new postman had a notice placed in area newspapers by the Post Office Inspector's office in Toronto. The notice appears under the heading "Proclamation !". Linked to this record is a page from the January 2, 1918 The Georgetown Herald on which you can see examples of the notices. One for the contract in this record for the Bronte route via Merton, and two for Hornby's R.R. 1 and R.R. 2.
As per the contract, the mail was picked up from the G.T.R. (Grand Trunk Railway) train in Bronte, every day except Sunday. The route is detailed in "Inscriptions" below here. It went west to Bronte Creek, north to Dundas and came back south to the Bronte Post Office down Bronte Road, passing through the Merton area.
The advent of the car was a major catalyst of change to postal delivery and post offices in the 20th century. - Notes
- Under the document in this record, is also a link to a 1958 map of Oakville with the delivery routes marked by hand.
- Inscriptions
- From the Bronte station, the postal delivery person drove "west 1-1/4 miles on the Toronto and Hamilton highway to Town Line between the Townships of Nelson and Trafalgar, thence north 2-1/4 miles to the road between Concessions 2 and 3, south of Dundas Street, thence east following a deviation 1-5/16 miles to the road between Lots 30 and 31, Trafalgar Township, thence north serving Merton Post Office 1-5/16 miles to the road between Concessions 1 and 2 S.D.S., thence south retracing 1-1/4 miles to the road between Concessions 2 and 3 S.D.S., thence south 1-1/4 miles to the road between Concessions 3 and the Broken Front, thence west 1-1/4 miles to the road between Lots 30 and 31, thence south 3/4 miles to Bronte Post Office."
- Date Of Event
- January 11, 1918
- Subject(s)
- Local identifier
- TTDH000916
- Collection
- Trafalgar Township Historical Society
- Language of Item
- English
- Geographic Coverage
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Ontario, Canada
Latitude: 43.40011 Longitude: -79.71632
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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
- Rural Route #1, Bronte, Mail Contract, 1918
- 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
