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    Using horses to smooth and maintain Dundas St.

    Mary Bell Featherston worked as a Milliner in Toronto at Custom Millinery on Yonge St.

    Crushed Stone with horse drawn wagons to build country roads. John A. Ford standing in front of the roller. If they had made two trips with crushed stone they made $4.50 a day.

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    Bruce Brittain, a neighbor of the Wettlaufer family. At one point, Bruce owned the White Rose gas station at Highways 5 and 25, where the Shell station is now. After that he drove the school bus.

    The hay loader attaches backwards to the back of the hay wagon, picks up the hay and drops it into the wagon. It reduces the job by one person; there is no longer a need for someone to pitch the hay

    Teaching contract signed on April 5th, 1949 between Trafalgar Township School Area in the County of Halton and Mrs. Ethel Wettlaufer. The salary was $190 a month beginning the 6th of September, 1949.

    Harold took over the family farm after his father Eckhardt died. They had Holstein cattle.

    Taken on the Wettlaufer farm on Burnhamthorpe Rd.

    This machine, called a disc cultivator, broke up the large clods left after initial plowing. The photo was taken at the Wettlaufer farm.

    Oakville Dairy, belonging to S.G. Powley, at Sumner and Allen streets in Oakville. This photo was taken in 1917 or 1918. R-L; Mr. Sherman G. Powley (by the horse) ?, ?, Smallest boy is Warren Powley,

    Lizzie Wilson, Delia Devlin, Ellen Savage, and Maud Speck working on a handsewn quilt, the pattern appears to be a patchwork "Irish Chain" pattern. The ladies lived in the area of Sheridan, now Winst

    The teaching contract between Mrs. Ethel Wettlaufer and the Trafalgar school area signed March 28, 1950. The yearly salaray was $2000.00 beginning September 5, 1950. Ethel Wettlaufer attended Normal

    The teaching contract between Mrs. Ethel Wettlaufer and the Trafalgar school area signed May 10, 1952. The yearly salary was $2800.00 beginning September 2, 1952. Ethel Wettlaufer attended Normal Sch

    Teaching contract signed on May 21st, 1946 between Trafalgar Township School Area in the County of Halton and Mrs. Ethel Wettlaufer. The salary was $140 a month for 10 months, beginning the 3rd of Se

    Crops are being harvested using a tractor and a thresher.

    Elmer Downs was a thresher as well as owner of a portable saw mill. He and his brother took the machinery to the farmers and set up shop where required. The photograph sowns the threshing machine ste

    Picture of Stuart Robertson driving a herd of cattle to be shipped to Toronto by rail. The stock pens can be seen in the background. His first truck, (a reo) was capable of moving only a small number

    The Oakville Dairy delivered milk to Oakville residents, and was operated by Sherman G. Powley.

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