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    Richard Wilson with his grandson Victor at Sheridan, Trafalgar Township.

    For more information, please see the booklet written by Margaret Joubert donated along with these images. Scans of this booklet can be found by entering "Century Old Home" into the search field.

    Newspaper photo of the Palermo General Store located in the centre of the business district.

    George William Wettlaufer was married to Yvonne Gertrude Beaumont at the Palermo United Church, May 31, 1952. This photo shows the bride and her father approaching the church.

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    Pictured are George Dolby & son Mel

    Further information about Victoria Park, the Hall and rink can be found in the books: Oakville and the Sixteen, and, Oakville; A Small Town 1900-1930 by Frances Robin Ahern.

    The newspaper death notice for George W. Mayer who died at Cliffview Farm, Oakville on Friday, October 4, 1935 appeared in the Canadian Champion. A similar notice appeared in the Acton Free Press inc

    The Ford children, pictured with the car their father, Robert (R.R. Ford) won in 1936 for selling the most subscriptions to the Oakville Record Star. They are all hoping to take a ride in it. Note th

    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 Esques

    Hornby Garage & Machine Shop, 1937, located north of Steeles on Hornby Road. Cady Heatly & Herb Foreman are on the grader. Garage owner was Gordon Brigden. This wooden building was originally a churc

    In 1857, the village name was changed from Hammondville to Sheridan in honour of the Irish playwright, Richard Brinsley Sheridan. Information is taken from "Thy Humble Dwelling: a History of Sheridan

    Colborne Street, Oakville, is now Lakeshore Road.

    Victor was Emily's grandson, son of her daughter Alisemon.

    George Wettlaufer had been born in Perth County and kept a general store at Hawksville in Waterloo County before moving to farm in Trafalgar Township on the 2nd Concession and Highway 25. (In modern

    This store, gas station and ice cream booth on the south-west corner of Trafalgar Road (7th Line) and Dundas Street was photographed about 1940. The two-storey central building in this photograph is

    Forty members of Alpha Beta sorority were at Oakville Service stations, washing cars to raise money for Cancer Fund Campaign. Isabel Agnew, Wendy Milne, Valerie Wakelin, Jane Ovens, Janet Lees, and S

    More information on the Battalion in the Great War can be found in the website of THE LORNE SCOTS (PEEL, DUFFERIN AND HALTON REGIMENT)linked in this record.

    Early land registry records and Trafalgar census records from 1851, 1871, 1881 use the family surname spelling, "Hagar". However, the 1861 census and the family gravestones in the Palermo cemetery us

    Information here has been taken from the Nelson Women's Institute Tweedsmuir History in which Palermo is covered in Book III, pages 41-87, which was prepared sometime about 1960. Also from the writin