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    Stoneboats after fire in 2006 showing blackened beams

    Stoneboats after fire in 2006. Bronte Rd.

    “Former Chief Dead at 74” George Wright, a founding member of the Trafalgar Township Fire Department and its chief for 20 years, died recently at the Oakville Trafalgar Memorial Hospital. He was 74 y

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    The Ontario Vital Statistics Project, Ontario Marriage Registrations, 1800-1927 shows in the 1902 registry: 008200-02 (Halton Co) Herbert F. McCANN, 24, farmer, Trafalgar, same, s/o Edward MCCANN & E

    Irene Saunders booklet, "As I Recall" ; Recollections of Years Gone By dates the mill fire in 1940 and states the Grand Trunk Railway first laid line through Hornby in 1871.

    Irene Saunders booklet, "As I Recall" ; Recollections of Years Gone By dates the mill fire in 1940 and states the Grand Trunk Railway first laid line through Hornby in 1871.

    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

    Picture shows Verna, Elmer and Floyd Downs as youngsters. Each morning their mother would light the fire. One morning Verna came down in her nightie, which caught fire and caused her death.

    Further Information: An October 1960 "Trafalgar Day Special" insert in the local newspaper, Trafalgar Journal - The Home Newspaper of Oakville and Trafalgar, has an item "Volunteer Firefighters Mark