Postcards

    A postcard showing fishing and pleasure craft in Bronte Harbour, looking towards the lighthouse on the east side of the waterway towards Lake Ontario.

    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

    Mrs. W. Smith of Palermo was Mabel (Bridgman) Smith. She was born and raised in Zimmerman, Nelson Township, Halton County. Zimmerman was at Appleby and 2nd Lines.

    Arthur is referred to in a family history as a seaman but in 1918, he took over the family farm in Palermo which was at Lot 34, Concession 1, South of Dundas Street.

    A postcard of the H & B Incline Railway in Hamilton, Ontario written and sent by Albert Burgin to his uncle, Walker Smith. Page 2 shows the verso of the card.

    Mabel (Bridgman) Smith was born and raised in Zimmerman, Nelson Township, Halton County. Zimmerman was at Appleby and 2nd Lines.

    Mabel (Bridgman) Smith was born and raised in Zimmerman, Nelson Township, Halton County. Zimmerman was at Appleby and 2nd Lines.

    This post office is now part of the John Sopinka Court House. The marvellous old marble hall with the postal wickets and large tables still exists on the ground floor running north from Main Street a

    The surname "Conover" was changed by the family from the Dutch, Coevenhoven or also, Van Covenhoven.

    A lovely silk hand-stitched and embroidered postcard sent from France by Canadian soldier George Hawkins to his friend in Trafalgar Township, Ruth Cullingworth. These postcards were made by French pe

    The post card front says, "St. Valentine's Greeting" but it was sent on May 11, 1908 so it must have just been handy for use as well as being so pretty. Mary's parents owned a hotel in Hagersville, H

    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