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    This is a transcription of documents from Volumes 16 and 17, two of thirty-nine volumes of pay records and accounts of the Upper Canada Militia during the time of the War of 1812 as transcribed by Fred Blair from the digital document copies published in 2012 on the Collections Canada ...

    This was a Designated Town of Oakville Heritage Building. The house was built in 1850 by James Appelbe who emigrated from Ireland in 1815 with his widowed mother and older brother, William. James was apprenticed to a merchant in Hamilton and later taught school. In 1831 he married Jemima (Kaitting) ...

    This photograph is of the outstanding craftsmanship on a door of the house formerly at 2488 Old Bronte Road. The house was built ca1822 in Trafalgar Township. Unfortunately, in 2007 it was deemed to be in such an unsafe state of disrepair that it was removed from the Town of ...

    Several years of committee work cumulated on April 5, 2008 at a celebratory reunion in Milton's Heritage Country Park when former pupils and teachers of S.S. No. 8, McCurdy School gathered to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the closing of the school in 1958. Attendees at the celebration received five ...

    The Post Inn was opened by the Post family on the south-west corner of Dundas Street and 7th Line (which is now called Trafalgar Road), or on Lot 13 Concession 1 SDS, before 1827. The Inn was first run by the father of the Ephraim Post in the photograph here, ...

    In 1824, a log school was built at the modern-day named intersection of Tenth Line and Britannia Roads in the former Trafalgar Township, Halton County. This area originated as part of Trafalgar Township, later amalgamated into Toronto Township, Peel County. Approximately 50 pupils, including many adults, attended when the school ...

    This farmhouse was on Lot 7 Concession 2 NDS Trafalgar Township. In modern terms, this is located just west of where the intersection of 8th Line and Burnhamthorpe Road East would be if the Eighth Line came up to Burnhamthorpe, in Oakville. The area was Snider's Corners which was centered ...

    Jane was the daughter of John and Sarah Bell who had come from the Parish of Scotts Place and Drumquin in County Fermanagh in Ireland. They had previously left Scotland for Ireland, to avoid the Persecution of Dundee. They settled on the west half of Lot 10, Concession 7, Nelson ...

    This photograph was taken in 1999. The house was the home of the Stoutt family for a good 90 years. John Stout was granted the land deed for Lot NE 1/4 8, Concession 1 NS in 1846 (Deed 5 18460401 ND). He was about 67 years of age at the ...

    1847? Survey of the 16 Mile Creek National Archives NMC 017648

    Trafalgar Township Hall

    Hagaman & Co. General Dealers Bronte C. W.

    Portrait of Ralph Breckon (1832-1874) and Rebecca Breckon née Stephenson (1836-1867).

    Printed on the sketch: Sixteen Schoolhouse 18 - 1955. The dedication plate reads: Presented to Abbey Lane School in Honour of the Official Opening by the Halton Elementary Teachers Association, April 29, 1997?? 1957?? (the year is not clear and the school website has no history of the school). (Abbey ...

    The church in Palermo was built in 1867.

    The Shea family story is that Irish immigrant Thomas Shea met a man named Joe Brown on the boat over. Joe recommended that Thomas go to the Tobin farm in Trafalgar Township as they "would put him up". Thomas did, he met Bridget (nee Moran) and Patrick's granddaughter, Frances. Thomas ...

    This scuffler was used on the farm of Thomas Vincent Shea. Tom's parents were Tom and Frances Shea. The large metal teeth of the scuffler dig in to break up the soil. It's like a precursor of a rototiller. The whiffletrees shown in a separate record in our collection would ...

    Grandmother (Maggie) and Grandfather (John Albert) Ford holding R.F. Ford (Hank). Grandmother Newell, and unknown lady, Mary Ford, and Grandfather Newell.

    A photograph of Bert Langtry, as he was called, possibly taken at the time of his engagement to Annie McKay. The notice of Bert's death in the January 7, 1926 Milton Canadian Champion newspaper, page 3, col.5, says that their residence was on the Middle Road in Bronte (Merton area), ...

    Our original donor named the people in this photograph as Andrew Pettit "Bert" Langtry, wife Annie née McKay and daughters Amy Christina and Clara Elizabeth. In early 2017, a grandson of the oldest daughter, Irene, emailed to tell us that the little girl sitting between the parents is definitely Irene. ...