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    At this time, most schoolboys were required to be a member of the cadets. This image appears on page 35 of photographs in the publication At the Forks of the Grand: Volume II by D. A. Smith.

    This photograph depicts a group of Paris Cadets waiting to welcome the train carrying Governor-General Baron Byng and his wife in their visit to Paris on April 9, 1922. At this time, most schoolboys

    The original image is quite dark; an enhanced version is also provided.

    This photograph depicts the 1912-1913 troup of the Paris Boy Scouts. They were the winner of that year's Dominion scouting competition, which granted them the title of King's Troup of Canada. The lea

    This photograph depicts a group of young boys playing at British vs. Boers c. 1900, at the time of the second Boer War. The photograph was taken at Hamilton Place, then the home of Paul Wickson and h

    The original photograph is printed on Velox paper.

    This item was digitized on November 14th, 2009, during a Digitization Days event at the Paris Branch of the County of Brant Public Library.

    This page from the Hunter family album shows several family scenes. The photos depict Enid, Charles Bronson's sister, born 1915, and an early car in front of Hawthorne Place on the corner of Brant St

    This postcard depicts a class at the Oakland Public School in 1910. The teacher is Kate Halliday Hunter, who briefly taught there; however, she was married on December 28th, 1910, and at that time ma

    This is an alternate copy of another photo in the collection, linked to on the right.

    This photograph shows Paris residents waiting by the train tracks to welcome King George VI and Queen Elizabeth on their 1939 royal visit of Canada. Their train was scheduled to make a brief stop on

    From the 1970s through the 1980s, Mel Robertson wrote many articles for the Burford Advance and Burford Times on the history of Burford Township. This clipping contains the article Remembering the Da

    This photograph depicts a class of Paris, Ontario elementary school students c. 1890 with lacrosse equipment. This image was printed on the seventeenth page of photographs in At the Forks of the Gran

    The original matting provides a date of August 23. D.A. Smith provides a date of August 26.

    Smith's binder of photographs dates this to 1901; the caption in the printed version dates it to 1895.

    This photograph depicts a group of passengers waiting for the arrival of a train at the Paris Junction Station, c. 1885. Two railway lines, the Great Western Railway and the Buffalo-Goderich Railway,

    This 1905 photograph shows a community threshing which includes the Goold and Cutcliffe families. At the time it was taken, powerful agricultural machinery was unaffordable for individual farmers and

    A second copy of this photograph, inferior in quality but cropped slightly less, is also available.

    The original matting provides a date of August 23. D.A. Smith provides a date of August 26.

    This photograph depicts Margaret Capron Russell, the daughter of Hiram Capron's brother Horace, with her children Billy, Kathleen and Evelyn. She had several siblings, photos of whom are also in this