Heydenshore Park Entrance, 1906

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Creator

George I. Wilson, Photographer

Media Type

Image

Item Type

Postcards

Description

A postcard showing the entrance to Heydneshore Park. View looking west across the to Whitby Harbour. The building in the background at centre is the water pump station, built in 1904. The building in the background at right is the Harbour Company grain elevator, built in 1867 and demolished in 1916.

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Heydenshore Park was a summer resort established around 1900 east of Whitby Harbour. A number of cottages were built there starting in 1900 and many were demolished in 1965 when the private park was sold to the Whitby Public Utilities Commission. In 1971 Heydenshore Park was sold to the Town of Whitby.

Inscriptions

Recto:
Printed underneath the image: 'Entrance to Heydenshore Park, Whitby, Ont., Canada'

Verso:
Mrs. S. H. Thorne, Bobcaygeon, Ont.
Dear Muma-
Just posted your letter & Miss Burkholder has told Alice that she is pulling a new girl in here from Vancouver until Olive comes back. Guess they are awfully crowded now. I hope we like her. Alice & I were just planning how we would fix up since Olive is gone but now that is all done for now. Just got a letter from Bess but hope for yours tomorrow. Gladys

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