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When complete, these pages will provide - by way of anecdote, personal recollections, images and information tidbits - a sense of the rich history of the TCRA area fro the days of Oakville's founding in the early 1800's up to the recent past.

This is going to take awhile!

If you can help, we'd love to hear from you.  Perhaps you or someone you know (a parent? a grandparent?  a long-time friend?) has recollections they'd be prepared to share about "the way it was" years or decades ago in this area.  Maybe you have research, interviewing or writing skills and could lend a hand when needed.  Or maybe you're a local history buff who knows all about it!  If you're any of these, please get in touch with us.  We don't need a work of art - 100 words or a 1-2 minute audio/video clip would be great!

 

How to use this page

This page serves as the "gateway" to the rest of the Community History section.  Numbers on the map correspond to the numbered list items.  Clicking on an image will usually provide a larger or c2006 version.

We welcome your input and corrections!

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1.  The Mills
2.  Wildlife
3.  Muskets
4.  Samuel Lawson's House
5.  The Breweries
6.  The Toll Road
7.  The Tollkeeper's House
8.  Starwberries & the Basket Factories
9.  The Mariner's Home (see also #64)
10. Kerosene Castle
11. Cameron C. Hillmer / Tuxedo Park
12. John Caulfield Smith
13. Captain Francis Brown House
14. In the Beginning (Lot 12)
15. Sale of the Land of Traitors
16. Joseph Brant Anderson
17. The Shot Heard Through Town
18. The Brantwood Survey
19. The Gloucester Avenue Railway
20. "Grit Anchorage" / Finch-Noyes home/ Allan Street Apartments
21. The Underground Railway
 

 

 

 
50. Carson & Son Planning Mill
51. Temperance Hall
52. Blakelock Brothers Lumber & Planning Mill
53. The Forman Inn
54. William Whitaker's Wagon Works
55. Henry Gulledge House
56. The Charles Pettit Chisholm House
57. George's Square
58. The Robert Farley (or Charles Lusk) House
59. The Moses McCraney House
60. The Malncthon Simpson House
61. Potter's Folly
62. The John Porquin House (Mary Minhear)
63. The Captain Francis Brown House (Archlawn) (see also #13)
64. Mariner's Home (see also #9)
65. (research in progress)
66. (research in progress)
67. Kerosene Castle (see also #10)
68. The William Bigger Chisholm House
69. The John A. Chisholm House
70. Corner of 6th and 7th Line
71. The Donald Campbell House (see also #7)
72. Oakville Trafalgar Memorial Hospital (and OT High School on Reynolds St.)
73. Fair Grounds / Wallace Park / Victoria Hall
74. The George Freestone House
75. The James Freestone House
76. MacKenzie House
77. Cap. William Wilson / Francis Mathews House
78. Capt. William Wilson House
79. 149 Dunn Street
80. Patterson's Cider Mill
81. Radial Railway Station
82. St. John's United Church
 

 

 

 

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