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Cutting out
Yonge Street. C.W. Jefferys, The Picture Gallery of Canadian
History, Ryerson Press
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The Yonge Street cairn, at the entrance to the Summit Golf Club, on the east side of the highway about halfway between 19th Avenue and Stouffville Road. Roger Carlsen
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3
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John Graves
Simcoe, Lieutenant- Governor of Upper Canada, from a 1791 painting by
Jean Laurent Mosnier.
Metropolitan Toronto Reference Library
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4
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The Line of
Yonge Street,
showing the various routes between Lake Ontario and Lake Simcoe used during the
1790s.
F.R. Berchem, The Yonge Street Story, McGraw-Hill Ryerson
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5
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Sir George Yonge,
British Secretary of War, from a 1790 painting by Edmund Scott. Metropolitan
Toronto Reference Library
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6
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William
Berczy, leader of the
Berczy
settlement in
Markham
Township and early builder of
Yonge Street. John Andre, William Berczy, Co-Founder of Toronto, Corporation of the Borough of
York
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Augustus
Jones, Deputy Provincial Surveyor, who made the first survey of
Yonge Street in
1794. Association of Ontario Land Surveyors
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8
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Part of a pallisaded
Huron-Iroquois village.
C.W. Jefferys, The Picture Gallery of Canadian
History, Ryerson Press
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9
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Physiography of
Richmond Hill,
showing the
Oak Ridges
Moraine (1),
South Slope (2),
and
Peel Plain (3)
regions.
Archaeological Services
Inc.
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10
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Soils of
Richmond Hill. Archaeological Services
Inc.
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11
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A nearly completed reconstructed
ceramic vessel from the
Lake Wilcox
site. Archaeological Services
Inc.
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12
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Iroquoian pottery sherds and
lithics,
Lake Wilcox
site. Archaeological Services
Inc.
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13
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Iroquoian pottery sherds and
lithics from the
Orion and
Watford sites.
Archaeological Services
Inc.
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14
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A. J. Clark's 1928 map of the
Boyle-Atkinson Site.
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15
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Joseph Brant (Thayendanegea), 1743-1807. Archives of Ontario
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16
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Pioneer log home in the
Richmond Hill
area.
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17
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"The Founding of
Richmond Hill."
Unveiling of an historical plaque in front of the town hall on
Yonge Street, June
18, 1973. Pictured left to right are councillors
David
Stephenson and
Louis
Wainwright; regional councillor
Gordon Rowe;
councillors
André
Châteauvert and
Graeme Bales;
mayor
William
Lazenby; councillors
Charles
Stewart and
William
Corcoran;
William Ormsby
of the Archaeological and Historic Sites Board of Ontario;
Patricia Hart, chief librarian and local historian;
Russell
Lynett, retiring town clerk;
William Neal,
first mayor of the Town of
Richmond Hill;
Robert Warner,
chairman of the
Centennial Committee;
Garfield
Wright, chairman of the
Regional Municipality of
York; Reverend Earl
Gerber of
St. John's
Anglican Church, Jefferson; and
regional councillor
Lois
Hancey."
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Nineteenth-century home of
Balsar and
Katharine
Munshaw at the southeast corner of present-day
Yonge Street and
Highway 7.
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20
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Land settlement from
Lake Ontario to
Newmarket along
Yonge Street and
to the east and west in
Markham, Whitchurch, Vaughan, and
King townships.
The York Pioneer (Leo A. Johnson)
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Duties to be performed by
Yonge Street
settlers in 1798. Archives of Ontario
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Log house construction.
C.W. Jefferys, The Picture Gallery of Canadian History, Ryerson Press
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Survey party laying out lots
along the back concessions of early Upper Canada.
C.W. Jefferys, The Picture Gallery of Canadian History, Ryerson Press
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Joseph-Geneviève,
Comte de Puisaye,
leader of the
de Puisaye
settlement at
Windham. Ontario
Historical Society
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Michel
Saigeon's tombstone at
Temperanceville
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Laurent
Quetton St. George, successful entrepreneur among the
de Puisaye
settlers, from an 1815 oil painting. Metropolitan Toronto Reference
Library
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27
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Henry St.
George, aristocratic owner of
"Glen Lonely"
estate until his death in 1896.
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Indenture between
Henry St.
George and
John Brown,
October 18, 1879.
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"
Glen Lonely" as it
appeared in the 1960s.
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Home built by
James Miles (son
of
Abner Miles) at
the southwest corner of
Yonge Street and
Major Mackenzie
Drive, as it looked in 1885. The home was occupied for many years by
Miles' nephew
James
Playter Jr., and later by the
Boyle
family.
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Tombstone of
Abner Miles, Richmond Hill Presbyterian Cemetery.
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Burr House, built by
Rowland Burr on
Carrville Road
in the 1820s. The
Richmond Hill Historical Society leases
Burr House from the
Town of
Richmond Hill
and, together with the
Burr
House Spinners and Weavers and the
Hill Potters
Guild, operates the
Burr House
Craft Gallery. Members of the
Woods family, later
owners, appear in the picture.
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General Isaac Brock. Archives of
Ontario
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Reverend
William Jenkins, Presbyterian minister at
Richmond Hill
from 1817 to 1843, as drawn by A.J. Clark from an old portrait. Ontario
Historical Society
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36
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Richmond Hill Presbyterian Church, erected in
1821.
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37
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Excerpt from
William
Jenkins' marriage register. Richmond Hill Presbyterian Church / Photo by
Mary-Lou Griffin
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38
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Excerpt from
Jenkins' marriage register: Index to medicines. Richmond
Hill Presbyterian Church / Photo by Mary-Lou Griffin
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39
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The
Duke of Richmond, as depicted by a cartoonist. National
Archives of Canada, C-94671
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40
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Cairn marking the death of the
Duke of Richmond at Richmond, Ontario. National Archives
of Canada, C 8998
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Charles Lennox,
Duke of Richmond, Governor General of Canada. His visit to
the community in 1819 may have inspired the change of name from
Miles' Hill to
Richmond Hill.
National Archives of Canada, C-8997
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Richmond Hill's
first schoolhouse.
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43
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Benjamin
Barnard, first school teacher in
Richmond Hill;
tombstone in
Richmond Hill
Cemetery. Photo by Mary-Lou Griffin
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44
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"The Lass of Richmond Hill," from
W. Chappell's Old English Ditties, transcribed by
Richard
Lloyd.
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45
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46
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Surveyor
John Stegman,
whose daughter
Lizzette
spurned the advances of the Comte
de Puisaye,
but whose other daughter
Marie married schoolteacher
Benjamin
Barnard. Association of Ontario Land Surveyors
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47
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Marion Smith Graham in front of the old
Colonel Moodie
home on Lot 49 East, Yonge Street
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48
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49
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Edward
O'Brien, leading member of the
York County Tory aristocracy in the
years before the
Rebellion of
1837.
Audrey Saunders Miller, The Journals of Mary O'Brien,
1828-1838,
Macmillan
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50
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Mary
Gapper O'Brien, chronicler of
Yonge Street life
in the late 1820s and early 1830s.
Audrey Saunders Miller, The Journals of Mary O'Brien,
1828-1838, Macmillan
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51
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Home built by
Richard
Gapper on the east side of
Yonge Street near
today's
16th Avenue, later
occupied by the
William Duncan
family.
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52
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Edward and
Mary
O'Brien's home in
Vaughan
Township, as it appeared in 1968.
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53
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"Rebels" marching down
Yonge Street to
attack Toronto in December 1837.
C.W. Jefferys, The Picture Gallery of Canadian
History, Ryerson Press
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54
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An early-twentieth-century
photograph of the home of
Robert and
Frances
Moodie, Lot 49 East, on
Yonge Street, a
rallying point for
Richmond Hill
loyalists on December 4, 1837. National Archives of Canada PA 26871
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55
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Moodie plaque
on the east side of
Yonge Street,
opposite
Levendale. Photo
by Mary-Lou Griffin
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56
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David
Bridgeford, veteran of the War of 1812 and prominent member of the
Richmond Hill
community, who accompanied Colonel
Robert Moodie
on his ride down
Yonge Street in
the evening of December 4, 1837.
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57
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The first casualty of the
1837 Rebellion -
the shooting of
Colonel Robert
Moodie outside
Montgomery's
Tavern on December 4, 1837, from a pen and ink drawing by C.W. Jefferys.
Metropolitan Toronto Reference Library
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58
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William Lyon Mackenzie. Archives of Ontario
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59
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60
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Highland
Cottage, 86 Major
Mackenzie Drive, dating from the 1840s.
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61
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Tomb of
Colonel Moodie
in
Trinity
churchyard, Thornhill. A.J. Clark
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Part of a deed for Lot 51 West
(the
Vaughan
Township side of
Yonge Street),
from
Aaron Munshaw
to
James Newton,
May 6, 1837."
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Observatory
House on
Observatory
Lane, pictured in 1933.
Robert and
Sara
(Bridgeford) Marsh built the older section of the house in the 1840s.
A later addition was erected by their grandson
Alexander in
1866.
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64
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Harness racing action at the
annual
Richmond Hill Spring
Fair.
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66
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A typical village house built in
the 1850s, located at
111 Richmond
Street.
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67
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The
Fulton/Vanderburgh House at
32 Hillsview
Avenue, dating from the 1840s.
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68
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Examples of eighteenth- and
nineteenth-century dinnerware, found on the
Fulton/Vanderburgh Site. Archaeological Services
Inc.
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69
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Examples of eighteenth- and
nineteenth-century dinnerware, found on the
Fulton/Vanderburgh Site. Archaeological Services
Inc.
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Richmond Hill Methodist Church, dedicated on July 1,
1849.
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76
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Reverend James
Dick, minister of the
Richmond Hill Presbyterian Church, 1847-1877.
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77
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Notice for a temperance lecture at the
Richmond Hill Roman Catholic Church in April
1859.
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78
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Richmond Hill
Public School, opened in 1847, pictured in a 1908
photograph.
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79
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Record of the founding of the
Richmond Hill
Band in 1853.
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80
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Calling card of
Thomas
Kinnear, victim of
Richmond Hill's
most celebrated murder case in July 1843.
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81
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Waiting for the stagecoach at the
Dominion House
(formerly
Dalby's
Tavern), a mainstay of
Richmond Hill's
nineteenth-century hospitality industry. The
Dominion House
was located on the east side of
Yonge Street,
south of the
Trench
Carriage Works.
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Team of horses and wagon at the
Langstaff
Toll-gate, today's
Yonge Street and
Highway 7
intersection. For many years this
toll-gate
was operated by
Henry Richards
and his son
Henry,
Jr.
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83
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Locomotive "Toronto" of the
Ontario, Simcoe and Huron Railway (or Railroad), which
inaugurated steam railway service in Upper Canada on May 16, 1853. But the
OS&H; ran its line six kilometres to the west of
Richmond Hill,
bypassing the village and disrupting the
Yonge Street
stagecoach business. Farquharson
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84
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Stagecoach connections between
Richmond Hill, Thornhill, Kleinburg,
and the new
OS&H station at present-day
Maple.
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85
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Palmer's "Bus
Line" ran stagecoaches between
Richmond Hill and
Toronto in 1876, despite competition from the
Northern
Railway.
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86
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John
Thompson's Richmond Hill-to-Toronto stagecoach, 1880-1896.
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87
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The Naughton Brothers, Michael and
John,
operated their general store on the southwest corner at
Elgin Mills from
around 1870 to 1919. The
Post
Office was housed in the store from 1900 onwards.
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88
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Richmond Hill and vicinty, 1860. Mary-Lou Griffin, Richmond Hill Local Architectural Conservation Advisory Committee
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John
Langstaff, who gave his name to the settlement of
Langstaff or
Langstaff
Corners, and whose son, grandson, and great-grandson
dispensed medicine in
Richmond Hill
from 1849 to 1973.
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90
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Cook's Hotel, on
the northwest corner of the
Yonge Street/
Highway 7
intersection, from a pen and ink drawing attributed to Bernard Joseph Gloster.
Metropolitan Toronto Reference Library
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91
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F. J. Woodward's blacksmith shop
at
Elgin Mills, with
the
Glass butcher
wagon on the right.
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92
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Yonge Street,
looking north from
Elgin Mills
Road, in the 1920s.
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93
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The
New Elgin
Hotel at
Elgin
Mills
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Newton
Tanning Company at
Elgin Mills.
Located on the sideroad west of
Yonge Street
behind the
blacksmith shop on the northwest corner. It was a major employer of
Richmond Hill
labour in the later decades of the nineteenth century.
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Employees of the
Newton
Tanning Company in 1898. Back row, left to right, are: --,
N. Garness,,
Geo Sims, Sr., S. Kirkland, Bertram
Newton, --,
- Garbutt, --,
George Hopper,
and
Tom Newton. Front
row:
Dave Mckenzie,
--,
J Brydon, A. Hamilton, --,
F. Dolen, --,
Andrew Newton, C. Skeele, W. Naughton, --,
--, --,
J. Naughton, and
N. Naughton.
Sitting:
L. McLeod, F.
Grainger.
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Memorial card of
James Newton,
1892.
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St. John's
Anglican Church, Jefferson.
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98
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Pupils of
Jefferson
Public School.
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Bond Lake
Hotel and stables.
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Poster for a picnic at
Bond Lake
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The Routledge family of
Oak Ridges. Pictured
left to right are: mail carrier
C. Harper, Hettie
Routledge, Marsh
Routledge on the grass,
Charlie
Routledge, Emma
(Mrs. Peter) Routledge, Lucy
Routledge, Peter
Routledge, John on
the grass,
Mary Jane
Routledge (Peter's sister), and
Watson on the grass.
Peter
Routledge was appointed postmaster at
Oak Ridges in 1889,
and ran the mail operation from his home.
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Routledge's blacksmith shop at
Oak Ridges, with
Walter Mortson
in front.
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103
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Drynoch, the residence
of Captain
Martin
Macleod, west of
Yonge Street and
north of
Jefferson
Sideroad. Macleod built the home in 1846, named it after his home estate
in Scotland, and made it the headquarters of his vast 600-acre (about
240-hectare) Canadian farming operation. One of his sons, Colonel
James
Macleod, achieved fame with the North-West Mounted Police and came to be
regarded as a founding father of southern Alberta.
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Thomas
Charlesworth advertises his grist and woollen mills at
Headford, July
1876.
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105
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Headford in 1860,
adapted by Janet Allin from a map prepared by Ruth Reaman.
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106
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The search for oil at
Klink's
farm.
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107
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Headford Public
School.
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108
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Headford
Methodist Church, built in 1882, pictured before lightning destroyed its
steeple on August 24, 1914.
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Headford
Methodist Church, built in 1882, pictured after the lightning
strike.
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110
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Mr. and
Mrs. C.
Brooke on the front porch of the
Dollar Post
Office, July 1, 1907.
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The ladies serve supper at
T. Thompson's
barn-raising,
Headford, June 15,
1909.
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114
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Looking west along
Carrville Road
in the nineteenth century.
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Joseph
Grainger home on
Carrville Road,
west of
Yonge Street,
built in 1865.
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116
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Pupils and teacher at
Patterson
School, September 1898.
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117
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Employees in front of
Archibald
Wright's carriage and undertaking business on the west side of Yonge
Street (present-day site of Marshall Funeral Home) sometime in the
1880s.
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118
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Village of
Richmond Hill in
1878.
Ted Chirnside, Richmond Hill Pioneers
Map
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119
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Richmond Hill and
vicinity in 1878.
Local Architectural Conservation Advisory
Committee
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120
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Amos
Wright, first reeve of
Markham
Township in 1850, member of Parliament for East York from 1851-67, and
chairman of the October 1857 meeting that supported the incorporation of
Richmond Hill as
a village. National Archives of Canada, PA 33494
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The
Amos
Wright home at 19
Church Street
North, built about 1840. The home is now owned by the Town of
Richmond Hill and
is being considered as a possible future site for the
Richmond Hill
Museum.
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122
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The call goes out for nominations for
Richmond Hill's
first village council.
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123
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Abraham Law
solicits votes for reeve in
Richmond Hill's
first municipal election.
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124
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Municipal "fence viewers," a remnant of pioneer Upper
Canada, were still being appointed in the newly incorporated village of
Richmond Hill in
1873.
C.W. Jefferys, The Picture Gallery of Canadian
History, Ryerson Press
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125
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Abraham Law,
first reeve of
Richmond Hill,
1873.
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126
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"
Richmond Villa,"
home of the
Abraham Law
family, on the northwest corner of Yonge and
Richmond
streets, built about 1853.
Mrs.
Elizabeth (Klinck) Lawis pictured on the verandah.
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127
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Matthew Teefy
1822-1911
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128
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Matthew Teefy,
longtime village postmaster and secretary-treasurer, pictured with his three
daughters on the front porch of the
Richmond
Hill Post Office.
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129
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William and
Christina (Whelpton) Harrison.
The community's first historian,
William
Harrison was
Richmond Hill's
second reeve in 1874.
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130
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A residence built and put up for
sale in 1885 by
William
Harrison at
17 Elizabeth
Street North.
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131
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Announcement of a fund-raiser
for the
Richmond
Hill Fire Brigade on New Year's Night, 1889.
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132
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Parker Crosby,
owner of a dry goods store destroyed in the disastrous fire of April
1866.
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133
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Crosby Hall, home
of the
Parker and
Mary (Holmes) Crosby
family, at
38 Bedford Park
Avenue. The original frame structure of 1863 was brick-clad by their son
Isaac in about
1889.
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Following the fire, Crosby
rebuilt and renamed his emporium the
Fire Proof
Store - known to succeeding generations of village shoppers simply as
"The Fire
Proof." Here the store is shown bearing the name of his son and
successor,
Isaac
Crosby.
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135
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Frank Sims
models a uniform worn by a volunteer with the
Richmond
Hill Fire Brigade, circa 1889.
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136
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William
Trench
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137
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Margaret
(Cook) Trench.
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138
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The
Trench
Carriage Works, Richmond Hill's
largest employer during the 1870s.
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139
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Wagon manufactured by the
Trench
Carriage Works.
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140
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Richmond Hill Masonic
Lodge building, where
Miss Aiken sang
"The Woodland Tree" in a February 1876 concert.
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141
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A sampling of business cards
from
Richmond Hill,
1878.
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142
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Bookplate and rules from the
library of the
Richmond Hill Mechanics' Institute.
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143
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144
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Picture post card village.
Photograph taken from the tower of the
Presbyterian Church, circa 1900, looking north up
Yonge Street, with
the spire of the
Methodist Church in the centre.
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145
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Building the
Richmond Hill Methodist (later United) Church in 1880-81.
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146
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The completed
Methodist Church, dedicated in October 1881.
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147
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Abraham Law's
quarterly ticket (comparable to a twentieth-century communion card) for the
Richmond Hill Methodist Church, 1884.
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148
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Choir at the dedication of a new
organ at the
Richmond Hill Presbyterian Church in 1915. Pictured left to
right are:
J.H. Dunlop, H. Rowley, L. McNair, James Stewart, A.L.
Phipps, Joseph
Atkinson, George Sims, Ira Ramer, W. Robinson, J. Aikenhead, W. Oliver, D. Cooper, Tom Scott, Miss E.
Gordon, Miss Douglas, Dr.
L. Langstaff, Mrs. E.
Newton, Mrs. A.L. Phipps, Mrs. Sterling, Miss Pentland, Miss E. Mcnair, Miss M. Cooper, Miss Hammond, Miss Margaret
Moodie, Mrs. R.
Cooper, Miss P. Batty, Miss H. Lang, Mrs. Mckenzie, Mrs. J. Innes, Mrs. Amos
Wright, Miss Heise. Three
top right are
Mrs. Scott, Mrs. J.
Atkinson, Miss Boyle. Front
row:
Miss D.
Mckenzie, Miss Carol
Innes, Miss J. Lomas, Mrs. W.
Oliver, Mrs. Simpson, Mrs. Godwin, Miss G. Prett, Mrs. Van Wart, Mrs. Allen,
unknown,
Miss V.
Jennings, Miss L. Innes, Reverend R.
Herbison, F. Converse
Smith, J.E. Newton, Miss Sisman, E. Caldwell.
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Presbyterian Church and
manse, with
Reverend W. Webb
Percival, his wife, and son. Percival ministered to the
Richmond Hill
congregation from 1887 to 1894.
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150
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Reverend James
Grant, his wife, and children
Robert, Reay, and
George, pictured
in front of the Presbyterian
manse. Grant ministered to the
Richmond Hill
congregation from 1894 to 1909.
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151
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Sparing "no pains," the ladies of
the
Richmond Hill Presbyterian Church promise to make an 1892
afternoon tea "equal to any of its predecessors."
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152
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St. Mary's
Anglican Church rectory, with
Mrs. H.F.
Battersby on verandah. The rectory stood on the site of the later
Langstaff Building.
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153
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Calling for tenders for a spire
for
St. Mary's
Anglican Church, August 1881.
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154
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St. Mary's
Anglican Church, after completion of spire.
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155
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St. Mary Immaculate Roman Catholic Church, original
structure built in November 1857; this building erected in 1894.
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156
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Interior of
St. Mary Immaculate Roman Catholic Church, 1894
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157
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Advertising the annual picnic of
St. Mary Immaculate Roman Catholic Church.
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158
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159
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Horse thieves in
Richmond
Hill?
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160
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Factory buildings of
Patterson
Brothers, manufacturers of agricultural implements, located three
kilometres west of
Richmond Hill,
along today's
Major Mackenzie
Drive.
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161
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Peter
Patterson, manufacturer, reeve of
Vaughan
Township 1868-71, member of the Ontario Legislature 1871-83, and
president of the
Richmond Hill Agricultural Society in 1884. National
Archives of Canada, PA 28654
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Mr. and
Mrs. James
Mahoney, their children, and grandchildren. The Mahoneys lived at the
west end of
Mill Street.
Mr. Mahoney
worked at the
Patterson
implement factory for $1.50 a day.
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Advertisement for
William
Atkinson's "Concrete
House."
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Dr. Rolph
Langstaff, with his housekeeper and her husband, on the front lawn of
the
Langstaff home, medical office, and village "hospital,"
circa 1895. The house was built in 1849, facing
Yonge Street; in
the twentieth century it was moved to the rear of the property, and today faces
Hall
Street.
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"When My Grandpa Was Young."
Nine-year-old
Bruce
Langstaff's 1952 school speech about his grandfather,
Dr. Rolph
Langstaff.
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Front pages of
Richmond Hill's
two weekly newspapers on September 20, 1888.
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Susannah
Maxwell. (1805-1922).
Richmond Hill's
and Canada's oldest citizen at the time of her death.
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The Young Canadians,
Richmond Hill's
championship lacrosse team of the 1880s. Top row, left to right:
M. Wilson (field
captain),
F. Powell, McConaghy,
J.S. S. Searle, B.R.Brown, H.A. Nicholls
(umpire),
Walter Wiley.
Middle row:
G. Derry, C. Skeele, J. Piper, C. Savage, M. Palmer. Front
row:
Sunny Mager, A. Pugsley, T. Young, D.
Pugsley.
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Gas street lamp in front of the
Palmer family
home, installed in 1892 and maintained by village lamplighter
James
Brownlee.
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In 1880, village council moved its meeting room from
the
Robin Hood
Hotel to the second floor of the new
Palmer Block,
pictured on the right, at the northwest corner of Yonge and
Arnold streets.
The
fire engine
house was located on the north end of this building.
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Council acts on a ratepayers' petition and proclaims May
13, 1897, as Arbor Day.
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Richmond
Hill High School in its 1897 building at Yonge and
Wright streets,
later part of the municipal building of the Town of
Richmond
Hill.
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Certificate showing that
Gertrude
Lynett passed her entrance examination in 1889 and would be allowed to
proceed from
public
school to
high
school.
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The old order passes - a credit
sale of farm stock and implements at
Elgin Mills in
October 1894.
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Car 71 of the
Metropolitan Railway, southbound through
Richmond Hill,
with the
Trench
Carriage Works on the left or east side of
Yonge
Street.
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Northbound on the
Metropolitan line at
Yonge Street and
Major Mackenzie
Drive. City of Toronto Archives
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Boarding
Metropolitan Car 56 at the
Richmond
Hill station, Yonge Street and
Lorne
Avenue.
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Northbound on Yonge from the
intersection of
Arnold Crescent
and
Lorne
Avenue.
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Looking north from the corner of
Dunlop Street,
along the east side of
Yonge Street, from
the
Richmond Hill
bakery to beyond
St. Mary Immaculate Roman Catholic Church.
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Metropolitan
Railway (later the
Toronto and York Radial Railway Company) power house at
Bond Lake.
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Schomberg and Aurora Railway station at
Oak
Ridges.
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The old
Schomberg and Aurora Railway station station at
Oak Ridges, pictured
as a fish and chip restaurant in the 1950s. Metropolitan Toronto Reference
Library
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The old
Metropolitan (Toronto and York) car barns at
Bond Lake, pictured
as a service station in the 1950s. Metropolitan Toronto Reference
Library
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Track map of the
Metropolitan Division of the
Toronto and York Radial Railway. Upper Canada Railway Society, Newsletter, March/April 1973. Photo by Roger Carlsen
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Bond Lake Park
in the 1920s, adapted by Janet Allin from a 1986 map prepared by Mary-Lou
Griffin.
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Passengers alighting from
radial cars for a day of fun and recreation at
Bond Lake Park,
June 20, 1924. Metropolitan Toronto Reference Library
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Entrance to
Bond Lake
Park.
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"Lina, Erling, Mort and
Vernon" in a rowboat on
Bond Lake, circa
1905.
North York
Historical Board at Gibson House
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Howard Park Methodist Church, Toronto, Sunday School Picnic at Bond Lake, 1914. Pictured are Martha Fortune Irwin, John C. W. Irwin, Archie Blakely, Agnes Larimer
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The
Richmond Hill Hardware Company welcomes the arrival of
electric lighting in 1912.
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Tea in the garden, with lace
tablecloth and all.
Margaret
McConaghy, left, and
Effie
(Hollingshead) Smith.
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Ready for a sleigh ride in 1902 at the Newbery family
home, north of
Elgin Mills.
Pictured left to right are
Jennie
Newbery, Mrs.
George Newbery with baby
Eleanor, Maude Murphy, Katherine Newbery (Mrs. W.F. Carter),
Grace
Newbery (Mrs. D.H. Pinkerton), and
Gertrude Murphy (Mrs. C.
Kelson).
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Tennis at the Newbery home,
circa 1900. Pictured left to right are
George Newbery 2nd., Grace
Newbery (Mrs. D.H. Pinkerton),
Oswald
Newbery, Katherine Newbery (Mrs. W.F. Carter),
Alex
Newbery, Gertrude Murphy (Mrs. C. Kelson), and
Jennie
Newbery.
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Josh Horner and
his milk wagon in front of the Horner family home on Lot 20, Concession 2,
Markham
Township. Horner operated the first milk delivery business in the
area.
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Harry Rumble's
barn raising near
Richmond Hill,
July 28, 1908. One of the Rumble family farms later provided the nucleus for
the
Richmond
Heights subdivision.
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Supper at
Harry Rumble's
barn raising.
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Heritage sites in
New Gormley. Richmond
Hill Local Architectural Conservation Advisory Committee
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The
Canadian
Northern (later
Canadian
National) Railway station at
Richmond
Hill.
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First freight at the new
Richmond
Hill station in November 1906 - a load of coal and lumber
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"Gormley
Station from the South," showing the business and industrial centre of
New Gormley early
in the twentieth century. Buildings include, from left to right, blacksmith
shop,
David and
Jacob Heise's
double house, driveshed, railway station, North American Cement Block and Tile
Company office (in background), and grain elevator.
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Cober's store in
New
Gormley.
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Aerial view of
Richmond Hill,
1919. National Archives of Canada PA 22796
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Radial
railway station and entrance to the Park Grounds at
Yonge Street and
Lorne Avenue,
decorated for the
1911 Old Boys
Reunion.
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Richmond Hill Old
Boys Reunion of 1911.
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Disappointed in the economic
conditions,
R.E. Law puts his
house, lot, and furnishings up for auction in September 1905.
Mr. Law is "leaving
for the West."
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James Graham and
"Barney," in front of
Hall's grocery
and general store, southwest corner of
Yonge and
Centre streets,
circa 1915.
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Fixing the dam at the
Mill Pond. John Sheardown
is pictured centre-right, behind the wheelbarrow.
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The P.G. Savage family of
Richmond Hill,
pictured in 1909. Left to right are
Palmer (son of Will),
Mrs.
Will (Palmer) Savage, Armand with his son
Peter, Susan (Mrs. Armand) Savage, Albert, William, and
Mrs.
Albert Savage with her
son
Keith. Seated are
P.G.
(Peter Gould) Savage and his second wife,
Theodora Hillman Savage.
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Dr. W.R.
Pentland practised medicine in
Richmond Hill
from 1910 until he retired to California in 1919.
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Aerial view of
Richmond Hill's
greenhouses in the 1930s, looking west from the
Canadian
National Railway tracks towards
Yonge Street. The
H.J. Mills
greenhouses are top centre, the
J.H. Dunlop
greenhouses lower left, and the
Bedford
Park greenhouses to the right.
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The
William J. Lawrence greenhouses.
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The
John Dunlop
family.
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The
John Dunlop
greenhouses.
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Interior of the H.J.
Mills florist operation in 1948. Pictured left to right
are
Doug Lowrey, Alex Peters, Howard Van
Dyke, James Pollard, Stan Baker, H.J.
Mills, Bill Fisher, Norm
Stephenson, Bill
Horner.
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Endean's
Garden Centre at
Elgin Mills in the
1930s.
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First home of contractor
William H.
Graham, which he built at 90
Centre Street
East in 1911.
Mrs.
Graham is sitting on the steps while her husband and eldest child,
Philip, sit in
their new 1914 Model-T Ford.
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The long struggle for adequate
library facilities. Here in 1895, a new
Public Library Board takes over from the old
Mechanics' Institute.
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Dr.
Lillian Langstaff, guest speaker at the inaugural meeting of the
Women's Institute in 1913 and member of the
Horticultural Society's first
Flower Show
Committee in 1914.
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Snowshoe party on
Vaughan
Sideroad (today's
Major Mackenzie
Drive) west of
Yonge Street in
1918.
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Looking south on
Yonge Street from
the roof of the
Methodist Church, circa 1911-15.
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Looking north on
Yonge Street from
the roof of the
Methodist Church, circa 1911-15.
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Looking east on
Centre Street
from the roof of the
Methodist Church, circa 1911-1915.
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Langstaff Jail
Farm on the northeast corner of today's
Yonge Street and
Highway 7. City of
Toronto Archives
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Dormitory room at the
Langstaff Jail
Farm. City of Toronto Archives
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Home Guards' church
parade, June 13, 1915.
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Red Cross fund-raising dance at
Bond Lake Park,
August 23, 1916.
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A.J. Hume
1858-1943 Clerk of the Village of
Richmond
Hill
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Dedicating the
First World War
memorial in front of the
Richmond
Hill Public School, August 5, 1923. Umbrellas shelter
Mr. and
Mrs. Charles
Cooper (to the right of the cannon) and
Mr. and
Mrs.
Joseph Monkman (to the left) from the midday sun.
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Old Boys and Girls Reunion of 1923.
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Entrance to the
Village Park in the
1920s.
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Parade turns off
Yonge Street into
the
park during the
1923 reunion.
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Cassie Murphy, Marjorie
Wright, and
May Robinson
surround
M.J. Green and
his decorated automobile at the
1923 Reunion.
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Dr. Rolph
Langstaff demonstrates his skating skills at age 85.
The Liberal, January 23,
1969.
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Young
Alex Carson
displays his day's catch of fish from the
Mill Pond.
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Water tower at the
Mill Pond, built in
1921 and demolished in April 1962.
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Dr. John P.
Wilson (1886-1965). Born in Albion Township and a graduate of the
University of Toronto medical School,
Dr. Wilson set
up practice in
Richmond Hill in
the fall of 1918, during the bad influenza epidemic. He and
Dr. Rolph
Langstaff took yearly turns as medical officer of health for
Richmond Hill
during the 1920s.
Wilson served
three years on village council in the 1940s, and was active in community
affairs even after his formal retirement from medicine in 1962.
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Mary Lillian McConaghy and her class, pictured on the
front steps of the
Richmond
Hill Public School in 1915. Front row, left to right:
- Innes, Laverne
Wright, -, -,
Doc Atkinson, Lewis Sims, Art Leach, Bill Innes, Jim Grainger, Alfred
Grainger, - Burns, - Warren Second row: -,
-,
Bertha Hopper, Alice Innes, - Stong, - Tindall, -, -, -, -,
- Battie, - Smith, Audrey Tuck Third
row:
- Smith, - Battie, Ida Blanchard, Isobel Wilson, - Raymer, Betty
Hewetson, - Smith Back row: -, -,
Peter
Savage, -,
- Flanigan;
Donald Wren, -,
-, -, -,
Ted Bennett, Bert
Grainge
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Room 4,
Richmond
Hill Public School, in 1922. Pupils sit upright in double desks, hands
behind their backs, ready for the serious task of learning.
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Cast for a production of
Shakespeare's "Twelfth Night,"
Richmond
Hill High School, 1925.
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Young athletes at
Richmond
Hill High School in the 1920s.
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The new
Richmond
Hill High School of 1924, the core of the current
high
school building on
Wright
Street.
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The
Loyal
True Blue and Orange Home, Yonge Street
North, opened in 1923. Roger Carlsen
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A 12th of July
Orange Parade in
Richmond Hill,
featuring the Union Jack and "King Billy" on his white horse.
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The
Rustic Inn on the
west side of
Yonge Street at
Nos.
24-28
South. The business was begun by
Daniel Stong in
the 1920s, and continued by his daughter and son-in-law,
Ethel and
James Wigmore,
as an ice cream parlour, restaurant, and boarding house.
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F.E. Sims
General Store on the east side of
Yonge Street,
north of the radial railway station.
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Interior view of the
F.E. Sims
General Store.
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The
Innes Mill at the
west end of
Richmond
Street, south of the
Mill Pond, in the
1920s.
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Employees of the
Innes Mill in the
1920s. Standing are, left to right:
- Denby, Isill Tyndall, - Rikey, -,
Carnie Marsh, - Neal, Bert Meek, George Sims, Jim Wigmore, Will Innes.
Seated:
Harry Innes, -,
- Teatzell, Teatzell, -, -
- Hopper, Bert Bennett, Harry
Leach.
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Leslie and
Mary
(Ritchie) Innes on their 50th wedding anniversary, May 8, 1907, in front
of their home at 124
Richmond Street,
with their three sons, left to right,
Alexander
Ritchie Innes, John Leslie
Innes, and
William
Innes.
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Leslie Innes
quotes on materials for the
Richmond
Hill Public Library.
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The
Richmond
Hill Cornet Band.
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Dr. Rolph Langstaff,
the first automobile owner in
Richmond Hill, at
the wheel of his 1902 Oldsmobile.
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The automobile and the horse
and buggy compete for attention on
Yonge
Street.
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The first
gasoline pump north of Toronto in Thornhill, established by
John L.
McDonald, circa 1921. Department of Highways, Ontario.
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Track work on the
radial railway
line, October 1927. Toronto Transit Commission
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Paving
Yonge Street
through
Richmond Hill in
1927. Department of Public Highways of Ontario
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Automobiles claim ascendancy
on the stretch of
Yonge Street
between
Carrville and
Major
Major
Mackenzie drives, circa 1930. City of Toronto Archives James collection
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The last crop on the
Palmer Farm,
south half of lot 45, Concession One,
Markham
Township, 1922, with
Richard
Stephenson cutting grain.
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Mr. Paxton
ploughing a field where the
Richmond Plaza
sits today.
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The
Scott Farm
on
Scott
Drive.
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The approach from
Yonge Street.
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Parking and picnicking.
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