TTHS presents “Rural Halton County Early to Mid 1900’s!
Oct 03, 2023
TTHS presents "Rural Halton County Early to Mid 1900’s!
Date: October 3, 2023 from 7PM - 8PM
Location: The Old Palermo School House, 2431 Dundas St W, Oakville
Illustrated by Photographs from four branches of the Norton family, farming life in rural Halton.
Alan Norton, has researched his ancestors for over 50 years and published 12 family history books. He will show a few of rural Halton photos at the Trafalgar Township Society.
The four branches of Alan Norton's ancestral grandparents were all in Upper Canada or Ontario after 1867. Nortons 1837, Robinsons 1888, McMillans before 1837, Bonifacio 1871.
In all four families, at least one of them was able to acquire a camera and there are hundreds of photos in the Norton collection depicting their lives at work and play.
Norton will talk about the pictures which show actual operations of market gardening and dairy farming as well as the side story of getting the rural children to high school in Burlington. There are pictures of their personal interests and activities including the Burlington Beach.