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Norberta O'Rourke fonds
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Edgeley, Ontario post office

Photograph showing the first and only location of the Edgeley post office which was also the general store. It was located on the south east corner of Thornhill Sideroad and the Fifth Concession of Vaughan Township, Ontario, now Hwy. 7 and Jane St. Mr. L. Arthur Whitmore, postmaster and general store owner, is seen here putting groceries in a buggy. In the buggy on the right is his father-in-law, William Reid, an Edgeley blacksmith, who was ready to leave for Concord to pick up the mail from the train at the Thornhill station. The Edgeley post office and store was closed on July 12, 1960. It was demolished when Jane St was widened and paved in 1965.

Norberta O'Rourke fonds

  • ON00373 MG 45
  • Fonds
  • 1828-2002, predominant 1900-1980.

Fonds constituted of family histories and genealogical material, histories of schools and churches in Pine Grove and Woodbridge as well as the communities themselves, photographs, photo albums, scrapbooks, architectural drawings of the St. Margaret Mary School, diplomas, report cards, invitations, certificates, awards, programs, maps, correspondence, newspaper ad layouts, newspaper clippings, and commemorative coins from the 1991 inauguration of the City of Vaughan. Also includes County of York uniform promotion examination certificate documenting promotion of Mary O'Rourke of the Pine Grove School and an indenture between Alfred and Harriet Gooderham, grantors, and Michael O'Rourke, grantee. Also contains "1833 it was -- a trading post and granary 1989 it is -- a house of the 20th century", an unpublished essay by Norberta O'Rourke which details the history of the Elliot Trading Post and surrounding area, originally constructed on Lot 11, Concession 8, Vaughan Township in 1833. Fonds is comprised of the following series: Personal Memorabilia Maps Community Histories Photographs Newspaper Clippings

Official opening ceremony of the Woodbridge, Ontario post office

Scene from the official opening on May 3, 1969 of the Woodbridge, Ontario post office. Reeve John McLean of the Village of Woodbridge is seen greeting and welcoming those in attendance. Seated from the left are Monsignor J. A. O'Mara, Stan Archibald, postmaster, Barnett J. Danson, M.P., Robert P. Henderson, Gordon Longhouse, Major A. A. Mackenzie, and Rev. A. B. Cathcart.

Photographs

Series consists of photograhs depicting the people and places of early Vaughan as well as the post offices throughout Vaughan Township (Norberta wrote a book Chatting About the Post Offices of Vaughan Township, Ontario, published 1983), Norberta was also a long-time journalist with the Woodbridge and Vaughan News and thus some of the photos she used in her articles can also be found in this series.

Post Office in Teston, Ontario

Teston, Ontario post office with Tom Wilson, postmaster, Otter Walker, Ruby Walker (Mrs. Roy Wilson), Katie Ireland (Mrs. M. Anness), Hattie Diceman, Mossie Taggart, Ethel Diceman and Mrs. W. Diceman in the buggy, then Berta Hadwen (Mrs. J. Kyle) and Mrs. Tom Wilson, the postmaster's wife, in the doorway.