Postcard Memories

March 20, 1888, started like any other for the five-man crew of Allandale-based plow

Holt was founded in the 1830s, 'rising out of the woods and fields of wildflowers and fattening itself on the fertility of the land'

While Louis Neilly took part in bombing missions overseas, brother Albert trained pilots at home

West Gwillimbury was named for Elizabeth Posthuma Gwillim, wife of Lt.-Gov. John Graves Simcoe

Sometimes dynamite was used, but most often settlers used a stump-puller, a tall, tripod-shaped device that — as the name describes — literally pulled the stump from the soil

'If not a newspaper advertisement from the 1860s, we may never know of this man and his contributions to Bradford.' columnist writes

'Even after railways arrived to make the shipping of goods over long distances faster and more economical, wagons remained essential,' columnist writes

John Stewart's gamble paid off with establishment in Thornton

Area was virtually impassible and would isolate the south-east of Innisfil from the remainder of the township

Sir John Franklin started second expedition in 1825