A collection of images from Burlington, Ontario illustrating its history and culture from the collections of Burlington Historical Society and Burlington Public Library..http://images.burlington.halinet.on.ca/atom.xmlhttp://images.ourontario.ca/Partners/Test21/Graphics/atomtile2_Test21_s_2.gif

<img src="http://images.OurOntario.ca/Partners/Burlington/p30792s.jpg" alt="Students at Lowville School, ca 1927" />  The children are posed in front of the school.Most of the names are provided in the newspaper clipping copied here, courtesy of Mrs Reg. Twiss, née Marie Richardson, back row, 4th from the left.

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<img src="http://images.OurOntario.ca/Partners/Burlington/p30769s.jpg" alt="Water Street at Brant Street, looking west, ca 1920" />  Copies 916.5 by 11.5 cm and 15.8 by 24 cm) of an original postcard in the Hamilton Public Library Local History and Archives.

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<img src="http://images.OurOntario.ca/Partners/Burlington/p30750s.jpg" alt="Children playing at the playground, Indian Point, ca 1920" />  Indian Point was developed by A. B. Coleman, who in 1902 built the Brant Hotel as a summer attraction which brought many wealthy Americans, such as the Dupont and Mellon families, as well as many visitors from all over Canada, to this summer resort. Coleman built five large rental cottages along...

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<img src="http://images.OurOntario.ca/Partners/Burlington/p31098s.jpg" alt="Burlington Service Clubs Sign on Plains Road, 1996" />  

http://images.burlington.halinet.on.ca/6709/data?r=atLes Armstrong

<img src="http://images.OurOntario.ca/Partners/Burlington/p31295s.jpg" alt="Trinity Baptist Church, 4372 Appleby Line, 1996" />  Originally Zimmerman Methodist Church, built 1890.

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<img src="http://images.OurOntario.ca/Partners/Burlington/p31383s.jpg" alt="Maria Wilson (1838-1920), ca 1900" />  Mother of Elizabeth Minerva Henderson who married Albert Edward Alton

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<img src="http://images.OurOntario.ca/Partners/Burlington/p31502s.jpg" alt="437 Elizabeth Street, 1974" />  Front (west) and south elevations, showing part of 441 Elizabeth Street on the left.Built in 1855 for Richard Mortimer, a butcher. Later the residence of Charles Ogg.

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<img src="http://images.OurOntario.ca/Partners/Burlington/p30710s.jpg" alt="Gingerbread House--Exterior view from side yard, ca. 1995" />  

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<img src="http://images.OurOntario.ca/Partners/Burlington/BHS006781t.jpg" alt="Edwin James Whatmough Sr., his wife and his daughter Ada standing in front of their house in England, ca 1910" />  Edwin James Whatmough ((1844 - 1921) did not follow his brothers Charles and Isaac, and later in 1872 their parents and sisters, to Canada, but stayed with his wife and children in Lincoln, England, where he had a position in the Time Office at the Ruston Engineering Works. He married Betsy...

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<img src="http://images.OurOntario.ca/Partners/Burlington/BHS006785t.jpg" alt="Jean Whatmough, later married to Percy Gallagher, with a sundial in a garden, 1928" />  Flora Jean Whatmough (1908 - 1952), a niece of Annie Louise Whatmough who married George T. Gallagher. Flora Jean married F. Percival Gallagher (1901 - ) in 1932.Written on a label on the reverse, "Flora Jean Whatmough, 1928)". Another hand (Howard Gallagher?) has added "(?)".

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