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CA ON00373 MG 45-M010.6 · Item · 3 May 1969
Part of Norberta O'Rourke fonds [textual record and other material]

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.

CA ON00373 MG 45-M010.6 · Item · [ca. 1900]
Part of Norberta O'Rourke fonds [textual record and other material]

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.

Edgeley, Ontario post office
CA ON00373 MG 45-M010.6 · Item · [ca. 1900]
Part of Norberta O'Rourke fonds [textual record and other material]

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.