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Privies of Peel
CA ON00380 series 2-file 40 · File · [197-]
Part of Betty Odlum fonds

File consists of photographs documenting various outhouses and port-a-potties throughout the Peel area.

Brampton
CA ON00380 series 2-file 23 · File · [192-?]-[197-?]
Part of Betty Odlum fonds

File consists of photographs of the Brampton area. Included are shots of the following: Military parades; Fire trucks; Gage Park; Automobiles and bicycles; Trains and a train station; Churches; Winter scenes; Etobicoke Creek Diversion; [Scott or Church Street] bridge; Brampton cenotaph; flooding; horse racing or perhaps an agricultural demonstration (perhaps at the Brampton Fair Grounds; Peel County Jail; ABC Farms [Armbro?]; water tower; tree clearing; a military band; McHugh School; 1st Line East, south of Queen Street (winter scene); Brampton High School; Isabella Street; John Street; Wellington Street; Thomas Street; Chapel Street; Mains Creek; Norman’s Refreshments / Norman’s Lunch (service station and restaurant); Park Royal apartments; White Rose Service Station; split trees; and Pease foundry, Dale Estate, and IODE floats.

Photograph of John Forster
CA ON00380 series 6-item 2 · Item · ca. 1880
Part of Dr. Beaumont Dixie fonds

Item is a mounted photograph of John Forster. The back reads "John Forster, father of Anson Green Forster, grand father of Anson H. Forster". John Forster was buried at Churchville Cemetery; see authority records for details.

Mair, Wm. Ross
The Growler
File · 6 April 1889
Part of Region of Peel Archives newspaper collection

File consists of a satirical newspaper called "The Growler". The title was apparently printed weekly on Saturday afternoons.

While the item lists "Quirk, Gammon & Snap" as its editors, it was a project of the Brampton Times editor and his son, George and Luther "Lou" Tye.

Might family fonds
Fonds · [ca. 1860] - [ca. 1900]

Fonds consists of cabinet photographs, carte de visites and one tintype, all portraits of members of the Might family of Brampton and their relatives. The donor provided annotations regarding identities on tags attached to the photographs whose subjects were known to them. These were removed and photocopied along with the corresponding photograph; photocopies are included with the fonds. The subjects of some of the portraits are unknown. The first file contains identified portraits, the second unidentifed.

CA ON00380 1991.028-013 · Item · ca. 1905
Part of Richard L. Frost postcard collection

Item consists of a postcard showing the school, inset. Front reads: "Dear Mary, Are you ever going to come back to Brampton? Really, I think it is time. You would hardly know the old town now, it has grown to [sic] much this summer, new houses are going up all over. I have been going to write to you this long time."

[Unidentified band]
CA ON00380 1991.028-051 · Item · ca. 1905
Part of Richard L. Frost postcard collection

Item consists of a real photo technique postcard of an unidentified band. On the verso, "Brampton, Ont Band" is written, but the source of that identification is unknown. May have been printed by a company called "CyKo".