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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."

Main St., Brampton, Ont.
CA ON00380 1991.028-015 · Item · ca. 1910
Part of Richard L. Frost postcard collection

Item consists of a photograph postcard showing Main St, Brampton, on top of an image titled "Picturesque Canada: Before the Leap" of Aboriginal people Hiawatha and Minnehaha.

Hiawatha, or Haiëñ'wa'tha, was leader of the Onondaga, or the Mohawk, or both in pre-Colonial times. Minnehaha is a creation of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, for the poem The Song of Hiawatha (1855).

CA ON00380 1991.028-027 · Item · ca. 1910
Part of Richard L. Frost postcard collection

Item consists of a photographic postcard showing a view of Main Street North, looking south. This includes the trees on the west side of the street, opposite the church. Grace was a Wesleyan Methodist congregation.