Rare and perhaps unpublished King St. Views

This posting is devoted to a few terrific photographs that very few people may have seen before. They have turned up at various times and I have been fortunate enough to have been able to copy them for use sometime. Perhaps this is a good time.
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ca. 1868

One of the earliest street scenes taken in [...]

Railway Photographs taken in Brockville – Part 2

The Brockville & Ottawa Railway
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ca.1865

This early photograph shows the ‘Renfrew’, one of eleven wood-burning locomotives operated by the Brockville & Ottawa Railway in the 1860s.
It is standing in front of the first B&O depot built ca.1860, and located on the Brockville waterfront, south of the Brockville Railway Tunnel.

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The Grand Trunk Railway
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ca.1858

This rare photograph [...]

Railway Photographs taken in Brockville – Part 1

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The Grand Trunk Railway came to Brockville in 1855 when the main line from Montreal to Toronto was completed and opened as far as Brockville.
Brockville was made a divisional point on the GTR, which established this town as a major transportation site.

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about 1950

An aerial view of the main railway facilities in Brockville. Notable in [...]

Looking Down at Brockville – September 1933

From high on the steeple of First Presbyterian Church
William St at Church St.

This is one of a set of photographs taken by a local professional photographer (no identification), one day on September 1933, each time looking in a different direction from the highest point on the top of the Presbyterian Church. These four aerial photos [...]

Brockville Post Cards from the Past

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Aerial View of Brockville in the 1960s.
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S.S. Brockville, passing through the Brockville Narrows at Swiftwaters.
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The new Brockville Public Library, funded by the Andrew Carnegie Foundation, in about 1910.
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King Street, looking east, from Market Sq. in the 1930s.
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The Brockville Rowing Club, 21 Water St. E. in the 1890s, during one of the Rowing Regattas.
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King St. E., [...]

Brockville Fire Department Pictures

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All the photographs in this post are from the vast collection of Fire Memorabilia amassed by the late Mervyn McKay.

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Members of the Brockville Hook and Ladder Co. in 1899.
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The Fire Department Hose Reel Team about 1915
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Running the Hose Reel Along King St. E. near Murray St.
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Brockville Fire Department in 1919.   George Gillespie, Chief (front [...]

Some Early Mayors of Brockville — [ 1832—1878 ]

Brockville was incorporated as the first Police Village in Upper Canada on January 28, 1832.
The office of President of the Board of Police corresponded to the office of Mayor.
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Daniel Jones, Jr.
first President of the Board of Police, 1832, 1833
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Jonas Jones
President of the Board of Police, 1833
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William Buell, Jr.
President of the Board of Police, 1843, 1844
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Hon. [...]

A Long View of the Town of Brockville in 1857

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1857
One day in the summer of 1857, an unknown photographer set out to take a panoramic photograph of the Town of Brockville. He climbed to the highest point of George and Isabella Easton’s new house, also known as Beauvoir, just east of North Augusta Road (now at 41 Cochrane Dr.). We have attempted [...]

Breakwall Construction on Blockhouse Island

ca. 1910

The two photographs you see here were taken about the same time. The views are easy enough to identify, but, otherwise, the date is currently unknown. Each picture has a gentleman in a dark overcoat. The form work for holding the concrete is still in place on part of the new wall [...]

Brockville’s Main Downtown Intersection – King and Court House

King Street West & Court House Ave. [ or Broad St.]
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The Dunham Block
47-51 King St. W. [south side] at Broad St.
built 1892-93
photo taken about 1895

Tenants in 1903:
Robert Wright & Co., dry goods,   Canada Life Assurance Co.,   H.A. Stewart, barrister,   C.C. Fulford, [...]