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Metadata
Item ID# |
A2012.117.112 |
Title |
Slides from Port Elgin and area, box 2 |
Object Name |
Transparency, Slide |
Dates of Creation |
1964 - 1993 |
Creator |
Thornburn, Lindsay |
Other Creators |
Bruce County Historical Society |
Description |
This folder contains 35 mm colour slides falling under the notation "Box 2", collected by the Bruce County Historical Society. Each slide is numbered by hand, with a short description. The slides are by two manufacturers: either Kodak or an unidentified maker. The slides are mostly dated by machine; the years printed or embossed are 1964, 1967, 1979, 1980 and 1993. An included index of four pages is titled "Port Elgin, Then and Now; photos by J.L. Thornburn". The index contains 99 entries, from "1. [blank]" to "99. Harbour and Marina". Variations are noted: -- The index descriptions are more complete than the descriptions written on the slides. -- The slides, as numbered, are not precisely in the order as numbered in the index. -- Some slide descriptions do not match the index descriptions. The index descriptions reads as follows: 1. 2. Early Port Elgin looking west 3. Mill Street looking west 4. Goderich St. looking north 5. Goderich St. looking south 6. Corner of Mill and Goderich - McLaren, George 7. " [ditto] now Peever's, McLeod's, Bettink's 8. S.W. " Ruby and Hilker Block, now the Co-Op. 9. " Name and date plate, 1878 10. " the present Co-Op 11. N.W. corner of Mill and Goderich - Macpherson Block 12. Original American Hotel - Mill and Goderich 13. " top storey burned - now garage, clothing etc. 14. Carnegie Library, built in 1908 15. Bruce County Library on Gustavus St. 16. N.E. corner of Green and Goderich - Drug Store 17. S.W. " old Schwartz-Barber, Fraser Drugs 18. N.W. " old Bank of Comm. building 19. S.E. " new Bank of Comm. and Arlington Hotel 20. Arlington Hotel 21. " " name and date plate - D.O. Bricker Block 22. Eby Barber Shop, Dr. Taylor, Queen's Hotel 23. Queen's Hotel 24. First Post Office, the James Roy home, Mill St. 25. " the Roy home refurbished 26. Present United Church House on the Roy lot 27. New Post Office, Mill and Bricker 28. Old Town Hall - site of present Post Office 29. " rear view, Fire Hall, jail [Paisley] 30. Present fire station and police headquarters 31. United Church since 1925. Presbyterian, 1875 32. Architect's sketch, Presbyterian, 1926 33. Tolmie Presbyterian, 1926 34. Iron fence, Hilker home, Tolmie Presbyterian 35. Original Hilker home, widow's walk, iron fence 36. Present Hilker home, Dorothy Marie Salon 37. Evangelical Church, demolished 1970. T.D. Bank 38. Toronto Dominion Bank 39. Old United Brethren Church 40. Methodist Church 1871-1925. Fenton Apts. 41. " name plate 42. Baptist Church 43. Fellowship Baptist on Goderich St. N. 44. Anglican Church on Mill St. 45. Latter Day Saints Church on Market St. 46. United Missionary Church on Gustavus St. 47. St. Joseph's R.C. on Lisa Lane 48. Dunblane Presbyterian Church on the River Road 49. Heather Robertson property - first Public School. 50. The large Public School. 1889 - 1969 51. " with addition in front 52. Present Port Elgin-Saugeen Central School 53. Present St. Joseph's Separate School. (P.S. site) 54. First High School., 1890 55. Wellington Apts. 1939 56. New Saugeen Dist. High School., 1939 57. " with beautiful north and south additions 58. " east rear view 59. " sold 1975 - Maple Square 60. New Saugeen Dist. Secondary School. 1975 61. " with swimming pool 62. Old Agricultural. Fair Palace 63. Memorial Gates at Fair Grounds 1864-1964 64. " 65. " 66. Old Mill Creek Dam 67. Button Factory - Port Elgin Cabinets 68. First Brush Factory, 1883 69. " expanded into Stevens-Hepner Keystone 70. " Keystone and Curlmaster Brooms 71. C.N.R. Station, now demolished 72. Co-Op flour, grain and feed mill 73. Shovel, Harness, Chopping, Machine 1905-1964 74. Twin Cinema on old Shovel Factory site 75. McGraw-Edison electrical transformers 76. Port Elgin Arena 77. New Curling Rink on Gustavus E. 78. A close game of bowls in 1914 "In separate yellow slide box" 79. Emmet McGrath home - an older frame house 80. Maas farm home - a fine stone structure 81. Former Pattison funeral home on Mill St. 82. Chappell Beauty Salon - former Wm. Kidd - Bank 83. Dr. Wells residence - now the Curry Apts. 84. W.H. Ruby home (1870) - Albert Eaton - McConacky 85. " artistic decorations 86. Lintel on Jim Kennedy home on Mill St. (former) 87. Facade on the Avis Apts., Elgin St. 88. Interesting brick work, J.H. Brill home (Elgin St.) 89. Funeral Director Kent Milroy 90. Dormer windows on old Krauth home (Mill St.) 91. R.J. Pequegnat, now Tom Bailey home 92. Owned by Mrs. Alex Watson, Mill St. 93. Old Pumping Station at the lake 94. New Water Pumping Station at the lake 95. Edinburgh Inn (Sunset Lodge, Fish House) 96. 97. Band Shell and Casino at the lake 98. Old boating on Lake Huron 99. Harbour and Marina. The slide descriptions read as follows. The numbering varies from that in the index. The contents differ from that in the index, especially at the end, with slides from Formosa, Plowing Match and Tara. PAGE ONE 1. 2. Port Elgin Looking W. 3. Mill Street Looking West 4. Winter Looking North 6. McLaren Hardware - J.J. George & Son 7. Dominion - McLeods - Bettinks 8. Ruby & Hilker Co-Op 9. Commercial Buildings, 1878 - Ruby and Hilker Store sign 10. 1. G.A.: Ruby & Hilker Store 11. McPherson Block 12. Old American Hotel - Fenton Block 13. Old Fenton Garage - Old American Hotel 15. Bruce County Library 16. Drug store etc. 17. Wentworth's (Schwartz, Barber, Dr. Fraser) - Tempo - Bonnie & Clyde 18. Old Bank of Commerce 19. Bank of Commerce - Arlington 20. Arlington Hotel 21. Arlington 23. Queen's Hotel PAGE TWO 24. Jim Roy's old Post Office - Site of United Church House 25. Old Post Office - 1967 - Site of United Church House 26. United Church House 27. New Post Office 28. Old Town Hall - Site of Present Post Office 29. Fire Hall - Town Hall 30. Fire & Police Station - Old Fenton Ruxton Garage 31. 1874 First Presbyterian - United Church 1925 32. Architect's drawing of Tolmie Presbyterian C. 33. Tolmie Presbyterian Church, erected 1926 34. Tolmie Presbyterian - Old Hilker Home - Iron Fence 35. Original Hilker Home 36. Wrought Iron Fence - Hilker Home, corner of Elgin St. 38. Toronto Dominion Bank - Site of Evangelical C. 39. United Brethren Church - Catherine St. - Nillage Struthers home now 40. Methodist Church - Present Fenton Apts. 41. Methodist Church 1871 42. Baptist Church 43. Fellowship Baptist - 1979 44. 1967 - Anglican Church PAGE THREE 45. Latter Day Saints - Former Lutheran 46. United Missionary - Former Mennonite 47. St. Joseph's R.C. 48. 1967 - Dunblane Church, Presbyterian 49. First P. School - late Heather Robertson 50. Public School 51. Port Elgin P.S. - 1967 52. Port Elgin Saugeen P.S. 53. St. Joseph's Separate. School 54. High School 55. High School - now Wellington Apts. 56. Saugeen. Dist. H.S. 1939 57. New Saugeen High School - 1967 58. Back v. - Saugeen High School - 1967 59. Maple Square (S.D.H.S.) 60. Saug. Dist. Sec. School 61. S.D.S. School with Community Swimming Pool 62. Agricultural Palace 63. Fair Gates - Agric. Park Gates 64. Agricultural Fair Ground - 1964 PAGE FOUR 65. Fair Gates 66. Mill Creek Dam 67. Button Factory - now Port Elgin Cabinet Makers 68. Stevens-Hepner 69. Stevens-Hepner Factory, Port Elgin - 1967 72. Co-Op Grain Elevator 73. Harness / Shovel / Smith & Warren / Bielfeldt Machine Shop 74. Twin Cinema 75. New Reliance & Reeves Master's Factory - 1967 - McGraw-Edison Electric Transform 76. P.E. Arena 77. Curling Rink 80. Stone House by Arran Lake - 1967 82. Bill Kidd - 1967 5. '76 Plowing Match - Alfred Brunton 14. '76 Plowing Match - Lucknow School Band 15. '76 Plowing Match - John Sim Presenting a Plaque 19. '76 Plowing Match - Relief Map Walkerton High School 24. '76 Plowing Match - Threshing 25. '76 Plowing Match - Steam Engine 26. '76 Plowing Match - Splitting Shingles PAGE FIVE 28. '76 Plowing Match - Tractor Plowing [15] Formosa Church built 1876 - 1956 picture [13] Formosa [5] Formosa - Detail of iron work [4] Formosa - Iron marker [16] South of Formosa - German settlers - circa 1860 [2] Carlsruhe - Detail, iron work [14] Carlsruhe - Simple design [ ] Monta[ ] - Carlsruhe - Aug '88 [3] Carlsruhe, church built 1873 3. Tara - Tara Station - #3 4. Tara Station - #4 5. Tara - Tara Station - #5 6. Tara 10. Invermay School #7 Arran 8. Tara 9. Tara 11. Tara 13. Tara Rink |
Collection |
Bruce County Historical Society fonds |
System of arrangement |
This item is part of the Bruce County Historical Society fonds, series 5, file 3 (Projects - Slide Project). |
Parent Object |
BCHS series 5, file 3 |
Level of Description |
Item |
Physical Description |
99 photographs : col. slides (primarily Kodachrome) |
Restrictions on Use |
Responsibility for determining the copyright status and any permissible use rests exclusively with the user. |
Places |
Formosa Lucknow Port Elgin Tara |
Search Terms & Subjects |
Banks Churches, Baptist Churches, Catholic Churches, Methodist Churches, Presbyterian Churches, United Brethren Cooperatives Downtown Drugstores Factories Hardware stores High schools Hotels & motels Plowing matches Post offices Schools Theatre & cinema Town halls |