Skip to main content
Digital Archive Ontario Homepage
Recalls Oakville's great past. Days when Oakville's harbor and river mouth were crowded with boats and freighters and when oxen-drawn wagons loaded do(...)
Recalls Oakville's great past. Days when Oakville's harbor and river mouth were crowded with boats and freighters and when oxen-drawn wagons loaded do(...)

Recalls Oakville's great past. Days when Oakville's harbor and river mouth were crowded with boats and freighters and when oxen-drawn wagons loaded do(...)

Date5/2/1932
Names
(photographer)
Format
Notes
Original Toronto Star caption: Recalls Oakville's great past. Days when Oakville's harbor and river mouth were crowded with boats and freighters and when oxen-drawn wagons loaded down with grain waited hours in Oakville streets to transfer the produce are recalled in the remodelling of the last of the granaries; a building which for 25 years has housed the Oakville Club. [Incomplete]
Medium
Language
ProvenanceFrom the Toronto Star Archives
CollectionToronto Star Photograph Archive
Usage Rights Public Domain (Learn More)
Call Number / Accession NumberTSPA_0107156F
1st family Oakville's first family of boat people arrived during the weekend and sampled Canadian ice cream at the Hopedale Mall yesterday. Lu Chi Cha(...)
1st family Oakville's first family of boat people arrived during the weekend and sampled Canadian ice cream at the Hopedale Mall yesterday. Lu Chi Cha(...)
10/15/1979
Oakville's new post-office may open next month
Oakville's new post-office may open next month
8/18/1939
Home-grown: Oakville's John Donelian, who teaches a course on perfume at Seneca College, creates, produces and markets his own fragrances.
Home-grown: Oakville's John Donelian, who teaches a course on perfume at Seneca College, creates, produces and markets his own fragrances.
6/6/1984
Action at the Open: Canadian Dan Halldorson (right) is just one stroke off the pace after the first round of the Canadian Open at Oakville's Glen Abbey course
Action at the Open: Canadian Dan Halldorson (right) is just one stroke off the pace after the first round of the Canadian Open at Oakville's Glen Abbey course
6/26/1986
A swinging good time. Oakville's Chris Pridham, Canada's topranked male tennis player, practises his backhand at the National Tennis Centre. Pridham q(...)
A swinging good time. Oakville's Chris Pridham, Canada's topranked male tennis player, practises his backhand at the National Tennis Centre. Pridham q(...)
5/17/1988
Action at the Open, Canadian Dal Halldorson (right) is just one stroke off the pace after the first round of the Canadian Open at Oakville's Glen Abbe(...)
Action at the Open, Canadian Dal Halldorson (right) is just one stroke off the pace after the first round of the Canadian Open at Oakville's Glen Abbe(...)
6/26/1986
Corn-fed Conservative is Opposition Leader John Diefenbaker as he ties into a juicy cob at a Tory picnic Saturday in Oakville's Coronation Park. Diefe(...)
Corn-fed Conservative is Opposition Leader John Diefenbaker as he ties into a juicy cob at a Tory picnic Saturday in Oakville's Coronation Park. Diefe(...)
9/18/1965
Fond memories, Bert Niosi, once Canada's King of Swing, recalls the days when he was a headliner at the Palais Royale, as shown on a 1946 marquee (ins(...)
Fond memories, Bert Niosi, once Canada's King of Swing, recalls the days when he was a headliner at the Palais Royale, as shown on a 1946 marquee (ins(...)
9/20/1982
World war II days were recalled when Belza Turner Greene, of Oakville, left, met Dame Anna Neagle, right, who is in Toronto appearing in The Dame of S(...)
World war II days were recalled when Belza Turner Greene, of Oakville, left, met Dame Anna Neagle, right, who is in Toronto appearing in The Dame of S(...)
10/16/1975
Waves up to 14 feet high flipped over small boats in Lake Ontario at the mouth of the Credit River, and seven salmon fishermen were rescued yesterday,(...)
Waves up to 14 feet high flipped over small boats in Lake Ontario at the mouth of the Credit River, and seven salmon fishermen were rescued yesterday,(...)
8/31/1975
Memory still green: Traffic expert Bob Burton, 94, standing at the corner of Yonge and Bloor Sts., recalls when Toronto's first traffic lights were installed on August 8, 1925.
Memory still green: Traffic expert Bob Burton, 94, standing at the corner of Yonge and Bloor Sts., recalls when Toronto's first traffic lights were installed on August 8, 1925.
8/3/1990
There were plenty of big ones left in the lake yesterday when Oakville Mayor William Perras, left, and Star outdoor writer John Power got back from opening day of The Star's Great Salmon Hunt
There were plenty of big ones left in the lake yesterday when Oakville Mayor William Perras, left, and Star outdoor writer John Power got back from opening day of The Star's Great Salmon Hunt
7/10/1988