-Houses on queen street.
Associated with Edward McCannah, station agent for the Grand Trunk Railway, who at one time owned most of the land on Albert, Queen, Guelph and McNabb Streets and built many of the houses on those streets.
-My grandfather Hazelton Hale was a Section Foreman for the Grand Trunk Railway and my father Art Norton also worked there for a short time.
-Grand houses indeed.
-I lived in Illahee the first house for a few years.
-Dad and I lived at Illahee too, in the 70's. The mainfloor apartment living room was huge with a firelplace.
-Probably the same apt with the fireplace..I lived there in the 50s
-You could freeze in the bathroom!
-Don't remember that but that is a long time ago. I was a teenager.
-Our first apartment was in the house on the left upstairs froze in the winter roasted in the summer but loved it there our first place, good memories
-Stately homes..
-Georgetown had it all. Limestone from Limehouse, bricks from Cheltenham and a rail line to bring them to town, and onto Toronto. Pine trees everywhere in the land of the tall pines for houses and furniture, and water!
Associated with Edward McCannah, station agent for the Grand Trunk Railway, who at one time owned most of the land on Albert, Queen, Guelph and McNabb Streets and built many of the houses on those streets.
-My grandfather Hazelton Hale was a Section Foreman for the Grand Trunk Railway and my father Art Norton also worked there for a short time.
-Grand houses indeed.
-I lived in Illahee the first house for a few years.
-Dad and I lived at Illahee too, in the 70's. The mainfloor apartment living room was huge with a firelplace.
-Probably the same apt with the fireplace..I lived there in the 50s
-You could freeze in the bathroom!
-Don't remember that but that is a long time ago. I was a teenager.
-Our first apartment was in the house on the left upstairs froze in the winter roasted in the summer but loved it there our first place, good memories
-Stately homes..
-Georgetown had it all. Limestone from Limehouse, bricks from Cheltenham and a rail line to bring them to town, and onto Toronto. Pine trees everywhere in the land of the tall pines for houses and furniture, and water!
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