Table of Contents
|
Places
|
Yonge St. at the
corner of
Dunlop St.,
known at the time as Dufferin St.
Hill's Bakery
is the building on the corner and the photo was taken just before it was
demolished in 1928. |
|
Looking north on
Yonge St. from
just south of
Wright St. The
1897
Richmond
Hill High School is on the left. |
|
Yonge Street,
looking north from
Elgin Mills
Road, in the 1920s. |
|
The automobile and the horse
and buggy compete for attention on
Yonge
Street. |
|
A radial car, circa
1920s. |
|
Looking south on
Yonge Street
around 1930. The
Palmer House Hotel
is on the right side of the road by the two cars. |
|
The last crop on the
Palmer Farm,
south half of lot 45, Concession One,
Markham
Township, 1922, with
Richard
Stephenson cutting grain. |
|
Mr. Paxton
ploughing a field where the
Richmond Plaza
sits today. |
|
The
Scott Farm
on
Scott
Drive. |
|
The Robert Moodie House (circa.
1820) in the 1920s when
Wesley
Middleton and his wife
Elsie Pearson lived there. |
|
317
Mill Street in
1923. The house was built in 1885 by Jesse Good, and was purchased in 1922 by
J.
Allan Bales. |
|
The buggy owned by
J.
Allan Bales, who resided at 317 Mill Street. |
|
The buggy owned by
J.
Allan Bales, who resided at 317 Mill Street. |
|
297
Richmond Street,
built c.1880 sometime in the 1920s. This was the
William
Innes house and was bought by the Marsh family in 1928. |
|
Another view of the
William
Innes house at 297
Richmond Street,
this time with the milk wagon in front. |
|
Mrs. Quantz's house on
Roseview Ave.
at the corner of
Baker
Ave. |
|
8825
Bathurst Street.
The house was built c. 1845, and was renovated sometime in the
1930s. |
|
Water
tower at the
Mill Pond, built in
1921 and demolished in April 1962. |
|
The
Rustic Inn on the
west side of
Yonge Street at
Nos.
24-28
South. The business was begun by
Daniel Stong in
the 1920s, and continued by his daughter and son-in-law,
Ethel and
James Wigmore,
as an ice cream parlour, restaurant, and boarding house. |
|
Another view of The
Rustic Inn with
some of the family on the front porch. |
|
F.E. Sims
General Store on the east side of
Yonge Street,
north of the radial railway station. |
|
Interior view of the
F.E. Sims
General Store. |
|
The old
Fire Proof Store.
The gable roofs were added after 1917. |
|
The
Innes Mill at the
west end of
Richmond
Street, south of the
Mill Pond, in the
1920s. |
|
Employees of the
Innes Mill in the
1920s. Standing are, left to right:
- Denby,Isill Tyndall,- Rikey, -,
Carnie Marsh,- Neal,Bert Meek,George Sims,Jim Wigmore,Will Innes.
Seated:
Harry Innes, -,
- Teatzell,- Teatzell, -, -
- Hopper,Bert Bennett,Harry
Leach. |
|
The new
Richmond
Hill High School of 1924, the core of the current
high
school building on
Wright
Street. |
|
The
Loyal
True Blue and Orange Home,Yonge Street
North, opened in 1923. Roger Carlsen |
|
The
Routledge
Blacksmith Shop on
Yonge St. in
Oak Ridges circa
1927 just before being torn down. The shop was located on the west side of
Yonge just south of Blackforest Dr. |
|
The fields and pond behind the
Routledge
Blacksmith Shop |
|
The
Routledge
Blacksmith Shop being demolished in 1927 to prepare for widening and
paving Yonge St. |
|
Swimming at Lake
Wilcox |
|
Along the shore of
Lake
Wilcox |
|
On the dock at
Lake
Wilcox |
Previous
Next
This electronic finding aid to the local historical photos of Richmond Hill is provided courtesy of the Richmond Hill Public Library.
|