Week of Jan. 19, 1914
• The G. H. Sinclair store in Aldershot had a front page ad in the Gazette on house cleaning supplies, but at the very bottom of the ad it noted: Issuer of marriage licences. • The annual meeting of subscribers of the Burlington Public Library was held in the reading room at which time a discussion took place concerning the provision of lavatory accommodation at the library. • At a meeting held in the clerk’s office, Burlington council passed a resolution that “the Lake Shore Road, which connects the cities of Hamilton and Toronto, and serves a population of over half a million people, and which at present is in a deplorable condition, should be the first provincial highway constructed.” Week of Jan. 20, 1964 • Fire destroys restaurant at Plains and Waterdown roads; building was 120 years old and once served as a stagecoach stop, toll station and hotel. • Proposed Wellington Square shopping mall turned down by the Ontario Municipal Board. • DeLuxe Taxi, owned by George Seaton, buys out Jack Harris’ Crown Cabs. • Burlington’s building and planning committee debate Brant Street overpass at Plains Road.
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Jim Mitchell
2/20/2014 10:54:38 am
I turned 3 yrs old this week. My family lived on Hillcrest just off Woodward. It was my last birthday at that address. The Mitchel family moved to 576 Drury Lane that summer, it was the family home for the next 32 years.
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