Map of Oshawa: ca. 1850 Public domain: Copyright expired. Source: OurOntario.ca |
• McGregor/Grigor Street is now called McGrigor Street
• Base Line now called Bloor Street
• Peto Street has become part of Albert Street
• Jackson Street has become First Street
• Brassey Street is gone
• Union Street (off King) has become Queen Street
• Oak Street has become John Street East
• Metcalf Street has become Metcalfe Street
• Pine Street has become Hemlock Avenue
• Charles Street is gone below Bruce Street
• Ontario Street (off Centre) has become part of Gibbs Street
• Gibbs Street (off Mill Street) has become St. Lawrence Avenue
• Alice Street has become Adelaide Avenue
• Church Street (north of King) has become part of Centre Street North
• Mechanic Street became MacMillian Drive
• Duke Street became part of Richmond Street West
• Louisa Street became part of Adelaide Avenue West
• Helena Street is now gone
• Carolina Street is now gone
• Edith Street is now gone
• Part of Mill Street became Oxford Street
• Pearl Street became part of Mill Street
• Agnes Street • Albany Street • Albert Street • Alice Street • Ash Street • Athol Street • Avenue Street • Bagot Street • Base Line • Bond Avenue • Boundry Road • Brassy Street • Brock Street • Bruce Street • Carolina Street • Celina Street • Centre Street • Charles Street • Church Street • Colburne Street • College Avenue • Cubert Street • Duke Street | • Edith Street • Elgin Street • Elm Street • Emma Street • Fairbanks Street • George Street • Gibbs Street • Hall Street • Helena Street • Hillside Avenue • Jackson Street • John Street • King Street • Lloyd Street • Louisa Street • Mary Street • Maple Street • McGregor Street • Mechanic Street • Metcalf Street • Mill Street • Monck Street | • Nassau Street • Oak Street • Ontario Street • Pearl Street • Peto Street • Philips Place • Pine Street • Prince Street • Prospect Street • Quebec Street • Queen Street • Richmond Street • Royal Street • Simcoe Street • St. Lawrence Street • Tresane Street • Union Street • Victoria Street • Wellington Street • William Street • Wood Street |
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TODAY'S BOOK SUGGESTION:
Tracing Your House History: A Guide For Family Historians (US)
by Gill Blanchard
-- Anyone who wants to find out about the history of their house - of their home - needs to read this compact, practical handbook. Whether you live in a manor house or on a planned estate, in a laborer's cottage, a tied house, a Victorian terrace, a twentieth-century council house or a converted warehouse - this is the book for you.
In a series of concise, information-filled chapters, Gill Blanchard shows you how to trace the history of your house or flat, how to gain an insight into the lives of the people who lived in it before you, and how to fit it into the wider history of your neighborhood.
A wealth of historical evidence is available in libraries, archives and record offices, in books and online, and this is the ideal introduction to it. Gill Blanchard explores these resources in depth, explains their significance and directs the researcher to the most relevant, and revealing, aspects of them. She makes the research process understandable, accessible and fun, and in the process, she demystifies the sometimes-obscure language and layout of the documents that researchers will come up against.
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~*~ by Catherine McDiarmid-Watt, author of OshawaJournal.com, researching her 1850's house, the history of old homes, the genealogy of the founding families in Oshawa - as well as citylife and farm life in the 1800's, with old news clippings, well-researched articles, and "then and now" photos with the help of her "history dogs", Denny and Dexter.
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