| The new Vocational School building at Welland High, c. 1930 | Vocational School building | Still image | c. 1930 |
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Subject:Vocational School building Type:Still image Date:c. 1930 |
Description:Black and white photograph of the new Vocational School building at Welland High, c. 1930. It was built during 1929 and 1930, and formally opened on October 22, 1930.
On page 36 of "The History and Development of Welland High and Vocational School 1854-1979" the photo caption reads:
"The structure of the new building is of red brick. Six commercial and vocational class rooms comprise the first floor. The entire top floor is given over to household science and economics. The opening of the school marks the culmination of years of effort and a tireless struggle for progressive education, waged by the old Welland High School Board, and lately the Welland Board of Education." [show more]
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| The NS&T Railway Near the Fairgrounds, Oct. 6, 1909 | NS&T cars, fairgoers | Still image | 1909/10/06 |
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Subject:NS&T cars, fairgoers Type:Still image Date:1909/10/06 |
Description:Black and white photograph of the NS&T (Niagara, St. Catharines and Toronto) Railway near the fairgrounds, Oct. 6, 1909, with people getting off to go to the fairgrounds.
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| The Ontario Municipal Board approves annexation of parts of Crowland, Humberstone, Pelham and Thorold to the City of Welland, October 3, 1960 | Annexation of parts of Crowland, Humberstone, Pelham and Thorold to the City of Welland | Text | 1960/10/03 |
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Subject:Annexation of parts of Crowland, Humberstone, Pelham and Thorold to the City of Welland Type:Text Date:1960/10/03 |
Description:Original document where the Ontario Municipal Board approves annexation of parts of Crowland, Humberstone, Pelham and Thorold to the City of Welland, October 3, 1960.
The document features the arguments for and against annexation, and the reasons the Ontario Municipal Board ultimately approved it. The decision was effective January 1, 1961. [show more]
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| The paintings of Ross Beard | The paintings of Ross Beard | Still images | Unknown |
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Subject:The paintings of Ross Beard Type:Still images Date:Unknown |
Description:Several colour and black-and-white copies of a selection of Ross Beard's paintings.
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| The parting of the ways, Church Street and Canboro Road, Fonthill, c. 1900 | Church Street; Canboro Road | Still image | c. 1900 |
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Subject:Church Street; Canboro Road Type:Still image Date:c. 1900 |
Description:Black and white photographic print, captioned "The parting of the ways," shows the corner of Church Street and Canboro Road, Fonthill, c. 1900.
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| The Peace Bridge connecting Fort Erie and Buffalo, c. 1960s | Peace Bridge | Still image | c. 1960s |
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Subject:Peace Bridge Type:Still image Date:c. 1960s |
Description:Black and white photographic print of an aerial view of the Peace Bridge connecting Fort Erie and Buffalo, c. 1960s. Captioned "The Peace Bridge, for foot, and vehicular traffic, connecting the heart of Buffalo with Canada, at Fort Erie. 7 lanes of traffic accommodate 3,000 cars per hour." [show more]
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| The Peace Bridge from Fort Erie to Buffalo, c. 1958 | Peace Bridge | Still image | c. 1958 |
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Subject:Peace Bridge Type:Still image Date:c. 1958 |
Description:Halftone reproduction of a black and white photograph of an aerial view of the Peace Bridge linking Fort Erie (top of photograph) to Buffalo, c. 1958.
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| The people of Welland wish the City of Welland A Happy 125th Anniversary, July 23, 1983 | 125th anniversary celebrations | Text | 1983/07/23 |
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Subject:125th anniversary celebrations Type:Text Date:1983/07/23 |
Description:A special section of the Welland Tribune, titled "The people of Welland wish the City of Welland A Happy 125th Anniversary," from July 23, 1983.
It features the names of local citizens and families and their wishes to the city they live in, on the occasion of it being 125 years since Welland was incorporated as a village on July 24, 1858. [show more]
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| The People's Press, Old Boys' Reunion Edition, August 7, 1906 | Welland and local businesses | Text | 1906/08/07 |
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Subject:Welland and local businesses Type:Text Date:1906/08/07 |
Description:A complete scanned copy of The People's Press, Old Boys' Reunion Edition, August 7, 1906.
It features a sketch on the history of Welland up to 1906, and many features on prominent citizens and businesses.
This text on page 3 explains what the Old Boys reunion was about:
"The popular modern Old Boys movement has in it not a little of old-fashioned homely sentiment. Sooner or later the average man turns instinctively to his boyhood’s home. It matters little whether or not he has achieved what the world calls success. The old home calls anyway. He may say it is curiosity to know how the old town managed to get along without him. It may be the busy man’s only excuse for a long-deferred holiday. It may be pride in the prospering little community which first sheltered him. Oftener, perhaps, than any of these, it is an undefined, deep-buried, rough sort of tenderness which calls and calls and will not be denied. Kipling has sung of how the spicy garlic smells never die in the nostrils of the man who has lived in India, and how he can always ‘hear the East a-calling.” Even more we have heard of how the Westerner, whether from mountain or prairie, becomes in time absolutely homesick for the land he knows and loves. But this Old Boy instinct is universal. Oliver Wendell Holmes, the genial and gentle, has sung of it. Riley has put it in Hoosier tongue in “The Ole Swimmin’ Hole.” Probably each man has different memories and different sentiments towards his first home. But the fact remains — he wants to see it again. And he goes — joyfully and with haste. He may be limping with the burden of honors and rheumatism; he may think that his L. L. D. hood would barely suffice to cover his bald head; he would write a huge cheque if only he dare eat again as when he used to raid the pantry. But he goes—by the score and by the hundred — business men talking shop until the sight of the strange and yet familiar old town chokes them into silence; professional men arguing glibly on obscure points of law or obscurer points of divinity, until they recall the effectual argument of a birch rod in the woodshed, when they had tried to explain absence from school. And there are those who have oft stumbled in the race. Nobody calls them successful or great, but — begone, dull care! They are all veritable Old Boys —and they care for none of those things. The Old Boys associations are now numbered by the score. Nearly every county has one and frequently there are two or more within the county. The general object is the promotion of social feeling and the renewing of old acquaintance. Sometimes it results in a stimulus to trade, sometimes in a donation to some local charity, always it is the best of advertisements to the town whose ex-residents refuse to forget their early home and whose honors reflect glory on their birthplace." [show more]
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| The Polish community of Welland, a textual account of their culture and heritage, c. 1978 | Polish culture in Welland | Text | c. 1978 |
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Subject:Polish culture in Welland Type:Text Date:c. 1978 |
Description:A brief textual account describing Polish culture and heritage in Welland.
This is a chapter from the book "A brief history of the Ukrainians, Greeks, Japanese, Anglo-Saxons and Poles in Welland" by the Welland Heritage Council, c. 1978.
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