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Toll gates on London and Port Stanley Road
- Museum / Archive
- Elgin County Archives
- Part Of
- Ian D. Cameron Collection
- Description Level
- File
- GMD
- graphic material
- Date Range
- ca. 1895
- Accession Number
- 2011-10
- Storage Location
- R11 S5 Sh1 B1 F30
- Museum / Archive
- Elgin County Archives
- Part Of
- Ian D. Cameron Collection
- Description Level
- File
- Item Number
- A-23
- Accession Number
- 2011-10
- Storage Room
- Archives Storage Rm. 110
- Storage Location
- R11 S5 Sh1 B1 F30
- GMD
- graphic material
- Date Range
- ca. 1895
- Publication
- Published in the Bygone Days section of the St. Thomas Times-Journal and on the Archives' flickr site: May 16, 2013.
- Series
- Ian D. Cameron Collection - Photographs Series
- Scope and Content
- Composite image showing three toll gates on London and Port Stanley Road, ca. 1890s. Ceased to operate as toll gates when toll gates were abolished provincially in 1906. Top image shows the toll gate located on the west side of the road just south of the present-day intersection of Highway 4 and Wellington Road and just north of the present-day Church of the Redeemer on Sunset Drive, St. Thomas. Centre image shows the toll gate at the Catholic Church cemetery (now Holy Angels Cemetery, St. Thomas) looking north (the gate was on the west side of the road). Bottom image shows the toll gate known as Robert Hepburn's toll gate, just north of the junction of Highway 4 and County Road 23, looking north (the gate was on the east side of the road) - the man shown may be Robert Hepburn, Agnes Hepburn's grandfather. File includes:
- glass-plate negative
- glass lantern slide (shows centre image only)
- photograph print
- User Comments
- On November 8, 2023, Ruth Hyatt sent a message: Regarding identification of Robert Hepburn as Agnes Hepburn’s relative. I would like to clarify that while there may be a very distant connection, they were not closely related. Robert Hepburn was in fact my Great Grandfather. His only son, Ernest Frank Hepburn, was my grandfather. He told stories of the times when he was responsible for helping his dad maintain the toll road. Their farm was located to the west of what used to be called Hepburn hill. Ernest Hepburn was born in 1896 so I think he was quite young when he helped his dad with the toll road.
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