The Trafalgar Township Historical Society collects genealogical and building histories and building, schoolhouse, agricultural, child related items, and household artifacts in original Trafalgar Township, focusing on the agricultural communities. The Society makes available a database of scanned images relating to Trafalgar Township. The Society is housed in the heritage one-room heritage Palermo schoolhouse in Oakville, located on Dundas Street West, just east of Hwy 25.
The Trafalgar Township Historical Society has joined other local museums and historical societies to provide several of their school artifacts in Queen Elizabeth Park Community Centre museum display. We encourage you to visit and see what other exhibits are on display.
A sample of our collection of school texts:
Ontario Readers Third Reader,1885
Public School Grammar, 1899
Ontario Public School Arithmetic, 1910
French Reader, 1927
The school desk is a good example of what students would have been using in Oakville in the early 1900’s. Some of the desks were made by the Globe Waterloo Company.
The other items include school texts, pen & inkwell and a slate board, all of which were used by the students of the day. Also included is the S.S. #2 plaque for the schoolhouse and the teacher’s bell.