A photograph of Main Street in Trafalgar looking west in 1924/25.
Trafalgar was quite a large shopping centre in the 1920s and this photograph shows a few of the businesses on the south side of the highway.
If you look carefully, you will see some of the buildings still stand today. What was the State Bank is now a bakery, the former bank/S.E.C. building is now a coffee shop, and, in the far distance, the Criterion Hotel.
Photograph and information courtesy of the Trafalgar and District Historical Society.
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Snapshot of the past - Drouin’s Elm Trees
A photograph capturing the row of elms along Drouin’s main street in the early 1900s. It also shows shops to the north. The elms were planted to beautify the town. Early photographs indicate the elms were likely planted in about 1894. The long row of...