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Venue Type & Location

Pleasure Gardens

Site Name: Oaklands
Location: Hamilton
County: Wentworth
Location Type: Countryside - at determined location

Overview

Address: Concession BF Lot 7

"Davidson, Charles." The Canadian County Atlas Digital Project. McGill University, 2001,

digital.library.mcgill.ca/countyatlas/showmap.php?Township=Flamboro+East&plotX=7359&plotY=1141&getMap.x=27&getMap.y=15

 

History:

"In 1791 William Applegarth emigrated from Durham county, England and settled in East Flamborough, receiving a Crown Grant of 900 acres of farmland in the Broken Front Concession, East Flamborough, which eventually became the Oaklands estate. He is said to have given the name Aldershot to the area formerly known as Burlington Plains. 

When his widowed daughter Sarah married Alexander Brown in 1842, she was given Lot 6 east of what is now La Salle Park Road and Part Lot 7. Her brother William Brown received the rest of Lot 7 and Lot 8

In 1889 the Oaklands house and 67 acres were sold to T. B. Townsend, who divided much of the land into lots for "villa residences with fruit", or market gardens. 

After his death his two daughters continued to lived on the estate. Emma Townsend lived there until she died in 1951."

"Oaklands, Aldershot, ca 1900" The Burlington Historical Society Digital Collections. Burlington Historical Society, vitacollections.ca/burlingtonhistoricalsociety/9030/data.

Events at Oaklands

Event Date Venue Location Troupe
Picnic 1863-1863 Hamilton, Wentworth Wingfield, Great Western Railway Staff (Hamilton), Egan
Festival 1863-1863 Hamilton, Wentworth July 4th Festival Troupe (Hamilton, 1863)
Picnic 1863-1863 Hamilton, Wentworth Storror's Quadrille Band, St. George's Society (Hamilton, 1863), Mathews, T.