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A meeting of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters in Detroit, Michigan. William H. Crowley may be in attendance representing the Canadian division.
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The Black Workers was the official newspaper of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters. It began publication in 1929 and ceased in 1968.
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William Crowley received this communication from T. E. Griffin, Representative of the New York Zone, Group C in 1927.
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William Crowley's Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters membership due book.
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Ella Adams Crowley created several scrapbooks that included various newspaper clippings of personal heritage importance, recipes, mementos, cards and photographs.
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In 1955 William and Ella Crowley visited with friends. They may have also made an excursion to the Cedar Inn in Collingwood, a popular tourist destination for Black people.
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On the 25th of September, 1918, Ella Margaret Adams married William Henry Crowley. The couple were married in the AME Church in Oakville.
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Jeremiah Adams kept track of payments to people who picked fruit for him. They included his daughter Ella and his grandchildren Urban Duncan and Marion Crowley.
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Jeremiah Adams kept an accounting of his farming activities in this 1926-1927.account book. It includes the varied type of produce Adams was growing on his farms in Halton County.
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Self conquest for the sake of others and for the love of Christ and country. Nina Adams signed this temperance pledge card at the A. M. E. Church in Oakville.
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By 1871 Samuel Adams blacksmithing business in Bronte was well established. He kept meticulous records in several account books.
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Samuel Adams made a debit and credit record for activity between himself and Barney McGuinnis and with Dwight Foster.
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Samuel Adams, his father and his brothers were blacksmiths in the Baltimore area of Maryland. Samuel Adams left the United States approximately 1854 to settle in Bronte Village, Ontario. Here he set up a blacksmith business servicing farmers and the fishing industry in the community.
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Wilbur Johnson was the son of James Richard Johnson and Josephine Martha Adams. He was born in 1889 and died in 1934. The reverse of the photograph is inscribed: To Mrs. J.B. Adams [Eliza Grace Butler Adams] From Wilbur 1913.
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The photograph is labelled Richard Johnson of Oakville. This could be James Richard Johnson, husband of Josephine Martha Adams. Richard Johnson died in 1927.
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Ernest S. Johnson was the oldest son of Josephine Martha Adams and James Richard Johnson. He was born in 1881.
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These four images have all been identified as being Ellen Nora Johnson Wayner. Some may be correct, others may be mis-identified. Family members have made an honest attempt to identify her.
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Ellen Nora Johnson, known as Nora, married Alexander Wayner in 1912 in Oakville, Ont. Nora was one of three Johnson sisters to marry Wayner brothers.
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Ella Adams earned a diploma in the evening domestic art course in November 1918.
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William Henry Crowley sent this Valentine to his sweetheart, Ella Margaret Adams. William and Ella were married in September 1918.
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In 1918 Ella Adams travelled to visit a Mrs. Leonard Butler in Buffalo, NY. Her employer, lawyer Edward Malone, provided a letter of reference testifying to her purpose and employment status.
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Ella Crowley kept small momentos, including ribbons, pins, newspaper clippings and postcards in a special red box labelled English Holly. These items were discovered only after her death.
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Jeremiah and Eliza Grace Adams photographed in their garden in Oakville.
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An invitation to attend the silver wedding anniversary celebration for William J. and Mary Isabella Butler on 20 July 1885.
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William J. Butler and Mary Isabella Moore, both of Toronto, were married at the Church of the Holy Trinity on December 16, 1856 by William Stewart Darling