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Weston town hall - may 23 1955 (built 1883- demolished 1957)

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This Canadian work is in the public domain in Canada because its copyright has expired for one of the following reasons: 1. it was subject to Crown copyright and was first published more than 50 years ago, or it was not subject to Crown copyright, and 2. it is a photograph that was created before January 1, 1949, or 3. the creator died more than 50 years ago. The media description page should identify which reason applies, and should also have a rationale explaining the copyright status of the work in the U.S. Some Canadian photographs created before 1949 may be copyrighted outside of Canada, e.g. the images of Yousuf Karsh.

I'm not familiar with submitting edit suggestions, so bear with me if I've sent this off in the wrong fashion.

The Weston Town Hall was demolished in 1964, not 1957. It ceased to be used as a town hall in 1957 when a new town hall was built (which has led to confusion over the years in some historical documents). The town hall seen here (which is the original) went on to be used as a temporary place of business for two local banks while they were rebuilding their regular sites. the banks in question were THE BANK OF NOVA SCOTIA and THE BANK OF MONTREAL. A proposal to turn the site into a town museum was sadly shot down, and the final proposal to save the building was to use it as a magistrates court. Sadly the mentality of the early 60's to demolish old buildings simply for being old won out and the building was demolished in 1964. The bell from the belfry (which was added in 1907) was salvaged from the town hall, and resides to this day in Cruickshank Park.

P.S. -a few of the photos that you are listing as public domain actually are considered to be the property of certain archives. These include this photo from the J. V. Salmon collection in the Toronto Reference Library, and at least one other photo from the Toronto Archives. As for our own photos, we don't have a problem with them being used as long as credit is given.

Martin Proctor, co-archivist the Weston Historical Society (Weston, Ontario)

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