Name/Title
Lorraine (Eberhardt) Pomeroy, Grade 6 - Class Photo, 1961Entry/Object ID
2025.4.14Scope and Content
Silvercrest Public School, SS19 Flos, class photo, Lorraine Eberhardt, Grade 6, 1961Context
Lorraine Pomeroy (Eberhardt), donor of the photograph, is daughter of Ivan and Bessie Eberhardt, sister of Robert (Bob) and Harvey Eberhardt and granddaughter of Charles (Charlie) Eberhardt. The classroom photograph of Lorraine Eberhardt's Grade 6 class is from the SS19 Flos public school, in 1961. The Teacher was Mrs. E. Munro. The one room school was located at the corner of Main Street and Beck Street where the Albatross Motel is now located. Several of the students names are listed on the inside of the photograph cover.
Eberhardt Family History:
Charlie Eberhardt was one of Wasaga’s early entrepreneurs who moved to the area around 1905. Mr. Eberhardt caught fish and sold them to neighbours and summer visitors. He also operated an ice cutting business. The Eberhardt family lived at the corner of River Road West and Beck Street where Gough’s landing is now located, also the location of the featured photographs. There was a large barn behind their house where the ice was stored; covered with sawdust and woodchips. Part of the original barn was incorporated into the Gough's Landing condo complex when it was built. Ice blocks were cut from Marl Lake and Nottawasaga Bay in the winter to sell to locals and tourists to keep their food cold as refrigerators were not common then. Charles also built a general store located at the northwest end of the Main Street Bridge. He then added a second floor and began renting rooms to tourists and year-round visitors. The top floor of the store eventually became a classroom for students. The Eberhardt family also ferried people up and down the river and across the bay from Wasaga to Collingwood. In later years they operated a taxi business and a miniature golf. Ivan Eberhardt took over the ice business from his father, Charles Eberhardt, in 1952.
Lorraine's donation of family photographs, documents and artifacts, along with a previous generous donation of $5000 to the Archives, is made in memory of her grandfather, Charles Eberhardt and father, Ivan Eberhardt.Acquisition
Accession
2025.4Acquisition Method
Gift
