William M. and Mary Ethel Kneeshaw (nee Baynes) at Deerhurst on their wedding day, February 19, 1901.

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Back of photo reads: "Ebenezer Church and cemetery where Grandma and Grandpa Tindall are buried. [James]Tindall gave the land for the church and cemetery. Signed Murray Jelly."
Ebenezer United Church was Wesleyan Methodist before Church Union occurred. This building was demolished in the early 1960s and the congregation spread out to other local churches. The cemetery still stands today, and the space of the old church remains vacant.

Buggy pulled by horse, Maude with sisters Laura and Hannah Baynes in front of the Deerhurst Post Office.

"Signing the register following their Saturday wedding in Ebenezer Untied Church are Mr. and Mrs. Allan Wesley Brown. The bride is the former Betty Yvonne Kneeshaw, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Kneeshaw of Gilford, and her husband is the son of Mr. and Mrs. C.W. Brown of Dalston. After a wedding trip to the United States and eastern Ontario, the couple will be making their home at Dalston. -Courtesy of the Barrie Examiner. Photo by Henry H. Rooke, Barrie."

Thelma and Wilfred Kneeshaw.

Map showing the Hollows and Deerhurst.

A map of Deerhurst in 1873.

Deerhurst - from 1830, mail was received for the early settlers at John Gill's beer shanty at Deerhurst on the Penetang Road, midway between line 12 and line 13. On April 1st, 1863 and official post office opened near this same location and served this community until December 1912. In 1830 James Tindall, who lived across the road from Gill's, donated land from his lot 16, con. 12 farm for the first Ebenezer Wesleyan Methodist Church and cemetery. New churches were built about 1850 and again in 1880. This church was closed in 1966. A small hamlet grew at this location which still remains today.

Circa 1830