This site started as a scrapbook project, collecting images of the old streets in Stratford. That itself was interesting to me.

The Streets of Stratford website was created in collaboration with the Stratford-Perth Archives and inputs from many Stratford people.

At the beginning this site was prepared by Paul Wilker who scanned old scrapbooks that contained a series of 180 articles in the Stratford Beacon Herald about the Streets of Stratford. They were written by Stanford Dingman over a period of four years in the early 1980s. There was also a supplement called Streets of Stratford in 2004 in the Stratford Beacon Herald that added more streets. Since March 2021 this project grew with the addition of stories about people and places that were on various websites and pictures and stories contributed by Stratford residents.