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weapon 55 Student at • . 11 Spoken • 68,-altigit .
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• DR. M. W. STAPLETON
. ,Physician and Surgeon
Phone . 90 ' . 'Seaforth
If no answer, call
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JOHN A. GORYVH.L. B.A., M.D.
• Physician and Surgeon
Phones: • Office 5-W 'Res. 5-3
•Seaforth
SEAFORTH CLINIC
Telephone 26
E. A. 14IcIViASTER, B.A., N.H.
Telephone •27
P,. L. BRADY, M.D.
Surgeon
'Telephone 750 W 1 -
"DR, E. WIALKUS"
Telephone 15
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EVENINGS: Tuesday, Thursday
And Saturday, only, 7-9 pm.
Appointments may he made..
M...11ARPER
Chartered Accountant
55 South St. Telephone
Goderich343
Licensed Municipal Anditor.
G. A. VirE131, D.C.*
*Doctor of Chiropraotic ,
438 Main Street
•X -Ray: and -Laboratory Facilities
"Open Rsach- Weekday ExcePt
' Wednesday.
Tues. and Thurs. Evenings 7-9'
• For Appointment - Phone 606
„DON S. DENNIS
• Auttioneer
Graduate of Reisch American
• School of Auctioneering. Licensed
in. Huron- and Perth. Capable .cif
• handling all tes of sales and ad-
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• DON DEIS,,Walton
Phone Seaforth 843 r 11
SEAFORTH
• VETERINARY CLIN-JC 0. Turnbull,: D.V.M.; V.S.
W. IL Bryans, D.V.M., V.S.
W. 'G. Drennan, D.V.M., V.S.
•Plione 105 - • • Seaforth
A W SILLERY
• Banister, Solicitor, Etc.
Phones: Office 173, Residence 781
SEAFORTH : ONTARIO
• IVIeCONNELL
& STEWART
Barristers, solicitors, 'Etc.
P.• D. McCONNELL
_ D. I. STEWAItT
SEAFORTII; Ont._ Telephone 174
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Chiropractie - Foot Correction
_COMMERCIAL 'HOl'EL •
Monday, Thursday — 1 to 8 p.m.
JOHN LONGSTAFF
Optometrist
F.'honq 791 : Seaforth
•Eyes Examined -- Glasses Fitted
• MAIN OFFICE, SEAFORTH
• Office, Hours:. Seaforth daily,
ekcept Monday, 9 a:ni. -.5:30 p.m.;
Wednesday, 9 a.m. ;12.30 p.m.;
Thursday eVenings by appointment
only. . ••
Clinton: Mondo; 9 a.m. - 5:30
CARRONBROOK. , •
Lee; who Married •karY.-Py.m,. Onened .the
first general 'store in- CakrOnbrook in 1849, on the .'1VICKillop
side •of the village. He -was :appointedthe first postmaster
in 1853 or.4; an office which he held'iiiitil-1872.!. Nothing more
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"s known- of 'tee,. : •-• :
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.VV;2: was another'. early, storekeeper. 'He was a
cheiniSt,...but added metal:wares:0'Na :storelhere.- Ile left
-1:$64: for Mitchell, where he .owned a drug •stOre. for, many
:Years, ',COW' Was boip in,' Addington: CotintY. in, 1889, and
learned ihe:drtiggist rad.p .'in Kingston,: Ont.
• The' nam e Of Icid and::04rrOnbrook were, eloSely.- associat-
ed for, Many years: •!-• hli Kidd, who Came from Athlone- Ont,
was the, first of •thedds- to arrive., here, , His 'wife was a Miss
. .
Not liking the place, he retUrnecl -to -Athlone ..and
4,nadesolne•agreeinentwith lus brother,: jesephito.talte.,oyer
his interests in. ,*Carron.brook., but not the deeds. at this
time were 'transferred to Joseph's'name, Which led: to some
confuSiOn hi -later ,Years.
' -was :born- ,Ireland, _in. 1825; and,
'Oelne4O-..Charleston,•-..north-, Of. , Brockville„ arounct,1844;..where
the Kicld family lived for one year Thrce vears were spent
:at Mono: Milis, then Joseph : Started .iiilnisifieSS.,for;himself
He founded the vlllage of Athlone, in Sirdeqe QeurrtY, and
started. in the Mercantile bUsiriesk,there,....which`: he carried'
On about ten. years ,,befere•he came to Carronbrook.' Joe was
bile. of ,those up-andgo young men who, from- the time 'he
arrived in the 50!S went from one 'enterprise; to another
until the .tinyharnlet became, in •,a few years, a. thriving
vil-
lage, Of.,arOund.750:.:' TodaY :the , population
lesS„Ihan. it•Wa'S 4'thatjiiine: - •
..rSeon, after..4643IFarriVed:"hehuilt a ;large .frame,:bnild-
ingonthe':east Side of Mill Street, DOW known as' Maiii:.Street:,
and iil 1868 a.briek'stere' on the west side of this same Street:.
A sawmill was his.ne#: venture -He dater Owned.:111r00.•In
the Domirnon electionof 1872, -While' lie,:pelled,an'eXeeption,
allY: large deriseryatiye,.. vote -in the South .-Perth
he defeated by JaTne.S.:Tron, the ,Liberal candidate
By July I, 1875; the ,,,ToSepii. Kidd,' 'Si; 'SeriSi. Salt ,Works wre
Thietion,,SeVeral .obstacles had tobeOVercerne.. 'Weak brine
in, the first well sunk Made it teceSsary,:':tcesink,, another well
five miles away, • pear iSeaforth, OntThis brinel'of• higher
quajity was carried through wooden pipes, soon kaVe.
..Way under the use Of thejireaVy- stearn:pr6S1.4-e necessary to
'f0Cae, it to its destination But nothing daunted, he at once
rePlaced:. the'- wooden; piping 'with iron tubing, at..a'.cost!Of
,p,eirriile;.Whieh'iiroVed.:inPre'satisfaCtory.;.thaU, he had
anticipated, as.Joye :heat. from the sun in summer raised the
temperature:: of the :brine, to Stich -.4. degreethat only about
the"aMothit was necesSarS"' „Oottt' the
eVaPoration... The pan used, , the; largest n : Canada,measured
489 ic;36. feet This was 30 feet lengerthan the standard size
,This,L;Plant, had 4 'cat,acity..Of.tiroduding.abent.:200 barrels .of
: Salt each day which was the, largest :,.06cliieing7.7ch1Oele.7:in
..the Dominwn except the International l at .9oderieli,- Four
• thOU Sand ,.cords Of Wood Were 'consumed.annuallY
in the pro-
duction salt The sawmill, staVe.factOrY'.and COoPerager.
shop proyided barrels for the shipment Of their produdt
.These-bilildingsverebuilt-,,Over the...StreaMO-4..block west
of Prendergast'S Hotel and a•::little• Setith from that a:Omer:4
The .::.salt blael fsenth.•:..and..WeSt, of these --west :;:ofthe.
bridge, .1:a0c.••OfiKiid&s:13.ffe.stin...... In the ' 00'S: all build-
ings, one by on, disappeared, andthe:Plot was thenfreqiient-
'rly spoken: of as the "...(cernitiens."•,,, " • ,• Kidd was the. 0Wrier.of18,000 acres. or more 'of .farni
, Seine:1n the 'commurnty, but much;;Of it timber land rn the
Georgian' Ray area,'. This land .proyided most of the :.lumber
,and wood needed -.for his -.enterPrises • the village. Kidd'•
einPleYed, at the,height �f his Pippnla,rity, mentioned, around
• fifty ',men. As '114' b,11112.60,1')iolflered and, expanded,' he be-
came -quite . Wealth3', thenas. the 70's, *ore en, one b4c1cei
after another.beS,Othini, The :first Was the :sinking: of a ,ship,-,•
load:.ofinjther. in' I.'akeHuron ffuch'pieney. hactibeen Spent:
_oh ',a dO4.at GOderich 'Which; one night :during a Storiii;*as
blown ,away ' and Completely deStrOveCAbont .this 'thrie One
of ;Ms., houses btirned, antha few , year's' later-. •the Cooperage
•ehoti',WaS.destrOyed..13Y. fire, Kidd -was alse.thelreaviest fin-
loser-iii.the'fireof May, 1879„ as he .owned. Several; of
the" buildings bUrtied Which Were Obdupied by .dthers."' He lost:
stOrerooni, a -well,- which housed:a lArge.- quantity, his'
hardware. . This loss.. -was: another blow to hiSbusiness..,..',...:
In the:late .$0's circumstances weresuch that he, assigned•
all to/ils.„: creditors,' .and ,crossed • the . border-. .to • Chicago,
bliVed -there. till . he died on May ',3; 1890- at the
age Of ,,65 :HiS••retnains were broUghtbaCk and buried',
beside his. wife 84rati; who had. diect''''',On M'aSr: 18, .1872,.. aged
44. years, A tall 'white marble rneinunent . in St. Cohn/than
Cemetery Marks. his last resting place: Today the. rianie Of
Kidd is' as, seldom' heard as is: that Of Otrronbrook;
On 'June 25; 1878, ata gala'CelebratiOn, Carronbrook had,
tsname changed tO.DUblin; in honor of Joseph Kidd'sbirth-
lace Ireland. The ,streets were, gaily, decorate :for the
, occasion. In the. procesSioxi,--MrS;Villiain Carpente ,riding
in a:decorated taiTiage.with .her se/4 Jarries;.'rePreSented the,
oldest -inhabitant, and 'IA' ariether carriage; drawn by four
beautiful grey horses; Were, pine little,girlsdiessecLin .pure
White; eight of Whoin, represented the Prov,inces. of the Dorn.2.
inion,.'and'.the Other the .young City of Dublin... These- -were,
escorted by a niounted guard, clresSed in scarlet,' with .draWit
sword's and lariees.. At the entrance to -the picnic grounds
the Captain of :the- Guard„ after demanding , who sought
admittance, -presented the key of Dublin -to' tee fairy queen,
misi Mary McConnell, -who was . crowned 'airing the cere-
mony Which followed, The celebration lasted all day .and
ng into the night. ! ,
.The one' fatality that -marred the .-prO-
ceedingS ei" the day
as the 'death- of Daniel Geary, a•Ifibbert Township farmer:
pp-osite Tom --Kings Store, -Spanning the'street, was 'a /nag-
ificently designed' areli, made -.of salt • barrels. :Mr. - Geary
hen -driVing down • the 'street .Strtick the arch, and ,the
ppline barrels. frightened his :spirited tearit'of horses. In
erunaway, that folloWed, he was dragftlfrom the railroad
ack to where .the church now Stands, alfd :when help reached
m' life was extinct: . . • • •
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JOseph Kidd was the one 'who .was instrumental in bring -
g about the Change in ' the naine,of the village, :and alsb.'.of
aving the hamlet-rnade a Pollee village, -at 'least that part
hieh is in Hibbert Township. . This is Soinething ._•krery rake
Ontario„ on July 1$7., these ,q1aanges. 'came.
to, ,effect. . The first' trustees 'Nv'ere, 'Joseph :Thomas
ing -and Alexander Ross. The -Present trustee are ,Gerald
•JosePh :Looby and- Charles Frierith,..
Scareely ...had: ; the villagers ' ceased to. talk about the 'big.
78 Cerebra:4On when tragedy struck the village. 'shortly
ternon Qii•,M,-/..19,'1879, fire broke out in a .refuse pile-
ck -of the 'Dorninien HOtel ,Sparks - from' Kidd's
wthill across the creek -Were believed to have started the
aze. The."flanneS.. quickly spread to the stable, but just as
iekly, though with'sOme.,difficulty, alr the' horses, except
Lit, were releaSed. „These perished in the fire..., Itt'onlY, a
w Minutes the flames ignited. the 'hotel and. from
ere the, fire, travelled north for almost tWo'blecks on both
8 west and east side, of the Main Street. 'Seventeen buildgs were bur.ned, paving twenty-eight families horkelesS
d some of thempennilesS.'Only two .of the buildings: bUrned
re brick---Prendergast'S' hotel And ',Dr, ,'O'liourite's, office
-d home which had bemilorinerly Joseph Kidd's residence.
Men that day. Were 'Scaree in the village' as- most were.at
aril raising two and away at --St:. COlitinbari,
p.m, (Above Hawkins' Ilardware.)-
THE MeKILLOP
MUTUAL FIRE
INSURANCE CO.
HEAD OFFiCE—SEAFORTH, Ont
'OFFICERS:
President—Robert Archibald, Sea-
forth-
Vice-President—Allister 'Broadfoot,
Seaforth
Sectetary.Treasurer-1V. South-
• gate, Seaforth.
• . DIRECTORS: lo
.E. J. Trei,vartha, Clinton; J.
Malone, Seaforth; Chris. Leen-
hardt, Bornholm; Robert Archi- "
bald, Seaforth; john H. mcEwing, 0
tlyth; William S. Alexander, Wal- n
ton:. Harvey Fuller, Godench; w
E. Pepper, Brucefield; Allister to
Broadoot;Seaforth.
• AGENTS: "
'William I:Alper, tondes-
boro; 3. F. Prueter, Brodhagen;
Selwyn Baker, Brussels; James
Keys, R.R, • 1, Seaforth; Harold
Squires. RM. 3, Clinton.
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PART TWO
PY ISABELLE CAMPBELL
on Philip Carlin's farm. Soon after the Are was notieod,.the
road was crovkled with • buggies • and wagons loaded, to
capacity with willing helpers. ' Till this help. arrived, the
women folk ,did all :they could, but: With everything being
bone .dry, and with sparks and burning Shingles being evvirled
here and there by a strong,west Wind, little could be 'done to
check this raging inferno. One hotel maid, as she cussed the
few .men Whom sly,)„ felt- might be.doing more, picked -up an
axe and commenced herself to 'chop the board Sidewalk ailing
'tvhich. the Are was travelling rapidly• .
Among the•,places Of business lest that day' on the west
,side of,the..street 'were -the Dontinion :Hotel •and .its -
Tom Delaxid'S • blacksinith shop and home, Dr, 0',Iteurke's
offlee, Alex .Ross's bladksmith sh6P,'CorrieliusTriel's boot and
shoe Shop, Ben Carriage she') And ,John Howard's
tailor shop ; and on, :the' east side, a large frame building,
was earlier John Kidd's•46-re,.bp.t.n:t that..tirne housed
John.J. McKenna's- drugstore, .and. 'George Ilambly',:sharness.
shop, with their living quarters above:: Valentine ,Stra,ube's
thishop,. and George Diegel's harness shop, home and. stable.
Besides 'these, Quite number- of other: private homes Were
lost: After this Dublin did not regain its flourishing condition
again,
a.who was later clerk of ',the township;
.Was the first Station ,agent-,..frOm the time the Buffalo and
.Lake Huron branch .of the GrAnciT'runk Railway opened for
business in -1858.' AmbroSe 0. Pattison followed in:1875, ,and
went .to ' Glinton in September, 1882. While in he
received. a salary of S32:50 per 'month with free house, cord-
wood, coal oil, lightS, etc.. Other :station , agents , have been
Joe. Roo; Mr, Ireland,, William Sritions; CoSey,',Mr. Clark;'•
Fred .FOrrester,,'Cdoil• V011 11-01;11,' Mather§-; Narman
Ohm; Edward 'Arnold and'Hugh:J. KellyThe .
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T..)09.st. Office was established ' inL1853 or 4, under the,
name Carronbrook, • hut the recercls ,sho-w that On IVIay
.1878, it was Changed -to, UzZieL C: Lee was appointed
the'first_postmaster and held' the- position till 1872. The piist-.
nia,Sters sinCe then have, been. Joseph Kidd, July 19, 1872 -July
11, 1888;• LOUIS 3. Kidd' September I 1888 -March 11;188P;
james.Jokdan,
Jane 9, , 1906-NOvember 12, 1984, and David McConnell,
August 14, -1935, until his, death on August ,28,' 1955. Miss
Monica Byrne has been ,in Charge 'since that time.
In the early days .the post office was in the store of C.
Lee, Joseph Kidd, 'Matthew Williains and the home of Jan -16s
:Jordan,.but since .1935 it has been in .part of the -building
that :was 'earlier, the Dominion Hotel,. Today, 'mail from
Crorriarty and 'Staffa- post - offiCes, and. for three rural Mail
routes • out of the, Village; is distributed ficintthis Office.
R. No. 1, was establiah,ed-Pn May: 1913., with the
foliowing contractors -in charge : John 11.. Roach,, May 7;
'1913-SePtember. 30, ;1918; Joseph and Tlioins TVIelady
(Executors), October I, 1.916 -March 31,. 1917 James -.Jordan,
April'1,,.19.17-April 7, 1917;zPavid Crawford April 8, 1917 -
July 31,.: 1924, 'assisted- ify, Joseph':Dillon...joseph Hickey,
August 1, 1924-I)eceinber.31; 1939; Estate of -Joseph Hickey,
January 1,, 1940 -January 31,. 1940, and Walter J.- Cal. -Paler,
February :I; 19-WtO date:. •
A. R. No. 2 1,174s eStabliShed July 14 JarneS
Sr.', ;liad- the contract from, July 14; 1913,•,until• Juno30, 1917,
b'cl.t' Will '.DilIoxidict the work part.: Hugh P. ',Flynn- was in
charge from July 1, 1917, ,until July- 31, 1924.' Froth August
17 1924;1:intl.' thepresent time, :Frank P. Rtirns been -the
On September 14; 1539,-.R... R. No..' 3 was 'established
, had the route. from_ September '14; 1939
Until November 30,-1940;:and Mrs. Williadn:TletightOn effoni
DeCember 1,-1940; until the ---Present time, , , •
• -Staffa R.. No. was establiShed' November 1, 1912
and; bedause it services Concessions. 6 and 7, the.courier 0
it might also -be listed here. They were James, -E.' Harburn
*ith Nettie _Riley, a -helper, November 1, 1912-Decernber .31
1.918%, Frank L. Yee, Jamiary .1919-Decemberi .31; 1920
Walter B. O'Brien, January .1, :1921 -April. ' 30;1928'; 'Frank
O'Brien,' May 1; 1928 December Samuel 11,. Norris
January ,1, '193-Decentber 81, 1986, with ,Seth Brown a,
helper-; W.•Lerne Hedge, I-annary 1937 -December 31; 1940
John. Robertson, -.J..anuAry- 1, 1941 -February. 1, 1956.: Since
then ---Garnet Taylor has been the one. 111 charge. .
Michael Wallace, 'a veteran of the Indian Miltiny,.'who
came here -froth Prescott, Ont, Carried the mail without fai
LL -rain or shine---frorn -the Station to the PostOfficelor Many
yearS.. He later returned to Preseott 'and -died- in ai,.SeldierS!
Home ;there. Another with a long service record is ;Frank
Burns. When the, new- motor' vehicle ser -vice ;carrying -mail
from: .StiatfOrd to -Goderich: cominenced'on October .14 1956,
:Frank Burns hadjustcomppleted tWenty4Our Years of faith-
ful service at the' same, task.
A number: of physidians PractiSed•here during the years,
although there were lapses of time WheVhe 'village had no
dector.. The first was Dr. Tanief'Crernin, Who died here in
1869.. Eclyvard Hornibrook graduated and -settled An
Mitchell in 1,361,,,. and, from' then and- especially'in the -70's,
hehatl'alarge Practise in this cOmmunity, but hiseffiCe was
always in his home' toWn.''Dr: 'James 'King bachelor„ who
came from Athlone, 'Ont., followed Crernin in the village and
was killed when..bis spirited tearn of horses ran aWaY. near
Lot '15; on' Concession 4, in McKillop TOwnship, Dr:
gtourke was here at.the time of the fire in 1879.- Dr. Wil-,
liamwTowe had -riot• been in the village long when he took
something like a Sunstroke on the beach at Bayfield, and was
not able to practise again. Others who practised -here in -later
years were- Dr, 'Alert.Vonholt IVIichell, Dr. H. 13,.. SimpliinS;
Dr. Victor' Trainor, Dr. D. E. Sturgis, Dr. Stewart "Sandy!!
McGregor, Dr. Keith McGregor, Dr, Martin W. Stapleton,
also Dr, H. C. IVIcDpnald .(dentist). Since, Dr, ''StaPleton left
in 1940 there has .been no doctor here. '
The veterinaries have- beep Cyrus: -Reale„ Sani Murray,.
Alvin Houze and Tom. Melady.! Murray, a gold Medalist
at college; Was veterinary -here for fifty years:: He -passed
aWay June, 1953,. Since Torn. Melody was given a Health'
Unit -appointment in 1956, and is now statiOned -in Goderich,,
the village has had no veteriziarY.
Matthew ‘Willianos, in 1901, built the first. cement •bloCk
house in the. comMunity, just ri-Orth - of the:
railroad track:
This was his home till he MoVed to Seaforth in 1903. It was
built on the same site on which had been a two-storey' frame
building built and owned by Joseph Kidd from. an'early date.
It was, used by George •Hatribly for -a harnesS•Shop, and John
Reward for a tailor shop after the 1879- fire, and on .Slindays
it was the boys' boxing arena. Jutt and Jack Moore,:. frOin
Kirkton;later had their. thishop in it till they meved Staffa,
in the late 1890's. '• - t , ,
In the, early 80's a ;bunch of rather rotigh lin:Migrants
arriVed in the village.' These were given permission to live
in the upper storey Of this building, and Were also provided
witl a stove and a supply of:fuel. The villagers became rather
panicky when, not long after their arrival, they noticed clouds
of smoke belching frOrnthe upstair windows, These ,hadbeen
used to herneland and were'het familiar With
Canadian ways' of life.' When the caiise -of the Smoke was
investigated, it was tonna that they; instead of putting the
Wood in the stove,•had Piled it.on, top And set fire to. it -there.
. A little lgir1,--a, 'few miles. 'away, hearing, her -daddy- tell
her Mum, When he came home from -Dublin; about these new
,people, became very curious about them. She, :nOt knowitig
what an immigrant was, but feeling very sure. they' must be
ueer peoplervvonderecl if she would ever .get to Dublin to -
see what immigrants ldoked like. - Trips for Children, Of even
a few miles distanee in those days V.r1.6 few and far betvieen
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