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1870 places of business
17 Hotels
11 Dry goods stores
3 Drug Stores
3 Jewelry Stores
2 Tailor shops
3 Sewing machine shops
3 Furniture stores
3 Hardware stores
11 Grocery stores
3 Stove and Tin shops
3 Bakers
6 Flour & Feed
3 Liquor stores
3 Billiard rooms.
I found this list among some papers of my father's. I think it
was from an old Directory & Gazeteer. We had a number of
them. I gave some to the Historical Society and sold a couple.
Miss Ethel Beattie.
Congratulations
TO THE Seaforth' Community on
One Century of Progress and Growth.
McGAYIN'S
FARM EQUIPMENT
SALES & SERVICE
Phone 527-0245
Walton, Ont.
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Curling always popular in Seaforth
Congratulations
to the people of
SEAFORTH
on the 100th anniversary
of the forming of your town.
h has been a pleasure working with you.
JACK RIDDELL MPP , HURON
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Interest in "the roaring game"
has, in the last f9_w., years grown
rapidly. All across the country
people are taking up the
game. School children are playing
with jam tans filled with cement
and new curling rinks are being
built.But curling was also one of
the early sports in Seaforth. It
was natural that it should be
popular. The area was heavily
populated by Scots. Popularity
also stemmed from the fact that it
was a sport in which everyone
participated.
Here is a report from The
Expositor, Oct. 24, 1879.
"At the annual meeting of the
Seaforth Curling Club the
In Seaforth billiards became an
early recreation. Wh ile there was
little mention of the game in the
paper there is proof that by 1873
at least, billiards were
flourishing. This short quote from
the February 7, 1871 Expositor
provides the proof.
"The license for billiard tables
in Seaforth for the current year
will be for .the first table, $25.
for the second $15.
The game of billiards has a long
and colorful history.
Some historians claim it is more
than 2,000 years old based on
Shakespeare's "Anthony and
Cleopatra" written about 1607 in
which Cleo says to her lady in
waiting, "Come, let us to the
following officers were elected for
the winter, 1879-80:.. Patron, Sir
Richard Cartwright; President, J.
R. Lyons; Vice-President, James
Hatt; Represenative . members,
D.D.Wilson and David Walker,
Secretary and Treasurer, M. R.
Counter; Committee or council of
management - Wm. Box, Alex
Davidson, J.A.Wilson , Robt.
Fulton, A.M.Campbell, Skip -
J.R.Lyons, Jas. Hatt, Charles
Wilson; D.D.Wilson, R. Fulton,
John McIntosh, J.A.Wilson,
A. B. Halby. Anyone desirous of
joining the club will kindly give
their names to the Secretary,
M.R.Counter. We are glad to
learn that the two clubs have been
billiards."
Probably the game originated
near the start of the 14th Century.,_
It became a popular game among
the English and French noblemen
of that time.
The first book on billiards was
published in 1665. And in the
early 1800s the game cut its teeth
as a major pastime in North
America.
They aren't pool rooms any
more. They are billiard parlours,
complete with indirect lighting,
carpeted floors and soft music.
Much of the changeover is due
to billiardmen who have banded
together to standardize prices,
improve playing conditions and
promote the game as a
wholesome family short.
amalgamated, and there will
'• hereafter, be only one curling
club in Seaforth, and that will be a
good one."
Billiards were
big in 1873
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