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Point Farm
plements, in trust for her (Mrs. Davies')
own proper use and beneAt." The trust ap-
pears to have terminated h i4. H.T.
Pell, here mentioned, was owner at the
time of the Varcoe farm, Con. 8.
J.J. Wright was a -native of Bury St. Ed-
munds, England, one' of 16 children of
Richard and Betsy (Clutton) Wright, who
in 1854 came to Canada with his parents.
They settled in West Flamboro, Went-
worth county. An •elder brother of Joseph,
Richard Clutton Wright, was the grand-
father of Rev. Huson Wright, one of the
earliest ministers of First Baptist Church,
Goderich. Richard Wright moved to
Aylmer.
Young Joe Wright started to learn the
printing business in the office of the Dun-
das Warder, then owned by S.F. Jones, but
left that field to become a telegraph
operator with the Montreal Telegraph
Company. He continued in that employ in
Hamilton, Toronto, Cobourg, Berlin and
Guelph. He opened the first telegraph of-
fices in Stratford and Goderich, the latter
on Kingston Street. Arriving in this town in
1854, he was thereafter continuously iden-
tified with the locality for 60 years.
He entered the hotel business in 1856, at
the age of 23, managing the British Ex-
change. After his marriage to Mrs. Davies
he removed to Colborne, but returned to
Goderich in 1860 and bought the old Huron
Hotel on Kingston Street. The Wrights con-
ducted that hotel for 10 years, advertising
• that it offered horses and carriages for
hire, as well as "omnibus to and tram the
cars."
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The Point Farm Hotel was a major tourist, attraction
They sold to Capt. Cull' 1870 and bought
Lot 9, next north of the POifit FarM site,
from Hon. Donald McDonald, former
Canada Company surveyor but by this
time a senator. With the two lots in their
possession, the Wrightsbuilt a summer
hotel to aceommodate 60 guests. It was fill-
ed the first season, but burned at the end of
that season, in 1872. The loss was not
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extend their congratulations to the Council
and citizens of the Township of Colborne
during their Sesquicentennial Celebrations
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We invite you t� the Township of Stanley
Sesquicentennial Homecoming weekend -
August 1, 2, 3, 1986.
REEMEIClarence Rau
DEPUTY REEVE: Howard Armstrong
COUNCILLORS: Jack Coleman
Richard Erb
Bill Dowson
CLERK -TREASURER: Mel Graham
_DiPitrrCURKARIASURERI,
Betty Graham
ROAD SUPEINOTENDENT: Bill Taylot
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covered by insurance, which Wright at-
•• tributed to the neglect of an agent.
• The Wrights returned to Goderich, but
after a couple of years they built on their
Colborne property a ,hotel to house 200
guests, with a dining -room for 300, and a
central tower 75 feet high, In his published
reminscences Wright has .left no par-
ticulars of the construction period, but he
borrowed on five mortgages, and evidently
most were foreclosed, leaving only 30.
acres — all he needed — around the hotel.
• (When J.T. Goldthorpe purchased, Point
Farm in 1912, his deed conveyed 30 acres,)
The new hotel opened for'business on Ju-
• ly 1, 1874.
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COLBORNE, TOWNSHIP
On your 150th Birthday
Celebrations !-
We're proud to have you
as neighbours.
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HULLETT TOWNSHIP
REEVE , Tom Cunningham • CLERK TREASVREN
DEPUTY REEVE ;. Joe Gibson Harry Lear
COUNCILLORS -1Ron Gross ASSISTANT CLERK
Victor Stackhouse
Harvey Stewart TREASURER , Bev Shaddick
ROAD SUPERINTENDENT
Jim Johnston
• ROAD CREW Ian Holley
• Doug Doimage
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