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ih4, yew acing It as shoe shop.
. Ottetr shop, and other toes until
It WO partly burned and the rest
:Dyed hash for storage for the
grocery stere neat door.
The Village. Market was built
by Thos. Harrison as an in-
vestment. Mr. Hewson had his
drugstore there in 1881. but
'bough;the store at the corner of
Main and Catherine 1.1893. John
Fraser had a general store and a
July 27, 1900 item in the paper
tells us. "J. Fraser has improved
his store by thebuilding of a new
verandah."
James Reid was the next owner
and many will remember his
stock of dry goods. ribbons and
other sewing supplies on the left
as one entered the store. withthe
groceries on the right.
Basically. the store has
remained the same in ap-
pearance. except that it was
enlarged by William Bunn a few
years. ago to take in part of the
living quarters. The Sinnamons
are now the owners and continue
its tradition as a grocery store.
which it has been since the days
the Reids except for those
'.
!tants who were bakers. and
thus added to their stock with
baked goods.
The Gairdner home. post office
and telegraph office has been
mentioned in another article so
we will continue down across
Susan Street. where. on the other
corner Tom Cameron's harness
shop stood. Many chikfren have
stood ai the open doer of this
frame building and watched Mr.
Cameron at work and smelled the
delightful leather aroma. A New
Era article. May 3. 1889 said, "A
photo gallery has been opened in
Thos. Cam ron's shop by Stewart
of Gode - -open every Thur-
sday.
Th was in the front part.
facg an Main St. but lasted only
aayy few years. In the late 1800's
there were a number of
"photographic studios" in
Bayfield at various times. The
name J. W. Cook is mentioned a
number ' of times and also Mr.
Saliows of Goderich. Cameron's
building was on that corner for 72
years.
Aaron Waiwin owned their
buildings on Main Street in the
late 1800's. One was a shoe shop
for awhile, then a mantle and
dress shop. and. later. Wm.
Brandon operated a butcher
shop. One building was moved -to
the back for a barn and one was
moved to -the lakefront by James
Sturgeon, for use •as a home. It
later burned down. The building
that has remained in use over the
years is now the Woollen Shoppe,.
having been so named by► Mr.
Edighoffer of Mitchell in 1945.
Mr. and Mrs. ' Howers bought
from him in 1957 and Mr. and
Mrs. Paul West who bought in
1968 are now the owners.
Changes in the building are:
removal of the verandah across
the front,' addition of a side
stairway and of living. quarters
on the east side.
The next building, now called
the R.P. Burger and. before that
"The Cluster". was begun by Mr.
Edighoffer as a storage room for
the equipment for his miniature
golf course and has been added
to. for service as a restaurant.
On the next lot there was a
large frame building which a few
residents can remember as the
store of the Martin sisters and the
location of Bayfield's first
telephone in 1899. It was then a
toll office for long distance calls.
In 1934. while "Doc" Johnston
had a bakery there, it burned
down. The present day post office
is in the location now, but sits
farther back from the street.
An item in the Minton New Era
June 22, 1900 reads. "Miss Martin
is having a special sale of cheap.
trimmed hats, and sailors at cost.
First class dress making." An
earlier item in the New Era
March 21. 1890 stated, "Miss M.
J. Martin has the windows of her
store beautifully decorated with
samples of some . 2.000 rolls of
wallpaper... makes people look
forward with dread , to that
temper trying time of year...
housecleaning." In July 7. 1893.
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Brandon Hardware Diff nano
the early 1870's ant 880's.•
egorSquare was a woollen mill in
"Miss M. J. Mi trtin announced
the opening of an ice cream and
fruit department in her store."
The antique shop now'known as
Bayfield louse was the home of
Mr. and Mrs. James Fowlie, and
was built in two .parts, the front
part being the addition, in 1889.
Next door was The blacksmith
shop.
A May 30, 1890 news item read.
"The west end of our town is
building up fine of late. ' Mr.
James Fowlie, blacksmith, is in
process of erection of a fine brick
blacksmith shop. There is
nothing like industry and Jim is a
walking specimen of it." It was
razed in 1948.
The brick house next to the
Little 14Inn was originally John
Day's Carriage Shop (a log
building was there before the
brick one). J. W. Jowett held the
mortgage on it for Mrs. Seeds
who used it when she ran the
hotel and he later made it into a
house.
We have dealt with the Little
Inn -in the article on Hotels so we
will cross the street to the home
of Mr. and Mrs. E. W. Oddleifson.
named The Storehouse. A news
item of June 7, 1901 states,
"James Fowlie has begun
erection of a new store at the
corner of Main and Catherine
Streets."
He had acquired this vacant lot
a short time before. Daughters
Francis and Ethel operated this
store 1 grocery with an ice cream
t=:.= rlour upstairs until the 1950's.
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eir ice cream was delicious.
being made from pure jersey
cream from their own cow.
This article on the Hayfield
stores on Main St. just touches on
their history. nor does it include
all of them. Much, much more
could be written about these on
Main St. and also about the
following:
Gemeinhardt's Furniture on
Louise Street was a thriving
business and those who still own,
or have acquired some of this
work treasure them. Mr.
Gemeinhardt was commissioned
to make all the chairs for the
Town Hall.
The Gemeinhardt Cider Mill
which stood on the bank back
from Louise St. was mentioned in
a news item Sept. 11. I896, "The
cider mill is doing a rushing
business these days." However, a
news item in Aug. 10. 1900 issue
read. "One day last week a fire
which broke out in Mr.
Gemeinhardt's cider mill
wrought t6nsiderable destruction
ere sufficient aid could be'
collected for its extinction."
A part of this old building can
still be seen.
The Jimmy Johnston Grain and
Feed Store on Louise Street was
another thriving business of the
early 1900's.
John Adams owned and
operated a Sash and Door Fac-
tory at the corner of Louise and
Colina Streets. It burned in 1878.
Mr. Witten's harness and
woodworking shop at the corner
of Ann St. and Victoria Place is
now the home of the Hunters.
The old Tannery across Ann
Street on the corner employed a
number of Bayfield men. It also
burned down, only a few of the
fires that started in those days
were extinguished without ex-
tensive damage.
"Tailor Mac's" on the corner of
Victoria Place and Susan Street
was a one -storey house. Mr. Jas.
MacDonald was a well known
tailor of the late 1800's, he is
listed in the 1863.4 directory. The
house was later changed to a two-
storey. Misses Maude and
Josephine Sterling lived there.
The directory of 1851 lists the
following: A. Ackland. Judge of
the Division Court; James Barge.
carpenter and cabinet maker;
George Brownett, shoemaker;
Rev. R. F. Campbell. Church of
Engtand; William W. Connor,
innkeeper:. Thomas Elliott.
shoemaker; 6. Fraser. general
store; James Gairdner and R. H.
Gairdner. general store and Rost
office; Donald Gordon, in-
nkeeper:, ,Arthur Henry Heath,
distillery : Piper and . McDonald,
grist mill; Neil McTavish, wagon
maker; Anthony Prank, car-
penter: D. H. Ritchie. clerk of the
division court: Charles and
Donald Shaw. blacksmiths:
e and gone
Chester Tippet. general store and
innkeeper.
We should also mention the
garages that came into being
with the advent of the
automobile.
Walter Westlake. reared on a
farm on the Bluewater Highway.
had a garage on the Albion
property, corner of Main St. and
the Square. In 1924 he had a. solid
cement garage built by Robt.
Spackman on Highway 21 which
had to be moved back in 1951 due
to widening of the highway. The
first gasoline that he sold was
Imperial and he sold it con-
tinuously for 42 years. For awhile
he also sold Red Indian and
Sunoco.
A number of the makes of cars
that he serviced in 1924 are long
since gone. cars like the Maxwell
and Saxow.
The biggest car he ever ser-
viced . was a Pierless V8 which
burned out a rod. There were
seven fans to take off. He also
remembers a 12 -cylinder
Packard with a hole in the glass
back of the front seat so the
chauffeur could hear orders.
There were two chair seats as
well as the regular seats. A hole
had somehow been knocked in the
30 gation.gas tank and Walter was
running foie cans. and cans. and
cans to salvage the gas.
Jack Merner now owns this
garage.
Willi€tm Mustard's garage yeas
on his property' at the north erfa of
the. old iron bridge. He was in
Detroit for a year working in
defense work at the Heepmobile
car factory and. upon his return.
built the garage and 'fiiling
station. He hired • Norval
Gemeinhardt to run that business
while he worked aS manager of
his former mill which had been
bought by Geddes and Tyson. A
few years later the mill clpsed
and Mustards moved the gas
pumps from the garage over to
their little restaurant where they
were doing a rushing business.
Mustard's hotdogs were a
"must" especially in the holiday
season and after the dances at the
Grove.
The Bayfield Garage. once a
Supertast station and now 13.P. is
on Highway 21 just east of Clan
Gregor Square. The building was
erecred almost a half -century
ago by Mrs. Stotts, and was
operated by Oliver 'Goldthorpe.
After his death, service was
given by a Mr. Webb and then by
Claude Gelinas of Zurich who had
it on tease for five years. Douglas
Gemeinhardt of Bayfield finished
the lease, beginning in 1942 and
then leased it himself for five
years. In 1946 it was taken over
by Reg Frances and Grant
Turner and then by Reg himself.
So this is Reg's thirtieth "an-
niversary."
Cities Service Station was built
by the Weston Bros. in 1939. After
Art Doak had been there a short
time. the Spencer Ervines =took
over. The Earl Normans began a
Lunch room during their tenure
and this Wes carried on, along
with the usual services of a
station, by the Maymans and
McMillen. the John Frasers.
Cliff Utters. Matthews, Logans
and Erickson. Bill Talbot had no
lunchroom but did garage work
and bodywork. A new lessee is
now being sought.
Bayfield Building Centre was
erected by- Frank McFadden
after he sold the Hardware Store.
to the Brandon's, as he had his
building supplies on that
property. ft is situated on High-
way 21 south and now is owned by
Robert Huntley and David.
Johnston,
The Bavarian Inn Restaurant.
two doors farther south on High-
way 21, has indeed the ap-
pearance of an Inn of that
European area. being so named
by its present owner:, Mr. and
Mrs. Eric Krohmer. Many items
on their menu are true Bavarian
recipes, including the luscious
cakes.
The Queenn'% Hotel, later the Ritz, was in its heyday in the early 1900's. A team and equipage was
always on canto meet the trains. The hotel was burned down August 30,1947 from a chimney fire.
Once called the Queens
Old Ritz Hotel
The Queen's Hotel
(later the Ritz)
The land on which this hotel
stood was bought by Wm. Connor
in 1853. The first building was
called "The Exchange" and had
a long pole with a swinging sign
to advertise its presence. Mr.
Connor had it partly torn down,
one section being taken a block
up Main Street to make the
nucleus for the Tippet house, -Mr.
Tippet using that part for a
harness shop.
The Queen's was a large frame
building' With a two-storey
verandhh around two sides and ti
small"tower-room" breaking
the roof line over the front. When
new. in the 1870's and 1880's it
must have indeed been quite an
imposing building.
It had many owners. Mr.
Edward 'Elliott (later proprietor
of the Albion) ran it for about
razed in 1947
eight years, and we find various
references to it in the papers
under different ownerships of
lessees.
New Era May 12. 1897 - The
Queen's - This model hotel has
again opened and is ready for
summer tourists. Mr. Pollock,
the genial proprietor, has asked
for extensive addition figures and
will have one of the best
hostelries in Western Ontario.
February 13. 1902 - Mr. James
Pollock sold the Queen's to Mrs.
Murray for 92000. The new
proprietress will dispense with
the bar and run the place solely
as a boarding-house.
Later. Mr. Pollock had the
Queen's again. After he died, his
widow married Harry Darrow.
When the hotel business became
unprofitable. they used it as a
private home. The John
Fergusons had done the same in
the early 1690's.
Finally, Mrs. Ritz from
Stratford bought the building in
1923. She became Mrs. Thos.
Bailey and then ran the hotel.
renamed the Ritz, on a year
around basis until it was burned
to , the ground. Labour Day jra,
weekend in 1947.
They re -built, calling their new
hotel, "The New Ritz" and ran it
until failing health forced them to
give it up. it was later sold but
has stood empty ever since.
One hears of many hotel names
in Bayfield. but just try to find out
where they were! However, we
are sure of a few of the locations.
Pollock's Hotel - on the corner
of Hwy. 21 and the Varna Road.
across from the Old Forge. who
many people know. The Pollocks
sold to McEw,ens. It is now owned
by Left Bannister and named
"The Paul Bunyan Motel".
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