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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Goderich Signal-Star, 1967-06-29, Page 38vers The Ogilvy family is an an. tient one whose records go back •to the. reign of King David I in the 12th century. The lion. _Angus (James Bruce) Ogilvy, husband of Her Ro al Highness i'rinces.s Alexandra, is the sec. and son of the 12th Earl of Airlie. In the reeord of the Ogilvies . in Canada; pioneer • millers, • it is written that 111,1163 Gilbride of .Airlie; of the noble stock • of .Angus, knelt before William the Lion, king of S c otland, and rose Baron O. Gale Buidhe. If Princess' Alexandra's bus. band, while visiting -Expo 67 earlier this month, . ad hap. pened .to look in t e Montreal telephone directo y, he would have found the names of many Ogilvys and some 37 Ogilvies, .In Montreal is the headquarters of the Ogilvie Flour MillsCom- pa.ny,°Limited, with plants all across Canada and numerous 'subsidiaries such 'as •Ogilvie • Grain Company, Lake of the Woods Milling Co., poultry and egg processing plants, and so on. , In the directorate of the Og- livie Milling Company today there is not a single Ogilvie. The descendants of Alexander, who founded the milling bus. Mess in Quebec ""in 1801, are business executives and profes. sional men in many fields. Like. •wise, the. Hon. Angus Ogilvy, husband of the princess, works in the City of London with the Harley Drayton group of investment `trusts; of which he became a director in 1956. When Archibald Ogilvie, the, pioneer miller, died in 1820, six .children were at lff 5k1. side. Eleven grandchildren had been born in Canada. In the 80 years •to follow, more than 100 children were born into this family. Of old Archibald's seed '189 descendants entered the 20th century: There were among them flour millers, far. mers, engineers, lawyers„'' gay clergymen, bankers,” sQldieis, merchants and civi,X servants. They Were stewn aPout the vrorld in many lands, but -fdur-,fifths clung • to the kern of Canada, land of opportunity. Alexander's three sons, Alex. ander Walker, William Watson and John, held various posit. ions in the milling company. In 1872, John returned from a survey of .the areas between Lakes Hurop .,and Erie' with a proposal for his brothers; The market for flour was increas. ing in southern Ontario: why not grind its wheat there? A mill With capacity of 250. barrels- daily was built at Sea. forth. An unusual feature was its output of salt, the brine being pumped from nearby wells into evaporation pans heated by surplus steam from flour mill engines. In. 1874 a second mill, 'f 500 barrels daily capacity, was built. in Goderich; toge -r with an el. evator to sto ;- local wheat and accept . -r'orne ship. ments from •stern Canada. Here, too,,a t recovery plant was installed, When John Ogilvie, field man- ager, died in 1888, he and his two brothers owned mills in Montreal, Winnipeg, Seaforth, azid..20 elevators in Ontario, Manitoba and the North West Territories, • Alexander Oglivie's daughter Helen, was married to Matthew Hutchison, who came to Canada as a boy from Largs in Scot- land and was educated at. Mon- treal': For some years he was the .grain inspector of the Port of Montreal. Eventually, he went into partnership with his Og- ilvie brothers-in-law and mo. .. ve. to Goderich to take charge of the Goderich mill on behalf of the new partnership of Og- ilvie gilvie and Hutchison. It is re- called , that the family took an active part in -the social life of the town. The Huron Atlas,' 1879, lists portant Part Ogilvie and Hutchison, Icer. chant millers, -Goderich, Har. bor Mills. The date of sett. ling in Huron county, 1874, pro. bably relates to construction of the Seaforth mill. A story of the "Big Mill" up to 1889. is summarized in a special issue of the Signal and Star in that year. The year of construction is here given as 1875. "The business," this article states, "is .carried on under the firm -name of Ogilvie and Hutchison, with Mr. M. Hutch. sion .as manager. When first built, the mill contained 10 runs of stone, with the necessary belts, purifiers,' cleaning mach.• inery etc. to give a capacity of 500- barrels a day. Soon after, four runs of stones were added, and in 1881 whe mill was; 'ent, 'rely remodelled to the roller system, with a capacity of 900 barrels a day. The mill con. tains ,31 double sets • of Allis rolls, seven runs of stones, 36 reels, bran cleaners, etc., alI operated by a 100 h. p. Cor- liss engine. A large salt block is run in connection with the steam `plant, capable of making 25 tons, of salt daily. An el- evator extending from the dock to the mill has a capacity of 200,000 bushels. The mill pio., neered in placing Manitoba wheat on the eastern market, the first 500 bushels of Man- itoba Hard ever manufactured into flour in Ontario being ground there in 1878. Products of the mill find a market chief. ly in the Maritime Provinces." In later years the mill pro. duced more than 3,000 barrels a day, and had two generators - developing more than 500 kit: owatts: ' This was supplemented in the 1940's by Hydro power: In 1905, S. S. McGaw, of the Manitoba and Lake Huron Mill. ing Co., joined with the Kelly Milling Co., Brandon,' to form the Western Canada Flour Mills, which operated the mill TIME CHANGES THINGS The Last Time' You Were Home This Store. Was Known so As Reg Bell Jewellery TIME DOES NOT CHANGE EVERYTHING Tfie Same Friendly Service That This Location Was Known For And The Same Quality Merchandise Is Still Available At ... . BRICKE JEWELLER4 OLD -.BOYS COME, IN AND' GET ACQUAINTED Have AGoOd Time In The Old Home -Town until it was taken over in 1040 by Maple Leaf MillingCo, Four milling here ended in 19fj0,but" stock and poultry feeds were - produced until 1963, when Maple Leaf consolidated . production elsewhere. The mill was de. molished in October, 1963. Col. Paul P. Hutchison, Q.c:, a grandson of Matthew, the God. erich miller and a member of the Montreal law firm of Hol: den, ,Hutchison, Cliff, Mcg Master, Meighen and Minnion, has supplied some particulars of the Hutchison years in God- erich. - "The house which ' was the home of my .grandparents,d' he writes, was named Glengowan by my grandfather, Matthew Hutchison, whose wife was Helen Ogilvie, a sister of Sen. ator Alexander, W. and William Watson Ogilvie. My family re. cords indicate, that the part. nership of Ogilvie and Hutch- ison was formed ,'soon after 1872, and that Matthew Hutch. ison and family, then moved to Goderich, where for a time they lived in a rented, round house on the Square, but that in 1880 they bought the big property atop the cliff from William Seymour, naming it Glengowan. Matthew Hutchison died in 1896 and his wife, Helen Ogilvie, in 1913, when still liv- ing at Glengowan. My father, W. W. - Hutchison, went to the Ogilvie office in Winnipeg in 1884. "I found in • my family scrap- . book a press reproduction of a photograph of the Ogilvie staff at Winnipeg in 18856 F. W. Thom Spon appears to -have -been the office manager, and the ere clerks the following: Shirley Ogilvie, 5: A. McGaw, W, W. Hutchison, E. G. Simpson, W. A, Black, W. -A. Hastings, Q. W. Hastings. The Hastings bro. thers, my father and Shirley Ogilvie were all first cousins . with Ogilvie mothers," Glengowan was sold in 1921 by the executors of Helen Og- ilvie Hutchison to T. G. Connon, CPR agent. Lt is a fine example of the central hall plan, With large rooms on each • side at the front, and a big bay window. on the dining -room at the south side. There were several fire. places. Mrs. Charles Meakins, daughter of the late Mr. Con. non, 'describes the house as exceptionally well 'built., Ser- vants' quarters in the Hut. cbison years were• in a cot- tage next door to the south, now two houses away. . Regarding Francis ;,Jordan, who operated "Pharmacy Hall" at Colborne street and the Squarez and who was an ard?nt militiaman, Col. Hutchison writes: "The Jordans were cou- sins of mine through Mrs. Jor- dan, whose mother was an Og. ilvie..The Jordan son, Ernest, married Isobel Proudfoot, the Senator's daughter. E rnest died quite a few years ago, but' Is- obel is still living at Oakville. She was a sister of William Proudfoot, Q.C.,..., Toronto, he being. a son of the Senator and a very old and close friend of mine. He died a few years ago." There is a stained-glass win. dow in St: George's church here in memory of Francis Jordan .and his wife, Frances Has. tenings. • THIS IS A VOLVO "CANADIAN" SEE IT TRY IT YOU'LL BUY IT E PERIENCE — YOU MEP Continuous Operation Since 1940 (Volvo Sales and Service Since 1958) It °will be a pleasure to renew old acquaintances. Come in -`and' see us at our originallocation at 184 EAST ST. TEL.: 524.7212 4y Mean fodg We Were Established In 1887 E'RE RIEN DLY • Carl, Harry and Red,that's us.. We're the third. generation of Worsens ,to operate the business. The business was started in 1887 but we're not stodgy. We pride ourselves in being friendly guys offering good value on quality merchandise. If you live in town, come and see us,. . If you are returning home for a reynion drop in , and renew acquaintances. 1967 A GOOD YEAR TO COME HOME We're glad You Came • .v