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The Kidd and Iciely story
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p BY W. E. ELLIOTT ° MP for North Huron, and the • what the town needed in order two "bedrooms on k the North ' W12 ...th
approximate" date of to progress. street frontage, each with .a
o (Second Instillment) ,construction is indicated in a The Board of Trade annual fireplace, and a small bedroom
historical note from Miss Belle meeting of 1$S9 is fully in rear, sharing the hall sp ce.
Joseph I+llidd was born in Campbell, Seaforth. Whitehead, N, Two more bedrooms' an a
Dublin, Ireland, in 1825, but he ' who had._,a Buffalo & Goderich reported in the' Goderich Star of nursery filled the remain -0" -OP
was not as Irish' as all that, for railway contract and owned land March 1, the news and the space along;, the Nelson street
his father was a Yorkshireman, near ,the track fn Seaforth, "in advertisements providing an. side while across the hall were
of the Anglican faith, his 1861 sold 6w -fifth pf an acre to interesting .picture. of the town bathroom, ,limen closet and yet
mother, Anne _ Doyle, a ., Joseph Kidd. This would be the eighty -odd years ago. Wooden anothe p`„ ball bedroom at rear,
gr back stairway
publinite. Kidd migrated to lot ' on which he built his large • :verandahs in front of many where a ` ^
Canada in 1844 at the age of 19, brick house." , stores had become ,"anything originated.
followed by 'two brothers, John .Mr. Kidd was • active iq, but an ornament to the town, "`Vllhen •he died'in August 19.21 ,
and Tho as, and the arents•. He Provincial and h Do, inion the board's propgrty .committee
B.i p p �", Joseph Kidd had been for 1,9,
settledirst.at Charleston, north . politics; - and o ,,,•;•
sed James, ,reported, proposing a byiaW to
Liberal„ QX.,,••Athex,..Sou.th' • p r e v e n.t f url^l a r,. • sach� '-been agent 'of the CPR, had h
• k o�f..Brodc-yi,tie;,,,,, after °some Trout, �..�s4"c been president of the 'public
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"rears , the.^amily remover . 0 -;Perth'.. sea "...rin::-the•'. iust...,0Y'.,xx,;4s �s"4 ,,;'re ort ''"rtOraky`°,.,..ticyar&-,'and. ,., -4h01. , .x �-x, .r. wv z
Commons. This evidently was in , ' " p ;frdrr • the hospital board. He was survived
1878, when Sir John Macdonald manufactures committee shows byhis wife, five sons and two
ained office, and Trow'that • ;Goderich. had several
g s daughters. Aeneas Joseph was
majority was held to 77. This industries not now in existence,then with the chief'
engineer's
riding,. elected Liberal members including the Marlton shipyard, staff of the CPR in Montreal; the'
frorn Confederation to 1911. several cooperages, and a plant other boys and the two girls
Joseph Kidd was instrumental 'making carpet -stretchers. were at home.
,in having the name of the village The salt industry was then a Requiem high mass at St.
changed to, Dublin, in honor of quarter-century old, and from. Peter's was sung' by Magr.. Kidd
his birthplace, and that part of 'excessive competition had been of St. Augustine Seminary, a,
Hibbert township , was ade a "languishing for years," the cousin, with Msgr. Moran'of St.,
police village. First -trust s were report stated, but gave promise Augustine as deacon. Clergy
Joseph Kidd, Thomas Ki g and of being placed upon a sounder assisting were Father Gnatrt, the
Alexander Ross. , - footing. parish priest, and Father West,
Kidd ' was . considered a "Production of salt•," Mr., of St. Thomas, formerly of St.
wealthy man, at one time, but Kidd reported, "has been much Peter' Goderich.
reverses set in, including loss of; a larger than `in previous years,•theBearers were Dr. •Caeser,
ship and cargo on Lake Huron prices somewhat better and the Sheriff ,R. G. Reynolds, John
and the destruction by storm of, article manufactured of a grade Galt, J. L. Killoran, William
a Goderich wharf. One of his aid ,quality superior to anything Lane and J. J. Doyle.
-houses and later the cooperage hitherto produced in Goderich Aeneas 'Joseph Kidd, ' eldest
were burned, and he was said to indicating greater are in the son. of Joseph Kidd and
he the heaviest. loser in the manufacture and more skill in Christine McDougall, was born
Dublin fire of 1879, In the late the process. One new salt in 1887 married Mabel Barnhart
1880s he made an assignment refinery is under construction, .of North Bay. 'He worked as a
where common salt will be draughtsman 'on the CPR line
converted into dairy at a into Goderich;" and later went on •••----
14 assembly hall was added later_..._,. ...May 3, 1890. nominal cost and a superior with the railway staff, advancing
• In subsequent years he builtp
Jose h Kidd had three sons article placed upon the markets to signal engineer. He dted in
the first-of--th-r-ee= mills, a stave—and eight daughters. There seems ata slight advance in price. The 1952, on the eve of etirenient,
-.. future -for them manufacture of a le barrels by
�.: w . rye eflopera e: Jud L- �tQ W :b on_. ,...„ �. .,. PP .y...._ his.. wife _soar_ aft'er._They had t.___ .
1875, ,a large salt works was in or about Dublin: Five' of the t1 e cooperages in Tsargreatiy�" five children: Joseph, ordained -k
cot'ntrie/iced under -the name of - daughters married residents of surpassed. any previous year's Franciscan priest and presently
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Joseph Kidd & Sons, later Iowa Ohio, Nebraska, Illinois or production. °' ` "
stationed in' Jerusalem; , Nora;
• changed to Dublin Salt Works,,J. Minnesota. No of the. sons "Activity in the shipyard has wife of George Lances of•Maple
& J. Kidd, proprietors. The well finally went to live in Sioux - not ,abated. A large schooner is Leaf Milling Co., residing in Don
originally sunk proved successful City, Iowa. The other, Joseph under construction for Joseph Mills; Terrence RCAF died at
• commercially, so another was Aloysius, born in 1862, became Williams and William Marlton." sea from, 'exposurewhen a
a Seaforth. �brine a prominent
businessman
and
(Probably
'sailingtri sport was torpedoedin the
wadrilled
pumped from there, first, much esteemed citizen., of vessel built the Marlton yard, No th Atlantic;
Shirley, married
through wooden pipes. These Goderich.• kind , named for • Williams' A.- J. Mills, Toronto; William,
* proved unsatisfactory, due to ' He bought the Sco>�ie Salt" daughter )'' "Others are wit Abitibi Power & Paper Co:,- -
pressure •' renamed it • u n-clerfgoingw';--•repars.. ,
'' airs.. Wp : ,� W ,,and were replaced by Works here Det it, residing at Orchard q
iron pipes aCa cost of $1,000 a Dominion, and sold out in 1895, . cbn"siderable increase in tonnageti Lake Michigan. , "
mile. These met with more than but` when active in the Board of froth' Goderich is. noted M na Elizabeth, 1 eldest
the 'expected ' success, as r'in Trade in preceding years he was• 'annually. • daugh er, born 1889, married
`summer the: heat froth the sun .listed as "salt :manufacturer." "With an enterprising mayor; • ,peter ennon', now deceased: ";.,7 'W
• raised the temperature of the Later 'he conducted a stationery (John Butler ip 1889), active She died- in .1952. Gerald Moran,''
brine so 'that it 'needed only store ,and the CPR , telegraph ,council, supported by a zealous secdrid son was born in 1894,
N '' about , half as much fire to office, next • to the West street board, the year ,1889 should married - Mable, Doty ' of
-.__._ evaporate. The evaporation. pan corner , on the . Square long reflect ' upon our town a -Goderich. They • live in Florida,
measured 130 by '30: feet,_largest occupied by + the . Bank of ..progressive epoch, manufactures 'nearEustis,' ,:and "their, • seven
in Canada at theTtfine, and the "Montreal. How' and when he. established, labor encouraged, children all live in the United
plant had a-_ capacity of 200 -learned telegraphy'`15 not known. 'railway facilities increased and a . States. Charles ' Boromeo
• barrels' a day, requiring 4,000' When the Canadian Pacific line ;successful year as its crowning (Chick), born 1895, married
cords of wood"'annually. . wag completedto Goderich, he ,x. result," Jean Cooter, • of England.. He
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Barrels required for shipment became downtown ticket and R. S. Williams, Canadian Bank died in 1967.
• of salt were made on the express agent;. with office -'at the of Commerce manager, was. Terrence McDougall,- born
. premises , from."__lop passing.. southwest .corner of West 'street elected president of the board.' 1898;. married tMlarion Battle, of
through the sawmill and stave and the Square. In that capacity, Joseph Kidd married Christine Toronto. They live in the
° factory, and were "hoopered probably,' he is best McDougall, daughter of the borough of Etobicoke. Mr. Kidd
up" in the cooperage. • remembered, though he was At *doctor, and their first •'Goderich retired as secretary. of Canadian
Joseph Kidd farmed about all times a great booster for his house, now. long gone, was on- Fruit Wholesalers. They . hake
150 acres' near the village, on the " adopted town, especially East street. They owned and'', two daeghters.
Huron side. All told, he through the Board of Trade. "He occupied- the former McDougall , Helen Mary, born 1900, lives
employed about 50 men in the was always of , a jovial house from about 1889 to• 1926. Toronto and is unmarried.
stave factory; cooperage, salt disposition," the • Goderich In the early 1900s, as John A. John , Alexander, born 1903,
works, store,,' and on the fauna: .Signal said, "a man it did you Kidd. recalls it, there was a porch married Marjorie . Kilgour. He
He had ownership or cutting good to know." , at the front door, verandahs on joined the Canadian Bank of,
...... right, near Wiarton, and Ts said, Joseph Kidd's ,.horizon was the south and west sides of the Commerce "staff in Goderich
''to h ve had three sailing ships not bounded by Goderich and, ',house.. Off the central hall, to and after being stationed at
• for' transport of „ timbe , and "Dublin. " The international the right, was the parlor, on the many branches retired to live in
lumber..' Association, of Ticket Agents opposite side, the library. A stair Goderich. Their surviving
f 1e•. erected a fine brick ' held its conventions in many -of • ascended from in rear of the children 'are Peter John, in
residence in Dublin, which has, the large U.S. cities which were hall. Beyondthese were the Winnipeg, and Nora Christine,
long been that . of the parish railway centres,. . and ' the dining room and kitchen, full wife of Roger Champagne,
priest, ,next to St. Patrick's' Goderich agent saw many of width of the house, then a Toronto.,Mary, born 1944, died
church. He .obtained the land them aed • yearned much. He, pantry and 'the then -essential in 1945.
e • from Joseph Whitehead, later entertained definite ideas about woodshed. ,Upstairs "there• were4
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Mond Mills; After three years
there, Joseph started in business
for himself. Hp founded the
village of 'Athlone and carried on
a successful mercantile business
- • for about 10'years. He moved to
Carronbrook, now Dublin, about
1858. His brother John and wife
Brigit, nee Murphy, had arrived
there from Mono . • MViills or
• Athlone a short time before.
John conducted a hardware
* store for some time, but did not
like Dublin, and returned .L.-
• Simcoe county", Joe taking over
the family interests. He married
Sarah Moran (1828-1872). He
was one of those up -and -go
young men, and went from one
• enterprise to ,another until the b
hamlet )came a thriving village
of "750. , ,
He first built a large frame
store on the east side, of Mill
street, now Main street, and in
1868 a brick store, still standing, and left to live with a son in
on the 'west side. To this a large ': Sioux City, Iowa, where he died
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Dublin Industrialist's house. -* Joseph Kidd, from Dt#filin, Ireland, viaa,.active in salt"
development and 'other enterprises at Dublin, Ont., more than a century ago. He built this
large brick resident in about 1862. For many years now -it has been the home of the parish
priest. Mr. Kidd died in Sioux City, Iowa, in 1890. -
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Soloist Carol Chapman
o -operative Nursery School coming
untng pre-school #e
A licenced Co -Operative
'Nursery School is', in the ,,
immediate future for Goderich,
according to Mrs. Mona
Mulhern.
,. Mrs. Mulhern was a member,
of the original group which
opened a Co -Operative Nursery
School in Knox Church last fall.
That . venture closed down
•temporarily because of
organizational difficulties. As a
result of . close liaison with the •
Ontario Department _of Social
r-"
and " Family Services, Mrs.
Mtilhern and the committee have
announced that the school will
likely,' be re -opened within a
month or six weeks, opera
under an' approved licence . id
with thefull co-operation of the
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proper government. agency.
Students'.previously enrolled"will
be recalled. If the quota .of
students is. not filled because
some youngsters have lost
interest, 'children , whose names
are on the waiting' list will be
contacted.
Miss Lucille Panabaker, Day
Nursery Director • of the ..
Department of Social • and
Family Services was in Godetch
last week to meet ' with-. the
nursery school committee and to
view 1 the proposed yprremises in,
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Miss Panabaker not - only
.„00,••••,.approved' the facilities at St.
George's, she • assured the
committee it could reopen its
Co -Operative Nursery School as e
soon as the licence was granted • •
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Joseph Kidd, who came
manage a salt plant, and
telegraph agent, is shown
to Goderici�L from Dublin, Ont, to
For many years was CPA ticket and
here with his family. Standing, from^�
a ,
left, oerald, Charles; .centre, Mona,�Mrs. Kidd
Ney; In front: Terry, Heleh and John, The
scattered widely, as the story. relates.
and Mr. Kidd,
young people.
by the government . (a process
'Which takes approximately one
month j without having a
qualified nursery, school teacher
in charge.
Miss Panabaker agreed with
the committee that responsible
mothers , could manage the
school until!, a qualified nursery
school teacher is located for
a, Goderich. However, she did
suggest thatt the* -•.committee
waste no time in seeking out a
qualified teacher and said the
best possible approach.. wouldLbe
through the community colleges
which are now training young
women for these jobs.
• ; The committee is now
attempting to contact all
Goderich and .district students
presently attending community
• colleges like" '1 attithawe at
London, , enrolled , in the
ply -school education courses.
1VIrs•' Mulhem" requests that all'
such students get in touch with
,her as soon as convenient to
dise'uss the possibility , of
• working in' the ' Co -Operative
7 • Nursery School here. '
Mrs. Mulhern also said 'the
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