Clinton News-Record, 1984-07-18, Page 27Page 4—Wiogham-Turnberry Bicentennial
Foremost town
followed at very 'short in-
tervals by Peter and
Archibald Fisher, Peter and
Thomas Long, John and
Thomas Gregory and
Thomas Abraham. The two
first named settled at "the
plot" and built the first mill
at the place or in the neigh-
bourhood, and were the
means of concentrating quite
an amount of trade at the`
spot and building up a village
which at one time promised
to realize thecalculations of
the Government engineers
by making Lower Wingham
the real town.
In fact, up to,within six or
eight years ago, it was the
chief place of the two in size
and importance. -Since the
impetus Wingham received
by the proposed railways,
which afterwards became a
reality, lower town com-
menced to retrograde, but it
is still an unincorporated
village of no mean im-
portance, containing grist
and saw -mill, cloth factory,
three general stores, harness
store, cooperage, two hotels,
school and nearly 500
inhabitants.
RAILROADS SPURRED
A RAPID GROWTH
As an illustration of what
individual enterprise can
accomplish, even in the
building of large and
prosperous towns, when
supplemented by the ad-
vantages of that modern
civilizer, the railway,
Wingham is one of the most
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successful examples to be
found probably in all of
Canada.
We have already stated
that up to the time of the
agitation for the building of
these roads (two branches of
the Great Western Railway:
the south extension of the
Wellington, Grey and Bruce
division and the Lake Huron
and Buffalo division) the
progress of Wingham had
been slow and its history
confined to the humdrum
and monotony of the every-
' day experience of all country
villages.
The impetus given by the
above movement, however,
was simply wonderful, and
the beautiful and busy town
which now greets us has
experienced the greater part
of its entire growth and
development within the past
half dozen years, and this
during a period of time the
most of which has been a
season of almost universal
commercial depression, not
only throughout Canada but
throughout the United States
and even the whole world —
a fact which makes the
progress of Wingham all the
more to be wondered at.
At the time of its in-
corporation as a village,
1873-4, the population was
just sufficient to warrant it,
i.e. barely over 700, while at
the close of 1876 it had in-
creased to over 2,000 and it is
now estimated that it con-
tains at least 3,000, exclusing
of Lower Wingham which
increases the total by
another 500.
CENTRE OF TRADE
The town has become an
important centre of trade,
while the manufacturing
interests are rapidly
assuming proportions of
leading importance for a
place of its dimensions.
There are two very extensive
grist and flouring mills, one
with seven run of stones; one
foundry and agricultural
implement factory, where
all varieties of the last
named articles are turned
out, except separators only;
one very extensive furniture
factory, which has already
worked up a considerable
export trade, including large
shipments to Manitoba;
three tanneries, of which
one,' owned chiefly by
Messrs. Hyman, the
celebrated leather mer-
chants off London, is a very
extensive one and turns out
in the neighborhood of 10,000
sides of sole leather in a
season; one steam woolen
factory in operation and
another under construction;
a carding mill; two large
steam planing mills "and
sash, door and blind fac-
tories; extensive steam
lumber, stave, shingle, lath
and heading mills; four
carriage shops, some quite
extensive; a large number of
blacksmith shops; a pottery;
two brick -yards; two lime -
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