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pimento, in trust fair her (Mrs. Davies')
own proper use and benefit." The trust ap-
pears to have terminated in 1861. 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
Aylrirer.
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 trom the
cars."
The
They sold to Capt Cox in 1870 and bought
Lot 9, next north of the Point Farm site;
from Hon. Donald McDonald, former
Canada Company surveyor but by this
time a senator. With the two lots in their
possession, the Wrights built a summer
hotel to accommodate 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
We invite you to the Township of Stanley'
Sesquicentennial Homecoming weekend -
August 1, 2, 3, 1986.
RUMS,; Clarence Rau
DEPUTY REEVE: Howard Armstrong
COUNCILLORS: Jock Coleman
Richard Erb
Bill Dowson
CLERK -TREASURER: Mel Graham
DEPUTY LE
Betty Graham
ROAD SUPERINTENDENT: Bill Toyloi
Point Farm Hotel was a major tour
is attraction
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, tut 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.
HULLETT TOWNSHIP
REEVE - Torn Cunningham . CLERK TREASURER -
DEPUTY REEVE - Joe Gibson ' Harry Lear
COUNCILLORS - loom Gross ASSISTANT CLERK
Victor Stackhouse
Harvey Stewart TREASURER - Bev Shaddick
ROAD SUPERINTENDENT -
• 'Jim Johnston
ROAD CREW - Ian Hulley
Doug Dolmage