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Hon. T.N. Gibbs, who lent
the have been expected; a
money on a Cambria road
be 4':'of attractive lots. in
property, •was briefly a
aret:( ist end, including
member ofSir John MacWilt :-
n1$1, 11. and • Lighthonse
„ •' dopald's first cabinet.
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, 4, .H.on-cJohn . ,Robertson,
die. . have spread his whoever he was; in.1887 took a
'o thin; for onjuly - mortgage on Lot 3$4, corner
e and JasperK. of Britannia road and
both described as • Hibernia, and later sold it to
, inortgaged a half- James T..Garrow.
111 to Absalom Shade
es and raised 2,580 Cawthra-Mulock funds
10 shillings. The, came into; the picture in
t, somewhat faded • connection with the Crabb
- inscribed "..vv,ith;;:the (McLean) 'Block on the
of 31,obeit Dunlop,- Square. • William Cawthra,
,and David 'Dori, from Yorkshire, was a
jrar. 'pioneer merchant in TOronto,
*action seemed to amassing a fortune "whioh
'•,,,fopportunity . to made 'him one .of the richest
at rate of inteftst men of the time in Canada."
1135 years ago, Sir James Campbell, whose
amination the • money made possible the
one learned :Only building of "The Maples," the
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tS, Cabinet OlalakOilK ;that the dOndinkS:aacierkaak Canleron house on the Site-OfT11., a-'‘ ikelc'‘iri‘inV. Oriie''' .44e9,"f P-.., ,. e ' began by °jelling. a ..
ant prince Prg?.x1.0..fd:.: Or0,11lo ,m.:.1„ ,,,• , :. . glasgovi znerchant..„whe.sas_,,tiorraWetLen-010#44ga,'.0etiOniet --of; -14 5,104,- for—
lurAhe davalakaA$41-4-4":4.b.Alt-,, ..::•:.SSader-A,-who—kitibte7d..."-iin presenting an -Bon. J.0, ;Goodhue, of I;en.; , -many . years, and'. ;Was ap-.
01 in itsailklY.1,earC .'suhaegiiiant1eWned -„some of address at the birth of.the - don, , Ont., Goodhue was . pointed to the Executive
vestment. inee0Y4.448. ' these lots, ad .been a car,
.. Price ' of Wales (Edward. always ready 'ie. purchase "Council in 1842. He Was a
'..hereabOta. 1-'044Y-7PentetTlt AngelnOtebecarne ' ,VII). His loan was made to - when the price was right, and ' landowner;. mortgage broker
:investors,OgYfr saw 0a liig',. ph000100 :In • the
estate 0444101w 'ilerEopi- Otivet.'"';";Itivigation and a' wealthy .merchant; At
ple of .barOP,S,4 pdy...uttior legal rate of in- the .present hospital was a :year leases, nfanY; small-`sto e' 1820. was .
another Scot, James Watson,
Goderich merchant.- Sir
Jarnes risk -ed $2,000 more
when Watson mortgaged the
West street lot. on which
stands the former Bank of
Montreal building.
• Jacob Seegmiller, an early'
trader from Waterloo, who
settled here and built a couple
of tanneries and the first
British Exchange Hotel, was
.first owner of. Lot 958, St.
Patrick street; on which the
Lorne Dotterer house is
situated, and members of the
family held it in the 1880s.
Seegmiller owned the land on
which William Smith built his
tannery, and on which the
Breckenridge apartment
building now •stands. Some
houses were built for him by
Adam MacVicar, a busy
contractor here in the 1850s
and 1860s and later. The little
Muse on Cambria road close
to No. 8 Highway, noted for
the big thorn tree in front,
was subject to a mortgage as
early as 1839, when David
Cantelan- borrowed- from
Jacob Seeg Miller, as the
name la. aPOied, in, the.
register.
In Usborne township,
outside the Canada Com -
patty's tract, settlers did not
picked. up 3281 acres in Ash-
field township4s well as sotne
Ttickersmith lots.
oitgages„Ii.4t40;efre0iii)ariii:, 1644,, founded
his death in 1870 bis estate
was estimated at $1,000A0.
s through Oedekieh' *Shade's 14111s, later named
whose signs in those Galt.
usually announced; The baron Van Tuyll; of The
ytu Loan." • .. Hague. • Belgium, bought all
cre were, as well, the land from the Maitland
eIs through, which nearly to Dunlop; along the
with OnlY a lift* lake shore, and after his
,to invest could do so „death his son came out and
chasing shares of loan oromptly ,mortg aged
Bennett :-everything to the Bank of
writing to, a brother it Upper Canada, one of the
d in 1856, mentioned .biggestlenderb until it busted
had been secretary -in the 1860s. Later he raised
rer of a Building 'money by mortgaging some
for , eight or, nine town property to the dowager
*ot much later Was the baroness.
Bruce Lean Com:, Rt, Hon. Edward Street, to
,oganized and carried..Whorit, Otter in 1849
ieessfully by..!:,‘ffere,4e Mortgaged' Let 1, Cobourg
Occasionally a loati Street,' turned out to be Baron
in Toronto..entered Ablfer of gingnton • Hall,
ture. "Nottinghamshire.
• — In Colborne, Daniel Li,zars
Mortgaged Lot 7, Cons. 3, in
F is he r Gooding, 1851, to Hon: James Gordon,
here before the whoever h .
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