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business buildings :.than any peered.
other man in town, ` Be t has Crabb married Matilda
taken an active part in public Dickenson, three years
matters, and. has served as. younger. Their son Frederick
mayor on was born in the apartment
councillor and
different occasions, . For over the store on August. 24,
about a quarter of .a century 1845, and baptized at St.
be has been a priimiherit George's October - 27.
figure on the public school Christopher Columbus Crabb
board, collegiate board and was born May 11, 1847,
;oard of Trade,. Matilda Columbiana in 1850.
There wasanother son,
' The Opera Hoiuse" ' George,: whose birth date has
not been learned. Their
"One of the finest pieces of mother=died August 23, 1861,
irchitecture in town is the Crabb,,married, secondly,
ictoria Opera 'House on Janet McIntosh Nasmyth,
ingston street, which is a who must then have been only
lonument to the enterprise in her 20s, for when she died
if Mr. Crabb. Some five or six at Orillia in 1919 she was said
,ears ago it was remodelled to be in her. 80th year.
.nd specially fitted up for an, Children ' of the second
,era house. A handsome marriage were Frederick
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arsonspwith a fine platform Erfnest�(1868),� fuld)Eli Elizabeth
;Rd accessories, a large (Nettie.) Elizabeth was
uditorium and specious married in 1896 to James J.
.alleries, is the result of the McMath, and they had a son
.,:nge. It is one of the they named Christopher
eatest opera houses in the' Crabb. Frederick Crabb
est, and when im- migrated to Chicago, where
,rovements in contemplation in 1969 the telephone direc-
e completed it will have no tories listed 38 subscribers
uperior among halls of its named Crabb. There was a
ire, outside of the cities." Christopher Crabb living at
This opera house was for 2454 Lakeview avenue,
any years the town's described as "Captain."
rincipal theatre and concert Charles Crabb settled at Bay
.11, and as Crabb could City, Michigan, where he was
ardly have netted a profit a machinist. A birth notice in
,om the infrequent _per- 1894 announced the arrival of
,rmances, he must be ason.
punted a patron of the arts. Christopher Crabb ' s
iter his time, it became mother, Mary Ann, died July
McLean's opera house," •9, 1873, in her 89th year;
cene of many political "suddenly," the obituary
.therings. Sir John Mac- notice stated, adding that she
inald spoke there in 1886. Sir "had been a resident of
ichard Cartwright held Goderich for 40 years."
girth there in a later cam- Matilda Columbiana Crabb
ign. "Ned" Lewis ad- became the wife of William
essed his first rally there in Lee, a prominent business
,eDominion election of 1900. man in Goderich for many
Christopher Crabb lived years. He had served in the
er his store, as customary Northern army in the war
ithmerchants of the period, between the States, and when ,
i about 1862 he bought from he came to Goderich in 1869
,eCanada Company, for 37 was only 27. He operated the
ds, 10 shillings, .Lot, 320 gristmill at Piper's Dam for
Elgin avenue, and built a' some years, then conducted a
',use there. After his time, in coal business. In 1905 he
was sold. to Tom
and later , dis'hp-
Joining in the
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Goderich
Sesquicentennial
Mary Divok
Florence Miller
Jean Gray
Earl Hamm
Muriel Lockhart
Irene Canfelon
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bought a Montreal' street lot
from Charles Garrow and
built a residence there. He
died in 1911, Mrs. Lee in 1928.
The Signal in its obituary
article stated that she "had
the distinctionof being ;a
member of St. -George's ,
church longer than anyone
else living. She was
christened by Ven. Arch,
deacon Elwood, who also,:
christened all the members of
her family. -Her recollection,
extended back to when the
area 'now occupied by the
courthouse Square was a
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The Crabb Block, Kingston Street section, where Christopher Crabb
had his store. Below -- rear view.
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