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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Goderich Signal-Star, 1977-06-30, Page 147Page 107 Welcome Home For ivol here pag jithileell Sr MAIN BiRu1_ C,OOERVCH ONTHRrO Pictures taken today are tomorrow's treasures 23 Hour Color Print Processing Films - Cameras - Service CAMPBELL'S .rds2 ti!» In The Royal Bank Block Godorlch Ontario 524-7532 CONGRATULATIONS The apple evaporator which D.F. Hamlink built on Bruce street about 1910 became -a busy canning industry, with a substantial export trade. After his death in 1918 it was carried on by a joint stock company. Hamlink managed uron fruit growers..:.. ompage 101; equently;vet in c,tnft rrnce at Walker House in Toronto. Signal stated that Hamlink as"manager for the 1-(uron it Growers' .Association, also dealt extensively in les on his own account." Came October of 1918 apd link was taken ill at his ry. He was operated upon the hospital two days later, died the following morning. He had been adding'equip- nt and making money, the r said, and the. 1918 season amised to he his most •suc- sful. The partners had anned a trip to Florida in the ming winter, in company th their wives, and had templated the Old Country. mlink's sudden illness, and th at 52, was seen by the r as "one f the minders of theuncertainty startling Rev, Dr. Rutledge of North Beet Methodist Church ueted the funeral service. Ines of pallbearers times indicate a man's siness and personal sociations; these- were Ililam Murney, Dr. L.M. CARE IN E HOME P your dart... lP your art Fund " 11 Mabee, H,J,A. MacEwan, J.J.A. McEwen, J.A. Fraser and C.J. Harper. Arrangements were made for continued operation of the canning factory, and in the following year Hamlink's executor, London & Western Trust, sold thecanning plant to Harold -Boswell-Reid, who carried on under the name of Huron Canning & Evaporating Company. He made an assignhent in March, 1922, to F.C. Clarkson, Toronto. A limited stock company, Huron Canning & Evaporating Co., Limited, took over from the trustee. Hamlink had lived on the south side of Montreal street, in a house, purchased from Mrs. William Lee, a daughter of Christopher Crabby Mrs. Hamlink died Dec. 28, 1934, and was buried in the Abraham Smith plot in Maitland Cemetery. The canning factory had been unocupied for some years when the late Glenwood Nelson bought it about 1943. The Nelson boys, then in high school, were doing statuary arts as a pastime, and when the second world war stopped Japanese imports they began producing after school hours. A wholesaler happened to see the products and encouraged production on a larger scale, which led to purchase of the factory on Bruce street and the large building in rear, which had been a warehouse. "There was not a whole pane in the -place," Mrs. Nelson recalls; "we had to buy glass by the gross, and put in a new roof. We shipped our goods from coast to coast during the war; but after material became hard to get I worked alone and sold to the gift shop. Then we gradually put in apartments. We put in our own first: c e four sons. We sold the three years ago.' pl;u ' TO GODERICH ON YOUR 1 50th ANNIVERSARY GODERICH INSURANCE AGENCY LTD. 38 EAST ST. GODERICH 514.9441 DON MocEWAN Texaco CONGRATULATIONS TO THE • TOWN OF GODERICH ON YOUR 1 50th ANNIVERSARY FOR YOUR CAR • PLYGLYCOAT HOT WAX (GUARANTEED FOR 3 YEARS) • EXPERT INTERIOR & EXTERIOR CAR CARE • PROFESSIONAL PUMP ISLAND SERVICE • QUALITY TEXACO PRODUCTS TRY BILL KIRKEY'S CAICARE TEXACO 80 VICTORIA ST. GODERICH TEXACO 524-6015