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"LeSturgeon nursery.
That leaves four years
in • which the Stewart
brothers evidently
remained under William
Edward's hospitable
roof.
The Huron Gazetteer
for 1862-3 shows John
Stewart on Lot 7, the
Hawley place, but makes
no mention of Hawley
(two years or more after
he had built the house.)
The LeSturgeon nur-
sery acquired by John
Stewart was in the Falls
Reserve, Colborne, and
the transaction took place
long before a plan was
made, with lot numbers.
The property was
described merely as
"east part," and so it was
when the old . Stewart
0
A Stewart group of 41 years ago -Tall man at extreme
right is James Stewart, Kansas City. At his right Is
George Young. The three ladies lower down in the
picture are, from right, Elizabeth (Stewart) Bogie,
1VIrs. Thomas Stewart and Ella (Helen) Stewart. Lady
in front row centre (checkered scarf) is Mrs. N,ormail
Kernighan. Third man to right of James Stewart is
Charles Stewart of Lucknow, and. to his right is Jennie
Stewart, Benmiller. At top left is Charles Stewart,
Goderich florist. Others include Annie Andrews,
Lizzie Middleton, John Kernighan, Russell Kernighan,
Charles Middleton. The picture was taken August 2,
1937.
Shipmates founded
great greenhouses
,BY W.E. ELLIOTT
In a sailing ship, her name unrecorded,
William and John Stewart, of Banffshire, and
Edward Dale of Surrey, left the shores of
Britain in March, 1856, and after a rough
voyage of eight weeks arrived at Quebec on
May 24.
They proceeded to Hamilton by small boat,
towed at times by oxen on shore.. John Stewart,
eldest of the brothers, found employment of
various kinds to earn money, then purchased a
small greenhouse on the banks of the Maitland
at , Benmiller. This business he expanded -
greatly through the years, employing many
hands.
Edward Dale made his way to. Brampton
where in 1860 he built a small, dugout type of
greenhouse, for vegetables, which was later
expanded into. flower production:; This •was the
plant from which has grown the Dale Estate,
greatest rose producers and distributors of the
continent: It has given Brampton the name of
"Flowertown of Canada."
John Stewart of Benmiller soon added to his
original five acres, and the business grew in
variety and volume, as related ib the family
story. There were 15 children, but few`
remained connected with the business. After
John's death in 1897, his seventh son, Joseph,
then 21, took over management of the business.
and continued until he was 74. He died in 1960,
and his widow had to sell the place. It has long
been a residential property.
Thus while . Edward Dale's vegetable
greenhouse at Brampton grew into an industry
using 120 acres and with annual sales of
$7,000,000. the Stewart business faded out. Joe
Stewart had no family, whereas Edwar Dale's
son Harry, only 12 on arrival in Canada, took
over on his father's retirement and con-
centrated pn roses.
At the time of Brampton's -centenary, an
article in the anniversary publication credited
Harry Dale, not the father, with "planting the
first seed" that brought about the town's
reputation• as a flower -growing . centre.
Quotation
through ation fromm
co this article is made here
Qf
co-operation of Chinguacousy Branch
Library, Bramalea.
"Harry prevailed upon his dad to add flowers
to his market garden products, and this
resulted in the business expanding and.. the
building of -the first Dale greenhouse on north
Main Street --a tiny, dugout, affair and by 1900
when Harry Dale died and left a young family
to carry on, the business had expanded and it
was then operated by the executors of the
estate with William Algie, eldest -son-in-law,
and T.W. Duggan, the latterbecoming general
manager.
"It was under ex -Mayor T.W. Duggan's
management and.. the _experienced help _.of
Harry Dale's three brothers, Ned, Tom and
Will, that the flower business flourished and
established a continental reputation and
became Brampton's biggest .employer of
1abp,,,ur.
"Numerous-- exp'erien'ced growers were
brought from England and other overseas
countries. Among them was Walter E. Calvert,
who came to Brampton in 1905 at the age of 21
and took a job as horticulturalist with the Dale
Estate. After 61/2 years with Dale's, Walter
Calvert set up his own business. From a small
start in 1911• -until -the glass houses covered 10
acres and merged with Dale's in 1965, Mr,
Calvert and his. wife; .the•, former Ada Honore, •
worked hard to' build a thriving business, and'
gained a Canadian reputation as growers of
finest quality flowers.
"Among millions of blooms produced an-
nually, the famous 'autographed' roses ranked
as high favourites everywhere: They have won
first at flower shows in Detroit and New York.
There are specialties of orchids, lilies,
chrysanthemums, daffodils and tulips. The
plant has over 100 miles of steam pipes.
Calvert's amalgamated with Dales in modern
times, and their specialty is chrysanthemums •
along with other flowers and potted plants.
"The Dale Estate popularized the use of the
orchid by mass production, of this exotic plant,
meeting the average man's ability to buy it. It
also became a nursery for, successful growers
who spread out and established businesses for
themselves all over the continent. It was, as
well,
parent to many local nurserymen, and it
p
thousands of peoplefrom-the'City'each
year to see the rose a.nc' orchid displays."
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house was atquired a few
years ago by Karl H.
Hoernig,
LeSturgeon, described
only as "a Frenchman,"
bought the five acres on
Dec. 12, 1858, fron, the
estate of Ben Miller, who
had died in that year. He
paid 43 pounds, 15
shillings, about $210.
When "George
LeSturgtl
of Colborne," as the
Registry records him,
sold the five acres to
"John Stewart, yeoman,
of Goderich township," in
1863, he received 200
pounds, or nearly $1,000.,.
That happens to be nearly
twice as much as Ben
Miller paid the Canada
Company for the 50 -acre
site of Benmiller village,
THE GQDI RICI•i SIGNAL-STARTHURSDAY, Ai;Jc UST 10,18784.40E 74 -
LeSturgeon in the
course of five years
would have erected
buildings of some sort.
The Signal stated that
there was "a small
-greenhouse". John
Stewart, who had learned
the nursery business in
Scotland and had been
married some five years
without steady em-
:: as anxious to
1get into business. He gave
LeSturgeon a mortgage,
paying it off in a year and
to half.
"An insignificant affair
'of five acres," the Signal
recalled later, "to which
he afterward added many
more, by dint of hard
work and indomitable
energy he transformed
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