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The Stor
(Continued from last week)
of Seaforth.. ...
Eaut Side gain Street'
When William Campbell,, known as "Tailor" Camp-
bell, built a large frame building containing three stores
on the corner across from the Albert Edward Hotel,
early in 1863, there were no other building on the east
side of Main Street from here to the station, This land
was owned by Coleman .and Gouinlock.
The 1863 Gazateer gives the reason why lots were
not sold earlier in the Coleman and Gouinlock Survey,
It states: "Unfortunately for the village, part of the
lands on which it issituated have been and are still in
trust for minors, which has retarded its progress."
George Gouinlock died in Harpurhey in 1853, leaving
a wife and four children. Later, Dr. T. T. Coleman
married his widow, Mrs. Hannah Matilda Chalk Gouin-
lock, and the minors referred to above were these four
Gouinlock children.
When completed, William gampbell occupied the
north part of his new building, and in the south part
Thomas Chubb had a bookstore and M. R. Counter, a
jewellery store. Campbell,after the 1876 fire, built a
brick block of two large stores with a Hall above the
south store, which was used by several lodges during
the years. In- the spring of 1877 Campbell opened in
the north part his merchant tailoring and men's furnish-
ing shop and continued in this business far many years.
' He -did his own cutting, and ordinarily employed twelve
workmen in his tailor shop, which was above the north
store. This is now McGonigle Grocery Store. An addi-
tion was made to the east in .1891, and here William
Dill opened an egg emporium. The addition, where
Don Wood now has his plumbing shop, was not built
till the 1920's. It was first occupied by Robert E. Reid,
and Reid was followed by Joe Dorsey. These two also
did plumbing. In the south store in January, 1878,
Henry Mitchell opened a bookstore. This is now the.
Crown Hardware, owned by Mervin Nott.
----John Scatter, . i -n-_1863 had two -shops_..- south .:.-of.-
Campbell's—one he used as his insurance office, and
the other as a drug stone. This building was burned
in 1876., but both were empty, at that time. William
Campbell bought the vacant lot the next year and built
on it the present block where Brian's Beauty Parlor
and W. John Thompson's shoe •repair shop are located.
William Ault had a grocery store next. ___Later,
William Campbell also owned this property- till after,
the fire, when A. G. Ault bought andbuilt the brick
store which he moved into in November, 1877. A. Y.
McLeanl is now the owner. W. E. Southgate had his
insurance office at the front, and back of the South-
gate office is the McKillop Fire Insurance board room.
Next in order was Dr. W. R. Smith's office. At
the time of the fire, Dan McGregor had a book -binding
and stationery store here. Beside it was a small shack
owned by Griffiths, where Mrs. William IZ, Griffith had
a grocery and candy shop. It was here the 1876 fire
originated. A few weeks after the fire, Dan McGregor.
bought the land and on his two plots built the store,
which is now The Huron Expositor office.
Andrew Calder at the time of the fire had his
photograph gallery next to Mrs. Griffith's shop. From
the time of the tire till 1895, this was a vacant space.
That year Michael Jordan bought and built the present
brick store. Glenn Smith is now the owner, and William
T. Trapnell has his pastry shop heers home, and'sou
here.
Next, in 1863, came„ Franz Me
of . it his Checkered Harness Depot, but it was James es
Murphy who was living and selling groceries here by
1874. Murphy replaced these burned buildings ° with
two brick stores in 1877. Murphy's grocery store was
to the north, and in the other David and John Currie
had a dry goods, fancy goods and, confectionery store.
R. S. Box is now the owner. William O'Shea sells men's
wear in one, and "Snip 'n Curl" Beauty Shop is in the
south' one. '
From 1863 William M. Robertson and Co., hard-
ware merchants, with W. 0. Reid manager, did busi-
ness in the next store till they moved to the Thomas.
Kidd block. No tenant was in the store when it was
burned. After the fire Robertson built the large brick
block, 35 x 126, with two flats and a basement the
finest warehouse in town. 'In one store was builder's
hardware, in the other carriage hardware, upstairs
wagon and carriage material and in the basement, oils,
paint, glass, etc. At the rear is a large iron and steel
warehouse. The company moved back in- November,
1877. It was here Reid and -Wilson, "Sign of the Circu-
lar Saw" Hardware did business for many years.
George Ewing's butcher• shop in the 1860's was
in the next store which was owned by Sam and Marg-
aret Stark. This lot was bought by Robertson after the
fire. Part of his' large block was built here.These stores
are now Richard S. Box's place of business. Furniture,
electric goods and floor coverings are his principal
lines of merchandise.
Sam Stark's shoe shop, W. J. McCleary's law of-
fice and -Dr. John Campbell's home were the first in the
1860's in Stark's other three Stores. After the fire he
built in 1877, the present large brick block. Hier -shoe
shop .was in No. 1, Mrs. Charles Graham's Millinery
shop in No. 2 and-Stark's Auction room in No. 3. Simp-,
'son -Sears mail order office, ,Gingerich's • Electric and
Main . Street Variety, (Proprietor Tony? Decco) are
doing business here today.
On the north part of the next lest; the first build-
ing in the 18601 was Sidney Jacob's tinsmith shop, but
by 1875 George Forsythe las using it for a laundry.
In October that year, the old building was taken down
by Patrick Megarey. On the south part- in the '60's
in a line and a half storey building was George Bax-
ter's Dining Saloon. By the. time of the September 1876
fire, Megarey had a brick blockalmost completed
where the above two buildings had stood. His brick
wall checked the fire from travelling farther south,
to a row of frame buildings that would soon have burn-
ed to tinder. The damage to his store, which was burn-
ed out 'window frames, ,was soon repaired, and he
opened his' bakeshop for business here:before the end
of the year. Thomas Daly, one of the first born in the
Village of Egmondville, from -1886 carried . on a gro-
cery and meat business here for many years. Sam
Shinen now sells ladies andgents wear in this building.
Next came two small shops, Robert R. Taits Saddler
Shop and W. H. Spencer's jewellery store. Spencer, a
watchmaker, came to Seaforth from Hamilton, Ont.,
in the 1860's. (tames Graves bought this property in
• 1894 and by the fall of 1897 had his new brick block
completed. John F. Daly; jeweller, optician and seller
of marriage licenses, was the first tenant in the north
part. The selling of Ford cars was his specialty in
later years. Around 1907, he and Alex Winter bought
jointly a Model N. Ford, which at that time was the
pride of Seaforth. Daly was among the first Ford
dealers in Canada and he sold the first Ford ear bought
in town, Anstett. Jewellers are now doing ,business in
Daly's part of the bIool.. James Graves hlid hik' paint.
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a HUstor, y by Isabelle Caimpbeli
business is being earried on under the name of Grave'$
Paper, with Orval V. Weston and Miss Cleta Dickson
in charge. 4 .._ _........
Many- uses were made of the next building. John
S. Porter in the 186.0's bought hides, furs and. Wool
and also had an office here. He advertised in 1874, as
a one-horse banker and exchange broker as well as a
hide buyer. By the middle 1880's the sore was divided.
Chris L. Papst had his jewellery store and James Do-
bie his barber shop in it. This is now Jim Elliott's
Restaurant.
By 1863 John Kidd had .. his tinsmith shop next
and later added building supplies and hardware. J.
D. Fee took over in 1866, but by 1868, Samuel and Dav-
Id Johnston, hardware merchants, with "The Sign of
the Mommoth Cooking Stove" were in business here.
From 1872, Matthew Robertson, John S. Porter, Wil-
liam L. Box and family all carried on a furniture and
undertaking business in it. In September, 1881, while,
Porten was in business here, he was advertising six
highly finished chairs for the small price of two dol-
lars. This building was torn down in early 1940's and
in 1955, James J. Cleary built the present cement
block store in which the I.G.A. Super Market has done
business ever since the building was. completed.
Simon Powell was the owner of the next lot and
the one back of it on Victoria St. His hotel stable on
the back of the lot was the only building here -till 'the
Canadian Bank of Commerce built in 1905. This bank
amalgamated with. The Imperial Bank in June, 1961,
and the bank is now known as The Canadian Imperial
Bank of Commerce, is still carrying ori business here.
Before 1868, Adam G. McDougall had:,his insur-
ance office in a small building where the Telephone
Office was located from 1907 till 1911. By the late 60's,
a larger building next to McDougall's office, housed
A. G. McDougall's "Black Bear" dry goods store, and
John Kidd,_ in.__the other 43art-..opened-._again__a tinsmith_
and building supply shop: Early in 1911, when the
building had to be vacated to make way for the new
Post Office, Charles Consigney's .home, shoe repair
shop and dry cleaning plant were in the north part,
and in the south part, Alex M. Campbell was selling
buggies and implements. These two buildings were
split and moved to Victoria St., where they were made
into two homes by Alex Winter. These are now 'owned
by J. J. Wilkinson. He , occupies one and the other is
rented to John Sinnimap. The contractor commenced
building the Post .Office here in July, 1911, but it was"
not completed till 1913.
Later in 1863, a one and a half storey frame build-
ing was errected on the north part of the next lot by
Killoran and Ryan. Here they sold' groceries, flour,
feed and liquor. In October, 1869, they moved to their
new two-storey brick store, built on the south part of
the lot. John and DaYid"Currie had a 'saloon in the old
store for a time, then it was divided. For several
years, F. G. Neelin had the "Seaforth Sun printing of-
fice, also The Custom. Office in the north part. No use
was made of this part after the fire in Charles Con-
signey's' shoe shop in March, 1908. From the late 70's,
Thomas Ryan and others used the south part as a
liquor store, barber shop;shoe repair shop and doctor's
office. W. J. Duncan's Legging Factory had its 'be-
ginning here in 1908. Mrs. H. McCammont, till 19.095,
sold fancy goods in it. W. T. Box, who owned it from
1906, sold on April 8, 1909, to His Majesty, King Ed-
wardVII. In April, 1910, Box tore down the building
and the government got the land.' . •
The Dominion Bank opened in May, 1893, in the
Holmstead block north of here, where the Gingerich
Electric store is now. In March, 1896, the bank bought
the store built by Killoran and Ryan in 1'869 and moved.
into it. When plans were completed to erect a modern
one -storey bank of brick, steel and glass construction
in the spring of 1960, the old bank was wrecked. The
new one was officially opened on November 19, 1960.
In' 1955, the Dominion Bank merged with the Toronto
Bank and it is now the Toronto - Dominion Bank that
does business in the new bank.
.(To be continued)
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Annual Meeting
Huron TB Plans
An interesting visitor in
Blyth on Monday; May 30,
1966; will -be E. J. O'Brien,
Executive Director, -Ontario
Tuberculosis Association, who
will be guest speaker at th.
annual meeting of the Huron
County TB Association. His
subject will be "A Canadian's
Viewpoint on tlie.;Tubercul-
osis Problem and Its '"Solu-
tion in an Emerging Coun-
try"
Mr. O'Brien returned :re -
Mr. E. J. O'Brien, Execu-
tive Directiir of the Ontario
Tuberculosis Association,
.who will, be guest speaker
at the annual Huron Coun-
ty TB Dinner at the Town
Hall, Blyth, May 30, 1966.
cently from South East Asia
where he visited India, Cey-
lon, Malaysia and Thailand
as a member of the Interna-
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Legion
Bingo
Winners
The Legion bingo was well -
attended Friday evening. Fol-
lowing are the winners of spec-
ial games: Mrs. Wes Vander -
burgh, Clinton; Mrs. 0. Bright,
Wingham; Mrs. Cruickshank,
Holmesville; Mrs. Newman, of
Clinton; Dora Taylor, Seaforth
and Mrs. Russ Holmes, Clinton.
Door prize - winners were:.
Mrs. Plant, Seaforth and Mrs.
Durocher, Clinton.
Winners of regular games.
were: Karen Barry, Brucefield;
Russ Piper, Seaforth; Mrs. Al-
bert Johnson, Mitchell; 1Vlrs.
Wes Vsriderburgh, Clinton;
Mrs. Charles Woods, Jr., Sea -
forth;' Mrs. Newman Campbell,
(2), Mitchell; Mr. Pelletier, of
Clinton; Mrs. James Watson,
Sr., Seaforth.; Mrs. Hartman
Huisser, Egmondville; Mrs. Bill
Steepe, Brucefield; Mrs. Bill
Austin, Seaforth; Mrs. Lee, of
Clinton; Mrs. Woods, Sr., and
Mrs. Tuffin, Winthrop; Mts.
Wes Vanderburgh, Clinton;
Mrs. Swan, Seaforth; Mrs.
Baird, Brucefield and Mrs. Joe
Steepe, Brucefield. ,
"Wife," said the elderly
man. "Who's married?- I make
these sandwiches myself."
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This is the third occasion,
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By JACK HOLLAND
Well comrades, its getting on
to the time' for summer activi-
ties and right off the bat our
local branch is holding our an-
nual spring golf tournament,
on June 5th, at the .Doig Golf
Course. As we all know this
is and always has been one of
the best days our members
and friends enjoy in the whole
year.
The registration fee for
golfers is only $4.00 and $2.50
for non golfers. This includes
your green fees, a real whop-
f--a_bnffPt_.supper, being
served in our local hall after
the golf tournament is over.
Now a word for the non.golf-
ers. There will be lots of en-
tertainment for everyone and
from what I hear they better
have lots of euchre decks
available as I hear that "Ole
Slippery" and his partner are
challenging all. comers •' and of
course there are some real
good card players who will be
there. I can just jicture Roy
McGeugh and his 'partner get-
ting euchred by Kruse and
Holland, ' so fellows, if you
play golf make it a must on
June 5. If you do not play golf,
still make it a must as there
is lots of fine prizes and tro-
phies donated by the various
business places in our fair
town, so let's make it .a date
and ,all meet out at the Doig
Golf Course, on Sunday morn-
ing, June 5, for a real good
time.
To avoid any confusion, don't
forget that this is strictly a
stag affair, but I know that
there is a mixed tournament
coming •up a .wee bit later.
See you all there! !
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