The Citizen, 1991-02-06, Page 20PAGE 20. THE CITIZEN, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 1991.
Brussels Livestock changing hands Mar. 1
For the third time since long
time owners Bruce and Ross Mc
Call sold the business in May 1987,
the stockyards in Brussels have
once again changed hands.
Leonard Gamble of Gamble and
Rogers in Toronto will take over
Brussels Livestock Incorporated,
which he purchased from present
owner Gordon Brindley, on March
1. He says he, his son Kip and the
other person involved are going to
work hard to provide efficient
service to the customers and build
the business to the best of their
ability. No stranger to the business
- Mr. Gamble has been in the
livestock business for 37 years - he
knows his predecessors at the
Brussels Stockyards well and hopes
to maintain the reputation for
success it has had in the past.
Ausable Bayfield plans dinner
Plans are well underway for the
second annual conservation dinner
to be held on Thursday, April 25 at
the South Huron Rec Centre in
Exeter.
The first dinner of its kind in the
area was held in April of last year
and proved to be very popular in
providing a fun evening for a crowd
of about 450 and at the same time
gaining funds for a number of
conservation and wildlife projects.
The Ausable Bayfield Conserva
tion Foundation and the Exeter
Lions club are joining forces in
sponsoring this year’s dinner. The
1990 dinner was sponsored jointly
by the local Authority Foundation
and the Ontario Federation of
and five
business
Brussels
The stockyards were started in
the spring of 1958 by Hugh Pearson
and Jack Bryans under the name of
Brussels Livestock Ltd.
In 1970 Bruce McCall
partners purchased the
changing the name to
Stockyards Ltd. They operated an
undercover capacity for cattle of
1,000 head and a maximum of 500
head of pigs. By 1980, this had
reached 1500 for cattle and 2,800
for pigs.
As its reputation grew so did the
business. In the spring of 1974
Brussels Stockyards purchased the
neighbouring business of Ernie
Bach and turned it into pig sales.
Later that year Mr. McCall’s son
Ross joined the business as sales
manager.
In the fall of 1977 the stockyards
Anglers and Hunters.
The Foundation’s share of last
year’s dinner is being used in
updating the parking lot and pro
viding accessibility for fishing for
the physically handicapped at Mor
rison Dam.
This year’s dinner committee
chairperson Carolyn Bradford says
she hopes funds from the upcoming
dinner would be enough to com
plete the Morrison Dam project and
further the Wheels to Nature
program at Rock Glen at Arkona.
Another project which Foundation
monies will be used is extension of
the student outdoor education pro
grams at White Pine Woods at
Parkhill.
expanded once again, opening a
new stocker and feeder bam to
handle western cattle from Alberta,
Saskatchewan arid British Colum
bia, that arrived regularly.
A major addition was begun in
the late winter of 1980 at a cost of
$200,000 plus. The investment
included a new cattle ring, office
facilities, lobby, new and larger
lunchroom, as well as an extension
to handle 2,000 cattle undercover at
any time.
Mr. McCall and his son bought
out the other partners and formed a
full-partnership, with Mr. McCall
as president and Ross as treasurer.
The organization was now handling
$1.25 million per week on a year
round basis, up from nine million
dollars a year when Mr. McCall
and his partners purchased it.
On May 1, 1987 Brussels Stock-
yards was sold to Klaus Henschel
who later, with his wife Kristin,
attempted to embezzle funds into a
bank account in Germany and fled.
They eventually turned themselves
in when it became apparent that
the money was frozen and they
could not gain access to it, and the
Stockyards were again for sale.
The winning tender to purchase
the facility from the creditors’
trustee in bankruptcy in late 1988
was Gordon (Harry) Brindley of
Dungannon. Licensing delays post
poned the business’s reopening"
until the next year under the name
Brussels Livestock Inc.
Mr. Gamble became aware that
the business was for sale last fall
and bought it in December. The
purchase interested him, he said,
because he was well aware of the
reputation of the stockyards. “I
knew they handled lots of cattle
and Huron County is the best farm
area in Ontario. It seemed to work
together.”
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WILL BE HELD IN THE OFFICE BUILDING OF
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WED., FEBRUARY 27, 1991
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