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WELLAND PARK
[People's Press, 20 November 1906]
Names Suggested-Welland of Old-A Reminiscent Letter
Mr. Editor:-Among the names suggested for your park we like “Merritt” the best, not forgetting (at the same time) the New York capitalist, the one man among the capitalists of England and the United States who made it possible for Merritt to build the canal, none of the rest favoring the scheme. We suggest and would suggest “MERRITT & YATES.”
In conversation some years ago with a gentleman, regarding the influence of those we meet in life, he said of all men he ever met, when a young man, the influence of none for good, or as a model gentleman, so impressed him as Mr. Yates did when driving him in carriage from St..Catharines to Fort Erie, on Mr. Yates’ return to New York state.
We lived in Welland when the Merrittsville grist mill was built by Dunlap & Seeley. We were under the impression that the raceway mentioned in one of your recent issues was extended across the street by them from their sawmills. My father did the carpenter and joiner work on the said grist mill and Jacob Ryan, I think, began his apprenticeship as millwright on it. Yours truly,
D.W. McCain
Humberstone, Nov. 17, 1906
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