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[Souvenir of the Town of Welland, Issued August 22, 1902 by the Welland Telegraph, Sears & Sawle, Publishers]
Just 4.5 miles from Welland, in the south end of Pelham, the fruit township, is Chantlers’ magnificent farm. It is the model farm of the Niagara Peninsula and, in fact, it is a community within itself. A great farm of 200 fertile acres; a post office, a store, a blacksmith shop, a saw mill, a railway station,–all under the name of Chantlers. It is an immense place built up on modern and progressive ideas by Chantler Bros., and now managed by Mr Elwood Chantler. The success which has been accomplished can only be realized by a visit to the farm and the many buildings upon it. An elegant modern residence of thirteen rooms, and surrounded by a pretty lawn and shade trees, faces the road. About it are five immense barns, mills, a store, graineries, shops, and other buildings; all a part of the departmental business. One hundred and seventy-five acres compose the main farm, and some 25 acres are two miles distant. The soil is fine, sandy, black loam, rich and productive. Every acre of the 175 is under highest cultivation, and not a stump or boulder is to be found any place. Large buildings fine fences, clean fields, and a general aspect of prosperity is noticed everywhere. There is probably no farm so large and so wealthy in appearance as this. As an agriculturalist, Mr Chantler has shown an ability and success that has been marvelous. Probably in no way can this be better shown than by mentioning that in one season alone 6,700 bushels of potatoes, 250 tons of hay, and a completement of grains, was taken off this farm. For years the land has been richly fertilized, and by studied efforts the fields have been steadily improved, until they have reached the highest standard of excellence. Space will not permit a description of the farm and its many buildings, but a few figures may give an idea of its magnitude. There are five barns, the largest of which is 50×100 feet, and the smallest, 30×50. These are used for various purposes. A grainery is 28×32; a corn crib 150 feet long, that has held 5000 bushels of corn at one time; a saw mill, 320×50; an engine house, 19×21, and a blacksmith shop 28×30. There are eight acres of apple orchard. Mr Chantler, prior to 1900, had the assistance of his brother, Julius A. Chantler, in the management of the farm, but since the latter’s death he has carried on the place alone. This valuable property is offered for sale.
[Tuesday Morning, June 27, 1836]
In 1827, Thomas Barnett established Barnett’s Museum in Niagara Falls, Canada. It was the first established museum in North America.
I would like others to view this receipt that belonged to my great grandmother’s grandfather, George Blair. Very few of these are in existence in such perfect condition, but I have one hanging on my wall. Apparently, George went behind the “Great Falling Sheet of Water” in Niagara Falls.at the original Niagara Falls Museum. The receipt is signed by Thomas Barnett, the proprietor of the original museum, and is dated 13 June 1846. I could be a rich woman if I didn’t believe these artifacts belonged in proper archival care, so I have contacted the museum and am donating it to their collection to honor my mother and father, Maxine and Harold Fox, who left me some wonderful memorabilia. Image is not clear due to glass.
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NIAGARA FALLS
CANADA WEST
This is to Certify that George Blair
Has Passed Behind The
GREAT FALLING SHEET OF WATER
TO TERMINATION ROCK
Being 230 ft. behind the Great Horse-Shoe Falls
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Given under my hand, at the office of the General Registrar of the names of visitors at the Table Rock, this 13th day of June 1846.
Thomas Barnett
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Written directly after going “within the veil” of Niagara, on the Canada side.
BY WILLIS GAYLORD CLARK
Here speaks the voice of God! Let man be dumb,
Nor with his vain aspirings hither come.
That voice impels these hollow-sounding floods,
And like a presence fills the distant woods.
These groaning rocks the Almighty’s finger piled,
For ages here his painted bow has smiled:
Mocking the changes and the change of time-
Eternal-beautiful-serene and sublime!
[Souvenir of the Town of Welland, Issued August 22, 1902 by the Welland Telegraph, Sears & Sawle, Publishers]
Mr A. Griffiths, Warden of the County of Welland, was born in the township of Crowland, where his father, Mr. Thos Griffiths, still resides, at the ripe old age of 86 years. The subject of this sketch located in Welland in 1864, and has been actively engaged in business since, maintaining an active interest in agricultural, educational, and municipal affairs, having been connected with the management of the County of Welland Agricultural Society for several years. He has served on the Public and High School Boards, and was a member of the Town and County Council in 1895. He was Mayor of Welland in 1897. In 1901 he was elected a member of the Board of County Commissioners, and became Warden of the County the current year. He is one of the promoters of the 20th Century rink built by himself and C.J. Page in 1898. Mr Griffiths has done much to beautify the town in the matter of building a substantial class of residences, and he owns a block of land adjacent to the G.T.R. admirably situated for manufacturing purposes.
[Souvenir of the Town of Welland, issued August 22, 1902 by the Welland Telegraph Sears & Sawle, Publishers]
One of Welland’s most popular and progressive citizens is Mr. J.G. Demare, an honoured member of the present town council. Mr Demare is an old time resident of the town, but for a period of twenty-eight years or more, he was identified with the management and construction of both the old and new Welland Canals, which required his presence elsewhere. In connection with the new canal, he had charge of placing the gates in position, and getting the canal ready for navigation, its entire length, and had the honor of taking the first boat, the “Don M. Dickinson,” through the canal. In 1881, he was made assistant superintendent of maintenance of the lower division of the new canal, retiring therefrom on account of ill health in 1898, since which time he has been successfully engaged in fire, life and accident insurance business, representing the leading companies in that line of business. He has an office in his beautiful residence on West Main Street.
[Souvenir of the Town of Welland, issued August 22, 1902 by the Welland Telegraph Sears & Sawle, Pubishers]
The subject of this sketch, Mr T.D Cowper, is a native of Scotland, but has been a resident of Canada since early childhood, having at first settled in Owen Sound. He obtained an elementary education in the public schools, with an advanced course at Toronto, and is a graduate of Osgoode Hall law school. He was admitted to the bar in 1877, and at once established practice in Welland, and is at present a member of the law firm of Harcourt, Cowper & Macoomb, with offices on East Main Street, opposite the Court House. In public life Mr Cowper has always evinced an interest in the welfare of his adopted town, and has been for many years a member of its Public School Board. He was appointed County Crown Attorney in January 1892, and still retains the position. He resides in one of the many beautiful residences adorning Welland’s fashionable avenue.
One of the Finest Dry Goods and Clothing Establishments in the Niagara Peninsula
[Souvenir of the Town of Welland, Issued August 22, 1902 by the Welland Telegraph, Sears & Sawle, Publishers]
One of the most imposing business facades within the confines of Welland, or the county for that matter, and which from its commanding location, naturally attracts attention from either side of the canal, is the two story brick building of the Ross Company, of which Mr David Ross is the chief executive. It stands on the corner of East Main and Muir Streets, and within which is conducted one of the largest and best stocked dry goods and clothing emporiums to be found in the county, and which would do justice to the business section of a metropolitan centre of much larger proportions than that of Welland. The main floor and front has recently undergone remodelling, by which the premises practically comprise one large apartment, intersected by a shelf partition separating the dry goods from that of the clothing department, affording some 4000 square feet of floor space, for mercantile purposes. Read the rest of this entry »
[Souvenir of the Town of Welland, Issued August 22, 1902 by the Welland Telegraph, Sears & Sawle, Publishers]
The thrifty Canadian farmer is not slow to appreciate and adopt labor saving farm machinery, and engaged in demonstrating the necessity of this, to the farmers residing in the vicinity of Welland, are Messrs R, Moore & Son, whose agricultural implement and carriage warehouse is on West Main Street, bordering the canal. The firm need no eulogium, for both are well known as business individuals of strict integrity, alive to the interests of their patrons. The senior was for many years engaged in the flour and feed business, relinquishing that for the present avocation, in connection with his son some six years since. The firm occupy a two story building, 24×80. the lower story being devoted to the sale of farm machinery and implements, the product of the Frost & Wood Co., comprising mowers, reapers and harvesting machinery of all kinds, plows, horse rakes, cultivators and farm machine sundries; the upper story being given over to the display of light carriages and road wagons, single and double, with or without rubber tires, the product of such well known firms as E.W. Heeney of Montreal; McLaughlin Carriage Co. of Oshawa; Tudhope Co., of Orillia, and Campbell & Son of London, Ont. They are the exclusive representatives in this section, of the new Chatham giant arm farm wagon, than which there is no better made; as also of the Sharples cream separator, which for simplicity, durability and compactness have no superior, Adjoining the main building is another, 30×50, which is utilized for storage purposes. As a whole, Messrs Moore & son are one of the largest dealers in agricultural implements, carriages and farmer’s sundries in this section.
[Souvenir of the Town of Welland, Issued August 22, 1902 by the Welland Telegraph, Sears & Sawle ,Publishers]
Located on North Main Street, just north of the Welland river bridge, is the office, yard and planing mill of Mr. Frank Rounds, who has successfully conducted the business for upwards of twenty years. Mr Rounds deals in lumber of all kinds, dressed and undressed, also ship timber. His yard has facilities for the storage of a large amount of timber, his business in this line embracing not only Welland and county, but extends to all parts of the Dominion, and even to the States. He also deals in builder’s material of all description. The planing mill is a large two-story structure, operated by a 50 h.p. engine and is equipped with modern machinery, and has a capacity for the cutting of a million and a half feet of lumber during the season. Custom planing is specialty. He furnishes employment to a dozen or fifteen hands.
[Souvenir of the Town of Welland, Issued August 22, 1902 by the Welland Telegraph, Sears & Sawle, Publishers]
Located at the foot of Fraser Street in Welland, is the brick yard of Messrs D.D. Hooker & Co., which was founded by Mr Hooker’s father, the late T.D. Hooker, in 1855, and which, since the decease of the latter, in 1893, has been conducted by Messrs D.D. Hooker & Co., The plant comprises some nine acres of rich clay land, upon which is located two brick kilns, and a drain tile kiln, for the firm manufacture both. There are a dozen drying racks, each of a capacity of from eight to ten thousand bricks, the annual output of which is about 1,000,000 of brick and 100,000 drain tile, of from two to six inches in diameter and a dozen inches in length, the latter being in demand by farmers and others for drainage purposes, and the call for which is continually on the increase. The manufacturing plant is thoroughly equipped with modern machinery and other facilities, including a mixer, sanding, compressing and moulding machines for both brick and drain tile. It is operated by a 15 h.p. engine, and employment is given to from twelve to fifteen hands, About five hundred cords of wood are required in a season. While pretty much all of the brick used for building purposes in Welland, including those utilized for the building of the town hall and many of the fine residences, are the product of this plant, yet many are shipped to other parts of the county, and even outside. The drain tile is used mostly by the farmers in and about Welland. Mr Hooker, aside from being a successful business man, is alive and progressive as to the development of Welland’s prosperity, and is a member of the present town council, besides having been a member of the same for several years prior thereto. He was Mayor of Welland in 1898-9, and for several years was a member of the Public School Board.
[Souvenir of the Town of Welland, Issued August 22, 1902 by the Welland Telegraph, Sears & Sawle, Publishers]
One of the finest equipped machine shops in this section is that of the Robertson Bros., located on Aqueduct Street, on the west bank of the canal, and which has been in existence under its present management for nearly a quarter of a century, though it has been improved upon from time to time until at present no finer plant for the equipping of contractor’s plants or the manufacture of machinist’s tools of all description exists. In addition thereto, the Messrs Robertson manufacture hot air furnaces for heating purposes, and are prepared to manufacture castings for mill or railroad purposes, as also to do mill or general machine repairing of all kind at short notice, and in a satisfactory manner, both as regards workmanship and price. The plant comprises a two-story building 55×35, the lower story being fitted up as a machine shop, and equipped with all the necessary machinery and tools of modern type, the upper story being used as a pattern shop. Adjoining the machine shop is a well equipped foundry building, 60×35. Operating power is furnished by a 15 h.p. engine and employment given to from 15 to 20 hands and altogether it is a potent factor in the industrial enterprises of Welland.
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