A “new butcher shop is just established in this village” noted the Canadian Post in April 1875 [CP 2 April 1875; 3]. In the July 1875 edition of D&B a William Hawkins is recorded as opening a butcher shop, so this may well be the same business. Unfortunately, there are no further references to Hawkins, […]
Business Type: Butcher
Apart from this brief entry in D&B I have not been able to identify this butcher from 1885. He may have some connection to John Wilson’s butcher shop in operation at the same time. The wife of a William Wilson died May 4th 1893 (Mary Margaret Wray), aged 31, but there is no record of […]
John Wilson began business in partnership with George Whissle as a butcher; that business was dissolved in December 1884, and the Gazette reported that the business would be carried on by Mr. Wilson [FFG 3 Jan 1885; 2]. Wilson, who apparently was only 16, was not a success as a butcher, as he next appears […]
E.B. Whytall was the son of Benson Whytall of Verulam. He was 19 years-old in the 1871 Census. He set up a butcher shop in the premises vacated by Thomas Nevison (opposite Moffatt & McFarlands’ grocery on Colborne Street) in November 1880 [FFG 27 Nov 1880; 2]. His first advertisement in the Gazette was dated […]
George Whissle had at least two business partners while he ran a butcher shop in Fenelon Falls. The first partnership was in operation by August 1883 when the Gazette reported a burglary in Ellis and Whissle’s store [FFG 11 Aug 1883; 2]. This partnership was eventually dissolved in favour of a second when Whissle and […]
William Waffle bought the grocery business of W.W. Blott in November 1887, and took Daniel Duggan into partnership [CP 11 Nov 1887; 1]. They were soon “settled in” with a fine display in the front of their shop [CP 25 Nov 1887; 1]. This partnership was dissolved by March of 1889 when Duggan opened his […]
Paul Sova was active in 1881 as a butcher, for the Village Council transferred the butcher’s licence belonging to E.B. Whytall to him at a council meeting held on July 18th [FFG 23 July 1881; 2]. This may only have been temporary as Sova was only 23 and he does not appear in any of […]
Simon St. Michel started in business sometime in the early 1870’s as he is listed as a 32 year-old, Quebec-born butcher in the 1871 Census, as well as in Lovell’s Province of Ontario Directory. By 1874 St. Michel formed a partnership with another butcher named Didace Grise and they operated a butcher and grocery store […]
Ouellette began business in Fenelon Falls in partnership with another butcher named Paul Sova [Saveo in some sources]. Ouellette & Sova, “commenced butchering at the Falls about 18 months ago” [FFG 1 November 1895; 4], which dates their business opening to May 1894. Their first shop was south of the river, but they moved “to […]
