Sarah Meldrum is described as a 34 year-old, widowed Baptist dress maker in the 1881 Census of the Village. This is no doubt the “sister-in-law and her children” of Andrew Meldrum “[h]is only connection in the village” “to whom we are glad to hear he has behaved most liberally.” [FFG 20 Jan 1883; 2]
Business Type: Dressmaker
“Misses Robertson and Tolney [sic] have commenced the dress and mantel making business in Mr. John Fitzgerald’s building on Colborne Street, and, as they already have several orders and have inserted a card in the advertising columns of the Gazette, they will no doubt be kept as busy as they desire” [FFG 5 May 1883; […]
Susannah Belch is listed in the 1881 Census as a 36 year-old, Irish-born [Presbyterian] dressmaker.
1891 Census.
With the death of her husband W.W. Blott in 1893, Catherine Blott established a dressmaking business. Originally set up in the McArthur Block, she eventually moved to her newly-built house on Clifton Street [FFG 19 Oct. 1894; 4]. She disappears from the directories after 1896. She died in Stanhope Township on April 24th 1898, aged […]
Mrs. J.A. Calder had a dress-making and ladies store upstairs in the McArthur block during the late 1890’s. Little is known about her or her business except through her advertisements in the Gazette . The entrance to her shop was “next door to Mr. [Wm. L.] Robson’s store, nearly opposite the Post Office” [FFG 15 […]
Province of Ontario Gazetteer & Directory (1895): Ontario Gazetteer & Directory (1901/1902). Jessie Rutherford never married and first appears as a dressmaker in 1895. Around 1901 her unmarried sister, Elizabeth (“Lizzie”) (1855-1936) came to Fenelon Falls to live with her while “conducting a dressmaking establishment over the former Campbell Store, and later at their home […]
There are two references to an M. Calder. A Mary Calder is recorded in the 1881 Census as a 45 year-old dressmaker. A Mrs. M. Calder is listed in the directories from 1901 to 1911. The relationship of the two is still unknown. There is a chance that Mrs. J.A. and Mrs. M. may be […]
Nellie Slater’s ad appeared in the FFG listing her location on Bond Street East [FFG 3 April 1896; 1].There are few other references.
