25 year-old Aaron Brooks, an Ontario-born cooper of Irish background, was living in Lindsay in 1871. Aaron, along with his brother Henry, was certainly in the village by the early 1880s. In November 1882 Aaron and Henry leased the operation of the newly built North American Hotel from William Routley [FFG 25 Nov 1882; 1], […]
Business Type: Livery
Henry Brooks along with his brother Aaron were well known businessmen and Hotel Keepers in the Village. They were associated for many years with the Brooks Hotel. Henry Brooks was in Fenelon Falls by the early 1880’s as he was left in charge of the Mansion House Hotel, when Nobel Ingram leased the McArthur House […]
Cain & Edwards was created out of a partnership between E.R. Edwards and his cousin Robert Cain. They were in business by 1872 or 1873 , and their livery stable was located on Francis Street West [CP 17 Sept 1875; 2]. The partnership was dissolved in the fall of 1876, and the newspapers announced that […]
M.H. Cochrane ran a livery stable in Fenelon Falls throughout most of the 1870’s before opening a butcher shop in 1880. He appears as Henry Cochram, a 29 year-old, Ontario-born Quaker, in the 1871 Census, but the spelling used here was used consistently in various directories. Cochrane entered into a short-lived partnership with a man […]
Davis first appears in the 1881 Census of the village as a 27 year-old butcher although he soon took up other pursuits. In his obituary it states that he was a carpenter by trade and built several houses in the village. According to an ad dated 18 June 1884 , Davis was selling the “atmospheric […]
See under E.R. Edwards
Edward Edwards appears as a 25 year-old, Ontario-born labourer in the 1871 Census. The following year “E.R. Edwards” started a livery business in partnership with Robert Cain . The firm of Cain and Edwards lasted until 1876, when E.R. became its sole owner [CP 3 Nov 1876; 3]. The Edwards home, drive shed and livery […]
The Gazette records that “Mr. Angus Fountain, the well known bartender of the McArthur House” [FFG 6 Sept 1889; 4] left for Sarnia on Saturday August 31st for new employment. His exile does not appear to have lasted, for an “Anges W” [sic] Fountain is listed in the 1891 Census as a 22 year-old Methodist […]
“Benjamin Heaslip has purchased J.J. Nevison’s half interest in the new livery stable started here a few weeks ago, and the firm is now Heaslip and Golden” [FFG 20 June 1890; 4]. The directories list Golden on his own by 1891. In October 1892 Golden purchased a house on Francis Street and built a new […]
