Common names are problematic when trying to research individual businesses. There are, for example, three “J. Cameron”s recorded in various sources. The first James Cameron dates to 1871; he appears in the Census for that year as a 39 year-old Irish-born lumber surveyor . Another James Cameron dates to 1875. “A new store has been […]
Business Type: Storekeeper
Census 1871.
“Mr. Jos. Littleton Jr. has bought the stock in trade of Walter Smith, who removed from this place about the time he advertised his wife. The said gentleman does Fenelon Falls an injustice by dating his advertisement, Fenelon Falls. We have no wives here that require such treatment.” [CP 7 April 1876; 1] Needless to […]
