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Commercial
Victoria County, Ontario Canada
The number and character of the stores of Lindsay
have changed little during the past forty or fifty years. Their
trade is largely limited to the extent of the population of the
surrounding country, and while the advent of the automobile has
tended to widen the area directly served, a decrease of several
thousands in the population of the county and the wholesale piracy
of urban mail order houses have both done much to neutralize this
expansion.
The actual proprietors of the local stores, however, have changed
incessantly and it would be no small task to list all the
generations of merchants who have taken part in local trade since
incorporation. I shall content myself with the following schedule of
older businesses which, after many years, remain with the
families which founded them:
1837, Jeremiah Britton (now S. Britton, jewelry)
1857, E. Gregory, drugs; 1858, John Anderson, furniture
1860, W. A. Goodwin, wall paper, etc.
1861, R. S. Porter, books and stationery
1861, Dundas & Flavelles, dry goods
1862, M. O'Halloran, meats
1862, McLennan & Co., hardware
1863, Thomas Beall, jewelry
1867, J. M. Neelands, dentistry
1868, S. Corneil, insurance
1874, R. P. Spratt and J. Killen, groceries
1878, A. Higinbotham, drugs
1878, J. A. Williamson, harness
1881, J. G. Edwards, hardware
1884, G. A. Milne, tailoring
1887, Alex. Fisher, groceries
1888, M. J. Carter, clothing
1890, M. E. Tangney, furniture;
1890, Wm. McWatters, confectionery
1890, Philip Morgan, drugs
1892, R. Johnston and M. H. Sisson, boots
1893, G. A. Little, and stationery
1897, F. W. Sutcliffe, dry goods, books
At the present time, Lindsay has 27 grocers, 8 clothiers and
drapers, 6 druggists, 6 butchers, 6 hardware merchants, 5
confectioners, 4 shoe dealers, 4 coal dealers, 3 jewelers, 3
furniture dealers, 2 stationers, 2 fruiterers, 2 opticians, 2
tailors, 2 music stores, and 1 harness dealer.
The Banks of
Lindsay
The Bank of Upper Canada opened a branch in Lindsay
in 1853 and conducted business until the failure of 1863. The Bank
of Montreal had a local agency in 1858, but for nearly twenty years
it did nothing beyond accepting deposits for the government. The
Ontario Bank came in in 1864 and the Merchants' Bank in 1870. The
Bank of Montreal absorbed the latter in 1877 and the former in 1906.
The Dominion Bank began business Lindsay in 1881, the Standard Bank
and the Bank of Commerce in 1906, and the Home Bank in 1910. The
Victoria Loan and Savings Co. was founded in Lindsay in 1895, under
local management and largely financed by local capital.
Town of Lindsay
Victoria County
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