-Great Pic! You can see the elevated train track trestle to the right.
-Is that the Radial line in background?
-Definitely!!
- do you know what happened to this businesss? There is Superior Glove company in Acton that is a customer of ours.
-Thought they were connected somehow....maybe not
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-Did this later become the carpet barn?
-Yes.
-I remember Canadian Tire there
-my Mom worked for Lloyd and Frank after my Dad passed.
-Tom Reed a local builder/ entrepreneur bought this building in the early 70’s from the previous owner of Canadian Tire. Several tenants occupied various parts of it like Mel’s Antiques & Goodyear Tire with Carpet Barn as a minor tenant. The floor covering business expanded in the late 70’s to occupy the whole building and of course are still there.
-Oh ya I remember Goodyear there too!
-I remember a restaurant/cafe being upstairs for a while in the 70s.
-yes. The Bamboo Loft, catered by the Kentners.
-Yes, called the Bamboo Loft with a cafe operated by the Kentners
-I seem to remember a gym upstairs at one point with boxing and heavy bags.
-Dave McDonald and Judy Cook had a hairstyling salon there, if I remember correctly,
-I do not remember any of these. I believe Tom Reed married Lynn Scott.
-My Grandmother, Polly King, worked at a sewing machine in the upstairs window above the door on the left in the glove factory. She married one of the travelling salesmen, Martin Cummins. Quite a scandal, an English Methodist marrying an Irish Roman Catholic 😊
- that would have been quite the scandal back then!
-The King family was very accepting. Story has it that my grandmother's mother, Mary Sembling married George King. George was either her parents' butler, or chauffer who married the boss' daughter and left England for Canada! Fun story eh!
-The sewing machines were operated manually in front of the windows because this was before electricity was used in industrial/commercial enterprises. The light source was the windows spaced close together on both floors. If you look closely at the building today you can still see where the windows were but most are closed in now. If you look at the large mural painted on the west wall it depicts the small lake that was on the west side of this building which was a popular place to canoe & picnic. It was drained to allow for the Guelph to Toronto radial railway that ran just behind this building.-
-my family has pictures of my grandmother with I think my dad in a stroller by the lake. My grandmother was born in Georgetown in the 1880's.
-the Kings I mentioned were your dad's grandparents too! Your dad's dad and my dad's dad were brother and sister!
-you might be interested to know that H(erbert) T(homas) Arnold was my husband Ian's great uncle! Ian's grandparents on both side of his family came from the Erin area, and moved across the country to settle near Consort AB, where Ian grew up. Tom Arnold married Ian's grandfather's sister. Small world, eh?
-You can even see the old Toronto suburban Railway bridge in the background. Lots of other remnants of the railway in Georgetown that are now bike paths and streets. Who knew that the perfect commuter railway already existed 100 years ago right through the centre of town.
-Is that the Radial line in background?
-Definitely!!
- do you know what happened to this businesss? There is Superior Glove company in Acton that is a customer of ours.
-Thought they were connected somehow....maybe not
Delete or hide this
-Did this later become the carpet barn?
-Yes.
-I remember Canadian Tire there
-my Mom worked for Lloyd and Frank after my Dad passed.
-Tom Reed a local builder/ entrepreneur bought this building in the early 70’s from the previous owner of Canadian Tire. Several tenants occupied various parts of it like Mel’s Antiques & Goodyear Tire with Carpet Barn as a minor tenant. The floor covering business expanded in the late 70’s to occupy the whole building and of course are still there.
-Oh ya I remember Goodyear there too!
-I remember a restaurant/cafe being upstairs for a while in the 70s.
-yes. The Bamboo Loft, catered by the Kentners.
-Yes, called the Bamboo Loft with a cafe operated by the Kentners
-I seem to remember a gym upstairs at one point with boxing and heavy bags.
-Dave McDonald and Judy Cook had a hairstyling salon there, if I remember correctly,
-I do not remember any of these. I believe Tom Reed married Lynn Scott.
-My Grandmother, Polly King, worked at a sewing machine in the upstairs window above the door on the left in the glove factory. She married one of the travelling salesmen, Martin Cummins. Quite a scandal, an English Methodist marrying an Irish Roman Catholic 😊
- that would have been quite the scandal back then!
-The King family was very accepting. Story has it that my grandmother's mother, Mary Sembling married George King. George was either her parents' butler, or chauffer who married the boss' daughter and left England for Canada! Fun story eh!
-The sewing machines were operated manually in front of the windows because this was before electricity was used in industrial/commercial enterprises. The light source was the windows spaced close together on both floors. If you look closely at the building today you can still see where the windows were but most are closed in now. If you look at the large mural painted on the west wall it depicts the small lake that was on the west side of this building which was a popular place to canoe & picnic. It was drained to allow for the Guelph to Toronto radial railway that ran just behind this building.-
-my family has pictures of my grandmother with I think my dad in a stroller by the lake. My grandmother was born in Georgetown in the 1880's.
-the Kings I mentioned were your dad's grandparents too! Your dad's dad and my dad's dad were brother and sister!
-you might be interested to know that H(erbert) T(homas) Arnold was my husband Ian's great uncle! Ian's grandparents on both side of his family came from the Erin area, and moved across the country to settle near Consort AB, where Ian grew up. Tom Arnold married Ian's grandfather's sister. Small world, eh?
-You can even see the old Toronto suburban Railway bridge in the background. Lots of other remnants of the railway in Georgetown that are now bike paths and streets. Who knew that the perfect commuter railway already existed 100 years ago right through the centre of town.
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