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Photo used by permnlsIanýfmTbNdfWHiIY AI Looking back to Gerrie's block by DMIu UNTE Gerrie's Bleck, at the northwest corner of Brock and Dundas streets, served for 96 years as a dng store. It was buit in 1873 to replace a sîmilar brick building, whlch was destroyed by fixe. Named after James H. Gerrie, who servcd as Whitby's mayor frorn 1869 to 1871 and diedlin 1872, the building bas a date atone wbich reads "Gerrie, 1873" over the third floor corner winclow. S.W.B. Smith, a son-in-law of lames H. Gerrie, operatcd th1e drug store in th1e corner, where Van Belle Flowers is now, until 1880 when it was taken over by W.R. Howsc, who in turu named it th1e Wbitby Phannacy. On dmi outslde wail, picturcd in thc plîotograph above (taken c. 1887), was a aigu which read: "Use Gray's Syrup of Red Sprucc Gum for Coughs and Coida, W.R. Howse, Agent." Aftcr Howsc sold the store, it was occupied by a man named McCullough for one year, lu 1885. And, in 1886, the drug store was purchased by Arthur H. Aluin, who operated il until the Urne of bis death lu 1945. After AIIin's death, bis clcrks - Norman Cormack and Frank Gray - kept thc store until il was closed in 1969. North of th1e dmug store, on Brock St., was Uic George Yule Telegraph and Ticket Offce and to the nordi of it was a passageway o Uic rear of th1e stores. Insurane a»nt George Vlck closed up t11e passage and made it loto an office, about 194 1. For. many years, Dlck Dasscitand bis son Mack kcpt a jewelry store wherc thc telcgraph office was. The store la now a dentist's office. The Whitby Branch of flic Royal Canadian Loglon firat met in the roms above Allnas Dnig Store frein its foundlug lu 1927 until th1e Legion Hal was bouit In 1945. The Whitby Brasa Band also used tic third floor as a practice roorn lu die 1950s and '60s. The original brickwoirk was stuccoed in 1939. BRIAN WINTER as thse archivisi for the Town of Whùiby.