Flour Mill, Grist Mill & Cooper Shop, 1910

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Norval on the Credit
Flour Mill, Grist Mill, Cooper Shop & Farmer's bank.
Text on back reads: "Taken from Pinecrest about 1910, with Robert Nobel's Flour Mill, Grist Mill, Cooper shop where they made barrels for flour, the storage shed and the mill sheds for the teams. Also shown is the farmer's Bank which went under shortly after the first Great War and was replaced with the bank of Nova Scotia.
Leonard greenwood, a Veteran of the recent war, had lost his arm in France but took a very active part in his Church and community. The Post Office and General Store on the corner was owned by Frank Hustler.
The Norval Flour Mills had an excellent reputation for the fine quality of flour produced - the top grade was King's Choice', shipped world wide, also the National' brand and Norval Flour'were widely distributed. The Mill was built in 1828 by James McNab and at that time James called the settlement McNabbville, but in 1840 when the Post Office was established the name was changed. My name is Norval - along the Grampian Hills my Father feeds his flocks...'*. The old pioneer cemetery on Pinecrest was the burial ground of a number of the Mcnab family and other first families' of our community.
* From John Home's play Douglas and of memories of McNab's Scottish ancestry.
Pictures from the Maxwell files
script by M. Maxwell, R 4 Georgetown, Ontario L7G4S7"
Physical details: 16 cm X 23 cm, folded card, printed in grey ink.

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