The home of Dr. and Mrs. Webster c1930?

Description

Media Type

Image

Item Type

Postcards

Description

The home of Dr. and Mrs. Webster.
Description on back of photo: " This spacious home of Dr. and Mrs. Webster was the pride and joy of its owners. Dr. Webster, born in Ireland in the early 1840's, came to Canada with his parents as a small child. Good schooling was provided for him, he first worked for a newspaper and later in an apothecary shop. He like the medical side of this work and decided to enroll in Toronto University as a medical student. Graduating in 1864 he started his practice in Norval in 1865, and by 1868 had begun to build ‘Hope Cottage'. Since then various additions have been made to the house. Much later he married Belle Gollop, daughter of a pioneer family, and whose Grandmother had walked the Credit Valley path from Glen Williams to Muddy York (later Toronto) with Maple Sugar and a crock of butter to trade for needles, threads, materials and possibly a bit of chocolate for a treat. After about 100 years the grand old home was sold to the Kirk-Kraft enterprise, and later used as office space for several small businesses. ‘Sic transit gloria mundi,' Dr. Webster's life and work is a book in itself. By horse and buggy he responded to sick calls from Bronte to Brimstone and all points in between."

Notes

One in a series of photo/notecards put together by Mary Maxwell in c1990. She was a long time resident of Norval.

Date of Original

c1930?

Date Of Event

1930

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