St. Marys Wood Specialty Co.

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Question mystère

Can you identify any of the men in this photo?

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Type d'élément

Photographs

Description

This photograph shows a group of mostly unidentified men standing outside the St. Marys Wood Specialty Co. building which was once located where the current Subway is, across from the high school on James Street South. St. Marys Wood Specialty Co. was incorporated in 1908. They started out making hockey sticks and baseball bats, but before long manufactured axe, pick and hammer handles as well. By 1910, the company was selling sticks as far away as Regina, and by 1915 they carried sixteen models of hockey sticks and twenty-seven models of baseball bats. Despite their early success, the company struggled in the early stages of the Great Depression. In 1933, they sold to Canada Barrels and Kegs Company, owned by the Seagram Family of Waterloo.

FRONT ROW, SECOND FROM THE RIGHT might be Willie Sugden Downes. He was born in Wakefield England on June 10th, 1889 and was living in St. Marys by 1908. Downes worked in the woodworking business and owned two architectural millwork companies during his lifetime.

FAR LEFT MIDDLE ROW may be Thomas Sweeney who immigrated to Canada from England in 1907.

Notes

Condition: good.

Dimensions

Largeur: 12.6 cm
Hauteur: 8.9 cm

Dimensions d'image

Largeur d'image: 11.7cm
Hauteur d'image: 7.7cm

Sujet(s)

Hockey Sticks
Businesses

Identifiant local

eedy007

Collection

Eedy Collection

Langage de l'élément

English

Couverture géographique

St. Marys

Ontario, Canada

Latitude: 43.2554505530508 Longitude: -81.1362935195351

Donneur

R. Lorne Eedy

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Citation recommandée

Eedy Collection. "St. Marys Wood Specialty Co." St. Marys Museum, eedy007.

Emplacement d'original

R. Lorne Eedy Archives

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