E.C. Corbett General Store (Verschoyle)
Description
- Media Type
- Image
- Text
- Item Type
- Postcards
- Description
- The first general store was remodeled by Nelson Harris Sr. in 1877 from the hotel built by Mr.Collins. Nelson Harris continued his business for 3 years before he sold the store to E.C. Corbett in 1880. The general store was known as the Ark. E.C. Corbett had 3 clerks he employed. One of the clerks traveled around the town on horse and carriage trading merchandise such as groceries, shoes, soaps, eggs, cow hides, goose feathers and more. E.C. Corbett sold the store to Frank McEwan in 1921. E.C. Cortbett owned the first telephone in Verschoyle. Frank McEwan died in 1926.
- Inscriptions
- E.C. Corbett General Store Verschoyle 1916
- Date of Publication
- 1916
- Subject(s)
- Local identifier
- PC 129
- Collection
- Oxford County Archives Postcard Collection
- Language of Item
- English
- Geographic Coverage
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Ontario, Canada
Latitude: 43.13339 Longitude: -80.83301 -
E.C. Corbett General Strore:
Ontario, Canada
Latitude: 42.94444 Longitude: -80.86194
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- Copyright Statement
- Copyright status unknown. Responsibility for determining the copyright status and any use rests exclusively with the user.
- Recommended Citation
- E.C. Corbett General Store, Verschoyle, Ontario. Oxford County Archives. [COA PC129]
- Reproduction Notes
- Please contact the Oxford County Archives for a higher resolution copy.
- Contact
- Oxford County ArchivesEmail:archives@oxfordcounty.ca
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