House at 9 Fairy Avenue, Huntsville, Ontario

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House at 9 Fairy Avenue, Huntsville, Ontario south elevation

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Plan 3 Lot 6, the house is located on the southwest corner of Fairy Avenue and Mill Street, Huntsville, Ontario. The property was part of the Hunt Plan of Huntsville. Plan 3 Lot 6 was sold in 1874 to Samuel Smale, a tinsmith. In 1891 the property transferred to John S. Trussler, a local butcher. It appears that the house was built by Alfred and Mary Denton, who purchased the property in 1898. Afred Denton was originally from Port Dalhousie, Ontario. He was a master mariner. Engineer John Smiley, clerk John James, and Denton incorporated themselves as Denton, Smiley and Company and built the first steamboat on the northern Muskoka lakes, the S.S. Northern. It was launched in 1877 at Port Sydney on Mary Lake. Mary Denton died in 1905 and Alfred died in 1920 in Tabor, Alberta at age 82. The house at 9 Fairy Ave. passed to their son Gordon, a merchant in Sprucedale. In 1907 it was sold to Mary Jane Taylor, widow of Hugh Taylor of Chaffey Township. She remained in the house until she died in 1926. Mary Jane was the eldest daughter of the Reverend Roert Norton Hill of Hillside. In 1928 the house was purchased by Robert Scott, a sawyer for the Muskoka Wood Company, and his wife Ethel. Robert's younger brother Alfred and his wife Emma lived with them. Robert died in 1957 and after the death of Emma in 1982, the house was purchased by their son John Robert and his wife Bernice.

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1990

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