THE MIRROR PUBLISHED BVEBRY FRIDAY AT THR PLETCHER - JOHNSTON PRESS, 123 ON-. FARIO ST., "STRATFORD. PHONE 115w FLETCHER Eh inked EDITOR SUBSCRIPTION RATE eee BA. 00° A YEAR "Stratford, Thy L 1927 A FASCINATING BROCHURE ON CANADA'S: VASTLY CHANGING BORDERLING AND DUAL HERITAGE Those who, have studied _ botany may have noticed. certain plants de- scribed as "Canadensis" or "Cana- dense" which are not found in Can- ada at all. This is explained by the fact that when botanical terminology was fixed, Canada included practically all the territory east of the Mississip- pi down as far as Leuisiana. Both before and since Confederation the territorial boundaries of Canada have experienced remarkable changes, and there is no more fascinating phase' of the evolution of Canada from a Col- ony into the present vast self-govern- ing Dominton than the history of that invisible borderline within which #s enckosed the territorial 'heritage of the Canadian people. As a contribution to the celebra- 'tion of the Diamond Jubilee of Con- 'federation. therefore, a brochure deal- 'ing with this aspect of Canadian' his- 'tory Which 'as 'been issued by the Bank of Montreal should -be 'both .time- ly and welcome to students, adult and junior, and tovthe general publie. With much of this history the. Bank is itSelf directly associated, for it. was founded when > Canada territorialty centred solely around. the: St: Law- rénce system and rivers formed. its chief highways. --In: those days. rail- Ways and ocean steamships were un- known, and the Bank itself. provided the colony's first organized system of finance and its first domestic cur- rency. "The Birth and Growth of Canada" is the title of thez ooklet. The Story begins in the 14th century, when, after Spain had claimed parts ef North and South America, -- the 'French and English.came ..to...claim their share in the vast new world which till then had been hidden from the knowledge of the peoples of. west- ern civilization. The explorations, colonizations and conflicts of these two great nations as affecting the spheres of influence of both on this continent are sketched, from time to time when the representatives of each roamed at will in the myster- jous unknown of a country whose limits neither kniéw, until the inter- est of each Was centred in a portion which became crystallized under the | name of Canada. The latter, as has been mentioned, reached westward to the cenire of the continent and 'south- ward to Louisiana. For this prize the two great nations ultimately became locked in deadly conflict, and to the daring adventurers 4nd heroic Bio- neers of both, the new nation which 'now claims as its homeland practic- this continent owes its heritage, -Lhis fact is recognized in the booklet 'by two chapters "headed respectivety,y "Our Heritage from. Franee,':. and, "Our Heritage' from Britain:" How, from the vast territory orig: inally claithed®Ganada 'shrank to 2 smal] colony in the St. Lawrence Val- ley, and then expanded Mast and west and north into a unit larger than the original, is a story that is told gra- phically and suecintly in the booklet, and each stage in the process of Cam- ada's changing borderline is illustrat- ed by maps that form an interesting and valuable 'series. Few realize how vast have been the changes in this borderline within the memory "of people still: living. «For instance,' sixty years ago the four ort ginal Provinees of the Canadian, Con- federacy - contained 350,188 square miles' of 'land and -inland waters, whereas: now:ithe- dJand and, ,,water aréa of Canada is. estimated .;at a erand total of .3,697,123. square. miles. Even: within the present year the bor- derline of Canada has undergone a further .change following. the .Privy Council's judgment on, the, Labrador Boundary. The history. of each change is given. Summing up the. territorial herit- age. of Canadians, the booklet says, "Rich in every form of, material wealth, in. fertile soil, in minerals, in forest, fish, fur, in water-power and coal, in railways, roadways and water- ways, it is rich above all in the qual- ity. of its human population, drawn chiefly from the kindred stocks of Britain and of France. It is a land peculiarly fitted by its bracing north- ern. Glimate to breed one of the strongest races in the human family. Already, the energy of its nine mil- lions, a handful of humanity Spread over so vast an expanse, has lifted Canada to third place among the ex- porting nations of the world. With the great human reinforcements which may now confidenly be ex- pected, the Canadian people look for- ward #0 a growth and prosperity far exceeding the wonderful progress of these sixty years." 2 : Every ae in the = week-- you should use our bread-- then the phrase "daily bread"' will have a new meaning for you. Weuse the very finest grade of wheat flour, sweet creamy milk, and every moc- efn sanitary device to make aa tld bread the highest quality read thal human hands can The Stratford Bakery J. D. STONE, Mgr. 'ally the whole of the northern half of~ Sih S Easy Crhirs, we have Phone 91 i For The |... 1st of July "EET US FURNISH YOUR VERANDAH ty anche. Largest stock to choose from Couches Greenwood & Vivian Housefurnishings LIMITED 26 Ontario St. THE MIRROR and cabinet maker. & Paper Hanging and Painting Work well done. Prices reasonable, AL DL FLETCHER POUORTESUATODEOUEEUET DEEDES EEO Peter & Sylvester Will do your Repairsin | Plumbing : Electric Phone 210 (PE EEEEEEMT TTL Tienting" 12 Ontario r iit ti me wi eA , WILLYS-KNIGHT Te -- -- eee ----~~ ~~~ r19 Ontario --~ Boys Who Run and Have Fun naturally are hard on shoes and wear them out sooner than boys who are not so active: Let your boys run and kick and wear out their shoes to their héart's content -- we'll take care of the mending. | We'll restore your boys shoes to their original first-ctass shape. Superior Shoe Repair Se Phone 941 } 7 COAL ANTHRACITE COAL POCAHONTAS, Egg Size Red Jacket, Egg Size Solvay Coke Cornish Coal Co. Phone 44 Bargains in Tires USED q Runs like new -- in first-class mechanioal ij condition, > A-| tires EASY TERMS. All our used cars carry aj] - month's guarantee. Holliday- | Abra, Ltd. | 91 Erie St. Phone 2080 __Most of them were without the means J. S. RUSSELL Registered Architect Phone 1533F Gorden Block Residence 2198 FRANK P. GIBBS} Chartered Accountant 102 Ontario St. (Beacon Building) Stratford, Ont} 60 YEARS AGO According to Old Business Directory Strtatford's. population was 3,500 and was designated as a "well built and rising town." Hugh Blpnes was engaged in the manufacture of furniture. Geo. Hay was an upholst- erer and furniture dealer, Nathan Campbell was a furniture dealer and cabinet maker and W. andS. Inman were in the wholesale and retail fur- niture business. Alex. McPherson was also listed as an upholsterer and Mungo Turnbull as a furniture dealer - Owen Sound's population was 2,500 with "Daily stages to Collingwood, Durham, and Guelph." Chatwin & Comley were en- gaged in the upholstery business and cabinet making there. Kincardine had a population of 1,300. "The most healthy place in the Province," is the comment. It was first settled m 1845. John Watson is listed there as a cab- inet maker. Woodstock housed 3,500 people and boasted "many elegant private residences." Hanover had a population of 300 at that time and was laid out in 1857. Berlin, now Kitchener, had a popula- tion of 1,200 and was "a station at which all trains stop." The early settlers of Canada had to content themselves with such fur- miture as they, or the few skilled art? Sans that crossed from France, could | construct from the woods of the coun- try. Shipping accommodation was so limited and transportation was so un- certain, that even the favored repre- | sentatives of the "Grande Monarque," could only *manage to squeeze into their impedimenta but few of the lux- urious furnishings to which they had ' been accustomed at home. But the majority of the 'emigres" had their furniture made to order and 'upon lines suited to the modest needs of pioneers. As time passed, how- | ever, and settlements like Montreal | and Quebec developed, the cabinet | maker had to rise to the occasion and produce imitations of prevailing 'styles in the homeland, although upon a less pretentious scale. The mater- jals available were not such as the | artisans had been accustomed to, but | ; they soon found an abundance of what served the purpose in the various na- tive woods, - The same was true of the early Eng- lish settlers a century or so later. of transporting their household ef- "fects across the Atlantic, and the car- _perfter and joiner, where the settler | was not capable of making the simple furnishings of the pioneer's home, pie articles that were necessary to set up an establishment in the new | country. As the country opened up, and the demand arose for more and better furniture, skilled workmen ound employment in developing the until towards the middle of the 19th century, however, that furniture mak- | ing began to develop into an industry centured around the sixth decade | United States undoubtedly helped, not-| tural to the country. é only towards swelling the population The earlier efforts seem to have | of Canada at the time but to increase the industrial prosperity of the coun- try through the increased demand for Canadian commodities. There is no doubt that the opening up of the country, especially of West- | of the world. ern Ontario, and the desire for more comfortable homes, created a market | craftsmen today, the medium and for better furniture, which taxed the capacity of individual artisans to pro- | universally. duce. and the enlarged use of steam power were contributing forces that gradual- ly centred the making of furniture in in the modern sense of the term. which marks in both the older prov- inces of Canada the inauguration of the factory system of furniture mak- lishments:employing a small number of workmen antedate 1860, but that year seems to mark the beginning of the concentration of the industry in most localities. It is a strange coincidence that, al- most all of the prominent establish- ments making household furniture in Canada were founded between 1860 and 1865. At least, this seems to | larger shops or factories. have been the period for awakening to the possibilities of concentrated ef- Whether this may have been | ada's first real effort to produce fur- niture to meet the requirements of all classes of her population and when a due to conditions at the time or that it just "happened" would be difficult to say. It was the period when the | protection policy was established by | tion. It is true that one or two estab- Therefore, population of Canada received consid- erable impetus from conditions in the homeland and the Civil War in the The introduction of machinery | has passed into the discard, the period of 1860 to The Herre rcker. FOUND FOR PARTITION Summer Sleep Equipment "were requisitioned to produce the sim- | - eabinet making business... It was not Sleeping Comfort MEANS Slumber Certainty It pays to be certain about the quality of beds and bedding. It pays to shop at White's for them. "PVE NEVER KNOWN SUCH COMFORT"'-- This is what one customer has said: "Il selected a Simmons Bed for my room and now | think I have the most marvelous mattress in the world--also by Simmons." This Customer is a prominent woman in the world's society. Her Simmon's "'Beautyrest" mat- tress came from an exclusive New York St°re. Our Customers right here in Stratford, can have "'Beautyrest"' mattresses on their beds tonight by simply 'phoning us -- "You may send us one of those good Simmons Mattresses." 80 Ontario St. a SIMMONS "WHITE LABEL" $12.75 A light feltMattress, built in layers, and encased in strong sateen ticking, real good value at a moderate price.--All sizes. SPECIAL FELT MATTRESS $6.95 A Simmons Mattress made of all new materials, clean and sani- tary, soft filling, good quality tick--All sizes. HIGHEST QUALITY MATTRESSES Are an investment that pays--the most comfort and the longest service are cheapest in the end. Simmon's Bed Outfits (Bed, Spring, Mattress) $19.00 up Folding Steel Camp Cots $4.00 up | R. WHITE & CO. Home Furniture and Funeral Service. The Ostermoor 25.00, double bed size; (single sizes, $22.00.) The Marshall $25.00 to $75.00, for double bed. The Simmons "'Special" $29.00, for double bed. The Simm°ns "Beautyrest" $39.00, for double bed. Phone 33; Night 376 the government in 1878 a further im- petus was given to an industry which may be considered as one of those na- From 1880 onward, the history has: been one of steady development not only in volume but in character and today Canada is producing furniture that cannot be surpassed in design, construction and finish in any part While all lines are made by our higher grades have the call almost The so-called "cheap" The partition suit of Alonzo Price 1880 witnessed the foundation of Can- | et. al., vs. Elizabeth Sullivan et. al. was tried before Judge Coulter in the Knov circuit court and there was a finding for the plaintiff for parti- oe a iti tr enn hrm noneenti anatase cea mmm tinrnnitinini scneneddinesne mane -- * ae ee ctemanineiti 89/0 oe 2 mae 7" z eens oo as :