Wayback Wednesday, sponsored by Jamie Lockwood, broker/owner of Sutton Group Muskoka Realty!
Building at 86 Main Street East circa 1911.
From Muskoka Digital Archives: This business was purchased by George Hutcheson from Smith and Culp in 1883. The business operated under the name of Hutcheson & Son until it was destroyed in the fire of April 18, 1894.
After the fire, George Hutcheson rebuilt the store on the same site but withdrew from the business. William E. Hutcheson, R.J. Hutcheson, and William Hanna of Port Carling then formed the firm Hanna & Hutcheson Bros. to carry on the business.
The Independent Order of Oddfellows had met on the top floor of the original building and continued to meet in part of the upper floor of the new building until they moved across the street to occupy the upper floor at 67 Main Street East.
On December 28, 1911, a fire struck again and destroyed Matthew Wardell’s dry goods business at 77 Main Street East, across the street from Hanna & Hutcheson Bros. Wardell started over by moving into the Hanna & Hutcheson building, which he rented for $600 a year. Later, he installed electricity, and the Wardell family purchased the building for $6000 in 1920.
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