It’s Wayback Wednesday, sponsored by Jamie Lockwood, broker/owner of Sutton Group Muskoka Realty!
In March 1900, Huntsville residents took to the streets to celebrate a British advance during the Boer War.
They formed a procession at the school and marched down Main Street, carrying Union Jacks and singing patriotic songs accompanied by the Huntsville Brass Band. In the evening they gathered for patriotic addresses at the church hall and lit a big bonfire alongside the river.
In this image, they are heading east on Main Street. The picket fence on the right is the yard of the Methodist manse, where Town Hall and the Algonquin Theatre are today.
Next to it is James Cain’s grocery store.
In the left foreground is the W.H. Matthews Bank, and beside that William Craddock’s Huntsville Machine Works.
The Dominion Bank would later be built in the empty space beside Craddock’s. White Brothers Hardware is the building on the eastern side of the gap.
Photo and details courtesy of Huntsville: With Spirit and Resolve.
See more Wayback Wednesday photos here.
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The Winchesters. Check with Sara White at MHP, but I think that would be the Kent Hotel ( Kent Park).
What is the large building in the background on the right? Peaked roof with 4 windows.
Thank you Jamie Lockwood — I enjoy seeing these historic pictures that you share with us. Keep them coming