It’s Wayback Wednesday, sponsored by Pharmasave Huntsville!
It’s Wayback Wednesday sponsored by Pharmasave Huntsville! This image was taken from the hill behind the train station, looking out toward Hunters Bay. Can you guess the year it was taken? (Photo: ourontario.ca)
Last week we shared this photo:
This is Calderwood Bros. Grocers. We don’t know who the man to the right is – perhaps one of the Calderwood brothers – or when the photo was taken. An 1898 Calderwood advertisement mentions flour (“the famous ‘Lily’ brand, superior to all in quality”), pure leaf tobacco (25 cents per pound), teas, coffee (40 cents per pound), seeds (“unrivalled”) and shoes, and asks people to “Sell me your butter and eggs”. In the photo itself, you can see geese hanging outside, ready for purchase, and a bucket of lard in the window. (Photo courtesy of Muskoka Digital Archives)
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CNR engine #269 was a 4-4-0 type built in 1883 at Kingston, for the Grand Trunk Railway. In 1925 it was pulled from a locomotive scrap-line and fully restored at Stratford Shops by the Old Boys Association and painted with the logo of (T&NR) representing the Toronto & Nipissing Railway, a predecessor of the GTR. Shown here, the train rests after hauling a charter of the Old Boys Association from Toronto to Huntsville, during Old Home Week celebrations in 1925. Pictures of this rare event were taken along the route at Bracebridge and Gravenhurst. In 1926 the CNR used the engine to take publicity pictures during which time the engine was displayed with its former Grand Trunk number #2194 and various smoke stacks and tender markings. The engine resumed regular service in 1926, but it was scrapped in October 1929.
The locomotive must be one of the Lake of Bays locomotives or was it a wood burning Locomotive from the Timiskaming & Northern Ontario railway ?The photo includes a photo of possibly either a 1920’s Ford or a 490 Chevrolet of the 1920’s .