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[People’s Press, 7 August 1900]
The above illustration represents a scene taken during the building of the present aqueduct. The work of constructing the arches had just been completed and the construction of the canal floor is under way. The waters of the Welland river pass under the canal through six of these arches. This view was taken from the direction of W.H. Crow’s lumber yard and shows the river lock and lock shanty in the distance.
The first Welland canal was undertaken by private enterprise with William Hamilton Merritt at the head. It was partially completed in 1829, when boats came up as far as Port Robinson, then locked into the river and reached Lake Erie by way of the Niagara river. The water was carried across the river at Welland through a wooden aqueduct on the site now occupied by Rounds’ Mill.
In 1842 the Government of Canada purchased the stock and made extensive improvements, replacing the wooden aqueduct with a stone one-now the “old aqueduct.”
By 1870 the requirements of navigation induced the Government to again enlarge the canal to a 14-foot channel, which necessitated the construction of the new aqueduct.
The new aqueduct, conveying the Welland canal over the Welland river, is one of the finest and most extensive pieces of mason work in America. It is of grey limestone masonry laid in hydraulic cement mortar. The distance from the face of the abutment on the north side of the river to that on the south is 277 feet. There are six arched openings. The rise of the arches is 7 feet and the span 40 feet. The top of the parapet wall is 28 ¾ over the centre part of the intrados. This work was first undertaken by Hunter & Murray, but they were unsuccessful, and abandoned the contract. They were succeeded by Messrs. Beemer & Sullivan, who carried the work steadily and without serious interruption to successful completion. Ten years elapsed between the first letting of the contract, and the completion of the work. The engineer in charge was W.G. Thomson, now superintending engineer of the whole canal.
The work of enlarging the canal cost about $16,000,000.
Shefferd Butter at Ottawa
[Welland Tribune. 19 June 1900]
The following from the Waterloo, P.Q., Adventurer, and the Mr. H.E Reynolds who has won such creditable distinction as a butter maker will be known to many readers to the Tribune, he having been with the Welland cheese Association during the years 1897-8. The Advertiser says:-
“At the Canada Central Exhibition Ottawa last week High Hill creamery, South Roxton, H.E. Reynolds, maker, took the first prize for creamery butter in fancy packages. The competition was large and keen and Mr. Reynolds deserves to be congratulated on his success, High Hill and the creameries in Shefford are turning out the class of butter that has made the reputation of Canadian Creamery in the English market. The prices obtained in this section are above those paid in any other part of Canada. The creameries here are up to date in their equipment and are run by men who thoroughly understand their business. With the best of milk and such makers as Mr. Reynolds, there is little wonder that they stand at the top of the heap in the market in the completion that are held at the fall fairs.”
[Welland Tribune, 25 August 1905]
Mr. T.I. Bird, inspector of the Bank of Toronto, was in Welland on Wednesday, and arranged to lease the east store in the Ross block, on East Main street, for a branch of the bank of Toronto, which will be opened here in a few days.
The Bank of Toronto is one of the oldest and strongest banks in Canada, and is the banker for the Plymouth Cordage Co. in Canada. It comes to stay and will probably in the near future erect a building of its own.
This was Mr. Bird’s first visit to Welland, and he took a drive with Mr. Harcourt about the town and vicinity. He expressed himself as greatly surprised and pleased at the fine appearance and very evident prosperity of the community, as evidenced by the fine residences, well-kept lawns and very complete water, gas and other services apparent.
Orange-Crush Co.’s Representative Tells of Rise in Quality Standards
[The Welland Tribune and Telegraph, 21 June 1921]
“Soft drinks of genuine quality are growing more popular every day,” said an official of Orange-Crush Company in a recent interview.
“The public is rapidly learning to recognize real merit in fountain and bottled beverages and only those drinks that measure up to high standards can enjoy permanent popularity.
Progressive manufacturers welcome this growing taste for quality drinks, and are doing much to insure highest excellence in their output.
For example, in the manufacture of the well-known fruit flavored drinks, Ward’s Orange-Crush, Lemon-Crush and Lime-Crush, there is maintained a most complete service laboratory in charge of trained chemists for the sole purpose of guarding the quality and purity of the Crushes’.
There is an elaborate line of equipment for making tests and analyses, and bottlers and dealers have the co-operation of our chemists in maintaining quality at all times and in all places.
Just another sign of better standards of living; also it is proof that the great soft drink industry is keeping pace with progress.”
[The Welland Tribune and Telegraph, 10 May 1921]
Another business building is being added to Welland. Wm. Swayze is erecting a two-storey brick building on Cross Street, beside the Woolworth Building. Mr. Swayze when interviewed by the press yesterday, said that he expects to have it finished sometime in August. Mr. Swayze is supervising the building construction, when finished the block will have a store on the ground floor and upstairs there will be a flat. The downstairs area will measure 18 by 40 feet and the upstairs 29 by 40 feet.
[The Welland Tribune and Telegraph, 24 May 1921]
The Tribune and Telegraph has been requested by Mr. Crow, the Registrar of Deeds, to draw the attention of the public to a law passed at the recent session of the Legislature which is of special interest to everybody who deals in real estate, and to the lawyers and conveyancers who draw the deeds of transfer.
The title of the new law is: “The Land Transfer Tax Act,” and it purpose is to provide another source of revenue for the Provincial Treasury by imposing a tax on transfers of land.
The pith of the act is found in the sections quoted below viz:-
2-A tax of one-fifth of one per centum upon the amount of the purchase price shall be paid by the party registering same upon every transfer, conveyance, deed. Instrument, or writing whereby any land, tenements or other realty sold shall be granted, assigned, transferred or otherwise conveyed to or vested in the purchaser or purchasers, or in any other person or persons by his, her or their direction.
3-Such tax shall be collected by the registrar –before he registers such transfer-, and any registrar-shall be entitled to retain to his own use two per centum of the moneys collected by him under Section 2 hereof.
5-The registrar-shall, within the first week of each month, send to the Treasurer of Ontario a statement of the amount collected during the previous month-and shall pay over the amount thereof less the percentage provided for in Section 3 hereof, to the Treasurer of Ontario for the uses of Ontario.
It will be noticed that the tax is not to be computed upon the amount, namely in the transfer as the consideration, which often is only a nominal sum, but on the actual purchase price as sworn to by the purchaser in a special affidavit which Section 6 requires him to make and file with the registrar and that the tax must be paid before the deed is registered.
The Act does not apply to any transfer where an agreement for sale of the land has already been registered.
It comes into force and takes effect on the first day of June next, which leaves but little time in which to become familiar with its provisions. Registrar Crow is sending complete copies of the Act to the lawyers and conveyancers throughout the county.
Hon. Peter Smith, the Provincial Treasurer, is the author of the measure, and it will be interesting to follow it in its operation and to observe how much it augments his strong box.
Registrar Crow says that last year the number of transfers registered in this county was 3465. Averaging the consideration in these at say $1000 each, the tax (which is one-fifth of one per cent, or $2.00 per thousand) would be $2.00 on each deed, or on the whole 3465 instruments $6,930.00. Multiply this by 67, the number of registry divisions in the Province, we get the tidy sum of $464,310.00 no small addition to the provincial revenue.
W.J. Hickey Has Contract for Changes in O’Neal Block
[The Welland Tribune and Telegraph, 14 June 1921]
Work was commenced on Thursday on what is to be one of the nicest places of business on the Main streets of Welland. The block formerly occupied by J.S. O’Neil as a grocery store and which was recently purchased by the Bank of Toronto, is to be converted into a modern and up-to-date bank building.
W.J. Hickey, general contractor, has been awarded the contract, and now has a gang of men working on the building.
The front of the building is to be one of the finest. It is to be a complete cut stone design with carved columns from the ground to the top of the building.
The entrance will be on the west side of the building, while two large windows will occupy the front of the bank. The entrance will lead into a vestibule, which in turn leads into the bank and to the floors upstairs.
The building will be ready for occupancy in the early autumn.
A.E. Nicholson, O.A.A., of St. Catharines was the designer of the plans, and they are truly a work of art. Mr. Nicholson will be remembered for his work in this city previously. He designed the First Street School, the Queen Street School and the new Empire School in the east end.
[The Welland Tribune and Telegraph, 24 May 1921]
The success which has attended the Lookout Point Country Club in its aim to establish a country club and golf course on Pelham Heights has been so encouraging that last week the club decided to alter its plans. Now instead of a nine-hole course it will be eighteen. This decision will increase the capital outlay to nearly one hundred thousand dollars and it is the intention to increase the present membership of one hundred and fifty to three hundred.
The highest authorities have pronounced the projected golf course upon which work is now going forward, as one which for its landscape beauty, its contour and its soil as one having no superior and it is the expectation that Lookout Point will be the mecca of the golfers of the continent.
U.S. Court Denies Injunction Asked by Falls Bridge Companies Against Order Issued by Customs Collector.
[The Welland Tribune and Telegraph, 26 April 1921]
The United States Circuit Court of Appeals at New York City has handed down a decision affirming the order of United States Judge John R. Hazel of Buffalo, which denied the motion of the International Railway Company, owner of the upper steel arch bridge and the Queenston Lewiston suspension bridge and the similar motion of the Niagara Falls International Bridge Company, owner of the lower steel arch bridge for an injunction restraining Customs Collector Geo. C. Davidson, of Buffalo, and his agents here from closing the international bridges Sundays and holidays. The litigation followed Collector Davidson’s threat to withdraw Customs inspectors from service on the bridges Sundays and holidays unless the bridge owners would pay the inspectors for such overtime work. The bridge companies contended that payment of the inspectors for this work was up to the United States Treasury Department and that any claim which might be against the bridge companies in the matter must lie in an action by the Treasury against the bridge companies for reimbursement.
The order of Collector Davidson for closing the bridges, which was issued but suspended during the litigation of the case, provided that all trolley, automobile or other vehicle traffic, as well as foot traffic across the bridges on Sunday and holidays should be permitted to continue only on the regulation that all automobiles and other vehicles hand baggage and other dutiable things in possession of those crossing the bridges be left at the United States Customs Office in this city until the day following such Sunday or holiday for inspection. This in effect would be a virtual closing of the bridges to the bulk of their customary traffic.
[The Welland Tribune and Telegraph, 24 March 1921]
Somerville & Dilworth, contractors, have commenced the construction of a two storey brick store for George Jarvis. The store will be located on the north side of east Main street, between Patterson and Myrtle Avenues, and will be occupied when completer by Mr. Jarvis.
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