Results for ‘Businesses’
[The Welland Tribune and Telegraph, 4 January 1921]
Two classes will move into the new building today, these being the French class and the primary, which was formerly in the Crowland street school. Four more classes will occupy the building as soon as promotion and readjustment takes place. This will make a total of six classes, and will leave room for more to come later. The carpenters work was expected to be finished last night, and only the cleaning up would then be left to be done.
It is noticeable fact that exactly twenty years ago this week work the Central School was opened with due honors, an account of which appears in our Twenty Years Ago column.
*The new Central School was opened with the necessary honors on the first of the year. -6 January 1921
Total for 1920 Was Less Than Three Hundred Thousand Dollars
[The Welland Tribune and Telegraph, 4 January 1921]
The building report for December has just been received and exceeds that for December 1919. The reason for this is that a great deal of repair and improvement work has been going on this last month. There was only one dwelling built and that one was erected on Major Street. The figures for last month were $4, 045, in comparison with December 1919 which were only $350. For the total year 1920 permits amounted to $299, 420, in comparison with 1919, which were $369, 235. It will be noticed that there is a considerable decrease for the total year 1920.
[People’s Press, 30 October 1917]
Messrs. Toyne and Whalley, managers, take pleasure in notifying the public they have reopened the Arlington Hotel. The bedrooms have all been thoroughly refitted, and will be found comfortable and homelike. A first class cook has been engaged and will be in charge of the culinary department. The dining room service will be of the best. The bar will be supplied with cool and refreshing drinks and choice cigars. The public will find this old reliable house a pleasant place to rest and eat. The managers will be pleased to meet the travelling public and will at all times endeavor to make it pleasant and homelike for their guest.
[Welland Tribune, 20 December 1889]
WELLAND, Dec.16-Council met to special session this evening. Present-Mayor Ross, Reeve Hamilton Burgar, Deputy Hobson, and Councillors Best, Beatty, Cooper, Current, Hooker, Elia Burgar, George Burgar, Lowe and Rose. Minutes of last meeting read.
MARKET SITE
The Mayor, from the committee to procure cost of lots proposed for market sites, said he had been unable to obtain definite figures for either the Demare or Cafferty lots; the owners of those lots did not appear to want to sell, though there was a rumor that the Cafferty lot (on Muir street) could be had for $4500. The Mellanby lot could be had for about $ 1100, but it was not of itself large enough for a market site.
The owners of the lots on Bald street had formally agreed to sell the lots on north side of that street at $10 per foot frontage, lots to be 70 feet deep, and owners to have right of way to rear of their lots on West Main street; this property would cost in the aggregate about $2500. A written proposition to this effect was submitted, signed by R. Morwood, Taylor & Crow (now owners of the Dunigan block), G.L. Hobson and L.V. Garner, a slice off the side of whose lot on Fraser street would be required to give the 70 feet from Bald street.
Mr. Hobson said he found such a feeling between the sides of the canal as would defeat any scheme to purchase site. He thought the by-law might better be withdrawn until a better understanding was arrived at by the electors. If the by-law was sure to be defeated there was no use to incurring the cost of unnecessary election.
Mr. J.H. Burgar was not in favor of the by-law, but not for the reason spoken of by Mr. Hobson. It was not a question of sides with him (Mr. Burgar) but he did not think the town was in a position at present to spend $4000on a market site. If we had that amount to spare he believed it might be expended to better advantage to putting stone on our streets. The town is already loaded up with all the debt it can carry. He did not believe the by-law would be carried in a single ward of the town. Personally the reeve was favorable to a market if land could be leased for that purpose, so as to avoid heavy expenditure at this time.
Mr. Geo. Burgar said he had introduced the market by-law to carry out the express wishes of the Board of Trade.
[Welland Telegraph, 20 February 1912]
Number of men employed in all factories-1906, 100; 1911, 2098.
Annual pay sheet of all factories- 1906, $50,000; 1911, $1,163,422.
Value of products shipped from all factories-1906, $150,000; 1911, $5,847,459.
During the year 1911, twenty per cent of all the massed output of our manufacturing institutions was paid out for labor, which amount has been circulated among the merchants, business and professional men and citizens of the town. This was a tremendous amount of money to circulate in a town of the size of Welland, and I doubt if any other town of equal population can equal this record. One point for you to ponder over and remember is that this money paid for skill and labor in Welland and circulated among you was secured from the outermost parts of Canada and sent in from the outside and put in circulation as new capital, never before available by you. This proves to me that the larger the pay rolls that we can set in circulation in Welland, the more business grows.
Since the beginning of the New Year we have entertained representatives of twelve American factories seeking locations for new plants and have opened negotiations by mail with scores of others.
My opinion is that 1912 will see greater industrial expansion than has ever been known in a single year in Welland’s history, and this opinion is based on negotiations now under consideration with every prospect of success.
My advice to you is that you must not become indifferent and think that Welland can continue to grow into a beautiful and prosperous city without nourishment and cultivation on your part. Every Wellander must do his duty and by doing it cheerfully and voluntarily he does it doubly well. Yours sincerely, B.J. McCormick:. Industrial Commissioner.
[Welland Telegraph. 3 April 1917]
The Mansion House, one of Welland’s historic hostelries, has disappeared, and foundations are going forward for the new block that is to take its place.
Tenders will probably be let this week for converting the west section of the Arlington Hotel into a modern theatre of a seating capacity of about five hundred. The house will be up-to-date in every respect.
[Peoples Press, 9 December 1902]
It is said on Monday afternoon‘s occasion a procession of old bachelors was seen going towards Garner’s –some not having waited to eat their dinners to say nothing of dessert. The plan for “The Spinster’s Restaurant” opened on Monday.
[Welland Telegraph, 17 February 1911]
Neil Campbell has leased the corner store in his new block to A.O. Rose for forty dollars a month, and a foreigner has rented the west store at $25 a month.
The contract for the erection of the new fire-proof office building of the Page-Hersey Co., has been let to David Dick. The work of erection will be started at once.
J.E. Cutler this week gave the order to Cowan & Co. of Galt for a complete new mill equipment and will start at once to put up a new building. The plant will be in operation about April 1st. The mill will be larger and better equipped than the one which was destroyed by fire.
Goodwin & Ross, men’s clothiers, have sold their North End store at Niagara Falls to Logan & Pew. The deal went through on Tuesday.
Port Colborne News
[Welland Tribune, 2 April 1874]
The canal and harbor are open at this point, but a large quantity of loose ice fills the lake outside the harbor, which was entirely clear before the wind blew the floating ice down to this end, and a few hours’ wind from a contrary direction would open up the port again.
The tug men and others who “go down to the sea in ships” are briskly preparing for the summer campaign. Carter’ tug, the Hector, which was wrecked off Sugar Loaf last fall, has been hauled out and brought down to the village where she is being repaired.
[Welland Tribune, 2 April 1897]
Editor Welland Tribune:
Niagara Falls, Ont..,
24th March, 1897
DEAR SIR,- I would like to see the influence of the TRIBUNE enlisted in the cause of good roads and would suggest that I call the attention of all pathmasters in the county to the importance of scraping the roads at the earliest possible moment after they become dry enough. To anyone who takes an interest in the subject it must be apparent that much of the statute labor is worse than a farce, but a timely use of a scraper before the roads become hard in an absolute necessity on clay roads if they are to be smooth for the summer. The labor required for this kind of road work is insignificant and the results as compared with the usual plowing and scraping are so marked that the wonder is that it should be necessary to urge pathmasters to put it in practice. There is probably not one section of road in ten that ever has a scraping in the spring. I would suggest that you put a few lines on the subject along with the matter from your different country correspondents each week from now until the roads become too hard to scrape. In this way the matter would force itself upon those whose business it is to give us good roads but who as a rule do more harm than good.
Yours truly
E.W. Tench
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