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To Urge Deepening of Welland Canal
Houses to be Numbered at Once
Hundred Block System
[Welland Tribune, 8 December 1910]
At a special meeting of Welland town council last night it was decided to send the whole council to Ottawa next week in company with the big Ontario delegation to urge the deepening of the Welland canal, the town to hear the expense. If any member cannot go he may provide a substitute in his place.
HOUSE NUMBERING
It was also decided to proceed at once with house numbering as well as street naming, making it a complete job at once. The houses are to be numbered on the hundred block system, the most up-to-date method. Many cities are throwing out old systems to adopt this.
Line is Now Completed
[Welland Tribune, 8 December 1910]
The long and unaccountable delay in opening up the N.S.&T. railway extension from Welland to Port Colborne at last appears to be very near an end. Within the past two weeks work has been rushed along the line, so that at the present time it is practically completed. The diamonds have been put in for the B&G. railway crossing at Port Colborne and the M.C.R. crossing at Welland, and the diamond for the T.H.&B. crossing arrived here Monday. It will take but a short time to install this. The interlocking switches for the railway crossings are all finished and the wiring has been completed. On Monday the piling for the temporary bridge across the feeder was all in and all that remained to be done was to put on the capping and lay the rails. A work train and large number of men have also been busy completing the grading.
It is the intention to commence operating cars on this division just as soon as possible. It is said the date for opening the line will be not later than a week before Christmas.
It is not likely that the service from Welland north will be interfered with at all, but another car will be put on between Welland and Port Colborne, connecting with the cars here for the north.
[Welland Telegraph, 8 April 1892]
The fashionable millinery rooms next door to the Imperial bank were opened on Wednesday by Mrs. Johnson with an entirely new stock. The premises have been thoroughly renovated since the fire and everything looks new. Mrs. Johnson says that her sales have already far exceeded any previous years at similar openings. She asks all her old customers, as well as new ones, to give her an early call and inspect her well selected choice of all the latest fashionable millinery goods.
Fifty Per cent Increase in Business Over Last Year
[The Welland Tribune and Telegraph, 22 August 1922]
Up to date, 1922 shipments of binder twine received at the Fort William warehouse of the Plymouth Cordage Company, exceed any other year’s business in the history of the plant, according to information received by the Canadian Machinery. Five steamship cargoes have been unloaded at the warehouse.
The Plymouth people estimate the increase over last year as fifty per cent. The twine is being shipped to the Canadian West where it is being used upon the harvest fields of the prairies to garner the 1922 grain crop, as fast as it is received.
The total shipments of twine at Fort William since the opening of navigation reach 44,000,000 pounds. At 550 feet to the pound, the twine if made into a single strand, would measure 4,583.333 miles; long enough to circle the earth one hundred and eighty-three and a third times, or form twenty strands reaching from the earth to the moon.
The Hooker Survey
[People’s Press, 31 December 1907]
Mr. D.D. Hooker has had surveyed and opened for sale an eligible section for residential buildings in the Third Ward (Welland). Two new streets are laid out, parallel with and south of Maple avenue (formerly Jane street). The first street south of Maple avenue is called Hooker street, and the other Edward street. Fraser street and Queen street will be extended southward to connect with Hooker and Edward streets. Part of the land comprised in the plan was formerly the brickyard, which has been moved to a new location farther south and west. The tract will have sewage outlet through the Denistoun street sewer.
The location is a very central and desirable one, and will be more so when the trolley comes to town, and still more so should a new bridge be placed across the canal near the Beatty works, as will be required in the not distant future.
Already five lots on Hooker street and the Queen street extension have been sold. Mr. Cunningham of the county of Oxford is the purchaser. He intends building good houses upon them in the spring,-in fact, Mr. Hooker intends making it a condition of sale and purchase that only good, creditable buildings shall be built-no shacks allowed.
[Welland Tribune, 15 July 1898]
The bicycle path is being rushed along as rapidly as possible and the workmen are now on the Page road. The work is being expedited by the use of a road scraper and plow. A mile of the path from town has been completed as far as can be until a good heavy rain, when it can, then be smoothed down. The men will be out to the Quaker road by Saturday night. The piece to the end of the sawdust road will be cindered this summer and probably all the rest will be gravelled this fall. The committee are receiving very generous offers of help from residents of the country. The other day one farmer who lives nearby three miles from the route offered to help draw gravel as soon as the necessary work on the farm is done, and yesterday another man who lives a short distance from the path handed in a dollar, saying it would be a great convenience to him. The committee will be glad to receive all the help they can get, and hope in this way to have most of the gravel drawn free, as to pay for hauling it would be out of the question this year. There will be a meeting of the club in the town hall this evening to talk over important matters in connection with the work.
[Welland Telegraph, 19 July 1901]
A circular concrete walk is being put down in front of the new town hall, from the sidewalk to the wooden steps that lead up to the chamber of wisdom. Strange to relate it is positively announced that the August session of the town council will be held in the new building. The chandeliers and window shades are to be here next week. To those who are kicking over the delay in finishing the Welland town hall, we might mention the fact that 10 years were consumed in erecting a similar building for Toronto.
Amount Awarded Welland Steamboat Co.
[Welland Tribune, 5 February 1909]
The Welland Steamboat Co. brought action against the Ontario & Quebec Navigation Co., for damages for failing to supply a certificate as per agreement, to allow plaintiff Co. to use the steamer Niagara for passenger traffic on the lakes. The action was tried at St. Catharines recently when a verdict was given for the Welland Co., and the matter referred to Judge Carman to fix amount of damages. After hearing evidence Judge Carman has given his decision, awarding the Welland Co. the sum of $2200 damages, which, of course, carries costs.
Proposition to Raise Water in Welland River
[Welland Tribune, 5 February 1909]
J.C. Gardner, civil engineer of Niagara Falls, Ont., proposes to give a deep waterway to Chippawa by raising the water of the Welland river ten feet to lake level, instead of dredging the channel deeper, doing away with the aqueduct at Welland. This he proposes to accomplish by building a dam across the river about 1 ½ miles west of Chippawa.
Mr. Gardner is evidently speaking with a very superficial knowledge of the subject. He says:
“One disadvantage of such a dam might be the flooding of land above the same, but in this case it is a negligible matter for at no point are the banks of the Welland river lower than Lake Erie level.”
In Welland town alone the damages would amount to hundreds of thousands of dollars. The large and costly Riverside Mills would be put out of business, and a large part of Ward 3 flooded, including Cutler’s factory, etc. As the river is a dead level at low water for 20 miles west of Welland, similar flooding would occur in places all the way west as far as Caistor.
Lake level, it should be taken into consideration, does not mean any definite depth, as the height of water in the lake, and in that portion of the canal which is at lake level, varies from four to five feet, according to the wind mainly. If the river were connected with the canal, as Mr. Gardner proposes, the same variation would occur in the river, and Mr. Gardner’s “ten feet” would sometimes be very much more than that, and it is the maximum that would have to be provided against.
As it is now, at times of high water in the river, the water has run across the street and sidewalk just south of the south end of the river bridge here.
[Welland Tribune, 20 July 1883]
MRS. LYDIA TUPPER’S property, on North Main street, is advertised for sale by tender, by J.W. Langmuir, manager, The Toronto General Trusts Co.,-Mrs. Tupper being an inmate of the lunatic asylum.
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