Mary street (west) + Croswell property
Description
- Media Type
- Image
- Item Type
- Photographs
- Description
- The Historical Society is particularly indebted to Waitstill ‘Waity’ Croswell, Joyce Crossman, Jack Crossman, Orma Quinn, Lynn Abbot Lennox, the Wellever family. Richard Moore, Norma Hill-Watt and the late John Macfie for the photos and associated descriptions.
- Notes
- Lot 12 on the west side of Mary Street; Cliff and Waity (Newell) Croswell property.
Lot 12 originally officially transferred from John Croswell to William J. Snaith August 12, 1904 (registered August 15, 1904). The Snaith family did not, however, live on Lot 12 Mary Street. Rather, as noted previously, they lived on Lot 12 on the southeast corner of Ahmic and Mary Streets (later known as the Stanyer house) at the time of the 1901 and 1911 censuses. On March 15, 1915 (registered January 16, 1919) William Snaith sold lot 12 on Mary Street to Phoebe Croswell for $500 as part of a larger transaction including other land in Lot 24, Con. IX. On September 24, 1934 (registered November 2, 1934) the lot was transferred from the estate of Phoebe Croswell to William John Croswell for $1. July 26, 1935 (registered April 27, 1948) the property is shown as being transferred from the estate of J.T. Croswell to Robert Hicks for $40. November 27, 1947 (registered April 27, 1948) the property transferred from the estate of Robert Hicks to James Walsh and Ethel (Hicks) Walsh as joint tenants.
July 2, 1949 (registered May 29, 1950) the property transferred from James and Ethel Hicks to Clifford Croswell. (In later years the property was registered in the names of both Clifford and Waitstill ‘Waity’ (Newell) Croswell. Cliff and Waity purchased a total of 2 acres on the west side of Mary Street. This included lot 12 as noted, and part being the property on which the Salvation Army Hall and later the Don Wager home stood/stands) and part of Lot 24, Concession IX Croft. Cliff and Waity purchased the property for $75, in part financed by a boat that Cliff built.
The Croswell’s built their home in two parts. They brought the kitchen part of the home, a previously constructed building, down the lake on the ice. A two storey section, comprising a living room and two downstairs bedrooms; and two upstairs bedrooms was added later.
- Place of Publication
- Ahmic Harbour, Ontario
- Subject(s)
- Local identifier
- 00185
- Collection
- Whitestone Historical Society Archive
- Geographic Coverage
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Ontario, Canada
Latitude: 45.66681 Longitude: -79.78297
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