New Durham Milk Factory
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This building, near which I was brought up, was more appropriately known as a cheese factory, and was one of the largest cheese factories in Ontario, producing 172,850 pounds of cheese in 1875 from an estimated 650 cows. The factory shown was destroyed by fire in the early 1940s (I remember seeing the fire as a student in the one-room school house which was only a short distance away). The factory was rebuilt but shortly thereafter was converted into a poultry processing plant, as farmers increasingly sent their milk to the concentrated milk market or to the fluid milk market.
Thanks for sharing, Robert!
My GGGrandparents had their General Store a couple of doors down from this cheese factory and I have found that at one time my GGGrandfather, James Patterson, was a cheese maker here. My Great Uncle Ernie Lowes lived next door to this factory.