Mail Will Go Through But Without Couch Family Involvement
- Publication
- Chronicle-Journal (Thunder Bay), 10 Mar 1989
Description
- Media Type
- Newspaper
- Description
- Pearson, Scoble, Gillies ; townships relied on Couch family for 38 years for mail delivery ; retiring ; retired from truck driving, school bus, and running store ; family history of postal service ; grandfather Moses Couch opened general store in Gillies 80 years ago ; included a post office ; in 1939 Couch and Sons awarded mail contract for transporting from Hymers ; also delivered mail to Pearson ; between 30 and 50 single boxes along the highways ; restricted during winter months ; all family members involved in delivery ; in 1979 Elsie took over South Gillies post office ; store was closed in 1985 ; photo
- Notes
- Full text available in Newspaper Clipping File
File subject: LF - NWO - Biography - C
Full text available on microfilm - Date of Publication
- 10 Mar 1989
- Subject(s)
- Language of Item
- English
- Geographic Coverage
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Ontario, Canada
Latitude: 48.4001 Longitude: -89.31683
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