St. Marys Wood Specialty Co.
Description
- Mystery Question
- Can you identify any of the men in this photo?[Please answer by clicking on the Comments tab]
- Media Type
- Image
- Item Type
- Photographs
- Description
- This photograph shows a group of mostly unidentified men standing outside the St. Marys Wood Specialty Co. building which was once located where the current Subway is, across from the high school on James Street South. St. Marys Wood Specialty Co. was incorporated in 1908. They started out making hockey sticks and baseball bats, but before long manufactured axe, pick and hammer handles as well. By 1910, the company was selling sticks as far away as Regina, and by 1915 they carried sixteen models of hockey sticks and twenty-seven models of baseball bats. Despite their early success, the company struggled in the early stages of the Great Depression. In 1933, they sold to Canada Barrels and Kegs Company, owned by the Seagram Family of Waterloo.
FRONT ROW, SECOND FROM THE RIGHT might be Willie Sugden Downes. He was born in Wakefield England on June 10th, 1889 and was living in St. Marys by 1908. Downes worked in the woodworking business and owned two architectural millwork companies during his lifetime.
FAR LEFT MIDDLE ROW may be Thomas Sweeney who immigrated to Canada from England in 1907. - Notes
- Condition: good.
- Dimensions
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Width: 12.6 cm
Height: 8.9 cm
- Image Dimensions
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Image Width: 11.7cm
Image Height: 7.7cm
- Subject(s)
- Local identifier
- eedy007
- Collection
- Eedy Collection
- Language of Item
- English
- Geographic Coverage
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Ontario, Canada
Latitude: 43.2554505530508 Longitude: -81.1362935195351
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- Donor
- R. Lorne Eedy
- Copyright Statement
- Copyright status unknown. Responsibility for determining the copyright status and any use rests exclusively with the user.
- Recommended Citation
- Eedy Collection. "St. Marys Wood Specialty Co." St. Marys Museum, eedy007.
- Location of Original
- R. Lorne Eedy Archives
- Terms of Use
- Reproduction of digital objects is restricted to fair use for personal study or research; any other use must be done with permission of copyright holder.
- Reproduction Notes
- This image is a watermarked low resolution reproduction.
High resolution images are available at the St. Marys Museum for a fee. - Contact
- St. Marys MuseumEmail:museum@town.stmarys.on.ca
Website:
Agency street/mail address:177 Church Street South,
P.O. Box 998,
St. Marys, Ontario.
N4X 1B6
