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Trying to find out when and where Chambers Drug Store was in business in St.Catharines Ontario
Would you know the names of the Chambers folks who owned the drug store?
Have very old glass bottle from Greenwood’ City Drug Store, in Saint Catherine’s Ontario. Could you please give us some information on this bottle her company or the company thank you. OK done
Hello; I am looking for any information on the disappearance of my Aunt, Cathleen Sullivan who went missing at a Firemans’ Picnic @ Port Dalhousie in approximately the summer of 1945 at the age of 11. She lived in Toronto in the Avenue Road & Eglinton area and attended the picnic with her sisters & neighbours. She went missing when she went to get changed into her bathing suit. Her bathing suit was found but she was never seen again. This mystery has never been solved, no body, no answers and I was wondering if there is any record in your archives of this event. In this age of information access I just thought I would take a chance of shedding a light on this family tragedy.
Thank you for your time & attention.
Hi Lori Just saw this post. Was wondering if you ever found out anything about your aunt. Was curios as I just read about a young boy that went missing from Etobicoke in 1944 and also the Rusnack girl in St. Catharines in 1948. None were ever found. Very strange and wonder if there was a connection.
Thanks Ronn
Hello, my Name is Susanne Häussler from Munich, Germany. I make the Research of my Family. I found the name Rusnok Marion in connection with Ontario Canada.
I found a Family member who imigrated to Windsor, Ontario in 1912. Marion Rusnok could be a member to this Rusnok Family from Oldrichovice in Moravia. Could anyone give me an Information about this girl and from that Family? Sorry for the mistakes,
It would be helpful for me. I am coming this year to the USA and I also wanted to visit Windsor Ontario and if theese Rusnok would be members to my Family, I would come also to St. Catharines.
Thank you and all the best Susanne Häussler
Fay Jackson was at 108 St. Paul St. just down from Beatties and across from Diana Sweets. It sold wedding dresses on the top floor.
Hi
Do you have the address of Bernard Bennett
I am seaching for information my mother Joyce Bennett moved from England to st Catharines when she was 6 weeks old and lived there until she was 16 years old she loved Canada and her child hood I would like to find where she lived and what schools she went to. He parents where Bernard and Ruby Bennett it would have been 30s to 40s.
Please any info will do.
Many thanks in advanced as I hope to visit from the UK
From Rootsweb: The Bennetts apparently witnessed the marriage of Charles and Beatrice, who I assume was a relative. This places them in St. Catharines in 1927. Just a start….
14849-27 Charles Edward HOLTAM, 39, widower, tool maker, Cheltenham England, St. Catharines, s/o Jesse HOLTAM, b. England & Georgina TOVEY?, married Beatrice Eleanor BENNETT, 35, Cowes – Isle of Wight England, St. Catharines, d/o Frederick BENNETT, b. England & Catherine May BROADWATER, witn: Bernard Lionel BENNETT & Ruby BENNETT, both of St. Catharines, 25 May 1927 at St. Catharines
Thank you for this information
This is my grandparents and they are from Cows originally. Great news.
I am looking for a cousin born late 1944 or early 1945. Father’s name Henry Grunau. His mother’s father worked at a place called Morton’s auto in St. Catherine’s. Henry was a soldier in WW2 and was buried in Italy.
Hello, I am looking for the history about 368 glenridge and what existed on this property as far back as you can go, until current, and if there was any deaths
My friend from Toronto visited us most recently as he was looking into his Family History.
His great grandmother lived in St. Catharines from 1916 till her death in 1925.
He had a picture of her sitting on the steps of a wide porch, attached to a two storey house. The picture was in an envelope with a return address on it of 149 Welland Ave. On searching out the location we found a small single floor home, not quite the same as the home in the picture which also had two large windows on the upper floor and a chimney on the side of the home (rather than in the centre). The letter was not dated but he presumes it was taken about 1923. We did locate her plot marker in Victoria Lawn cemetery which verifies her death in 1925. In trying to locate her home or identify the house in the photo, we are wondering if the numbering of houses/lots on Welland Ave. were ever changed in the 1920’s or later. Any info on helping us locate her home in St, Catherines would be helpful ….he does know she never owned property but must have rented a flat or home. Great grandmothers name was Margaret Kurten.
Thank you
Hello I have a telephone directory from 1924 .The address you mention 149 Welland ave, was occupied in 1924 by Frank Oster and Wilfried Lambert, The name of you great grand mother was not in the directory.
I wonder if the Wilfried (sic) Lambert was my grand uncle Wilfred E Lambert (b. 1906). Hmmm…
Do you have any more information or history on this building dating back to the year 1850 when i believe it was built?
I am the current owner of this home (149 Welland Ave)
Hello, I live at 39 Manning street and we’ve been wanting to find out more about the history of the land, what was there before the home? If there were any previous owners, etc. Would love to know anything and everything you could find! Thanks in advance, email is fine for contact!
What was the original name of the store on st. Paul st. That changed it’s name to opus not long after opening???