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- 1995 (Creation)
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The building located at 30 Holland St. West (on the southeast corner of Holland and Drury Streets) has been the site of many businesses, including Bradford Travel (as seen in this photo from 1995). Many years previously, George Ogilvie, a tailor, moved to this area from Bond Head. He employed five or six cutters and seamstresses to help run his business. It occupied the first and second floors of the building. John Depew moved here years later. He ran a barbershop on the ground floor and lived upstairs with his children (Oswald, Eddie and Georgina). The two boys became barbers and Georgina was a nurse in the Soldiers’ Memorial Hospital in Orillia. Archie Hammell and his wife Minnie (Spence) opened and ran a grocery store here for a time. Gerry McTavish worked for them, and he and his wife took over the business when the Hammells retired. (1, 2)
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HW 30 TRAVEL
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- George Ogilvie (Subject)
- John Depew (Subject)
- Oswald Depew (Subject)
- Eddie Depew (Subject)
- Georgina Depew (Subject)
- Archie Hammell (Subject)
- Minnie (Spence) Hammell (Subject)
- Gerry McTavish (Subject)
- Georgina (Depew) Smith (Subject)