The Brockville Volunteer Firemen

Brockville Volunteer Hook & Ladder Company No. 1 - ca.1890
[Listed individually below, along with their daytime job, if known]
Back Row (from left): Patrick S. Roberts (railwayman), John York, William J. Reynolds, John L. Upham (bookseller), James Connors (moulder), W. Kelly, James H. Stewart (butcher), W. Ezra [...]

What Blockhouse? What Island?

The Small Island off Brockville and Its History
It was not much more than a rocky outcropping covered with grass and shrubs when the village of Buell’s Bay was first developing on the present site of Brockville.
The earliest name attached to what we now know as “Blockhouse Island”, was “Refuge Island.” For what reason, we don’t [...]

The early Bank of Montreal in Brockville

3 Wall St. at the corner of Pine St. on Brockville’s Court House Square

This is a very old picture of the Court House Square branch of the Bank of Montreal, taken about 1865. Constructed of cut and dressed limestone, the property was enclosed for many years by an impressive white-painted fence of wood.
Sources: This [...]

Frederick C. Gordon, Brockville Artist

Frederick C. Gordon was a young artist whose discovered works seem to be limited to black and white lithographs used to illustrate scenes in the Brockville area. These drawings were published in a couple of business booklets published in the 1890s.
Gordon did not seem to live in Brockville for very long, but he did advertised [...]