The Old Brockville Collegiate [1889-1929]

90 Pearl St. E., Brockville

Brockville Collegiate Institute, built in 1889

Miss Edith Giles who joined the staff of the High School in 1889, and taught there until her retirement in June 1927, wrote the following history in 1930:
The Brockville Collegiate Institute was built in 1889, and was formally opened for the Fall term in September [...]

Laing Produce & Storage Co. Ltd.

39-41 Water Street East, Brockville
south side, between Bethune & Park Sts.

Taken sometime in the 1930s
In this aerial view, taken about seventy-five years ago, you can see the sprawling collection of buildings which made up the Laing Produce & Storage Ltd at that time. The oldest buildings in the centre dated back to the 1870s & [...]

Brockville in 1936

This is how the business interests of Brockville described themselves in 1936:
“Brockville is the Eastern Gateway to the Thousand Islands, the Venice of America, and every day, at convenient hours, commodious sight-seeing boats make trips through the scenic beauties of the St. Lawrence, leaving from a readily accessible dock in the centre of [...]

“Belvedere”, the Morton-Jones House

built ca.1850
now “Belvedere Apartments“,
10 Belvedere Place, Brockville

This beautiful house was built for George Morton about 1850 on a seven-acre property at the corner of the King’s Highway #2 and Oxford Ave.
George Morton (1821-1892), a Montrealer by birth, came to Brockville in 1840, and became head of the firm of Morton, McKee & Co., [...]