Craigvale
History of Craigvale and Stroud
The 1870's and 1880's
Stephen Maneer, who was about 38 years of age, had a saw-mill, first
in Craigvale, on the south side of the street, which manufactured lumber
and shingles, then he moved to Vine in 1878. It was said that as many
as fifty in procession were seen hauling logs to the mills at Craigvale
in great heaps. A prize of $10.00 was offered for the largest load. Stephen
also built Mrs Fred Wright's house.
The Vine is a small village situated in a valley close to the Hamilton-Allandale
Railway on the 10th Concession of Innisfil. It consisted in former years
of a store, post office, railway station, dwelling for the section worker,
saw-mill, and some fifteen homes.
Another industry of the locality was a shingle mill owned by Robert
Reynolds, on lot eleven near the creek. The house on the railway property.
The store and post office were operated by Parker V Kelcey, who was
also engineer at the mill. He moved to Vine from Craigvale in 1878 and
kept the post office until his death in 1908. One of the seven listed
living at Vine was Samuel Reynolds.
Robert Reynolds operated the farm upon which the saw-mill was located.
It was the Hunter farm, lot 8.
An Englishman, Charles E Chantler, operated a brickyard at Craigvale
from 1880 to 1900. His key men being foreman Charles Reynolds and his
son Milton, and Reef Bowman. Bricks from here, selling at four dollars
per thousand, were used to build the home of Miss Florence Nightingale,
Bill Cowan's home and 150,000 of these bricks went into building Churchill
United Church.
This section contains material collected by Jeanne Groce about the history
of Stroud and Craigvale. It contains "information collected from libraries,
books, newspapers, the Centennial History of Innisfil, Historical Revue,
word of mouth, and anywhere else I could find it." Reference to the source
of the material is given where possible.
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