Dave Paterson, a reader of this website, recently sent me the original of what appears to be a cheque from the Lakefield Portland Cement Company. He found it between the pages of a used book he acquired. Here is a photo of the cheque: After seeing the original cheque I am guessing that it was …
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In 2003, while first doing research for From Devastation To Beauty – The Creation Of The Butchart Gardens, I visited the town of Lakefield, Ontario, where Robert Butchart, George Stirke Kilbourn, John M. Kilbourn, Francis Kilbourn, Horace B. Smith and William Henry Eugene Bravender created the Lakefield Portland Cement Company in 1900. Despite the importance of the Lakefield Portland Cement Company, …
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