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- . 1891 Apr 15 Census Erin Village, Wellington Co.
Overland, Charles, Age 72, England, Baptist
Mary Overland, age 72, England, Maggie, age 32, Ontario, Mary Overland, age 29, Ontario.
. 1895 Oct 3 - Erin, Mr. C Overland was the first to be ready to accommodate the brick work on his new store. Messrs. Sutton & Miloy have each purchased lots from Mr. John Cormock & have commenced excavating for the coliers & foundations. Mr. Sutton's store will be adjoining Mr. Overland's & then Mr. Milloy's.
Ref: Acton Free Press.
The next store was a big roomy shop kept by the Overland Brothers, Charles & George, - of groceries, cured pork, & barrels of salted herrings, cod & tobacco's. I can still see two pictures of men, advertising the Navy Plug tobacco. One picture, was a sick looking man with a dirty old pipe in his hand. The other a happy man smoking. The sign read, "Before & after smoking Navy Plug."
Sugar came in great hogshead barrels, brown & coarse. White sugar was a luxury in the early days & brown was used for preserves, in crockery containers & was lovely. When the great barrels were empty of what they could scrape out, they were stored in a rear yard, where we children were never disturbed, as we hurried like bees, to that great treat of salvaging a tasty scrapings out of those sweet tunnels. And no germs were known to scare us away from getting our share while it lasted.
I believe Mr. Charles Overland was also a funeral director of Erin, as was Mr. Smith Travis, who came to Erin in 1874, & conducted a furniture-manufacturing establishment. Erin was a very lively village, then as now.
Ref:Gleanings From Memories By Paths Of Erin - Stores, Shops & The First Advocate, by Harry Smith. - - -
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1820 - 1908 (87 years)