Notes:

Charles Henry is the son of Elizabeth of Ireland & John S Walker.

. Erin Foundry Manufacture & blacksmith at Main & Scotch Streets.

. 1877 Wellington County Atlas Advertisement:
WALKER'S IRON FOUNDRY -
Ploughs, Harrows, Rollers, Cultivators, Gang Ploughs, & all other Farming Implements.
IRON & BRASS CASTINGS TO ORDER
Repairing at short notice. -
John S. Walker & Son,
{Proprietors, Erin Village.

. 1879 Co. of Wellington Gazetteer: Erin, Walker & Son, blacksmiths

Acton Free Press Newspaper:
. 1879 Dec 25 - Competition: 25 Dec 1879: The climax Plow made at Crowe's Iron works, Guelph. It sheds of all competitors for general purposes, iron beam, steel board & hears made of special hard iron. Cheap $14 cash. John Crowe. (Note: the cost of a plow.)

. 1881 Feb 10 - Officers of the Rockwood L.OL. elected last Tues. are as follows: C H Walker, Secretary.
1889 May 16 - Walker's Brick House at Main & Scotch Streets may be given a general building date by "Mr M Overland is erecting a dwelling house 25 X 31, solid brick". The Overland house was near the Walker's house in Erin. - PJA

First Appendicitis Operation in Ontario:
* An incident in Dr. McNaughton's life must be respected here. Mr. Charlie Walker took sudden with appendicitis. Dr McNaughton summoned Dr McKinnon of Hillsburgh & Dr MacKinnon of Guelph, & in silence they performed the first successful appendix operation ever known in Ontario. Just fancy, no hospital ward or operating accessories, but in his own home on a table. The silence was so necessary that the board sidewalk in front of the house was laid with sawdust.
Ref: Gleanings From Memories By Paths Of Erin - Early Medicine & Barrett's Tub, by Harry Smith. 1871.

. 1890 Aug 24 - Acton Union Exhibition, on 7 & 8th Oct. The directors of Acton Union Agricultural Society met in the Town Hall on Sat. afternoon to complete arrangements for the annual exhibition on Tues. & Wed. The different committees & judges were appointed. The Committees are as follows: Implements: C. H. Walker, Erin. 1890 Sep 4 - . 1890 Oct 8 - Acton Union Exhibition to be held in Acton, Oct 7 & 8th, Special Prizes, Horses:
Best year-old colt, filly or gelding, agricultural or draught, by C H Walker, Erin, Potato digger, value $10.00. ... & was won by John Duff*.
. 1890 Oct 23 - Last of the Season, Erin Fair last Week Suffered Severely From Rain:
the Erin Agricultural Society held its annual exhibition on Wed. & Thus. All the inside depts. were filled on the first day. The crowd was so great in the building at onetime that a child had its leg broken while being jostled about. One woman became exhausted & had to be removed from the grounds. There was an absence of fakirs at the show this year, which was a relief to many. ... The success of the show is largely due to the energetic exertions of the officers & directors, who appeared to thoroughly understand their businesses: C. H. Walker.

. 1892 Apr 28 - Thomas Williams, a late employee of C H. Walker, has moved to Orangeville.
. 1892 May 12 - At the annual meeting of Erin Mechanic's Institute held in the Blue Ribbon Hall, last week, when the following officers were elected for the ensuing year: C H Walker, Vice-Pres. & also a Board Director. Acton Free Press Extracted from Erin Advocate.
. 1892 May 26 - Frank Law of Erin & Jas. Wheeler of the township, appeared before C. H. Walker, Reeve & Wm. Tyler, Justices of the peace last Wed. evening, for raising a disturbance on the public street, & were fined each $5.
. 1893 Jan 5 - Municipal Elections: Erin Village: Reeve C. H. Walker, Councillors, Jas Long, J S Miller, R Medley, D Campbell.
. Erin: A new survey of the village is about to be taken & a new map prepared. The following men have been chosen to rule this village 1893: C H Walker, Reeve, & councillors as above.
. 1893 Jan 26 - Erin, at the annual meeting of Erin Agricultural Society the following were elected directors: Ward 1, J. Duff*, for the village C H Walker & A C McMillan.
. 1896 Jan 9- Municipal Elections: Erin, Reeve: C. H. Walker.
Acton Free Press quoted the Erin Advocate Newspaper:

. 1893 May 18 - A general map for the corporation of the village of Erin has just been completed by M M C Schofield, surveyor & is now in the county Registry office. ...Annual meeting of the Mechanics Institute was held n the town hall on Wed. evening last week. Although this institute has been organized a little over a year , the report was very encouraging & shows that there were now 100 members. Officers are: C H Walker, Vice President, Jas. Walker, director.
. 1893 May 18 - A general map for the corporation of the village of Erin has just been completed by M M C Schofield, surveyor & is now in the county Registry office. ...Annual meeting of the Mechanics Institute was held in the town hall on Wed. evening last week. Although this institute has been organized a little over a year , the report was very encouraging & shows that there were now 100 members. Officers are: C H Walker, Vice President, Jas. Walker, director.

. 1894 Jan 18 - Erin, Reeve Walker attended County Council at Guelph on Tuesday.

1883 Wellington Country Directory:
Daily mail to Erin. * The Erin Foundry has been established 40 years, & employs 6 to 8t hands in the manufacture of plows, harrows, cultivators, & other agricultural implements. C. H. Walker.
*Erin L.O.L., No. 112; C. H. Walker, Secretary Meets, Wednesday, on or before full moon. There are 40 members.

. On the occasion of a visit from Erin & other loges to the Alton Orange Lodge LPL NO. 770, a newspaper clipping records that in 1906, for the first time in a quarter of a century, Alton Orangemen celebrated the glorious 12 at home. A general holiday was proclaimed. Streets were decorated with arches & flags, & there were speeches by W S Murphy, Charles Walker, & Sam Charters.
Ref: From the Boyne to Brampton, Wm. Perkins Bull.

. 1885 - 95 Gazetteer Ottawa:
1. Hardware merchants: Charles H Walker & Harvard, Georgetown … which is 12 to 35 miles to Georgetown. i.e. Plows, cutters.
2. Walker, C. H., proprietor Erin Foundry, Manuf. agricultural implements. 1881
3. Walker, Charles H. Foundry & Blacksmith;
Walker, George, Harness maker. Ottawa 1885.

. 1885 Gazetteer Ottawa, ON [i.e. national publication]
Hardware merchants: Charles H Walker & Harvard, Georgetown.
i.e. Plows, cutters …which is 12 to 35 miles to Georgetown.

. 1885 Mr C H Walker, of Erin, is putting a new engine & boiler, as well as other improvements in his foundry.
Ref: Acton Free Press, 3 Dec, 1885.

. 1888 Jul 19th, Toronto - Chas. was a witnesses at his widowed sister's, Sarah Jane Walker Grieves to Matthew Hall.

. 1892 Ontario Gazetteer & Directory, Walker, Charles H, foundry.
. 1898 - 99 Western Ontario Gazetteer & Directory: Erin, Walker C H, foundry.

. 1899 Jan 3, Erin - Rev. W Conboy, by acclamation. Councilors: C H Walker, D Spiers, W Hall & C. Overland.

. 1890 Sept 14, Thrus. A Delighted Deputation,
A deputation fro Erin, consisting of Dr. Gear, Messrs. Walker, Overland & Conboy visited Acton last Wednesday evening to inspect our electric lighting system. They were charmed with the efficiency of our plant. Erin streets will probably be lighted shortly. The power will be generated at 'The Cataract.
Ref: Acton Free Press.

. 1899 Sept 14, A Delighted Deputation.
A deputation from Erin, consisting of Dr. Geer, Messrs Walker, Overland & Conboy, visited Acton last Wednesday evening to inspect our electric lighting system. They were charmed with the efficiency of our plant. Erin streets will probably be lighted shortly. Power will be generated at "The Cataract." The deputation expressed surprise & pleasure with Acton's fine municipal possessions. The town hall, fire brigade equipment, park & permanent pavements all came in for compliments, & our municipal fathers were accorded heaps of taffy for their part in securing these improvements. They were especially complimented upon the efficiency & success of the electric lighting system.
Ref: Acton Free Press.

Average wages for farm hand: Robt. A Reed, Erin: Some good farm labourers from the Old Country, who would be willing to work for say $12 or $14 per month & board, by the year, would I think, soon get employment in this section of country.
Ref: Annual Report of the Industries for the Province of Ontario.

. 1901 Oct 24 - Erin Twp. Agricultural Society first fair of the new century & the 61 of this well-known fair. Notwithstanding cold weather 5,000 visitors gathered last Friday. ... the officers of the society are to be congratulated upon scoring another success this year: President, C H Walker.

. 1906 Apr 26 Pallbears:
- Died at St. Mary's. Mr. Henry Grindell was summoned to St. Mary's on Saturday by news of the death of his brother-in-law, Mr. W. L. Moore. Mr. Moore was a son of Mr. Nelson M. Moore, of Eramosa, & was married to Miss Adeline Grindell, daughter of Mr. Robert G. Grindell, of Eramosa. Mrs. Moore, with 2 sons & 2 daughters, survive him. For twelve years Mr. Moore ran the Guelph & Erin stage, & for 4 years was agent forTolton Bros., later entering the service of the Maxwell works at St. Mary's. He had been ill for a long time, & was in his 44th year. A funeral service was held at St. Mary's Monday morning, conducted by Rev. W. H. Graham. The body was brought to Guelph on the 10.40 train, accompanied by the family. Deceased was a member of Erin lodge, No. 67, A.O.U.W., & of Erin tent, No. 122, K.O.T.M. Rev. S. E. Marshall conducted the service at Guelph.
The pallbearers were D. Tolton, R. Jestin, John Grindell, Chas. Walker & Wm. Everts & Chas. Overland.
Ref: Acton Free Press.

. Will of Charles H. Walker:
Summary: Died 1908 June 23, Erin, Wellington Will #6071
Real Estate $2.200:
Household goods & furniture: $100.00
Buggies & Cutters Manufactured: 300.00
Cash on hand: 23.00
Book debts & cash receivable: 375.00
Other material & stock-in-trade: 150.00
$948.00. Total
Real Estate #Lot #15 McMillan's survey, Erin Village made by C. J. Wheelock,
P.L.S. Plan 102, $2,000.00.
Lot 20 in same survey, $200.00, Total: $3,148,00.
$2,000 Insurance on the life in the Ancient Order of United Workmen
Sole Beneficiary: Ella H Walker. Signed, Charles H Walker, 15 May 1908.
...real estate, personal property, "My beneficiary Certificate for $2,000 in A.O.U. Workmen is drawn in favour of my wife Ella Walker".
Witnesses: Henry Gear, physician; John D. Leitch, CP.R. Agent, Erin.

. Wellington Co. Deaths #8- 39473, Erin Village
Walker, Charles Henry, died June 23, 1908, Aged 51 years,
Resided Main Street, Erin, Machinist, married, Born Erin Village of Valvular disease of Heart, one year. Dr. H Gear, Anglican
Transcripts by P J Ahlberg. Thank you.

Continues at the separate John Sibbald Walker family tree. - - -

Birth:
Main & Scotch St., Erin Village

Died:
Papa died of heart failure, whilst running to the Erin train station to repair the engine on the inaugural trip of the Credit Valley Railroad. The train would not start again so John was considered to be the Erin mechanical engineering expert so they cal

Buried:
Row 28 Plot 14

Family/Spouse: Mary ELLA HAMILTON. Mary (daughter of Richard Lawrence HAMILTON and Jane Matilda MCCUTCHEON, .2) was born on 27 Jul 1863 in Acton, Esquesing Twp., Halton Co., Ontario; died on 28 Dec 1944 in Toronto, York Co., Ontario; was buried in Erin Union Cemetery. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

One winter Jennie took her father's horse and cutter by herself, on the back roads to play the music in the small white church at her girlfriends wedding.

Ontario Birth Registration # 501402
Jennie Walker, 26 y. b, 11 March, 1883, Erin, Ont.; Mother Ella Hamilton Age 19, Father Charles Henry Walker Age 26, Carriage builder Manufacture, Residence, Erin, Ontario.
Married notations: +Declaration by mother, Family Bible record, marriage.
Informant: Annie Walker, 228 Fairman (?) ave, Toronto &Dr. Henry McNaughton , Erin, ON.

- 1883 Mar 22 - Born - In Erin, on Sunday, 5th March, the wife of Charles H Walker, of a daughter.
Ref: Acton Free Press, 22 Mar 1883, page 2, column 2.

.Walker, Charles (Daughter), Birth announcement, Acton Free Press, 9 Mar 1893, page 2, column 1.

Jennie was born in the large red brick house her father, John Walker, built next to his blacksmith & carriage shop at Scot and Main Streets, Erin, Ontario. She help to raise her younger siblings. Jennie and her new husband moved to Toronto where John Felker had a good job with CCM plant. On Thanksgiving and holidays they would go back to Erin to visit her mother and picnicking at Stanley Park in Erin or Belfountain.
Jennie had a hard time providing after her husband died young. Daughter Marie quit high school to help her mother and brothers. She sure loved her hockey and football. Jennie was famous for her apple and especially her mincemeat pies, which she made by hand in barrels for the fancy grocery store in Erin. Her peanut butter cookies were pretty good too!
Jennie has a photo of her standing in in the doorway of her grandparent's Hamilton fine goods general store in Erin; Later she ran her own grocery store on Weston Rd., Toronto. They were the first to have large standing radio in the store. Neighbours would come in to listen to the programming.

Jennie Was Given A Gold Pocket Watch For Playing The Piano For The Erin Church. One Winter She Took Her Father's Horse & Cutter Herself On The Back Roads To Play In The Little White Church Where Her Girlfriend Was Getting Married.

Erin Advocate, Ontario:
909 Aug 25, Wed. - Mrs. Chas. W Walker, of West Toronto, who has been spending a 2 weeks vacation with friends & relatives here, returned home on Saturday evening, sorry to leave, but looking forward to a return visit next year.
[Chas. Walker died in June 1908. Ella sold up the foundry & and moved with her girls to Toronto in 1922 to nurse her dying daughter Kate Walker.]

1909 Oct 27 - Miss J. Walker, visited Toronto Friends, on Thanksgiving Day.

1909 Sep 22 - Mr. J. Felker, Toronto, spent Sunday with friends in town.

1911 Jan. 4 - Mr. Frank Walker, Union Bank, Smith's Falls, at home.
Mr. & Mrs. J. Felker, of Toronto, spent New Years with his mother, Mrs. C H Walker.

1911 Jan 25 - The first Carnival of the season held at the Rink on Thurs. evening was a success and was much enjoyed by many skaters. Prize winners were Best Boy skater under 9, Clayton Justice, Best Girl., Best Dressed Lady: 1st Mrs. Baird, 2nd, Miss R. Walker.

1911 May 24 - Mrs. J. Felker, Toronto; & Mrs. T. Justice and daughter, of Dauphin, Manitoba, are here on a visit to their mother, Mrs. C. Walker.

1911 May 31 - Mrs. J. Felker, who has been here on a visit to her mother, Mrs. C. Walker, returned to her home in Toronto last week, accompanied by her sister Ruby.

1911 July 12 - Mrs. J. Felker, Toronto,is here on a visit to her mother, Mrs. C. Walker.

1911 Oct. 18 - Erin Fair Visitors: Mr & Mrs. J. Felker, Toronto, at Mrs. C. Walker's, 6,000 people attended the Fair last Friday.

1911 Nov. 22 - Mrs. R. Hamilton is visiting her granddaughter, Mrs. J. Felker, Toronto. [i.e. Jane Matilda McCutcheon].

1911 Dec. 27 - Christmas visitors, Mr. Neil Felker, of Toronto and formerly of the Advocate with friends in town.
Mr. & Mrs. J. Felker, of Toronto; Mr. Frank Walker, of Smiths Falls; Miss I. Walker, with their mother, Mrs. Walker.

Notes: For more Advocate social news, please look under the various individuals - PJA Uncle James Walker came every Sunday with his family to Sunday dinner on Weston Road with his niece, Jennie Walker Felker. James was a short man.

Transcripts by P J Ahlberg. Thank you. - - -

Jennie married John Wesley JACK FELKER, .IV in 1910 in Erin Village, Wellington Co., Ontario. John was born on 2 Dec 1880 in Belwood, W Garafraxa Twp., Wellington Co., Ontario, Canada; died on 15 Aug 1929 in Toronto, York Co., Ontario; was buried on 16 Aug 1929 in Erin Union Cemetery. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]