Selwyn House School entrance.

Art work outside Selwyn House School on Cote St Antoine.

From Wikipedia:

“The school was founded in 1908 by (an) Englishman Captain Algernon Lucas. It is named after Selwyn College, University of Cambridge, which Lucas attended.”

Tuition fees for attending Selwyn as of the 2014- 2015 school year range from $16,960 – $20,160 plus “other fees”.

Corner stone, St Matthias Anglican Church Westmount.

Former church bell for St Matthias Anglican Church Westmount.

F. W. Evans, general manager Wood & Evans insurance agents. The company was a representative of the Aetna Life Insurance Co. of Hartford, Connecticut and the London & Lancashire Fire Insurance Company of Liverpool. (1897).

From: http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~qcmtl-w/EvansFredW.html

“(Frederick William Evans) became a councilor of Cote St. Antoine, now Westmount, in 1889, and re-entered Council in 1893 and served until 1902. He was Mayor 1896-7. He was council member of the Montreal Board of Trade in 1897, Treasurer in 1899, and first vice-president in 1910. He (was) president of the Dominion Guarantee Company, Canada Envelope Company and the West End Land Company.”

David McNicoll, pass and traffic manager Canadian Pacific Railway (1897).

Thomas Samuel & W. R. Samuel, Sheffield steelmakers (1897).

From : http://www.dincum.com/articles/redditch_needles_res.html

“Situated to the south west of Birmingham, the town of Redditch first established a needle making reputation as early as the 17th century. Initially this was a cottage industry but during the 19th century developed into factory based production.

By the mid 1800s dozens of individual companies were engaged in the trade. Products included fish hooks, surgeons’ and sewing needles. The development of the sewing machine during this period opened a lucrative new market. To meet this need, several local companies including Joseph Perkins & Sons, Thomas Shrimpton & Sons and Samuel Thomas & Sons added machine needles to their prospectus.

Their raw material was high quality steel wire, sourced from both nearby Birmingham and more distant Sheffield, renowned as the steel making capital of Britain.

By the 1870s, Sheffield steelmakers such as William Smith, Joseph Dyson, Joseph Wordsworth and Jagger Bros. advertised their steelware to Redditch needle makers. It has been estimated that by this period the town was producing many millions of needles annually, thereby dominating the UK market.”

Alex Macdonald, inspector, Canadian Pacific Railway (1897).

Robert Thompson, agent St. Lawrence Starch Company (1897).

From: http://www.archeion.ca/st-lawrence-starch-company-fonds;rad

“St. Lawrence Starch Company Limited was a major Canadian manufacturer of corn based starch, glucose and feed products, established in 1889 by John Gray, Archie Hutchison, Robert Kilgour, Joseph Kilgour and Jessie Malcolm and based in Port Credit, Ontario.

The St. Lawrence Starch Company was a family owned private company specializing in the manufacturing of corn based products for over a century. Its products, such as Durham corn starch and Jersey Brand gluten feed, were produced for the pulp and paper, textile, alcohol, grocery/food products and pharmaceutical industry.

The Bee Hive Golden Corn Syrup brand was a familiar grocery product in many Canadian households, and on behalf of this brand the Company sponsored sporting events (particularly skiing, figure skating and hockey). The Company was also involved in a major lawsuit in the mid-1930s with its principal competitor, the Canada Starch Company, over which brand of corn syrup was fed to the Dionne quintuplets.

As a result of the Canadian government’s 1987 imposition of a countervailing duty against subsidized American grain corn, in 1989-1990 St. Lawrence Starch, as a user of corn, was forced to downsize. It sold its major trademarks to Bestfoods and ceased large-scale domestic production. The factory was closed and subsequently demolished and the land sold to a residential developer.

St. Lawrence Starch formed a strategic alliance with the A.E. Staley company to distribute their starch and sweetener products in Canada. The Port Credit site served as a distribution centre for imported products from 1990 until the beginning of 1993.

The distribution operations were relocated to a facility in Stoney Creek, Ontario. In 1995, SLS changed principles for the starch and sweetener business and began to represent Cargill, Inc., a large US based corn wet miller, providing sales, marketing and technical services across Canada. The Company continues to operate as a much smaller importer and exporter of corn products across the Canada-United States border.

It is still owned and operated as a private company by the Gray family.”

J. B. Kerr, Royal Paper Mills Company (formerly the Royal Pulp and Paper Company). The factory was located in East Angus (1897).