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Originally Posted by 1ajs
i've been trying to find pics of my house from way back never been succesfull :S
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Me, too. Adrian, you should see the photo shown 58 seconds into
this youtube clip. Amazingly, the house is 60 Hallet--the brown stucco one. Imagine when all of the houses on our street had this level of color and ornamentation...
That's interesting about the first occupant of your house, Drew. When my house was built in 1882, a Mr. Nathaniel Boyd lived there, of the lumber firm Boyd & Crowe, which was at the corner of Point Douglas Avenue and Maple Street. His partner Mr. Crowe lived what was then next door to Boyd. I don't know what happened to Boyd, but he didn't live here for long. I did manage to find that he lived in a boarding house on Mary (Martha) Street prior to building this place.
Another personal note, here is a caracature of my great-great-grandfather,
R.N. Lyons, which appeared in the
"Manitobans As We See 'em" booklet published in 1909.
Ironically perhaps, my great-great-grandfather owned much of the land in what is now Whyte Ridge.