The Missisquoi Carriage Factory, operated by Mr. J. W. Eaton
"The large carriage shop was the Missisquoi Carriage Factory. It stood on the North East corner of Philips Street and Foundry Hill. (..) The Carriage factory was really an important one and it is quite true that in addition to supplying the local demand and shipping to the Montreal market it had an export trade with New Zealand. It was operated by Mr. J. W. Eaton who in addition to being a Justice of the Peace was also Mayor of Philipsburg and President of the Missisquoi and Rouville Fire Insurance Company, which then had its head office in Philipsburg. Mr. Eaton resided at the foot of South Street. (...) [His house] was formerly used as a hotel (...). It offered the first hospitality to travellers entering Canada by the stage coach from Albany. Mr. Eaton's son, Wyatt Eaton, who later became a very well known artist and portrait painter, did his early painting in a studio at the rear of the house." Texte et illustration tirés de : George H. Montgomery, Missisquoi Bay, Granby Printing and Publishing Co. Ltd., 1950, p. 67 et 68
(À gauche, à l'arrière-plan, on peut voir un bateau à vapeur sur la baie Missisquoi.) |
