When Things Were Simpler I am regularly amazed by the bureaucratic maze that must be negotiated to get a project underway and completed. We have made our lives so complicated, that sometimes it is easier to just walk away, than to try to see a project through to the...
1946 Dominion Woollens Picnic At 6:00a.m. on August 23rd, 1946, the ‘banshie’ screamed out in Hespeler. The air horn on the Dominion Woollens & Worsted building was normally used to signal work starts, stop and breaks. This day, it was used to call the...
Krueger Butcher Shops In the former Town of Hespeler the name Krueger was synonymous with butchers! Two generations of this family operated shops in the core area. Beginning in 1905, Arthur James Krueger opened his shop on the south side of Queen East, between Cooper...
General Stores When the first settlers ventured into this area in the early 1800s, the area was known as the “Queen’s Bush”. The earliest were Mennonite farmers from Pennsylvania who came by way of a small number of native trails and a few “slashed” trails into the...
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