A flourishing incorporated village in the Township of Whitby and County of Ontario, 2 1/2 miles from Sydenham Harbor, on Lake Ontario. A large business is done in the produce of the country, and the place is especially celebrated for flour of a very superior brand. Several large factories also have been established, particularly the Oshawa Manufacturing Company, the most extensive in the country engaged in the fabrication of agricultural implements, and Fuller & Co.’s furniture factory, which establishments make extensive shipments of their goods to differents parts of Canada. The Grand Trunk Railway has a station here, at which all trains stop. Distant from Toronto 33 miles, and from Montreal 300 miles. A daily stage, carrying the mail, runs north from Oshawa through Columbus, Raglan, Prince Albert, Borelia, and Port Perry, to Beaverton, on Lake Simcoe, distant 50 miles, fare $2.50. Daily mail. Population about 3,000.
Abbott, Joseph, waggonmaker.
Abbott, William, secretary of Oshawa Manufacturing Company.
Amsbury, John, blacksmith.
Arkland, Charles, farmer.
Arkland, Edward, livery stable keeper and agent for British and American Express Company.
Ash & Son, tanners.
Bambridge, Martin, blacksmith.
Beach & Co., painters and glaziers. Beckwith, William C., upholsterer.
BEGG, ALEXANDER, agent for sale of the marbleized granite press, rotary, steam engine, and self-acting cylindrical lathe.
Bennett, Goshen, laborer.
Billings, Joh, attorney, insurance agent and agent for Provincial Insurance Company.
Bishop, David, butcher.
Blarney, Richard, miller.
BOYD, JOHN, saddler and harnessmaker. Boys, Hugh, blacksmith.
Brewer, James, laborer.
British and American Express Company, E. Arkland, agent.
Burk, Joseph, farmer.
BURR & McGAW, general grocers and spirit dealers.
BURNS, GAVIN, postmaster, bookseller,
stationer, issuer of marriage licenses,
and commissioner in Queen’s bench. Burrows, Richard, carpenter.
Butterfield, Lanson, farming implement manufacturer.
CADE, JOHN, land owner. Carmichael, James, storekeeper.
CARMICHAEL, HUGH, dry goods and general merchant.
Carr, William, farmer.
Carswell, David, painter and glazier.
CARSWELL, HENRY, baker and confectioner.
CARSWELL, EDWARD, artist, bookseller and stationer.
Central School, A. W. Lawder, principal ; Mrs. Lawder, preceptress.
CHRISTIAN OFFERING, semi-monthly, annual subscription $1; edited by Mrs. P. A. Henry ; Luke & Orr, printers and publishers.
Churchill, John, waggonmaker.- Cinnamon, James, turner.
Clarke, Joseph, M.D. coroner. Clifford, Charles, carpenter.
Coleman, John, machinist.
Corbet, James, fundholder.
Cornish, Thomas, tailor.
Craney, John, fanning mill maker. Crockhart, Andrew, cabinetmaker.
Darling, David, carpenter.
Dean, William, cabinetmaker.
Dingle, James, butcher.
Dingle, John, carpenter and joiner. Dingle, William T., carpenter and joiner. Doyle, Matthew, accountant.
Dulay, Dennis, farmer.
Dunn, Edward, land owner and councillor.
Fairbanks, Silas B., J. P., attorney, and councillor.
Farmers Inn, Johnson Graham, proprietor. Farewell, Abraham, J. P., grist mill owner, and township councillor.
Farewell, Moody, cider mill.
Fewster, James, rope maker.
Field, Edmund, sash and machine maker. Forbes, James, tailor.
Fowke & Henry, dry goods and general merchants.
Fowke, John W., storekeeper.
Fraser, Rev. C. W., Episcopal methodist. French, Isaac, nurseryman.
Fuller, Thomas, sen., land owner. FULLER, THOMAS & CO., cabinet and chair factory.
Gall, John, teamster.
GIBBS & BROTHER, produce dealers, Ellesmere flouring mills.
Gibbs, Thomas N., reeve.
Gibbs, William H., J. P.
Gibbs, William H., & Co., dealers in dry goods.
Gillett, A. E., sawyer.
Goodchild, Richard, carpenter.
Goodman, Robert, land owner.
Gott, Hugh, shoemaker.
Graham, Johnson, proprietor of Farmers Inn.
Graham, Robert, land owner. Grant, John, carpenter and joiner.
Grierson, George H., land owner, and councillor.
Griffin, George, edge tool manufacturer. Gullock & Edwards, masons and builders. Guy, James 0., harbor master, and secretary of Sydenham Harbor Company. Hackett, Alexander, veterinary surgeon. Hall and Cowles, cloth factory.
Hall, John H., station master.
HASKIN, URI, machine manufacturer and
patentee of the self-acting cylindrical
lathe and rotary steam engine. Hawken & Hern, blacksmiths. Henderson, Alexander, machinist.
Henry, George, photographic artist. Henry, elder Thomas, Christian conference.
HISLOP & GILCHRIST, dry goods and general merchants.
Hitchcock, T. S., carpenter and joiner. HODDER, GEORGE, merchant tailor and outfitter, King St. east, shop next door to Taplin’s carriage repository. Holliday, Thomas, carpenter.
Howell, Charles, carpenter.
Howell, James, carpenter.
Howell, R. V., carpenter.
Hudson, A., dairyman.
Hyland, John, dealer in dry goods.
Ingle, George, carpenter.
Jacobi, Herman, turner and tobacconist. Jenkins, Alexander, grocer.
Johnson, William, blacksmith.
Joury, Samuel, cabinetmaker.
KELLY, WILLIAM A., general dealer in tinware, stoves and hardware.
Kenny, Henry M., cabinetmaker. Kirkpatrick, Matthew, shoemaker. Kirkpatrick, Thomas, pumpmaker.
Kyle, Thomas, sawyer.
Lambert & Swalwell, tailors and clothiers. Lamkins, Richard, carpenter.
Lauchland, William, butcher.
Lawder, A. W., principal of Central School.
Law,William, mason and builder. LEONARD, RICHARD, proprietor of Wellington hotel.
Library Association, W. McGill, president ; W. E. Mark, librarian.
Liddell, Thomas, teamster.
Little, George, forkmaker.
LOCKHART, ALLAN, proprietor of Lockhart house.
Lockhart & Warren, flouring mill and distillery.
Luke, James, carpenter and joiner.
Luke, Jesse P., cabinetmaker.
Luke, Miles, land owner.
LUKE & ORR, book and general job printers, and printers and publishers of the Christian Offering and the Vindicator.
Mallett, John, cabinetmaker.
Manuel, Richard T., land owner.
Mark, William E., boot and shoe maker, librarian and clerk of council. McDonald, William, baker and confectioner.
McElroy, John, proprietor of Oshawa house.
McGill, John, auctioneer.
McGill, William, M.D., president of Library Association.
McMahon, J., M.D.
McMahon, John, dry goods and general merchant.
Merritt, Daniel H., constable.
Merton, James, carpenter.
Metler, C. W., saloon keeper.
Mills, James, saddler and harnessmaker. Mitchel, Francis, moulder.
Morris, Ambrose, saw and flouring mills. Murton, James, millwright.
Nelson, George, carver.
Newsome, Thomas, cabinetmaker. Nonquon boarding house, Henry Pedlar, proprietor.
Nutt, Hiram, carpenter and joiner. O’Driscoll, M., tailor.
O’Regan, John, cooper.
ORR, WILLIAM H., phonographic reporter and editor of the Oshawa Vindicator. Oshawa House, John McElroy, proprietor.
OSHAWA MANUFACTURING COMPANY, founders and agricultural implement makers ; A. S. Whiting, president ;
W. Abbott, secretary.
Pearson, Rev. Thomas, Wesleyan. Pedlar, Henry, Nonquon boarding house. Pedlar, Samuel, upholsterer. Pentland, Rev. J., Church of England. Proulx, Rev. J. B., Roman Catholic. Provincial Insurance Company, John Billings, agent.
Quigley, James, carpenter and joiner. Quigley, Malachi, carpenter and joiner. Ray, Joel, landowner. Reed, William, moulder. Riordon, Dennis, brickmaker. Ritson, John, councillor. Robinson, Mark, chemist and druggist. Sanders, William, waggonmaker.
Santry, Arthur, shoemaker.
SANTRY, DANIEL D., dealer in boots and shoes.
Shaw, Martin, blacksmith. Small, A. G., flouring mill. Smith, Andrew, laborer. Smith, John, machinist. Spalding, David, brewer.
Spitzer, Randolph, cabinetmaker. Stephenson, George, butcher. Stokes, John, boot and shoe maker. Sutton, Walter J., chemist and druggist. Supple, Richard, boot and shoe maker. Sydenham Harbor Company, J. 0. Guy,
secretary.
Sykes, John, carpenter and joiner.
Symes, John, farmer.
Taplin, Hiram, carriagemaker.
Taylor, Francis, watchmaker and jeweller. Taylor, John, boot and shoe maker. Taylor, Peter, flouring mill.
TAYLOR, PHILIP, watchmaker and jeweller.
Tempest, William, M.D.
Terwillegar, Charles, nurseryman. Thomas, William, stageowner.
Thompson, elder James, Christian conference.
Thompson & Warren, tanners.
Thorne, Andrew, shoemaker.
Thornton, Rev. R. H., United Presbyterian, superintendent of schools.
Thornton, Patrick, machinist.
Todd, Alexander, machinist.
Trevett, Alexander, bedsteadmaker. Trigg, Thomas, gardener.
Valiant, James, blacksmith.
Vancamp & Morgan, dry goods merchants. Vars, C. N., surgeon dentist. VINDICATOR (THE) weekly, annual subscription, $1.50 William H. Orr, editor; Luke & Orr, printers and publishers.
Wall, Patrick, cooper.
Wallace, John, boot and shoe maker. Walsh, Christopher, collector of customs. Walter, George P., factory foreman. Warren, Joseph cabinetmaker.
WARREN, JOHN, dry goods and general merchant, and owner of flouring mill. Welch, Richard, landing waiter. WELLINGTON HOTEL, Richard Leonard, proprietor.
Wellington, Richard, cabinetmaker. White, Richard, butcher.
Whiting, A. S., president of Oshawa manufacturing company.
Wicks, William, mason.
Willox, James F., machinist.
Wood, Jacob, provision dealer.
Wood, Mrs. boarding house.
Woon, Richard, tinsmith.