This example of a Capewell Horse Nail Company order receipt can be found in the City of Toronto Archives. The receipt is for “four bolts” purchased by the John Inglis Company (now the Whirlpool Corporation).
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The 1898 edition of Dau’s Blue Book for Toronto lists the Fensom’s visiting days as being the 3rd and 4th Thursdays of each month. Listed as living in the house are Mr and Mrs John Fensom, and the children Willie, Harry, Charles, and the unnamed Misses.
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The 1875 Toronto City Directory is the last to list Stayner and his family at the Duke Street location. The 1876 edition locates the Stayners at Queen’s Park Crescent, and the Strathy family as having moved into the house.
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Directories – Toronto Public Library (http://www.torontopubliclibrary.ca/detail.jsp?Entt=RDMDC-13168210002&R=DC-13168210002; http://www.torontopubliclibrary.ca/detail.jsp?R=DC-1316821003)
An advertisement in the 10 April 1846 edition of the British Colonist, but paid for on the 26 March of that year, describes the Duke Street house. The ad reveals that the property was constructed to be one of the largest buildings in Canada at the time, and featured extensive agricultural improvements in the rear. The house is being sold by the O’Neill Brothers Auctioneers. Peter J. O’Neill lives next door and owns the property.
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By the mid 1820s, Chief Justice William Dummer Powell had become, in the eyes of some contemporaries, senile and infirm. Lieutenant-Governor Peregrine Maitland recommended Campbell to replace Powell, and he did so on 17 October 1825.
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