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Farm
Early 1900s
Grand Falls-Windsor, Newfoundland, Canada

Credits:
Grand Falls Windsor Heritage Society
Magazine Atlantic Guardian August 1947
Alison Bartle

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Bank

The Bank of Montreal opened its first building for business on March 9, 1911.

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Bank of Montreal
1918
Grand Falls-Windsor, Newfoundland, Canada

Credits:
Grand Falls Windsor Heritage Society

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The Co-op

The Co-op store appeared in 1919, managed by Harry Fletcher. It operated for most of the next 90 years out of its original High Street location and paid dividends for many years to its members.

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The Co-op
Early 1900s
Grand Falls-Windsor, Newfoundland, Canada

Credits:
Grand Falls Windsor Heritage Society
Magazine Atlantic Guardian August 1947
Alison Bartle

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Cohen's

The history of the Cohen family dates back to the turn of the century, when Simon Cohen arrived from England to work with the Newfoundland Clothing Company in St. John's. He brought with him his wife and three sons.

He worked with the company for a few years, but left to try business on his own terms. Mr. Cohen left the island in 1905 and emigrated to the Unites States, where his four remaining children were born.

In 1919, soon after the end of the First World War, the Cohen family returned to Newfoundland. That year Simon and his eldest son Charles opened a general store in Grand Falls Station, which later became the Town of Windsor. The second son, Arthur, soon joined the business.

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Cohen's
Early 1900s
Grand Falls-Windsor, Newfoundland, Canada

Credits:
Grand Falls Windsor Heritage Society

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Goodyears

Josiah Goodyear, his wife Louisa, and their six sons and one daughter, moved to Grand Falls from Ladle Cove in 1906. They had five sons who served in the First World War, three of whom were killed.

After the First World War, the firm of J. Goodyear and Sons Ltd. was incorporated and began building roads and branching out in other fields of activity.
They were involved in actual construction work, then they got into hauling wood, supplying wood for the mill, and then for many, many years hauled coal around town, with horses and carts and sleds in the winter time. The horses were also used for freight express delivery and a taxi service.

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Goodyears
Early 1900s
Grand Falls-Windsor, Newfoundland, Canada

Credits:
Grand Falls Windsor Heritage Society

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The Globe and the Taiwan

When Harry Chow immigrated from China to Newfoundland in the late 1930's, he knew no one and understood very little English. Because he wasn't employed by the A.N.D. Company, he moved to Windsor, where he worked as a dishwasher at the Globe Café on Main Street. Mr. Chow eventually bought out the restaurant owners and became a restaurateur himself. He later constructed a second restaurant on High Street which he named the Taiwan.

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The Globe and the Taiwan
Mid 1900s
Grand Falls-Windsor, Newfoundland, Canada

Credits:
Grand Falls Windsor Heritage Society

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Ronald Knight's Barber Shop

Barbering was a trade when Ron Knight started work in 1936. His first shop was in the Cabot House.

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Ronald Knight's Barber Shop
Circa 1930s-1940s
Grand Falls-Windsor, Newfoundland, Canada

Credits:
http://sites.google.com/site/stjohnscitadelband/Home/Bandmasters/ronald-knight---1972-1992

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The Printed Word

Phil Ryan, one of the first to be born in the town and later to make a name for himself in the broadcast news field, started the town's first newspaper, The Grand Falls Times, in 1933. The initial issue carried stories of an early-morning fire which razed a local dwelling, the apprehension and escape of a "clothes robber" and belatedly corroborated the "rumour" that local resident Banks Scott had been to the North Pole as part of Admiral Peary's expedition in 1905-06.
The paper was short-lived and ceased publication within a few months.

Mike and Walter Blackmore, two of five brothers who worked at the paper mill, became interested in printing as a hobby in the early 1920s. The seeds of ambition were sown when they found out that their pastime could make them a few dollars. At first, Mike entered a partnership with Frank Hiscock and their printing "office" was a woodshed in downtown Grand Falls. When Hiscock relinquished his end of the business, Mike was joined by Walter and the fledgling Blackmore Printing Company maintained a slow but gradual growth.

Their first plant was a refurbished henhouse behind No. 11 Mill Road and the serendipitous appearance of a few men with not only experience in printing but knew where type and other printing equipment could be had at bargain prices. The acquisition of a flatbed printing press necessitated an expansion to their building and spurred them in the direction of publishing a newspaper.

On April 8, 1936 the first issue of the bi-weekly Grand Falls Advertiser hit the streets, with Mike's wife, the former Laura Cantwell, as its first editor.