Postcard Memories is a weekly series of historic postcard views and photos submitted by Marcel Rousseau.
Some were previously published by the Orillia Museum of Art and History and in the book Postcard Memories Orillia.
J.B. Thompson: Watchmaker and Jeweller published this advertising trade card illustrating a “Canadian Snow Plow,” around 1900.
The Thompson Jewellery store was located at 57 Mississaga St. E. from about 1884 to the early 1900s and was later called Madden’s Jewellery.
In his book Reminiscences, C.H. Hale tells us John Boyd Thompson was a leading jeweller of his day and had a large business which included manufacturing on a small scale.
His customers extended far into the lumber camps to the north. Mr. Thompson held the post of Mayor of Orillia in 1888 and his eldest son, Arthur Boyd Thompson, was a leading Orillia lawyer and authority on municipal law.
