Early Days in Richmond Hill: A History of the Community to 1930 : electronic edition. : Fire Brigades and Fence Viewers

Chapter 8 Fire Brigades and Fence Viewers

Table of Contents

	Title Page
	Author's Preface
1	The Road through Richmond Hill
2	First Peoples on the Land
3	The European Settlers Arrive
4	From Miles' Hill to Richmond Hill: The Birth of a Community
5	Tories and Reformers
6	Stagecoach Lines and Railway Tracks
7	The Neighbours at Mid-Century
8	Fire Brigades and Fence Viewers
	Living with Divided Loyalties
	A Time and a Place for Swimming
	Community Spirit
	The First Village Council
	"Wants of the Village"
	"A Local View of 1874"
	Who Was Who in the 1873 Municipal Elections
	The Richmond Hill Fire Brigade
	Fighting Fires with Hand Pumpers
	The Trench Carriage Works
	Miss Aiken Then Sang "The Woodland Tree"
	Life in the Newly Incorporated Village
9	Picture Post Card Village of the 1880s and 1890s
10	Rails through Richmond Hill
11	The Flowering of Richmond Hill
12	The Village Transformed
	Epilogue
	Appendices
	Table of Illustrations
	Index

Community Spirit

A raising - One of those good old fashioned assemblies of neighbours took place on Wednesday afternoon last in Elgin Mills. The occasion of this meeting was to give assistance at the raising of the frame of the new Tannery to be erected by Mr. James Newton, Jr., in place of the Buildings destroyed by fire on the morning of the 21st of December last.

The crowd was numerous, there being at one time upwards of 125 present, and everything passed off pleasantly. The new building will be in size about 84 ft by 54 ft [25 x 16 metres], and two and a half stories high. Mr. Newton has a number of carpenters at work and is pushing business ahead, so that the building may be finished early in June.

York Herald,April 26, 1872

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