Early Days in Richmond Hill: A History of the Community to 1930 : electronic edition. : The Flowering of Richmond Hill

Chapter 11 The Flowering of Richmond Hill

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
9	Picture Post Card Village of the 1880s and 1890s
10	Rails through Richmond Hill
11	The Flowering of Richmond Hill
	The Village That Was
	"On the Green of Richmond Hill"
	The Village that Was
	Roses Bloom in Richmond Hill
	Mrs. P.L. Grant Urges That "Local Option" Be Retained
	The Women's Institute and the Library
	The Women of Richmond Hill
	War Comes to Richmond Hill
	Richmond Hill Men Who Served in the First World War 1914-1918
	South on Yonge Street
	North on Yonge Street
	East on Centre Street
	The Langstaff Jail Farm
	War and Remembrance
12	The Village Transformed
	Epilogue
	Appendices
	Table of Illustrations
	Index

Looking south on Yonge Street from the roof of the Methodist Church, circa 1911-15.

Key to numbers on east side of Yonge Street:

1. Batty's Hardware

2. Siever's Shoe Store

3. Skeele's house

4. Skeele's Jewelry Store

5. Moses Ransom's house

6. Frank Sim's store

7. Radial railway station

8. and 9. Trench Carriage Works

10. Livery stables

11. Dominion House

12. John Palmer Jr.'s house

13. Grand Central Hotel

And on the west side of the street:

14. Presbyterian Church

15. Jerry Smith's house and jewelry store

16. Richmond Hill Public School

17. Presbyterian vault

18. Palmer House Hotel

19. Lorne Block

20. Rustic Inn

21. Atkinson's "Concrete" Store

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