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

Key to numbers:

1. Wellman's Dry Goods Store

2. Richmond Hill High School

3. John Startup

4. McNair's patterned brick houses

5. Atkinson's house

6. Wright Funeral Home

7. St. Mary Immaculate Roman Catholic Church

8. Hill's Bakery

9. Johanna Paige's house

10. Tyrell's house

11. Glover's house

12. Miller's house

13. Fanny Brown's house

14. Jessie Hart's house

15. Henry Hopper's butcher shop

16. Crosby's "Fire Proof" Store

17. Coulter's house

18. Masonic Hall

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