POSTCARD OF OLD MASSEY FOUND ON EBAY

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by Jayson Stewart

This photo of a postcard was posted to Facebook by Don Dube titled "Portion of Massey, Ont. Canada". 

He found it on eBay and posted it to the "Massey Then and Now" group on Facebook. 

If I am reading the photo right, the photgrapher was on "The Rock" facing North.  You can see the Catholic Church in the top left which would mean that the street that you're looking at in the foreground is Grove Street and the open space between the two-floored building on the left and the white building on the right is where the library sits today. The next street north would be Highway 17 and I believe the flat-faced building is where Hub 17 is right now. There certainly were a lot more trees between the rock and the highway!

Members of the group identified some of the features. Please note that none of these identifications have been verified but we would love to know what you think!

The building on the left front is the old legion hall, where our post office now stands. -Claudette Lachance Buzdygan

The bank turned haircare center is very easy to recognize as, even back then, they had the staircase on the left-hand side of the building leading to the upstairs apartment. 
-Jayson Stewart

You can see Burns garage on the right of the old RBC Bank (current Family Hair Center) and you can just see Hallett's store peeking through. The white building in the front right was a church (gospel hall) at one time.
-Donna Cranmer Mcinnis

That building on the left is the school my grandparents went to - public and high school. My grandma had to walk the railway tracks fom the old Massey Mine (Seldomseen Road) with her siblings just to get to school."
-Brenda Skibinky

QUESTION

What do you make of that open swath of land north of town? Share your comments below.

CHALLENGE

Take a photo, from The Rock, showing the same part of town for a comparison, and send it to us! We will post then-and-now comparisons.