Category: Imperial Street

GROVE STREET OR IMPERIAL STREET SOUTH?

4/10/2016

"Mickey Dyell and his cousin Bill Wilson Jr. in est. 1939. They are sitting above Grove Street (near First Street) two doors east of the present library. Did the white church (Presbyterian) next to the library use to have a bell tower on top? I see some sort of tower just to the right of my dad’s ear. Also, to the left of my dad looks like the back side of the old Dyell house on Imperial St., and maybe the back of what is now the Legion Hall. The black house (on the right) is now white and sits on First and Grove Street." -Donna Larson

"This does look more like Imperial Street South than Grove Street. The church steeple looks like the Zion Lutheran church. The house below would have been Mrs. Jessey Burnside." -Pauline Roy-Lachance

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IMPERIAL STREET

4/9/2016

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Photo: Hugh Cummings collection

Same location, 2016, photo by Jayson Stewart

"The building after the post office was the town hall, and the jail. My great grandfather Narcisse Dorion was the police officer during the Depression, and he used to let people passing through Massey sleep at the jail. Crest hardware is still the hardware store (Home Hardware). The abandoned building (torn down in 2015) to the south of the hardware store was the grocery store. The post office is torn down, and the Dragonfly (Restaurant) is where the town hall used to be." -Bonnie Brash

"This was my Great Grandfather Charlie Shiels Garage - that is now the Home Hardware. See the gas pumps out side for the Model T's? He discovered gravity feed by sinking the gas tanks under the ground." -Brenda Skibinsky

St. Denis Clover Farm store turned into Cazabon IGA
and Crest Hardware turned to Rippins

My first job was for Calvin and Cathy Rippin when they expanded and that side was a 5 & 10 type store called Mersco.

My dad was police chief back in the early 1960s. We knew the jail well. I think where you see the bell tower was where the siren sounded for fires and at 9pm to say kids had to be off the streets.

The Dragonfly (Restaurant) is the old restaurant. Back in the late 40's early 50's it was owned by Ernie Schroeder Senior. They rented rooms upstairs and had the restaurant on the main floor. Where the parking lot for the Dragonfly is was the old fire hall and jail.

-Christopher Lachance

-Jackie Pilon

-Susan Joyce Sonnenberg

-Brian Sonnenberg

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