New Mexico Insurance

It was 1886, when GER Wilson was one of the insurance Colborne, maintain them until today.

A young man at the time, Mr. Wilson has been in business more than 50 years. As with many of its partners in those years, Harry MacDougall, deceased, Mr. Wilson has a new assistant. 70 and not doing good, the Insurance Brokers was looking for a successor.

The assistant was William Wallace Duncan (Wally) McGlennon.

Wally was born, two years after Mr. Wilson opened its business in the apartment where the son of Wally, Dunc, now lives at 101 King Street East.

Wally was the youngest of more than 10 children, but the only one born in King Street. After being married, with Wally and mother Annie James (Shaw), has built a large white house on the south side of Lake Road Wicklow beach near the ramp. Most of his children were born here. The house was just on the path of second home of James McGlennon father, John.

As a result of the emigration of the Isle of Man in the years 1820, John Darroch McGlennon Mary married and has left little time to Centreton. But the soil was poor, and the couple moved to the farm in Ontario McGlennon Lake Road east of Wicklow.

The second generation of Canadians has worked as an agent for Chase Brothers nurseries. The company is important nursery stock sold on the entire James southcentral Ontario, with the train to sell to customers. In the late 1870’s and 80’s, James McGlennon could catch the train Colborne.

In 1885, James and Annie Wicklow Beach sells the house and settled in Colborne. In 1887, she purchased the house, where Dunc McGlennon and Betty now live. At the time, she possession of the goods, the hill stands a tank. There was enough land for them to increase their cattle and horses stable.

Political issues

Today, Dave McGlennon says one of the many stories of families. Back to 1800, his great-grandfather James was a conservative, Frederik’s great-uncle was a liberal. Fred in one of his magazines: “We are a house divided.”

As John A. Macdonald, and protectionist tariffs, which fits into the Chase Brothers’ business, James political changes colors. His grandson, Dr. Fred Robertson, was a Liberal MP for Northumberland for 1949-57, when he defeated by the conservatives Ben Thompson.

Wally has followed his father James’ footsteps for a while, working with the Chase Brothers headquarters, where the office is now McGlennon, King Street East, Colborne, at the time for the bright lights of the city of Toronto. Spectacle as an agent of steamboat for the White Star Line, Wally McGlennon tours of Europe between the two world wars.

Wally never done, the forces of the first war, in spite of 26, hostility. His elder brother, Archie, a doctor Colborne than done. But Wally has remained at home to take care of her parents and tend to the King Street firm.

Archie purchased court during the war and on his return from the obligation to Wally direction of the city, where he met and married Opal (Naismith), a girl from Port Hope. It was the largest for a calligrapher railroad and worked in the King Edward Hotel in Toronto, where the couple are fulfilled. They tie the knot in July 1925. Their only child, Duncan, born in Toronto, during the next year, 1926.

Wally Colborne yet launched in 1940 and its short career in insurance, work as a way out of the agency, where Nectarines now based on the northern side of King Street East. The window of his office to read “WWD McGlennon successor GER Wilson founded 1886. It was not until 1972, when the store was Dunc it relates to the current situation in 32 King Street East.

Dunc, remembers his mother was a difficult time of adaptation to life in the village of Colborne. Want lived and worked in Toronto for 20 years.

Wally and his family moved Colborne. His first home was Norton Lane, and then, around 1942, Anglicans in the former rectory at 67 King Street East. The Brighton Colborne and Anglican churches have merged, and will need only a manse. The Minister was in Brighton.

Many churches more than once in the history of this insurance.

If G.E.R. Wilson died, his property was in the Catholic Church Colborne. The building has since been demolished, replaced by a high degree of freedom in the northwest corner of King Street and Elgin.

Wally Opal and opted for the construction of the North Street in 1949. They were the new homeland, when he died of a heart attack. Dunc was 23 at that time.

The only child, and Wally Opal, Dunc McGlennon was born in Toronto, then spent most of his teenage years in Colborne. He worked for the Canadian Bank of Commerce in Brighton, at the time of his father’s death. Unhappy with the bid, in Brighton, he had a choice - work with her mother, in the commercial or finding a new job.

Dunc takes the reins

Dunc chosen in the insurance business and the length of working time.

He recalls working until midnight. It was a writing work very well and there was no computer available.

Dunc For a while, he lived with his mother at North Street. They sold the house and fired in an apartment above the former IGA, the store is now Lotsastuff the Queen’s Hotel.

Dunc was in a “penthouse” on the other side of the street in Brunswick. Forget the idea of a flat of cold water - was this not a little water. This was the trip to Halle and four flights of stairs to the water.

In 1958, all those who are to improve. Betty, and he married after 57 King Street East.

Two years later, their only child, Dave, born in Cobourg.

Like his father, married Port Hope Dunc girls. But Betty Taylor had closer ties with Cramahe Township. His mother was Mary Anne Blyth.

During their advertising in the Office was on Wednesday afternoon, but remained open all day on Saturday. Betty pointed out that there were a pair in the shops of the city, then a few tenth of the dollar and also recorded five.

After marriage, she decided to small and not to stay expand.Betty ’s glad she did. The family wonderful long-term relationships with the staff.