BUSINESS-ROY LESTER'S ENTERPRISE

• Name	BUSINESS-ROY LESTER'S ENTERPRISE
  Gender	Unknown
  Person ID	I4275	Whitewater Region Early Families
  Last Modified	1 Jan 2024

  
  

• Photos		Cobden Elevator C.W. Hall Co. Ltd. operated by R. Lester. R. Lester came to Cobden in 1935 Photograph from Cobden Women's Institute Tweedsmuir History
  		Cobden Elevator owned by C. W. Hall pre 1935 Photograph from Cobden Women's Institute Tweedsmuir History

  
  

  Documents » Slide Show		Lester's business sold to Gordon Duncan Newspaper clipping from the scrapbook collection of Irene McLaren provided by Jack & Janice McLaren, 1964
  		CHx-Ad for Roy Lester (Cobden Elevator), 1953 Ad in Scarlet & Gold Yearbook, 1953 located at Whitewater Historical Society
  		CHx-Lester, Roy to rebuild Newspaper Clipping from the collection of James Parro, The Cobden Sun, Sep 17, 1936 p. 1
  		CHx-Advertisement for R. Lester The Cobden Sun, Jan 30, 1941
  		Cobden Post Card - Bank of Ottawa (later BNS), Post Office (Wong building), Grain Elevator (not sure if at Lester's or Millers) & Cobden Milling (Miller's Feed & Seed) The Cobden Sun, Feb 7, 1996
  		Lester, Roy retires Newspaper clipping from the scrapbook collection of Irene McLaren provided by Jack & Janice McLaren, 1964

  
  

• Notes

  1897 The Cobden Elevator Co. builds a grain elevator at teh intersection of Main St. and the railway tracks. (this enterprise passed through many hands including A.L.Cameron, Delahey Bros; H W Dwyer Co., 1905; C.W.Hall, 1925; Roy Lester 1939; Gordon Duncan, 1966. Cobden Then & Now, p. 124