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- from Cobden Then & Now p. 25
Guest Register form Grand Union Hotel, 1905 listed the following Cobden Businesses:
Bank of Ottawa,
Ed Tuffy, General merchant & grain dealer
Fraser Bros furniture store
R.S.Boyle, watchmaker, jeweller & optician
R.T.Greene, tailor
J.E.Ross, general merchant
Alex McDonald, Jeweller & optician
Delahey general Store
N.S.Berry, general butcher
A.H.Box, druggist
- Alexander McDonald Jewellery Store
In an article in the Cobden Sun from May 192010 states A. McDonald?s jewellery store currently occupied the building. Alexander was the son-in-law of John Delahey. He is listed as a jeweler and living on Main St. in the 1901 census for Cobden. Possibly he started working for J.C. Coxford and then took over the business.
Alexander McDonald, son of George W McDonald and Clementine Chalmers, was born on 27 Aug 1877 in Renfrew, Ontario and died about Apr 1912 in Port Arthur, Ontario aged about 34.5 Alexander married Ida Delahey, daughter of John Delahey and Susan Hill, on 8 Oct 1900 in Cobden. Ida was born on 25 Jul 1876 in Cobden, was christened on 25 Nov 1876 in Cobden, died in Nov 1959 in Ottawa, aged 83, and was buried in Cobden Union Cemetery. 5 They had two children: Marguerite Delahey and Doris Isabel Delahey.
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