Tuesday 18 December 2018

Kingston Directories 1867 to 1918


City directories listed addresses, businesses, street-by-street listings, clubs and organizations and included some neat ads. Today we would call them 'vintage'! The first two are from an 1867 directory, the next four are from a 1881 Kingston directory....


Breweries loomed large in the listings, as did jewellers, pianoforte dealers, carriageworks and curtainmakers.
"Fast forward" to 1905: 
Another city directory, this one from 1918 has a nice cover and more ads. I honed in on the street-by-street listings, where fledgling industries are listed.  Also posted by Collections Canada.





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