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A. J. Robertson, A. R. McLennan, E. J.
Maloney, J. S. Baker, M. Birdsell, Joseph
Tyo, W. Davey, J. G. Snetsinger, D. M.
McPherson, W. O. Wert, J. Sauve, Wm. H.
Dunkin, Gib. Crosbie, J. B. May, J. Welsh,
S. J. McDonnell, Wm. Secord, A. R. McDonald,
N. J. Fraid, N. Phillips, D. J. Gillies,
D. J. McDonald, R. Larmour,
G. W. Armstrong,
L. E. Bailey, Wm. Hodge, A. A.
Smith, J. E. Tallon, Alex. McDonald, Alex.
McCracken,
J. B. Atchison,
J. E. Snetsinger,
E. H. Brown, J. A. McDougald, R. Runnions,
John Bergin, H. McEwen, A. R. McDonald,
D. A. Ross, W. H. Holdsworth,
A. McMillan, J. W. Kennedy, A. A. Logan,
Thos. Keenan, W. H. Winters, D. McIntyre,
E. J. Cleary, J. Blanchard, J. Henderson,
H. A. Morgan, H. Shaver, J. G. Marjerrison,
J. D. Barnhart, J. G. Harkness, J. L. Groves,
J. B. Tinkess, W. A. Craig,
H. B. Fetterly,
R. J. Craig, J. S. Myers, A. E. Cline, Nathan
Copeland, W. Abrams, Fred Lowell and Col. Robert Smith.
The history of the Cornwall Cheese and Butter Board, its growth and its
vital importance can be vividly and graphically illustrated by a not odious but
illuminating comparison with leading local manufacturing concerns in the
approximate revenue disbursed by each. This comparison immediately pricks
the bubble of illusion in which Cornwall manufacturing concerns have led people
to believe that they were the backbone of the town. The revenue accruing
through the Cheese Board is derived from one commodity, cheese, and not the
many other products raised and sold by farmers. It is the farmer and the Cheese
Board patron who is not only the largest money maker but also the largest
legitimate money spender in the Cornwall district, and it is the farmer and the
Cheese Board patron who is and has been the real producer of vital commodities,
and these lines by a well-known poet are particularly apropos:
"Man builds his castles fair and high,
Wherever river runneth by;
Great cities rise in every land,
Great churches show the builder's hand.
Great arches, monuments, and towers.
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Fair palaces, and pleasing bowers;
Great work is done, be't here or there,
And well man worketh everywhere;
But work or rest, whate'er befall,
The farmer he must feed them all."
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These figures tell "Who's Who" in the
industrial scheme of things locally. The
approximate amount of money disbursed
in factory salaries and to Cheese Board
patrons, respectively, is as follows:
Cornwall Cheese and Butter
Board (7 months' season) $1,500,000
Canada Cotton Mills (annually) 525,000
Toronto Paper Co. (annually) 360,000
Ives Modern Bedstead Co. (annually) 75,000
McGill Chair Factory (annually) 50,000
Beach Furniture Co. (annually) 50,000
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