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[1900?]

1 bookplate : relief printing ; 10.7 x 6.4 cm

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Alfred Hawksworth was Manager of the Montreal-based Merchants Cotton Company (1900s). By 1905, the company was in partnership with four other companies that formed Dominion Textiles (1905). Located in Saint Henri, it was the second largest Canadian cotton mill. "ALFRED HAWKSWORTH was born In [G]lossop, England, and went to work in a cotton factory when he was six years old as "half timer." He came to the United States at the close of the Civil War and found employment with the [i'hu>mx?] Manufacturing Company, at Shirley. Mass. After seven years he went to Rhode Island, where he was superintend[*…] [l.ir.r?] Mill ten years, and then went to Canada to the place which he now fills" (New York Tribune: 1902).
References:
1) Walsh, Michael (n.d.). Westmount places and their stories: The history behind the familiar. Retrieved from http://www.westmountmag.ca/places3/
2) Library and Archives Canada, MG 28 III 77, vol.5), “Montreal Insites: Neighborhood – Buildings: Dominion Textile.” Retrieved from http://www.memorablemontreal.com/print/en/batiments_menu.php?quartier=13&batiment=243§ion=Array&menu=histoire
3) New York Tribune. “Page 20: April 20 1902.” Retrieved from https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/88115880/

2017-02-04

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