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- Document textuel
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- Source du titre propre: Title based on contents of the fonds.
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1848-1880 (Production)
- Producteur
- James Rowe & Company
Zone de description matérielle
Physical description
13 cm of textual records
Zone de la collection
Title proper of publisher's series
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Zone de la description archivistique
Nom du producteur
Histoire administrative
James Rowe & Co. was founded in 1849 by James Rowe, John Welsh, and John Watson. The company operated warehouses at Port Whitby and specialized in the shipment of commodities—particularly wheat, flour, barley, peas, potash, oatmeal, and lumber—to Canadian and American ports via Lake Ontario. Goods were transported to the harbour at Whitby via the Midland Railway of Canada and other Great Lakes vessels. Additionally, James Rowe & Co. imported products to sell in the stores of Whitby and significant quantities of limestone for local construction projects.
James Rowe & Co. was the major shipping company at Port Whitby for many years. The organization was managed by John Watson in its early decades. Following the deaths of John Welsh and James Rowe in 1859 and 1869, Watson purchased the company’s warehouses and continued operations alongside his son, John Allingham Watson. John Watson died in 1879, after which point his son operated James Rowe & Co. until his own death in 1913.
By the beginning of the Second World War, the grain trade on Lake Ontario had effectively ended as a result of U.S. tariffs on Canadian grain. In 1929, the buildings of James Rowe & Co. were demolished by Randolph Macdonald Company to make way for a new shipyard at Port Whitby.
Historique de la conservation
The fonds was acquired by the Archives of Ontario in 1967 from Upper Canada Village. In 2015, the fonds was repatriated by Archives at Whitby Public Library.
Portée et contenu
The fonds consists of the operational records of James Rowe & Co., particularly records relating to the shipment and receipt of commodities in the company’s early decades.
The fonds is arranged in files. Documentary forms include correspondence related to business operations; receipts given by the company at the time goods were deposited; orders, which are often accompanied by receipts; delivery statements giving an inventory of goods transported by various Great Lakes vessels to James Rowe & Co.; and freight advice notes, which announce the delivery of goods at the Whitby Station by rail.
Zone des notes
État de conservation
The majority of records are in poor condition.
Source immédiate d'acquisition
Arrangement
Records were maintained in their received physical order by staff at Whitby Public Library. This received physical order was mirrored in the finding aid (see the file list).
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Restrictions on access
No restrictions on access.
Terms governing use, reproduction, and publication
Finding aids
See attached file list.
Associated materials
Accruals
No further accruals are expected.
General note
Title based on content of fonds.
Conservation
Some records require flattening via steam to ensure long-term preservation.
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Dates de production, de révision et de suppression
Finding aid created by Gillian Dunks in March 2018.