The 1856 Directory provides names of residents of Sayer Street and their professions. Some repeat jobs include boot and shoe makers, watch makers, labourers, carpenters, grocers, bricklayers, and whitewashers. There were a number of widows listed as well. Some notable names are John Andrews, k...
By that time Alfred Smith, William's younger brother, had become a cooper in Drayton, Ontario, and William, a wheelwright, learning the trade as an apprentice with Reuben Parkinson. The 1833 & 1837 Toronto Business Directory lists Rueben Parkinson as a wheelwright, Duke St. East. Parkinson (...