Object Record
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Metadata
Catalog Number |
2017.31.01 |
Object Name |
Chest, Tool |
Date |
c. 1870 |
Year Range from |
1850 |
Year Range to |
1900 |
Features |
Made of wood, dovetailed joints at corners and inside drawers.Lower outside corners have swivel rings attached with straps for hoisting. Three keyholes on front and hasp for padlock. Exterior wood is faux grained on lower section, remains of paint on upper - probably incorporates parts of earlier pieces. Top of lid is covered with a sheet of tin with round-headed tacks driven through, providing a non-slip work surface. Upper compartment is divided into oblong trays containing measuring instruments. This assembly is also hinged, revealing the main chamber of the tool chest, with leather hoops for commonly used tools on the upper side, with a Masonic device fastened above. Below this section is a removable tray for smaller tools, with three drawers. Below this is a single full width drawer. Drawers each have circular folding recessed pulls made from brass. |
Object Story |
William Burgoyne was born in Clark's Mills in 1843.His father, Joseph, and his brothers were all millwrights and machinists who found employment in the water-driven mills along the Napanee River. He married Clarissa Heatley, from County Armagh, Ireland, who emigrated to Lennox and Addington as a schoolteacher. Their son, Charles William, was born in Clark's Mills on January 8, 1872. In 1883, William moved to Fenelon Falls to manage the Napanee Pulp and Paper mill started there ten years earlier to process basswood which grew in abundance in the woods around Cameron and Balsam Lakes. Three years later, in 1886, William went into the retail trade, eventually running three stores. His son graduated Belleville Business College in 1891 and joined the family business. In the late 1890s, they bought a small steam pleasure launch, the Nobby. Charles became certified as a Captain of Inland Waters and they had the 46 foot, 11 ton, S.S. Kawartha built in Bobcaygeon and it ran from 1900 to 1909. The initial motivation for operating this boat was to haul log booms to the pulp mill in Fenelon Falls which had been sold to Standard Chemical to make charcoal and wood distillates. The Burgoynes upgraded to a new ship, the Wacouta (66 foot, 22 ton) which they used to move goods and people from Lindsay to Coboconk on a schedule throughout the shipping season. On May 30, 1919 the Wacouta arrived in Belleville, via the Trent Canal and was sold to Wm. Black & Son to be used in connection with their family business of fishing and for private cruises.(for more details, please see - Steamboating on the Trent-Severn by Richard Tatley, Mika Publishing, Belleville, On. 1976.) William died in Fenelon Falls in1927, leaving the business to son, Charles. |
People |
Burgoyne, William |
Subjects |
Pulp and Paper Industry Tools |
Search Terms |
1800s Millwork Napanee Paper Company |