Tag: 308 Coxwell Avenue
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April 14-18 in our neighbourhood’s history
Break in, 476 Rhodes Ave, Globe, April 14, 1913 Danforth area Toronto Star, April 14, 1920 Norway School, Toronto Star, April 14, 1924 15 18 and 20 Ashdale Ave, Grimshaw sold to W.H. Westman, Toronto Star April 15 1920 Bowmore Road, War threatens, Globe & Mail, April 15, 1938 Bungalow from Martin Senour paint ad, Maclean’s, April 15, 1923 Bungalow from Martin Senour paint ad, Maclean’s, April 15, 1923 Girls Don’t Get Married – Kelvin Park Toronto Star, April 15, 1922 425 Coxwell Ave. Herbert Hosiery, The Ottawa Citizen, April 16, 1953 Cridlands ad, Toronto Star, April 16 1953 McEachren ad, Globe, April 16, 1914 Flemish giant and other kinds of young rabbits, 168 Ashdale, Toronto Star, April 17, 1919 E H Foster wounded Toronto Star April 17 1918 Monarch Park ad Toronto Star, April 17, 1912 Monarch Park ad Toronto Star, April 17, 1912 Real estate, Toronto Star, April 17, 1920 Sugar dumped, Globe and Mail, April 17, 1940 Fred Scott killed by streetcar Hillington Ave, Owen Sound Daily Sun Times, April 18, 1940 Scott killed by streetcar Hillingdon & Danforth, The Kingston Whig Standard, April 18, 1940 Ulster Stadium offered to the City for $33,000, Toronto Star, April 18, 1944 Ward One Real Estate, Toronto Star, April 18 1914 -
February 14th in Midway: Cridland Bros.
James Cridland Jr, Toronto Star, February 14, 1953 Family background:
Thomas Cridland married Joane Farrant of Culmstock, Devon, England. She was born in May 1667 and they had a son Francis who had a son Thomas born in 1744 in Hemyock, Devon. He and his wife Alice and a son John born in 1769 in Hemyock. In 1796 he married Susanna Scadding. They had a son John Cridland in 1801 who married Jane Gillard in 1836 also in Hemyock. Their son James Cridland (1847-1897) married Elizabeth Blackmore Pyke (1848-1881) and they came to Toronto in the mid 1870s. After his wife died he remarried (Anna Maria Fyfe). James Cridland went to work for William “Piggy” Davies, the pork packer who helped found Canada Packers. His son James Cridland (1877-1952) founded Cridland & Sons.
James Cridland (1877-1952) It should also be noted that the Cridland ancestor, Susanna Scadding, was from the same family as early Toronto settler John Scadding and his more famous son, the Rev. Henry Scadding (1813-1901) who wrote “Toronto of Old” (1873).
The Cridland Bros. plant opened in 1915.
Boner wanted, Cridlands, Toronto Star, April 29, 1920 
Cridland’s meat zoning problem, Toronto Star, September 25, 1920 
Toronto Star, Sept. 15 1920 
Cridland and Jeffrey meat plant Coxwell, Globe, February 22, 1921 
Ad, Cridlands, from the History of the Fire Dept, 1922 
Cridland & Sons picnic at Scarborough Heights Park, approx. 1922 or 1923 
Cridland and Sons baseball team 1922, TPL 
1924 Cridlands site, Goad’s Atlas 1924, 306-308 Carlaw Ave., Lot 8, Subdivision Plan 214 
Air Tite Eggs, Cridlands, Toronto Star, November 13, 1925 
Cridland-Barton marriage, Toronto Star Oct. 14, 1925 
Gerrard and Coxwell, looking north, (Way Department) – June 17, 1926 
1926 Cridlands, Coxwell Avenue detail 
Cridlands ad, Toronto Star, 04 Apr 1928 
Invoice, James Cridland & Sons Ltd. 
Alterations to Cridland plant, Toronto Star, Dec. 27, 1929 
Cridland expands, Globe, December 23, 1929 
Cridland ad, Ottawa Citizen, May 19, 1932 
Cridland radio show, Globe, Oct 31, 1932 
Cridlands, Globe and Mail, July 23 1937 
Edna Cridland marriage, Toronto Star, July 24, 1941 
Cridland-Thomson engagement, Toronto Star, June 27, 1942 
Cridland-Neale engagement, Toronto Star, May 29, 1944 
Death of William Cridland, Globe and Mail, June 10, 1948 
James Cridland, funeral, Toronto Star, Oct. 20, 1952 
Obituary, Globe and Mail, October 21, 1952 
Toronto Star Nov. 20. 1952 
ad, Toronto Star, April 16, 1953 
Cridland winds up, Globe and Mail, Nov. 26. 1954 
Cridland meats building 1959 and 1920’s, courtesy Scott Turner 
Edith Maud Cridland obituary, Globe and Mail, Dec. 16, 1965
The Midway Historical Society of Toronto 