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, 1920Cridland’s meat zoning problem, Toronto Star, September 25, 1920Toronto Star, Sept. 15 1920Cridland and Jeffrey meat plant Coxwell, Globe, February 22, 1921Ad, Cridlands, from the History of the Fire Dept, 1922Cridland & Sons picnic at Scarborough Heights Park, approx. 1922 or 1923Cridland and Sons baseball team 1922, TPL1924 Cridlands site, Goad’s Atlas 1924, 306-308 Carlaw Ave., Lot 8, Subdivision Plan 214Air Tite Eggs, Cridlands, Toronto Star, November 13, 1925Cridland-Barton marriage, Toronto Star Oct. 14, 1925Gerrard and Coxwell, looking north, (Way Department) – June 17, 19261926 Cridlands, Coxwell Avenue detailCridlands ad, Toronto Star, 04 Apr 1928Invoice, James Cridland & Sons Ltd.Alterations to Cridland plant, Toronto Star, Dec. 27, 1929Cridland expands, Globe, December 23, 1929Cridland ad, Ottawa Citizen, May 19, 1932Cridland radio show, Globe, Oct 31, 1932Cridlands, Globe and Mail, July 23 1937Edna Cridland marriage, Toronto Star, July 24, 1941Cridland-Thomson engagement, Toronto Star, June 27, 1942Cridland-Neale engagement, Toronto Star, May 29, 1944Death of William Cridland, Globe and Mail, June 10, 1948James Cridland, funeral, Toronto Star, Oct. 20, 1952Obituary, Globe and Mail, October 21, 1952Toronto Star Nov. 20. 1952ad, Toronto Star, April 16, 1953Cridland winds up, Globe and Mail, Nov. 26. 1954Cridland meats building 1959 and 1920’s, courtesy Scott TurnerEdith Maud Cridland obituary, Globe and Mail, Dec. 16, 1965
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