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A document in the BHS archives records that John, Duncan & Arthur Macdonald were grantors of the deed for Lot 5 Block Y, Abrey's Map of Wellington Square, to Robert John Torrance Allen. The Gazette of 7 & 14 November 1900 notes that \" R. J. Allen disposed of his furniture business to Mr E. Williamson\". According to the 1897 Voters List, Edward Williamson, Carpenter, then lived at Lot 2 Brant Street. In From Pathway to Skyway, it is said that in 1889 E. Williamson was the undertaker listed in the business directory of Wellington Square. 1909 Polling List: E. W. Williamson, age 33, Undertaker, Brant St, part Lots 6, 7 1910 GOAD Map: 52 Brant: Undertaker and 50 Brant: Furniture Maker 1924 GOAD Map: 21/2 Brant: Undertaker and 23: Furniture. 1916 Sewerage Works Plan: E. Williamson: Brick Furniture Store and Morgue (on the south side). 1917 and 1918 Telephone Directories: E. W. Williamson, Furniture & Undertaker, on Brant. Brant Street Pavement Map: Morgue & Brisk Furnitur / E. Williamson; Boulevard with Telephone in front. 1922 Telephone Directory : Undertaker only. It is said that at one time the furniture store was owned by George L. Reid. According to Dorothy Turcotte's Memories of Pioneer Days, pp. 158 - 9, and The Growing Years, pp. 71 - 73, Edward Williamson's grandfather emigrated from Yorkshire in 1817. His son William, who was 4 years old in 1817, later settled in Nelson Township and Farms and Farminged at the southwest corner of Walkers Line and the Middle Road (now the QEW). William's son Edward became a funeral director, and at one time was the oldest practising funeral director in Ontario. Edward's son Edgar took up the funeral business in 1903 when he married, and sold it in 1938 to Wilbert Smith family (see 485 Brant Street). Edgar and his wife and two daughters, Beulah and Violet, lived above the furniture store on Brant Street until 1912, when Mrs Williamson died, and the widower and daughters moved farther up Brant Street to live with his parents. Then he bought the house at 458 Locust Street. There are Williamson family photographs and reminiscences in Turcotte. Turcotte: Burlington: The Growing Years, map, p. 74: Wilbur Smith Furniture ARCHITECTURE: A two-storey commercial building, built of brick. The end-gabled roof has high parapets on both sides completed with corbel ends and brackets under the eaves. On the south side a brick-faced semi-detached flat roofed building also has an Italianate cornice and a similar window, but at a lower level. ENVIRONMENT: Downtown Study (1989), p. 148 USABILITY: INTEGRITY: The upper level has been stuccoed and the lower level clad with angelstone around the display windows."},{"label":"Creator","value":"Pat Taylor"},{"label":"Date","value":"1877"},{"label":"Date (EDTF)","value":"D:00 M:00 Y:1877"},{"label":"Title","value":"374 Brant Street, Burlington, ON"},{"label":"Repository","value":["Burlington Historical Society"]}],"description":"374 Brant Street, Burlington, ON","sequences":[{"@type":"sc:Sequence","canvases":[{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/qstarter29/iiif/d89010a0-e262-4ad6-a99d-67c545728a67/canvas/_1","@type":"sc:Canvas","label":"374 Brant Street, Burlington, ON","height":1064,"width":1600,"images":[{"@type":"oa:Annotation","motivation":"sc:painting","resource":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/qstarter29/iiif/d89010a0-e262-4ad6-a99d-67c545728a67/full/full/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","format":"image/jpeg","service":{"@context":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/context.json","@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/qstarter29/iiif/d89010a0-e262-4ad6-a99d-67c545728a67","profile":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/level2.json","tiles":[{"width":512,"scaleFactors":[1,2,4]}]},"height":1064,"width":1600},"on":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/qstarter29/iiif/d89010a0-e262-4ad6-a99d-67c545728a67/canvas/_1","metadata":[]}],"thumbnail":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/qstarter29/iiif/d89010a0-e262-4ad6-a99d-67c545728a67/full/500,500/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","height":500,"width":500}}]}],"thumbnail":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/qstarter29/iiif/d89010a0-e262-4ad6-a99d-67c545728a67/full/500,500/0/default.jpg","logo":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/qstarter29/iiif/logo"}