Conboy Carriage Co. Ltd. - 1860s- 1920s - Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Conboy Carriage Co. Ltd. - 1860s- 1920s - Toronto, Ontario, Canada |
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Known builder of composite bodies on Hudson and Rolls-Royce chassis. Also built production bodies for McLaughlin Buick. xxxxxx Canadian Automotive Trade May 1932 stated that C. E. McTavish the new Sales Manager of General Motors of Canada, was born in Flesherton. "Mr. McTavish has been in transportation all his life, his father building carriages in Flesherton in the early days. His first contact with the automobile industry was during his work with the CONBOY CARRIAGE COMPANY when they built many of the first bodies for McLaughlin-Buicks on the introduction of that car in Canada". Flesherton is today a pretty village in the municipality of Grey Highlands, south central Ontario, roughly 70 miles north of Toronto. Prior to municipal restructuring, the area around Flesherton was known as Artemesia township, and was once described by the then Government of the Dominion of Canada as a "veritable garden of Eden" in its solicitation for emigrants to settle in this area. With the promise of 50 acres free, and 50 acres for 50¢ per acre, European settlers began arriving in the mid 1850s. By 1861 Artemesia had a population of 2,575. One of the first settlers was William K. Flesher who started a grist and saw mill on the Boyne River at what was then called Artemesia Corners, but which was re-named in his honour Flesher's corners, later Flesherton. He became Reeve of Artemesia, Warden of Grey County and, in 1872, Member of Parliament. xxxxxx No evidence has yet been found for where the Conboy Company were based…it is unlikely that they were in Flesherton according to the local history society. xxxxxx Caleb Shier b. 07/02/1838 Single d. 02/15/1911
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