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Identifier: merchantprincel00john (find matches)
Title: A merchant prince : life of Hon. Senator John Macdonald
Year: 1893 (1890s)
Authors: Johnston, Hugh, 1840-1922
Subjects: MacDonald, John, 1824-1890
Publisher: Toronto : Briggs
Contributing Library: Scott - York University Libraries
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ong oak, w^as year byyear striking its roots more deeply, and .spreading itsbranches more widely over the land. In August 14th, 1857, he was permitted to rebuildhis home, and was united in marriage to Annie Eliza-beth, only daughter of Samuel Alcorn, Esq. His wifewas prudent, affable, devoted, judicious and, like him-self, had no extravagant views, so that they lived to-gether very happily in a small house on George Street,until the time came for him to erect a permanentsuburban home. The busine.ss had now assumed im-mense proportions, and the firm of John Macdonald &Co. was one of the principal trading houses of Canada,enjoying an enviable reputation for stability andbusiness integrit3^ In the year 18G2, he erected thepremises which, with enlargements and improvements,are still occupied. The warehouse is built of cut stone,in Venetian-gothic style of architecture, and is one ofthe most handsome, convenient and commodious busi-ness houses in the city. It is a five-story structure,
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JOHX MaCDOXALD & Cos WlIOI.K-Ai-i: \\ AKEIIOLSE. Wellington Street View. WHOLESALE MERCHANT. 105 elegant and imposing in appearance. When firsterected it far surpassed in size and ornate finish everyother business establishment in Toronto ; and with allthe improvements in warehouse architecture, it stillholds its place among the chief architectural orna-ments of the business section of the commercialmetropolis. The building extends from AVellingtonStreet through to Front Street, and is entered fromeither street, although the principal entrance is onWellington Street. The firm of John Macdonald & Co., from the first,went on modestly, steadily, actively, always keepingabreast of the times; year by year increasing its trade,until at the time of the founders death it ranked, asit still ranks, among the oldest, as well as the largest,in the Dominion. With one or two solitary excep-tions, every firm carrying on the wholesale trade whenMr. Macdonald entered the race, has disappeared,

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