Object Number:
A985.4.32
The Story:
In the early 1880s, the Boyd & Irwin Lumber Company erected this commercial edifice on Pine Avenue, Haliburton. It was managed by their clerk, Frederick Freeman, who later purchased the store and ran it until shortly before his death in 1937. Freeman is remembered for his quaint eccentricities and as the source for the village children's penny candy, as they passed his store en route to the Haliburton schoolhouse. The building still stands as the Heritage House Cafe.
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Irwin's Store, with Fred Freeman, proprietor.
Irwin's Store, with Fred Freeman, proprietor.