Chuck enjoyed five years of retirement before suddenly passing away in November, 1990 just after he and Frances travelled to Ontario to spend the winter with Diane and her family. Johnjoe Tobin pur- chased the grist mill in 1990, and is renovating the original part of the structure where he plans to have a workshop to carry on his trade as a cabinet maker. .

Water power was also used at another site on the Tryon river. The small stream flowing into the river beside what is now the Gerald Best house was dammed up and the head of water was used to turn a water wheel that pumped water to the Bowley Leard house and farm.

Furniture Factory

The June 10, 1834, edition of the Royal Gazette advertises JB. Morrison of Tryon as a chairmaker. Alex F. Morrison also of North Tryon advertises his trade of chairmaker on June 23, 1835. No further reference to these gentlemen has been found. The Lake Map of 1863 shows A. Morrison and]. Morrison living on the road leading to Mount Tryon.35

Alexander Morrison, son of James Morrison and Marjorie Cruick- shank, had a furniture factory at North West Tryon on the northeast side of the Bedeque Road in the 1880 Atlas. William Chisholm who came from Sunny Brae, Nova Scotia, about 1863, joined Alexander in

Chisholm Furniture Factory: William Chisholm is standing in the door way with his son,_]im, on the right, and an employee, Mr. French, on the left. The other family mem- bers are standing to the right. The William Chisholm house, later the Lloyd Howatt

house, is on the right. Helen Asprey collection.

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