7 Mar 1896: Joseph Malone: 1 casket furnished $25.00

22June 1904: Mr. L. MacKinnon: 1 casket $25.00

26 Mar 1910: Robert Muirhead: 1 small coffin $ 6.25

1 side case { $ .75

6 K. chairs 3—3-99

Settled 20 April 1910 $10.00

2June 1912: Edward Sharkey: 1 couch $17.00

I wash stand mi

$ 18.25

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Received June 1912 $16.68

13 Oct 1912: George Ives: l nurse chair $ 1.75

3 Dec 1912: Estate of Robert Bell: 1 blk cloth casket,

Hearse, and Case $40.00

29 May 1914: Brace and MacKay: 6 room chairs $ 9.00

29 May 1914: Fred Leard: 1 buffet $16.75 28 May 1916: Mrs. Arnold Lefurgey: 6 room chairs $ 6.0038

William and Jim Chisholm delivered furniture orders throughout the Island by horse and wagon. They usually wrote on the back of a drawer or the underside of a table, chair, or hall tree where the piece was to be delivered.39 The dining room table now in the possession of Nancy MacFadyen, and formerly owned by Lizzie Chisholm Lang, has Chisholm and Son, Cape Traverse, written in William’s handwriting on the underside of the table top. This table was Lizzie’s kitchen table and for many years was used in the Presbyterian Manse by the Sunday School.

Jim continued to operate the factory after William passed away in 1916, but on a much smaller scale, making fern stands, kitchen stools, and other small items. The last pieces made by Jim Chisholm were a rolling pin, bread board, and kitchen stool for his granddaughter, Helen Chisholm Asprey, as a wedding present in 1942. Helen and her sister, Elaine Chisholm MacKenzie, recall seeing their grandfather,]im, in the factory bent over his work bench carefully carving his well known pattern, every stroke being the right depth and width to pass Jim’s critical inspection. The business closed its doors in 1942.

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