home co. BLACKSMITH SHOP
prOfittedefore the age of mechanized machinery, when horses were used Ma'pequ'mrtation and farming, blacksmiths were in great demand to shoe Ms as well as to repair parts of machinery when broken.
side rofs'e shop contained a forge for the fire and a bellows to fan it. When 29°F) e r became red hot, the iron was heated until it was malleable. It ome an pounded on the anvil with a hammer and shaped into shoes to fit
TravelleAr.s hoof. The nails to fasten the shoe were also made by the black-
still quite,
me horses became accustomed to being shod and would stand crossed
1hile others were more nervous and were hard to manage. This dangerous work depending on the temperament of the animal id.
TRAe first shops were located at Traveller‘s Rest Corner and some of smiths were Joseph Rayner, Tyndle Semple, James Heffell, Sr. “all and later Joseph Mallett, who moved to a shop near Charlie
the first ,reSIdence.
the rainpgood Rayner did blacksmith work at George Ramsay's shop.
was a srmmons and MacFarlane, in recent years, built a new shop on the waiting fpurchased from George Ramsay and have Rankin Cornish as really om.
La quate for
gers and THE VILLAGE BLACKSMITH
vide a fir Ti spreading chestnut tree, west. ltIe smithy stands. tions we a mighty man is he lrishtowre and sinewy hands. Lorne Wiles in his tawny arms Apng as iron bands.
built by!
was $03; TANNERY
duce buy . . ~ 1861 there were fifty-five tanneries in the province. One of these
vicinity of Traveller’s Rest Corner.
. .. leather produced was used by the shoemaker, the harnessmaker ddler.
story is told that the tanner liked to keep some of the sides of his own profit. These he stashed under the floor boards of his a result of complaints, officials came to investigate but they could ce of the leather. In 1953 when Elton MacKay was excavating for ent of his new home at Traveller's Rest Corner, three half-ton s of sides of leather were unearthed. The hides had been piled on =3 another and some of the leather in the center of the hides was in ndition. It is anybody's guess if these were the missing ones.
oss the road from the tannery there was a shoemaker’s shop
. operated by George Gay. This was on the site presently owned » Lilly.
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