Then: E. Weightman & Sons Building Supplies

Edward Weightman started business in 1915 with a truck and a load of lumber. By 1925, he had opened a lumber mill and building supply store on Main Street, Chippawa, which soon became "E. Weightman & Sons Building Supplies". Busy Edward was also a Reeve of Chippawa, a job his son Ed later occupied. Edward's son William served as a Chippawa Village councillor in addition to running the supply store.

The family lumber business grew, and eventually branched out into a ready mix concrete facility on Montrose Road. By 1984, grandsons Tom and Gary Weightman, too busy operating the concrete plant, sold the Main Street store, which became a Cash and Carry.

Now: De Healthy Baker

The concrete plant changed hands over the years, at one point becoming a Cashway Building Centre, and later Rona Cashway. Today (2018) the Main Street location houses a bakery, and a storage facility.

Niagara Falls Public Library. 2017. Niagara Falls - Then & Now: A Photographic Journey Through The Years. [E. Weightman & Sons Building Supplies/ De Healthy Baker].

Niagara Falls Then and Now
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Niagara Falls Museums - Niagara Falls Public Library - Dept. of Geography and Tourism Studies,Brock University.
Original newspaper series by Sherman Zavitz, Official Historian for the City of Niagara Falls from 1994 - 2019.

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