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BrickName: Unknown BrickManufacturer: Brick Company Smith Manufacture Location: YorKon, Saskatchewan acture: Date(s) of Manuf 1B9B BrickType: Face Dimensions: Approximate 7 7lB x 3 5/8 x 23/cinchesI 1 9 8x 9 2 x 5 7 m m Golour:
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Yorkton,c 1910. woodengrainelevator, ThebrickSmithFlourMillandaccompanying (Photo: Archives) Cityof Yorkton Comments: John J. Smith was a Yorkton pioneer who established several businesses, including a lime kiln, general store, brick yard (1896) and a flour mill (1898). His distinctive pale yellow bricks are featured in various Yorkton buildings, including the Methodist 0ater Lutheran) Church and several houses.
In 1905, Smith sold his brick plant to the Doukhobor Brethren, who operatedthe factory until the 1930s. Bricks made at the Smith Brick Yard included a/, indn deep frog but did not include any maker's markings. The impression lines in the face of the brick resulted from bricks being stacked on top of each other before being fired in a scove kiln. The bricks may have been made in a hand-opera[ed brick press. or in small wooden brick moulds which accommodated about five bricks per moulc. Sources: l1l "Windowson our History:Pre-ColonizationTimesto 2005". by Th6rdseLefebvre Prince, City of Yorkton, 2005,p. 24; l2l "Yorkton: York Colony to TreasureChest City". edited by Bill Johnston, 1979,p. 10; [3] "PioneerWays& BygoneDays: A Tour and Reminiscence of The Old Town Centreof Yorhton,Saskotchewan", by ThereseLefebvrePrince.2011.p. 7: [4] Western DevelopmentMuseum, Saskatoon(photo); City of Yorkton Archives (photo): [5] Fort EdmontonPark display.Alberta.
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