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Harry Maughan was born 19-Jun-1874 in Toronto, Ontario. His date and location of death is unknown. Harry's father was John Maughan. His mother was Margaret Eliza Parks. Harry married Eleanor Harriet Predam on 05-Jun-1895 in Toronto. Eleanor was 2 years older than Harry at the date of their marriage which was "by license, not by banns" and they were married by Alex Williams. Eleanor was born in Chatham, Ontario. Eleanor died 04-Mar-1926 in Toronto, Ontario and is buried in Mt. Pleasant Cemetery, Toronto.

Harry Maughan was the fourth of seven children. Harry left his family between 1908 and 1909 based on his lack of inclusion in the City of Toronto Directory for each year from 1909 onward. He apparently travelled to New York City with his secretary (her name is unknown). While in NYC he sent back a few letters signed Maunder. Harry primarily worked with his father John in insurance as an agent.

We have a letter postmarked 1895 to Harry at 56 Huxley Street (located to the northwest of the 'Exhibition Grounds'), however the land records for that address don't show Harry as ever being an owner. The street name on the subdivision plan is Huxley, so the addresses may have been rearranged when they changed the name of the street circa 1898 to Springhurst Avenue. A review of the Rand McNally 1898 indexed street map for the City of Toronto may help put some of this into context. A further review of all plans along the street may reveal some ownership. We are led to believe though, that the area had a number of rooming houses due to it's proximity to the downtown rail yards.

The last known address of Harry Maughan - 181 Garden Ave., Toronto

Based on a review of the City of Toronto Directories from 1908 back to 1893 (the years Harry would have been 18+) we find addresses for him at:

• 1908 @ 181 Garden Ave, Toronto
• 1907 @ 11 Portland Street, Toronto
• 1906 @ 11 Portland Street, Toronto
• 1905 @ 11 Portland Street, Toronto
• 1904 @ 11 Portland Street, Toronto
• 1903 @ 72 Wellington Street West, Toronto
• 1902 @ 72 Wellington Street West, Toronto
• 1901 @ corner of Queen Street East and Kingston Road, Toronto
• 1900 @ Hemlock Grove, Village of Norway (near Queen St. E. and Kingston Rd. Toronto) - this is in the area of the lands his father John Maughan owned
• 1899 @ Hemlock Grove, Village of Norway
• 1898 @ 56 Huxley Street (now Springhurst Avenue), Toronto
• 1897 @ 56 Huxley Street (now Springhurst Avenue), Toronto
• 1896 @ 56 Huxley Street (now Springhurst Avenue), Toronto
• 1895 @ 98 Wellington Place (now Wellington Street West), Toronto
• 1894 @ 98 Wellington Place (now Wellington Street West), Toronto
• 1893 @ 98 Wellington Place (now Wellington Street West), Toronto

Advertising Novelty Manufacturing Company Ltd.

Along with being in the insurance business with his father John, Harry was also listed as the manager of the Toronto Lantern and Slide Company in 1901 located at 29 Wellington Street East (the same address as the insurance brokerage), known as the Lancashire Building now demolished and where Bercy Park sits. The Toronto Lantern and Slide Company sold photographic supplies. Later, Harry was also the proprietor of the Medallion Photo and Novelty Company and then of the Advertising Novelty Manufacturing Company Ltd. that had offices at various locations along King Street West in Toronto. His partner in the novelty businesses was Edrick Victor Rippon. Edrick was a naturalist and was listed in the 1905 Naturalist's Universal Directory with an address at 'Hemlock Grove Farm, care of the waiting room of the Woodbine Railway Station'. This location coincides with Harry's home addresses of 1899 and 1900 at Hemlock Grove. Hemlock Grove was likely near the 30 acres of land Harry's father John Maughan owned near Queen St. and Kingston Rd. since there is a Hemlock Avenue running north from Maughan Crescent, which was named for John Maughan.

As a sidenote, the railroad station mentioned in Edrick Rippon's 1905 address was part of the Toronto and Scarboro Electric Railroad that ran along Queen Street. The Woodbine Station was located at the intersection of Kingston Road and Queen Street. These photos from 1894 of the station and a view northerly up Kingston Road give one an impression of the location. There is also an article from the Saturday Globe published January 13, 1894 that describes the railraod in greater detail you can read here.

In 1899 Edrick Rippon is listed in the Toronto Directory as living at 129 Hazelton Ave. and worked as a foreman for the Cobban Manufacturing Company that appear to have made picture frames.
In 1900 Edrick's occupation is updated to a silverer.
In 1901 he's living at 36 Waverly Rd. but working in the same job.
By 1902 Edrick has moved to the village of Norway however has no discreet address but remains a silverer for Cobban Manufacturing.
In 1903 there is no listing for him.
For 1904 Edrick is again listed as a mirrorer and silverer living on Maughan Avenue and working as the manager of the Medallion Photo and Novelty Company headquartered at 64-66 King Street West; Harry Maughan and Walter J. Liscomb are listed as owners of the business, and a Miss Ethel Pettit is listed as the foreman.
In 1905 Edrick is now shown only with Harry Maughan as the proprietors of the Advertising Novelty Manufacturing Company Ltd. located at 295 King St. W. and he is still living in the village of Norway without a specific address.
In 1906 Edrick is listed as living on Maughan Ave and working as a mirrorer and silverer; Miss Mabel Raine was also working at the Advertising Novelty Manufacturing Company Ltd. as an artist.
In 1907 Edrick is not listed with a home address, just referenced to the novelty company.
For 1908 Edrick is residing in Norway with no fixed address, as is his son Bertram E. Rippon who is listed as a clerk for G. Goulding & Son. Edrick is listed as a proprietor with Harry of the Advertising Novelty Manufacturing Company Ltd.
In 1909 Edrick is listed as residing at 159 Collier Street and as a manager at the Advertising Novelty Manufacturing Company. His son Bertram E. Rippon is living at the same address. Edrick is also listed as the curator of the Natural History Society of Toronto (the Biological section of the Canadian Institute) - John Maughan Jr. (Harry's brother) is the President. Edrick's father, Robert H. F. Rippon can be read about on Wikipedia here.
In 1910 Edrick is still living at 159 Collier Street along with a Miss Jennie Mowat who is listed as a nurse.

How the connection between Harry Maughan and Edrick Victor Rippon began is unknown; however if Edrick was a naturalist and in the area of Harry's father's 30 acres and duck pond he may have met Harry's brother John Jr. who was also a naturalist and taxidermist. However Harry and Edrick must have decided it was a good idea to go into business together. Edrick's skills as a silverer and mirrorer would have been useful when Harry ran the Toronto Lantern and Slide business. I don't understand what they made at the Advertising Novelty Manufacturing Company Ltd., but in today's parlance I'm sure it was akin to the trinkets and trash that one sees at conventions and trade shows.

Harry lived with his father John at 98 Wellington Place, Toronto but the name here has been changed to Wellington Street West and the addresses have been renumbered. Wellington Place lay to the west of Brock Street (now the south end of Spadina Avenue) and ran one block over to Portland Street, the next street to the west. The buildings now located on the north side of Wellington Street (formerly Wellington Place) are for the most part 10 story office / condo buildings; there are (currently) 5 exceptions - in the middle of the block remains a large brick semi-detached home which would date to my great, great grandfather's time and at the very west end of the street are 3 brick homes of less impressive stature, which again would date to the period in question. The center home falls into a portion of the Military Reserve Plan, which will provide some difficulty with research. The smaller homes at the west end of the street will not be quite so onerous. There is also a semi-detached house now used as offices at the east end of the block right beside the gas station, but I don't think the address would work for this location.

Alan Edward Lawrence Maughan

John Howard Maughan

Warwick Brothers & Rutter, Ltd., a Toronto-based printing company, is known to have published in the vicinity of 7,500 picture postcards between 1903 and 1912. Warwick produced colour lithographed cards on its own presses in Canada rather than outsourcing that work to printers in Germany or England, as was then the prevailing practice

Based on a review of the City of Toronto Directories from 1916 to 1935 (the years John would have been 18+ and alive) we find following addresses and occupational information:

• 1916 - living at 37 Albany Ave with ; clerk
• 1917 - living at 37 Albany Ave with ; secretary at Big Borther Movement
• 1918 - living at 37 Albany Ave with ; (no occupation)
• 1919 - living at 37 Albany Ave with ; (no occupation)
• 1920 - no listing
• 1921 - living at 37 Albany Ave with ; travelling salesman
• 1922 - living at 37 Albany Ave with ; travelling salesman
• 1923 - living at 37 Albany Ave with ; travelling salesman
• 1924 - no listing
• 1925 - living at 37 Albany Ave with widowed mother Eleanor H. Maughan and younger brother Edward H. Maughan; travelling salesman for the Standard Silver Co.
• 1926 - living at 37 Albany Ave with widowed mother Eleanor H. Maughan and elder brother John H. Maughan; advertising manager for Aikenhead Hardware Ltd.
• 1927 - not listed, niether is mother (died 04-Mar-1926) or brother John
• 1928 - not listed
• 1929 - living at 37 Albany Ave. with maternal grandmother Alice Predam and 3 spinster aunts Bessie, Rose and Ruby; music teacher Royal Conservatory of Music
• 1930 - 9 Albany Ave. (block of furnished bachelor apartments); salesman for the Canadian Industries Ltd.
• 1931 - 104, 2 Sultan St.; salesman for the Canadian Industries Ltd.
• 1932 - 828A St. Clair Ave. W.; salesman for the Canadian Industries Ltd.
• 1933 - 2253 Bloor St. W.; (no occupation)
• 1934 - no listing
• 1935 - Margaret J. Maughan listed as the widow of John H. Maughan residing at 308 St. George St.

Edward (Ted) Harry Maughan

Edward was a concert pianist who taught at the Royal Conservatory of Music in Toronto. He is listed in the 1938 Toronto Directory (and other varying years) as a music teacher with the Toronto Conservatory. As early as 1951 hs is co-credited with copyright to an interpretation of Mozart's Romance in A Flat. He performed regularly and we have an image of a concert advertisement from the Hart House (University of Toronto) archives. Edward's funeral was held at the Newbigging Funeral Home in Leaside.

We were able to contact one of Ted's former students Howard Lopez who was kind enough to share some memories:
'Mr. Maughan was the most kind, gentle, compassionate, caring, talented, exemplary man I have ever known. I was so lucky to have had him as a piano teacher and likely have made a carreer of music because of him. I can only hope I have honoured him enough for all he taught and shared. Hows that for a start? If your could email me: howard@howardlopez. I will reply in greater detail when I have more time and when I don't have to navigate a touch screen...! Funny I bumped into another fellow student at a corporate event a couple of years ago and will forward your note to him. In the summers he would vacation in Paris, France. I still have a letter he sent me with the hotel address. He studied under Alfred Cortot and his last car was a Buick leSabre that took off like a rocket. How do I know? I bought it from the estate. My mother was a long-time student, and fashioned her music teaching carreer because of him. It was a huge loss to her when Mr. Maughan passed away, as it was for me. There was still a photo of him on the wall in the music room when I sold my fathers home a couple of years ago.'

Based on a review of the available City of Toronto Directories from 1924 to 1969 (the years Edward would have been 18+) we find following addresses and occupational information:

• 1924 - living at 37 Albany Ave with widowed mother Eleanor H. Maughan; music teacher Royal Conservatory of Music
• 1925 through 1926 living at 37 Albany Ave with widowed mother Eleanor H. Maughan and elder brother John H. Maughan; music teacher Royal Conservatory of Music
• 1926 - living at 37 Albany Ave with widowed mother Eleanor H. Maughan and elder brother John H. Maughan; music teacher Royal Conservatory of Music
• 1927 - not listed, niether is mother (died 04-Mar-1926) or brother John
• 1928 - not listed
• 1929 - living at 33 Albany Ave with maternal grandmother Alice Predam and 3 spinster aunts Bessie, Rose and Ruby; music teacher Royal Conservatory of Music
• 1930 - not listed
• 1931 - not listed
• 1932 - not listed
• 1933 through 1938 - residing at 37 Albany Ave with aunts Bessie, Rose and Ruby; music teacher Royal Conservatory of Music
• 1939 through 1949 - Suite 201, 88 Carlton St; music teacher Royal Conservatory of Music
• 1950 through 1969 - Suite 1, 598 St. Clair Ave W; teacher

Baby (female) Maughan 14-Jul-1908