Harry Graham Everett (1890 - 1964)

Born 29 May 1890 in Renton, Norfolk County, Ontario, Canada

Ancestors

Husband of Hazel Augusta (Heard) Everett — married 21 Mar 1916 in Grace Anglican Church on the Hill, Toronto

Descendants

Died 24 Nov 1964 at age 74 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada

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Biography

1890 - born, Renton (Simcoe), Ontario

1891 Census, Woodhouse, Norfolk South: age 11 months

1901 Census, Simcoe, Ont:10, b 29 May 1890, Ont., son; Eng, Cdn; Methodist. With father, George (36); "Haniel E" (29); Frea ray (12); George P (5); Percy (4)

Attended High School in Simcoe; photo caption notes he also attended a Boys' School "where manners were of utmost importance".

Avid golfer, also hunter. Dressed well.

1907: HE, clerk, room at 303 Parliament, Toronto

191? - attending College of Pharmacy, nickname "Beau Brummell"

A Harry Gordon Everett (son of George Erson Everett, born Simcoe), 19, b. 1890 Canada crossed into the USA on 19 April 1909 [ancestry.ca Hint]

He appears in a Border Crossing Certificate, Detroit, Michigan, (1911?). It lists him as 22 years of age, a Pharmacist, 5'10', fair complexation, brown hair, and black(?) eyes. It appears he had been in the USA from 1906 to Aug. 1911, visiting his uncle John in Livingston, Montana. "Vermont, St. Albans Canadian Border Crossings, 1895-1954," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.3.1/TH-1951-37915-82380-92?cc=2185163 : accessed 3 November 2015), (M1461) Soundex Index to Canadian Border Entries through the St. Albans, Vermont, District, 1895-1924 > Roll 133, E131 Clara-E210 Ivar > image 1169 of 4957; citing NARA microfilm publications M1461, M1463, M1464, and M1465 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.).

-1912: graduated from Pharmacy College, U of T; went to California (story about him riding horseback from Montana) and worked two years at the pharmacy in the Grand Del Monte Hotel, Monterey, California.

c. 1914, not willing to give up Canadian citizenship, he moved back to Canada, took up a job at Tamblyn Drugstore, Toronto. -1914 directory: labourer(?), room at 11 Fenwick

-1916 Directory: Clerk, G. Tamblyn (733 Yong)e, rooms, 18 St. Joseph St. While working there Hazel Heard (from Fenlon Falls) came in to buy some henna hair colouring.

1916, March 21: married, St. Clement's (Anglican) Church, Toronto "Ontario Marriages, 1869-1927," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.3.1/TH-1942-25839-5461-28?cc=1784216 : accessed 3 November 2015), Marriage licenses and affidavits > 1916 > no 1618-2264 > image 939 of 1353; Archives of Ontario, Toronto

-1917: c;l G; G. Tamblyn: house 237 Pape Ave - traveller with Wright & Co. - house Nairn Av

Photo of Harry and Hazel's first home (caption): Simcoe, Ontario, 1917-18

- 1918 Directory: clerk 18 St. Joseph(?) - Also lived at 29 MacPherson Ave, Toronto

Letter Simcoe, Ontario, 24 May 1918 to Hazel in Fenlon Falls, "Dear Mumie" in Family Scrapbook

At some point he met Dr. Bridgeland who had built a drugstore in Bracebridge. [This was likely Harry, brother of Dr. Samuel]. The couple came in 1919 with Jack and Harry. They purchased the store from the Campbell estate.

c1918 moved to Bracebridge (which did at least have golfing), took over Bracebridge Drug Store (Nyal Drugs). Their first home was on the east side of Manitoba Street, slightly above Memorial Park.

Moved to 46 McMurray Street (1919-1960)

Summer vacations at Fenlon Falls with wife Hazel's family. (They joked about how tourists came to Muskoka from Toronto, and they had own cottage.

1921 Canada Census: 31 years old, married, son: John [ancestry.ca Hint]

In 1931 Census, living with family on McMurray Avenue, Bracebridge.^[1]

1935 Canada Voters' List, Bracebridge, Muskoka-Ontario: 117 Everett, Harry, Druggist, Bracebridge. 118 Everett, Mrs Harry (W), married woman, Bracebridge^[2]

19?? - He ran a second drug store at Beamauris Hotel. (It may have already had one.) This was conveniently close to the golf course. It is said, guests liked to golf with him as he was good. After War Beaumauris burned (arson by a disgruntled employee - deaths).

Moved to 75 Front Street (1960-62), then to "The Brentwood Towers", 17 Lascelles Blvd., Toronto

-among his employees were Cecil Dickie (pharmacist, 20 years), Ted Fenn (worked 40 years

Death: 24 Nov 1964, Toronto, Ontario.

Buried, Mt. Pleasant Cemetery, Toronto

-- ADDENTA

Member of the Masons

Methodist ^[3]

Jill Everett-Young recalls a story from her father (Harry Everett): There was an actual robbery in the Bracebridge drugstore when Dad was a boy. Perhaps I have written about it? He was standing out back, you know where the drugstore and surrounding buildings were built into the side of a hill, and he was attending a large fire of trash. Because he was behind the fire, the man who approached the drugstore and carefully scrutinized it, didn't see Dad watching him. A day or two later, the store had been broken into overnight, drug cabinets ransacked - I don't know what else was taken. The thief had gained entrance by tunneling deep under the door sill!

A couple weeks later, Dad was up at the hospital visiting someone, along with a buddy of his, when he spotted the very man he saw through the trash fire. This man was dressed as either an orderly or cleaning staff, I can't recall. Dad had already run into the Chief of Police in the hall, so he went and found him and reported this.

Sure enough, it was the drugstore thief. It transpired that the guy was addicted to some kind of heavy drug and had managed to steal some from the old hospital, as well.

Heady adventure for a young lad.^[4]

Sources

1. ↑ 1931 Census, Bracebridge, Ontario; 23 McMurray (Owned, value $4500, single dwelling, B[rick] V[eneer?], 7 rooms: Harry Graham Everett (41), Head, born Ontario, Ch of Eng, Druggist, Own Store, earned $31,000. Hazel A Everett (32), wife, born Ontario (father born England), Ch of Eng, Homemaker. John James Leroy Everett (14), son, b Ont, Ch of Eng, Student. Harry Joseph Everett (12), son, b Ont, Ch of Eng, Student. Robert Emerson Everett (11), son, b Ont, Ch of Eng, Student. Virginia Catherine Everett (9), dau, b Ont, Ch of Eng. Richard Edward Graham (8), son, b Ont, Ch of Eng.
2. ↑ Ancestry.com. Canada, Voters Lists, 1935-1980 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2012.
3. ↑ https://familysearch.org/tree/#view=ancestor&person=LD89-5Q5&spouse=LD89-5VH&parents=9MRS-N1J_LD89-2BK
4. ↑ Jill Everett-Young, e-mail 16 Sept 2015

James T. Burtchaell, Computerized list of Burtchaell family tree (c. 2001) - with additional notes and corrections by Susanne, Yeager Everett

Robert J. Boyer, A Good Town Grew Here: The Story of Bracebridge, Ontario, 1860-1914 (Bracebridge: Herald-Gazette Press, 1975)

_____, A Good Town Continues: Bracebridge 1915-1999 (Town of Bracebridge, 125th Anniversary Committee, 1999)

Mutrie, R. Robert, The Yeager Family Album (Simcoe, Ont.: Second Ave Printing, 1989), p. 101.

Rimstead, Diane, "The Everetts - Loyalists, Painter and Horsemen" (Part of "Rimstead's Muskoka People" series , The Muskoka Sun, Thursday, 31 August, 2000

https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/family/LD89-5Q5

Additional notes .

• Recollections of Suzanne Everett, notes & article, "Muskoka Sun" (newspaper). 2000