Browsing all posts in August, 2011.

The Quarry Owners: The Williams

Joseph Williams, the originator of the Williams Quarry was born in June 1, 1983 at Morse Mitchell Dean, Gloucester, England. He died on April 15, 1909 in Winnipeg, Manitoba. He is buries at the St. John’s Cathedral Cemetery.
On January 24, 1872, he married Cecilia Mary E. Parker at Hemmingford Quebec. She was born in December [...]

Williams Quarry Company Limited

The Williams Quarry property was owned by Joseph Williams. The stone in the quarry was suitable for bridge masonry, footings, crushed stone for concrete and lime and rubble. While Williams Quarry did not take out a patent for incorporation until July 2, 1904, they have been in operation for quite some time. The earliest correspondence [...]

Stony Mountain Quarries

An original survey of Rosser, completed in 1871, shows a quarry mark as in operation in the SW corner.
Surveyor’s Handbook 535 notes: “A rocky or stony ridge transverses this township from the North to South. It is shown on the plan in section 27 and 34. I have no doubt of its being the same [...]

The Quarry Village in Manitoba

According to the records of the City of Winnipeg Engineering Department— the 80 acres of property situated in Rosser, for the Little Stony Mountain Quarry was purchase in 1896 from Lord Strathcona, under the direction of Colonel H. N. Ruttan, the city engineer at that time. It produced crushed stone which was delivered to improvement [...]