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Street names in... Seagrav Cartwrig SEAGRAVE is one of those quiet picturesque villages that seems to evade the passage of time. This village was originally named Sonya. A post office was opened here in 1858 with Abram Farewell as the postmaster. Earlier in Whitby in 1839, Abram’s sister Elizabeth had married Charles Emerson Coryell. Abram had bought some land in Lot 24 concession 8 of Reach Township and convinced his brother-in- law and sister to join him. Charles and Elizabeth Coryell moved to Sonya and took over the hotel in the village in 1850 and named it the Coryell House. Charles and Elizabeth’s eighth child was Henrietta after whom Henrietta street is named. Charles died in 1872 and the family sold their property in Seagrave and moved back to Whitby, but not before leaving their record permanently in the names of two Seagrave streets: Coryell and Henrietta. The Hotel was taken over by W.S. Lattimore. Unfortunately it burned to the ground eight years later. The following year, 1881, anew hotel, the Ocean House was built across the road and that building survives today . In the meantime, in 1861 the post office and the village name was moved a mile north to the present-day Sonya. This left the original Sonya village nameless and without a post office. In Lor eé3 4 yf | Ber. vente g 79 | — y Lor Roberts of Port Pe) Above, map of the village of Seagrave, 1877, and below, the Ocean House hotel about 1900. 1873 a post office was reopened with the name Seagrave. PLAN OF THE VILLAGE ox WILLIAMSBURGH. CARTWRIGHT TP. Wettiam Hooey Leirmes Pluke folie Accworthy Senn Axworthy) LOT We 12 Map of the Village of Williamsburgh (later Blackstock) from 1878. 30 FOCUS - APRIL 2015 BLACKSTOCK - Beginning in 1832 thousands of Irish Protestants made their way to Canada and many settled in Cavan and Manvers Townships. Unfortunately outbursts of violence between Protestants and Roman Catholics began to ap- pear. Many Irish who wished to live more peace- fully moved to Cartwright where they found tranquility and an added bonus; better land. James Tooley opened a hotel in the centre of the Township and Tooleys Corners (Blackstock) soon became a busy community. By 1850 the village had become known as Williamsburg. There are those who think that the name originated from William Hooey, one of the township’s pioneers. Others believe that it paid homage to King William of Orange. However, in 1887, after several complaints about mail ending up in other communities with the same name, the name was changed to Blackstock, honouring George Tait Blackstock, a