From candy to chewing tobacco: an old-time country store in Tiverton

In the very first “Yearbook” of the Bruce County Historical Society, in 1967, you can read McLeod Orford’s story about his family’s country store in Tiverton. Article content

For 26 years, until the store closed in January 1943, the Orfords sold groceries, candy, tobacco, baked goods, fruit, ice cream, and some patent medicines. Article content

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Marshall Orford had arrived in Bruce Township, with his sister Sarah and his brother George, in 1866. They spent their first winter at the home of Lachlan McLean, their maternal grandfather, on Concession 4. In 1895, Marshall married Margaret McLean of Fergus.

In 1913, Marshall opened the first Orford store in Tiverton, on the north side of Queen Street, opposite the store of N. McInnes & Co. In 1917, he bou