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Tuesday, January 21, 2025
Exploring History: Post office interior, circa 1920
he men in the photograph are identified, from left to right, as Charlie Taggart, James McFarland and Joseph Healey. Healey was the postmaster from 1904 to 1930. NOTL MUSEUM PHOTO
Here’s a photograph of the interior of the post office that was located in the Rowley Block at 27 Queen St. in the Old Town area of Niagara-on-the-Lake. You can see all of the mailboxes on the wall in the background and the light shining through the building’s large windows above. The men in the photograph are identified, from left to right, as Charlie Taggart, James McFarland and Joseph Healey. Healey was the postmaster from 1904 to 1930. The woman and child are not identified but one could assume they were close relations of Healey due to where they’re standing and for the fact that they had access to the backroom of the post office. The post office was likely a small operation back then. Hopefully, Canada Post will resolve the strike soon and our current post office can resume its hard work.

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