BLACK, THOMAS REUBEN, farmer, builder, and politician; b

BLACK, JOSEPH LAURENCE, businessman and politician; b

., and a sleigh built in Orillia. He also successfully transported live black bass from Muskoka to Paris, Scotland, and England. Throughout the 1880s

the Black Creek near Sebringville. Black Creek was initially a cooperative factory where the farmers provided the capital, but cooperation soon gave way to sole proprietorship. In 1868 the price of