![]() ![]() Alas all the company records were lost in that fire. ![]() However, an economic downturn and a fire put the company out of business by 1912. The town offered it a deal on unpaid taxes, and by 1899, the local paper reported that it was again thriving, selling instruments throughout Canada. Harman and Charles Small, kept it going between 18, and in the mid-1890s the workers formed a cooperative. Various other leaders including Rueben P. By 1890 he opened a store in Toronto, and in 1891 he resigned from manufacturing to retail furniture and musical instruments. The company specialized in organs, cabinets, and coffins during its early years. It started making pianos and would be renamed the Uxbridge Piano and Organ Company, probably by 1889 when the local paper wrote of its “first piano.” According to the 1891 Census, McGuire and his wife Mary Ann had 8 children and he employed 64 people in his factory. Their endeavour was helped by the presence of a water-powered sawmill, run by Richard Bell, and the arrival of the Toronto and Nipissing Railway in 1871. McGuire had lived in Uxbridge with his wife Mary Ann (born in England) and his brother William since at least 1861. ![]() The Uxbridge Cabinet Organ Factory located in Uxbridge Ontario, just north of Toronto, was created in 1873 by Irish-born cabinet maker John McGuire. Perhaps it will be useful to someone else. This page describes my amateur repairs on my Uxbridge Cabinet organ.
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