Built c. 1873 at no. 97 Main Street.
"This tall brick building with a store on the ground floor and storage or residential quarters above was built by Christian Reesor in 1873. He was a successful farmer in Locust Hill and did not reside in Markham Village. This impressive commercial building was constructed as an income property, rented to business operators. The Reesor family erected a similar commercial building next door to the south c.1885 (91 Main Street North).The property was inherited by Christian and Melissa Ann Reesor’s son, Frank E. N. Reesor in 1877. Like his father, he was a successful farmer in Locust Hill and did not reside in Markham Village. In the mid-1890s, a grocery store occupied the commercial space. In 1902, the property was sold to Thomas B. Reive, who operated a general store. His son Harold S. Reive took over the business in 1919, and a sign on the front of the building, shown in an archival photograph taken about 1927, made the claim that this was “Markham’s Best Store.”" - info from Markham website.
"Markham (/ˈmɑːrkəm/) is a city in York Region, Ontario, Canada. It is approximately 30 km (19 mi) northeast of Downtown Toronto. In the 2021 Census, Markham had a population of 338,503, which ranked it the largest in York Region, fourth largest in the Greater Toronto Area (GTA), and 16th largest in Canada.
The city gained its name from the first Lieutenant-Governor of Upper Canada, John Graves Simcoe (in office 1791–1796), who named the area after his friend, William Markham, the Archbishop of York from 1776 to 1807.
Indigenous people lived in the area of present-day Markham for thousands of years before Europeans arrived in the area. The first European settlement in Markham occurred when William Berczy, a German artist and developer, led a group of approximately sixty-four German families to North America. While they planned to settle in New York, disputes over finances and land tenure led Berczy to negotiate with Simcoe for 26,000 ha (64,000 acres) in what would later become Markham Township in 1794. Since the 1970s, Markham rapidly shifted from being an agricultural community to an industrialized municipality due to urban sprawl from neighbouring Toronto. Markham changed its status from town to city on July 1, 2012.
As of 2013, tertiary industry mainly drives Markham. As of 2010, "business services" employed the largest proportion of workers in Markham – nearly 22% of its labour force. The city also has over 1,000 technology and life-sciences companies, with IBM as the city's largest employer. Several multinational companies have their Canadian headquarters in Markham, including: Honda Canada, Hyundai, Advanced Micro Devices, Johnson & Johnson, General Motors, Avaya, IBM, Motorola, Oracle, Toshiba, Toyota Financial Services, Huawei, Honeywell, General Electric and Scholastic Canada." - info from Wikipedia.
Late June to early July, 2024 I did my 4th major cycling tour. I cycled from Ottawa to London, Ontario on a convoluted route that passed by Niagara Falls. during this journey I cycled 1,876.26 km and took 21,413 photos. As with my other tours a major focus was old architecture.
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