Theodore Turley was born on this day in 1801 in Birmingham, England. In 1825, Theodore and his family emigrated to Upper Canada, where he worked with metals in a blacksmith shop.
Here is one of the advertisements Theodore Turley placed in the Colonial Advocate on 8 Oct 1829 in Toronto, Upper Canada:
Earlier, on 1 January 1829, he placed this add:
In 2013, Rick Turley and I visited the spot where Theodore’s Blacksmith Shop once stood. Here is the intersection of Yonge and King Streets in Toronto where Theodore’s shop was located:
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