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Businesses

Discover more about business and industry in Ingersoll, explore the titans of commerce and the people who worked to build a town.

1887 Industries of Canada

: Ingersoll

1907 Industrial Ingersoll Illustrated

Adam Oliver of Ingersoll 1823-1882: lumberman, mill owner, contractor, and politician

By George Emery & Glenda Jamieson

Business Newspaper clippings. Vol. 1

A newspaper clipping collection of many Ingersoll business and business people – names alphabetically, A to F. Searchable.

Business Newspaper clippings. Vol. 2

A newspaper clipping collection of many Ingersoll business and business people – names alphabetically, G to K. Searchable.

Business Newspaper clippings. Vol. 3

A newspaper clipping collection of many Ingersoll business and business people – names alphabetically, L to R. Searchable.

Business Newspaper clippings. Vol. 4

A newspaper clipping collection of many Ingersoll business and business people – names alphabetically, R to Z. Searchable.

Carroll's Pond Mills

The banks of Carroll's Pond was home to grist, woollen and knitting mills.

History of the Cheese Industry in Oxford County

and the History of Ingersoll Cheese Company by C. H. Sumner

Ingersoll Cheese Company

A timeline of a cornerstone Ingersoll business.

Ingersoll in the 1870s

: excerpts from the Ingersoll Tribune

John Russell & Co. Agricultural Implement catalogue

Russell & Co. Foundry were manufacturers of the 'Ingersoll Reaper', which can be seen in this 1883 product catalogue, with testimonials!

Municipal Bonuses for Manufactures: how these worked in Ingersoll, 1873-1928

By George Emery

Noxon Brothers Agricultural Implement Co. Catalog

Explore farm equipment of yesteryear in this 1893 catalog.

Noxon Brothers Implement Works

An Ingersoll foundry that manufactured farm implements that were shipped all over the world.

Noxons of Ingersoll, 1856-1918: the family and the firm in Canada’s agricultural implements industry

By George Emery

The Ingersoll Packing Company

Originally, established as a pork processing plant, this business evolved into large export trade in cheese.

The James A. Cole Furniture Company

Located on the east side of Thames Street South, between King and Canterbury Streets, this factory transitioned from building furniture to funeral caskets.

The John Morrow Company

A business specializing in the production of iron and brass screws and bolts required in the construction of engines, mill machinery and electrical apparatus.

The Noxon Implement Company by Joni Seager

Includes history of this agricultural foundry, as well as genealogy of the Noxon family.

The River of Milk: 50 years with Borden's

Discusses the history of Borden's in Canada, with its inception in Ingersoll in 1899