Furniture Factories

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Click here for brief historical sketches of many of the furniture factories that have come and gone in the County of Bruce. More information may be available in the Archives – particularly with respect to the Krug Brothers Company in Chesley, Andrew Malcolm Furniture Company in Kincardine and the Hepworth Furniture Company in Southampton.

*Please note: We are not able to provide monetary appraisals on pieces of furniture that were built in Bruce County. This is best left to a professional furniture dealer or a licensed appraiser. In some cases, we do have furniture catalogues that may assist in determining the year a piece of furniture was built and some other details.

These catalogues are:

Krug Brothers Co. Ltd. – Chesley, Ontario
Catalogues: 1933 (#47), 1936 (#50), 1940 (#54), 1943 (#57), c.1964 (#78); 1967 (#81), c.1970 (#84), c.1980
Price Lists: 1930, 1933, 1939, 1940, 1948

Chesley Chair Co. / Heirloom of Canada Ltd. – Chesley, Ontario
Chesley Chair Catalogues: c.1936 (#44), 1943 (#51)
Chesley Chair / Heirloom of Canada Distributor Catalogues: 1956, 1957, 1959 – 1963
Chesley Chair / Heirloom of Catalogues: 1955, 1959 – 1961
Chesley Chair / Heirloom of Canada Price Lists: 1955, 1959 – 1961
Heirloom of Canada Distributor Catalogues: 1965 – 1970
Heirloom of Canada Catalogues: 1965, 1966 – 1968, 1982, 1986, 1987
Heirloom of Canada Price Lists: 1986

Knechtel Furniture Company Ltd. – Hanover, Ontario
Catalogues: 1900 (copy) – Jennifer Trant Research Box #4
Price Lists: 1892 and unknown year (copies) – Jennifer Trant Research – Grey Box

Hepworth Manufacturing Company – Hepworth, Ontario
Catalogues: c.1920 (#14)

Hepworth Furniture Company Ltd. – Southampton, Ontario
Brochure and catalogues: c.1947
Catalogues: c.1944, c.1950, 1956, 1957, 1968 (#36), 1970 (#38), 1973
Price Lists: 1944, 1949, 1952 – 1976
Various cards and brochures with product numbers and information but no years

Bogdon and Gross Furniture Company Ltd. – Walkerton, Ontario
Sales Catalogue: c.1990s

Coombe Furniture Company Ltd. – Kincardine, Ontario
Catalogue: 1916-17 (#16), c.1924 (4 catalogues), c.1970

Andrew Malcolm Furniture Company – Kindardine, Ontario
Price Lists: 1935
Colonial Bedroom Catalogues: no date

Fitton Parker Furniture – Southampton, Ontario
Catalogues: 1955 – 1958, 1960, 1961, 1964, 1966, 1968 and unknown
Price Lists: 1962 – 1965, 1967, 1969 (black book in Furniture Factory Box #4 – A998-012-002)
Various cards with product numbers and information but no years

Bell Furniture Company Ltd. – Southampton, Ontario
Catalogues: two undated catalogues

Mitchell and McGill – Toronto, Ontario (affiliated with B. Ankenman)
Catalogues: 1929 (#11)
Price lists: 1929 (#20)

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