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:Cobourg - [[Robert Terwilligar]] - Jun 1856 - only advertised for 2 weeks | :Cobourg - [[Robert Terwilligar]] - Jun 1856 - only advertised for 2 weeks | ||
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:Galt - [[William B Choate]] (CdnD57-8) | :Galt - [[William B Choate]] (CdnD57-8) | ||
:Ingersoll - [[William F Robertson]] - Nov 1855 - apparently parked until at least Aug 8 1856 | :Ingersoll - [[William F Robertson]] - Nov 1855 - apparently parked until at least Aug 8 1856 | ||
Revision as of 22:16, 4 March 2015
Also called Daguerrean Saloons or Daguerreian Saloons. Also just called Waggons. Some later incarnations were referred to as Ambrotype Saloons.
Cars have been located in:
- Cobourg - Robert Terwilligar - Jun 1856 - only advertised for 2 weeks
- Chatham - Robert Taylor - <?-Dec 1865 - Apr 1869-?> built on large side & sky-light combo
- Galt - William B Choate (CdnD57-8)
- Ingersoll - William F Robertson - Nov 1855 - apparently parked until at least Aug 8 1856
- London - Graves & Prudden - Oct 1854
- New Hamburg - Kilburn & McVen - Jan 1857 Ambrotype Saloon
- Niagara-on-the-Lake - Graves & Prudden - 1855 - destroyed by a tornado Apr 18, 1855
- Orangeville - J C Beemer sold in Apr 1863 to James B House
- Port Hope - F Kimmerly - Dec 1854 - parked beside Foster & Carson's store
- St Catharines - Graves & Prudden - Sep 1854
- Stratford & Mitchell - Eli L Johnson - 1858 and 1860
- Stratford - C Cartwright sold Oct 1864 to M E Land who parked it alongside his own.
- Tavistock - J C Sutherland - late May 1894 - moved into regular office by year's end
- Toronto - James H Stubbs - Waggon(CdaD62-3)
U.S.A Cars
First instance found so far is George R Martin in Fredonia NY, July 1851
Edgefield, SC - John Leigh - In 1853, 1854 and 1855 he visited Edgefield with a daguerreian car.
NY - J H Vickery - advertised sale of a daguerreian car June 19, 1854 in central New York State.
West Union, Ia - Fall of 1854, George W. Snell arrived with a traveling daguerrean car, stopped on the public square and remained some time.
Delhi NY - Feb 1866 - Fire - shoe shop of Jacob Churchill, a temporary concern...(an old daguerreian car) between Belcher's and the Republican newspaper office was pulled down to save the paper office. Ithaca, NY - Milton S Lathrop - 1854 to 1858 he listed a daguerreian CAR on East Water Street.
