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James Cairns moved to Huntsville in 1900 to work at the Tannery. He had sold the original family farm in King Township to his brother and moved in with his wife Christina and their four children. Kelso met his future wife in Huntsville, Edith Mae Heath.

Albert Heath moved to Huntsville in 1876 to claim land and start a lumber company. Heath, Tait and Turnbull company was built beside the railway at the foot of Yonge Street in 1886. The company is located on land owned by George Elliott. In 1892 the company’s name was changed to the Huntsville Lumber Company. Mr. Heath’s name was gone by 1899.

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