The postcard above was found in an online collection here belonging to the Heritage Place Museum in Lyn near Brockville, Ontario. What an exciting find! The treeless landscape made me think it was quite early picture and may have been sent back to Ontario by Benjamin or Ann Boulton. They had left the New Dublin area in 1892 for Reston. A kindly museum volunteer named John checked the back of the card and sent me a copy of it.
Reston Apr 7th 07
Friend Mort - Thought I would send you a B. eye view of Reston. By daylight. Suppose you are in the sugar making now and we still have winter and sleighing yet. I think the people who moved out here early this spring will wish themselves home. Write. Yours Hulls (?)
Rowsome and Boulton/Bolton families were both found around the New Dublin area according to the museum website. I wonder who the people mentioned in the postcard who moved out there early that spring might have been. Richard and Hester Kendrick arrived in Reston from New Dublin in 1900. This family was instrumental in forming the school district south of Reston named Dublin in honour of their old home. If any readers know more about this or who "Hulls" may be, please contact me at ssimms@escape.ca or comment on this blog post.
I went west down #2 Highway tonight to try to recapture the view on the postcard over 111 years later and this is the result below. A grain elevator is barely visible just left of the center and the golf course covers the foreground. The town has grown in all directions and a brand new Spraypark just officially opened today.
"Hulls" would never recognize Reston today!
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