"When Greater Windsor Home Builders' Association made a commitment to the MRI Field of Dreams Campaign, Kimball Lumber and Building Supplies in Essex, Ontario was there to donate and deliver building materials. Together with the Windsor & Essex County Cancer Centre Foundation and many other volunteers, we helped build a house and donate all proceeds to this worthwhile community cause," says owner Harold Kimball.
"Never have seen anything like this." Those words are just a few used by an awe-struck Nancy Gibbons from the Windsor Regional Cancer Centre Foundation as an army of carpenters, construction workers and homebuilders poured onto a building lot at the corner of Hanlan Street and Fairview Avenue early Friday. The lot was vacant except for a pre-poured foundation and driveway and, at 7:00 a.m. sharp, the first sound of a hammer striking a nail signalled the start of a race - a race to build and finish a home in three days, running parallel to a race to wipe out cancer with early diagnosis and precise treatment.
As the sound of power saws and power nail guns joined the chorus of hammers, it was organized chaos as volunteers from companies that normally compete against each other worked in sweat-drenched t-shirts under the guidance of foremen in their distinctive lemon yellow shirts. But the chaos served its purpose as, exactly 41 minutes after they started, the front and side stud walls of the garage were up and being checked for plumb. Fifty minutes later, the back wall of the house, which was assembled on an adjoining lot, was lifted into place by a crane, read more...
"Together with the Windsor & Essex County Cancer Centre Foundation and many other volunteers, we helped build a house and donate all proceeds to this worthwhile community cause," says owner Harold Kimball, Kimball Lumber and Building Supplies
In recognition of Emmerson Lumber’s 50th anniversary, Kim Emmerson has compiled a history of “The Mill Reserve” using information gathered from history books, newspaper articles, local people and the help of the good folks from the Haliburton Highlands Museum.
To download the PDF of “The Mill Reserve” story please click here.
“As beautiful as Haliburton is today, we can only imagine the grandeur of untouched wilderness and beauty that the first excited settlers to our village experienced as they arrived to Haliburton Village in 1864.”
“The village of Haliburton and the Provincial County of Haliburton derived their names from the first Chairman of the Canadiana Land and Emigrating Company, the noted Canadian historian and humorist, who in 1842 himself emigrated to London from Nova Scotia where he served as Judge of the Supreme Court – Thomas Chandler Haliburton.”
