CaledoniaHistory

   Alexis Cuyler Buck Father: Addison Noble Buck Sabrina Short Born: 25 Jun 1814 in Manchester New York Died: 5 Jan 1906 Shortsville, Ontario County, New York, USA Married Sept 23 1844 Mary Ann Mills Born: 6 Aug 1818 - (2 Nov 1884) Kids: Cameron A Buck Mortimer C Buck Orin C Buck Alexis Cuyler Buck Born in Manchester New York in 1819. From the age of 10 he began working in his families store. At 15 he worked for 3 years in his uncles drug store. At 18 he moved to Canandaigua and worked in the post office. At 23 he married Mary Ann Mills and moved to Niagara falls. Two years later, in 1845, Alexis and Mary move to Caledonia. The next year Alexis opened AC BUCKS drug store in downtown Caledonia. It was located on the west side of Argyle between the bridge and Caithness. AC BUCK was a very well known and very successful business man. He was a public notary, justice of the peace, issued marriage licenses, was the agent for several insurance companies and created The Ontar...

   The Banquet  From August 7 to the 14th, 1913 The 12th International Geologists Congress (IGC) met at the University of Toronto to discuss the Coal Resources of the World.  The 11th IGC had met in Stockholm in 1910 to discuss the iron ore reserves of the world.  For two years, leading geologists, mining engineers and researchers from 64 countries cooperated in collecting, compiling and sharing data to map the worlds coal supply. The result was 1400 pages printed in three volumes with illustrations and additional atlas that contained 70 full colour maps.  The work was a complete and authoritative statement of the coal resources of the globe.    There were 31 excursions across Canada planned for the visiting geologists that would occur before, during and after the convention in Toronto.  The scholars were shuttled  across Canada in private train cars and steamboats from Sydney, Cape Breton to Dawson City in the Klondike. They toured...