Charles Sewell

Charles Sewell

Individual

Toronto, ON

1837-01-01

1848-01-01

171 King St. East, Toronto, ON (1837)

11 ½ Wellington Buildings, King Street East, Toronto, ON. (1843)

Watches

Clocks

Jewellery

Repairing

Supplying

- 1837 – Active as a “watch and clock maker” at 171 King St. [E] Toronto, ON. Sewell is also the secretary and treasurer of the City of Toronto Mechanics’ Association, which also includes looking glass maker Alexander Hamilton. “Its objects the protection of Mechanical Labour…” (Toronto Directory 1837: 47, 41)

- 1843-44 – Active as a “watch maker and jeweller” at 11 ½ Wellington Buildings, King Street [E.], Toronto, ON. Also listed as the Toronto Mechanic’s Institute’s Corresponding Secretary. (Toronto Directory 1843-4: 69)

- 1848 – Appears in a list of those urging the mayor of the city of Toronto, George Gurnett, “to consider the propriety of taking immediate steps for raising the necessary funds for making a Railroad between Toronto and Lake Huron, and for commencing a proper Railway communication from Toronto to the surrounding trading points in other directions.” (“Public Meeting”)

“Public Meeting” The Globe (Toronto), 17 June 1848: 195