For almost a century, members of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, Warriner Lodge No. 75, accessed their meeting rooms through a small door and up a steep set of stairs to the second floor of the Currie block on Queen St. It was here, after . . . — — Map (db m261298) HM
In 1870 brothers George and Mark Currie, grain merchants, bought this property from Joseph Bigelow and built a general store. They later formed a partnership with J.H. Brown who married George Currie's daughter and eventually bought out the Currie . . . — — Map (db m261595) HM