Buildings

A short bike ride around Ingersoll town unveils the remnant history of people’s coming and going across the seas of time. The early 1800’s saw the area still covered with the thick forest and the lumber industry thrived as land was cleared for settlement. One of the uses for the felled trees was to fuel brickworks and companies were founded here in Ingersoll to produce bricks – large houses remain as evidence of the fortunes and prosperity achieved.

Much later, a number of machine works were established which prospered during the wars and in the dawning of the age of the automobile – employing many factory workers at low-paying but steady jobs which paid for the simpler neighbourhoods near the railway tracks.