| The son of Silas and Mahala Hoar, Everett, joined, in 1919, the Army Engineers and served in France and after returning he married in 1920. He was working on the Henry Hoar Apple farm and heard that their type of product was wanted in Toronto. Soon after his brother, Harold, joined him and together they bought a Chevrolet truck. Not long after, other farmers in the area asked the boys to haul items to and from Toronto and thus the haulage business began. About 1921 they formed Hoar Transport business and in 1923 they owned the Central Garage on Allin's Lane, Orono, Ont. and operated from there. At some point during this early business a story was told of the night when hauling cheese and being overloaded they caused the old bridge at Brooklyn, Ontario to collapse. One of their first major contracts was with Goodyear and part of the deal was that one of the brothers must live in Bowmanville. Everett and Luta thus moved to that town and lived on King St. In 1926 they had over 100 trucks but during the depression days they decided to fold the trucking company. Harold began hauling logs out of Timmins, Ont. Everett later rebuilt the Hoar Transport company and later it was sold to CNR (Canadian National Railways). Harold returned from the north and secured the license of Gilson Automobile Transport Limited. It was during this time that a car trailer dropped on Harold's leg and broke it; with his leg not fully mended he drove all the way to Florida and this caused his slight limp. Harold, later, sold the company and the new owners renamed it Roadway Transport. These owners defaulted on the mortgage and Harold reclaimed Roadway and operated the company until c.1960 when he sold it again. He remained vice-president until his death in 1966. Roadway transported automobiles and the main yard was on Gerrard St. E., Toronto with others at Oshawa, Windsor and Montreal. | |
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From "Oval" the official bulletin of Roadway Transport Limited a tribute to Harold was included in the Dec, 1972. Among his early trucking endeavors the summation contained ... "the twirling of his cigar during the 'big deals'; the glint in his eye representing a reprimand; the alternative twinkle of the eye showing approval; these said volumes to those of us knowledgeable of Harold" ...