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The two sons of Silas and Mahala Hoar were Everett and Harold. Everett joined the Army
Engineers and in 1919 served in France during WWI. Harold worked on
the family farm. After returning home, Everette married in 1920.
He and Harold were
working on the Henry Hoar Apple farm and heard that their type of product
was wanted in Toronto. Soon after, the two boys bought a Chevrolet truck
and began hauling apples to Toronto. 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, 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 his wife, Luta, 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 along with his son, Charles, they ran the company. One
of their yards was on Gerrard St. E.. Hoar Transport was sold to CN (Canadian National Railways)
when Everett retired.
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 that was responsible for 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. Charlie went on to form
Freightmaster along with the son of the former owner of TPT (Orig.
Tanner & Co. Transport of Toronto; Clifford Tanner owned and operated
TPT and his son, Robert (Bob) Tanner managed it when it was sold to CN;
TPT information curtsey of S. Tanner - Oct, 2009) |
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Hoar tractor-trailer |
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Roadway Transport |
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Harold had told me (Paul Turner) that he would never allow a dirty truck on the road.
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Tanner & Co. Transport, Toronto Believed to be a 1919 Leland truck photo and TPT info curtsey of S. Tanner (Oct, 2009) |
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