Sitch family (Hymers)
The Sitch family were fruit growers and nurserymen around Hymers.[1]
Walter Sitch planted the first apple trees at Cherry Hill Farm about 1902–03 and left in 1923, selling to P. Zizman; his brother Ernest Sitch started an orchard in O'Connor Township; Arthur Sitch began selling nursery stock about 1921 and his Plum Grove Nurseries issued its first catalogue in 1926; Arthur's youngest son Bert Sitch specialised in landscaping.[1]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Annie Turk, "Hymers – the first sixty years", Papers and Records, vol. III (Thunder Bay Historical Museum Society, 1975), p. 20. Archived: datum.locker.