Open First Weekend in May to end of Oct at Market Street West
Every Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday - 7.00 am - 1.00 pm
November - December at the Brockville Museum
What started off as a small stone building with 4 butchers and several produce stalls has now evolved into a bustling street of approximately
34 merchants. Since it first opened almost
178 years ago this quaint market, with its friendly and welcoming atmosphere, has played an integral role in the development of Brockville’s rich cultural history.
The story of the Farmers’ Market begins October 28th, 1832 when local Charles Jones, donated 2 acres of land to the city as a site for a market place. A few years later, Jones’ land became the site of a small stone building that was rented out to area butchers with farmers manning stalls outside. The market quickly became popular, so much so that from 1862-1864 it under went reconstruction in order to house 16 vendors inside with extra stalls available outside.
Noted: This image is taken looking south from King Street
You can see a Cruise Boat at the Dock
Thanks to Doug Avery from his Post Card Collection
In 1904 the face of the Farmers’ market changed forever. The market was moved outside onto Market Street East and West and the lawn behind its former building. The Victoria Building, which once housed the Farmers’ market, became the new site of city hall. When the lawn behind city hall was used as the site for the Fulford Fountain in 1912, the Farmer’s market once more relocated.
After 177 years, the Brockville’s Farmers’ market is found on Market Street West. While it may be smaller in area, it still boasts
51 market stalls selling everything from fresh picked fruits and vegetables, to maple syrup, crafts and flowers. It has become a major attraction for both locals and
visitors alike.
Image taken of the Brockville Farmers' Market
taken from Water Street
Thanks to Doug Avery from his Post Card Collection
This
is a reproduction on an image taken from the
roof of the Hotel Manitonna.
Noted here is the Brockville
Farmers' Market stalls and customers on the lower right hand side of the
image. Even closer, just over the edge of the roof as shown on the
photo, a smaller earlier John H. Fulford fountain.
On the St Lawrence River, is the cruise ship "Toronto" as she
approaches the dock on her first trip down river in 1933. Blockhouse
Island was home to a couple of wooden industrial buildings, which
included the flour and feed business of J.S. Jeffery, managed by his
son, John A. Jeffery. It is also known that a pickle factory was
located on the island. The large pickle vat is seen just back of the
billboards on the right hand side of the image.
Just
beyond the cars and trucks is a little building owned by the railway but
not identified. The four billboards were a feature seen from Water
Street' and just beyond them a collection of wooden boat houses on the
north side of "'Tunnel Bay". Out of view to the right on the
image was a popular baseball park which hugged the edge of the property
at Broad and Water Streets. Presently, this is now a municipal
parking lot.
The
source of this photograph is a quick snapshot taken by Rida (Fullerton)
Barker from her apartment in the Hotel Manitonna. The above image
was scanned from a newspaper article by local historian Doug Grant in the
Brockville Recorder and Times, Saturday 15, 2000.
The following images are
from a collection of the Edgar Clow family photographs.
Edgar and his family were vendors on the market during the 50's, 60's
and 70's
Click here to see a portion of a
1833 Map of Brockville
Showing where the Brockville Farmers Market is
located
Open Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday, 7a.m. – 1 p.m. from May until December,
the Brockville Farmers' Market
has become one of the oldest continuous markets in Ontario, known for its friendly vendors and scenic location.
Chair of the Market Marsha Countryman
with Mayor David Henderson, Bob Runciman MPP, Gord Brown MP
and Deputy Chief of Police MacArthur
Open the 2007 Brockville Market
Market Vendors on the East and West Sides of
Market Street
July 2009
If
you have pictures of the Brockville Farmers' Market that
you want to share
with viewers on this web site, please send
them via e-Mail attachment to
the Brockville
Farmers' Market WebMaster.
