From candy to chewing tobacco: an old-time country store in Tiverton

TIVERTON – In the very first “yearbook” of the Bruce County Historical Society, in 1967, you can read McLeod Orford’s story about his family’s country store in Tiverton. For 26 years, until the store closed in January 1943, the Orfords sold groceries, candy, tobacco, baked goods, fruit, ice cream and some patent medicines. Marshall Orford…

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Robin Hilborn, Bruce County Historical Society