Matthew Henry Jones

Matthew Jones was co-owner of the Dawson Hardware Company with John R. Grey, a silent partner living in California. They obtained title to the property in 1910 and sold the business to Duncan M. Strachan in 1952.1) Matthew's second daughter, Jean, was playing with fire and her cotton dress caught. She died of her burns at St. Mary's Hospital in 1919.2)

1)
Victoria Faulkner, “Historic Buildings”, National Historic Site Division, National Parks Branch.
2)
Northern Lights, August 1919, Vol. VII, No. III.