Ernest Hall
Toronto Daily Star, November 2 1929
Here's a series of photographs showing the foreman of the Star's composing room, who had been with the paper from its beginnings in 1892.
The 1929 and 1930 Toronto city directories list Noah Doggrell, a carpenter, as living at 212 Chisholm Avenue. (I have no idea whether he wrote bad poetry in his spare time.) This appears to have been a case of poor directory updating, as the 1931 directory lists Ernest C. Hall as working as a printer at MacLean Publishing and living at 212 Chisholm.
Mr. Hall was still at 212 Chisholm in 1951. A quick search of all of the Halls in that year's directory didn't reveal anyone of that name living with him; I picked that year because the two surviving triplets would have reached their age of majority in that year. However, the 1953 directory lists George E. Hall working as a clerk at B A Oil and living at 212 Chisholm; I have no idea whether he was one of the twin boys or whether he was another son of Ernest Hall. His surname is very common, so it was difficult to trace.
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