DEALERSHIPS OF THE PAST: Stoddarts Garage
Scott Warrington
April 2015
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This article originally appeared in the Chapter 38 International Harvester Collector Club for Western Canada's IH Legends newsletter and is reprinted with permission. Click here to visit their website: http://www.ihc38.com/
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Member Scott Warrington of Paradise Valley offered this article with information and pictures from "Oxen Trails to Jet Trails," Paradise Valley Alberta.
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Powell & Allan Garage in Paradise Valley, AB 1929.
Local history says a Mr. Brown had a machine shop within the Powell & Allan Garage, an Oliver Hart-Parr Tractors & Machinery dealership at that time.
Bill Stoddart and his dad bought the garage that had belonged to Brown & Allen around 1933.
Stoddarts were an IHC machinery and truck dealership. It is not clear when it ended being a dealership. This family name has been gone from this area for likely 50 yrs.
The building still is still standing. I used to work with present day owner.
Reproduction of typical dealer decal.
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