Day 2!

Yellowlees & Quick operated in Bowmanville during the 1860’s.

Thomas Yellowlees and Lewis Quick sold “fancy goods”, perfect to pick up a holiday gift for your sweetheart.

This poem from a Yellowlees & Quick ad is written in Scots English.

What gift would you choose?

Canadian Statesman (Bowmanville, ON), 10 Dec 1868, p.3. Clarington Museums and Archives Collection.