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Sheriff’s House, 57-61 Gore St. E. Francis Holliday erected this 2 ½ storey stone building with a hip roof in 1841. From 1842 – 52 he ran Francis Holliday, Grocer & Saddler. In 1852, Sheriff James Thompson purchased the building for his residence after he was appointed Sheriff of Lanark and Renfrew Counties in 1852. He retired in 1893 and died at the age of 100 years, 3 months and 14 days. Before becoming the Sheriff, Thompson was publisher and owner of The Bathurst Courier which became the Perth Courier, from 1835 to 1852, after buying the paper from Malcolm Cameron. The building was then used as; a livery, a shoemaker’s, a grocery and feed business, a lawyer’s office, a barber shop, a hairdresser’s, a bakery, a clothing store and then in 1992 Kelly’s Flowers took over the building. After a devastating fire in 2001 the building was renovated and renamed the Sheriff’s House in honour of Sheriff James Thompson.
Photograph, circa 1895, from the archives of the Perth
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