Spencer Farm Homestead - Cloyne - 1971

The Spencer Farm Homestead as it appeared in 1971. The Spencer Farm is at the end of Spencer Road, 1 km north of Cloyne.

From a conversation with Alfred and Mark Mills on May 5, 2021, the editor learned that this house was built by Milton Spencer (1877-1973). There was another house when he purchased the property from two gentlemen at the top of a hill but it burned down so Milton built this one. The Spencer’s (Milton and wife Verona Meeks) raised 6 children on this farm which totalled 272 acres and extended through to Star Lake. The house became unsafe over the years and was torn down by Eric Nowell because kids used to play in the old house (likely a few years after this photo was captured).
A large barn was close to house and was originally part of a barn from Snider Depot.

One of Milton’s sons was Wilton who had many occupations in his lifetime. He worked for Ontario Hydro. He also was a butcher that delivered meat to several of the lodges in the area. Wilton had a meat store in the Spencer house in Cloyne. He drove a 1/2 ton truck in the 1940s with an icebox on the truck. Wilton and Harry Meeks would butcher 2 steer per week to keep up to demand. Butchering was done at this farm. An ice house with walls 2 feet thick kept the meat cool until delivery. Alfred can remember Wilton saying live steer could be had for $.50/lb live weight back then. Wilton would graze the steer and add another 200 lbs. on the steers before butchering.

Over the years, Alfred’s sons (Rick, Mark and Chris) all learned the art of butchering and all worked at Watson’s Mini Mart over the years in the butcher department cutting meat. The Mills family has a broad knowledge of local history - hopefully more to come soon.

Many of us remember Wilton Spencer’s friendly demeanour when he was custodian at North Addington Education Centre in the 1970s. The school was under very good care during his custody.

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Taken on: May 4, 2021

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