Well I hope all my American friends on Chapter 185 had a good Thanksgiving holiday, we have our Thanksgiving in Canada earlier in October. I am posting an interesting Hamilton Private label from Manitoba, here are a couple of dial pictures;

Here Is a Close-Up of the Dial;

Here is a picture of the Hamilton 940 movement Serial #977997;

I don't know much about the community of Wawanesa, Manitoba I will do more research on it. Here is the case back a Fahys Montauk

Hear is a Swiss private label that Doug Sinclair recently restored.
Double Sunk Roman numeral with 24-hour inner track dial marked:
"A.Logan & Co. Greenwood B.C."

Greenwood B.C. is located in the Boundary District of southern B.C. and was a large mining community in its heyday. It still has kept its city status, and is the smallest city in Canada.

The movement;

L. Brandt & Freres S.A.
GRADE CCR
ADJUSTED TO 5 POSITIONS.
19 Jewels
3215764

Larry,

Your watches and descriptions are very interesting!

Without your pictures we would never see these important treasures.

Thank you,

Don

Thank you for your kind comments Donald.

Today I have a display an interesting dial variation on a 21 Jewel Eaton's Gallet Bros. pocket watch. I has listed my other one earlier. Here is a photo of the movement.

While Eaton's pocket watches usually came in their own special cases. This watch came in a J.Boss gold filled. Here is a photo of the case.

Here is a photo of the interesting one sweep 24 hour dial

What a wonderful thread. I was, however, disappointed that I didn't see any South Bend watches. I read through the entire thread but perhaps there was one that I missed.

I found a watch in my collection that might be a "Canadian" Private Label. I'm not really sure but I'll post a picture of it anyways. The movement is merely a standard SB Grade 347.

Thank You for your kind remarks Frank. Your private label from St. Boniface is interesting. It is a French-Canadian community that is part of Winnipeg. I have one 16 South Bend with a 24-hour dial. I have not seen any private labels but know of one that I would like to have in my collection."orfevre specilaiste" translates into "Goldsmith specialist"

While we are in the Winnipeg District here is a fairly scares Zenith (Prima) 19 jewel Adjusted 5 Positions.

Here is the double sunk 24 hour dial marked "Dingwall"

Well it's back to the Crowsnest Pass in the city of Lethbridge the first watch an Elgin Hunter grade 311 made in 1909.

Here is the dial on the Elgin private label.

The Riddell Co. was in Griffentown, Point St. Charles and was a Watch inspector for all the Canadian RR's originating there which puts you into Montreal.

The movement for the Riddell & Vinet piece which I have cleaned and adjusted to RR timing is a very fine Waltham 645 for which I obtained a replacement setting Lever from none other than Mr. Riddel!

Dave really nice watch from down east Point St. Charles.is a suburb of Montréal and lots of shop workers for the CPR lived in this neighborhood.

Here is another R.A. Wright private label from Lethbridge. It is a 15 Jewel Longines

Here is the Longines A R Wright Dial

Larry, thanks very much for that information on the "Bernier" PL watch. I always wondered what "Orfevre Specilaiste" meant. Gold specialist indeed. If I find another one like it maybe we could work out a trade.