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- ↑ "Carleton Sentinel Newspaper March 4, 1893". Carleton Sentinel Newspaper. Woodstock, New Brunswick. March 4, 1893. Retrieved 28 March 2011.
The C. P. R. know a good thing when they see it, and so having to secure the services of an Inspector of clocks and watches for this district, they naturally and wisely selected Mr. H. V. Dalling for that position. Horace will be found right, every time.
- 1 2 "Dalling Family Collection". Carleton County Historical Society . Retrieved 4 January 2011.
- ↑ "Fire Main Street". Carleton Sentinel Newspaper. March 7, 1891. Retrieved 28 March 2011.
The losses were as follows : [...] H V Dalling, jeweler, $150;[...]
- ↑ "Newspaper & Documents write-ups about Carleton County People". Press Newspaper. March 2, 1891. Retrieved 28 March 2011.
On Thursday night last between the hours of nine and ten o'clock fire was discovered breaking from a building on Main Street, owned by B.B. Manzer. The fire originated in a room occupied by E. M. Campbell, Photographer. The firemen were not long in reaching the scene and soon had the flames under control. Considerable damage was done; however, before the alarm was given.
- ↑ "The Dalling Cup". Press Newspaper. Woodstock, New Brunswick. Sep 18, 1905. Retrieved 28 March 2011.
The Dalling cup, for the local golf championship, is a very handsome silver cup, engraved, and mounted on an ebony base. The dates for the matches are the first and second Fridays of September in each year. To be owner of the cup it must be won three years in succession. At the present writing the contest is on for ownership. This cup was offered by H V Dalling in 1900, and was won that year by Rev G D Ireland; in 1901 by B M Macleod; in 1902 by Hon W P Jones; in 1903 and 1904 by Clarence Sprague, who is at present leading Winnie Jones by four strokes.
- ↑ "Press Newspaper Feb 13, 1905". Press Newspaper. Feb 13, 1905. Retrieved 28 March 2011.
The Dalling cup given for the championship of the hockey league is on exhibition at the jewelry store of H V Dalling. It is a gold-lined silver cup, resting on a suitable base. One[ sic?] one side is engraved. "Presented to the winner of the Woodstock Hockey League, by H V Dalling, Winter of 1904 05." The other side is plain, but Mr. Dalling will engrave the winning team and names of players.
- ↑ "Gunner William Victor Dalling". Canadian Great War Project. Retrieved 31 August 2012.
- ↑ "Two Prominent Carleton County Residents Die". Telegraph-Journal. Saint John, Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada. 7 January 1931. p. 2 – via Newspapers.com.
- ↑ Thompson, Colleen Whitney (1994). Roads to Remember: The Insider's Guide to New Brunswick. p. 58. ISBN 0-86492-160-8.
- ↑ "First Telephone". Woodstock, New Brunswick. Retrieved 28 March 2011.
The Bell Company opened a small exchange in Mr. Dalling's store, using a twenty line switchboard and Bell instruments, with the Woodstock innovator as agent and manager.
- ↑ "Newspaper & Documents write-ups about Carleton County People". Press Newspaper. Woodstock, New Brunswick. Aug 28, 1885. Retrieved 28 March 2011.
The Telephone is now an accomplished fact. By means of this mysterious instrument and wire you can whisper from Upper Woodstock to Lower Corner. The wires from the different places of business all centre at H. V. Dalling's Jewelry Store, which is the Exchange Office. When any one who have the instruments wish to converse with each other they signal the Exchange Office. The attendant there by simple means connects the speaker with the party he wishes to address, and presto ! the talk can go on plainly and easily. To say that this means of communication is one of the wonders of the age is to put it midly[ sic ]. That the voice, at an ordinary tone, can be distinctly heard for miles by means of a wire is something so mysterious that few can appreciate the fact without themselves having actual cognizance of it.
The wire of which there are about five miles in length, were strung and the instruments placed, under the supervision of S. Hoyt, St. John. J. H. Wagstaff is the manner of the Bell Telephone Company's business in New Brunswick and Nova Scotia. The following are the names of those having instruments connected with the Exchange in Woodstock at present [...]
