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Sometime before 1866 Leslieville grocer, James Morin (c. 1835-1882), went into the brick business. In 1869 he bought a brick machine and began advertising that his Leslieville bricks were machine-made pressed bricks: BRICK! BRICKS!  THE LESLIEVILLE BRICK COMPANY ARE MAKING EXTENSIVE PREPARATIONS FOR THE MANUFACTURE OF MACHINE MADE PRESSED BRICKS, And are now open toContinue reading “January 24 in Leslieville”