For offer, a rare CDV ( carte de visite - visiting card )! Fresh from a prominent estate in Upstate NY. Vintage, Old, Original, Antique, NOT a Reproduction - Guaranteed !! Street scene, showing large buildings, including E & C Gurney, to the left, with other advertising signs visible. Wool signs, horse and wagon ( stagecoach ), etc. Handwriting on back: Miss Nora Matthews, written by her affectionate roomate Annie Wilson on the 25th of Nov, 1870 - Toronto, E & C Gurney by wagon. Late 1860s / 1870. Perhaps one of a kind / unique. In good to very good condition. Light wear, light age toning. Please see photos. If you collect 19th century Canadian history, architecture, outdoor, building, landscape, photography, etc. this is a treasure you will not see again! Add this to your image or paper / ephemera collection. Perhaps genealogy research importance too. Combine shipping on multiple bid wins! 2543

E. & C. GURNEY STOVE WORKS 

Brothers Charles and Edward Gurney began their business in Hamilton, Ontario, operating a foundry and making stoves. In 1845, they were joined by a partner and the company was renamed the Carpenter and Gurney Iron Foundry. This partnership dissolved in 1863 and the company reverted to its first name, the E. & C. Gurney Company. When the Bessemer steel process arrived in Canada in the 1870s, many foundries went into decline. Their problems were compounded by a five-year depression, which began in the U.S.A. in 1873 and spread to Canada, killing such businesses as the Rolling Mills. But the Gurney brothers were in a period of expansion and arrived in Toronto in 1883 to set up business at King Street West. They made stoves, hot-water boilers, steam and hot-water radiators, stove pipes, castings, and ventilation equipment. The officers of the company in 1892 were: Edward Gurney, president; W.H. Carrick, vice-president; F.F. Skinner, treasurer; T. Alcock, secretary; and Frederick Massey, director. The next year, Charles Gurney died and the company’s assets were divided among the heirs of the two brothers. But the firm continued, shipping its products by horse and wagon, never seeking a rail siding. The King Street West foundry was the largest of its time. By 1917, the company had a works on the north side of Junction Road, and the president was W.C. Gurney, with E.H. Gurney as vice-president. At this time they were making Gurney Oxford Stoves, ranges, and hot-water and steam boilers and radiators. Newspapers of each period tracked the company’s progress, and financial and economic blue books always included the firm and its principals. Gurney stoves are now collectors’ items.

Toronto (/təˈrɒntoʊ/ (About this soundlisten), locally /ˈtrɒnoʊ, -nə/)[13][14][15] is the capital city of the Canadian province of Ontario. With a recorded population of 2,731,571 in 2016,[16] it is the most populous city in Canada and the fourth most populous city in North America. The city is the anchor of the Golden Horseshoe, an urban agglomeration of 9,245,438 people (as of 2016) surrounding the western end of Lake Ontario,[17] while the Greater Toronto Area proper had a 2016 population of 6,417,516. Toronto is an international centre of business, finance, arts, and culture, and is recognized as one of the most multicultural and cosmopolitan cities in the world.[18][19][20]

Indigenous peoples have travelled through and inhabited the Toronto area, located on a broad sloping plateau interspersed with rivers, deep ravines, and urban forest, for more than 10,000 years.[21] After the broadly disputed Toronto Purchase, when the Mississauga surrendered the area to the British Crown,[22] the British established the town of York in 1793 and later designated it as the capital of Upper Canada.[23] During the War of 1812, the town was the site of the Battle of York and suffered heavy damage by American troops.[24] York was renamed and incorporated in 1834 as the city of Toronto. It was designated as the capital of the province of Ontario in 1867 during Canadian Confederation.[25] The city proper has since expanded past its original borders through both annexation and amalgamation to its current area of 630.2 km2 (243.3 sq mi).

The diverse population of Toronto reflects its current and historical role as an important destination for immigrants to Canada.[26][27] More than 50 percent of residents belong to a visible minority population group,[28] and over 200 distinct ethnic origins are represented among its inhabitants.[29] While the majority of Torontonians speak English as their primary language, over 160 languages are spoken in the city.[30] The mayor of Toronto is elected by direct popular vote to serve as the chief executive of the city. The Toronto City Council is a unicameral legislative body, comprising 25 councillors since the 2018 municipal election, representing geographical wards throughout the city.[31]

Toronto is a prominent centre for music,[32] theatre,[33] motion picture production,[34] and television production,[35] and is home to the headquarters of Canada's major national broadcast networks and media outlets.[36] Its varied cultural institutions,[37] which include numerous museums and galleries, festivals and public events, entertainment districts, national historic sites, and sports activities,[38] attract over 43 million tourists each year.[39][40] Toronto is known for its many skyscrapers and high-rise buildings,[41] in particular the tallest free-standing structure in the Western Hemisphere, the CN Tower.[42]

The city is home to the Toronto Stock Exchange, the headquarters of Canada's five largest banks,[43] and the headquarters of many large Canadian and multinational corporations.[44] Its economy is highly diversified with strengths in technology, design, financial services, life sciences, education, arts, fashion, aerospace, environmental innovation, food services, and tourism.[45][46][47]

A stove is a device that burns fuel or uses electricity to generate heat inside or on top of the apparatus. It has seen many developments over time and serves the main purpose of cooking food.

There are many types of stoves, such as the kitchen stove, the wood-burning stove or the coal stove.

Each type of stove varies in efficiency of heat, as such, many different materials and designs have been developed for varying levels of efficiency and purpose.

Due to concerns about air pollution, efforts have been made to improve the stove design over the years.[1] Pellet stoves, for example, are a type of clean-burning stove. Whereas, air-tight stoves are another type that burn the wood more completely and therefore, reduce the amount of the combustion by-products. Another method of reducing air pollution is through the addition of a device to clean the exhaust gas, for example, a filter or afterburner.[2]

All wood stoves manufactured In the United States since 1992 are required to limit emission of particulates.[citation needed]

Research and development on safer and less emission releasing stoves is continuously evolving.[3]