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                  <text>WILI, I AlVi KEE HOKE: : :

3T. nOrth side.

1926.

the houaes on the u::-iper end of Erie 3t., we:re

'NM_le

â€¢

}~Rl:S

beine, rr.oved or demnJi.shed to make way for the buildine of the- .. Â·Â·-,.Â·\
u

Peace ~ridge , William .Kee and his wife Pearl .c erguson tfee
were put ting up a new place do'ivn the st.Jon a

~iece

~

of property

owned by R. F. Perguson he:r f'ethe:r. The.Â· ltees moved in,i'n 1926 and
~ -

Pee rl continued to live in the home after the death of her husband;

eventually selling to the Peace Bridge Company with a life lease.
She lived till in her 87th year; and within months after her death
in April of 1971, her home was demol ished .. W'ith it's rassing.wen+,

Â·. the lest link with the early settlers o:f Erie St., end th~ village
of Fort Erie.

Not many years later,construction bee,Hn aeain. This

time it was :for

A

truck park; and with this underteking came the

finel closing of Erie S~.;
When the town went reg1entila and an effort was ma.de

t .o eliminate the duplication

or

St. names; ' one last jesture was

made e:nd Erie â€¢ herea1' ter went by the name of Kee St. in honour

Â· -Â·Â·

â€¢â€¢

of J e:ck Kee who was killed in the second world war.

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