Eaton Hall: Pride of King Township
By Kelly Mathews and Steve Pellegrini
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Kelly Mathews
Kelly Mathews is the manager of community recreation, summer camps and the outdoor education centre at Seneca College, King Campus, home of Eaton Hall. Her writings have been published by New York Media Works, Readers' Digest Canada via: Best Health Magazine and Our Canada magazine work. Follow her on Twitter @EatonHallEstate or follow @AllThingsRegal, where Kelly explores Commonwealth and British royal history.
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Eaton Hall - Kelly Mathews
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Chapter 1
LADY FLORENCE MCCREA AND SIR JOHN CRAIG EATON
Vincit omnia veritas. (Truth conquers all things.
)
—Eaton family motto
When Timothy Eaton passed away due to complications of pneumonia on January 31, 1907, at the age of seventy-two, his youngest son, John Craig Eaton, found himself not only $5 million richer but also the new, proud owner and president of the T. Eaton Co. Ltd. John Craig was born in Toronto and was named after his paternal grandparents—bridging the first name of his grandfather (John Eaton) and the maiden name of his grandmother (Margaret Craig). Born in Toronto on April 28, 1876, John Craig Eaton—or Jack,
by which he was more often referred—was three months away from his thirty-first birthday when he found himself; his young wife, Florence Flora
McCrea (age twenty-six); and their firstborn son at the helm of the most prosperous private empire in the Dominion of