MacEwan Hardware

When this building was opened as a hardware store in 1929 the business was then the second hardware store in town and was owned and operated by William MacEwen as the MacEwen Hardware. Prosperity was fleeting, however, and at the height of the Depression in 1934, MacEwen turned the business over to Huntley McMillan. In 1941, McMillan acquired title to the property and soon the H.M. McMillan Hardware was flourishing in the economic boom of World War II. In 1946 he sold the business to a former grain buyer, Jack Campbell. Under Campbell’s management the newly named Sexsmith Hardware continued to prosper. In 1958, Campbell acquired the Sexsmith Supplies Hardware and closed it down, becoming the only hardware operator in town. The following year however he sold his business to the Marshall Wells chain and moved to Coquitlam BC where he would become mayor.