Pickwick Books

Originally the J.T. Stock Building, the northwest corner of Mill and Dundas Street has housed commercial businesses since 1855. Typical of the mid-1800s merchant store design that included living quarters above, this building was also home to the first telephone line in Waterdown, installed in 1882. Around 1900, it became a harness shop, but a few years later it was used by the Trader’s Bank and subsequently the Royal Bank, who purchased the building in 1912. It has also served as a bakery, confectionary, butcher, grocery shop, dress shop, and antiques store. Pickwick Books now uses the old bank safe to display world history books.