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Beriah Lemont Ogilvie (1877 – 1951) came to Weston from Nova Scotia in 1894 and worked at Cushing’s feed store for 13 years before starting his own business in 1919.
This photo shows his first truck, fashioned from a Model T Ford. Beriah's son Harold stands at left alongside his mother and younger brother Raymond.
When Beriah Ogilvie started on Warren Avenue, there was no store, just a barn where he kept horses for teaming and hauling. Beginning in 1928 the company had a yard and railroad siding at the end of Warren Avenue where coal and supplies could be unloaded.
B.L. Ogilvie began with teaming and before long was selling hay, grain, building materials, wood, coal, cement, and farm implements. The photo shows the grain room and lumber yard in 1941.
Ogilvies lumber truck, unknown date.
Many of the trees downed in the 1938 hurricane were taken to the Ogilvie sawmill to be cut up into lumber.
This 1939 office picture shows cashier Raymond Ogilvie standing behind the register at B.L. Ogilvie & Sons Inc., with John Loring (center) and Harold Ogilvie (right).
Vina MacLeod (left) worked as a bookkeeper in her father’s business. She is pictured with her fellow employee, Beatrice Cahill, in the company office in the 1920s or 30s.
Employees at the annual B. L. Ogilvie & Sons dinner in 1941, with Beriah Ogilvie (seated third from left).
The Ogilvie family built up a fleet of trucks that were painted blue with yellow letters and driven by employees in blue uniforms. Here Gus Ray and Lawson Foote deliver coal in 1938.
Wilbur Upham, Vina MacLeod, Raymond Ogilvie, Harold Ogilvie, and Alden Whittemore in 1958. Vina, Raymond, and Harold were three of the five children of Beriah and Mary Ogilvie. Alden Whittemore was the son of their sister Gladys “Dolly” Whittemore.
Raymond Ogilvie at left.
Beriah Ogilvie and his wife Mary Elizabeth [Arrington]. They were married in 1900.
As coal furnaces became obsolete, the company began selling oil burners and heating oil. Pictured here in 1963 is the Ogilvie oil burner service truck.
B.L. Ogilvie & Sons 70th anniversary celebration 1989
70th anniversary celebration 1989
Kevin Whittemore, great-grandson of B. L. Ogilvie, at the time of the store's closing in April 2020 after 101 years.