James Harold Wyatt helped build the Kroehler Manufacturing Co. Ltd.

Wyatt Street runs north from Maple Avenue to Graham Crescent and has a purely Stratford heritage. It was named in 1966 for James Harold Wyatt, who retired in 1959 after 43 years of service with the Kroehler Manufacturing Co. Ltd. at the corner of Ontario and Romeo streets.

A native of Stratford, Harold Wyatt was born in August 1902, a son of William and Marie (Borland) Wyatt. In 1917, in his mid-teens, he began his career at Kroehler as an office boy. He gained experience by working in every department of the office and learned everything he could about the company.

In 1929, when the Kroehler plant was opened in Montreal, he was transferred there to become its manager. In 1930,........

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