![]() ![]() My randomly discovered scrap of Tuck Tape at the Manse, reminding me of Dad – and leaving me wondering about the history of Tuck Tape. And so I took a few photos of the factory, and made a mental note to do a blog post about it one day. That was the same imprint that was on the inside of the round cardboard cores of my dad’s many rolls of masking tape all those years ago! I was tickled to discover that the factory that produced the tape that Dad had made such good use of all his life was located where I now live, hard by my dentist’s office. That brand and logo were Tuck Tape, in a very familiar typeface. And then one day recently while on the way to a dentist’s appointment in Ville Saint Laurent, I was startled to spot (on Boulevard de la Côte-Vertu) a mid-century-looking industrial building with an extremely familiar brand logo on the front of it. I hadn’t thought about Dad’s masking tape for decades. I just know it was always around, and the big rolls of it (sometimes wide, sometimes narrower) always seemed to be in service. So what did Dad use masking tape for? I totally do not know. But lord knows there was never any interior painting at the Manse, at least when my family lived there in the 1960s and early 1970s. I think that these days (and quite possibly since forever), masking tape is used mostly in interior painting, to keep the just-being-applied new paint from going where it shouldn’t, like ceilings and mouldings. Am I wrong?Īnother of my dad’s go-to products was masking tape. But I am so sure that when my dad was using masking tape for his many repair jobs around the Manse, it was made by Tuck Tape. Okay, so these days masking tape has the logo of huge multinational 3M on its inner cardboard roll. But I digress.) Many were the evenings when Dad would be in the Manse kitchen using contact cement to apply a patch to the inner tube of a car tire or tractor tire or bike tire, and if I close my eyes when I’m in that kitchen now I can not only picture the scene but smell the LePage’s contact cement. (I believe the LePage folks were the same people who brought us those plastic tubes of glue we used in school back then – the ones where the glue always dried up on the rubber tip so you couldn’t get the new glue out. And there were certain products that he relied upon a great deal in the fixing process. ![]() ![]() Dad spent a lot of time getting broken mower blades welded by his cousin the welder, Elgin Sedgwick, up in Haliburton or getting troubled chainsaws attended to at places like Thompson’s Farm Supply in Campbellford or, very often, fixing things himself. Which meant that the tools and machinery Dad used on the family farm up in Haliburton County, or in the woodlot he might be working in, whether in Haliburton or in the general vicinity of the Manse in Queensborough – or even just to repair an inner tube or the family toaster – were always old and well-worn, and frequently in need of repair. (Photo by Lance Crossley, then of the Minden Times)ĭad grew up in a family that never had a lot of money, and certainly our own family never had a lot of money. ![]()
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