Porteous Store
- Businesses and Artisans
- Date range
- 1877 - 2002
- Public access
- Yes, exterior from road
- Current use
- Ottawa Amitabha Buddhist Society of Canada
The Glasgow Trading Post was located at the southeast corner of Lawrence Street and Highway 31 (Bank St) in the village of Vernon, Ontario. The lot was purchased in March 1877 by Thomas Bow of Winchester from William and Mary Porteous. In that same summer, Joseph Taylor constructed the store for Thomas Bow. The Post Office and General Store was named "The Glasgow Trading Post" by Bow, its operator for a few years.
George Whitelaw and an assistant, Jessie McConnell, tailored in the Glasgow Trading Post for several years.
Over the years the store underwent many changes, expansions and renovations.
The Glasgow Trading Post became the Porteous Store in 1900. It stayed in the Porteous family for almost 90 years until it was sold to the Tams in late 1989. The store closed in November 2002 - closing out 125 years as a general merchant and grocery store. It has since become the Ottawa Amitabha Buddhist Society of Canada, a Buddhist temple.