Eatons, Precursor to Amazon

Many hot women from the great white north were drawn to the Eaton family, even gold digger Peter Munk managed to sneak into the stable. These winds of change blew Timothy Eaton across the Atlantic from Northern Ireland. On one hand there wasn’t much joy after the famine, on the other the Industrial Revolution come like a great beast from the book of revelation. Generally, there was no income tax before the two World Wars, and the age of luxury emerged with disdain for poverty.

Methodist Timothy Eaton kept drunkenness and immoral behavior away with a wall of money. His store had a telephone, a delivery wagon, and whatever became available. But it was the catalogue that put the icing on the cake. For example, the ‘Hey Hey’ toy in the image below.