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BY 1870–1880 · CHAPMAN FIRST-HAND
Hamilton kept its own office under the prairie's name. Chapman notes the village of Hamilton "is frequently called Terre Coupee, from a post-office of that name near there," and its biographical roll gives the office a keeper: James McCallum, "grocer and Postmaster, Terre Coupee," who by 1880 "has been Postmaster 10 years, and Justice of the Peace" — a grocery-and-post-office of exactly the pattern Walkerton's first office shows, serving the prairie settlement that had been the township's first business center before the railroad made New Carlisle. The Terre Coupee office's establishment, its course after McCallum, and its discontinuance stand in no source; they stand with the main office's gaps, settlers the same postal instruments, and the office is printed here at its Chapman size — a real second office, not a footnote to the town's.
Sources:
- Chapman (1880), Olive Township chapter: the Terre Coupee naming passage; the James McCallum sketch (grocer and Postmaster, ten years). Read first-hand.