GOIN' TO THE CORNER Joyce Hardy Coll. Building at Elmsdale corner originally, owned by L.C. Hayden , which may have had his tailor shop and other businesses COFFIN MAKERS In the early days of our communities there was no such thing as a funeral parlour. The deceased were "waked" at their homes. Usually there was someĀ¬ one in the community who would build a coffin. One such person in the community of Brockton was William O'Meara . Mrs. O'Meara lined the coffins with white material. The outside of the coffin was covered with material, black for men, brown for women and white for children. A shroud is a cloth or garment in which a deceased person is wrapped for burial. Shrouds were made by Mrs. O'Meara . Mrs. Lulu Thomson 's parents, George and Ada MacArthur, although not officially coffin makers, offered a unique service. Ada, being a midwife, sometimes had the unpleasant job of delivering a stillborn baby, or a baby that lived only a short time after birth. She and her husband George then came Jim McCarthy Coll. William and Margaret O'Meara, coffin makers 412