On Monday, February 6th, 2012, Whitteker Meat Market in Williamsburg celebrates 75 years in business. No small feat in today’s marketplace. Yet Whitteker’s thrives today, more popular than ever, widely known for a unique quality of service, the most flavorful of products, and the location to verify any and all of Dundas County’s grapevine news.
In this feature we reflect on memories and interviews (thirty years past) of and with the original owner/operator of Whitteker Meat Market, Walt Whitteker, and more recently Walt’s son Glen, (pictured below) present-day owner/operator of one of Dundas County’s oldest and widely popular family busnesses.

One of the very best of the blessings bestowed upon those choosing to live in rural areas, we believe, is that of knowing people. And we do mean KNOWING people!
Knowing an individual, or a family, a pastor or a politician, or a business operator, means knowing the family matriarch and patriarch, the sisters and brothers, and yes, maybe even a cousin or two. Individuals in rural areas tend to be described, more often than not, by adjectives referring to blood lines. “Oh yes, she’s so and so’s daughter . . .”.
We, personally, have been very fortunate in this regard. Following a career of taking notes and pictures, attempting to create stories and pass along information, we’ve managed to meet many, many individuals and families and business operators whose stories we’ve attempted to document and share along the way. And as always, there are those individuals and places that stand in the forefront of our memories and experiences.
This week, for instance, we were in Whitteker Meat Market, that long-ago established family business (1937) nestled among the residences and commercial outlets sprinkled along the main street in Williamsburg, Ontario.
Oh, and by the way, it isn’t Whitteker’s Meat Market. It’s Whitteker Meat Market!

More (photos and story)