Best Answer #5: As no suitable answer was received this time, here is our ‘best answer’:
The Woodstock Gas Light Company was located north of the Grand Trunk Railway
(later CNR) tracks and south-east of the junction of Main with Bay. Starting operations in 1874, it had a 25 year franchise for the manufacture and delivery of (coal) gas for street lighting and private use.
Sources:
- the history files of Woodstock Museum (ask for help at its front desk);
- the Local History section of Woodstock Library (ask for help at its
upper-floor information desk).
- the library of local history reference material at the Oxford Historical
Society office.