Bakker's General Store, Manotick, ON

In the 1870s, the general store at the station was purchased by William Burns, although the T.N. Johnson family continued to inhabit the station until 1922, after Alexander Potvin purchased the store from Burns in c. 1920. At the station, Potvin operated a feed depot, a gas station and the general store.

It was during this period that the store underwent a historical robbery. Potvin had been selling farm implements to his nephew when two masked robbers entered the store. The two Potvins were tied up and looted while being held at gunpoint. While the felons helped themselves to food from the store, Potvin’s nephew managed to work his hands loose and wrestled a revolver from one of the gunmen upon their return. He then chased the looters down the railway tracks with their own gun.

After the prohibition and the wartime period, The Bakker family purchased the general store in the 1960s and has operated it ever since.