Grand Opening Of Inverary Home Hardware

Jeff Green | Jul 17, 2025

The Trousdale family marked the grand opening of the new Inverary Home Hardware store last week by celebrating the almost 200-year history of the Trousdale family business, and the next generation.

John Trousdale, who has turned over the senior management functions of the company to sons Matt and Will, brought along a picture of a Trousdale store from the 19th Century as a reminder of where the family has come from.

Trousdale’s has been a bakery, a feed store, a general store, and hardware store over the family’s many generations in retail. Before John took over the company, his father Nobe ran it throughout much of the 20th century. The staunchest of Conservatives, Nobe would insist on cutting a blue ribbon instead of a red ribbon, like the one his grandsons and great grandchildren cut at the Home Building Centre last week.

In their remarks, Matt and Will Trousdale paid tribute not only to their family, but also to the staff, and local contractors that have done a lot of the heavy lifting, to bring the Inverary store from the beginning of construction to ‘open for business’ in about 9 months. (The store opened in early May.)

“There are hundreds of people who were involved in bringing this store to this day, and most of the people who were involved, from the store end, to the site workers and construction workers, are from the local area,” said Matt Trousdale. “I would like to mention Kevin [Werner] who spent many years at our Sydenham store, and has come over to manage the Inverary store.”