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The growing membership of the Orillia branch decided to build a hall for meetings, selling shares for $4 each. The Sons bought a site on Matchedash Street and built a twenty-five-foot by forty-five-foot wooden hall, with a platform at one end. Completed in the late 1850s, the Temperance Hall became the town hall of Orillia, hosting meetings of all kinds, concerts, church services, and weddings. The Temperance movement gathered support from churches, business leaders, and the village's two newspapers.

Neither editor would oppose any railroad company outright - the importance of having any rail service in the village was too great - but in general the Northern Light favoured the Northern, while The Packet favoured the Midland. The reasons remain unclear. The Hales suggested in print that Ramsay and his newspaper, once the supporters of the Midland, had received favours from the directors of him not to sell. But Murray, a restless man, sold the Expositor to Ramsay and moved back to Lindsay to try yet another paper.

The department moved to new headquarters on West Street in 1971, but the hall remains, as do its legends. The late Allan Ironside, a volunteer at the station in the 1930s, liked to tell the story about the night the fire department set a hose on fire. In those days, the hydrants were filled at the top with kerosene, to prevent them from freezing in winter. Usually, firefighters flushed out the kerosene before they started spraying water from the hydrant onto a fire. One night, they forgot and sprayed the fire with about a gallon of kerosene.

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