In the Rosamond Woolen Company’s offices, (now the home of the Mississippi Valley Textile Museum) there is an original office and managers washroom dating back to 1904. In 1900 a washroom called for the fixtures to be placed a dignified distance from each other. Undignified, were the many liquor bottles workers constantly found under the woolen mill’s plumbing renovations. Was the non-celebratory consuming of spirits caused from excessive office work?
Sigfried Gideon once said that the central space of the bathroom should be ample enough for moving around freely, or even exercising. However, the condensed size of that particular Almonte office bathroom became a fatality because of a certain plant manager’s girth. The gentleman was said to be a rather obese man and sadly died while contemplating his constitution on that very same commode. Were the stories from the voices of the Lanark wilderness true? Was there a great challenge to remove the man out of the washroom after his passing? One might say the poor man fatally spun his life away while the rest of the mill quietly wove wool tweed.
Am I trying to pull the wool over your eyes? You are just going to have to come and visit the Museum to see for yourself.
Mississippi Valley Textile Museum
3, Rosamond St. E.
Almonte, Ontario
K0A 1A0
October to March
Tuesday to Saturday: 10 am to 4 pm.
April to September
Tuesday to Saturday: 10 am to 4 pm.
Sunday: 1 pm to 4 pm.
Children under 12 are always free
Admission $5.00
Members admitted without charge
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