Sentimental Journey Through Carleton Place — Did You Know About Sigma 7?

Before– Canadian Tire on Lake Ave East

After–Now the Farmer’s Market!!

Before Sigma 7 on Highway 7– the original Gourmet Restaurant

 

Before- Sigma 7 on Highway 7 near the four corners– I found this postcard titled: The Sigma 7 Restaurant Shell Station in Carleton Place on Ebay.

February 1966 classified ad

After- The Gourmet Restaurant

 

 

 

 

Tammy Marion My very 1st job was at Jim’s Restaurant as a waitress in the summer of 1977.They obviously rebuilt after this fire. I remember my hourly wage being something like 2 bucks an hour or almost that lol..

Before- Vic Bennett’s on the corner of Bridge Street and High Street

After–

After- from Bennett’s on McNeely Ave to Bean’s

Vintage photo from the Carleton Place Canadian Files from the Carleton Place and Beckwith Heritage Museum

“If you don’t know where you come from, you don’t know who you are!” —The late Edna Gardner Carleton Place

Buy Linda Secaspina’s Books— Flashbacks of Little Miss Flash Cadilac– Tilting the Kilt-Vintage Whispers of Carleton Place and 4 others on Amazon or Amazon Canada or Wisteria at 62 Bridge Street in Carleton Place

CLIPPED FROM
The Ottawa Citizen
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada22 Mar 1965, Mon  •  Page 34