The inner remains of Findlay’s- Photo from the Delmer Dunlop Collection at Archives Lanark
Photo- Carleton Place and Beckwith Heritage Museum
This is part of the Findlay Memorial Cairn, located on the site of the first foundry on High Street. It gets missed, tucked away on the north side of High Street in a tiny little park with a shuffleboard court! All that remains is an empty field and a cairn of a once great company.
Mike Doyle–Thank you, Linda, for this. My father Meyer Francis Doyle (b: 1910), worked in the Findlay plant as a pattern-maker prior to 1939, when he was hired by the Canadian Vickers Company in Montreal, as his trade, learned at Findlays, was integral to the manufacture of the PBY ‘Flying Boat’ which Vickers was building for the war effort.
This plaque and photos will now be part of my family history.
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Thank you, Linda, for this. My father Meyer Francis Doyle (b: 1910), worked in the Findlay plant as a pattern-maker prior to 1939, when he was hired by the Canadian Vickers Company in Montreal, as his trade, learned at Findlays, was integral to the manufacture of the PBY ‘Flying Boat’ which Vickers was building for the war effort.
This plaque and photos will now be part of my family history.
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Mike I will add this..thank you
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I’m confused! I thought I was at the foundry while it was still in operation later in the ’70’s, maybe as late as 1980, perhaps even later than that. I was working with Vermont Castings and the foundry guys were helping with parts/pattern maintenance. Is there another such facility in the greater Ottawa area? Thanks for your thoughts, Tony
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Tony.. I do believe it/ the name was bought and used by an Ottawa firms.. I will look into that. Sorry this is late.. I thought I answered this yesterday but forgot to push SEND 🙂
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Tony.. I do believe it/ the name was bought
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Linda, I have been a permanent resident of Carleton Place since 1983, and at that time for at least two years Findlay`s was in the blue/grey building at Townline/Industrial manufacturing industrial boilers, but whether it was the same company or a bought name I do not know. Before then, about 1979 perhaps, I had the privilege to attend an open house of the founder`s home on High Street following the passing of his grandson. The home was just as he`d left it including all antique furnishings which included a massive ornately turned four-poster bed and toys, the most memorable being a cast metal ride-on truck of possibly the 1910s era.
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Cool 😎
My mother’s family were based in Carleton Place & I believe some of the family (my uncles ?) worked there + we (me.now) have a set of Findlay cast iron pots & pans at our cottage 👍
Lovely little town, now a suburb of Ottawa 🤔
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Thanks Mark Ill post this… HUGGG
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