The Great Gatsby’s of Lanark County?

 

Of course they were not but just looking at the summer of 1910  with the Gillies family of Carleton Place makes me smile. Taken outside the Giles house on Townline and Bridge Street in Carleton Place

 

Photos from the Carleton Place and Beckwith Heritage Museum

 

Coco Chanel 1910

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Related Reading about various Gilles in Carleton Place

The Sad Tale of Alexander Gillies and Peter Peden

The Gillies Home in the Ghost Town of Herron’s Mills

Ring Those Bells in Carleton Place– Wylie’s Woolen Mill

Channeling John Gillies