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 Carleton Place and Beckwith Heritage Museum
David Gillies house, Carleton Place Used as a boarding school for English children sent to Canada during the Second World War, the 121-year-old David Gillies house is now an apartment building. The building, located at Bridge Street and Townline Road, sports a distinctive zinc-metal roof. Gillies’ father-in-law, James Condle Poole, who founded the Carleton Place Herald weekly newspaper in 1850, I) had the stone house built in 1873 after fire twice destroyed wood-frame houses on the site. The east wing, constructed after Poole’s death in 1883, was built with stone from the Herald’s original offices
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