Black and white view of Collie Woollen Mill from the river, 1946-North Lanark Regional Museum
Perth Courier, Jan. 17, 1868
The Carleton Place Herald of Wednesday last mentions the occurrence of a very lamentable affair which took place last week a short distance below Appleton by which the house in which the family of old Robert Johnston were living was burned down and a daughter about four years of age was consumed in the flames.
The mother made a fire and went a short distance to milk a cow and on her return she was too late to save anything. It is said she was considerably burned in her attempt to save the child. The Herald further learned that the old man is lying sick at Owen Sound and the rest of the family is living in very pitiable conditions at this inclement season; and we are happy to know that the kind hand of charity is being extended for their relief, large subscriptions having been raised in Almonte, Carleton Place, and the neighbourhood around where the calamity occurred. Carleton Place Herald
Road Commissioners
1833- Among commissioners chosen to supervise the spending of some 200 pounds of provincial grants for road repairs in the neighbourhood of Carleton Place, mainly in Beckwith township, were John Cameron, James Cram, Duncan Cram, William Davis, Thomas James, Phineas Low, John McDonell and Archibald McGregor, Robert Johnston, Donald Robertson, David Moffatt, Thomas Saunders, Stephen Tomlinson, James Bennie and William Drynan.
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