Hi Linda
The attached articles are about my Grandfather, James Moulton. The day his accident happened, my Grandmother, Harriet Walker Fisher Moulton gave birth to their youngest daughter which made 8 children. They eventually had two more sons.
James Moulton was my Grandfather and Harriet Walker Fisher my Grandmother
who had a farm across the street from us on Sarah Street.All the children were born at 26 Sarah Street, in later years it was changed to 92 Sarah Street.
On Monday afternoon Mr. James Moulton of the C.P.R. shops in Carleton Place was seriously injured whilst engaged in assisting in repairing a snowplow. In some way the wing was put into motion and Mr. Moulton was caught and most severely crushed. He was rushed to the public hospital in Smiths Falls with little delay and everything is being done to save his life with very little hope of success. Mr. Moulton is 48 years of age and has a wife and seven children depending on him. 1925-02-06- Almonte Gazette
Photo Carleton Place and Beckwith Heritage Museum
The CPR gave my Grandparents a lifetime pass with the railroad and it was used a couple of times, mainly to go to Montreal when there had been other serious accidents in the family (Montreal seemed to be the place to go for medical care). As far as I know, he did not receive any other financial benefits, and I don’t know if the CPR paid for his stay in hospital. My Grandpa did not go back to work at the CPR, he was never very healthy after the accident. He farmed on Sarah Street, Caldwell Street (where the school is now) and also a few acres on Woodward Street. He lived to be 87 and died November 8, 1962 of “hardening of the arteries”, known as Alzheimer’s now. —-Norma Ford
My favourite picture of my Grandfather James Moulton (how I remember him) and some of your readers will remember him from this picture.–Norma Ford
Norma and I still have not found out when he was released from the Smiths Falls Hospital and returned to Carleton Place in the newspaper archives.
I know when he was sent home we was still bedridden. My Grandmother did what a physical therapist would do today – rubbed him down, made sure he was turned and made him exercise his limbs. She was credited with getting him walking again. Something we think nothing about today but it must have been a real hardship back then with a bedridden husband, a new baby and 7 other children.
Clipped from The Ottawa Journal, 23 Mar 1968, Sat, Page 5
They (the family) said he was never the same physically again although I remember him milking the cows, other farm related work and he had a massive garden that he maintained although I now realize why he worked slower than my Dad. —Norma Ford
Clipped from The Ottawa Journal, 09 Nov 1962, Fri, Page 3
This is a picture of Norma Ford’s family cow on the old Caldwell Street farm. Donna McLaren posted it as she loves this cow..thank you!
Today’s photo is of workers taking a break at the CPR Engine Repair Shops. Built in 1890 as a round house and repair shop for the Canadian Pacific Railway, it employed about 200 workers. After operations were moved to Smiths Falls, the building was purchased by the Canadian Cooperative Woolgrowers. Iron tracks from the turntable in the roundhouse were sold as scrap to help the war effort in 1940. Can you help us identify any of these men?–Carleton Place and Beckwith Heritage Museum
Clipped from The Ottawa Journal, 06 Jun 1904, Mon, Page 8
Clipped from The Ottawa Journal, 18 Nov 1907, Mon, Page 8
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Come and visit the Lanark County Genealogical Society Facebook page– what’s there? Cool old photos–and lots of things interesting to read. Also check out The Tales of Carleton Place.
Glory Days in Carleton Place– Norma Ford
A Carleton Place Fenian Soldier’s Photo
Carleton Place Wins Prizes for their Wool!
Armchair Tourism in Carleton Place– Wooly Bully!!!! Part 6
Before The Carleton Place Mews?
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