Photo- Carleton Place and Beckwith Heritage Museum
Clipped from The Ottawa Journal, 31 Dec 1927, Sat, Page 3
Thanks to Joan Halpenny for sending this!!!
Information where you can buy all Linda Seccaspina’s books-You can also read Linda in The Townships Sun andScreamin’ Mamas (USA)
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.
Old McRostie Had a Farm in Carleton Place
Carleton Place Then and Now–Bridge Street Series –Volume 13
The Family of Joan Halpenny– McRostie
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It’s Photo Friday! Elizabeth Beggs McRostie posed for a formal winter portrait at the G.E. Willis studio. It was located in the Bell Block on Bridge Street and in operation from 1884 to 1896. Eliza grew up in Watson’s Corners, worked as a seamstress, and in 1902 married Fred McRostie, who ran a grocery store here in town at the corner of Bridge and Bell Streets. They lived at 213 Moffat Street, and Elizabeth kept a daily diary until her death in 1948. Their daughter Winnifred (Winnie) was a well known school teacher in town.
1933 Carleton Place Gazette thanks to Christopher Trotman
Owner, Fred McRostie ,back left
Carleton Place and Beckwith Heritage Museum
It’s Photo Friday! Today’s photo shows John and Milton Dezell at their Supertest service station sometime in the 1920s. This station was located on Bridge Street, at the corner of Bell. The accompanying sketch of the site is from a 1926 fire insurance map and clearly shows the overhang and supports. The pink (brick construction) building to its right was the McRostie Grocery store. Next to it, is 205 Bridge Street, commonly known as “the doctor’s house”.
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