According to thy request, I send thee some facts concerning Sarah Ann of Ramsay Township. Some fifteen years since, her father became very much involved in debt. He owed some ten or twelve hundred hundred dollars, having lost largely by working for the local woollen mills. His business was making spindles and flyers and his daughter, then just sixteen, proposed to go into her father’s shop and assist him, she being the oldest of seven children.
He accepted her offer, and told me himself that in twelve months, she could finish more work and do it better than any man be had ever trained for eighteen years. She earned fifteen dollars a week at the rate and then paid other hands. Her father died and her two eldest brothers learned the trade from her, and went away.
She has now two younger sisters in apprenticeship and a brother fourteen years of age, all working under her; turning , polishing and and fitting all kinds of machinery. I went out to see her last week, and she was making water streams to force streams in barns and houses. She is also beginning to make many kinds of carriage axles. She is her own draughtsman, and occasionally occasionally does her own forging.
To use her own words: What any do, I can but try. She has a steam engine, every part of which she understands; and I know that her work gives entire satisfaction. When they have steady employment, they clear sixty dollars a week; and she says she would rather work at it for her bread than at sewing for ten times the money. The truth is, it is a business she is fond of.
He accepted her offer, and told me himself that in twelve months, she could finish more work and do it better than any man be had ever trained for eighteen years. She earned fifteen dollars a week at the rate and then paid other hands. Her father died and her two eldest brothers learned the trade from her, and went away.
She has now two younger sisters in apprenticeship and a brother fourteen years of age, all working under her; turning , polishing and and fitting all kinds of machinery. I went out to see her last week, and she was making water streams to force streams in barns and houses. She is also beginning to make many kinds of carriage axles. She is her own draughtsman, and occasionally occasionally does her own forging.
To use her own words: What any do, I can but try. She has a steam engine, every part of which she understands; and I know that her work gives entire satisfaction. When they have steady employment, they clear sixty dollars a week; and she says she would rather work at it for her bread than at sewing for ten times the money. The truth is, it is a business she is fond of.
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 and The Tales of Almonte
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Information where you can buy all Linda Seccaspina’s books-You can also read Linda in The Townships Sun Screamin’ Mamas (USA) and The Sherbrooke Record
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