Twenty Two Dollars a Week and Mississippi Hotel Clippings

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The Lanark Era
Lanark, Ontario, Canada07 Dec 1910, Wed  •  Page 1

also read-David McIntosh –Front Desk Man at the Mississippi Hotel

1920s photo–Carleton Place and Beckwith Heritage Museum Mississippi/ Grand Hotel

Napoleon Lavallee bought the property for $50 in 1869 and opened the hotel in 1872 after he sold the Leland Hotel/ Carleton House on Bridge Street.  The McIlquham family bought it 11 years later in 1883 and when Joe Belisle worked there from 1917-1920 it had ornate woodwork, a grand staircase and the stone facade had wooden white wrap-around verandas. The elegant dining room tables were covered in  fine lace linen and gleaming cutlery, and the Mississippi Hotel became known for its homemade food and attracted travelling salesman from far and wide. The salesmen set up trunks in their rooms offering everything from dishes to clothing that was scooped up by local merchants that came to buy at the hotel. The place was packed daily with fans from Stittsville, Smiths Falls and Perth–and if you talk to Gerald Hastie people came in early for the fresh baked pies, and by noon they were pretty well sold out.The only known photo of Napoleon Lavallee sits on my wall–read-The Napoleon of Carleton Place

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The Lanark Era
Lanark, Ontario, Canada13 Jan 1897, Wed  •  Page 1

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The Ottawa Citizen
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada05 Sep 1919, Fri  •  Page 4

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The Ottawa Journal
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada20 Dec 1909, Mon  •  Page 3

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The Lanark Era
Lanark, Ontario, Canada26 Mar 1902, Wed  •  Page 5

Karen LloydIn the 1950s Buck Fraser lived at the Mississippi Hotel. He used to stand out at the front in a white dress shirt having a cigarette. I don’t know where he worked .

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The Ottawa Citizen
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada06 May 1913, Tue  •  Page 2

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The Ottawa Journal
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada17 Aug 1899, Thu  •  Page 7

Jennifer Fenwick Irwin–Carleton Place Museum This was taken the morning after the fire.
Burnin’ Old Memories –The Mississippi Hotel Fire- read-Burnin’ Old Memories –The Mississippi Hotel Fire

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The Lanark Era
Lanark, Ontario, Canada24 Nov 1909, Wed  •  Page 1

Buffalo robe or Sasktchewan Robe

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The Ottawa Citizen
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada06 May 1899, Sat  •  Page 6

Former dinner plates from the old Mississippi Hotel/ Grand Hotel– **
Adin Wesley Daigle**
November 19 at 11:37 AM ·

A recent addition to the collection , a couple plates from the Mississippi hotel in Carleton place 

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The Ottawa Journal
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada20 Sep 1912, Fri  •  Page 9

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The Ottawa Citizen
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada26 Dec 1914, Sat  •  Page 12

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The Ottawa Journal
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada27 Jul 1899, Thu  •  Page 7

The Old Side Door of the Mississippi Hotel

David McIntosh –Front Desk Man at the Mississippi Hotel

Romancing the Mississippi Hotel

Murders and Mysteries of the Mississippi Hotel

Thieves at the Mississippi Hotel–When Crime Began to Soar

All About Lorraine Lemay –Mississippi Hotel

Architecture Stories: The Hotel that Stompin’ Tom Connors Saved

The Napoleon of Carleton Place

Grandma’s Butterscotch Pie

Mississippi Hotel Beer — Brading’s Beer

In the Mississippi Hotel Mood with Mrs. Glen Miller

The Mystery Murals of The Queen’s and Mississippi Hotel

Burnin’ Old Memories –The Mississippi Hotel Fire

Romancing the Mississippi Hotel in 1961

Where Was Linda? A Necromancer Photo Blog -Victorian Seance at the Mississippi Hotel

Spooky Night at the Seccaspina Hotel

Ray Paquette’s Memories- McNeely and the Mississippi Hotel and Doughnuts?

CLIPPED FROMThe Daily StandardKingston, Ontario, Canada13 Jun 1919, Fri  •  Page 6