If you lived in Carleton Place in years gone by you did most of your swimming at Manny’s Point. If you got on the boom at a point where W. A. Nichols Mill stood- you only had two gaps to jump. If you were lucky you went on your way.- if not, you had a swim not where you anticipated.
CLIPPED FROMThe Lanark EraLanark, Ontario, Canada23 May 1900, Wed • Page 5
The new sawmill of Messrs. Nichols & Son, on the north shore of the river, opposite the Hawthorn Mill, is about complete and ready for business as soon as the logs come down the river. The mill is 60 feet long, with platforms at each end, and is built upon stone piers, with room in the basement for pullies, shafting and a shingle mill.
There is a wing alongside for an engine large boiler and 65 h.p. engine. A smoke stack 70 feet high carries up the smoke. The buildings are strongly built, and covered with iron for fire protection. The machinery is already in position.
The Lanark Era
Lanark, Ontario, Canada29 May 1907, Wed • Page 1
Carleton Place and Beckwith Heritage Museum photo
The Lanark Era
Lanark, Ontario, Canada
17 Nov 1897, Wed • Page 1
In 1900 Abner Nichols & Son brought their season’s log drive down the lake to their newly opened sawmill at the riverside at the end of Flora Street; while two drives of logs, ties and telegraph poles were reaching the mill operated by Williams, Edwards & Company at the dam. It was destroyed by fire in 1939.
Now Centennial Park–
The Lanark Era
Lanark, Ontario, Canada13 Jan 1904, Wed • Page 8
The Lanark Era
Lanark, Ontario, Canada13 Jan 1909, Wed • Page 1
Perth Courier–1908
Mississippi lumbering continued on a reduced scale. A Lanark Era spring report said: – The Nichols drive on the Clyde parted company here with Charlie Hollinger’s logs at the Caldwell booms, and swept its way over the dam to await the coming of the Mississippi sawlogs. The gang folded their tents and rolled away up to Dalhousie Lake where the rear of the drive floats. It will take about two weeks to wash the mouth of the Clyde, and then the whole bunch will nose away over the Red Rock and on to Carleton Place. While going through Lanark some of the expert drivers did a few stunts for Lanark sightseers. Joe Griffiths ran the rapids on a cedar pole just big enough to make a streak on the water. The Hollinger logs were retained at the Caldwell mill, where they are now being rapidly manufactured into lumber.
If you ask any girl from the parish around,
What pleases her most from her head to her toes;
She’ll say, “I’m not sure that it’s business of yours,
But I do like to waltz with a log driver.
The Lanark Era
Lanark, Ontario, Canada18 Jun 1902, Wed • Page 5
The Lanark Era
Lanark, Ontario, Canada06 May 1896, Wed • Page 4
The Lanark Era
Lanark, Ontario, Canada30 Jan 1901, Wed • Page 1
So Who was Wilma Stevens of Carleton Place? Nichols Family History
Heritage Homes Disputes- Abner Nichols House
The World of William Abner Nichols
Dim All The Lights — The Troubled Times of the Abner Nichols Home on Bridge Street
An Amusing Abner Nichols and His Boat
Before and After at Centennial Park
Splinters of Sinders Nichols and Brides
Looking for Information– Nichols Family History
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