This is the “Toll Gate House” located just south of the Village of Lanark on Hwy # 511.
Every thirty miles, years ago, tolls were situated along on the Eastern Townships Autoroute in Quebec, and people complained about having to pay for the maintenance of the roads. Imagine if they had to endure the roads in the 1800’s. If you used a road, you had to stop and pay a toll, and this money was used to maintain them. There were many Toll Gates in Eastern Ontario. Farmers used to have to maintain the roads that were adjacent to their property, by crushing stones and grading the roadway. If you didn’t do this, there could be fines imposed.
Roads, for longer than people could remember, were nothing more than dirt tracks that turned to mud in the winter and baked rock hard in the summer. Either way, movement along these ‘roads’…
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