Mr William Majaury Mailman

The Lanark Era

Lanark, Ontario, Canada • Wed, 24 Aug 1910Page 8

NAME:	William Majaury
GENDER:	Male
AGE:	69
BIRTH DATE:	1841
BIRTH PLACE:	Lanark, Ontario
DEATH DATE:	22 Aug 1910
DEATH PLACE:	Lanark, Ontario, Canada
CAUSE OF DEATH:	Epileptic Attacks

1841

Merrickville, Leeds and Grenville United Counties, Ontario, CanadaDEATH22 Aug 1910 (aged 68–69)

Hopetown, Lanark County, Ontario, CanadaBURIAL

Hopetown CemeteryHopetown, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada

DetailSource

Name	William Majaury
Gender	Male
Racial or Tribal Origin	Scottish
Nationality	Canadian
Marital Status	Married
Age	60
Birth Date	1840
Birth Place	Ontario
Residence Date	1901
Province	Ontario
Residence Place	Canada
Relation to Head of House	Head
Religion	Presbyterian
Occupation	Farmer
Can Read	Y
Can Write	Y
Can Speak English	Y
District	Lanark (North/Nord)
District Number	80
Sub-District	Lanark
Sub-District Number	1
Dwelling Number	9
Family Number	10
Neighbours	View others on page
Household Members (Name)AgeRelationshipWilliam Majaury60HeadSperry Majaury58WifeWm R Majaury30SonAggnes D Majaury20DaughterFrederick E Majaury18SonAlfred E Majaury14Son

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Bits Pieces and Clippings of Jennie Majaury

More on Grandma Majaury — Mother Bread Maker Midwife and Step Dancer

People are Afraid to Work– Jennie Majaury- Darling Township

We’ll Never See a Woman Again Like That-Irene Crosbie

Marian MacFarlane — Silver Threads Among the Gold

From the Files of The Canadian — Who is This? Where is This?

Carleton Place Blind Woman Saved Four Seniors

Women Who Made a Difference in Carleton Place — Mrs. Lim of the New York Cafe

Naismith Christmas Play — circa mid 1970s — Nikki Thornton Photos

Naismith Christmas Play circa mid 1970s

35mm negative scans. Nikki Thornton/ Cliff Thornton photo files

Wanda Labelle

Wow! That’s awesome! Love to see these. Great times at Naismith school

On the Road Again — 2nd line now called Tatlock Rd-Nikki Thornton photo files

Reflections of my Old Life —Nikki Thornton Photo Files

Almonte Hockey Club 1930-1931 Trash Talking and Egg Hurlers — Nikki Thornton Photo Files

Drill Halls and Cadets — Nikki Thornton Photo Files

Who is this Family? UPDATE — The Nikki Thorton Photo Files

Documenting Mr. Millar and his Dog Nicket- Thornton Photo Files and “It’s Your World Contest”

Country Roads– Between Highway 7 and Wolf Grove Rd on Ramsay Concession 1 — Nikki Thornton Photo Files

Almonte Hockey Club 1930-1931 Trash Talking and Egg Hurlers — Nikki Thornton Photo Files

Winter Carnival 1973- Nancy Ryan, Gill Neil, Cindy Rosborough, Sandy Thompson and Brenda Moffatt

Marilyn Robertson Snedden Lanark County Dairy Princess

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July 1958

Marilyn Robertson

Marilyn won over the other two contestants, Margaret Blair, Lanark; RR 1 and Carolyn McLenaghan, Perth RR 1. Each girl milked a cow in turn with special stalls set up outside. All the contestants made excellent showings when preparing the cow and equipment, milking and then washing fthe equipment with Marilyn was chosen as winner by the panel of judges, J. Bogaerts, Dairy Inspector from Almonte; C. E. Butterill, Dairy Inspector from Perth and E. T. Rodgers, Cheese Instructor for Lanark from Arnprior.

Marilyn Robertson will represent Lanark County in the Ontario Queen. Finals at the Canadian National Exhibition. Joan Stewart from Lyn, the Dairy Princess from Leeds County was present and presented Marilyn with the “Dairy Princess of Lanark County’’ ribbon. Then Marilyn received a cheque for $50.00 from Mr. Bogaerts on behalf of the committee, $25.00 for placing first and $25.00 for travelling expenses to the C.N.E. Held in conjunction with the Lanark County Holstein Breeders’ Association at their Twilight Meeting at-the farm of John E. James.

Marilyn Robertson was a strong contender for the simple reason that having no brothers she and her sister Rosalyn were their father’s right hand men at their home farms. Each family farm, 10th line of Ramsay received $5.00. The milking stalls, motor, pipeline and most of the equipment were provided by Carson Farm Supplies, Perth.The Perth District Co-Op provided the milker. Assisting with the competition were Carl McIntosh, Almonte RR 5 and James Lowry, Almonte RR 3.

The prize money was donated by all the dairies and creameries in Lanark County along with the main milk producer organizations, Lanark County Federation of Agriculture and Lanark County Junior Farmers’ Association. At the C.N.E. in Toronto she. will be required to milk by machine where time and general efficiency will count. Her father, Mr. George Robertson sold his farm this spring and the family now live on Water Street, Almonte. A ll Marilyn’s friends will be pulling for her, especially during the most trying part where each contestant is interviewed and required to make a short speech on the Dairy Industry in Ontario. Marilyn Robertson will represent Lanark County in the Ontario Queen Finals at the Canadian National Exhibition.

In 4-H Club work, Marilyn has an excellent record, having completed nine 4-H Homemaking Club and five 4-H Agricultural Club projects. This year, Marilyn is Assistant leader of the Cedar Hill 4-H Garden Club and a member of the Almonte 4-H Calf and 4-H Grain Clubs. In 1957 she was chosen as one of five representatives from Lanark to the Provincial 4-H. 

Marilyn has competed in several livestock and seed judging competitions placing fifth in the Intermediate Division of the Lanark County Livestock Judging competition last year and third in the Junior Section o f the County. She is past president of the Pakenham Junior Farmers Girls Club and this year is secretary-treasurer of the Lanark County Junior Farmers’ Association.

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Ottawa, Ontario, Canada03 Oct 1958, Fri  •  Page 32

ArchivesLanark–Marilyn Snedden (Archive Vice Chair) with historic quilt quilted by a combined effort of the North Lanark Womens Institutes.

Pakenham Photo Marilyn Snedden via the collection of the Argue Family

St. Andrews United Church Pakenham

Photo from the scrapbook of Lucy Connelly Poaps
Marilyn Snedden and Dolly Tolshack

Remembering Rosy Robertson

Banker Snedden —–James Snedden

Old Almonte Photo Collection — In Back of the D. W. Snedden Drugstore 1953

Rosebank, Blakeney, Norway Falls and Snedden’s Station

Bennies Corners and the Snedden Family

The Party Line —-1950s

The Year is 1952

The evil practice of listening in on the rural telephone seems to be increasing in this part of Lanark County. If certain people are called from town the busybodies, mostly of the fair sex, but not always, know the sharp ring of central and then down come the receivers like Niagara Falls.

People trying to hear what is being said on a rural line often wonder why the voice of the person in the country is so thin and faint. The eavesdroppers are to blame in 90 percent of the cases. Most people have experienced the shock of calling up some man known to have a voice like a foghorn and hearing him twittering away like a little birdie. If he has a temper he will probably let a few hearty cuss words out of him at his unseen audience.

Clickety click go a dozen receivers and then, lo and behold, the foghorn gentle ­ man regains his normal voice. All jokes aside, cases are now known where people have spent a lot of money to call someone on a rural line. They have placed the call from Vancouver, Halifax, California, Florida or some other far distant point. Generally it is a very serious message occasioned by death or illness. And that is the very time when all the receivers will come down and make it impossible for the expensive call to be heard.

Quite often in such cases the nearest switchboard operator, through which the message passes, has to take it and pass it on the few remaining miles to the party of the second part. Nearly everyone is familiar with the old fable about the Peeping Tom who was struck with blindness in the offending eye. Rural phones were not invented in the days of fairy tales or else there would have been one about the busybody who went deaf in the ear which she applied to calls not her own.

The writer of this item had an old aunt out in Leeds County who used to do a lot of embroidery. She would sit in an easy chair near the rural phone with the receiver tied to the side of her head. It is no wonder that she was regarded as a walking encyclopedia of local information, not to mention scandal.

Sometimes, as her needle worked back and forth through the fabric stretched over its hoops, she lost track of the design. So interested was she in the conversations on her telephone, she took up knitting for creative and safety’s sake.

You always had to be very careful. “You had to put your hand over the mouthpiece or they’d hear you breathing,” explains Amelia Bretzloff. But it paid off. You could hear about so-and-so’s lumbago, that what’s-her-name was seeing what’s-his-name, or that you-know-who was going broke. “Of course, everybody listened in. If you wanted to know the news, you listened in.” It was the early 1920s and telephones were novelties. Nobody had yet heard of a private telephone. The party line linked the neighborhood as surely as if it were stitched together by the thin strands of copper wire on the poles. “You could tell by the ring who was being called,” says Bretzloff, who at 72 years of age now has a private line. Each ring was different: two long, one short; three long, and so on. “Suppose there was somebody with a serious illness in that home. Then you listened to see if someone died, or if they needed help. “Of course, if somebody forgot themselves or they were shocked, they spoke out and gave themselves away.” In those days there was no dial; the operator rang all the numbers. “Oh, and she could hear everything if she wanted to,” says Bretzloff.

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Lanark, Ontario, Canada09 Nov 1910, Wed  •  Page 7

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The Lanark Era
Lanark, Ontario, Canada09 Dec 1908, Wed  •  Page 5

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The Ottawa Citizen
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada20 Feb 1988, Sat  •  Page 82

Mary Cook and her Telephone Pin

Working on the Telephone Lines — Electrocution at Carleton Place

The Devil’s Telephone? The Ouija Board

Smiths Falls in 1955–3,031 Telephones!!

Telephone Tales from 569 South Street

For the Love of a Telephone Table

The Day the Balderson Telephone Co Disappeared

The Telephone and its History in Almonte

But I Can’t Spend my Telephone Money!

Number Please? Carleton Place

Where Did the 257 Telephone Exchange Come From in Carleton Place?

Jenny, Jenny, Who Can I Turn To?

The Telephone and its History in Almonte

Maureen Arthur – 1966 Miss Dairy Princess

august 1966

Jean Duncan Lanark Dairy Queen

Remembering Rosy Robertson

1970s Lanark County Beauty Queens

Bowling Queen of the Ottawa Valley 1962

1989 Carleton Place Accident Clippings

Photo- Judith Scott-These  came from the Canadian may 31st 1989. 

Comments from “Bus accident in Carleton Place”

Train Accident? Five Bucks and a Free Lunch in Carleton Place Should Settle it

Click Bait– The Accident Stories of Carleton Place

The Accidental Death of Thomas Lowe 1871

Documenting the First Female Councillor in Carleton Place

In 1890 Dr. Preston of Bridge Street, was the first mayor of Carleton Place. I had someone ask me who the first female councillor was. So, who was the first female councillor?

Well, I had a list of women, and documented what Mary Cook said about women being in politics in Carleton Place. (read—It’s Hard for Women to get into Office in Carleton Place — 1974 –Mary Cook)

BUT, how many women have been in Carleton Place government? Thanks to Stacey Blair, Town of Carleton Place Clerk, and Jennifer Fenwick Irwin from the Carleton Place and Beckwith Museum for the help!!!

There were only 8 since 1919 when women were allowed to vote in Ontario and they are:

Linda Seccaspina

 Theresa Fritz

Wendy LeBlanc (mayor)

Linda Schmidt

Melba Baker (mayor)

Barbara Walsh

Trudie Dickie

Geneva Anne Tripp (1952)

That’s 103 years for anyone who is counting LOLOL. Thanks to Deputy Clerk Stacey Blair, she found a Mrs. Tripp who became Carleton Place’s first female councillor in 1952. She was known only as Mrs. Tripp at the Town Hall and Mrs. Homer L. Tripp to everyone else. This was 1952 after all. Doing more research I found out her first name was Geneva and her maiden last name was Wilson.

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Ottawa, Ontario, Canada04 Dec 1951, Tue  •  Page 20

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Ottawa, Ontario, Canada17 Dec 1951, Mon  •  Page 12

Read- Chamber of Commerce Then and Now in Carleton Place

Thanks to Jennifer fenwick Irwin of the Carleton Place and Beckwith Heritage Museum for the photo.. Carleton Place Council 1952. Councillor Geneva Anne Tripp on the left hand side.

Name:	Geneva Anne Tripp
Birth Date:	7 Jan 1911
Death Date:	7 Oct 2008
Cemetery:	United Cemeteries
Burial or Cremation Place:	Beckwith, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada
Has Bio?:	N
Spouse:	Homer Leroy Tripp
Children:	William Guy Tripp

TRIPP, Geneva Anne – Beloved mother of Leroy Tripp (Vija) and Brenda Weinberg (Dick), and dear grandmother of Cathryn Flick (Bill), Guy Tripp (Julia), Leslie McClure (Henry), Jacqueline Anderson (Mark), Eric Tripp (Lisa), and Abbie Weinberg (Grant MacPherson), Geneva died October 7, 2008, in Toronto, at the age of 97. ”Nanny” was a loving great-grandmother to Will, Ryan, and Meredith Flick, Michael (Laura) and Matthew Tripp, David Tripp, Freya and Rowyn Anderson, and Cydney and Kylia Tripp. Geneva will be lovingly remembered by her sister, Isabel Bradley (Bill), her brothers, Kenneth Wilson (Audrey) and Donald Wilson (Shirley), and her many nieces and nephews. She was predeceased by her beloved husband, Homer ”Hank” Tripp, her infant son, William, her sisters, Alean Prime, Margaret Davis, Pearl Reynolds, Doonie Richards, and Lola Brown, her brother, Bill Wilson (Connie), and her parents, Annie DeMarse and William Wilson. Geneva was a registered nurse who loved working as a school nurse for North York Public Health Department. A talented artist, she was also the first woman to be elected to the Town Council in Carleton Place, Ontario, where she was born. At Geneva’s request, cremation has taken place. A celebration of her life will take place in Carleton Place on May 30, 2009.

Published by Toronto Star on Oct. 11, 2008

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Lanark, Ontario, Canada15 Oct 1919, Wed  •  Page 1

Carleton Place Ladies Auxiliary — Chamber of Commerce 1987– Mary Cook Archives

Chamber of Commerce Then and Now in Carleton Place

It’s Hard for Women to get into Office in Carleton Place — 1974 –Mary Cook

Johnny J. McGregor — Still Buster and Mayor

Outstanding Personalities of Carleton Place – Dr. J.A. Johnston — Billy Nichols– William Barclay

Banker Snedden —–James Snedden

Photo from The Snedden Saga: From Lanarkshire to Lanark County Paperback – Jan. 1 1994

Almonte Gazette

April 7, 1882

The Late Mr. James Snedden – The chronicler of local events has at no time a sadder duty to perform than when called on to record the death of those well known to the generality of our readers, and who have to a certain extent identified themselves with the history of the locality. No face was more familiar on our streets that that of the gentleman whose death it is our sad duty to record today. Very few indeed of our readers in Almonte and the surrounding neighborhood but can recall the good-humored countenance of the man who was so well and favorably known as “Banker Snedden,” but whose smile will be seen no more.

The late Mr. James Snedden was born in the 11th line of Beckwith in 1821. About fifty-five years ago the father of the deceased removed to Ramsay, settling at Rosebank, and building the grist mill there, afterwards going into the lumbering business, and dying at Quebec of cholera about 1834. At the time of his father’s death James, who was the eldest son, was about fourteen years of age, and from that time he acted as a father to his brothers and sisters. Three brothers, James, William and John, continued to work harmoniously together until the youngest was about thirty years of age, but although they were then working each for himself, the elder brother never lost his fatherly interest in their well being.

Like his father, the deceased engaged in lumbering and speculation of other kinds, and was very fortunate in his pursuits, but the hard times in the lumber trade and a heavy expenditure he had been led into to improve the passage from his timber limits, caused him heavy losses. It must not, however, be supposed that he was straightened in his resources, as the widow and family are left well provided for. The deceased attended church at Rosebank on Sunday, as usual, and on Monday morning he harnessed his horse to come to Almonte. He went into the house to wash his hands, and coming out of the washroom he placed his hand on his head and exclaiming “Oh! My head!” fell on the floor in an apoplectic fit, and only rallied for a brief time in the evening, and died on Tuesday morning about six o’clock, in the 61st year of his age.

The deceased was borne to the 8th line cemetery on Thursday afternoon, the funeral being attended by a large concourse of friends and neighbors, who were unanimous in the opinion that a good husband, a loving father, a kind brother and worthy neighbor has been called away. The family have the sympathy of the entire neighborhood in their bereavement.

James died on Apirl 4, 1882 and Christina died on the 9th of Novemember 1883.

The brick house they lived in in Bennie’s Corners was made on the homestead in the brick yard owned by James. Their furniture was made by the inmates at the Kingston Penitentary.

The eldest son, David Bain Snedden after farming at Bennie’s Corners moved to Carleton Place and operated a hotel next to the train station. (with files from: from The Snedden Saga: From Lanarkshire to Lanark County Paperback – Jan. 1 1994)

Snedden Hotel on Moore Street (Franktown Road)– the building across the street used to house a rag business and was The Grand Central Hotel.. Photo-Carleton Place and Beckwith Heritage Museum

In 1904 Carleton Place’s eight hotels were:

James Lee’s The Leland

Walter McIlquham’s The Mississippi Hotel

Albert Salter’s Queens Hotel

The Revere House- formerly The British Hotel

J. E. Rathwell’s Royal Hotel, formerly the Wilson House

D. B. Snedden’s

P. J. O’Briens

Victoria House

P. Salter’s Queen’s Royal at Lake Park

Read-The Old Morgan House — Ray Paquette and Gord Cross Memories

Old Almonte Photo Collection — In Back of the D. W. Snedden Drugstore 1953

Rosebank, Blakeney, Norway Falls and Snedden’s Station

Bennies Corners and the Snedden Family

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Photos- The Sibbett Family– From Rita Sibbett-Davidson

From Rita Sibbett-Davidson=These I just found while packing for a move. My great grandfather Sibbitt and his wife.

Mary Morphy

Mary Morphy

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Alexander Sibbitt The Summitt Store Collectables – Adin Daigle

Norman Cram and Ed Sibbitt –The Rest of the Story — Lots of Genealogy

How Did A Carleton Place Photo End Up at the Victoria Archives?

Visiting Carleton Place 1893- The Limestone City

Photos- Carleton Placeand Beckwith Heritage Museum

This photo taken from the south shore of the Mississippi River shows the foundry to the right, with the Findlay family’s boathouse at centre. Foundry buildings took up the whole property, right up to High Street.–Carleton Place and Beckwith Heritage Museum

Carleton Place and Beckwith Heritage Museum The Carleton

Carleton Place and Beckwith Heritage Museum

The Ottawa Journal

Ottawa, Ontario, Canada02 Jun 1893, Fri  •  Page 1

Twenty Two Dollars a Week and Mississippi Hotel Clippings

Carleton Place Visits Comrie 1994 — Joyce Tennant

Armchair Tourism in Carleton Place– Wooly Bully!!!! Part 6

Documenting Homes –353 Lanark — Carleton Place — I Deem this a Historical Building.