James Moulton was my Grandfather and lived across the street from us on Sarah Street in Carleton Place. He was crushed in an accident and he lived to be 87, but he was never the same, could only do light work.
The CPR gave them a free pass for anyone in the family that could be used in their lifetime as payment from them, and it was used a few times that I know of.
They had a small farm on Sarah stretching as far as what is now the subdivision on the east end of Woodward Street. His hay field was where Caldwell Street School is now, and they ended up selling they the property to the school board.
I remember him as only having the one cow, lots of chickens and I earned my Girl Guide Badge for working on the farm and milking a cow. Grandpa was old, smoked a pipe and chewed chewing tobacco, when I was a kid.
I picked up his chewing tobacco at McCann’s Pool Hall (imagine a girl going into the pool hall) and it seemed that everybody stopped what they were doing to look, every time I went in there.
He was a wonderful man, couldn’t read or write but made sure all his children, 9 of them went through to grade 13. The girls all went to Taber Business College, the boys apprenticed in Findlays, all but one of them. What memories I have of him.
On Monday afternoon Mr. James Moulton of the C.P.R. shops in Carleton Place was seriously injured whilst engaged in assisting in repairing a snowplow. In some way the wing was put into motion and Mr. Moulton was caught and most severely crushed. He was rushed to the public hospital in Smiths Falls with little delay and everything is being done to save his life with very little hope of success. Mr. Moulton is 48 years of age and has a wife and seven children depending on him. 1925-02-06- Almonte Gazette
Read-Accident at the C.P.R. Shop –James Moulton
Glory Days in Carleton Place– Norma Ford
Ted Hurdis my grandmother and her sisters Maude McGonagall, and Ruby Featherstone use to pick wild raspberries up on that property every year
Norma Ford We all played in those fields. Back then (1950’s for me) you could walk through the pasture right through to Lake Park. There were two farms but we went around them, It was a wonderful life for us kids back then. Grandpa didn’t like us trying to ride his calves. lol
Amanda Jane Norma Ford years ago we found an old tombstone in the soccer field next to the apartment buildings in that area.
Norma Ford I will also add that Mrs. Harriet Moulton, his wife and my Grandmother, gave birth to a daughter the same day
Carol Ethridge He was my grandfather also. I was only 7 when he died, don’t have as many memories as Norma but I do remember him giving me a metal cup with milk straight from the udder. I took a big mouthful of it and spit it on the barn floor lol
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