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Tavern Licenses of Lanark County — names names names

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Tavern Licenses of Lanark County — names names names

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In the Ontario Sessional Papers of 32 Victoria 1868-69 (31) there is a report on the “Return of the Number of Tavern Licenses issued in each County, City, Town, or Incorporated Village, in detail. Also, the name of the party to whom issued, and the name of the Issuer for each County, with the amount received from such Licenses to date.” The report is dated January 6, 1869. Below you will find the name of the license holder and the cost of the license but not the running total,

NORTH LANARK – John Menzies, Issuer

Township of Almonte
John K. Cole 5.00
Henry Stafford 5.00
Samuel Davies 5.00
James Barrie 5.00
Patrick Reily 5.00
Township of Clayton
Thomas Coulter 5.00
John Glemmill 5.00
Township of Ramsay
David Snedden 5.00
Township of Appleton
Geo. Colvin 5.00
Township of Pakenham
John McManagle 5.00
William Dickson 5.00
Samuel D. Chatterton 5.00
Watson’s Corners
Jane Scott 5.00
James Nicoll 5.00
Township of Dalhousie
William Lock 5.00
Duncan McIntosh 5.00
Robert Gardner 5.00
Village of Lanark
Patrick Bowes 5.00
Alexander Kelly 5.00
Mrs. Joseph Lamont 5.00
Geo. Aitkmer 5.00

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The Old Innisville Hotel

 

LANARK, SOUTH – Chas. Rice, Issuer

Town of Perth
W. Hicks 10.00
W.C. Lewis 10.00
R. Williams 10.00
D. McIntosh 10.00
M. Balderson 10.00
R.A. Gordon 10.00
J. Connell 10.00
P. McDermot 10.00
Geo. Barrie 10.00
A. McLaren 10.00
A. Yates 10.00
Fairbairn & O’Neil 10.00
Village of Smith’s Falls
A.J. Killborn 5.00
J. Hourigan 5.00
M. Armstrong 5.00
M. Carrol 5.00
T. Tweedy 5.00
Township of Bathurst
W. Smith 5.00
M. Leighton 5.00
S. Watson 5.00
A. Bain 5.00
R. Murphy 5.00
A. McDonald 5.00
Township of Beckwith
D. McFarlane 5.00
W. Kelly 5.00
R. Metcalfe 5.00
N. Lavalee 5.00
T. Clarke 5.00
W. Moore 5.00
W. Burrows 5.00
Township of Sherbrooke
R. Morrow 5.00
J. Morrow 5.00
Township of N. Elmsley
J. McCormack 5.00
A.F. Weeks 5.00
Township of Drummond
R. Crawford 5.00
C. Hollinger 5.00
E. O’Connor

 

Former Dennis Kane hotel (1832) at 48 Drummond St. E. Perth from Historic Perth-Kenn Chaplin

 

 

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Shebeens and Shebangs of Lanark County

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Shebeens and Shebangs of Lanark County

 

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Almonte Gazette– March 14,1873

A *shebeen on the Island, conducted by a person named Lynch has been summarily dealt with by the License Inspector. Information having been laid before a J. P.Lynch was summoned to appear on Tuesday last to answer to the charge of selling whisky without a license, but self-arousing conscience led him to seek safety in flight, and he consequently “vamoosed the ranch.” The trial has been adjourned until Monday next, and in the meantime a warrant will be issued for his apprehension. Query—is the *shebang closed ?

 

Almonte Gazette– March 28 1873

On Wednesday last an enterprising Almonte individual, evidently with a drop too much took advantage of the fact that the top rail on the long bridge was gone, and in attempting to rest himself, fell over and came to a full stop on the ice. He gravely remarked “that’s a long piece to fall,” hunted up his hat and started off. The attention of the Street Inspector is directed to this very dangerous locality. How the individual mentioned above escaped without serious injuries is more than we can understand.

 

Carleton Place Herald March 21, 1873

M.D. Tom James says there is not only one insolvent gazetted in the village. He says that between the bridge and the British Hotel there are three whose names have appeared in the Carleton Place Herald within the six months as having turned insolvent.

Mr. A. Campbell, Assignee of Perth, can testify that Tom James, M.D. Carleton Place, is not a practitioning doctor but merely a doctor in a lunatic asylum for a number of years and has no business commenting on local drinking establishments.

M.D. Tom James agrees that he was indeed a doctor in a lunatic asylum and that he practised there a number of years and that madmen always jump when they hear the word “doctor.”  James says that Mr. Campbell can only be an escaped inmate or lunatic himself, and since his last letter he has observed that another grocery and liquor store has been opened in the village. This makes the twelfth house, or should he say whiskey stand, for the sale of intoxicating liquors. It is unlicensed, and we hope measures will be taken to suppress it. The people of Carleton Place must be a drouthy lot.

 

Clayton Feb. 21, 1868

Thomas Coulter begs to announce to his numerous friends that he has opened a hotel in Clayton and is now prepared to accommodate his friends and the general public in such a manner to make it to them always satisfactory.

Appleton, October 30, 1869

The subscriber having leased the above house for a term of 6 years and has fitted it up in good style is now prepared to accommodate the travelling public at all hours. Very good liquor is to be had at the bar–*Michael Brennan.

 

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The history of Appleton’s hotels in not well documented. It appears that Appleton had at least two hotels on the East side of the River. One was opposite the cheese factory and the other was opposite the general store. The hotels provided a place for the mill owners to entertain salesmen, a place for travellers to sleep, and served as the local watering hole.

In his book, Historical Sketches of Appleton, Jack Brown makes several mentions of Appleton hotels included:

*In 1871 a Mr. Michael Brennan was Appleton’s hotel keeper.
In 1897 Mr. Baker changed the name of his hotel from Appleton House to Bay View House.
In 1904 Mr. Thomas C. Arthur sold the hotel to a Mr. Wellington Spearman.

Text and Photo from the North Lanark Regional Museum
Almonte, Ontario

Come and visit the Lanark County Genealogical Society Facebook page– what’s there? Cool old photos–and lots of things interesting to read.

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historicalnotes

 

A shebeen (Irish: síbín) was originally an illicit bar or club where excisable alcoholic beverages were sold without a licence.

A shebang-a rough hut or shelter.

 

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