One sentence is missing from the top but this is all that is left so had to document it. from the McRae scrapbook.
October 1934
There is a man who lives north of the Perth on a farm and wants to get married. He has” battled’ the cold, cruel world single handed long enough and wants someone who will share his happiness and disappointments with him.
In the classified column of Perth Courier he placed an advertisement for a wife and the advertiser is patiently awaiting the replies. He promises some girl a good home but has certain requirements which he demands.
He came here from Lanark Village several months ago and says he is a hard worker and farmer. He declares that marriage is a business proposition and that every man should have a helpmate. “Down in the village” he said, “there were lots of girls but most of them don’t want to get married and those that do are not the right, kind.” The advertiser said that he did not expect to remain here long as a man could make more money travelling around than by staying in one place too long.
In 1900 people rarely left their hometown, let alone travelled around their country, so I wonder if our farmer ever found a helpmate.
Perth Courier 1910
Clipped from The Ottawa Journal, 27 Oct 1979–McNeely Tannery-Address: 12 Bell Street Carleton Place, Ontario
Joe Scott took a poor calf skin to Brice McNeely who had a tannery on the banks of the Mississippi on Bell Street and asked what he was paying for hides. Brice told him 60 cents each with ten cents off for every hole in the hide.
“You’d better take it, Mr. McNeely, and I think I owe you something for it,” was the startled reply from J. Scott as Brice looked at the hide with more holes than Swiss Cheese.
Carleton Place Herald 1900
A well known Carleton Place gent from just outside of town was noted for being careful with his pennies entered McDiarmid’s store one morning to get a winter cap. He was shown 6 or 7 and selected one that seemed suitable. He retorted of course that it was too expensive, that he could get it much cheaper elsewhere and left.
An hour later he was back but the store clerk saw him first and whisked the 7 caps under the counter. The customer said,
“I’ve come back for the cap!”
Without batting an eyelash the owner told him that others knew a bargain when they saw it and that all those caps had sold within the hour after he had left the store.
Carleton Place Herald
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Memories of Chatter.. thanks to Lorraine Nephin- Bruce Sadler’s vintage Canadian newspapers
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Photos from Donna Mcfarlane
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Yesterday I heard from “Kathie Saunders” whose sister was rescued from the mighty Mississippi River. It’s not every often you hear from someone that was involved in an incident– and I consider that an amazing day when I do.
“When I was a small girl my mother had put my youngest sister in the carriage and put her outside. Well I thought I would take her for a walk and where we lived at the time there was rolling hills. Down at the bottom was the river just over from the falls. Well I went up one hill and the carriage got away from me and it went into the water.
The merchants down in the village called Fire Dept. and I remember that there were people there flashing their cameras and people had read it in the paper.”
For 35 years Stewart Hanna published published the weekly Almonte Gazette Gazette on the principle that if you don’t like something don’t be afraid to say so. And don’t spare the adjectives. “Sure, it gets you into hot water,” water,” he says. “But heck, it made life a lot more interesting.” interesting.” He is no doubt one of my favourite people of Lanark County hands down. — Linda Seccaspina
1900 Postmarked Business Envelope
But down at the Junction (Carleton Place), where, sweet, waters flow The broad Mississippi, alive and aglow, Bill Nichols and Pattie, night, morning and noon, Jump like the old cow that jumped over the moon Today it is bridges, tomorrow the roads For here is the chairman the biggest of toads, And dark grows the puddle of taxes and rates As they ever boost Carleton bless their innocent They, ride in a roller with a calliope’s scream and each one is heading along at full steam–The Lanark County Council Scottish Poem– names names names
1900 – To supply serge for British army uniforms the Canada Woollen Mills expanded its operations here at the Gillies and Hawthorne mills.
Local talent presented the Temple of Fame, an historical pageant. The town had a day of enthusiastic celebrations when news of the Relief of Ladysmith came from South Africa.
The Carleton Place Canoe Club was reorganized as a racing association and joined the new international canoe association. A district grouping to include Ottawa, Brockville, Aylmer, Britannia and Carleton Place clubs was planned. This town’s club ordered its first war canoe.
Peter Salter bought and reopened the Carleton House, the oldest two storey stone building in the town. He renamed it the Leland Hotel.
CARLETON PLACE – 1851 DIRECTORY
A Village situated on the River Mississippi, in the Township of Beckwith, County of Lanark, C.W. – distant from Perth, 21 miles, from Bytown, 30 miles, and from Smith’s Falls, 20 miles.
Population about 500.
ALPHABETICAL LIST OF PROFESSIONS, TRADES & c.
BELL, ROBERT, & Co., dealers in dry goods, groceries, crockery, hardware, & c.
CARLETON PLACE HERALD, weekly, James C. Poole, publisher
DUNNET, GEORGE, dealer in dry goods, groceries, hardware, crockery, drugs & c.
M’ARTHUR, A., & Co., general store, dry goods, groceries, hardware, crockery, & c.
POOLE, JAMES C., printing office
ROSEMOND, JAMES, woollen manufactory
Bell, Robert, M.P.P., agent for marriage licenses, town reeve, and postmaster
Bell, R., & Co., tannery
Bells & Rosemond, grist, saw, and oat mills
Constable, Rev. T.W., Wesleyan Methodist
County Agricultural Society, Robert Bell, secretary and treasurer
Duncan, James, blacksmith and axe factory
Equitable Fire Assurance Company – R. Bell & Co., agents
Fuller, Samuel, foundry
Galvin, Patrick, tailor
Graham, John, waggon and sleigh maker
Gray, Rev. Peter, Free Church
Halcroft, Rev. L., Baptist
Johnston, Robert, general store
Lavalee, Napoleon, hotelkeeper and inspector of beef and pork
M’Donald, Allen, wool-carding and cloth dressing mills
M’Gregor, Duncan, blacksmith and axe factory
M’Laren, Robert, Robert Burns tavern
M’Laughlan, Rev. James, Cameronian
Moffat, William, carpenter and builder
Murphy, Michael, tavern keeper
National Loan Fund Life Assurance Company, R. Bell & Co., agents
Nelson, Hugh, saddler and harness maker
Nelson, Johnson, classical and commercial school
Pattie, David, carpenter and builder
Peden, William, general store
Pittard, Joseph, waggon and sleigh maker
Poole, James C., clerk of division court
Pyne, Rev. A., Church of England
Wilson, Rev. Richard, Wesleyan Methodist
Wilson, William, M.D.
Carleton Place 1960?? What year do you think? Julie Sadler said- With parking on both sides, you received your driver’s license if you could drive down the main street without hitting anything!
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Come and visit the Lanark County Genealogical Society Facebook page– what’s there? Cool old photos–and lots of things interesting to read. Also check out The Tales of Carleton Place.
