Photo-Fiveprime
Beckwith Councilor Faye Campbell added: Just wanted to tell you that Robert Presley, who operated the saw mill in the Village of Ashton, was my great grandfather
Viking Helicopters moved close to Carleton Place, and into the grand old stone house, which was used as the office building and the hangars were nearby. After a number of years the stone house caught fire and the contents were destroyed. A couple of the “overnighters” narrowly escaped that night.
Carleton Place Parade 1977 Viking Helicopters
Carla Coker sent in this photo
This was a float by Viking Helicopters (complete with a helicopter)! My dad, Roy Coker, worked there. He was dressed as Klinger in one of my mom’s coats with gaudy costume jewellry and looked the part. Wish I had a photo of him!
Ross Johnson The helicopter on the float has history… it was the first commercially certified helicopter in the USA…
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.
Information where you can buy all Linda Seccaspina’s books-You can also read Linda in The Townships Sun andScreamin’ Mamas (USA)
The Ottawa Jewish Archives —The original Perley Home for Incurables on Wellington Street.The attached photo shows a group of top benefactors of the Perley Home and it was taken in their original location on Wellington Street before the expropriation of the house and land in 1912. A.J. and Lillian Freiman can be seen in the image – Lillian is the woman in the dark dress standing in the middle of the staircase by the sign, while A.J. is the younger gentleman with a white pocket square standing behind the row of seated ladies. The sign reads: GIVE HERE! Your contribution to help us raise a MAINTENANCE FUND for the PERLEY HOME FOR INCURABLES.
Great Britain and North America saw a wave of new facilities for incurable patients from the middle of the nineteenth century on. The majority of nineteenth and twentieth-century homes for incurables were not primarily a refuge for terminal patients. The goal was to alleviate the suffering of the incurable sick people that were not helped by the poor sick relief efforts. But, they were not primarily a home for incurable diseases, but rather a reception house to help those with palsies, arthritis, rheumatism– and it was obvious there were no clear cut distinctions. But, they were also a forerunner to hospices of today.
In those days any family which had a troublesome member, either old or young, attempted to pass it on to the Home for Incurables, until these institutions possessed an unhappy conglomeration of idiots, imbeciles, epileptics, insane, senile, and mentally normal people suffering from incurable diseases.
In October of 1906 it was reported that the patient’s ages residing at the Perley Home for Incurables were anywhere from 30 to 94. There were 27 names on the list with a total of 7,010 days spent in the home by the patients, with an average of 333.81 for each. The treasure’s balance showed receipts of $5,871.23 and $6,370.46 leaving a debt balance of $499.23.
In 1928 the Perley Home salaries were under great criticism, but so were the other hospitals, especially the Civic Hospital. May 30th, 1956, a legal ad was placed in the Ottawa Journal to lose the Incurables word and to be known only as the Perley Home.
I noted a comment from Reid Barry on the Lost Ottawa Facebook page and agreed with him: “I remember back in the early 70’s when students called it the Perley Gates. I guess we all get there some time”. Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children and Folk it was not.
The Perley Home for Incurables – 1897 to Present–The Ottawa Jewish Archives
In the 1870’s, lumber baron William G. Perley had a beautiful stone mansion built at 415 Wellington Street for him and his family in what was then known as the Uppertown area of Ottawa. He chose this location so he could look out over the river and closely monitor his various saw mills.
Perley passed away in 1890 and seven years later, his descendents gifted the home he had built to the City to become a residence for “incurables” – those people suffering from seemingly incurable diseases. The home was given “free and without any restrictions on the title.”
In 1914 the Perley Home moved to a larger building on Aylmer Avenue where it overlooked the Rideau Canal, and it continued to grow in size and scale.
It wasn’t until the 1960’s that the word “Incurable” was finally dropped from the home’s name and it simply became the Perley Hospital. Up until around that same time, patients were also still referred to as “inmates.”
In 1988, plans were made with Veteran Affairs Canada for the Perley Home to combine with the Rideau Veterans Home (built by the federal government as a temporary residence for the rehabilitation of soldiers returning from WWII), and the Veterans Wing of the National Defence Medical Centre, into a new 450-bed facility.
The first residents were relocated to the new combined facility in 1995 and it still stands there today as the Perley and Rideau Veterans’ Centre.
The Perley Home had been an uppertown mansion built in the 1870s, and converted into an incurables’ home in the 1890s as a gift from the Perleys.Perley Residence, 415 Wellington Street, today the site of the National Library and Archives.
courtesy National Library and Archives Canada MIKAN 3325724
Though the original home was described within their own literature as a “happy Christian home,” from its very beginning the Perley was always a nonsectarian institution and admitted those from all religions. But, from the 1898 newspaper articles below it looks like skin colour might have been an issue.
The home did have many Jewish benefactors who freely donated both time and money to such a worthy cause. Among those were A.J. Freiman (of Freiman’s Department Store once on Rideau) and his wife Lillian Freiman, an incredibly dedicated philanthropist.
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.
Information where you can buy all Linda Seccaspina’s books-You can also read Linda in The Townships Sun andScreamin’ Mamas (USA)
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!
Information where you can buy all Linda Seccaspina’s books-You can also read Linda in The Townships Sun andScreamin’ Mamas (USA)
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.
Every time the end of October rolls around I think of Jeanette Gallipeau Boldt and her husband Kevin and how their lives ended way too soon when they had a tragic accident while fishing. Of course when I do research in St. James Anglican Church’s Cemetery I pay my respects too. I will never forget her and wrote an hommage to her in Last Night I Saw Someone I Loved at the Halloween Parade.
I stopped writing and even thinking about beauty pageants the day Jeanette Gallipeau Boldt died. For years I have carried around a yellowed newspaper picture of her in my address book and finally put it to rest in a photo album a few years ago. But today I am posting photos of Beauty Queens gone by. I am sure these women are still beauties in their own right.
As the newspaper clipping says above:
“Your memory will always last”
1977 Miss eastern Ontario
Miss Smiths Falls Delphine Graham in front of the Queen’s Hotel (Golden Nugget) late 70s
/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/6140739/GettyImages-3070281.0.jpg)
Barnum’s beauty contest was protested widely, but Barnum wasn’t going to give up so easily. Instead of continuing to hold live pageants, Barnum advertised for women to submit daguerreotypes of themselves for judgement.
About 60 years after Barnum failed to have his live beauty contests take off, the modern American beauty pageant took off in earnest. The oh-so-eloquently named “Atlantic City’s Inter-City Beauty Contest” debuted in 1921 to attract more tourists to Atlantic City over the summer, and would later morph into the Miss America Pageant.
Information where you can buy all Linda Seccaspina’s books-You can also read Linda in The Townships Sun and Screamin’ Mamas (USA)
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.
Photo from the John Armour photo collection
John Armour–This is a picture of Abner Nichols, (very early 1900’s) from my late Grandfather Walter Armour’s collection. Abner Nichols married Eliza McNeely (daughter of 2nd generation James McNeely). My Great Grandfather, Robert Armour married Jessie McNeely (daughter of 2nd generation McNeely, Thomas Moore)
Hi Linda,
Information where you can buy all Linda Seccaspina’s books-You can also read Linda in The Townships Sun and Screamin’ Mamas (USA)
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.
Join us and learn about the history under your feet! This year’s St. James Cemetery Walk will take place Thursday October 19th and october 21– Museum Curator Jennfer Irwin will lead you through the gravestones and introduce you to some of our most memorable lost souls!
Be ready for a few surprises along the way….
This walk takes place in the dark on uneven ground. Please wear proper footwear and bring a small flashlight if you like.
Tickets available at the Museum, 267 Edmund Street. Two dates!!!
https://www.facebook.com/events/1211329495678960/
OCT 28th
Downtown Carleton Place Halloween Trick or Treat Day–https://www.facebook.com/events/489742168060479/
Here we go Carleton Place– Mark Your Calendars–
October 28th The Occomores Valley Grante and Tile Event–730pm-1am Carleton Place arena-Stop by and pick up your tickets for our fundraiser dance for LAWS. They also have tickets for Hometown Hearts event at the Grand Hotel fundraiser
Linda Temple– John here, Harold and his family were wonderful neighbours when I was growing up. Everyone took things to him to fix. Margaret, his wife, was an historian and geneology researcher. She and her sister Anna Gorman mapped cemeteries in Montague in the 50s and 60s. Harold’s son Ron runs the shop today.
Information where you can buy all Linda Seccaspina’s books-You can also read Linda in The Townships Sun andScreamin’ Mamas (USA)
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.
Another gem from Tom Edwards- “These pictures are in a book. They are glued into the book so I can’t see anything on the back. Top Left says Caldwells Mills Appleton. Top Right says Caldwells Mills Appleton. Bottom Left says SS# 11 Ramsay and Bottom Right says CPR Station Bedell. There are more pics in this book. The date on a few of them are 1920” Author’s note–In 1886 Bedell was known as Kemptville Junction. It was renamed Kemptn in 1912 and then renamed again to Bedell Crossing in 1919.
Tandem Quadracycle Photo
NLRM 2013.9.55
c. 1930
This photo depicts a woman (Miss. Bellamine) with an unnamed young man on what appears to be an early bicycle at first glance. However, upon inspection this is actually a Coventry Rotary Quadracycle from 1885. When bicycles were just starting to take off, stability was a very big issue. In response to this, tricycles and quadracycles (4 wheels) gained momentum quickly in North America. This model is of note as it was one of the earliest quadracycles to incorporate bicycle-like foot pedals instead of foot levers.
Although it is not visible from this angle, there is a fourth wheel extending behind the machine, providing added stability. As bicycles became more stable, the quadracycle largely fell to disuse, however this photo from 1930 shows that if not as practical as they once were, quadracycles were still fun!
Information where you can buy all Linda Seccaspina’s books-You can also read Linda in The Townships Sun andScreamin’ Mamas (USA)
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.
he photo on the left is the Quinn home as is was in 1967. The photo on the right of a number of personalities who made the “Burges Ghost” come to life in 1935. (L-R.) John Quinn, Mrs. Quinn, Inspector Oliver, Patrick Quinn, Sergeant Story and James Kinlock
Strange occurrences were happening in 1935 at a farm in North Burgess just off the Narrows Locks road. Mr. John Quinn, his wife and two children, Michael, and Stanley, ages 13 and 11, reported innumerable phenomena taking place in their home. Stove lids, according to the Quinns, “danced” in the air, the teapot “jumped” off the stove into the wood box, three flat irons “walked” down a staircase and dishes “pranced” on the dining-room table. Word of this mysterious goings on spread quickly throughout the district. Although, perhaps skeptical, hundreds of persons from miles around flocked to the Quinn home. Read the rest here…Did You Ever Hear About the Burgess Ghost?
So who was it? Yesterday I found some newspaper clippings you might enjoy about the whole ordeal….
Read the sequel on what happened-
lindaseccaspina 