Interesting Photos- Playfair Forgie from Laurie Yuill

This is such a nice photo, I thought I’d include it. Will A. Playfair and sister Emma Playfair

All photos from Laurie Yuill

 

Fallbrook and Playfair Playfairville 101– Names Names Names

Inhabiting Playfairville Once Again?

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The Lanark Era
Lanark, Ontario, Canada17 Feb 1897, Wed  •  Page 5

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The Lanark Era
Lanark, Ontario, Canada04 Oct 1899, Wed  •  Page 5

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The Lanark Era
Lanark, Ontario, Canada17 Aug 1898, Wed  •  Page 5

Barbara Forgie, Mrs. Minnie Playfair, Mrs. Sophie Forgie (daughter of J. J. Playfair) at the opening to Iron Mine, Lot 1, Con 4, Dalhousie

Lt. Col. Playfair built a dam, and established lumber, grist and carding mills, an iron ore mine, housing, stores and a hotel and stable until the iron ore and forests were exhausted. Only the stone hearth chimney of Playfair’s original house and remnants of the dam remain. –Inhabiting Playfairville Once Again? and My Daddy was a Miner — was Yours?

A List of Local Mines

Playfair Mine (Dalhousie Mine; Lanark Iron Mine), Dalhousie Township, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada

44° 58′ 24″ N

76° 25′ 44″ W

21.5km (13.4 miles)

201.3° (SSW)

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The Lanark Era
Lanark, Ontario, Canada03 May 1899, Wed  •  Page 1

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The Lanark Era
Lanark, Ontario, Canada29 Aug 1917, Wed  •  Page 1

Not sure where this store was located. Hannah & Bert Golding in their store

Related reading

Photos and Postcards of Lanark Village –Laurie Yuill

Dedication to Deachman’s Bridge 1946–Photos— thanks to Laurie Yuill

The Hart Children of Lanark — Laurie Yuill

1. Photos of Laurie Yuill- Somerville/Mather Picnic 1937–Charles Home, Lloyd Knowles House–Foster Family 
2. Mr. Lionel Barr’s Store Middleville and Other Mementos –‎Laurie Yuill‎

The Old Lionel Barr Sawmill Middleville 1941 — Laurie Yuill

HISTORY OF LANARK TOWNSHIP AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY ORGANIZATION–70 YEARS OLD  –Laurie Yuill Part 1

 

HISTORY OF LANARK TOWNSHIP AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY ORGANIZATION –Laurie Yuill Part 2 

HISTORY OF LANARK TOWNSHIP AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY ORGANIZATION –Laurie Yuill Part 3-“There is no use in my joining the Society, as I have nothing to exhibit”

Middleville School Photos- Laurie Yuill

HISTORY OF LANARK TOWNSHIP AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY ORGANIZATION –Laurie Yuill Part 4-“the proprietor of a merry-go-round was paid a bonus to bring his machine to the Fair “

Middleville– Yuill- Photos Laurie Yuill

Walter Mather Yuill — Died at age 28

Photos of Men at Work – 1920s — Don’t Forget About Me!

The Old Playfair Dam 1909

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The Lanark Era
Lanark, Ontario, Canada05 May 1909, Wed  •  Page 1

CLIPPED FROM
The Weekly British Whig
Kingston, Ontario, Canada10 May 1909, Mon  •  Page 3

Read this- So Where Was This?

Many years ago James Brothers , George and Lawrence of Perth had a park here along the shores of the Mississippi where people loved to picnic. It was said swimming was not the best in this area. Years ago Ken Millar from Snow Road brought his cream to the Playfair Bridge where it was transferred to the cream truck. While waiting for the creamtruck to arrive they decided to take a dip and found the bottom full of pointy stones and they needed sneakers.

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The Daily Standard
Kingston, Ontario, Canada01 Jun 1909, Tue  •  Page 1

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The Lanark Era
Lanark, Ontario, Canada28 Oct 1896, Wed  •  Page 1

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The Lanark Era
Lanark, Ontario, Canada18 Jun 1913, Wed  •  Page 1

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The Lanark Era
Lanark, Ontario, Canada02 Jun 1897, Wed  •  Page 1

From the Canadian Mississippi River- Hilda Geddes

Fallbrook and Playfair Playfairville 101– Names Names Names

What Can You Add to this Story? Patrick Mulrooney

Inhabiting Playfairville Once Again?

Rosamond History– The “Damn” Dam Case 1870

Clippings and Comments about the Hydro Dam

The Leaky Chancery Dam –The Forgie’s of Almonte Part 2

So Where Was This?

Entire Dam Above Smiths Falls Swept Away

Swimming at the Dam, St. James Park and Other Things

The Power of the Mississippi River Dam in Carleton Place

This Old Dam

Did You Know About the Crotch Lake Disaster?

Have You Heard of Stump Lake?

The Tragic Saga of James Frew and Family 1898

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The Lanark Era
Lanark, Ontario, Canada16 Mar 1898, Wed  •  Page 4

March 1898 Lanark

Word was brought to the foreman that W.C. Caldwell’s mill had been broken into and a quantity of flour,- cornmeal, oatmeal and had been taken away. On going down to the mill about 8:30 that morning he saw that one of the windows in the store room adjoining the mill had been pried up and an entrance had been made there. The doors into the mill had been pried open.

His miller, Mr. Wm. Richardson, told him that he thought about ten bags of flour, one fifty pound paper sack of flour, one bag of a bag of oatmeal and some cummeal had been taken. During that Monday and the following Tuesday he secured sufficient evidence to warrant him in getting a search warrant to search the premise of the prisoner.

The search was made and a quantity of flour, oatmeal and cornmeal was obtained. He noticed that the bag containing the oatmeal, that was found in the prisoner’s house, bore the stamp of his firm whose meal he sold. Mr. Wm. Legary, the next witness, testified to finding a paper bag containing cornmeal while out on the Playfair road early on Monday morning. The bag was found on what he thought the most direct road to the prisoners farm.

Constable James and Webster testified to the result of the searching of ths prisoners house. Upstairs they found four bags of flour, one paper sack of flour, while downstairs they found a fifth bag of flour and some oatmeal. The latter waa in a barrel, while beside the barrel was an empty hag which bore the name of D. R. Boas, and which they thought had contained oatmeal. Tha floor upstairs bore marks of flour dust as though the bags had been emptied or filled there.

They brought the flour and meal back to Mr. Caldwell’s mill, where it was left in charge of Mr. Richardson. The most interesting evidence wss that given by Mr. Richardson, miller, who swore that the flour seized on the prisoner’s premises and returned to the mill was real ground flour. On counting the flour returned, he found it corresponded exactly with that contained in the pile of bags in which the flour was musing. He also identified the bag which contained the oatmeal.

The evidence submitted seemed to point to the prisoner’s guilt and the magistrate accordingly committed him to the county gaol to submit his trial at the spring assure or to be summarily tried before the county judge according as the prisoner may choose. The prosecution are collecting further evidence against him to he submitted when he comes up for trial.

In the afternoon the younger Frew, a youth of not more than ten or twelve yean, appeared before the magistrates, but he was dismissed as no evidence against him was submitted. The boy is a bright and smart looking youth, and it seems sad indeed that he should be brought up under such an unwholesome circumstance.

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The Kingston Whig-Standard
Kingston, Ontario, Canada11 Mar 1898, Fri  •  Page 4

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The Lanark Era
Lanark, Ontario, Canada30 Mar 1898, Wed  •  Page 1

W. C. Caldwells Aberdeen Mills, Lanark Ontario. Grist and carding mill. Photo: Ewan R. Caldwell Collection, Negative No. PA-135197. Public Archives of Canada.

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The Lanark Era
Lanark, Ontario, Canad

James Frew was just trying to feed his family. Not the way to go about it, but he was a few decades older than his wife Susanne who died at an early age leaving him with a very young family. His oldest son had founded a shingles business in his early 20s, died two years before his father was arrested for the robbery at Clyde Mills with his youngest son, Robert. Robert was also stopped in February of 1898 for stealing a ham from John Miller’s butcher shop just before his father came up for trial.

Robert, son was also arrested for the Clyde Flour Mill robbery with his father and then stole a ham from John Miller’s butcher shop just before his father came up for trial.

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The Lanark Era
Lanark, Ontario, Canada09 Mar 1898, Wed  •  Page 1

Oldest son- Andrew Frew passes away from a cerebral hemorrhage or stroke.

The Lanark Era
Lanark, Ontario, Canada
Wed, Dec 16, 1896 · Page 5

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The Lanark Era

Lanark, Ontario, Canada

16 Dec 1896, Wed  • 

1891 Census

NAME:	James Frew
GENDER:	Male
MARITAL STATUS:	Widowed
AGE:	61
BIRTH YEAR:	1830
BIRTH PLACE:	Ontario
RESIDENCE DATE:	1891
RESIDENCE PLACE:	Dalhousie and Sherbrooke North, Lanark North, Ontario, Canada
RELATION TO HEAD:	Head
RELIGION:	Free Church
OCCUPATION:	Farmer
CAN READ:	Yes
CAN WRITE:	Yes
FRENCH CANADIAN:	No
FATHER’S BIRTH PLACE:	Scotland
MOTHER’S BIRTH PLACE:	Nova Scotia
NEIGHBOURS:	View others on page
HOUSEHOLD MEMBERS:	NameAgeJames Frew61Alexander Frew22James Frew14Martha Frew12Robert Frew9

The Sad Saga of The Almonte Furniture Factory

The Saga of a James Street Home— Christina McEwen Muirhead

The Continuing Saga of Christena McEwen Muirhead—The McLaren Mill

The Townend Saga is Solved

Remembering Haying in Lanark County- The Buchanan Scrapbooks

With files from The Keeper of the Scrapbooks — Christina ‘tina’  Camelon Buchanan — Thanks to Diane Juby— click here..

From Jon Playfair’s album from Laurie Yuill

From Jon Playfair’s album from Laurie Yuill

From Jon Playfair’s album from Laurie Yuill

From Jon Playfair’s album from Laurie Yuill

From Jon Playfair’s album from Laurie Yuill

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Remembering and Documenting The Loose Hay Loader

Vacationing with the Lanark County Folks in 1000 Islands 1938

maybe some of you would be crossing the 1000 Island Bridge if the borders were not shut down.1000 Island Bridge 1938 from Jay Playfair’s album from Lanark County/ courtesy Laurie Yuill

opening day 1938 thousand island bridge

1000 Island Bridge 1938 from Jay Playfair’s album from Middleville –Lanark County/ courtesy Laurie Yuill

All Postcards from 1938 from Jay Playfair’s album from Lanark County/ courtesy Laurie Yuill

Photo Linda Seccaspina 1000 Islands US Bridge and Canadian flag.
When the colonists in New York City found out about the Declaration of Independence from George Washington who read it in front of City Hall on July 9, 1776, a riot broke out, in part as a reaction to the fact that British naval ships were occupying the harbor at the time. During the riot, a statue of King George III was torn down… and melted down to make 42,000 musket balls for the revolutionary army

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The Tale of a Pirate named Bill Johnston with Pirate Dog Supermodels

Assassinated Gossip about Lincoln, Payne and the Thousand Islands

Is there Still Gold on Wellesley Island ?

Did you Know About the Wedding Cake Cottage?

Murder on Maple Island

Stories from Ash Island

The Almost Tragic Story of Robert Henry

The Lost Island– Now You See it- Now You Don’t!

Gold Mines and Disappearances

Did Anyone Find the Lost Barrel of Silver Coins That Lies at the Bottom of the Rideau Canal?

So Where Was This?

Thanks to the Lanark Village Community Group on Facebook

Here is one for you.. This is From the photo album of Jay Playfair thanks to Laurie Yuill– somewhere in Lanark County.. a reaaaaaaaaaaaaal long shot.. but any idea?? ( middleville lanark village playfair area) late 1920s

Robert Playfair–AdminPretty sure that’s the dam on Mississippi, just above playfairville.

Robert MilotteMy Father and uncles used to call it Smith’s Dam it’s located just behind Oral Pretty’s house!!

Ken BarrMy parents in law, Neville and Gwen Wall, owned the property that this dam was a part of. It is on the Iron Mine road.

Photos Hilda Geddes

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Inhabiting Playfairville Once Again?

Fallbrook and Playfair Playfairville 101–

Names Names Names

Photos of Men at Work – 1920s — Don’t Forget About Me!

All these photos came from the Playfair family in the Lanark/ Middleville/Playfair area. Thanks to local historian Laurie Yuill. All circa 1920s except for the corduroy road photo second to last– That photo is earlier. Some look like railroads and some do not–

All these photos came from the Playfair family in the Lanark/ Middleville/Playfair area. Thanks to local historian Laurie Yuill. All circa 1920s except for the corduroy road photo second to last– That photo is earlier. Some look like railroads and some do not–

Canada’s first provincial Dept of Highways was created by Québec in 1914. Two years later Ontario, which had had a provincial instructor in charge of roadmaking attached to the Dept of Agriculture since 1896, formed its own separate highways department.

Through the 1920s cars became cheaper and their numbers multiplied; registration of motor vehicles increased from 408 790 to nearly 1.62 million by the end of the decade. Good roads associations, national and provincial, led the crusade for improved road travel, and expenditures on roads by all governments tripled. By 1930 the annual outlay was $94 million. Methods and technology for building roads improved as horse-drawn scrapers and graders gave way to steam power for shovels and rollers. However, road building in most provinces ceased and maintenance was reduced during the Great Depression and WWII as men and materials were urgently needed in the war effort. The few good paved roads that had been built were almost completely destroyed by heavy wartime traffic, particularly in industrial areas. The Canadian Encyclopedia

For Whom the Toll Gates Tolled– Revised

The Lanark County Back Roads Tour

Stories of the Mississippi River — Elk, Rice Beds, and Corduroy Roads

The Toll Gates of Lanark County on Roads that Were Not Fit for Corpses

almonte gazette 1930

Primitive Bridges –Where was this Bridge?

Photo Jay Playfair album thanks to Laurie Yuill

Photo Jay Playfair album thanks to Laurie Yuill

This was from Jay Playfair’s photo album and it should be in Lanark County in the Middleville, Lanark, Playfair area. I am hoping someone will know where this primitive bridge is.

Gloria Currie

The original road into Lanark from Watson’s Corners is now the unused Concession 1 Dalhousie road that goes off to the right just before the top of Connors Hill on County Rd. 8. That road would have had to cross the Clyde River at some point so that might have been the bridge for that road. I am in my 70’s – my Dad used to tell me about going into Lanark that way as a kid.

Terry DonaldsonWe called it frazers bridge

Ken BarrTerry Donaldson We also called it the cow bridge. It’s where the bridge at Timber Run is now.

Paul MilotteI remember it being called the Cow bridge as well. If memory serves me right it was used to let Cows cross the river as part of the old Plant farm. It was a huge dairy farm back in the day and the Darou family dairy business bought milk from them. The main building of the Plant farm is the old Caldwell mansion that is now a bead and breakfast. Anybody remember the Red barn behind the main house? I think the same family converted the the old mansion into a nursing home after the farming operation had stopped.

Judy ArnottPaul Milotte I remember the barn. I remember when it was the nursing home and they had cattle and a vicious bull.

Sharon Bowesyes you are right Paul I remember the CGIT going there and singing Christmas Carols for the residents

Gary WhyteI use to deliver milk to nursing home.when I looked at the bridge that where I though it was now it is a bridge for golf course .a name comes to mind also lived in little house just across bridge off of mill St was bob Littlejohn

Michele ScanlanI can’t remember the bridge being that long it only went over the creek not a deep river. I think it was only one span not two.

Judy ArnottSherry Lilicos’ mom and grandmother ran the nursing home. In recent years she and her husband Brian bought the place and made it into Clyde Ha

Photo from the Perth & District Historical Society–
Mathesons Bridge-Mathesons Bridge, an old farm bridge crossing the Tay off Christie Lake

Bridge across the Mississippi River to Glen Isle- Public Archives- Carleton Place and Beckwith Heritage Museum

From the Perth Courier and Documentation by Ron Shaw-CLICK

March 29, 1889 – The road from Middleville to Lanark was the scene of another accident. While
Mr. A. Lawson was driving the mail from Middleville to Lanark on Monday morning the wheel
came off his buggy and, the horses taking fright, he was thrown out. In falling he came into
contact with a stone fracturing his skull and breaking his lower jaw. He died on Tuesday night at
the house of Mr. Robert Barr where he had been carried from the scene of the accident.

June 4, 1869 – A sad accident occurred on the River Clyde about two miles from Middleville at
Taylor’s Saw Mill. Waddell McFarlane, 21, son of Mr. McFarlane, postmaster of Rosetta, was
driving saw logs over the dam at Taylor’s where a jam occurred. Young McFarlane, in his
efforts to release the logs, boldly stepped on the logs immediately at the head of the chute.
When the one on which he was standing became loose he was carried over the dam.
McFarlane was carried along with it and when he arrived at the foot, the log struck him and
before assistance could be rendered, he sank to rise no more.

Stories About Deachman’s Bridge?

Lanark 1962 Centennial Photos

 

 

Clipped from

1. The Ottawa Journal,
2. 07 Aug 1962, Tue, 

 

 

 

All photos from Elaine Playfair’s album thanks to Lanark and Middleville Historian Laurie Yuill.

 

1. 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.
   

   Middleville Photos — Laurie Yuill

2. 1. Photos of Laurie Yuill- Somerville/Mather Picnic 1937–Charles Home, Lloyd Knowles House–Foster Family

       Mr. Lionel Barr’s Store Middleville and Other Mementos –‎Laurie Yuill‎

   The Old Lionel Barr Sawmill Middleville 1941 — Laurie Yuill

   HISTORY OF LANARK TOWNSHIP AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY ORGANIZATION–70 YEARS OLD  –Laurie Yuill Part 1

   HISTORY OF LANARK TOWNSHIP AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY ORGANIZATION –Laurie Yuill Part 2 

    

   HISTORY OF LANARK TOWNSHIP AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY ORGANIZATION –Laurie Yuill Part 3-“There is no use in my joining the Society, as I have nothing to exhibit”

   Middleville School Photos- Laurie Yuill

   HISTORY OF LANARK TOWNSHIP AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY ORGANIZATION –Laurie Yuill Part 4-“the proprietor of a merry-go-round was paid a bonus to bring his machine to the Fair “

Edward Welsh – William Lee’s Sawmill

 

River Driving Crew in Playfairville

 

Perth Courier, June 26, 1914

Edward Welsh, who operated a shingle mill at Playfairville about thirty years ago was one of the early immigrants to the Canadian west in the ‘80’s.  He was a well known resident of Playfair district who to distinguish him from others of the same name was called “little” John Playfair.  Mr. and Mrs. Welsh are both living yet which their many friends in the old place and elsewhere will be glad to learn.

Lately they had their Golden Wedding which is thus described in the Baldur, Manitoba Gazette:  “Mr. and Mrs. Edward Welsh, old residents of this town and district, were the central figures in a very interesting event when on the afternoon and evening of Thursday, May 21, surrounded by six children and grandchildren to the fourth generation, brothers and sisters, nephews and nieces, grand-nephews and nieces, friends and neighbors, they celebrated their Golden Wedding and despite the years, the toil of the journey and the battles, by the way the faces of those two shone as radiantly as in youth as they received and entertained the merry crowd of young and old who came to rejoice with them in their attainment to a half century of happy wedded life.  Three stalwart sons, William of Baldur; George of Plunkett, Sask., and Fred of Baldur, were present to rejoice with their parents on this happy occasion.  The only real cloud on their sky was the absence in the far west of their only daughter Mrs. Smith.  Many little gifts accompanied by good wishes marked this day, one of the features of which was the presentation of a purse of gold to the bride and groom of fifty years ago, as a token of the kindly feelings of those about them and reminder of the wealth that belongs to the man and his mate who have been spared to each other for five decades.”

 

William Lees’ Sawmill, from 1850, had two circular saws, and a grist mill, woolen mill, carding mill (closed 1898), and shingle mill – all on the west side of Fallbrook. In 1860, he bought 300 acres (parts of Con. 10, 11, Lots 20, 21). In 1865, he added a blacksmith, which was bought by James Cameron in 1888, and later by son, Walter. The grist and woolen mills were designed by well-known area millwright Alex Wallace. A cheese factory was added in Fallbrook in 1884. The woolen mill operated to 1896 or 1897, then sold to
Christopher Donaldson, owner of the sawmill. It burned in 1902.

 

Playfair’s Mill 1895

 

The 1880-81 Bathurst map of Fallbrook area indicates a William Lee’s sawmill on the Fall River, at the exit from Bennett lake, and his sawmill, grist Lees sawmill, 1916 mill and woolen Mill, beside Fallbrook. He is also listed as (Book: ‘The Blacksmith of Fallbrook’) owning a mill at Playfairville, then and again in 1882. The carding mill, and two other sawmills, are on Bolton Creek, north and north-west respectively of the hamlet, one of which shows on the property of J. Chester (Lot 20 Con 11), presumably, the mill owner. For more information on the Fallbrook mills–The Mills of the Tay Watershed and Area
in Eastern Ontario

 

Clipped from The Ottawa Journal,  20 May 1922, Sat,  Page 2

 

 

 

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.

 

Inhabiting Playfairville Once Again?

Fallbrook and Playfair Playfairville 101–

Names Names Names

My Daddy was a Miner — was Yours?

Walter Cameron the Famous Blacksmith of Fallbrook

The Blacksmiths of Lanark County

 

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