#barn building

Just about done! A complete picture tour is available on the wix site. 

“Barn and Stables Burned at Napanee,” Kingston Whig-Standard. May 24, 1932. Page 5. ---- Robert Rieve, Farm Laborer, Committed for Trial for Serious Offence ---- Napanee, May 24 - What might have resulted in a disastrous fire broke out shortly after the noon hour on Monday when a barn at the rear of Harry Balard’s house took fire and was completely destroyed while Caton stables were badly gutted as well as an ice house.

A call was put in at one o’clock and the firemen responded very quickly, but it was some time before the blaze was under control. The firemen did good work and it was through their splendid efforts that other damage was averted. Time after time roofs of nearby buildings were noticed on fire, but these were extinguished quickly. There are a number of frame buildings adjacent and had the fire occurred during the night it is quite probable that a conflagration would have taken place as the buildings are close to the main blocks which face Dundas street,

Farm life can ruff.

So much has happened since my last post. I started a new job and I an learning to be a dialysis nurse. I have had a heart attack and triple bypass, and a few other health mishaps we shall call them. But I am still here, kicking and finally getting the farm, though only as a supervisor because of a health mishap, fully underway.

Going in the right direction.

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The Bank Barn of William Goth

  Framing barns, sheds, and stables according to Robert J. Mackey,  was a much more difficult part of  carpentering than building houses. To frame a big barn, for example in his opinion requires a greater knowledge of the carpentering art than any other part.

Between the years 1875 and 1886 when he moved to Ottawa Mr Mackey framed barns and stables in every township in Carleton county and in…