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The Miracle of 1974

May 21, 1974 Carleton Place

A Smiths Falls woman and two children were swept one-half mile down the churning, swollen Mississippi River, over the Carleton Place dam and the Bates and Innis Falls Monday afternoon before being rescued unharmed.

“It was absolutely a miracle they survived,” said Sgt. Ray Mclsaac of the Carleton Place police.  Hilda Gilligan and her six-year-old son Jeffrey, both of…

Keith Morrison and the William and Catherine Struthers Morris Family

Know your People of Carleton Place—We have the Morris Room in the Carleton Place town hall. I did not know much about Keith Morris. We all do now.

Know your People from Carleton Place

This is Keith Morris’s Great Grandparents.. the picture is of William Morris, Catherine Struthers Morris and son William.. The picture accompanied an article entitled the Scottish weaver... Donna Mcfarlane

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The Inner Remains of Findlay Foundry

  The inner remains of Findlay’s- Photo from the Delmer Dunlop Collection at Archives Lanark

Photo- Carleton Place and Beckwith Heritage Museum

This is part of the Findlay Memorial Cairn, located on the site of the first foundry on High Street. It gets missed, tucked away on the north side of High Street in a tiny little park with a shuffleboard court! All that remains is an empty field and a…

Someday my Prince Will Buy Me a Cinderella Stove

Photo from- Carleton Place and Beckwith Heritage Museum.

History of the Gas Kitchen Stove

Though gas cooking had found a place in England by the 1860s, and range manufacturers were beginning to ship their product overseas, in America gas was considered too expensive a fuel to be burned for cooking (not to mention the source of an after-taste in some minds).

After 1900, though, gas companies were…

Findlay’s 101 and a Personal Confession

  A few have asked me why  I write very little about Findlay’s and Roy Brown. Well, not to make light of them, as they are very important to the community of Carleton Place, I have always been a believer that there is way more to the history of Carleton Place than these two subjects.

I believe from the bottom of my heart that Findlay’s and Roy Brown are at the top of the Carleton Place food…

The Old Nichol’s Swimming Hole in Carleton Place

This photo taken from the south shore of the Mississippi River shows the foundry to the right, with the Findlay family’s boathouse at centre. Foundry buildings took up the whole property, right up to High Street.–Carleton Place and Beckwith Heritage Museum

  In the old days according to the files of the Carleton Place and beckwith heritgae Museum only the boys swam at the old Nichols Mill. The…

Alright, I got Pascal to come back :D