Elsie Preece- Vimy Ridge Display at Christian Calvary Academy On Friday I judged a Canadian History Day at Christian Calvary Academy here in Lanark County. I was expecting to see many displays of recent history and Canadian businesses. What I was not ready for were the many projects about the past great wars. I had no idea that children of young ages knew about these subjects. Maybe I was being…

clippings of Des and Jean Desmond thanks to the Moore gals– 2003 Allan McLellan Obituary Brian Dowdall We lost a block from the foundation of of our Community with the passing of Allan McLellan. Any of you who have attended Beckwith events as well as Ottawa Valley festivals and fairs would have met Allan and Judy with their steam engines and other antique machinery and equipment. Our Family…

Photo from Jason Porteous Collection – Bridge Street-McCann’s billiards on the left and Flint’s tv behind him. I was looking through another local historian’s photos (Jason) last night and spotted a photo I had posted on Tales of Carleton Place many times. It is a great photo of who we know now is Clarence Anderson standing on Bridge Street and now we can document him as everyone deserves and…

December 3, 1955 Two huge craters believed caused by meteors plunging to earth some 500,000,000 years ago have been discovered within 100 miles of Canada’s capital by the Dominion Observatory. The pre-historic pockmarks, now filled with rock and earth, are near Franktown, about 30 miles southwest of Ottawa, and Holleford, approximately 20 miles northwest of Kingston, Ont. They were spotted by…

The Franktown Grocery Gas on Highway 15 in Franktown has new owners. They are looking for history, so if you have any memories or comments, please email them to me at [email protected] or leave the comment in the comment section and I will add them to this blog. Thank you!! The photo above came up in my feed from 2017… Kids during the war… 1945 at the Franktown General Storw.. Photo info Greg…

Another train station that disappeared. Down the road from Carleton Place. Photo frm Des and Jean Moore’s Clippings. This Irish-Scotitish settlement was founded in 1821and was named after Colonel Francis Cockburn. In it’s heyday the village had three hotels, (Pierce’s, Loney’s and Hughton’s, a blacksmith shop, two sawmills that ran day and night because of the demand for lumber, a cheese…

Des and Jean Moore Clippings thanks to the Moore gals Read also-The Franktown Inn Written in the 1930s When the village of Franktown on the Ottawa-Smiths Falls highway was laid out in the ealry 1800s the people who laid out the village site must have expected that the place would some day be great. According to Mr. H. F. McLachlin who lived near Franktown the registered plan contained (and…

Ted Rundle photo In 1807, or so the story goes, a woman boarded a boat in Scotland and sailed across the sea to a new life in a land barely known as Upper Canada. When she arrived in an Ottawa Valley settlement now called Franktown, she was carrying a special secret in her purse and what she did with it created a natural wonder and the only thing Franktown is known for almost 200 years later. No…