Our Family's Journey Through Time
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Almonte (/'?lm?nt/ AL-mont; Spanish: [al'monte]) is a former mill town in Lanark County, in the eastern portion of Ontario, Canada. Formerly a separate municipality, Almonte is a ward of the town of Mississippi Mills, which was created on January 1, 1998, by the merging of Almonte with Ramsay and Pakenham townships.[2] Almonte is 46 kilometres (29 mi) south-west of downtown Ottawa. Its population as recorded in the 2016 Canadian Census was 5,039.[1]
History
Mississippi Mills Waterfalls
European settlement
Almonte's first European-bred settler was David Shepherd, who in 1818 was given 200 acres (0.81 km2) by the Crown to build and operate a mill. The site became known as Shepherd's Falls. That name was never official, however, and Shepherd sold his patent after his mill burned down. The patent's buyer, Daniel Shipman, rebuilt the mill and the settlement became known as Shipman's Mills by about 1821.[3]
Most of Shipman's Mills' early settlers were Scottish and later Irish. A textile town almost from the start, by 1850 it was the home of seven busy woollen mills. It was one of the leading centres in Canada West for the manufacture of woollen cloth. The construction of a railway line to Brockville stimulated the economic growth of Almonte. During this time of rapid expansion, the town changed its name from Shipman's Mills to Ramsayville, and then to Waterford.
In 1869, Almonte was a village with a population of 2,000 on the Mississippi River in the Township of Ramsay, County of Lanark. It was a station of the Brockville and Ottawa Railway.[4] By the 1870 the town had thirty stores and forty other businesses.[5] Almonte was incorporated as a village in 1871, and was incorporated as a town in 1880.[6]
On 10 September 1909 the town suffered a major fire, which destroyed several buildings on the main street and caused $75,000 dollars worth of damage.[
Matches 101 to 150 of 196
Last Name, Given Name(s) | Death | Person ID | ||
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101 | Knipfel, Margaret Gertrude | 19 Nov 2010 | Almonte, Mississippi Mills, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada | I42788 |
102 | Currie, Vennita | 15 Feb 2011 | Almonte, Mississippi Mills, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada | I12302 |
103 | Bolton, Marilyn | 10 Mar 2011 | Almonte, Mississippi Mills, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada | I21465 |
104 | Watt, James "Erwin" | 8 Oct 2011 | Almonte, Mississippi Mills, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada | I11222 |
105 | Virgin, Jeanette May | 1 Dec 2011 | Almonte, Mississippi Mills, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada | I19833 |
106 | Nontell, Irene Edna | 14 Jan 2012 | Almonte, Mississippi Mills, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada | I24181 |
107 | Currie, Helen Evelyn | 6 Apr 2012 | Almonte, Mississippi Mills, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada | I27880 |
108 | Wood, Jean | 6 Aug 2012 | Almonte, Mississippi Mills, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada | I18715 |
109 | More, Mary Mina | 16 Aug 2012 | Almonte, Mississippi Mills, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada | I10830 |
110 | Green, Ellen Elizabeth | 19 Aug 2012 | Almonte, Mississippi Mills, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada | I42232 |
111 | Currie, Lois Blanch | 24 Aug 2012 | Almonte, Mississippi Mills, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada | I12301 |
112 | Horton, Hazel "Jo" | 21 Dec 2012 | Almonte, Mississippi Mills, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada | I33950 |
113 | Currie, Carmel Helena | 23 Jan 2013 | Almonte, Mississippi Mills, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada | I12297 |
114 | Munro, Donald Yuill | Mar 2013 | Almonte, Mississippi Mills, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada | I11868 |
115 | McGill, John Rivington "Jack" | 31 Mar 2013 | Almonte, Mississippi Mills, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada | I21007 |
116 | Fulton, Allan Smith | 3 Apr 2013 | Almonte, Mississippi Mills, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada | I26335 |
117 | Ferguson, John McEwen | 12 Nov 2013 | Almonte, Mississippi Mills, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada | I5376 |
118 | Munro, Mervyn Gilbert James | 10 Feb 2014 | Almonte, Mississippi Mills, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada | I13093 |
119 | Struthers, Jeanette M. M. "Jean" | 15 Mar 2014 | Almonte, Mississippi Mills, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada | I12918 |
120 | Sonnenburg, Gary Lester | 10 Jul 2014 | Almonte, Mississippi Mills, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada | I20280 |
121 | Gimbel, Madella Illah R. N. | 12 Jul 2014 | Almonte, Mississippi Mills, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada | I28431 |
122 | Craig, Dorothy Ann | 22 Nov 2014 | Almonte, Mississippi Mills, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada | I19431 |
123 | Toop, Dianne Jean | 11 Jan 2015 | Almonte, Mississippi Mills, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada | I41450 |
124 | James, Bessie Irene | 10 Feb 2015 | Almonte, Mississippi Mills, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada | I26277 |
125 | Blaney, Winnifred Violet | 18 Feb 2015 | Almonte, Mississippi Mills, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada | I42807 |
126 | Nugent, Loretto Elizabeth | 29 Mar 2015 | Almonte, Mississippi Mills, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada | I40709 |
127 | Winslow-Spragge, Lieut. Ret'd RCNVR Edward Harrington "Ed" | 14 Apr 2015 | Almonte, Mississippi Mills, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada | I24826 |
128 | Lowe, Gladys Margaret | 18 Apr 2015 | Almonte, Mississippi Mills, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada | I5312 |
129 | Crawford, Ervie George | 19 Sep 2015 | Almonte, Mississippi Mills, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada | I33945 |
130 | McGill, Lois Katherine | 13 Oct 2015 | Almonte, Mississippi Mills, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada | I21010 |
131 | Gillan, Arthur Richard "Art"" | 3 Nov 2015 | Almonte, Mississippi Mills, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada | I39052 |
132 | Tosh, Orval W. | 9 Nov 2015 | Almonte, Mississippi Mills, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada | I23007 |
133 | Lowe, William Roy | 5 Dec 2015 | Almonte, Mississippi Mills, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada | I5311 |
134 | McAuliffe, Patrick Denis "Pat" | 2 Feb 2016 | Almonte, Mississippi Mills, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada | I36852 |
135 | Munro, Muriel Ethel | 20 May 2016 | Almonte, Mississippi Mills, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada | I39009 |
136 | McNeely, James "Keith" | 20 Jun 2016 | Almonte, Mississippi Mills, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada | I5301 |
137 | Rathwell, Elsie Winnifred | 1 Dec 2016 | Almonte, Mississippi Mills, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada | I38544 |
138 | Paul, Norma Isobel | 29 Dec 2016 | Almonte, Mississippi Mills, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada | I20307 |
139 | Sonnenburg, Ellard Clifford | 4 Jan 2017 | Almonte, Mississippi Mills, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada | I20272 |
140 | Willows, John KEITH | 6 Jan 2017 | Almonte, Mississippi Mills, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada | I19434 |
141 | Johnson, Donald Patterson | 15 Feb 2017 | Almonte, Mississippi Mills, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada | I39693 |
142 | Lowe, Mary Margaret | 16 Feb 2017 | Almonte, Mississippi Mills, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada | I38599 |
143 | Hamilton, Janetta Isabel | 14 Mar 2017 | Almonte, Mississippi Mills, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada | I25298 |
144 | Blackburn, Dorothy Olive | 22 Mar 2017 | Almonte, Mississippi Mills, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada | I5263 |
145 | Weir, Gordon Allan | 12 Aug 2017 | Almonte, Mississippi Mills, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada | I41325 |
146 | Snedden, Kathleen Anne "Kay" | 19 Aug 2017 | Almonte, Mississippi Mills, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada | I29775 |
147 | Newton, Noreen Kathleen | 6 Nov 2017 | Almonte, Mississippi Mills, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada | I35748 |
148 | Lowe, Amelia "Amy" | 21 Nov 2017 | Almonte, Mississippi Mills, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada | I38597 |
149 | Barclay, Robert Andrew Bruce "Bob" | 25 Dec 2017 | Almonte, Mississippi Mills, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada | I34655 |
150 | Lesway, Russell | 5 Mar 2018 | Almonte, Mississippi Mills, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada | I42197 |
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