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 51 to 100 of 196
Last Name, Given Name(s) | Death | Person ID | ||
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51 | Giles, Desmond Leslie | 23 Jul 2023 | Almonte, Mississippi Mills, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada | I29670 |
52 | Giles, Harvey Smithson | 17 May 2001 | Almonte, Mississippi Mills, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada | I29341 |
53 | Giles, Laura Winnifred | 25 Sep 2003 | Almonte, Mississippi Mills, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada | I22329 |
54 | Giles, Mildred "Millie" | 4 Oct 2007 | Almonte, Mississippi Mills, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada | I29343 |
55 | Giles, Wilbert Hanley "Wib" | 30 Nov 1995 | Almonte, Mississippi Mills, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada | I29708 |
56 | Gillan, Arthur Richard "Art"" | 3 Nov 2015 | Almonte, Mississippi Mills, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada | I39052 |
57 | Gillan, Robert Edward "Ted" | 29 Sep 2018 | Almonte, Mississippi Mills, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada | I39049 |
58 | Gimbel, Madella Illah R. N. | 12 Jul 2014 | Almonte, Mississippi Mills, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada | I28431 |
59 | Goodfellow, Elsie | 29 Jun 1994 | Almonte, Mississippi Mills, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada | I24187 |
60 | Goodfellow, George Elmer | 14 Aug 2010 | Almonte, Mississippi Mills, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada | I24180 |
61 | Goodfellow, John | 5 Dec 1959 | Almonte, Mississippi Mills, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada | I40336 |
62 | Goodfellow, Margaret Anne | 8 Jul 1947 | Almonte, Mississippi Mills, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada | I40319 |
63 | Graham, Inez VELMA | 5 Jul 1997 | Almonte, Mississippi Mills, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada | I15034 |
64 | Graham, John James "Jim" | 17 Mar 2018 | Almonte, Mississippi Mills, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada | I26074 |
65 | Green, Ellen Elizabeth | 19 Aug 2012 | Almonte, Mississippi Mills, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada | I42232 |
66 | Hamilton, Ivan Willard Fraser | 24 Nov 2006 | Almonte, Mississippi Mills, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada | I11255 |
67 | Hamilton, Janetta Isabel | 14 Mar 2017 | Almonte, Mississippi Mills, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada | I25298 |
68 | Hazelwood, Alexander Herbert "Alex' | 29 Sep 2022 | Almonte, Mississippi Mills, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada | I16523 |
69 | Hogan, Mary Elizabeth | 30 Mar 1963 | Almonte, Mississippi Mills, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada | I38947 |
70 | Horton, Albert George | 1 Aug 1924 | Almonte, Mississippi Mills, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada | I38916 |
71 | Horton, Hazel "Jo" | 21 Dec 2012 | Almonte, Mississippi Mills, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada | I33950 |
72 | Houston, Marjorie | 18 Jul 2005 | Almonte, Mississippi Mills, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada | I20855 |
73 | Ireton, Emily M. | 4 Jan 2009 | Almonte, Mississippi Mills, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada | I39520 |
74 | James, Bessie Irene | 10 Feb 2015 | Almonte, Mississippi Mills, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada | I26277 |
75 | James, Irene May | 29 May 1996 | Almonte, Mississippi Mills, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada | I21043 |
76 | James, Minnie Bell | 7 Jan 1995 | Almonte, Mississippi Mills, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada | I30164 |
77 | Johnson, Donald Patterson | 15 Feb 2017 | Almonte, Mississippi Mills, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada | I39693 |
78 | Kellough, Florence Isobel | 14 Apr 2018 | Almonte, Mississippi Mills, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada | I11121 |
79 | King, John Albert Clarence "Jack" | 11 Aug 1999 | Almonte, Mississippi Mills, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada | I36433 |
80 | Kirkland, Joseph Thomas | 26 Feb 2006 | Almonte, Mississippi Mills, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada | I19656 |
81 | Knipfel, Margaret Gertrude | 19 Nov 2010 | Almonte, Mississippi Mills, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada | I42788 |
82 | Ladoucer, Larence | 6 May 2022 | Almonte, Mississippi Mills, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada | I15647 |
83 | Lalonde, Elizabeth Alice | 16 Apr 2020 | Almonte, Mississippi Mills, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada | I43023 |
84 | Lawson, Mary Elizabeth | 13 Mar 2000 | Almonte, Mississippi Mills, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada | I9427 |
85 | Lesway, Russell | 5 Mar 2018 | Almonte, Mississippi Mills, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada | I42197 |
86 | Lowe, Amelia "Amy" | 21 Nov 2017 | Almonte, Mississippi Mills, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada | I38597 |
87 | Lowe, Edna Mae | 20 Mar 2023 | Almonte, Mississippi Mills, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada | I5297 |
88 | Lowe, Gladys Margaret | 18 Apr 2015 | Almonte, Mississippi Mills, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada | I5312 |
89 | Lowe, Mary Margaret | 16 Feb 2017 | Almonte, Mississippi Mills, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada | I38599 |
90 | Lowe, Russell Frederick | 20 Sep 2006 | Almonte, Mississippi Mills, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada | I29344 |
91 | Lowe, William Roy | 5 Dec 2015 | Almonte, Mississippi Mills, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada | I5311 |
92 | Lowry, David Walter | 19 Sep 2019 | Almonte, Mississippi Mills, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada | I4812 |
93 | Lowry, James George "Jim" | 12 Aug 2023 | Almonte, Mississippi Mills, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada | I7425 |
94 | MacDowall, Thomas John | 18 Apr 1966 | Almonte, Mississippi Mills, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada | I41166 |
95 | Manarey, Gordon Robert | 17 Apr 2006 | Almonte, Mississippi Mills, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada | I38533 |
96 | McAuliffe, Patrick Denis "Pat" | 2 Feb 2016 | Almonte, Mississippi Mills, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada | I36852 |
97 | McCann, T. Stewart Stu "Rock" | 14 May 2020 | Almonte, Mississippi Mills, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada | I34346 |
98 | McFarlane, Catherine | 14 Sep 1938 | Almonte, Mississippi Mills, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada | I22912 |
99 | McGill, James Borden | 15 Sep 2001 | Almonte, Mississippi Mills, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada | I21037 |
100 | McGill, John Rivington "Jack" | 31 Mar 2013 | Almonte, Mississippi Mills, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada | I21007 |
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