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.[
Latitude: 45.22629, Longitude: -76.19452Matches 51 to 100 of 196
Last Name, Given Name(s)  |
Death  |
Person ID | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 51 |  Sadler, Carl Frederick | 12 Dec 2000 | Almonte, Mississippi Mills, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada | I25309 |
| 52 | Giles, Harvey Smithson | 17 May 2001 | Almonte, Mississippi Mills, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada | I29341 |
| 53 | McGill, James Borden | 15 Sep 2001 | Almonte, Mississippi Mills, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada | I21037 |
| 54 | Barker, Robert James "Bob" | 15 Jan 2002 | Almonte, Mississippi Mills, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada | I846 |
| 55 | Brown, Mary Elizabeth Eva | 31 Jan 2002 | Almonte, Mississippi Mills, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada | I33118 |
| 56 | Cochran, John Harvey | 4 Feb 2002 | Almonte, Mississippi Mills, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada | I5828 |
| 57 | Purchon, Kate | 12 Sep 2002 | Almonte, Mississippi Mills, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada | I28159 |
| 58 | Watt, Hazel Evelyn | 23 Oct 2002 | Almonte, Mississippi Mills, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada | I1213 |
| 59 | Anderson, Isabella Pearl | Abt 2003 | Almonte, Mississippi Mills, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada | I40802 |
| 60 | Tripp, Doris Madeline | 4 Jul 2003 | Almonte, Mississippi Mills, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada | I10856 |
| 61 | Giles, Laura Winnifred | 25 Sep 2003 | Almonte, Mississippi Mills, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada | I22329 |
| 62 | Rooney, John Kevin | 2 Dec 2003 | Almonte, Mississippi Mills, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada | I35747 |
| 63 | Virgin, Edith Agnes "Edie" | 8 Jan 2004 | Almonte, Mississippi Mills, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada | I19823 |
| 64 | McKay, Olive Henrietta | 19 Dec 2004 | Almonte, Mississippi Mills, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada | I19783 |
| 65 | Bennett, Rhea Marjorie | 3 Jan 2005 | Almonte, Mississippi Mills, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada | I20491 |
| 66 | Munro, Edith Kathleen "Kay" | 4 Apr 2005 | Almonte, Mississippi Mills, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada | I41388 |
| 67 | Drynan, Robert Herbert Clifford "Bob" | 25 Apr 2005 | Almonte, Mississippi Mills, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada | I17015 |
| 68 | Houston, Marjorie | 18 Jul 2005 | Almonte, Mississippi Mills, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada | I20855 |
| 69 | Brown, Margaret JUNE | 15 Sep 2005 | Almonte, Mississippi Mills, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada | I35912 |
| 70 | Syme, Kevin Patrick | 24 Sep 2005 | Almonte, Mississippi Mills, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada | I24376 |
| 71 | Sadler, Flora | 6 Nov 2005 | Almonte, Mississippi Mills, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada | I33140 |
| 72 | Kirkland, Joseph Thomas | 26 Feb 2006 | Almonte, Mississippi Mills, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada | I19656 |
| 73 | Royce, Eldon Melville | 6 Apr 2006 | Almonte, Mississippi Mills, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada | I36974 |
| 74 | Manarey, Gordon Robert | 17 Apr 2006 | Almonte, Mississippi Mills, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada | I38533 |
| 75 | Lowe, Russell Frederick | 20 Sep 2006 | Almonte, Mississippi Mills, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada | I29344 |
| 76 | Blaney, Mervyn Percival | 21 Nov 2006 | Almonte, Mississippi Mills, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada | I42798 |
| 77 | Hamilton, Ivan Willard Fraser | 24 Nov 2006 | Almonte, Mississippi Mills, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada | I11255 |
| 78 | Blaney, Isabel Florence | 7 Jan 2007 | Almonte, Mississippi Mills, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada | I9245 |
| 79 | Clarke, Alma Olive | 2 Feb 2007 | Almonte, Mississippi Mills, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada | I29342 |
| 80 | Young, Donald Stephen "Sam" | 14 Mar 2007 | Almonte, Mississippi Mills, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada | I29196 |
| 81 | Munro, Wilbert | 2 Apr 2007 | Almonte, Mississippi Mills, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada | I7983 |
| 82 | Snedden, William Earle "Earl" | 19 May 2007 | Almonte, Mississippi Mills, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada | I29771 |
| 83 | Wilson, Margaret Eva | 1 Jul 2007 | Almonte, Mississippi Mills, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada | I636 |
| 84 | Drynan, Kathleen Elizabeth Ann | 9 Aug 2007 | Almonte, Mississippi Mills, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada | I20416 |
| 85 | Neilson, Evelyn Mary Willena | 27 Sep 2007 | Almonte, Mississippi Mills, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada | I27328 |
| 86 | Giles, Mildred "Millie" | 4 Oct 2007 | Almonte, Mississippi Mills, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada | I29343 |
| 87 | Cameron, Alice Katherine | 14 Dec 2007 | Almonte, Mississippi Mills, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada | I10001 |
| 88 | Brydges, Marion Inez | 2008 | Almonte, Mississippi Mills, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada | I14849 |
| 89 | Brydges, Robert Henry "Bob" | 11 Jan 2008 | Almonte, Mississippi Mills, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada | I14805 |
| 90 | Stewart, Douglas Charles "Doug" | 3 Feb 2008 | Almonte, Mississippi Mills, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada | I27319 |
| 91 | Warren, Mary Isobel | 10 Mar 2008 | Almonte, Mississippi Mills, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada | I23426 |
| 92 | Stewart, John Alexander "Alex" | 5 Jul 2008 | Almonte, Mississippi Mills, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada | I27327 |
| 93 | Campbell, Verna Mabel | 28 Oct 2008 | Almonte, Mississippi Mills, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada | I14631 |
| 94 | Desarmia, Arthur Louis "Art" | 13 Dec 2008 | Almonte, Mississippi Mills, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada | I13092 |
| 95 | Ireton, Emily M. | 4 Jan 2009 | Almonte, Mississippi Mills, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada | I39520 |
| 96 | Bolton, John Louis Garfield | 8 Jan 2009 | Almonte, Mississippi Mills, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada | I24583 |
| 97 | Coxford, Elizabeth Ila | 28 Feb 2009 | Almonte, Mississippi Mills, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada | I106 |
| 98 | Penman, Elsie Emma | 25 Oct 2009 | Almonte, Mississippi Mills, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada | I33164 |
| 99 | Smith, Emma Jean | 29 Jun 2010 | Almonte, Mississippi Mills, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada | I36141 |
| 100 | Goodfellow, George Elmer | 14 Aug 2010 | Almonte, Mississippi Mills, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada | I24180 |
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