Our Family's Journey Through Time
Notes:
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 1 to 13 of 13
Last Name, Given Name(s) | Birth | Person ID | ||
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1 | Forgie, Sarah Jane | 16 Jun 1862 | Almonte, Mississippi Mills, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada | I40390 |
2 | Bond, George Marlborough | 5 Apr 1864 | Almonte, Mississippi Mills, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada | I39090 |
3 | Forgie, Henry Allan | 28 Jun 1871 | Almonte, Mississippi Mills, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada | I40393 |
4 | Berryman, Elizabeth | 28 Jul 1875 | Almonte, Mississippi Mills, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada | I39145 |
5 | Freeman, Herbert Barnett | 13 Dec 1877 | Almonte, Mississippi Mills, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada | I39085 |
6 | Bond, Lewis Franklin | 11 Nov 1880 | Almonte, Mississippi Mills, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada | I39112 |
7 | Cannon, John Carswell | 19 Feb 1885 | Almonte, Mississippi Mills, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada | I40382 |
8 | Cannon, Agnes Inez "Ivey" | 1887 | Almonte, Mississippi Mills, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada | I40383 |
9 | Bond, William Elliott | 17 May 1890 | Almonte, Mississippi Mills, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada | I39111 |
10 | Cannon, Frances Ermel | 4 Sep 1896 | Almonte, Mississippi Mills, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada | I40386 |
11 | Johnson, Viola Rae | 5 Mar 1907 | Almonte, Mississippi Mills, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada | I39702 |
12 | Johnson, Donald Patterson | 1927 | Almonte, Mississippi Mills, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada | I39693 |
13 | Neil, Mary Grace | 18 Jun 1949 | Almonte, Mississippi Mills, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada | I13375 |
Matches 1 to 50 of 196
Last Name, Given Name(s) | Death | Person ID | ||
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1 | Thoburn, John | 8 Apr 1879 | Almonte, Mississippi Mills, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada | I34006 |
2 | Sinnott, Catherine | 23 Jun 1881 | Almonte, Mississippi Mills, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada | I21040 |
3 | Rath, Mary | 27 Aug 1910 | Almonte, Mississippi Mills, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada | I40473 |
4 | Flunder, Emma Elizabeth | 4 Apr 1924 | Almonte, Mississippi Mills, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada | I38917 |
5 | Dunn, Mary Ann | 15 Jun 1924 | Almonte, Mississippi Mills, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada | I40318 |
6 | Horton, Albert George | 1 Aug 1924 | Almonte, Mississippi Mills, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada | I38916 |
7 | Rath, Margaret | 9 Jan 1930 | Almonte, Mississippi Mills, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada | I40474 |
8 | McFarlane, Catherine | 14 Sep 1938 | Almonte, Mississippi Mills, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada | I22912 |
9 | Neil, Stewart Wood | 13 Nov 1942 | Almonte, Mississippi Mills, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada | I13374 |
10 | Goodfellow, Margaret Anne | 8 Jul 1947 | Almonte, Mississippi Mills, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada | I40319 |
11 | Rooney, Patrick James | 17 Jun 1949 | Almonte, Mississippi Mills, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada | I38946 |
12 | Price, William Lawrence | 9 Dec 1957 | Almonte, Mississippi Mills, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada | I40561 |
13 | Goodfellow, John | 5 Dec 1959 | Almonte, Mississippi Mills, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada | I40336 |
14 | Hogan, Mary Elizabeth | 30 Mar 1963 | Almonte, Mississippi Mills, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada | I38947 |
15 | John James Johnson | 23 Jun 1963 | Almonte, Mississippi Mills, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada | I39690 |
16 | MacDowall, Thomas John | 18 Apr 1966 | Almonte, Mississippi Mills, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada | I41166 |
17 | McGill, William THOMAS | 11 Dec 1967 | Almonte, Mississippi Mills, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada | I19523 |
18 | Melanson, Joseph Gemmil | 1 Feb 1989 | Almonte, Mississippi Mills, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada | I9869 |
19 | Rivington, Margaret Isabel | 24 Jun 1993 | Almonte, Mississippi Mills, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada | I19524 |
20 | Sadler, James Edwin "Jim" | 7 Sep 1993 | Almonte, Mississippi Mills, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada | I33143 |
21 | Sonnenburg, Erva Viola | 23 Nov 1993 | Almonte, Mississippi Mills, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada | I20254 |
22 | Vandusen, Violet Ellenor | 28 Feb 1994 | Almonte, Mississippi Mills, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada | I33946 |
23 | Goodfellow, Elsie | 29 Jun 1994 | Almonte, Mississippi Mills, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada | I24187 |
24 | Monterville, Merlein R. | 21 Sep 1994 | Almonte, Mississippi Mills, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada | I31079 |
25 | James, Minnie Bell | 7 Jan 1995 | Almonte, Mississippi Mills, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada | I30164 |
26 | Stewart, Erma Marie | 11 Mar 1995 | Almonte, Mississippi Mills, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada | I42335 |
27 | Trodden, Dorothy | 12 May 1995 | Almonte, Mississippi Mills, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada | I28005 |
28 | Somerton, Frederick Oliver | 21 Jul 1995 | Almonte, Mississippi Mills, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada | I35156 |
29 | Neilson, Wilfred Ross | 2 Oct 1995 | Almonte, Mississippi Mills, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada | I8469 |
30 | Giles, Wilbert Hanley "Wib" | 30 Nov 1995 | Almonte, Mississippi Mills, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada | I29708 |
31 | Templeman, Mabel Jessie | 3 Dec 1995 | Almonte, Mississippi Mills, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada | I24163 |
32 | Wilson, Marjorie | 2 Mar 1996 | Almonte, Mississippi Mills, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada | I33225 |
33 | James, Irene May | 29 May 1996 | Almonte, Mississippi Mills, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada | I21043 |
34 | Patterson, Ethel | 2 Oct 1996 | Almonte, Mississippi Mills, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada | I39692 |
35 | Sherrard, Helen Jean | 26 Jan 1997 | Almonte, Mississippi Mills, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada | I41449 |
36 | Flewellyn, Ruby Lila | 31 Mar 1997 | Almonte, Mississippi Mills, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada | I13620 |
37 | Steen, Lillian Alberta | 30 May 1997 | Almonte, Mississippi Mills, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada | I32287 |
38 | Graham, Inez VELMA | 5 Jul 1997 | Almonte, Mississippi Mills, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada | I15034 |
39 | Stewart, William Duncan | 18 Oct 1997 | Almonte, Mississippi Mills, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada | I19927 |
40 | More, Laurier Bryan "Laurie" | 25 Dec 1997 | Almonte, Mississippi Mills, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada | I11475 |
41 | Boucher, Alice May | 20 Apr 1998 | Almonte, Mississippi Mills, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada | I30255 |
42 | Munro, Beatrice Grace "Bea" | Dec 1998 | Almonte, Mississippi Mills, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada | I13042 |
43 | Thom, Marguerite Hazel | 21 Apr 1999 | Almonte, Mississippi Mills, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada | I41408 |
44 | Cochran, Margaret Isobel | 14 Jun 1999 | Almonte, Mississippi Mills, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada | I643 |
45 | King, John Albert Clarence "Jack" | 11 Aug 1999 | Almonte, Mississippi Mills, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada | I36433 |
46 | Newton, William Harold | 2000 | Almonte, Mississippi Mills, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada | I35749 |
47 | Rodger, James ROY | 27 Jan 2000 | Almonte, Mississippi Mills, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada | I37739 |
48 | Lawson, Mary Elizabeth | 13 Mar 2000 | Almonte, Mississippi Mills, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada | I9427 |
49 | Robertson, Margaret Florence | 25 Aug 2000 | Almonte, Mississippi Mills, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada | I27525 |
50 | Reid, Murray Lawson | 11 Oct 2000 | Almonte, Mississippi Mills, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada | I31640 |
Matches 1 to 8 of 8
Last Name, Given Name(s) | Burial | Person ID | ||
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1 | McNaughton, Harriet E. | Almonte, Mississippi Mills, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada | I14863 | |
2 | McNaughton, William H. | Almonte, Mississippi Mills, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada | I14864 | |
3 | Gould, Jane | 1889 | Almonte, Mississippi Mills, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada | I7798 |
4 | James, John | 14 Mar 1895 | Almonte, Mississippi Mills, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada | I8975 |
5 | Cunningham, Bolton | 1897 | Almonte, Mississippi Mills, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada | I7797 |
6 | Atcheson, Jane | Dec 1920 | Almonte, Mississippi Mills, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada | I8976 |
7 | Rooney, Patrick James | 20 Jun 1949 | Almonte, Mississippi Mills, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada | I38946 |
8 | Hogan, Mary Elizabeth | 1963 | Almonte, Mississippi Mills, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada | I38947 |
Matches 1 to 1 of 1
Last Name, Given Name(s) | Alt. Death | Person ID | ||
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1 | Struthers, Jeanette M. M. "Jean" | 15 Mar 2014 | Almonte, Mississippi Mills, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada | I12918 |
Matches 1 to 3 of 3
Family | Marriage | Family ID | ||
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1 | Woods / Dunfield | 1 Jan 1876 | Almonte, Mississippi Mills, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada | F2853 |
2 | Finlayson / Horton | 2 Jan 1908 | Almonte, Mississippi Mills, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada | F2286 |
3 | Neil / McGregor | 21 Nov 1942 | Almonte, Mississippi Mills, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada | F4437 |
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