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Almonte, Mississippi Mills, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada



 


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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: -76.19452


Birth

Matches 1 to 13 of 13

   Last Name, Given Name(s)    Birth    Person ID 
1 Neil, Mary Grace  18 Jun 1949Almonte, Mississippi Mills, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada I13375
2 Johnson, Viola Rae  5 Mar 1907Almonte, Mississippi Mills, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada I39702
3 Johnson, Donald Patterson  1927Almonte, Mississippi Mills, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada I39693
4 Freeman, Herbert Barnett  13 Dec 1877Almonte, Mississippi Mills, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada I39085
5 Forgie, Sarah Jane  16 Jun 1862Almonte, Mississippi Mills, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada I40390
6 Forgie, Henry Allan  28 Jun 1871Almonte, Mississippi Mills, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada I40393
7 Cannon, John Carswell  19 Feb 1885Almonte, Mississippi Mills, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada I40382
8 Cannon, Frances Ermel  4 Sep 1896Almonte, Mississippi Mills, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada I40386
9 Cannon, Agnes Inez "Ivey"  1887Almonte, Mississippi Mills, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada I40383
10 Bond, William Elliott  17 May 1890Almonte, Mississippi Mills, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada I39111
11 Bond, Lewis Franklin  11 Nov 1880Almonte, Mississippi Mills, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada I39112
12 Bond, George Marlborough  5 Apr 1864Almonte, Mississippi Mills, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada I39090
13 Berryman, Elizabeth  28 Jul 1875Almonte, Mississippi Mills, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada I39145

Death

Matches 1 to 50 of 196

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   Last Name, Given Name(s)    Death    Person ID 
1 Young, Donald Stephen "Sam"  14 Mar 2007Almonte, Mississippi Mills, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada I29196
2 Wood, Jean  6 Aug 2012Almonte, Mississippi Mills, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada I18715
3 Winslow-Spragge, Lieut. Ret'd RCNVR Edward Harrington "Ed"  14 Apr 2015Almonte, Mississippi Mills, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada I24826
4 Wilson, Marjorie  2 Mar 1996Almonte, Mississippi Mills, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada I33225
5 Wilson, Margaret Eva  1 Jul 2007Almonte, Mississippi Mills, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada I636
6 Willows, John KEITH  6 Jan 2017Almonte, Mississippi Mills, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada I19434
7 Willows, Feryn  7 Dec 2019Almonte, Mississippi Mills, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada I21008
8 Weir, Gordon Allan  12 Aug 2017Almonte, Mississippi Mills, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada I41325
9 Watt, James "Erwin"  8 Oct 2011Almonte, Mississippi Mills, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada I11222
10 Watt, Hazel Evelyn  23 Oct 2002Almonte, Mississippi Mills, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada I1213
11 Warren, Mary Isobel  10 Mar 2008Almonte, Mississippi Mills, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada I23426
12 Virgin, John Leonard "Jack"  27 Aug 2019Almonte, Mississippi Mills, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada I11122
13 Virgin, Jeanette May  1 Dec 2011Almonte, Mississippi Mills, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada I19833
14 Virgin, Edith Agnes "Edie"  8 Jan 2004Almonte, Mississippi Mills, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada I19823
15 Vandusen, Violet Ellenor  28 Feb 1994Almonte, Mississippi Mills, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada I33946
16 Trodden, Dorothy  12 May 1995Almonte, Mississippi Mills, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada I28005
17 Tripp, Doris Madeline  4 Jul 2003Almonte, Mississippi Mills, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada I10856
18 Trimble, Ernest "Ernie"  13 Dec 2021Almonte, Mississippi Mills, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada I30627
19 Tosh, Orval W.  9 Nov 2015Almonte, Mississippi Mills, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada I23007
20 Toop, Dianne Jean  11 Jan 2015Almonte, Mississippi Mills, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada I41450
21 Thompson, Phyllis Dianne  22 Jun 2023Almonte, Mississippi Mills, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada I14854
22 Thom, Marguerite Hazel  21 Apr 1999Almonte, Mississippi Mills, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada I41408
23 Thoburn, John  8 Apr 1879Almonte, Mississippi Mills, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada I34006
24 Terpstra, Johnney  8 Sep 2019Almonte, Mississippi Mills, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada I39010
25 Templeman, Mabel Jessie  3 Dec 1995Almonte, Mississippi Mills, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada I24163
26 Syme, Kevin Patrick  24 Sep 2005Almonte, Mississippi Mills, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada I24376
27 Struthers, Jeanette M. M. "Jean"  15 Mar 2014Almonte, Mississippi Mills, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada I12918
28 Stewart, William Duncan  18 Oct 1997Almonte, Mississippi Mills, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada I19927
29 Stewart, John Alexander "Alex"  5 Jul 2008Almonte, Mississippi Mills, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada I27327
30 Stewart, Erma Marie  11 Mar 1995Almonte, Mississippi Mills, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada I42335
31 Stewart, Douglas Charles "Doug"  3 Feb 2008Almonte, Mississippi Mills, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada I27319
32 Stewart, Donald  28 Jun 2022Almonte, Mississippi Mills, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada I19839
33 Steen, Lillian Alberta  30 May 1997Almonte, Mississippi Mills, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada I32287
34 Sonnenburg, Gary Lester  10 Jul 2014Almonte, Mississippi Mills, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada I20280
35 Sonnenburg, Erva Viola  23 Nov 1993Almonte, Mississippi Mills, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada I20254
36 Sonnenburg, Ellard Clifford  4 Jan 2017Almonte, Mississippi Mills, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada I20272
37 Somerton, Frederick Oliver  21 Jul 1995Almonte, Mississippi Mills, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada I35156
38 Snedden, William Earle "Earl"  19 May 2007Almonte, Mississippi Mills, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada I29771
39 Snedden, Robert Alexander "SANDY"  29 Apr 2022Almonte, Mississippi Mills, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada I29773
40 Snedden, Kathleen Anne "Kay"  19 Aug 2017Almonte, Mississippi Mills, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada I29775
41 Smith, Emma Jean  29 Jun 2010Almonte, Mississippi Mills, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada I36141
42 Sinnott, Catherine  23 Jun 1881Almonte, Mississippi Mills, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada I21040
43 Simpson, Dana Elizabeth  16 May 2020Almonte, Mississippi Mills, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada I5384
44 Sherrard, Helen Jean  26 Jan 1997Almonte, Mississippi Mills, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada I41449
45 Schoular, Robert Douglas "Doug"  21 Apr 2020Almonte, Mississippi Mills, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada I23289
46 Sadler, James Edwin "Jim"  7 Sep 1993Almonte, Mississippi Mills, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada I33143
47 Sadler, Flora  6 Nov 2005Almonte, Mississippi Mills, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada I33140
48 Sadler, Carl Frederick  12 Dec 2000Almonte, Mississippi Mills, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada I25309
49 Royce, Eldon Melville  6 Apr 2006Almonte, Mississippi Mills, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada I36974
50 Rooney, Patrick James  17 Jun 1949Almonte, Mississippi Mills, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada I38946

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Burial

Matches 1 to 8 of 8

   Last Name, Given Name(s)    Burial    Person ID 
1 Rooney, Patrick James  20 Jun 1949Almonte, Mississippi Mills, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada I38946
2 McNaughton, William H.  Almonte, Mississippi Mills, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada I14864
3 McNaughton, Harriet E.  Almonte, Mississippi Mills, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada I14863
4 James, John  14 Mar 1895Almonte, Mississippi Mills, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada I8975
5 Hogan, Mary Elizabeth  1963Almonte, Mississippi Mills, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada I38947
6 Gould, Jane  1889Almonte, Mississippi Mills, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada I7798
7 Cunningham, Bolton  1897Almonte, Mississippi Mills, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada I7797
8 Atcheson, Jane  Dec 1920Almonte, Mississippi Mills, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada I8976

Alt. Death

Matches 1 to 1 of 1

   Last Name, Given Name(s)    Alt. Death    Person ID 
1 Struthers, Jeanette M. M. "Jean"  15 Mar 2014Almonte, Mississippi Mills, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada I12918

Marriage

Matches 1 to 3 of 3

   Family    Marriage    Family ID 
1 Woods / Dunfield  1 Jan 1876Almonte, Mississippi Mills, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada F2853
2 Neil / McGregor  21 Nov 1942Almonte, Mississippi Mills, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada F4437
3 Finlayson / Horton  2 Jan 1908Almonte, Mississippi Mills, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada F2286

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