main street stormont county, 1905 - 2005.

MAIN STREET
STORMONT COUNTY,
1905 - 2005.
MAIN STREET STORMONT COUNTY,
1905 - 2005.
The New York Central and Ottawa Railway opened-up much of
Stormont Country while it operated between 1898 and 1957.
A publication of the Stormont, Dundas and Glengarry Historical Society, written to accompany
the museum exhibit of the same name.
Text, Ian Bowering
Design and graphics, Natalie Ménard
Cover: 19th century view of the Dixson Mansion at Moulinette in the distance and the Barnhart
Home in the foreground. Donated Robert Dixson, 1956.
Copyright Stormont, Dundas and Glengarry Historical Society, 2005.
Photographs, prints, and artifacts are from the archives and collection of the SD & G Historical
Society maintained in the Kinsmen Room at the Cornwall Community Museum.
NOTE ON SOURCES: The 1905 statistical data was taken from the Union Publishing
Company’s Farmers and Business Directory for the Counties of Carleton, Dundas, Glengarry,
Grenville, Lanark, Leeds, Prescott, Russell and Stormont, 1906, Vol. XIV, Ingersoll. The origin
of most place names came from our files, and J.G. Harkness’ History of Stormont, Dundas and
Glengarry, those that did not were found in the Oxford Dictionary of Canadian Place Names,
1999, and are so noted. Original spellings have been maintained.
Additional copies of this publication may be purchased from the Historical Society either by
visiting the Cornwall Community Museum in the Wood House, or by contacting the SD & G
Historical Society, P.O. Box 773, Cornwall, Ontario, Canada, K6H 5T5. Telephone, 613 9360842. Email, Ian10@bellnet.ca
Table of Contents
Stormont County............................................................................... 4
Aultsville........................................................................................... 11
Avonmore......................................................................................... 12
Berwick............................................................................................. 13
Bonville............................................................................................. 14
Bush Glen.......................................................................................... 14
Cahore............................................................................................... 14
Cannamore........................................................................................ 14
Cornwall Centre................................................................................ 14
Crysler............................................................................................... 14
Dickinson’s Landing......................................................................... 16
Dixon................................................................................................ 17
Dyer................................................................................................... 17
Eamer’s Corners................................................................................ 17
Farran’s Point.................................................................................... 17
Finch................................................................................................. 19
Gallingertown................................................................................... 20
Glenpayne......................................................................................... 20
Goldfield........................................................................................... 20
Grant’s Corners................................................................................. 20
Gravel Hill........................................................................................ 21
Harrison’s Corners............................................................................ 21
Lodi................................................................................................... 21
Lunenburg......................................................................................... 22
MacMillan’s Corners........................................................................ 22
Mille Roches..................................................................................... 22
Monckland Station............................................................................ 23
Moose Creek..................................................................................... 23
Moulinette......................................................................................... 25
Newington......................................................................................... 26
Northfield.......................................................................................... 27
Northfield Station.............................................................................. 28
North Luneburgh............................................................................... 28
North Valley...................................................................................... 28
Osnabruck Centre.............................................................................. 28
St. Andrews West.............................................................................. 29
Sandringham..................................................................................... 30
Santa Cruz......................................................................................... 30
Strathmore......................................................................................... 30
Tayside.............................................................................................. 30
Wales................................................................................................. 30
Warina............................................................................................... 31
Woodsland........................................................................................ 31
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STORMONT COUNTY
STORMONT was named afer British politician David Murray, 7th Viscount Stormont.
A photograph of a painting of David Murray, Viscount Stormont,
from the collection of Christ Church, Oxford.
NORTH STORMONT was divided into two Townships.
FINCH TOWNSHIP was named after the Finch Family related by marriage to Viscount
Stormont.
ROXBOROUGH TOWNSHIP derived its name from County Roxboroughshire in Scotland.
SOUTH STORMONT was divided into two Townships.
CORNWALL TOWNSHIP derived its name from the English County of Cornwall, and the link
to the British Royal Family and the Duchy of Cornwall.
OSNABRUCK TOWNSHIP was named after the town and province of Hanover, Germany, the
ancestral home of many of the early Loyalist settlers.
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CORNWALL TOWNSHIP was settled by veterans of the King’s Royal Regiment of New York
with their families. English Anglicans and Scottish Presbyterians established themselves around
Cornwall, while German or Palatine Calvinists and Lutheran emigrants, from the Mohawk Valley
pioneered the land west of Cornwall and settled in Osnabruck Township.
The land in these Townships proved to be the best farm-land in the three counties. Growing
slowly, small river front villages appeared along the bank’s of the St. Lawrence, attracting grist
mills and eventually large industries, such as the Provincial Paper Mill at Mille Roches to utilize
the water power provided by the Cornwall Canal. The interior was opened-up with the building
of the New York Central Railway before World War I, giving life to communities such as
Northfield and Newington.
The Stormont Agricultural
Society was formed in 1867,
when it held its first fair in
Newington.
Focused on the St. Lawrence River, thousands of tourists “shot” the Long Sault Rapids on such
steamers as the Rapid’s Prince, Queen and King.
Life along the “Front” was changed forever and the Rapids “drowned” with the building of the
St. Lawrence Seaway and Hydro Project in the 1950s. Realizing a 135 year old dream for a
deep-sea link from the Atlantic to Lake Superior, many believed that the Project would herald a
new era of continued and lasting prosperity, while others worried about the tangible destruction
of their heritage.
With International sod turning ceremonies for the Project staged in 1954, the past was altered at 8
a.m. on 1 July, 1958, when 30 tons of dynamite were touched off blowing-up the last coffer dam,
allowing for the inundation of the waterfront and the creation of Lake St. Lawrence as the
headpond for the R.H. Saunders International Hydro Power Dam.
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Extending 45 kilometres west from the powerhouse and, holding 23 billion cubic feet of water,
531 homes had been picked-up and moved, 6,500 people relocated and 20,000 acres of land were
covered, obliterating the villages of Iroquois, Aultsville, Farran’s Point, Dickinson’s Landing,
Wales, Moulinette and Mille Roches. The model towns of new Iroquois, Long Sault and
Ingleside, along with the dormitory suburb of Riverside Heights were developed for the
dislocated population.
Fishing at Sand Bay,
near Moulinette in
1954 before the
Seaway.
Upper Canada Village, the
United Counties Museum in
the Wood House and the Lost
Villages Museum were created
to memoralize a way of life
lost due to the flooding.
Christ Church (Anglican) built
in 1837 is moved to the future
site of Upper Canada Village
from Moulinette in 1957.
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The St. Lawrence Parkway was formed from land not drowned by the innundation, providing
parkland and beaches.
Forming the southern half of Stormont County, Cornwall and Osnabruck Townships were
created on January 1, 1850 and were amalgamated on January 1, 1998 to create the Township of
South Stormont.
NORTH STORMONT
Finch Township was surveyed in 1782 and settled by Allan Glen-Payne MacMillan and his clan
from Scotland around 1803. The Camerons soon followed. These pioneers were subsequently
joined by United Empire Loyalists from the Townships bordering the St. Lawrence River.
Roxborough Township was opened-up by Scottish Loyalists from adjoining Glengarry County in
1810.
Depending on farming and harvesting trees such as the white pine, the arrival of both the
Canadian Pacific and Ottawa and New York Central Railways, in the 1880s brought prosperity to
these Townships.
Berwick in Finch Township was the area’s first important settlement. Founded by brothers
Adam and Peter Cockburn, the Cockburns built a store, school, blacksmith shop and hotel on the
banks of the Payne River. A lumber mill followed soon after to prepare squared timber for
transportation down the Payne and Nation Rivers to eventually reach Quebec City.
Even though Berwick was the Township seat, by the early 1880s it had been eclipsed by Crysler
and Finch. Named after Loyalist merchant, politician and Militia Colonel John Crysler, by 1899
this cheesemaking and saw mill centre had become the Township’s largest village. At the
outbreak of the First World War, French Canadians from nearby Quebec began homesteading the
northern parts of both Townships.
Britannia ware teapot, circa 1844
attributed to John Crysler.
The pot was made by James Dixon
& Sons Ltd., Sheffield, England.
Pattern 1539, introduced in 1844.
Donated by Mrs. D. Wilkinson,
Sauble Beach in 2001.
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Forming the northern half of Stormont County, created on January 1st, 1850 Finch and
Roxborough Townships were amalgamated on January 1st, 1998 to create the Municipality of
North Stormont.
PEOPLE
Rosemary Clark Alguire, born at Farran’s Point, was the first woman to be appointed deputy
local registrar of the Supreme Court of Ontario in 1940.
Nurse Bessie J. Banfill (1899 - 1975), born and trained in Quebec, worked with Native
communities in British Columbia and Labrador. The author of four books, which sold over 2
million copies, Banfill’s books described her years as a missionary nurse. She retired to
Avonmore.
Simon Fraser, born in the Province of Vermont, (1776 - 1862), settled in St. Andrews West as a
Loyalist. He subsequently joined the Northwest Company and explored the River bearing his
name.
Captain Jeremiah French was born in the Province of Vermont, (1743 - 1820). French came to
Canada with the King’s Royal Regiment of New York with fellow Loyalists and settled in
Maple Grove, Cornwall Township. French was the representative from Stormont in the
Province’s first Legislative Assembly.
Granny Hoople. Mary Whitmore Hoople was born in the Province of Pennsylvania, (1767 1858). Mary was taken hostage by Indians during the American Revolution. After the Peace,
Mary came to Loyalist Ontario and married Henry Hoople. Having learned medicine from the
Delaware Indians, Mary applied this knowledge to heal the sick before the appearance of
formally trained doctors.
Fred B. MacMillan, born in Finch Township, was Principal of Cornwall’s Central Public School
from 1927 - 1957.
Peter Manley (1903 - 1998), born in Berwick, served as MPP for Stormont/Cornwall from 1951 1963.
Stormont/Cornwall MPP Peter Manley, on the
hustings, 1951 - 1963.
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FIRSTS:
1789 - The Court of General Quarter Sessions of the Peace for the District of Lunenburgh was
held in Osnabruck. The first case, for “assault and battery” was thrown out.
1797 - 1801 - St. Andrew’s Roman Catholic Church was built of stone and was for many
years the only Catholic Church in Stormont County. Replaced by a new structure, the
old church, with its steeple removed, is now used as the parish hall, and is one of the
oldest remaining stone structures in Ontario.
1834 - Ground was broken for the digging of the Cornwall Canal. Built to circumvent the Long
Sault Rapids, the Canal measured 11 ½ miles, had seven locks and rose a total of 48 feet.
It turned the Loyalist settlements of Mille Roches, Moulinette, Dickinson’s Landing,
Farran’s Point and Aultsville into riverports after it officially opened in 1842.
1834 - The “cigar-boat” ‘Nonsuch’ became the first steamer to run the Long Sault Rapids.
Numerous successful attempts followed, but commercial steamers did not ply the rapids
until 1847 or 1848.
1885 - The Canadian Pacific Railway reached Finch.
CPR Station Finch, circa 1908.
1894 - The telephone arrived in Avonmore.
1897 - The Ottawa and New York Central Railway came through opening farmer’s markets to
Ottawa and new York City. (The international bridge was completed a year later)
1947 - The South Nation Conservation Authority with headquarters in Berwick was created to
protect and preserve the South Nation River’s 3,900 km watershed.
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1948 - Miss Lillian Wheeler (Sister Aurelia) of Cornwall Township was one of 84 missionaries
held captive by the Chinese Communists.
1954 - Ceremonies were held in the United States and at Maple Grove, Ontario to inaugurate the
St. Lawrence Power Project.
1957 - January 1st - Large portions of Cornwall Township were annexed by Cornwall.
- April 4th - The Long Sault Rapids were stilled; reflooding started December 11th.
The bottom of the Long Sault Rapids.
John Reitsma, 8 stands on one of the rocks
that made the Long Sault Rapids.
1958 - July 1st - The flooding of the St. Lawrence River started to form the headpond for the
International Power Dam. In the process six villages were drowned.
- September 5th - The St. Lawrence Power Project was officially opened.
1959 - June 26th - The St. Lawrence Seaway was officially opened.
1967 - Loyalist Captain John Munro became the first Loyalist to be individually honoured in
Canada at Riverside Heights.
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AULTSVILLE
Originally known as Charlesville the village was named to honour Samuel Ault, Member of the
Legislative Assembly from 1861 - 76, and Member of Parliament from 1867 - 72. The village
was removed as part of the St. Lawrence Seaway and Hydro Project to form part of Ingleside.
Population - 450; 1954 - 312
baker, C.O. Shaver; barber, Henry Lapoint; blacksmiths, Austin Fetterley, S.E. Haines; builder,
John Zeron; cheese manufacturer, W.A. Edwards; dairy, M. Cook & Son; Dr. E. Brown;
dressmaker, Miss A. Elliot; general stores, Ault Bros. Ltd., James Jarvis, S.P. Stata & Son;
grocer, A.N. Dafoe; harness maker, J.S. Barr; implement agents, A. McNairn, A. Markel, James
& Son, Ed Wells; insurance, I.J. Cameron; livery, Elgin Alquire; marriage licenses, William
Flynn; millinery, Mrs. P. Hunter; painter, Stanley Dafoe; produce, shoemakers, John S. Morgan,
J.R. Smith; William Baker, shoes,
William Gogo; tailor, J.H.
Kirkpatrick; tinsmiths, C. Haines,
A.F. Nash; wagon maker, Simeon
Gove
Postmaster - R.H. Haines
Pre World War I postcard of Main
St., Aultsville.
Steam ferry, “Charlotte
Essex,” Aultsville, ca.
1929.
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AVONMORE
Originally named Hough’s Mills, the settlement’s
first postmaster Elias Shaver renamed the place
Avonmore, Gaelic for “Great or Big River,” on
April Fools’ Day, 1864.
Population - 500 - 1905
ashery, P. Brady; baker, D.F. Forsyth; Bank of Ottawa, manager, G.R. Peden; barber, A.
Morrison; blacksmiths, E. Bethune, A.O. Johnson, Alex Robillard; butcher, Charles Kahala;
cheesemaker, Oscar West; contractor, W.H. Armstrong; dentist, A. McKercher; Dr. W.M. Robb;
dressmaker, Miss J. Annable; furniture and undertaker, G.E. Shaver; general stores, Lewis
Fulton, W.J. McCart, A.O. Miller, J.H. West; grist mill, S. Salmon & Co; harness and shoe
maker, John Duff; live stock, John Shaver; livery, T.S. McCrea; hotel, W. Nixon; jeweler, J.E.
Hough; milliner, Mrs. Kahala; millinery, Mrs. O. Fulton; mortgages, Canada Permanent
Mortgage Corp., Oscar Fulton; music teacher, Mrs. J. Gibson; pianos, C.S. Nesbitt; printer,
Malcolm Ferguson; steam fitter, J.G. Wiggins; stoves and tinware, William Hunter, C.H. Nesbitt;
tailor, O. Flynn; tanner, William Moore; vet surgeon, Marshall Reilly
Postmaster - S.E. Shaver
Main St. Avonmore looking north with
McCart’s Good Luck Store on the left.
McCart’s is gone and replaced with Stinson
while the clientele visit Barkley’s opened in
1908, is in the old Bank of Ottawa. (Begg
Block) Scotiabank (1974) stands on the site
of the Picture Framing business.
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BERWICK
Named after the village in Scotland were many
of the first settlers came from.
Population - 225 - blacksmiths, Warren Bogart,
Simeon Hutt, A.R. Monigal; creamery, Milton
Patterson; general stores, Charles Gray, Johnson
& Co; harness, J.G. Nugent; hotel, J.D. McDonald;
saw mills, W.G. Empey, D. McMartin & Sons
North entry to Berwick from
County Road 5, 2005.
Postmaster - J.W. Hutt (general store)
World War I cenotaph.
Cenotaph, 2005.
World War II
Wm. Alguire
Victor Arbic
Harold Cockburn
Alfred Errett
James Hunt
Earl McDermid
Dougall McGillivrary
Malcom MacInnes
Daniel MacMillan
John MacMillan
Peter McMillan
Roy McMillan
Thomas McPherson
Cecil Ouderkirk
Lloyd Ouderkirk
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Harold Casselman
Allan Hoople
William Foley
Kenneth Dewar
Ford Benning
John MacMillan
James Redmond
Horace Stark
Jack Hutchinson
John MacPherson
Glenn Smirl
Garnet Smith
John Grady
Daryl McLean
Earl Ouderkirk
BONVILLE - Population - 30 - 1905
Postmaster - John Kennedy (grocer)
BUSH GLEN
Postmaster - Gordon Bush
CAHORE
general store - C. McManus
Postmaster - G.S. Johnstone
CANNAMORE - Population - 75 - 1905
creamery, W.T. Campbell
Postmaster - John Hughes (general store)
CORNWALL CENTRE
cheese manufacturer, J.S. Tobin
Postmaster - J. Mullin
CRYSLER
Population - 650 - 1905
Named after Militia Colonel John Crysler who settled here.
Crysler was a member of the Provincial Legislative
Assembly for Stormont from 1808 - 24.
Postmaster - James Currie
South entrance to Crysler
along County Road 12, 2005.
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baker, Napoleon Lafleur; barber, L. Racine; blacksmiths, E. Dupuis, Alex Jelineault, Leon
Lemiere, A. Rochon; butcher, Moses Lepage; Crysler Cheese Mnfg. Co., V. Hebert, sec.,
Sunnyside Cheese Factory, A. Desatelle, sec; department store, Joseph Benoit; Division Court
Clerk, J.A. Cockburn; dressmakers, Mrs. Montgomery, Mrs. R. Workman; Dr. W.E. Crain, Dr.
W.M. Earle, Dr. J.C. Gormley; flour mill, electric light plant, Joseph Bishop & Son; furniture,
A.E. Desjardins; furniture, undertaker, implement agents, Page & Landry; general stores, J.I.
Carriere, Jordan & Snetsinger, J.B. Lafrance & Co, Moquin & Co; hardware, M. St. Louis &
Son; hotel, Crysler Hotel, J.U. Richard, J.A. Quenneville, Isidore St. Louis; insurance, H.E.
Bingham; livery, G. Racine; merchant tailor, A.B. Lepage; milliners, Miss E. Gauthier, Mrs.
M. Lepage; mortgages, Canada Permanent Mortgage Corp., J.A. Cockburn; music teachers,
Miss E. Snetsinger, Miss A. Wright; painter, Fred Richard; photographer, Louis French;
planning mill, J. Braithwaite & Co; stoves and tinware, J.A. Dupuis; tanner, M. Benoit;
Union Bank, Manager J.E.J. Ashton
Victoria Railway Bridge, ca. 1905. The train
station opened in 1898 and closed in 1957.
2005
The vehicular bridge just east of the
railway bridge was opened in 1975.
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DICKINSON’S LANDING
Named after Barnabas Dickinson who established the first stage and steamer mail service
between Montreal and Kingston. The village was at the head of the Long Sault Rapids and
originally served by the steamer “Iroquois,” which ran the Rapids between Prescott and the
Landing. The village was removed as part of the St. Lawrence Seaway and Hydro Project to
form part of Ingleside.
Population - 300; 1954 - 180.
blacksmith, George Gillard; Dr. W.A. Fender and druggist; cheese manufacturer, T.M. Tobin;
furs, A.J. Froats; general store, D. Ransom & Son; grocer, B.N. Stuart; manufacturing chemist,
C.C. Hearle; temperance hotel, Mrs. James Bullock.
Postmaster - David Ransom
King Street, ca 1920.
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DIXON - Population - 50 - 1905
Dr. Charles Bartle; grocer, Frank Fetterley
Postmaster - N.E. Fetterley (blacksmith)
DYER
Postmaster - Finley McRae
EAMERS CORNERS
Postmaster - Frederick Lowell
Eamers Corners Public School, closed in 1952 and purchased in 1956 by St.
John’s Presbyterian Church for a Sunday School. Photograph, June 1960
FARRAN’S POINT
Named after the Farran family who homesteaded here. The village was removed as part of the
St. Lawrence Seaway and Hydro Project to form part of Ingleside.
Population - 75; 1954 - 184.
blacksmith, Edward Thompson; 2 general stores, Sheets Bros., J. Weaver & Co; harness,
Edward Jarvis; hotel, J.J. Thompson; marble, Joseph Fox, Stubbs & Johnson; shoemaker, George
Daly
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FARRAN’S POINT
Postmaster - R.S. Sheets
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FINCH
Named after a family related by marriage to Viscount Stormont.
Population - 400; 458 - 2001
barber, James Shaver; barristers, Harkness & Milligan; blacksmiths, H. McMonegle, J.S.
Merkley; boots, shoes & groceries, W.H. Barkley; carriage maker, Jacob McQuaig; contractor,
D. McMillan; Dr. E.H. Marcellus; Finch Cooperative Dairy Co; Finch Electric Light & Lumber
Manufacturing Co. Ltd., M.A. Smirl, manager; furniture, W.J. Brownlee; general stores, A.F.
Dey, J.W. Lowe, Thomas McDonald, W.
Petrie & Co; grocer, J.L. Burton; harness,
J.A. Munro; hotel, Gormley House;
implement agent, William McLeod;
insurance, A.F. Gormley, F.D.
McNaughton; livery, Leslie McEwan;
Merchant’s Bank, D.A. MacMillan,
manager; merchant tailor (clothing store),
George J. McDonald; milliner, Miss A.
Masterson; pianos and organs, E. Farrell;
saw mill, John Hodgson; stoves &
tinware, Grant; woolen mill, R. Simpson
Finch Fire, May 16, 17, 1907.
Postmaster - A.J. McDougall
W.A. Forsyth & Son, Tinsmith and Plumber, on the right is now Magee Hardware, blocked by
the tree in the white two story house, which was also standing a century ago.
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GALLINGERTOWN
Named after the Gallinger family who settled in the area.
Population - 40 - 1905 - cheese maker, W.A. Edwards; general store,
W.R. Miller; live stock, Isaiah Hollister and George Shaver.
Postmaster - E.M. Gallinger
GLENPAYNE
Postmaster - J.D. McInnes
GOLDFIELD
Postmaster - James McMahon
GRANTS CORNERS - Population - 25 - 1905
Named after the Grant family who settled in the area.
farm implements, D.A. Grant.
Postmaster - P.A. McDonald (grocer)
South Branch Public School built
in 1924 for School Section 10.
One teacher taught 25 students, the school was
closed in 1968 and became a private residence.
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GRAVEL HILL - Population - 60 - 1905
Postmaster - John Crawford (farm implements)
Beekeepers at Gravel Hill in the 1920s.
HARRISONS CORNERS - Population - 55 - 1905
feed mill, J. Lawson; general stores, P.D. Gornley & Co., A. Shafer.
Postmistress - Catherine MacDonald (general store)
LODI
Postmaster - Charles Lorimer
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LUNENBURG - Population - 125 - 1905
Named after a district in Hanover where
many Loyalists originally came from.
agent, J.W. Posser; agricultural implements, A.T. Shaver; blacksmiths, James Ault, C.H. Wood;
carriage maker, Herman Fetterley; cheese makers, Wert & Grant; lives stock, Jehiel Tinkess; saw
mill, A.O. Coulthart; shoemaker, James Collins.
Postmaster - Thomas S. Gillis (general store)
MACMILLAN’S CORNERS - Population - 20 - 1905
blacksmith, J.B. McDonald; grocer, Alex McFaul; hotel, A.R. Kennedy
Postmistress - Christy Marren
MILLE ROCHES
The name may derive from the fact that there were
many rocks found at the head of a small set of rapids
east of the village. The village was removed as part
of the St. Lawrence Seaway and Hydro Project to
form part of Long Sault.
Population - 400; 1954 - 874.
agents, Kezar & Bennett; blacksmith,
Alfred Johnson; butcher, H.S. Hawn;
carriage maker, Jackson Bros;
Cornwall Paper Manufacturing Co; Dr.
J.W. Messecar; 3 general stores, Mrs.
E. Carpenter, L. Hickey, R. Murdock;
hardware, Manson Warner; hotel, F.A.
Barnhart; millinery Lakeview Cheese
Co; Mrs. T. Winters; St. Lawrence
Power Co. Ltd; shoemaker, W. Algette
Postmaster - G.W. Kezar
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MONCKLAND STATION
Named after Governor-General Lord Monck.
His Montreal home was known as Monklands.
Population - 175 - 2 blacksmiths, John Kinnear, Angus
Truax; cheese box manufacturer, M.E. Coulthard; dry
goods & groceries, J.S. Munro; general store, Mrs. W.R.
McIntosh; general store & saw mill, J. & T. Gagnon;
grocery, Mrs. D. Quail, hotel, Malcolm McGillivray
Postmaster - W.R. McIntosh
Could this be the Truax
blacksmith shop listed
in 1905?
MOOSE CREEK
Named after the abundance of wild moose.
Population - 450 - 1905
baker, J.B. Villeneuve; blacksmiths, Theo Dure,
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John Munro; butcher, John Leclaire; carriage-makers, Duncan Munro, A. Prevost; cooper, Alex
Cummings, John Robillard; Doctors C.A. Stewart, E.J. Watts; furniture, T. Dey; general stores,
Mrs. C. Bissonnette, F.D. Brunet; J. Fraser, J. & T. Gagnon, J.B. Lafontain, F. Zababa; general
store and lumber, W. Fawcett & Sons; harness, M.J. Lizette; hotels, Frank and William Brunet,
Daniel Quail; shoemaker, J.B. Denis; tailor & barber, N. Pelletier; teas, P.J. Grant, M.J. Tinkers;
tinsmiths, John Lalonde, D. McCulloch
Postmaster - J.F. Lafontaine (general store)
Main St. ca. 1910.
A much reduced main St.,
renamed Rue Labrosse St.,
2005.
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MOULINETTE
Named after the mills that operated here in the 19th century, it took its name from the French
word “moulin” for mill. The village was removed as part of the St. Lawrence and Hydro Project
to form part of Long Sault.
Population - 300; 1954 - 311.
baker, George Bisbee; blacksmiths, Sidney Lauber, E.O. Winter; butcher, Alonzo, Miller;
cheese makers, Moulinette Dairy Co; general store, J.G. Snetsinger; grist mill, Martin
McGillis; grocer, George Anderson; hotel, T.B. Hines; saw mill, Alex McGillis
Postmistress - Mrs. C.A. Harrison (general store)
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NEWINGTON
Named in 1862 by postmaster Jacob Baker after
his birthplace of Stoke Newington, in north central
London, England. (pg. 268, Dictionary of Canadian
Place Names.)
Population - 250 - 1905
agricultural implements, furniture, S.Z. Wert; blacksmiths, Sam McAteer, Leonard Thompson;
butcher, W.J. Melross; carriages, J.W. Warner & Son; cheese and butter, H.T. Bowman; Dr. J.S.
Dickey; general stores, Leonard Hawn, G.F. Jardine; W.G. Stewart, Watson brothers; hotel, John
McAvoy; millineries, Mr. W.I. Jardine, Miss E. Lang; pumps, Ed Waldorff; saw mill and cheese
box manufacturers, J.A. Duval & Son; saw and planning mill, James Martin; Sterling Bank of
Canada; tinware, Thompson Brothers.
Postmaster - G.F. Jardine (general store)
Looking east circa 1905, McAvoy’s Hotel is in the right foreground, the Presbyterian
(Brick) Church built in 1895 behind it. The Methodist White Church is on the left. The
two Churches amalgamated as the United Church of Canada in 1925. Built in 1879 the
White Church was demolished in 1961, and in 1967 the bell was placed in front of the
Brick (United) Church.
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Looking east in 2005 along County Road 14, McAvoy’s
Hotel has been replaced by the Post Office.
NORTHFIELD - population - 75
blacksmith, William Weart; general store,
Arbuthnot Brothers; Dr. Charles Bartlett;
saw mill, S. Waddell.
Postmaster - W.W. Alguire (shoemaker)
1873 Tavern License for Michael
Alguire to operate the Northfield
Tavern, R. Anderson, Township Clerk
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NORTHFIELD STATION - rural post office
Postmaster - William Arbuthnot
NORTH LUNENBURG - rural post office
Postmaster - R.S. Arbuthnot
NORTH VALLEY - rural post office
Postmaster - O.H. Grandaw
OSNABRUCK CENTRE
Named after a town and province in Hanover,
Germany, the ancestral home many Loyalist settlers.
Population - 300 - blacksmiths, John Cameron,
Sam. H. Morgan; butcher, J. Collins; cheese,
Hollister & Rombough; general stores, Burton Bros,
Eman & Co; hotel, G.M. Southworth; physician, Dr. David Jamieson; shoes, W.E. Poaps; saw
mill, Hollister & Hartwell; tailor, Charles Duval; tinware, R.C..
Warner; undertaker & carriages, Wm. Conliff
Postmaster - I.F. Burton (general store)
Burton Brother’s General
Store and Post Office, ca. 1907.
2005 closed. The store became
Stewart’s General Store.
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ST. ANDREWS WEST
Population - 125 - 1905
Named after the church. The post office was called St. Andrew’s in 1830, with “West” being
added to distinguish it from St. Andrews East in Quebec. (pg. 341, Dictionary of Canadian Place
Names)
cheese manufacturer, Samuel Lawson; general store, W.L. Masterson; grocers, Mrs. H. Mckee,
William Rochon
Postmistress - Mrs. R. Masterson (confectionary)
Masterson’s post office and confectionary, with Elizabeth and William Masterson
on the front steps, ca. 1900. The building was built in 1865.
Quinn’s Inn, 2005. Built as a hotel for John Sandfield Macdonald, the structure
has become a local “watering hole” once again.
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SANDRINGHAM - population 70 - 1905
cheese manufacturer, J. Sternberg; general store, D.D. Cameron
Postmaster - Alex Fraser
SANTA CRUZ
A casualty of the St. Lawrence Seaway.
STRATHMORE - rural post office
Postmaster - Donald McIntosh
TAYSIDE - rural post office
Postmaster - D.D. Bennett
WALES
Named in honour of the Prince of Wales
who visited it in 1860 when it was known
as “Dickinson’s Landing Station.” The
village was removed as part of the St.
Lawrence Seaway and Hydro Project to
form part of Ingleside.
Population - 400; 1954 - 210
barber, W. Thompson; blacksmith, Herman Market; butchers, Israel Gillard; general stores, W.S.
Bigelow, John Manning & Son, D.H. Meikle, F. Warren; hotel, James Connelley; jeweler, T..
Fetterly; livery, Gordon Fetterly; Molsons Bank, G.M. Whitney, manager; shoemaker, John
Alguire; wagon maker, Wales Cheese & Butter Manufacturing Co., G.E. Shaver, secretary; P.A.
Ferguson; wheelwright, L.J. Leland
Postmaster - J.D. Colquhoun (jeweler)
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WARINA - population - 85 - 1905
blacksmith, A. Stewart
Postmaster - Donald McRae
Pay slip for Hendry’s saw mill, Warina, 1889.
WOODLANDS - population - 30 - 1905
A casualty of the St. Lawrence Seaway.
blacksmith, George Gillard
Postmaster - R.H. Stewart
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