Arnprior & McNab/Braeside Archives

Date

1939

Format

photographic

Collection/Fonds

Gillies Family fonds

Description Level

Item

Reproduction Location

Binder 5A P0492

Scope and Content

One of three photographs show log piles on river.

Accession No.

1995-0060

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Date

1939

Format

photographic

Collection/Fonds

Gillies Family fonds

Description Level

Item

Reproduction Location

Binder 5A P0492

Scope and Content

One of three photographs show log piles on river.

Accession No.

1995-0060

Less detail

Date

1902c

Format

photographic

Collection/Fonds

Clay Bank Women’s Institute fonds

Description Level

Item

Reproduction Location

Binder 2A P0136

Scope and Content

Caption reads, “This was taken in 1902 on the Madawaska River at the pier of the old bridge near John Young’s farm. It was the Spring Drive.” Photograph shows men standing on square timber log jam.

Accession No.

1993-0008

Less detail

Date

1938

Format

photographic

Collection/Fonds

Gillies Family fonds

Description Level

Item

Reproduction Location

Binder 5A P0514

Scope and Content

One of two photographs on page. Right caption reads “Drive boats shipped back up”, shows dozens of wooden pointer boats loaded on railway flat cars.

Accession No.

1995-0060

Less detail

Date

1939

Format

photographic

Collection/Fonds

Gillies Family fonds

Description Level

Item

Reproduction Location

Binder 5A P0516

Scope and Content

One of two photographs show “Typical Side Pier on the Petawawa River and a “ Dam made by loggers for flood control, Petawawa 1939”.

Accession No.

1995-0060

Less detail

Date

unknown

Format

photographic

Collection/Fonds

Gillies Family fonds

Description Level

Item

Reproduction Location

Binder 5A P0517

Scope and Content

One of two photographs of Petawawa River. Photograph on right shows log pile in winter. Caption reads, “Spring Camp log dump 1/2 mile above Perly March”.

Accession No.

1995-0060

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Date

ca. 1907

Format

photographic

Collection/Fonds

Handford Studio collection

Description Level

Item

Series

5

Creator

A.L. Handford

Scope and Content

Textile mill on the Bonnechere River in Renfrew. This is from box 1890s-1940s.

Accession No.

2008-0233

Less detail

Date

c1925

Format

photographic

Collection/Fonds

Arnprior District Museum Collection

Description Level

Item

Reference No.

87.32.5

Physical Description

1 photograph : b&w ; 25 cm x 20 cm

Scope and Content

Photograph shows three unidentified women, two unidentified men and one unidentified baby posing in front of a car. Photograph is by Handford Studio of Renfrew

Accession No.

1993-0005

Less detail

Date

1925c

Format

photographic

Collection/Fonds

Handford Studio collection

Description Level

Item

Series

9.2

Creator

A.L. Handford

Physical Description

positive of scanned negative

Scope and Content

Bathers at the public beach on the Bonnechere River at Renfrew, upstream from the dam and Stewart Street.

Accession No.

2008-0233

Less detail

Date

1909c

Format

photographic

Collection/Fonds

Gillies Family fonds

Description Level

Item

Reproduction Location

Binder 5A P0476

Scope and Content

Detail of larger photograph. Shows square timber raft at J.R. Booth’s Timber Mill below parliament buildings.

Accession No.

1995-0060

Less detail

Date

1908

Format

photographic

Collection/Fonds

Charles Macnamara fonds

Description Level

Item

Series

10

Reference No.

18

Physical Description

glass plate negative and print

Acquisition Source

Archives of Ontario C 120-3, former item number C 120-3-0-0-18

Scope and Content

New dredge on the Ottawa River.

Accession No.

2002-0154

Less detail

Date

1904

Format

photographic

Collection/Fonds

Charles Macnamara fonds

Description Level

Item

Series

10

Reference No.

C 120-2-0-0-133

Physical Description

celluloid negative and print

Acquisition Source

Archives of Ontario C 120-2

Scope and Content

Spring break-up on the road to Marshall's Bay.

Accession No.

2002-0154

Name Access

Spring

Roads

Less detail

Date

1902

Format

photographic

Collection/Fonds

Charles Macnamara fonds

Description Level

Item

Series

10

Reference No.

146

Physical Description

celluloid negative and print

Acquisition Source

Archives of Ontario C 120-2, former item number C 120-2-0-0-146

Scope and Content

Logs piled on ice awaiting spring break-up at Black River.

Landmark

Black River Depot, Lake Travers

Accession No.

2002-0154

Name Access

Lumber Industry

Logs

Winter

Snow

Less detail

Format

textual records

Collection/Fonds

Peter Hessel collection

Description Level

File

Fonds No.

0021

Series

1

Subseries

DIA

Scope and Content

1. Clipping of newspaper article by Bernie Bedore, Arnprior Guide, Jan. 12, 1966 (continuation). Key terms: Alpha Spring, Measurement Engineering Ltd., Peaceful Valley.

2. Clipping of newspaper article by Bernie Bedore, Arnprior Guide, Jan. 5, 1966, entitled “Diamond Park Spring”. Other key terms: Canadian Civil Defence College, Bill Beattie, John A. MacDonald (former editor of an Arnprior paper and founder of the health spa), hotels, Sanitaris water.

3. Photocopy of handwritten notes about Diamond Park Spring — in Pakenham Township (is this correct?) According to this, the area is now flooded (below the Tom Havey farm). Transcribed from notes by R.A. Stewart.

4. Photocopy of photo from Arnprior Anniversary Booklet 1987, showing parents of Muriel Saunders: Mr. and Mrs. W.G. Beattie, who owned and operated Diamond Park Springs Hotel in the 1900s. It was near the present Havey farm.

5. Event Sheet referring to article in Chronicle of April 18, 1930, page 2 “This week in 1898”: Diamond Park Mineral Water Co.

6. Newspaper Clipping from Renfrew Mercury looking back at November 26 1936 when Louis Macnamara sold the business to "an Ottawa man". The spring was known as Watson's springs at one time.

7. Clipping of newspaper article by Leo Lavoie, Arnprior Chroncile, Dec 12 1984 with photograph by Mary Graham; "Famous Springs water still flows into Madawaska River".

Related Material

See also 2001-0143 Bernard Bedore Fonds.

Accession No.

1994 0021

Less detail

Date

1914c-1918c

Format

photographic

Collection/Fonds

Arnprior District Museum Collection

Description Level

Item

Reproduction Location

Binder 1A P0050

Scope and Content

Photograph of unidentified nurses pictured off-duty.

Accession No.

1993-0005

Less detail

Format

textual records

Collection/Fonds

Peter Hessel collection

Description Level

File

Fonds No.

0021

Series

1

Subseries

SCH1

Scope and Content

1. Clipping from Ottawa Citizen, Sep. 8, 1996, of article, “Dogs, cats lived in filth with family” about a situation where 3 people (2 brothers and their sister) lived on Scheel Drive with 54 dogs and 4 cats in conditions condemned by public health and animal authorities. Animal control. Dogs and cats. Health. Humane Society.

Accession No.

1994-0021

Less detail

Date

ca. 1902

Format

photographic

Collection/Fonds

Daniel McLachlin (Texas) fonds

Description Level

Item

Creator

Charles Macnamara

Physical Description

1 photograph : b&w

Scope and Content

Photograph from "Life in the Lumbercamps of McLachlin Brothers Arnprior, Ontario" by Charles Macnamara. Photograph shows a drive boat, often called "bonnes."

Notes

Photocopies of original available in Reading Room.

Accession No.

1999-0117

Less detail

Date

c. 1924

Format

photographic

Collection/Fonds

Daniel McLachlin (Texas) fonds

Description Level

Item

Physical Description

1 photograph: b&w; 16.5 cm x 12 cm

Scope and Content

Close-up of one of the friction drives under the sorting tables. thes drives permit the various sections of chain to be stopped or started at will.

Accession No.

1999-0117

Less detail

Date

1904

Format

photographic

Collection/Fonds

Charles Macnamara fonds

Description Level

Item

Series

10

Reference No.

29

Physical Description

glass plate negative and print

Acquisition Source

Archives of Ontario C 120-3, former item number C 120-3-0-0-29

Scope and Content

Alligator tug "Madawaska" on the Ottawa River.

Accession No.

2002-0154

Less detail

Date

1920c

Format

photographic

Collection/Fonds

Handford Studio collection

Description Level

Item

Series

9.2

Creator

A.L. Handford

Physical Description

positive of scanned negative

Scope and Content

Four children gathering flowers below a wooden bridge.

Accession No.

2008-0233

Less detail