Arnprior & McNab/Braeside Archives

Date

1869-1875

Format

textual records

Collection/Fonds

McLachlin Bros. fonds

Description Level

Item

Series

2003-0164-1-1

Physical Description

1 bound ledger: 200 pages; 21 x 33 cm

Scope and Content

This book was used to record the quantity of lumber shipped and to which destination for each cutting year. According to this book, the McLachlin Bros. shipped lumber to W.L Proctor and Shepard Hall in Ogdensburg, and Isaac P. Wetmore in Oswego, all in New York State.

Access Restriction

Use digital copy only. Archivist permission required to access originals.

Accession No.

2003-0164

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Date

1903

Format

photographic

Collection/Fonds

Charles Macnamara fonds

Description Level

Item

Series

10

Reference No.

9

Physical Description

glass plate negative and print

Acquisition Source

Archives of Ontario C 120-3, former item number C 120-3-0-0-9

Scope and Content

Loading Canadian Pacific freight cars at McLachlin Bros. lumber yard, Arnprior, Ontario. The man in the white shirt and hat has been identified as John Murphy, and the boy seated on the right as Ed Murphy by family members.

Accession No.

2002-0154

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Date

1938 - 1940

Format

photographic

Collection/Fonds

Gillies Family fonds

Description Level

Item

Reproduction Location

Binder 5A P0508

Scope and Content

One of two photographs of winter scenes showing sleighs, horses and logs.

Accession No.

1995-0060

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Date

31 Jan 1955

Format

photographic

Collection/Fonds

Gillies Family fonds

Description Level

Item

Reproduction Location

Binder 5B P0556

Scope and Content

One of two photographs on page. Top photograph shows grader Joe [Hogan] on top of pile of cut lumber.

Accession No.

1995-0060

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Date

unknown

Format

photographic

Collection/Fonds

Gillies Family fonds

Description Level

Item

Reproduction Location

Binder 5B P0590

Scope and Content

One of two photographs on page of lumber piles located on both side of train tracks.

Accession No.

1995-0060

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Date

unknown

Format

photographic

Collection/Fonds

Gillies Family fonds

Description Level

Item

Reproduction Location

Binder 5B P0591

Scope and Content

One of two photographs on page of lumber piles located on both side of train tracks. Photograph on right is taken from ground level.

Accession No.

1995-0060

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Date

unknown.

Format

photographic

Collection/Fonds

Gillies Family fonds

Description Level

Item

Reproduction Location

Binder 5A P0500

Scope and Content

One of two photographs on page of Gillies camp [in spring].

Accession No.

1995-0060

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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

Caption reads "Stock-gang with press roll raised to change saws. These rolls, operated by compressed air, can exert a pressure of many thousand pounds or may be instantly raised by the touch of a lever. Safety catches hold the roll in its raised position, protecting the saw [operator] from accident while changing the saw."

Accession No.

1999-0117

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Date

1940c

Format

photographic

Collection/Fonds

Gillies Family fonds

Description Level

Item

Reproduction Location

Binder 5 P0619

Scope and Content

Photograph shows men in the bush loading logs onto a sled. Description of operation on the reverse is "Loading logs with a 'side jammer' a derrick affair arranged with blocks & cables. Two 'pigs feet" on end of a crotch chain are hooked into ends of logs and log is then hauled up by a team on cable and log is placed by the top loader or "sky piece." Men who hold ropes attached to "pigs feet" are "bull rope men". They hook the clouts into log & keep it from sconingping??. Two other men keep logs "tailed down' handy??"

Accession No.

1995-0060

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Date

1938 - 1940

Format

photographic

Collection/Fonds

Gillies Family fonds

Description Level

Item

Reproduction Location

Binder 5A P0508

Scope and Content

One of two photographs of winter scenes showing sleighs, horses and logs.

Accession No.

1995-0060

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Date

1903

Format

photographic

Collection/Fonds

Charles Macnamara fonds

Description Level

Item

Series

10

Reference No.

132

Physical Description

glass plate negative

Acquisition Source

Archives of Ontario C 120-3, former item number C 120-3-0-0-132

Scope and Content

Loading logs from rollway to be drawn onto the ice

Accession No.

2002-0154

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Date

1901

Format

photographic

Collection/Fonds

Charles Macnamara fonds

Description Level

Item

Series

10

Creator

Charles Macnamara

Physical Description

1 photograph : b&w

Scope and Content

Photograph of a Gillies Bros. timber gang. Caption reads, "There were a good many [Indigenous people] in this gang. The square timber trade was on the decline at this time (1901) and a few years later (about 1908) the last raft passed down the Ottawa.

Accession No.

2002-0154

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Date

c1910

Format

photographic

Collection/Fonds

Braeside Women's Institute fonds

Description Level

Item

Physical Description

1 photograph : b&w ; 14 cm x 8.5 cm

Scope and Content

Photograph found on Page 21 of Book 1 of the Braeside WI Tweedsmuirs. The photograph shows a view of the Braeside lumber yards from the hill above, with two buildings in the foreground.

Accession No.

1993-0007

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Format

photographic

Collection/Fonds

Charles Macnamara fonds

Description Level

Item

Series

2.2

Creator

Charles Macnamara

Physical Description

1 photograph : b&w ; 9 x 11.8 cm

Scope and Content

Photograph showing a pile of lumber.

Notes

Little Pictures

Accession No.

2002-0154

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Date

unknown

Format

photographic

Collection/Fonds

Gillies Family fonds

Description Level

Item

Reproduction Location

Binder 5 P0603

Scope and Content

Tall stacks of lumber along railway line.

Accession No.

1995-0060

Less detail

Date

unknown

Format

photographic

Collection/Fonds

Gillies Family fonds

Description Level

Item

Reproduction Location

Binder 5C P0607

Scope and Content

Notes on technique on reverse.

Accession No.

1995-0060

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Date

1959c

Format

photographic

Collection/Fonds

Gillies Family fonds

Description Level

Item

Reproduction Location

Binder 5C P0636

Scope and Content

Photograph shows a four wheeler at work in lumber yard.

Accession No.

1995-0060

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Date

1910c

Format

photographic

Collection/Fonds

Peter Hessel collection

Description Level

Item

Fonds No.

0021

Series

1

Subseries

LUM

Reference No.

0

Reproduction Location

Binder 6A P0731

Scope and Content

Lumbermen pose for photograph outside log buildings.

Accession No.

1994-0021

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Date

c. 1924

Format

photographic

Collection/Fonds

Daniel McLachlin (Texas) fonds

Description Level

Item

Physical Description

1 photograph: b&w; 15 cm x 20 cm

Scope and Content

Caption reads "General view of the lumber yard where over a hundred million feet of lumber is piled waiting for shipment.

Accession No.

1999-0117

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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

Caption reads "Front view of the big Johnson stock-gang. This machine has a capacity of one hundred thousand feet per nine hour day and saws up the smaller logs. The feed-in rolls are independently driven by a Dake engine controlled by the lever in the right hand of the operator. The logs are slabbed by a pair of twin circulars."

Accession No.

1999-0117

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