McKellar History Page 2
Photos courtesy of Evelyn Moore
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School built in 1884 showing wooden sidewalk and board fence going up from road.
McKellar as you enter from the south.
[note the lumber, slab piles and the mill]
Soldiers training during the first world war. A part of the Agriculture Hall was used as an Armory.
Grandview Lodge when it was owned by Peggie Higgs. Home was built by Maurice Marsden and later owned by Jack Moore. The building up on the right is the Orange Hall around which Wilfred Crawford built his apartment house.
The Mill yard prior to 1926
Logs in a pile before going to the mill
Home built by John Armstrong and later owned by Charles and Beatrice[Patterson] Harris. Shown is the Charles and Babe Hurd family and Grandma Patterson.
The John Armstrong home. The Charlie Harris family. Sarah[McKeown] Watkins is beside Sonny Harris who is standing on the right.
Armstrong Boarding House. It was a Temperance Hotel
Armstrongs' logging camp
Thompson & Ludgate mill purchased from Armstrongs who had built it about 1872 and ran it under S&J Armstrong. It was bought in 1919 by Robert Harvey who ran it a number of years. Later his son Bernard went in with him.
PO Box 69, 701 Highway 124
McKellar, Ontario P0G 1C0
Phone: (705) 389-2842 Fax: (705) 389-1244
Hours: Monday - Friday 8:30am - 4:30pm
