The Origins and Early History of carp Village


by Dr. Bruce Elliott,

cover art by Marjorie Clayson


Cover photo


When asked to give a talk at the Annual Dinner of the Huntley Township Historical Society in May, 1994, Dr. Bruce Elliott, Professor of History at Carleton University, suggested that he present some of his research on the origins of Carp. This proved to be one of the most fascinating stories that has been related to the Society and was greatly appreciated and enjoyed by those present. At the time, several people suggested that the research be published and Professor Elliott volunteered to put the story together and give it to the Society. This volume is the result.

We are indebted to Dr. Elliott for working with the Society over a long period in order to publish this volume. Thanks are also due to Roger Thomas for scanning and enhancing the photographs and drawing the maps, and to Ruth Kirkpatrick of DocuLink International for preparing the final layout. We are also grateful to the Ministry of Tourism, Culture and Recreation of Ontario and to the former Township of West Carleton for providing funds to assist with the costs of publication.


Anne Cameron, President

Carp, January 2003



Bruce. S. Elliott

obtained his BA in Canadian History at Carleton University, his MA in English Local History, at University of Leicester, England and his Ph.D. in Canadian History at Carleton University. Presently he holds the position of Professor and Graduate Supervisor, Department of History, Carleton University. He is also the Director of the Centre for the History of Migration, an organized research unit in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences. Its purpose is to advance and facilitate scholarship on eighteenth- and nineteenth-century migration and settlement, and on later immigration from the British Isles, within a Canadian context, at Carleton University. His research interests include English emigration to Canada in the century following the Conquest (1760-1860); Irish Protestant immigration, emigrant letters and the gravestones and gravestone carvers of Prince Edward Island.

Marjorie Clayson

has always sketched and painted. When young, she took courses at the Leeds College of Art in England and worked as a medical photographer. Now, painting is all for fun and for occasional showing with like-minded friends. The cover of this book was generated from a water colour painting by Marjorie Clayson. The painting derived from this water colour is displayed in the Carp branch of the Ottawa Public Library.


TABLE OF CONTENTS


Introduction . . . . . . . . . . 1
Location, location, location . . . . . . . . . . 5
Richard Kidd and the Village of Newtown . . . . . . . . . . 15
Carp in the 1860s . . . . . . . . . . 25
The Great Fire and the Coming of Industry . . . . . . . . . . 31
The Railway and Renewed Growth . . . . . . . . . . 43
The Village in 1901 . . . . . . . . . . 51
References . . . . . . . . . . 59
Index . . . . . . . . . . 71



INDEX



Admaston Township 12
Albert Hall 38
Almonte 66
Andrews, Alex 53
Argue, John E. 45, 67
Argue, T. E. store 36, 47, 54, 56
Argyllshire 62
Arnprior 5, 18, 53
Atkinson, William 32, 37, 38
Baker 51
Baldwin, Robert 16
Bank 10
Bank of Ottawa 43, 46
Barber 51, 53
Barrister 40
Beechwood Cemetery 9
Bell, William Nicholson 38
Bells Corners 32
Besea, Ohio 26
Bingley, Chartes 51
Blacksmith 7, 9, 25-27
Blanchard, Daniel 32
Booth, J. R. 43
Boucher, William 61
Boyce, George W. 32
Bradley 63
British Hotel 26, 64
Brown, T. A. 51, 55
Brown, Thomas 9, 25
Brunswick 15
Budd, Thomas 9, 25, 61
Butler, Benjamin D. 26
Butler, Ben Jr. 27
Butler, Catherine 27
Butler, John B. 26, 27
Butler, William Henry 27
Butler Hotel 26
Bytown 5, 8, 64
Cabinetmaker 64
Campbell 16
Campbell, Lieut. Donald 7, 15
Campbell’s Bay 15, 62
Canada Atlantic Railway 43
Carleton House 26, 41, 51
Carlow, County 16
Carp Pharmacy 46
Carp Review 45, 46
Carp Road 16
Carp Star 43, 45, 53, 63
Carpenter 25
Carriages 53
Carruthers 47
Carruthers John 38
Castlefrank 16
Cavanagh, Denis 5, 8
Cavanagh, John 8
Central Canada Exhibition Association 40
Chaudiere Bridge 9
Cheese factory 32
Christ Church 7, 31, 59, 65
Church of Scotland 31, 65
Church Street 11, 15, 53
Clergymen 51
Clerk 25, 27
Colbert 15
Cole, W. A. 46
Conservative Party 40
Corbett 15
Cork 15
Cornwall House 9, 43, 51, 55, 56
Cumberland 10


Dalghity 47
Davis 53
Delahunt 15
Derry, County 10
Doctor 40
Dolan 60
Dolan, Anthony 8, 10, 18, 31, 32
Dooley, Robert 26
Dooley, William, Jr. 20, 25, 26, 41, 51
Dooley, William, Sr. 16, 18, 20
Dooley Hotel 16, 21, 41
Down, County 12
Downpatrick 12
Drug store 47
Elizabethtown 32
Evoy, William 61


Fair 18, 63, 65
Farmer 9
Fermanagh County 8, 11
Fetherston, Jane 12
Fetherston William John 12, 27, 31, 62, 64
Fire 56, 68
Fire fighter 43
Fitzroy Harbour 1
Fitzroy Township 12, 16, 27, 32
Flour mill 38, 46, 51, 53, 58
Foresters 51
Franktown 16
Fraser, Simon 19
French Canadian 57
Gavazzi riots 9
Golden Lake 61
Goodwin, John 11, 12
Goulbourn Township 15, 26
Graham, John 7
Great Fire 1870 31
Green, John 26, 64
Grain elevator 45
Grand Trunk Railway 42, 43
Grist mill 32, 37
Hamilton, John 25, 26, 64
Harnessmaker (see also Saddler) 25, 57, 69
Hazeldean 11, 015, 26, 40
Hodgins, Elizabeth 16
Hodgins, John 16, 53
Hodgins, Mary Ann 16
Hodgins, Willie T. 15, 18, 21, 25, 40
Hodgins, “Governor” William 12, 15, 22, 26, 31, 38, 63
Holmes’ Corners 5, 31
Hopper, Arthur 5, 59
Horner, Rev Ralph 43
Hornerite 43, 69
Hotel (see also names of hotels) 9, 25, 27, 51, 64
Hubbell’s Falls 27
Huntley Corners 5, 31, 33
Inns (see also names of inns) 25
Innkeeper 9, 20
Insurance agent 53
Irvinestone 9, 11
Jeweler 53
Jury, Thomas 7
Justice of the Peace 40
Kemptville 5, 18
Kidd 65
Kidd, Edward 32
Kidd, G. Nelson 26, 39, 40, 45, 46, 51
Kidd, Mary Ann 21, 26, 38, 40, 63, 67
Kidd, Richard 2, 12, 15-18, 21, 22, 25, 26, 28, 31, 38, 40, 51, 63
Kidd, Thomas Albert 40
Kidd, Vida 45
Kidd, William John 40, 45, 53
Kidd Block 46, 47, 51
Kingston Collegiate Institute 40
Labourer 25, 51
Lanark County 16
Law 62
Law, William 11, 12, 18, 21, 25, 27
Law firms, lawyer 53
Leeds County 32
Lewisville 5
Litchfield 15
Little 38, 60
Little, James 9, 18, 55
Little, Robert 60
Lowry 60
Lowry, George 10
Lowry, James 8, 10
Lucas, Glenn 32, 65
Lumber, lumbering, lumber camps 12, 15, 38
Lynchke, Patrick 57
Magherafelt 10, 61
Maidservants 25
Main Street 18, 21, 25, 45, 58
Manotick 1
March Township 21
Mawhinney, Bella 38
Mawhinney, Samuel 10, 18, 38
May, William 8, 9, 11
May, George 9, 60
McBride, Henry 5, 25, 27
McCord Block 51
McElroy 38, 53, 54
McLean, Hector 63
Medical 51
Memorial Hall 10, 36, 47, 56
Merchant 25, 67
Methodist 25, 31, 32, 38, 43, 69
Methodist church 7, 68
Milford, Robert 27, 65
Mill 62
Miller 32
Millions, R. A. 43
Modreeny, Parish 21, 26
Montreal 9
Moore, J. H. 67
Moore, William 25, 27
Morrison, F. H. 67
Motherinny 21, 26
Nebraska 32
Nepean Township 16, 32, 38, 51
Newton, Edmond 57, 69
Newton, Elias 69
Newtown 15, 18, 19
Newtown Inn 21
North Gower 32
Old Arnprior Highway 5
Old Carp Road 5
Old Ottawa Road 5, 38
Old Union Cemetery 15
O’Neil, John 32
Orange Hall, Lodge 7, 18, 31, 32, 35, 40, 63
Orangemen 51
Ottawa 9, 18, 26, 38, 53
Ottawa, Arnprior and Parry Sound Railway 43, 45
Pakenham 5, 18, 32, 64
Pakenham Roller Mills 53
Patrons of Industry 40
Paul 6
Paul, James 10, 38, 61
Pembroke 5, 10, 18
Pender 53
Perth 1, 32
Photographer 43, 53, 68
Postmaster 26
Poyner, William 25, 26
Poyner Hotel 26
Presbyterian Church 7, 31
Presbyterian Cemetery 65
Protestant 57
Quebec 12 Railway 51, 53, 67, 68
Railway section hands 51, 57
Rectory 11, 31
Reeve 40
Renfrew County 11
Richard, Joseph 57
Richardson 15
Richey, Josias 5
Richmond 1, 5, 18, 26, 27, 38
Rishaur, Joseph 57, 69
Rivington, Catherine 27
Rivington, George 45
Rivington, Thomas 45
Rivington, William 43, 45, 46, 57, 67
Roberts, John 64
Roman Catholic 57
Russell 26
Saddler, Saddlery (see also harnessmaker) 47, 69
School house 65
St Andrews Church 31, 33
St James Church 35, 54, 65
St Paul’s Church 65
Sandy Hill 9
Scharf, Pittman 69
School 7
School master 8, 10
Scotland 62
SS # 3 32, 34, 60
Sherwood, Francis 25, 62, 64
Shoemaker, shoeshop 7, 8, 10, 11, 18, 21, 25, 61
Simpson, Rev Mr 60
Simpson, Ensign Joseph 7
Simpson, William 8, 10
Smith Falls 53
South March 5, 11
Sparks 16
Spearman 15
Stanley 15
Stean, Charles Johnston 67
Stitts Corner 5
Stittsville 26
Stoney Acre 26
Store (see also Argue, T. E.) 12, 18, 25, 27, 59, 64, 66
Store keeper 15, 51
Surveyor 53
Swan Pub 10
Syrian pedlar 53
Tailor 25, 27
Tanner, tannery 7, 26, 27
Tavern 7, 10, 18
Taylor, Thomas 60
Telegraph office 51
Temperance Society 51
Tinsmith 53, 57, 69
Tipperary 16
Tipperary, North 15, 21
Tombstone cutters 53
Torbolton Township 12
Town hall 31, 32, 35, 38
Undertaker 53
United Cemetery 31
Vance, Irwin 11, 18, 21, 25
Veterinarian 57
Villeneuves 57
Waggonmaker 25, 27
Wall 15
Warehouse 12
Washerwoman 27, 53
Watchmaker 51
Watt’s Creek 18
Weatherley, William 53
Wesleyan 32
Wilberforce Township 10, 61
Young 15