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Miscellaneous Articles About
Renfrew

 

Schools of Renfrew

 

Articles by Various People of
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Detailed Table of Contents

 
Renfrew
History of Renfrew continued
1851
McDougall Sawmill
Renfrew 1858

OUTSTANDING CITIZENS OF RENFREW
Lt. Christopher James Bell R.N.
John Lorn McDougall
A.A. Wright
A.A. Wright’s Trip on the early K & P
John Smith
INDUSTRIES
Renfrew‘s Hydro
Waterworks
Renfrew Refrigeration Company

Renfrew Village Incorporated in 1858
Renfrew’s First Town Council
Renfrew in the 1850s
More About Renfrew’s first Council and Town Plan
A New Lodge Room
Renfrew in the Sixties
Renfrew in the 1880s
Renfrew’s Main Street
Renfrew’s First Election
Renfrew’s Civic Progress

PIONEERS OF RENFREW
John Lorn McDougall
Sir Francis Hincks8
Xavier Plaunt
More on Xavier Plaunt0

WILLIAM GROVES completes CENTURY OF YEARS 1920
Story of Life of DAVID BARR
WILLIAM MUIR, 88 years old Sunday 1957

SKETCHES of the COUNTY of RENFREW
The Village of RENFREW
Homes built in Renfrew 1820 1935
The Town in the Hills by Charlotte Whitton

STORES on Renfrew’s Main Street
Dean Store
Central Meat Store to Dominion Stores
Dominion Stores
Guest Hardware to Lorne Scott Hardware
A & P Store
Morrison Ladies Wear
Public Garage
Very Old Building undergoing repairs (Chown)
Muir’s China Hall
Jamieson’s Meat Co.
New Bakery and Confectionery
Bank of British North America
L’Hotel du Canada (Gravelle’s Hotel)
The Grand Masonic Hall
Agricultural Hall and Cheese Factory
New Cabinet Factory
Beamish Stores
CPR Ticket Office
Marcus Hecht retires
Hager’s Men’s and Boy’s Clothing and Footwear
Anna Lee Shop
Jack Snow Jewellers
Bellvue Finance Corporation
Canadian Oil Company station
Cotie Brothers Sales and Service
Cassidy Mens Clothing
Holden Grocery Store
Debeau’s Flower and Gift Shop
Scott Hardware & Leeney’s Grocery and Meat Store
Valley Electric Company
Wallace Jewelers
The Mill Store – Ottawa Valley Grains – Martin Russell sawmill
Renfrew Bottling Works
Stewart Bros.
R.A. Beamish Stores
P.D. Stewart Massey-Harris Block
Jamieson Meat Co.
O’Connor and Vice
Ottawa House – Scott Hardware

STORES OF THE MAIN STREET OF RENFREW 1912 to 1915
Miscellaneous Information about Renfrew’s Main Street
The O’Brien Theatre
Renfrew Steam Laundry
Mysterious Fire at H. Coolican house
Halpenny’s Public Hall
Smith and Ward’s Foundry
Smith Rooming House – J.D. McDonald – Addison residences
Smith Grist Mill
Fraser’s Men’s Wear
L.J. Fraser articles
John M. Ferguson’s Ladies Emporium
Jamieson’s Tailor Shop
The Bank of British North America
M.B. McIntyre Cheese Factory
Joseph Gravelle’s Public Hall

Property Changes – Renfrew Land Co. – Dewey-Murphy – Stafford –
Steele – Dickie – Foy – Mackwood – Budd – Dale – Low
Post Office Addition
Croskery Grocery Store
Drysdale – Mel Barr
Barnet Block – Beamish Stores
Thos. Williams Plumbing – D.S. McKinnon Laundry
Renfrew Home Bakery
Clinton Holden – James Best – Thos. Pierunek Apartments

Mayor D.W. Stewart looks back
Renfrew Machinery Company – Old Smith Grist Mill
Charles Stinson – Whitton Store
Phil Bolger story
Supertest Station – United Church
Jamieson versus Renfrew
William Halpenny’s Store
Albert G. Preen story
Wilfred Godin story
Dominion Stores – Hugh MacDonald stand
Fraser’s Store
The Freiman Store
The Exchange Hotel articles
The British Hotel – McColl-Frontenac Oil Co.
The Dominion House
– Raglan, Coumbes, Hall traffic intersection
– fire
– changes of ownership – S.S. Delaney
The Albion House
Hotel Renfrew
RENFREW RINK HISTORY
The Ladies of Hockey
Renfrew Creamery
The Munitions Plant
Energite Explosives Co.
Shell Factory Destroyed by Fire
Renfrew Power Development

Cemetery Notes
Roman Catholic Cemetery (C.K. Grigg)
Renfrew Public Cemetery (Thompson)
Martin Cemetery (Whitton Road) – with stone inscriptions
Roman Catholic Cemetery (Whitton Road) – with stone inscriptions
Renfrew Public Cemetery (Thomsonville)
Hillcrest Cemetery (Calabogie)

Bank of Montreal – William McKay residence
The Mechanics Institute
Board of Health

MISCELLANEOUS INFORMATION ABOUT CHANGES IN THE TOWN OF RENFREW
Electric Power metered
Thacker Garage
Cows and Fences Law

THE CARSWELL HOUSE
Essay on Renfrew
Bonnechere Hotel – Clear Point outbuildings
Letter from a Winnipeg Resident
Balaclava Sawmill
The Opeongo Road
The Addington Road
The Hastings Road
Castleford Residents – Before Confederation
The Story of S.S. No. 4 Horton (Champlain School)
List of Voters for the Township of Horton 1876,1877,1878 & 1879
List of Voters for the Township of Brougham 1876
Horton Township – An Enumerator’s Viewpoint

RENFREW’s SWINGING BRIDGE