AND
WICKEDNESS
ROGUES RIVERS ROADS RAILWAYS
1815 – 1915
Volume VII OTTAWA VALLEY SERIES
LARRY D. COTTON
INTRODUCTION
LAWLESS OTTAWA VALLEY IN THE 1830’S
1. RAFTING ON THE OTTAWA RIVER
2. WILD AND DANGEROUS RIVER DRIVERS
3. “BLACK WATER” MEN AT CHAUDIERE FALLS
4. REIGN OF TERROR: OTTAWA VALLEY SHINER’S WAR
5. HE DIED WITH HIS BOOTS ON – BYE BYE BARNEY
6. NOTORIOUS SHINER MARTIN HENNESSEY
7. NOTORIOUS SHINER WALTER BECKWITH
8. MURDER OF LUMBERMAN DAVID MOORE
9. “BIG JOE” MONTFERRAND
HARVESTING TIMBER ON THE MADAWASKA RIVER
10. The Hastings Highlands
11. The York River: Communities and Lumbering
12. CONROY FARM
13. White Water Men’s Graveyard – Madawaska River
14. Voices From The Grave
COMBERMERE VILLAGE
15. Dead Man Saves Three Lives
“VANISHED VILLAGE 0F CRAIGMONT”
PALMER RAPIDS
16. Mysterious Death At Snake Rapids
SLATE FALLS aka “ROGUES HARBOUR”
HIGH FALLS
CALABOGIE
17. Lawlessmess In The Calabogie Area
18. House of “Ill-Repute”
19. Murder of “WiId Bob” Ferguson
20. Fighting River Drivers & Railway Nawies
SPRINGTOWN (BAGOT POST OFFICE)
21. Stopping Places Along The “Long Rapids Road”
VILLAGE 0F BURNSTOWN
22. Burnstown’s Grist Mill, Brewery & Distillery
WHITE LAKE & WABA
23. Legend of the Lost Wedding Whiskey
24. Battle of Pakenham 1838
25. Laird O’MacNab Loses McNab Township
TOWN 0F ARNPRIOR
26. Businesses and Shanty Men Harrassed by Shiners
27. Arrival of Brockville and Ottawa Railway
SAND POINT
28. Sea Serpent Encounters Chatts Lake
“WHISKEY ROAD”
29. Gould’s Wharf and Wagon Road
30. Devastating Bush Fires
ROSS TOWNSHIP – COBDEN
31 . Stalked by Muskrat Lake Sea Serpent
FORESTER’S FALLS
WESTMEATH TOWNSHIP
BEACHBURG
WESTMEATH
Battle of Black River
Bush Fires
THE BONNECHERE RIVER VALLEY
32. Bonnechere Point
33. Renfrew County Serial Killer
THE OPEONGO ROAD
34. Colonization Roads
35. Teaming Supplies to Lumber Depots
36. Stagecoach Travel
VILLAGE OF RENFREW
37. A Pioneer Society Begins to Mature
38. Maintaining Law and Order
39. Renfrew Fair
40. Gunplay at the Circus
41. Fire … Fire … Everywhere
OSCEOLA
42. Murderous Events Along Old Opeongo Road
ADMASTON TOWNSHIP
“GHOST TOWNS” OF THE OPEONGO LINE
43. Mc Dougall
44. Ferguslea H
45. Shamrock
46. Dacre
47. Balaclava
48. Mt. St. Patrick
49. Esmonde
50. Newfoundout
51. Clonfarf & Vanbrugh
52. Admaston Mills
53. Fourth Chute
54. Cedar Rapids
55. Rockingham
56. Brudenell
57. Letterkenny
58. Quadeville
59. Foymount
66. HopeField
61. “Old Killaloe”
MILLING VILLAGES ON THE UPPER BONNECHERE
62. DOUGLAS
63. VILLAGE 0F EGANVILLE
LUMBERING ON THE “LITTLE BONNECHERE”
64. Depot Farms in Algonquin Park
65. Bonnechere Tote Road
66. Basin Depot
GOLD RUSH: FRONTENAC ADDINGTON RENFREW COUNTIES
Maintaining Law & Order: Formation of Mounted Police
BUILDING A RAILWAY THROUGH ALGONQUIN PARK
67. Railway Construction Through Renfrew and Admaston
68. Rebellion of Residents Against Railway
69. Establishing Killaloe Station
76. Golden Lake
71. Battle oi Wilno Pass
72. Fatal Dynamite Explosion
THE SETTLEMENT 0F THE MADAWASKA VALLEY
73. Kashubians
74. Polish Immigrants
WILNO
BARRY’S BAY
EARLY LUMBERING AT MADAWASKA
MADAWASKA
WHITNEY
BARK LAKE
CONSTRUCTION OF KINGSTON 8 PEMBROKE RAILWAY
75. Railway Construction Calabogie to Renfrew
76. Fight Between River Drivers and Railway Navvies
PEMBROKE: OTTAWA VALLEY “LUMBER KING”
77. Taverns Necessary Evil to Some Residents 1
78. Upper Town
79. Dr. Francis Codd
80. Lawless Times
PETAWAWA
81. The Deadly Petawawa River
82. Destructive Influence of Whiskey
CHALK RIVER
83. Pembroke to Mattawa Road
84. Fight to the Death With Raveneous Wolf
85. Frontier Justice
DEEP RIVER
1. Renfrew County location map
2. Map of Chaudiere Falls area 1828
3. Fighting Irish “Shiner Stick Men”
4. “Big Joe” Montferrand portrait
5. “Squaring” a timber
6. Batson lumber depot hotel 8 general store
7. Conroy Rapids depot York River
8. Oxen working on skidway
9. “Whispering” graveyards
10. “Hudson House” in Combermere
11. Patrick 0’Brien’s Hotel at Combermere
12. Snake Rapids/Slate Falls on Madawaska River
13. Ghost Town of Craigmont
14. “Moran House”
15. “Legris House” in Calabogie
16. “Wild Bob” Ferguson “white water man”
17. James Wilson lumberman 2
18. Springtown Halliday Creek
19. Tavern of David Moore
20. David Moore
21. Edward McCrea “Madawaska Hotel”
22. “Madawaska Hotel”
23. Burnstown Road
24. Burnstown grist mill o¥ George Rochester
25. David Leckie’s tavern at “Madawaska Bridge”
26. White Lake Inn
27. Waba – Stewart’s sawmill
28. McNab Township residents’ petition 1840
29. Arnprior Town site for sale 1842
30. Scene of Madawaska River mouth 1855
31. Dan McLachlin lumberman
32. Arnprior mills on Madawaska River
33. Sand Point – “Jimmie” Young’s hotel
34. Sand Point waterfront
35. Gould’s Road – Ottawa River to Cobden
36. Beachburg “Union Hotel”
37. Oxen hauling square timber Beachburg
38. Edward Gervais keeping bar
39. Bonnechere Point hotels Horton Township
40. Opeongo Road – Ottawa River to Renfrew
41. Opeongo Road – Farrells Landing to Opeongo Lake
42. Notice of timber slide tolls – Bonnechere River 1831
43. Picture o£ timber slide
44. Tender call for church construction Renfrewville
45. Smith’s Creek
46. Renfrew grist mill ruins
47. Raglan Street in Town of Renfrew 1870
48. “Albion Hotel”
49. Second Chute on Bonnechere River
50. Log jam at Second Chute
51. Spring log drive on Bonnechere below Renfrew
52. Kingston & Pembroke Railway station (missing)
53. Map of railway lines in central Renfrew County 1900
54. Northcote general store
55. McDougall hamlet Admaston Township
56. Communities of the Opeongo 8 Bonnechere Roads
57. McDougall blacksmith shop
58. McDougall general store
59. Admaston cheese factory
60. Ferguslea hamlet on Cpeongo Road
61. Panoramic view of Ferguslea
62. “Opeongo Hotel” in Ferguslea
63. Abandoned blacksmith shop at Ferguslea
64. “Bonnechere Cheese Factory” at Ferguslea
65. Irish “ghost town” of Shamrock
66. Charles Hudson’s large brick hotel ca.1875
67. O’Gorman’s old log tavern and general store
68 Map of “Upper Dacre”
69. “Ontario House” in Dacre
70. Briscoe’s Hotel in Dacre
71. “Dacre Hotel” beside Constan Creek in “Lower Dacre”
72. Map of Balaclava `
73. Balaclava grist mill
74. Feedstore; general store; hotel in Balaclava
75. Derelict Eeedstore and general store in Balaclava
76. Map of Constan Creek
77. Esmonde Charles Raycra£t’s tavern
78. Newfoundout derelict buildings
79. Sebastopol Township hamlets Clontari 8 Vanbrugh
80. St. John’s Lutheran Church at Vanbrugh
81. Xavier Plaunt’s “Mountain View Hotel”
82. “Bonnchere Hotel” Admaston Mills on Bonnechere River
83. “Fourth Chute” aka Bonnechere Caves 1878
84. Robert Merrick grist mill
85. Former hotel at Fourth Chute
86. Bonnchere River “white water men” driving logs
87. Cedar Rapids
88. Stopping place along the Opeongo Road
89. Founder of Rockingham John Watson
90. Panoramic view of Rockingham
91. “Rockingham Hotel” of George Jeffries
92. Addington Colonization Road
93. Team of oxen hauling beer on Opeongo Road
94. Stagecoach stop in Brudenell at Thomas Costello’s hotel
95. Abandoned general store in Brudenell
96. Madigan’s Hotel” in Quadeville
97. Derelict general store in Quadeville
98. Hopefield Daley’s stopping place
99. “Old Killaloe”
100. Douglas steam grist mill on Bonnechere River
101. Descripton of John Egan’s lumbering activity
102. Grist mill description in 1851 “Egansville”
103. Foy’s Hotel in Eganville
104. “Ottawa House” in Eganville
105. Furlong’s Hotel
106. Tramore Foy’s Hotel
107. Charles Thomas tavern on Golden Lake
108. Depot farms along “Little Bonnechere River”
109. Tote Road along “Little Bonnechere River”
110. Charles Lafleur’s tavern
111. Sligo stopping place
112. Basin Depot log cabin
113. McGuey’s stopping place
114. Mounted police patrol “Gold District” Renfrew County
115. German immigrant’s first home in Sebastopol Twp.
116. “Killaloe Station” main street ca.1900
117. A steam driven work train on Booth’s railway line
118. Golden Lake
119. Barroom “Golden Lake Hotel”
120. Hauling timber down a skidway to the “log dump”
121. Spectacular pine forest in Petawawa River watershed
122. Amphibious “alligator” on Petawawa River
123. Railway construction crew Wilno Pass
124. Wilno train station
125. Locomotive passing through Wilno Pass
126. “Exchange Hotel” in Wilno
127. Daniel McLaughlin established lumber depot Barry’s Bay
128. “Blueberry Hotel”
129. “Balmoral Hotel”
130. Railway hotel Barry’s Bay
131. “Deer Skin” Conway
132. Collection area ‘ior logs waiting for river drive
133. Map of Egan Estate location
134. Railway navvies working rock cut
135. Temporary camp of railway navvies
136. Supply routes to lumber depots Nipissing District
137. Clearing railway right-oE~way
138. Timber trestle
139. J.R. Booth lumberman 8 railway builder
140. Raft of square timber at Quebec
141. A “drogher” schooner loading square timber
142. James Skead lumberman
143. Bark Lake general store & post office
144. Maintenance crew on Kingston & Pembroke Railways
145. Kingston 8 Pembroke locomotive “Iron Duke”
146. K & P causeway across Grassy Narrows Calabogie Lake
147. Several separate settlements combined to form Pembroke
148. Old Campbelltown tavern
149. David Dunlop’s tavern built in 1836.
150. Peter White Pembroke businessman
151. John Supple’s tavern
152. “Copeland l-lotel”
153. Pembroke Constable Dan Dufiy
154. Petawawa Point
155. “White water men” driving logs Petawawa River
156. Log iam Petawawa River
157. “Pine Tree Hotel” on Petawawa Point ca.1915
158. Fort William hotel `
159. “Railway Hotel” Chalk River
160. Moses Roberts tavern on Balmer’s Bay
161. Stewart’s stopping place Des Joachims
162. “Des Joachims Hotel”