An Exceptionally Curious Girl Sails Alone. Not many 15-year-old girls nowadays would voluntarily leave their families in 1891, travel across an ocean by ship and settle in a new country away from friends and family. When she was 15, she set off alone aboard the Allen Liner to begin a new life as a domestic READ MORE
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MALLOY, John and Catherine Dorrion Malloy
John Malloy and Catherine Dorrion Malloy settled in Westmeath in 1865. Sons John, Connelly, Daniel and James were part of the Malloy-McFadden Lumber Company [c.1890-1925]. Brothers and spouses buried at RC Cemetery in Pembroke, John and Catherine buried at La Passe The Malloy property at Westmeath was at the Ottawa River end of Malloy Road and in later decades would READ MORE
MOORE, William and Margaret Bowes Moore
William Moore and Margaret Bowes were well settled when William Logan, conducted his 1845 Survey of the Upper Ottawa Valley. Their homestead was to the west of Bellows Bay on the south shore of Lower Allumette Lake, a widening in the Ottawa River. Logan noted in his journal: Saturday 6 September 1845: “Sunshine broke out after a few showers READ MORE