New Books 2024
Pink's Cmetery
Hull Township
(Gatineau), Quebec
New Books 2023
Morewood Cemeteries
Winchester Twp
Dundas County, Ontario
St. John�s Anglican Cemetery, Eganville
Renfrew County, Ontario
Sacred Ground
Volume Two
United Empire Loyalist
Two Caledonia Township Cemeteries
Prescott County, Ontario
St. Mary's R.C. Cemetery
Almonte, Ontario
St. Paul's Anglican Cemetery
Almonte, Ontario
St. Isidore RC Cemetery
Kanata, Ontario
1906 Old Boys' Reunion
Stormont, Dundas & Glengarry Counties, Ontario
Highland Line Cemetery
Dalhousie Township
Lanark County, Ontario
Crawford Cemetery
Dalhousie Township
Lanark County, Ontario
Denny Cemetery
Bastard Township
Leeds County, Ontario
Upper Canada
Naturalization Registers
1828-1850
Ontario
Documenting Your
Canadian Infantry Ancestors
WWI & WWII �
Marriage Records
1831-1842
Johnstown District
Upper Canada/Ontario
St Augustine Cemetery
Beckwith Twp, Ontario
How WRIGHT You Are
Eastern Ontario & beyond
Dewar Cemetery
Ashton, Ontario
Early Ottawa Valley Records
Eastern Ontario & Western Quebec
Kennedy Cemetery
Ashton, Ontario
Prospect United Church Cemetery
Lanark County, Ontario
CAMERON Family
Stormont County, Ontario
The MATTICE Family
Stormont County, Ontario
The WALDORF Families
Stormont County, Ontario
Documenting Your
Canadian
North-West Rebellion Ancestor (1885)
Ontario Municipal Records, Beginner's Guide
Municipal Records in Ontario, History & Guide
(Detailed)
Documenting Your
Canadian
Boer War Ancestor
1899-1902
Atlas & Cyclopedia
of Ireland, 1900
Documenting Your
Canadian
Nile Expedition Ancestor
1884-1885
New Books 2022
The BENNETT FAMILY
Pioneer genealogy
Lanark County, Ontario
St. John's Cemetery
South March
Carleton County, Ontario
Documenting Your
Canadian Airforce Ancestors
WWI & WWII
Wardens of Renfrew
1861-1989
Renfrew County, Ontario
Leinster to Lanark
Irish settlers to
Lanark County, Ontario
Documenting Your
Canadian Navy Ancestors
WWI & WWII
Documenting Your
Canadian Ancestor in
Spanish Civil War
Diary of Deaths
1838-1866
Glengarry County, Ontario
The Brevity 1838-1866
Tythes, Masses & Notes
Roman Catholic
Glengarry County, Ontario
In Search of the
Red Dragon
The Welsh in Canada
Valley Irish
Ottawa Valley
In Search of Lanark
Lanark County, Ontario
In Search of the K & P
Story of the Kingston & Pembroke Railway
Eastern Ontario
The Loyalists of Massachusetts
(American Revolution - UEL)
St Mary's Roman Catholic Cemetery, Beckwith Township/Carleton Place
Lanark County, Ontario
Documenting Canadian Military Personnel Who Were Prisoners of War During World War One or World War Two
Searching for
Your Ancestor's
War of 1812 Records
(back in print)
The Kerry Chain
The Limerick Link
(Irish settlers to
Renfrew County, Ontario)
Invisible Women
(of Eastern Ontario)
Founding Families of Beckwith Township
1816-1846
(Lanark County, Ontario)
Pakenham Township, in which Pakenham is the only village, is said to have been named for Sir Edward Michael Pakenham, a brother-in-law of the Duke of Wellington. Pakenham, Ottawa valley Village 1823-1860, opens with a brief outline of the geology of the area, and described the formations of rock laid down by the three invasions of the sea that advanced thus far up the Ottawa Valley. It delineates the borders of
the Canadian Shield and of the Ottawa - St. Lawrence Lowland within Pakenham Township. Then follows a description of the early inhabitants of the area - the Archaic peoples, and the historic Indian tribes encountered by the early European explorers. The book continues by describing the various groups of immigrants, including those brought out by the Honorable Peter Robinson, and the difficulties encountered by these early pioneers in a township deeply penetrated by the Canadian Shield and heavily wooded with pine. It deals in some detail with the different religious groups that were formed in the area; with the establishment of local governments and school systems; and with the growth of the typical village, relying on the interdependence of the principal industries, lumbering and farming. It describes the timber trade on the Mississippi; traced the career of Andrew Dickson, father of Pakenham Village; and ends with the visit of the Prince of Wales in 1860.
This second volume picks up the story at 1860 and carries it forward to the turn of the Century. This was a period of profound
change. Lumbering gradually declined in importance, while farming became the principal occupation of the area. Home industries were superseded by factories powered by waterfalls along the Mississippi. Society changed from a state of relative brutality to
one of increasing sophistication; and from a classless structure, where all men were equal in their dependence upon their neighbors,
to one of distinct social strata. There were now small farmers, tradespeople, factory workers, domestics, and farm helpers. At the�
other end of the scale were the wealthier landowners and merchants, mill operators, timber barons, and professionals-clergymen,
doctors, teachers, and lawyers. 
