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1904 Diary
Period covered: January 1, 1904 - December 31, 1904
Dimensions: 14.35 cm X 7.3 cm (l x w)
No. of Pages: 180
Note: The diary contains a page where the diarist has recorded
some Notes and Bills Receivable for the year of 1904.
January Friday 1: At 11 am, drove team [(Hays’)] to Hyd [Hydraulic] Lock
& down to Burnetts work at locks. Very cold. In afternoon paid about 20 calls. Harry & George
and Frank Burnham & Claude R. with me. Went over
to club at 11 pm for while. Very few calling today.
Very cold. Mina not well but Mina got up this
pm.
January Saturday 2: Office. Drove to Hyd locks at 11 am, office in pm.
We had a [---] party on hill in evening and went
up to Maria’s in evening as Mina was not well & is in bed. It went
off very well. Very cold day.
January Sunday 3: Harry & I went for walk in pm. Very cold. Harry
went back to McGill at midnight tonight after a fortnights
holidays. Lillian sick in bed. Very cold.
January Monday 4: Municipal elections. First election
of United Municipalities of Ashburnham & Peterboro. Looked after
voting in am and 3-5. St. Railway agreement carried by 525. Office 5-6. At night
met Kilbourn JM at ‘Oriental’. Very cold day.
January Tuesday 5: Very cold. Office. Went
to Hyd Lock today.
January Wednesday 6: Went over to Hyd lock in am to see result of cutting
out cracks in towers & also up to dredge. Office
all day & Service & choir practice at night. Milder.
January Thursday 7: Went to Hyd L in am to see result of cutting out
cracks. Was satisfactory. Met
some of Farmers Institutue men there & showed them around.
Went up to dredge in pm & to office. Leah
got home from Hospital this afternoon. Office.
January Friday 8: Office. Drove to Bob’n [Bobcaygeon] with Gordon, Geroux
drove. Stayed at WT Boyds. Mild
& wet snow.
January Saturday 9: Went over x sections & plans re Little Bob’n
Channel with WTB & drove to Little Bob’n. Went over work of lock with Gordon
& Grant, also instructed Gordon to have boulders removed from Lower
Entrance. Drove to Fenelon Falls & home. Supper at Lindsay. Colder.
January Sunday 10: Cold & fine.
January Monday 11: Office.
January Tuesday 12: Arr’d in Ottawa this am re
claim of Larkin & Sangster. Went over claim with
CS & Hansard. Went to lunch with C.S. Went off to Montreal
at 4:25 & attended council meeting of CSCE [Canadian Society of Civil
Engineers] & left again at 10:10. Did not see Harry.
January Wednesday 13: At Ottawa. Had meeting with Larkin & Sangster
& Belcourt re claims on Sec. 2 S & B. Settled most of items. Hon.
Harty saw Kilbourn re leasing power etc at Heely’s Falls.
Spent evening at Mr. Mothersills.
January Thursday 14: At Ottawa. Stayed over re completion of L &
Sangster claim & partly in Heeley’s Falls
matter.
January Friday 15: At Ottawa. Arranging Heely’s Falls
matter. Kilbourn heard at night that he was likely to be called to Senate
so he decided to go to Toronto & get out papers
for company. Stayed over re Heely’s Falls matter
to get everything settled.
January Saturday 16: Stayed over today in Ottawa to see that matters
in connection with Heeley’s Falls matter were
arranged satisfactorily.
January Sunday 17: Arrived home from Ottawa at 7 am.
January Monday 18: Office all day.
January Tuesday 19: Coldest night of the season 28 below. Roys photo gallery was burnt last night. Office all day going
over claim of Brown, [Love] & Alymer for Sec. No. 1 P & L [Peterborough
& Lakefield].
January Wednesday 20: Office in am. Went to Campbellford in pm.
Drove down to see Mulholland re going on with Heely’s Falls development.
Drove up along river. Mulholland came up on train
& Kilbourn & Mulholland & I had talk in my office re development
at Heeley’s &c. See Notes.
January Thursday 21: Office. Went to meeting of Conservation
Asso'n. Good meeting. Dinner at ‘Oriental’.
After McCallum [brot] up figures of wheels re Heeley’s Falls & Kilbourn
& I went over them. Drove to Lak’d [Lakefield] with Kilbourn
& W Boyd. Went to 'at home' with A. L. Davis'. Very
nice.
January Friday 22: Busy till 11 working at home at Heeley’s Falls Development.
Office. Went to dinner at Snowden
house with W'm Boyd. Office. Rained at night.
January Saturday 23: At home most of day working at Heely’s Falls
plans. Office. Went to dredge at Cereal Works.
At 5 went up to Cereal dam & up to see Mr.
Francis who had a syncope last night. Colder.
January Sunday 24: Very cold. Went for walk with Kathleen, called in
to see Francis. At night went over to see Mr. Kilbourn re Heely’s. He
is on his way to Kingston.
January Monday 25: Left at 2:05 for Montreal via GTRy. At Belleville
called to see Mrs. Parker. Got off at Kingston. Kilbourn went this am to K. [Kingston]. Met
Electric Coy. there & after went in
to Montreal at 2:30 train 4 hours late.
January Tuesday 26: At Montreal to attend Annual Meeting CSCE. Lunch
at rooms. Dinner at Prof. [---]. Meeting at
night. Very cold & blustering.
January Wednesday 27: Went out to see shop of CPRy & Locomotive works.
Cold & deep snow. Dinner
at night. Responded to toast of visiting
brothers. Went off very well.
January Thursday 28: Ballots declared. Was elected
Member of Council & Member of Nominating Committee. Harry &
I went to lunch with Prof. McLeod. Harry, Edith Burnham & Miss Mudge
came to 5 o’clock tea. Went to St. James Club, to dinner with Prof Owens
& after to meeting in rooms.
January Friday 29: Went up to college with Harry. Left Montreal at 9:40 for Ottawa. Went to Dept. CS said he could not go over BL & A claim
till tomorrow. Went with [Bond] (Soo) & Kilbourn
to see Sir Henry Irving in ‘Merchant of Venice’. Was
not terribly impressed. Went out to see Cement
Works.
January Saturday 30: Went to Dept. & went over part of claim with
CS & Hansard of BL & A in am. Did not take it up in pm. Went
to lunch with CS. Walked out to see brick works with Kilbourn.
Left for home at night.
January Sunday 31: Arr’d home from Ottawa. Kilbourn
with me. Drove team to Lak’d [Lakefield] in pm. K- & Fair with
me. Snowing.
February Monday 1: Went to Campbellford with Kilbourn. Met Mulholland
by appt. and went over items of Mill paper with view of purchasing. Spent
all day going over items & stayed with them over night. Had a little
dance at Mrs. [---] house. Cold.
February Tuesday 2: At Camp’d continued going over matters all day. At
night went to Sunday school tea with the Mulhollands & home at night
. Train 2 ½ hrs late. Cold snowing & blowing.
February Wednesday 3: Office 10:30 to 6, 8-9:30. Went to my first meeting (Inaugural) of the United School Boards of
Town & Village. Went to see drilling at Cereal
Works. Very cold.
February Thursday 4: Office till 4. Called to see H. Burnett & walked
down to see work at Dam. Home at night & at Pecks.
February Friday 5: Office all day. Willie Boyd called at 2 pm on his
way to Toronto. Spoke to him about angle of channel at L P & Bob’n
Ry crossing. Home at night. Milder.
February Saturday 6: Went to Lakefield on train. Met
team of men going to Y’s Pt. [Young's Point] with material to start lock.
Called at Y’s Pt. where we are to start work on Monday next. Drove on
up to lot & saw men at work. Went to School Bd. meeting. Office 9-10:30. Rain & sleet [---]. Milder.
February Sunday 7: Rain in am but turned very windy & cold at night
. Terrible day.
February Monday 8: Office till 2:30. Went to funeral of J. Maniece. Drove over to Locks to examine
Burnet’s work & work at Lock gates. Went to School
Bd. meeting at night. Bro’t up matter of Illustrated Lectures &
committee was appointed, of which I am one, to interview Minister of Education.
Very cold.
February Tuesday 9: Office all day. Very cold.
February Wednesday 10: Office all day & service & choir practice
at night. Very cold.
February Thursday 11: Office till 4:15. Went to curl
for first time this season. Had a few in for card party
at night. Cold.
February Friday 12: Was at fire at cereal works all morning. Two upper
flats burnt in mill part. Office in pm. Alymer called at office &
was in among draughtsmen & I had to call him down for going in there.
February Saturday 13: Drove to Lak’d & exam’d dams & booms along
& at Y’s Pt. Went onto Cottage & saw men at work. Raw
day. George & Lillian & Leah with me today.
February Sunday 14: Milder. Snow & blowing at night.
Ry’s blocked.
February Monday 15: Office all day. Home at night.
very cold & wind at night.
February Tuesday 16: Office.
February Wednesday 17: Office. Went to service & after spoke to choir
& was very much put out. Decided to leave choir
first opportunity.
February Thursday 18: Office. Drove down to locks to
visit Burnett’s work. Wm. F. Bay had me
to tea.
February Friday 19: Office.
February Saturday 20: Busy getting ready for my lecture tonight. [---]
home all day. Read lecture on Pulp Industry of Canada at YMCA.
About 75 there. Went off very well.
February Sunday 21: Showers of rain.
February Monday 22: Office all day. WT Boyd called & went over new
plan of Little Bob with him. Went to School Bd. Meeting. Mild & fine.
First real fine mild day since November.
February Tuesday 23. Office.
February Wednesday 24: Office. I got WT Boyd & A
Stevenson, RM Dennistoun & went to GM Rogers office to talk over matter
of forming Business Men’s Association to push Trent Canal. Adjourned
till tomorrow.
February Thursday 25th: Office. Had a meeting re formation
of Businessmen’s Assoc’n & I drafted a letter that was adopted &
sent to 9 businessmen calling meeting for March 3rd.
February [Note: the words ‘Thursday 25’ and ‘Office’ have been crossed
out.]
February Friday 26: Office.
February Saturday 27: Office.
February Sunday 28: Went to Masonic Funeral of C. Cameron. Walked
in procession. Went around to locks. Mild.
First real mild day since November.
February Monday 29: Office. Went to Belleville and gave my Illustrated
lecture on Water Transportation & the T. Canal in City Hall. Fair
number there & went off very well.
D Gilmour made a rambling speech. A regular blizzard (worst of season)
started at 5. Had quite a night of it at hotel. Trains all blocked.
March Tuesday 1: Trains blocked on Junction. Went to
Pt. Hope & found Midland Ry blocked so had to stay there all night.
Called on Symonds' & W. Ward. Went
to musical party at H. Wards.
March Wednesday 2: Office. Walked around by locks dam.
Very mild & soft walking.
March Thursday 3: Rain, then turned very cold &
snow storm. Office.
March Friday 4: Arr’d in Ottawa in am re claim of H. Burnet, Contractor
for Dam at Locks. CS said he could not advance any more money & that
we were to [take] over the work.
March Saturday 5: At Dept. Tried to get Burnet home but he would not
come. He was drunk when he saw CS this am. Started for
home at 11:30 am.
J. Fairbairn with [me] on train.
March Sunday 6: Home. Walked around by locks dam.
March Monday 7: Office all day. Went to School Bd. meeting & after
to Town Council Chamber to [urge] in Council to pass bylaw to submit to
people to build a new Collegiate Institute.
March Tuesday 8: Arr’d in Montreal. At CSCE room till
noon. Harry at breakfast with me. Called
on Dr. Symonds & down town in afternoon, called in J. Badgley, B [---]. Tea at Mrs. Grants
& meeting of Council of CSC Eng’s. Went
to Windsor Hotel. Mild.
March Wednesday 9: Left Montreal for Ottawa at 8:45. Harry
at station. At Dept. in pm. but CS could not go into claim of B.L.
& Alymer.
March Thursday 10: At discussion of claim of Brown, [Love] & Alymer
before CS all day. At hotel night. Very cold at night.
March Friday 11: At meeting before CS re claims of Brown [Love] &
Alymer & finished about one. In afternoon at Dept. House of Commons
opened this afternoon. Went down to supper with CW Ross & after started
for home. Very cold at night. Beautiful
day.
March Saturday 12: Arr’d home from Ottawa. W. Boyd called in with E.B.
Edwards, met re crossing of Ry on Little Bob’n. Went
down to Dam. Took work of building dam out of Burnet’s hands &
put large gang on this am. [Lannen] as foreman. Office in pm. Met
Stevenson & Dennistoun re evidence for Commission. Called to see Hall
RR at night re dams.
March Sunday 13: Walked down to dam at locks & met foreman re progress
of work. Fine but cold.
March Monday 14: R.R. Hall called & we went over draft for transferrance
of reservoir dams from Ont. Gv't to Dom. Gv't. Drove (with G) to locks
dam. Large force of men on. Frank & H Burnet
called this am & discussed taking over work on dam. (See notes) Work
at office 9-11. Cold.
March Tuesday 15: Office till 4:30. Got horse, was going to locks but
found [---] at Town Hall Ashburnham, was not right for Lantern so had
to get it fixed. Ran lantern for Rev. [H--] lecture
on London, Eng. Fine.
March Wednesday 16: Went to Trenton. Saw Gilmour & Co.y
(Wedell) re: preparing plans for dams. Met Mulholland
at Belleville on way home. Talked re Paper Co’y [Company].
At Peterboro, met Kilbourn 10:30 to 11:30 pm.
Train 11/2 [hr.] late. Beautiful day. Very cold at night.
March Thursday 17: Office.
March Friday 18: Office.
March Saturday 19: Office.
March Sunday 20: Walked out with Lillian to Prices. Drove
in.
March Monday 21: Office.
March Tuesday 22: Went to Lak’d on train & drove to Park. Pd.
men 25.00 each. Went up on ice. Getting
on satisfactorily.
March Wednesday 23: Office all day.
March Thursday 24: At office with Capt. Vanalstine all am preparing his
statement as to cost of [barge] navigation. Attended
meeting of Transportation Commission all pm, a good number of delegates
all along line here. See notes.
March Friday 25: At Transportation Commission all day. Gave
evidence tonight. Dinner & Supper at Oriental.
At night had McLaren, Gilmour & Kilbourn in office.
Evidence given very satisfactorily.
March Saturday 26: Drove with Gordon to locks dam. Burnetts coffer dam
filled. Office all day except with Kilbourn 1:30. Walked
to station with him. Office 9:[50]-11:30.
Fine with snow flurries.
[No entry March 27]
March Monday 28: Office. Drove to locks dam to inspect. At night went
to School Bd. meeting - after 9pm - by appointment met Kilbourn & Mulholland at Oriental re Campbellford
price. Discussed it till 12. Left
at midnight for Ottawa. Wm. Boyd on train.
March Tuesday 29: At Ottawa. Could not see CS very
much. Saw him for a moment re B. L. & A’s work but not long.
He said he would have me come down again soon.
March Wednesday 30: Office. Went to choir practice.
[No entry March 31]
April Friday 1: Office. Went to service at night.
April Saturday 2: Office. Went to choir practice.
April Sunday 3: Went for walk from Warsaw Rd. to Hyd. Lock. Easter
Sunday.
April Monday 4: Office. Went down to locks.
Went to School Bd. Meeting.
April Tuesday 5: Arr’d in Ottawa by app’t. Went over claims of B. L.
& Alymer with CS. Spent evening at Sir Sandford Fleming’s.
Left for Toronto.
April Wednesday 6: Came [thro’] from Ottawa to Toronto to attend Annual
meeting of Ontario Educational Ass’n. Was at University
all day. Rev. Bushel there also. Stayed at Rossin
House.
April Thursday 7: At Toronto. Rev Bushel & I went up to the University
to Ed. Ass’n meeting, had dinner there. Was going to speak on Illustrated
lectures but programme was so crowded did not. Went to Conversation at
night in U. Met Kingsmill & had drink with
him. Called to see A. White Commiss’r re lands Heely’s Falls.
April Friday 8: Left Toronto at 9:15 for home. Walked over to Hyd L &
drove with Gordon to locks. Office 4:30 till 6:15 going over Brown, L. & Alymer’s claims with Alymer & Edwards.
Office 9-10:30. Raining tonight.
April Saturday 9: Office till 1. Went to dredge at
Cereal Works at 3. Office 5:30. Drove with Gordon's horse to locks.
Water rising fast. Office 9:45
to 11:15. Showers & mild.
April Sunday 10: Went to locks in p.m.
April Monday 11: Office. Was at locks today, as water is rising fast
& coffer dam at locks stops water.
April Tuesday 12: Office. At locks trying to get lock
gates open. Got stop logs in front of gates. Drove to locks in
am & went to Lak’d on train at 1:30 & George drove team up &
met me there. Had inspectors opening up walls at side
of prism (Richardson & Rose). Left for Montreal at 12:35.
April Wednesday 13: Arr’d in Montreal. Called to see Harry & called
up H.A. Morrow by phone & made appointment with him for tonight to
discuss B.L. & A. claim. Harry & Morrow came to dinner with me
at Windsor. Left for Ottawa at 10 pm.
April Thursday 14: In Ottawa. Up with CS re claim of
Brown, [Love] & Alymer Sec. 1 P & L. See Notes. At night
went up to House & saw Lang. Mulholland
(Camp’l) also in town. Left for home at 11
pm.
April Friday 15; Arr’d home from Ottawa. Harry on same train
from Montreal from College. Office. Drove to locks to see dam in am with Gordon. Gates open &
all logs but two out. Office in pm & at night.
April Saturday 16: Drove team with Gordon to Lakefield & Yg’s Pt
& in to Burleigh. Called in to see men working at Park & paid
them. They finish tonight cutting cord wood & start on Monday by the day. Harry,
George & Heber stayed at Lak’d at houseboat. At office 8:30 to 11. Fine.
April Sunday 17: Harry & I walked to locks in pm. Fair & Waldheim
in after church. Cool.
April Monday 18: Office. At night called on R.R. Hall & had a long
talk on private position matters. He offered to do what he could to undo
harm he did to me. Went to CPR to meet Mulholland.
April Tuesday 19: Office. Walked to Hyd Lock in am.
An awful day. Snow 1½ deep. Cold
& windy. Edwards called & had a heated discussion re [stone]
patching in am & again in afternoon. There was a euchre party at house
at night.
April Wednesday 20: Office all day. Edwards again called re [stone] patching
and & tried to argue question again. Office 9-9:30. Mulholland in
town. Spent 2 hrs with Mulholland & [Farqu---] at
Oriental.
April Thursday 21: Went to Hy L in am till 11. Edwards in twice re claim
of B & A.
April Friday 22: Went to Kirkfield. Drove from G-- Met Dary there. [---]
seems all ok. Went to Hy L. Just starting to work.
Called at No. 1 & 2 locks. Called
Dary’s attention to [----] at point near Dam No. 3 instead of at back
on No. 3. Fine & warm.
April Saturday 23: At Hy Lock till 11:30. E.F. Smith called re lands
at Heelys Falls. W. Irwin also called [re: oil]. Edwards called in pm
& we had another set to re claim of B & A. Fine & milder.
April Sunday 24: Rev’d Langfeld home from Germany
& preached. Rainy. Maria, Edith & Rev’d
Langfeld at house to tea.
April Monday 25: Went to Lak’d on train & went over some items of
claims of B. L. & A. with Alymer & settled I think most of them.
Office 9-11:15. Fine.
April Tuesday 26: Left for Toronto & had interview with M. Latchford,
Minister Public works re Reservoir Dams transfer to Dominion Govt. Satisfactory.
R.R. Hall, [K-], D Gilmour & Hansard present. Was with Weddell at
night. Went out to tea to Ed’s. Stayed at the King
Edward.
April Wednesday 27: At Toronto. Waited for interview with Hon. G.A. Cox
but it was postponed. Left at 11
am for Niagara Falls, N.Y. Called on [H-----] re concrete blocks. Went over to Canadian Side at 5 p.m.
After tea went up & stayed with the McGarry’s.
April Thursday 28: At Niagara. Went over work in progress on the several developments which is wonderful. Left
Niagara at 2:30 for Toronto. Met Mr. Ward on train. Met
D. Gilmour at King Edward & went with him to McIntyre’s office to
tell McI of Reservoir dams transfer. Went
to call on Maynards & [G----] Left for home at 10
pm. Met Mr. Kilbourn on train.
April Friday 29: Went to Hyd Lock in am. Office in
pm & night. G.A. Pope called at 6 & met
him at night.
April Saturday 30: At Hyd Lock most of day and
at 8 pm. Office 9-11. Getting ice cut in gate recesses & getting ready
to let in some water in upper reach. Showery.
May Sunday 1: Frances called at noon & stayed to dinner. Went over to Hyd
Lock in pm with F. decided to put in balance of concrete floor in basin.
Wheeled to locks & saw Gordon & instructed him to hire men for
work at Hyd Lock.
May Monday 2: Left at midnight for Montreal with Harry who is going back
for Summer School at McGill. Went out to Dominion with Johnson & Murphy
& arranged to not start testing till next week. Looked
around for boarding house for Harry. Met Dr.
Symonds. Took Dr. Symonds room for Harry. Left for
Ottawa at 10:10 pm.
May Tuesday 3: At Ottawa re [---] item of [dry wall] at Lak’d re B. L.
& A. Had meeting with CS, Grant M.P. & Alymer. Had
hot time with Grant but CS held that it was only walls actually built
that he referred to. Left for home at 11
pm.
May Wednesday 4: Went to Hyd Lock at 6 am. Large gang Italians working night &
day since Monday am putting in balance of cement bottom upper level. At
Hyd L in pm. Office 9-10:30. Sent down B. L.
& A’s progress Est.
May Thursday 5: Walked to Hy L. - till 11. Drove
( [F----'s] horse) to office & fed him. Voting on
School (Collegiate) & Sugar beet Bylaws. First
carried. Got horse & drove to locks & Hyd L at 5:30 to
8. Office till 10:30. Fine & hot.
May Friday 6: Went to Campbellford with Kilbourn &
Butchart. Went over paper mill proposition & also drove along
river. Visited Coveny's site at Myersburg. Home at 7:30. Office. Alymer
called Frances & Gordon in office till 11pm.
May Saturday 7: Drove to Lak’d & took Empire for Y’s Pt. & Storey
L. Called in at my cottage & settled with Cummings for work up to
date. W. Irwin & family & my children with me.
Home at 7:30. Rev Langefeld called re choir matters. Office 9:30 to 11:30. Beautiful day. Hot.
May Sunday 8: Beautiful day. Went for walk with
Fair & to St. Paul’s church to hear PM Gordon. I left St. Lukes choir
today on acc't of changes in order &c & I [wanted] to sit with
family.
May Monday 9: Went to Kirkfield. Drove
to Hy Lock. Decided to take A. Sawers away for
a time to get over effects of drinking. Brot him to town &
went up to house with him. Office till 11.
May Tuesday 10: Went to Trenton via Bel’e. Saw Gilmour [Coy] re location for their dams being
placed in plans & approved. Drove to Stirling & exam’d river &
took photos. Brot Sawers with me today. Office at night.
May Wednesday 11: Went to Hyd lock & to locks.
Wheeled & went with George to buy trunk & boots. Left
at 2 for Hoards creek to examine site for proposed bridge across
[Wilson's] Is. Send Eason down in am to run
levels for them but nothing was done as they did not know where line was.
Drove with them to Camp’d & came home.
May Thursday 12: Drove team to Lak’d. George met me. Took Empire &
ran to Bob’n. Punched hole in Empire at Ys Pt & had to fix her at
Burleigh dock. George & I had to help men at Park fight fire which
they had set out. Arr'd Bob’n at 9. Stayed
[at] W Boyds. Fine.
May Friday 13: At Bob’n. Went over dam proposition with Wm. Boyd in am. Looked over works. Started home at 2 pm.
Drove in from Chemong. Office 5-6 & at Hyd Lock 7-8:30 Found
leak in basin. Office 9-11. Went to Hy at 11
pm again. Fine.
May Saturday 14: Went to Hyd Lock. Running
off water below coffer dam in order to get at leak. Office.
Busy getting things ready for George to start West.
Shopping at night. Rainy.
May Sunday 15: Services. Busy packing up George’s things all pm. Showry.
May Monday 16: Went to Hyd Lock. Started
men cutting out end of timber work under entrance pier to examine leak
thru cut off [hall].
May Tuesday 17: At Hyd lock. Office.
May Wednesday 18: At Hyd Lock in am. Office.
Drove to locks at 4 to see re scow which Water Lily was towing up, went
against dam & broke in two. JM Kilbourn spent evening in office together.
Talked re reply to [Culversill] & Camp’d. Rain at
night.
May Thursday 19: At Hyd lock till 11. Office.
Found leaks in cut offs at end of entrance piers
& filled them & put excavation back again. R.R. Hall called copy
of offer of Ontario Gov't for transfer.
May Friday 20: Went to Gamebridge & went over Sec. 3 with Dary &
Mathison. Found everything allright. I instructed Dary if dredging came
into disturbed foundation of entrance piers at L Simcoe, that piers were
to be moved in to get solid foundation. Home.
Office. Burnet called. Showry.
May Saturday 21: At office & Hyd lock most of day.
Let water into to [sic] reach again above Hyd Lock & when it reached
3 ft high showed leak again through drain at spring. Let water off again.
May Sunday 22: Went for walk with R Fair by Hyd Lock.
It rained in pm. Showry. Thunderstorms at night.
May Monday 23: Raised coffer dam above Hyd Lock & when water was
raised 3 feet, the leak showed itself thro’ drain at the spring &
took [------] [-----] it at stn 170 west side where drain had not been
taken out. At lock most of day.
May Tuesday 24: Drove to office & up to Park to
see presentation of New Colors to the 57th Batt. Gen’l Dundonald
inspected them. In pm drove to Hyd Lock. Gen’l
Dundonald & staff visited lock. Drove Stevens up
to golf links. Fire works at night. Beautiful day.
May Wednesday 25: Went to Hyd Lock. Men started
to dry out old stone drain thru’ which leak occurred. Office. At Hyd Lock at 6 pm. Fine. School Bd meeting re choosing
site for new Collegiate Inst decided upon.
May Thursday 26: Went to Lak’d on train & took
‘Empire’ for Stoney Lake Park. Saw men at Park. Dinner at Ys Pt. Drove home at 3-4. Leah,
Heber & T. Clementi & Gordon with me. Went
to Hyd Lock. Got leakage at drain fixed & let in water. Office
10:30. Went to Hyd Lock at 11
pm. All OK.
May Friday 27: Walked to Hyd Lock till 12. Water
full height in upper reach & no leaks for first time. Greatly
relieved. Office. Went up to dredge with Gordon to
lay out work at Cereal [Coy’s] raceway for continuing work. Went
to Hyd Lock 7:30 to 8. Office. Got telegraph from George from Enderby BC saying he
had miss[ed] W. Irwin & was dead broke. Fine.
May Saturday 28: Went to Kirkfield. Drove from
Lornville to K’d. Went to Hyd Lock & over 4th
Con. Line & over Sec. 3. Found everything O.K. Fine. Office.
Went to Hyd Lock at 11 pm.
May Sunday 29: Coughlin called me at 2 am
this am to say that there was a leak spring in basin above Hy Lock. Went
over & stayed till 8 & ran water off. Was at Lock most of day. Went to service
in am & pm. Rev Tucker preached in p.m. Fine.
May Monday 30: At Hy Lock most of day. Trying
to find leak & think we found it at back of silt pocket. Feel anxious
about basin above Lock. Fine. Had horse all pm at Lock. Drove
after tea to Mrs. Irwin’s who told us George had job at Enderby. Went
to School Bd.
May Tuesday 31: At Hyd Lock all am. Got leak
temporarily stopped & let water in again at 10. Was at Lock most of day. Went to Joint Meeting of School and
Council Committee re Site for Collegiate Institute. Went over to H Lock
at 11 pm.
June Wednesday 1: Water holding in Canal reach
above Hyd Lock.
[No entry June 2]
June Friday 3: At Hyd Lock most of day.
June Saturday 4: At Hyd Lock most of day. Have
been anxiously watching Canal reach all week for fear another leak would
occur but nothing so far.
June Sunday 5: Services. Wheeled up to Nassau & to tea at Mrs. Hamilton’s. Fine.
June Monday 6: At Hyd Lock most of day. Had
building Comtt’e Meeting at 3-5 & Board meeting at 8. Decided to purchase
Separate School ground for Institute. Office.
Fine.
June Tuesday 7: Left for Ottawa at 12:35 am. on
telegraph re Brown, L. & Alymer Final Est. Met E B Edwards there.
Chief said not to give them more than was built of dry wall. Went
up to House at night. Saw Lang & [Pater]. Fine.
June Wednesday 8: Arrd home from Ottawa. At Hyd Lock all day except 11-1
at office. Testing gate engines, found them geared too high & not
strong enough. Office 9:15
to 10:30. Pouring rain all day. Murphy left for M’l [Montreal] to have
gearing on gate engines changed. Run water out tonight to work at gate.
June Thursday 9: Went to Hyd Lock expecting to find water out low enough
to examine bottom of canal. It was not. Drove with Gordon
to Lakefield. Took Empire to Youngs Pt. Visited dredge & Spence. Went to Hyd Lock at night & office. Shower
this afternoon.
June Friday 10: Went to Hyd Lock & to office. Office
all p.m. School Bd. meeting 8-11. Fine.
June Saturday 11: Went to Norwood Rd. Bridge. Gave
instructions re putting next bank of canal in line. Office
in pm & at night. Fine & hot.
June Sunday 12: Wheeled to Lakefield & back.
June Monday 13: Walked to Hyd Lock in am & left at 8:25 for Kirkfield.
Drove from Lorneville. Visited 10th, Hyd Lock
& Sec 3. Very warm. Office.
[No entry June 14]
June Wednesday 15: Went to Hyd Lock. Office.
Went to Hyd Lock at 4. Drove to train with Gordon's
horse to meet Harry who came home from McGill Summer School. Took
some levels at new lot. Worked at plans all night.
June Thursday 16: Went over to Hyd Lock at 9. Drove
to Lakefield. Took cover off Houseboat. Harry
with me. Saw J Dunwoodie re levels below Dickson [Cy]
Mill. Water raised at No. 2 this week but no raise at mill. Drove
to Hy Lock at 5. Office. Fine.
June Friday 17: Drove to Lak'd & took Empire for Ys Pt. Visited Spence
& instructed him to stop work & come home.
June Saturday 18: Office. At Hyd Lock most of
day.
June Sunday 19: Went to St. Johns to depositing [sic] Old Colors of 57th.
June Monday 20: Drove to Lak’d in PM. Harry & Gordon with me. Harry stayed on Houseboat. At Hyd Lock & office in am.
June Tuesday 21: Drove (team) with Gordon to Lak’d & brot
Houseboat with Empire down to Warsaw Rd. Had difficulty at all locks getting thro’. First (my) trip thro’ canal. Office at night.
June Wednesday 22: Drove to Warsaw Rd. Getting it so it will operate.
Took Houseboat thro’ to [----] & left it there. Harry
painting &c. Office till 4:30. Called on Mayor. Drove to Hyd Lock & to Warsaw Rd. & to Houseboat. Office at night 11.
June Thursday 23: Got word that official opening of Hyd Lock was to be
on July 9th. WT Boyd here. Drove over to Hyd Lock & went to dinner with
him. Office.
June Friday 24: Drove to Hyd Lock & to Joint Committee
Meeting of Town & County Council & to funeral of Mrs. [Doupe]
in pm & to Committee Meeting again at 5. Drove Mina to Hyd Lock & to locks.
June Saturday 25: Drove to town. Went to Committee
Meeting at Mayors office re Official Opening. Drove to Houseboat
& there for afternoon. Drove to Hyd Lock & after tea to locks
with Gordon. Office. Very hot.
June Sunday 26: P. Johnson Mgr. Dom’n Bridge Co'y here. At 2 went to
hotel & got team & took him for a drive & over to Hyd Lock.
The gate chain had slipped off. Drove out to Chemong with Johnson, Murphy
& Francis & stayed to tea. Left at midnight for Ottawa. Very windy.
June Monday 27: Arr’d in Ottawa in am. Went with G.M.
Roger to see Minister re proposed visit to opening of Hyd Lock on 9th
prox. Was disappointed at decision to run up & back same day.
Came home at night.
June Tuesday 28: Arr'd home from Ottawa. Wheeled to
Hyd Lock at 7 am &
again at 9 am. Water out of reaches. Drove
to Hyd Lock & to locks.
June Wednesday 29: At office till 4:30. Drove to
locks with Gordon to examine coffer dam. Drove to Hyd
Lock & to Houseboat & to wharf. Took Water Lilly into entrance
of Lock No. 6 to see if navigable depth. Went to Committee
Meeting re Hyd Lock opening. Office. Showery tonight.
June Thursday 30: Drove to Hyd Lock & ordered the South part of CP
Ry siding, so that the spikes are taken out, to be levelled & graded
for road grading. W.T. Boyd in town. Went to G. McMillan’s
funeral & to office. Drove to Hyd Lock &
to locks after tea. Office. Fine.
July Friday 1: Wheeled over to Houseboat & worked there with Harry
& Armstrong all am. Drove team along river to Lak’d. Found McDonald
bagging at different dams & no men on dams. Called at Dredge at 3
Island - ran Empire on up to Y's Pt. & Park. Employed the "Stoney
Lake" for 9th. Home at 8. At
office till 10:30. Showry & very heavy at night.
July Saturday 2: Circus here. Took children in afternoon.
July Sunday 3: Walked up [to] Mrs. Hamilton’s with Harry for supper.
July Monday 4: Busy getting Houseboat & Hyd Lock ready for opening.
July Tuesday 5: At Hyd Lock &c.
July Wednesday 6: Arr’d Ottawa re preparations of estimates. Tried to
see Minister but could not. Left for home at night.
[No entry July 7 - July 8]
July Saturday 9: Took Houseboat Lotus down with ‘Empire’ to Hyd Lock
& made the first lockage thro’ Hyd Lock at 10 am. Busy till 11 getting
houseboat & hull of dredge ready for reception. Got dressed &
drove to CP Ry train to meet Ottawa party. Went to No.
5 lock. Lunch & down on stm'r ‘Stoney Lake’ & Empress which
made the official opening of the Hyd Lock. (See further notes in book.)
July Sunday 10: Walked over to Hyd Lock. Warm. Church. Slept
in pm. Walked to Hyd Lock. Ch. Orangemen at St Lukes. Very
hot.
July Monday 11: Drove to Hyd Lock - bank in an awful
condition from rain & crowds. Office. Drove to Nassau re water regulation. School Bd meeting. Office
10:30 to 11:15.
Fine & hot - This am Drove Ed & Emily
to CPR station. Saw GA Cox re my speaking to Minister.
July Tuesday 12: Terrible downpour of rain till 10. Drove
to Hyd Lock & to town. Office. Drove
to town office & to Hyd Lock & up to Nassau. Office.
July Wednesday 13: Office. Drove along line with Gordon to Lak’d. Gave
new lockmasters instructions. After tea took
Houseboat up to Bay. Tried to raise guard gate. Dickson Co'y came
for more water at Buckhorn. Gave them order.
Office. Left for Ottawa
midnight.
July Thursday 14: Arr'd in Ottawa for passing of estimates in House.
They were not reached so had to stay. Walked down with
Col. S. Hughes at night to station. He said that he had spoken
to Minister about me & my connection with Hyd Lock.
July Friday 15: At Ottawa. Was in House most of afternoon & night. Trent Canal was up & it was great day for T.C. Both
parties vied with each other in saying nice things about it. Minister
spoke very nicely of me. Walked down from House with Minister & by
app’t to meet him tomorrow am. Very
hot.
July Saturday 16: At Ottawa. Met Minister by appt. re complaints. He
was very nice and said he would call me in when necessary. Left
for home at 11:30 am. Drove to cottage, arr’d there at 12:30 pm.
July Sunday 17: At Cottage. Drove down at 8. Harry with me.
[No entry July 18]]
July Tuesday 19: Office. Went to Kirkfield at 5:30
pm.
July Wednesday 20: At Kirkfield. Drove over Con. X
work & over back road & down 4th Con’n. Eldon
Rd. Dary met me at 4th. Went over Sec 3.
Met Alymer at Entrance L. Simcoe. Very
Hot.
July Thursday 21: Office.
July Friday 22: Office. Met Am’n Engineers Col. Symons, Corthell, EA
Bond & 3 ladies at GT Ry. Drove them around till 7. Arranged
to take them down river but boat failed to come. Spent
evening at hotel.
July Saturday 23: Took 2 hacks & drove party of Am. Engineers to
Hyd Lock & showed them over & drove on to Lak’d. Took Empire to
Burleigh & Mr. Boyd sent ‘Calumet’ to Burleigh to meet us. Ran to
Lindsay & took train for home & they went on to Pt. Hope &
on. Wm. Boyd gave us beautiful lunch. Rain.
July Sunday 24: Rain in am. Harry & I drove team 10 am to cottage
& returned at 7:30. Fine in pm.
July Monday 25: Arr’d in Ottawa re Estimates. Was in
House in afternoon. Left for home at night.
July Tuesday 26: At office.
July Wednesday 27: Empire took scow up with cow &c to cottage. Was
at Houseboat in am. Office in pm & till 11.
Drove to locks at 5 to visit McNamara.
[No entry July 28]
July Friday 29: Went to Kirkfield. Drove from Beaverton to K’d.
Exam'd foundation for Entrance piers at Simcoe.
July Saturday 30: At office & down to locks & at Hyd Lock. Drove
up to Lak’d at 5:20 & took Empire for lake.
July Sunday 31: At Stoney Lake. Paddled over to church.
Called at Mr. Irwin’s.
August Monday 1: Came down on ‘Stoney Lake’. Harry
& Heber with me. Drove from Lak’d to town. Called
on Lockmasters on way down. At Nassau, Dickson
Co'y [running]. In pm at Hyd Lock. Lock not working as Gillespie
let lock down by escape valves. Great disappointment
as Excursionists was [sic] to go up. Ottawa Guards here.
August Tuesday 2: Drove to Hyd L. Murphy at Hyd L. re unsatisfactory
working of main valve. Went up to yacht Victoria. Harry locked her down & over to canoe factory for repairs.
Office 8 to 10. Murphy went home. Fine.
August Wednesday 3: Office. Drove to Nassau to meet Patterson & McGee of C G E co'y re unsatisfactory condition
of water regulation. Had long discussion & they agreed to shut
off load of water fill. Drove to lock & to
station & left on train for Lak’d & took Empress for Park. Fine.
August Thursday 4: At Park wrote Annual Report.
Empire called at Park for me & took me to Lak’d. Drove team (M) to
town. Gordon with me. Harry drove team back.
Drove (L) to locks. Office till 11:40. Edwards called re B & A claim. Fine.
August Friday 5: Wheeled over to Hy Lock to see big excursion from Colborne,
Grafton &c go thro’ on ‘Stoney Lake’. Office till 4 wheeled down to
locks & ‘Yankee Bonnet’ & office till 6:30. Drove team to Lak’d
& took Empire for Park. Fine. Gordon drove
team back.
August Saturday 6: Took ‘Empire’ & ran
to Chemong L. Regatta. Took family with me. Very
windy. Exam’d different works along route. My
first trip this season for Inspection. Very windy.
Arr’d at Park at 10:15.
August Sunday 7: Paddled over to service. Heavy rain
at night & cool.
August Monday 8: Came down on ‘Empress’. J. Fairbairn on train. Office
all day. Wheeled down to locks at 5. Office at night 9-9:30. Called in to see
R. R. Hall. Fine. Water
out of coffer dam at Locks.
August Tuesday 9: Wheeled to Houseboat & to station before breakfast
at JZR’s. Office till 5. Wheeled to locks. Water
out well & excavation commenced today. [H---] called at 7 and we drove
up to Nassau re brackets. Office 9:30 to 11. Fine.
[No entries August 10 - 20]
August Sunday 21: At Lake. Drove down at night.
GHG came up for me.
August Monday 22: Arr’d in Ottawa at 6 am and left again at night.
August Tuesday 23: Left with Alex McCallum for Belleville to examine
wheels & mill of Lott re case of Berrell vs Lott. Left
at 6 pm for home. Fine.
[No entry August 24]
August Thursday 25: Office.
August Friday 26: Came down on ‘Empress’. Drove Mrs. [Mains] down from
Lak’d. Office & drove to dam.
August Saturday 27: Busy in office & on works all day. Drove to Lak’d
& took Empire at 7:00 for Cottage. Went to Hastings at 2 with Gordon. Bought yacht ‘Lassie’ from T. Fraser
for $500.00. Drove to Norwood. Train 1 hr late.
August Sunday 28: At Lake all day. Went over to Pavillion
for service in ‘Victoria’. I drove down from lake as CS is to be in town in morning.
August Monday 29: CS arrived here & was at my house at 6:30. Went
to Hyd Lock & operated it. Went to locks to see dam work. Left at 8:30 for upper Section. Dary met us at Beaverton & we drove
over all the work between the two Sections. CS asked me to go to [‘Soo’]
with him so I went in his private car. Mina came home from Park on Empire
with children.
August Tuesday 30: On way to Soo arr'd there at 5:30. Went
down over Canal with CS & Boyd & Tripp. Harry bro’t Victoria
& rest of things home from the lake.
August Wednesday 31: Went over steel plant at ‘Soo’ with CS & Manager
Shields & over work on Canal with Boyd & Tripp. Left ‘Soo’ at
noon & I went as far as North Bay with CS & came home by Orillia.
September Thursday 1: Arrived home at noon from ‘Soo’ and left again
at 2 pm for Belleville. Went over case with A. McCallum.
Talked over also a possible partnership.
September Friday 2: At Belleville on case Berrell vs Lott. Left for home
at 6pm. Showery in am.
September Saturday 3: Drove to locks 8:45 am till 11re
dam. Got letter from Emma [----] saying George had gone to hospital with
typhoid fever. Office all day & night.
September Sunday 4: Fine & cool.
September Monday 5: Labor Day. Drove (L) to locks with Gordon & went
over work to be done. Office 3 to 6 & 8 to 10. Fine & cool.
September Tuesday 6: Left at 7:12 for Toronto with Mina. Met Hansard
by appt. & had meeting with Minister of Public Works re transfer of
Reservoir Dams to Dom’n Gov’t. Settled everything satisfactorily.
Patterson present. Went out to Junction.
Left at 10 for Ottawa.
September Wednesday 7: Arr’d in Ottawa re progress of expenditures of
appropriations. Left at night for Toronto.
September Thursday 8: Arr’d in Toronto & out to Junction. Came in
with Heber to Exhibition & left Toronto on
boat with Mina & Heber for Niagara. Went to Mrs. McGarry’s & stayed.
September Friday 9: Went over to Welland to see Beaty re dredge engine.
Went along Welland Canal with Weller.
September Saturday 10: Went down to works & then went with Mrs. McG.
Mina & rest for trip down gorge. Had lunch at pavillion.
Took boat at six o’clock
for Toronto & home at midnight.
September Sunday 11: At home.
September Monday 12: Arr'd in Montreal to attend in case re Chambly dam.
Was not called today. Harry came down with me
to try his supplemental exams. Staying at Society rooms.
September Tuesday 13: At Montreal in Court but not called.
September Wednesday 14: At Montreal in Court but not called.
September Thursday 15: At Court in Montreal. Was called
to box at 3 pm.
September Friday 16: At Montreal. My examination was concluded at 3 pm . Went looking for Boarding house
for Harry & found 49 Victoria St.
September Saturday 17: Arr’d home from Montreal. Office.
Drove to locks &c.
September Sunday 18: Home.
September Monday 19: Office. Was at locks &c.
September Tuesday 20: Went to Gamebridge. Drove over line from L Simcoe
to Road at 4th Con. Alymer came down. Went
to meeting of School Bd. in RR Hall’s office. Fine.
September Wednesday 21: Arr’d in Ottawa with Committee of School Bd.
& Council re grant $10,000 & re site of B'ldings. Saw Minister
also re more money for plant &c dredging at Cereal Works. Left
for home at 11:30. McLennan on train. Rec’d McL’s appointment
as Superintend. Went service St. Luke’s Harvest Festival.
September Thursday 22: Drove to locks. Office.
Drove to Houseboat & to Hyd Lock. School
meeting at night. Left for Ottawa at Midnight to meet Institute Civil Eng’r.
September Friday 23: Arr’d in Ottawa at 6 to meet party of Members of
Institute C. Engineers. Met party at City Hall.
Went to House of Commons. Went
to Alymer for lunch. Mills at Hull. Garden party at Mr. Keefers & started for Montreal at
8 & arr'd at 11:30. Fine day. Met Mrs. Mothersill at party.
September Saturday 24: At Montreal. Went to McGill
to see about Harry Supplementals. Saw W. White & Prof. Unwin.
Went over college was with them. Went to see Prof. Waller with Harry &
he gave me assurances that satisfied me to let Harry go on. Went
over Harbor with party. Pouring rain.
Stayed with Harry.
September Sunday 25: Started at 9:15 for Toronto. Harry
at station to see off. Had very pleasant Day.
Arrd at 5:45. Had beautiful fine train. Went
out to Junction. Went to Service & to Ed’s.
September Monday 26: Came in from Junction. Party left King Edward at
10 in carriages to City Hall, Parliament Bld. Nordheimer’s. Lunch at King
Edw. Sail on Lake. Lt. Governors. Engineering Club.
I gave some views & description of Hy Lock. Went
to Queens. Tried to find W. Boyd but did not. Fine.
September Tuesday 27: Met Willie Boyd. Left Toronto at 8:10 with party
for Niagara. Went over all plants on both sides.
Lunch at Pavillion & refreshments on US side power
house. Mr. McGarry drove me around. Party went back to Hamilton
& on to Chicago for St. Louis. I left for home at Hamilton & arrd
at 12:30.
September Wednesday 28: Office. Went to locks.
Went to Mrs. Jas. Hall (---- funeral).
September Thursday 29: Office.
September Friday 30: Went to inspect work at Lovesick & Burleigh.
Walked to Cottage & packed up some things & brought them to Lak’d.
Regular gale blowing. Went
to School Bd. Committee meeting re adopting plan for Collegiate Institute
building. Adopted Belcher’s plan.
October Saturday 1: Office. Drove to locks at 4 & to Hyd Lock. J.H.
McClennan called & had to talk with him re his appointment as Superintendent.
He seems as though he wanted to get on quietly & amicably.
October Sunday 2: Wheeled over to see [Cronnin] & drove to locks.
October Monday 3: Wheeled to locks at 10. Office.
School Bd Meeting at night. Pretty lively over expenditure
for painting.
October Tuesday 4: Went to Gamebridge, to Kirkfield. Examined
Entrance piers L. Simcoe & Hyd Lock. Went to Bob’n & stayed
at M. Boyd’s.
October Wednesday 5: At Bob’n. Went over works.
Grant sheeting dam. Good job. Drove to Little Bob’ Channel
to examine it with view of utilizing it for a new navigation route.
Went home on Empire to Bridgenorth and drove (L) to
Pet’o. Office 10-11. Showry & cool.
October Thursday 6: Wheeled to locks. Office. Office at night.
October Friday 7: Drove (L) to locks in am.
Went to [Dentist] & to Hamilton’s foundry. Drove
to Houseboat & to School Sports & to Hyd Lock & to locks.
Office at night.
October Saturday 8: Office.
October Sunday 9: Went for walk to locks with Fair.
October Monday 10: Went to Canal work dredging. Shut down dredge to get
tracks &c in shape. Office. Met C.K. Keefer. Office at night. Showry.
October Tuesday 11: Went to dredging at Cereal. Called to see Mr. Stewart
(Cereal) & explained proposal re work. He was satisfied. Got
JZR’s yacht & took Mr. Stewart & others over Hyd Lock. Drove
to locks. Office at night. Showry in am.
October Wednesday 12: Drove to locks. Office.
Service at St Lukes. Office.
October Thursday 13: Went to Gamebridge & over works to Kirkfield
& Peat works to examine hoist engine. Was going on but boat did not
arrive. McClellan & Gordon with me. Back
home. Office to 11. Fine.
October Friday 14: Wheeled to locks & to Cereal works work. Met
Tripp at train. Dinner at ‘Oriental’ Drove to
Hyd Lock & to locks with Tripp. Office at
night.
October Saturday 15: Wheeled to Cereal Works & office. Examined
cars & bot 7 from Stevens for $150.00. Wheeled
to locks.
October Sunday 16: Arriv’d in Montreal in am. Harry met me. Stayed
with him. Went to the Cathedral in am.
Went to the Mudges for afternoon tea & to the Cathedral at nt.
Walked home with Mrs. Grant. Fine.
October Monday 17: At Montreal. Went down town in am
& lunch with J Badgley. Kathleen Meade was married to A. Mudge
in St. George’s by Archbishop Bond asst’ by Dr. Symonds. I gave Kathleen
away. At night met Murphy by appointment re matters re Hyd Lock No 2.
Stayed at Society Room.
October Tuesday 18: Left Montreal at 8:45 for Ottawa. Had
breakfast with Harry. Hon. M. Blair on train
to O. Saw CS re several matters. Left for home
at night. Fine.
October Wednesday 19: Went on to Toronto to buy hoisting engine &
bot one from A R Williams. for $850.00. Came
home on GTR at 2 pm. Went to service at night. George left hospital
at Revelstoke BC & went to Arrowhead & back & staying at hotel.
October Thursday 20: Wheeled to work at Cereal Works & to locks.
Office in pm. Sir Wilfrid Laurier here. Office
at night. Fine & warm. Clark arrived here as draughtsman.
October Friday 21: Office. George left Revelstoke for Calgary to arrive
at 1 am.
October Saturday 22: Office. George went out to Alfred’s at Calgary.
October Sunday 23: Wheeled out to see J. Heap & to tea at Price’s.
October Monday 24: Office. New hoisting engine from
Welland arr'd. Drove to locks in pm. Fine.
October Tuesday 25: Office till 4. GT Ry car agent here & settled
re [damage]. Drove (L) to Locks & left at 5:10 by CPR for Bobcaygeon.
Stayed at M. M. Bd's [Mossam Boyd's].
October Wednesday 26: At Bob’n. Drove to Fenelon F. to examine height
&c of [crest] of new [---] dam. Met Dr. Gould.
Back to Bob’n at 1. ‘Calumet’ ran us to Bridgenorth
& drove (L) home. Service at night. Showery.
October Thursday 27: Office.
October Friday 28: Office. Went to locks.
October Saturday 29: At Ottawa on telegraph re closing Rds & took
specification for Hydraulic Lock at Kirkfield to be printed. Went
to football match. Home at night.
October Sunday 30: Walked up to Mrs. [------] for tea with T Burnham.
October Monday 31: Office. Wheeled over to Houseboat
& to locks in afternoon. Office at night.
Fine.
November Tuesday 1: Went to Beaverton & drove over works to
4th Con’n road. Drove over with Dary.
November Wednesday 2: Went to Bob’n to see work [-----]. Saw Grozelle
re going on trip up reservoirs. Office 9-10:30. Fine.
November Thursday 3: Election Day. Dominion House.
Office. At locks & Cereal Works. Club
at night. Conservatives snowed under.
60 Maj for Laurier. RR Hall elected in town.
November Friday 4: Office in am. Ran Ketchicum party up on Empire from
Peterboro to Buckhorn & we came on to Chemong & drove home. R.R.
Hall, W. Irwin & Kilbourn. Home at 3 am.
November Saturday 5: Office wheeled to Cereal Works & to locks office
8-10:30. Fine.
No entry November 6]
November Monday 7: Went to Haliburton at noon with Gordon, [Larmouth]
& Eason. Stayed at Haliburton over night. Fine &
mild.
November Tuesday 8: Drove to Redstone 9-1 & stayed at Grozelles shanty
over night. Exam’d the dams & run arounds at Redstone.
November Wednesday 9: Left Redstone at camp at 6 am & reached Kenesis
Camp at 9:50. Had a deer run. I shot a deer on
the run way. Paddled back to Redstone Portage for balance
of stuff & men. Stayed at Camp. Fine.
November Thursday 10: Had a run & I shot another deer in Paint Lake
in water. Had run again in pm. Fine.
November Friday 11: Had another run & Eason shot a deer that Grozelle
[paddled] up.
November Saturday 12: Left at 9 for [Hawk] lake. Was pretty rough &
stayed at [Hawk] Lake camp.
November Sunday 13: [S---] & blowing hard all day.
November Monday 14: Went to Trout Lake for run & to examine dam into
St. [Vera's]. Ran across two deer & shot them both but did not get
them then. Got one in the afternoon. Met
Dennison. Camp on Trout Lake.
November Tuesday 15: Started for home at 6. Drove to Minden & to
Kinmount & on to home by train. Terrible drive to Minden. Arrived
home at 9 pm.
November Wednesday 16: Went to Cereal Coy’s dredging & office. Drove
to locks 4 to 5. Office at night 8-11.
Freezing hard tonight.
November Thursday 17: Thanksgiving Day. Went to service
in am. Wheeled to locks in pm 4-5. Office 5-6 & 9-11. Fine
& cool.
November Friday 18: Drove to Lak'd with Gordon & took Empire
to Burleigh. Fine & mild.
November Saturday 19: Office. At work at Cereal Works & wheeled to
locks in pm.
November Sunday 20: Mild. Tea at Gwen Hull’s.
November Monday 21: Office. Drove to Hyd. Locks &
to Houseboat. Men unloading storehouse. Office at night.
Fine & warm.
November Tuesday 22: Drove to Lak’d. Met Mr. McLeod there examining masonry
walls. Went to Burleigh on Empire & exam'd dam. Water out. Ran to
Juniper Is. re wharf. Gordon, W. Irwin, R.T. Fair, Williams with me. Office
at night. H.A. McLeod at office. Went over wall work.
November Wednesday 23: At Houseboat all day. Had gang
men excavating pit for Houseboat. Office at night.
Service. Drove to locks.
November Thursday 24: Had gang excavating for pit of Houseboat &
yacht. Was there all day. Drove to locks in pm.
Office at night & went to see RR Hall re reservoirs.
November Friday 25: Drove to Houseboat. Left for Bob’n
at 8:30. Visited Grant. Found he had dug
trench along North side for cut off & crib work
on South side. Had E. Lajoi & A. Young laying up Houseboat
& yacht. Cold & flurry of snow.
November Saturday 26: Office. Drove to Locks, Hyd &
to Houseboat. E. Lajoi & A Young boarding
up Houseboat & yacht. Office at night.
November Sunday 27: Turned very cold. Walked over to
Hyd Lock & up to Houseboat. Tea at C's.
November Monday 28: Went to Beaverton & drove over Section from L.
Simcoe to 4th Con. Road. Saw B & A were putting in clay
tiles instead of vitrified tile (see notes). About 2 or 3'' snow on ground.
November Tuesday 29: Office. Visited dredge which they
are pulling out today. Drove to Hyd Lock &
after 4 drove to locks & up to Nassau to examine water which we are letting out of waste sluice at Thompsons.
Office at night.
November Wednesday 30: Office. Drove to Hyd Lock &
in pm to locks & to Nassau to examine the letting off water at Thompsons. Service & office. Gordon telephoned that water was flowing
over GTR track above Auburn & we got team with [----] & drove
there but found everything OK.
December Thursday 1: Office. Drove to John Bertram’s
funeral & to locks. At 3:30 drove to Nassau. School
Bd. meeting 5-6:30. Went to bazzar of St. Johns Church till 9:30.
Fine & cold.
December Friday 2: Office till 11. Drove to locks & then up to Lakefield.
Back at 4. Office.
December Saturday 3: Men putting up new (‘Universal’) cook stove. Stayed
with them till 12. Office. Home
till 4. Drove to locks & to Houseboat.
Office at night. Cold.
December Sunday 4: Cold. Wheeled to Nassau & came down on ice.
December Monday 5: Office. Went to School Bd meeting
at night.
December Tuesday 6: Went to Toronto re transfer reservoir dam from Ontario
Gov’t to Dominion Gov’t. Met Alward Law Clerk Dept. R&C & we had
two interviews with Campbell Ass't Coun’l. Got all points pretty well
decided. Went out to Ed’s & on to Hetty’s & home. Fine.
December Wednesday 7: Office. Drove to locks & Hyd lock 4-5:30. Office.
Cold.
December Thursday 8: Drove team - cutter- to Burleigh. Called in to see
men at Cottage & exam’d proposed near entrance at Youngs Point. Office
9-11. Snowed about 4 inches last night. Cold
& windy.
December Friday 9: Office. Drove with G. to Locks at 11 and walked &
had horse meet me at locks at 5. drove to Hyd
Lock. Office at night. Went
to Dr. [-------] funeral. Very cold.
December Saturday 10: Went to Bobcaygeon with G. Inspected work. Instructed
Grant to use diver instead of trying to pump out. Office 8:30-10.
Very cold.
December Sunday 11: At 4 pm called on Mr. JM Kilbourn at Oriental &
he came over to house to supper. At 8 went to Oriental & met JR Stratton
by appointment. Went over Heeley’s Falls matter. He said he would stay on & help secure it.
December Monday 12: Drove to locks with Gordon at 10 & at 4:30 went
again with [----] for ¾ hour. Work will be finished in day or two. Office
all day. Left at midnight for Montreal. J M Kilbourn with me. Cold.
December Tuesday 13: Arrd at Montreal. Harry met us. Called
to enquire re drills at Rand & got particulars & prices and also at Mussen & Co. for
prices & particulars re concrete mixers. At night saw P Johnson
re taking over Hydraulic Lock. Went to meeting of Council
of CSCE. Was chairman of meeting.
December Wednesday 14: Went to Ottawa at 8:45 am. Went
to Dept. at 2:30. Saw CS re Transfer Dams & other matters, estimates &c.
Left for home at 11 pm. Work at locks closed down for season.
December Thursday 15: Office. Drove to locks with Gordon & saw every
thing was prepared for Winter. Office at night 9-10:30. Fine & cold.
December Friday 16: Office. Walked to Hyd Lock.
went to tea at Rectory.
December Saturday 17: Office.
[No entry December 18]
December Monday 19: Office. Drove to Nassau & Lakefield
& to [----] Cox’s funeral. Office.
Milder about 2'' snow fell.
December Tuesday 20: Went to Beaverton & over Section from L Simcoe
to Lock 5 to 4th Con Road. At Kirkfield I gave the staff & others
a supper, about 25. Went off very well. Cold & stormy, snow.
December Wednesday 21: Arrd home at noon. Office in pm & night. Fine. Drove to inspect work at scow for ¾ hour & back.
December Thursday 22: Office. Drove to scow, took sleighs to be [---]
to P. Clancy at 11 am & again at 2. Drove to country
for [boughs]. Office at night.
December Friday 23: Office.
December Saturday 24: Office. Painting & fixing up bob sleighs for
Heber. Shopping at night. Met
R. Ritchie in club at 5.
December Sunday 25: Christmas. Went to early service.
In pm called to see Mrs. E A Peck, old Mr. Peck. Maria, Harry, Neil &
tea at Calcutt’s. Cold.
December Monday 26: Celebrated Christmas today. Santa
Claus at house last night. At club 4:30 to 6. Went to Christmas tree at Calcutt’s & after to Maria’s.
Not much like Christmas without Harry or George who are both absent. Harry
at Montreal & George in Calgary.
December Tuesday 27: Office. Went to Masonic meeting
(St. John’s Day). Installation & banquet.
Raining most of day & walking frightful.
December Wednesday 28: Office in am. Drove to Bobcaygeon
at 1:30 J Belcher & my children (3) with me. Blowing &
snowing but had covered rig.
December Thursday 29: At Bob’n Exam'd work at Lock. Drove
home at 3-6. Office 10:30-11. Fine.
December Friday 30: Office. In pm. Drove with Gordon’s horse to Nassau
to examine coffer dam in front of guard gate & to Hyd L & to scows.
Went to At Home at club. Mina went also. Very
nice. Milder.
December Saturday 31: Office 10-12:30. Market &
office 3:45 to 5:30.
Very mild.
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