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has changed hands three or four times and is now canied on by the Lalonde brothers. The blacksmith
shop also went from one owner to another and finally, with the motoring age displacing the horse,
it has disappeared, but a leo Bouvier operates a machine-shop and Bruno Gendron a garage. Between
them they seem to provide the necessary repairs, etc. A modern cheese factory has been built and
operated by Ferd Sabourin.
I would think that about the time that the railway came to Hammond, the Protestant
population decided to build a church, and did, with the understanding that any Protestant
denomination could hold services in it, but in order to have continuous services they found that it
would have to be under some one church. Apparently they decided to have it under the Methodist
(denomination) and the first minister, I believe, was Mr. Beamish, followed by (Revds) Hughes,
McFarland, Wilson, Horton and many others, including a Mr. Grenvell under whose ministry they
decided to join the United Church which was then being formed. During these years a movement of
the Protestant population to Western Canada and later still to the St. Lawrence area again, to work
on the Seaway (occurred). This meant that the once healthy congregation had dwindled to a trickle
and My the United Church gave up holding services and decided to sell the building and lot. This
was carried out under the direction of D. Yandon, now living in Navan. From this sale the United
Church authorities decided to give $1,000 to the Cemetery and, as the Cemetery had been (under the)
control ofthe Church Trustees, a Cemetery Committee had to be appointed to pay this money to, and
have control ofthe Cemetery. Reverting back again to about 1896 or 1897 I would add that the C.P.
Railway built a line from Ottawa to Montreal, passing close to this cemetery, and a road crossing the
Railroad nearby was very dangerous because of the contour of the land, and the last accident caused
three deaths. The Railroad bulldozed the sand knoll on their property, but (this solution) was
insufficient as there was no view of a train coming from the east, so the Municipal Council paid
Charles Armstrong $75 for a strip of land between the cemetery and the railroad and bull-dozed it
mostly into the cemetery which helped to level the knoll. Finally the Committee put up a new fence
around three sides of the cemetery, seeded it, and built up the monuments and grave markers as best
they could. An iron fence and gates on the road side (completed the alterations).
The dates for the start of the church will likely be found if necessary in the records at the
United Church at Riceville and it should not be difficult to get the dates regarding the Railways from
them. Of course, the one from Rockland to South Indian was owned originally by J.R. Booth,
lumberman of Ottawa, and it was called the Canada Atlantic, later the Grand Trunk, and I am not sure
if it ever got to be called the Canadian Northern.
AMr. Poupore was the only agent I ever remember at Hammond, but an Isaac Camere and
his brother Fred were agents at the C.P.R. first. Two others who put in long spells at the C.P.R. were
Davy Howell and Pete Jensen. Another, Earl Moffat, caretaker agent, carried on for many years.
Once again we go back to shortly after the coming of the C.P.R. and the gradual building of
houses, etc. at Hammond. A store had been started by Lemox Hunter, an Orange Hall built, the R.C's
built a school and held church services in it. The Hunter store was sold to the Carriere family and is
siffl operated in that name. The Roman Catholics built a church, the first priest I can remember was
Fr. Archarnbault. Atter various others had served, aFr. Landry (came), who was very popular with
everyone but has now passed on. They (the RC's) have built a modem school.
Among the early settlers of this North Indian area was the Nicholson family of whom only
Chauncey now remains, and Oscar at Bourget, Another family was the O'Bryans, the last living