Pakenham, Ontario, is North of where Maggie lived between 1901 and 1908. They had these cool history signs in town "Pakenham Museum on the Streets" I took a few photos of them. You can see the old town buildings.
A large frame hall was located here where the cenotaph stands - photo above 2019.
The next museum on the streets pic shows the Pakenham Community Center Hall.
"Originally build as the Roman Catholic church, it was moved to this sited in 1896 when the present St. Peter Celestine's was built. It served as the agricultural exhibition hall until 1948 when the township took it over and renovated it as the community hall..."
"When settlers arrived in 1823, the river and falls provided all-important resources for development. By 1840, Andrew Dickson, considered to be the father of Pakenham, had established his family home ( the stone building at the end of the bridge) as well as several mills and factories on both sides of the Mississippi River. Gritsmills, carding mills, sawmills, a tannery, a cheese factory and a timber slide allowing logs to pass on their way to the Ottawa River all created a busy centre of activity.
The largest mill seen in the photo (above) was lost to fire in 1915. Early bridges here were made of wood and often damaged by ice in the spring. It was a credit to the township council of 1901 that they voted to stop paying continuously for costly repairs and to instead build a bridge of stone.
At a cost of $13,000 plus $2,400 for a temporary bridge, the present stone bridge was built of locally quarried stone in 9 weeks, employing an average of 70 men. Its largest block of stone weighs 5 tons and there are 2,100 cubic yards of masonry in the bridge, believed to be the only 5 span stone bridge in North America."
The stone bridge and house still stand today (2019)
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