Ice Harvesting on the Rideau River

By Fred O'Callaghan, as told to Lewis O'Callaghan
This article is taken from the Tweedsmuir History of North Gower, Volume 3, published by the North Gower Women's Institute. Used courtesy of the Rideau Branch of the City of Ottawa Archives, North Gower. The source of the original article is uncertain, but appears to have been published in 1990






Demonstration of ice harvesting -- Kars Winter Carnival, 1982. From the forthcoming RTHS publication, "North Gower: A Village History, 1820-2020
For further reading: "THE ICEMAN NO LONGER COMETH," by James Powell at "Today in Ottawa History"
https://todayinottawashistory.wordpress.com/2020/04/25/the-iceman-no-longer-cometh/