Ice Harvesting on the Rideau River

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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

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O'Callaghans Harvesting Ice on Steven's Creek - 1910
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Loading ice cakes on to trucks.
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Demonstration of ice harvesting -- Kars Winter Carnival, 1982. From the forthcoming RTHS publication, "North Gower: A Village History, 1820-2020
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/