CALEDONIA MILL - First
Millers' Day 1999
Haldimand County, Ontario
Robert Miller photo
Oldest
Millstone in North America - c.1610 found in Canada at Annapolis Royal,
Nova Scotia
How
Millstones work
LINKS to
Google MAPS, David Sweeney's photo gallery, and
many Canadian mill websites
Milling
Through History
"Escape the super highways and travel the back roads
along popular waterways and you will find significant, but often overlooked
connections to Canada’s industrial past. Your reward may be a simple
limestone wall or the rough outline of a foundation. Or it could be a
working mill that is still operating the way it did 100 or more years
ago—grinding grain, carding wool or sawing wood."
Fall Millers' Day, Niagara 2000
Pre-1812 Gristmill at Ball's Falls, Niagara
Measured overlay Drawings of the mill
SPENCERVILLE
HERITAGE FAIR ON YOUTUBE
"MILLS
IN ONTARIO - MILLS OPEN TO THE PUBLIC"
Wonderfully detailed booklet about almost 70 mills open to the public
across Ontario locations/phone&web/descriptions
by Maryanne Szuck
(PDF)
Free download - please join the Chapter
Ontario's
Historic Mills
(Amazon link)
by George Fischer and Mark Harris
ONTARIO
MILL RESEARCHERS
Census Data, King's Mills 1783, Servos Mill 1791, Secord
Mill 1783
Maps of Upper Canada & Canada West by District & County
CANADIAN
CHAPTER OF SPOOM
Society for the Preservation
Of Old Mills
The
Canadian Chapter of the Society for the Preservation Of Old Mills, also
known as "SPOOM", promotes interest in old Canadian mills,
their history, function and preservation.
The Canadian Chapter is a branch of the American international organization
of SPOOM,
chartered in the State of Maine in 1972. The parent SPOOM national society
is dedicated by its Constitution & By-laws to "promote
interest in old mills and their related cultural features now quickly
passing from the present scene".
The Canadian Chapter was initiated in 1999 and membership in our group
facilitates opportunities for Canadians to meet and share interests
specifically in old Canadian mills. This is done twice yearly when Canadian
mills are selected for tours and seminars in a friendly get together
in Canada that we call a “MILLERS' DAY”.
If you have an interest in the history,
function and future of old Canadian Mills, please click
JOIN US. Only $20.00 per year which includes your personal copy
of the "Millstone News" mailed to you twice yearly. Members of the Canadian
Chapter are encouraged, but not required, to also become members of
the parent international organization in the United States.
Canadian Chapter Spring Millers' Day 2012
Meeting
at the Mill Street Brew Pub in
Toronto’s Distillery District, National Historic Site
Saturday May 12, 2012 11:00am
Tour
of the District Guided by Staff of the Royal Ontario Museum
Registration Form
View Distillery
District in a larger map
Speakers on for David Sweeney's video
of Backus Mill. Click the bottom right for full screen mode.
Backus Mill, Port Rowan Ontario, is a national historic site and of special significance, as it was during the bicentennial celebration year for this mill in 1999 that the Canadian Chapter of SPOOM was born.