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Note: nd on his tombstone it says 1872! As he was recorded on the 1871 census, I would believe that one to have been the correct date.
1901 census McKenzie Twp., Ontario: McAmmond, John F. b. Sept 19, 1871(?) farmer and Charlotte A.M. b. May 1, 1876.
Written by Esther (McAmmond) Einarson - My father (John McAmmond) was born in Ottawa. Our family owned the farm in Ottawa that's now the Experimental Farm, but they heard about this area with all the pine in it, and they were going to make a fortune in board pine, as they called it. So they came up to Maple Island in 1880 when my dad was eight years old. They logged. My dad had a lumber mill run by a waterwheel, a huge thing away over my head. The water came through a flume and it went round and round.
They had the first post office, Glenila, up the North Road on the west side, just this side of The Cataract. (McAmmond's place) was called the Halfway House, halfway between Parry Sound and McConkey. All the cadge teams and sleighs and wagons went through there. The front part was a log building; that was where they lived first. Then they built a big place at the back that was the dining area, full of tables. Another area was the kitchen. There were rooms upstairs in the front, and all over the two-storey frame building at the back. I think there was room for maybe twenty-five.
When I was a kid there were the remains of a log building at The Wildcat. I asked my father once why they called that hotel The Wildcat and he said, "Because that's what it was: the wildest place in Parry Sound District."
Written by Jim McAmmond - My father (John McAmmond) was working at Blackstone out from Parry Sound. He was going down a sand hill and the log he was sitting on went out between the horses and he went under the sleigh. There was just this one log thrown loose on top of the load. He went under the sleigh, and it went over one leg and threw one hip out and broke a leg. His hip never was put back in the socket, and he was crippled.
Obituary - John F. McAmmond A very large funeral service was held on Monday afternnon at 2:30 o'clock for the late John Forest McAmmond, who passed away Saturday, July 22, at Parry Sound. Rev. Earl B. Eddy conducted the funeral service, which was held from the United Church at Dunchurch to Maple Island Cemetery. Many beautiful floral tributes were received from the family and friends. Mr. McAmmond was born in Ottawa, September 19, 1972 (wrong year!) and came to Maple Island when a boy of 8 years. He was a member of the United Church. Left to mourn are his widow, the former Charlotte Ann Crawford, one son, James of Maple Island and five daughters, Mrs. Inez Ladd, Whitestone; Mrs. Harvey Banneville of Toronto; Mrs. Arthur White of Honey Harbor; Mrs. Fred Einarson of Rosseau and Mrs. Clifford Carleton of Dunchurch; 25 grandchildren, four great grandchildren. Mr. and Mrs. McAmmond had recently celebrated their fiftieth wedding anniversary.
Note: 1871 census shows John as being born in Dec 1870, the 1901 census says he was born in 1871 a
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