Lombardy Methodist Church – South Elmsley Township, Leeds County, Ontario

LOMBARDY

A post office in South Elmsley Township, Leeds County, Ontario 29 miles northwest
of Brockville the county seat, and 6 miles southwest of Smith’s Falls, on the
C P R, its nearest railway and banking point. It contains Anglican and Methodist churches, a public school. Stage daily to Smith’s Falls. Pop, 250

Michael Dooher, Postmaster

Businesses:

Cauley Thomas, general store
Clark Robert, grocer
Dermedy Miss, millinery
Dooher Michael, general store
House Henry, blacksmith
Klyne Joseph, hotel
Newman H Miss, grocery
Newman. W K. shoemaker
O’Meara E, livestock
O’Meara Michael, cheesemaker
O’Reilly Thomas, hotel
Sherman Frank, blacksmith

…from 1898-99 Eastern Ontario Gazetteer and Directory

LOMBARDY, a post village in Leeds County, Ontario, 8 miles from the C.P.R. station of Smith’s Falls. It contains 4 churches (Roman Catholic, Episcopal, Methodist and Holiness), 1 flouring mill, 1 shingle mill, 1 cheese factory, and 3 stores, 2 hotels, and 1 telephone office. There are deposits of phosphate of lime, plumbago and mica in the neiguborhood. Pop. 100  ..from Lovell’s 1906 Canada Gazetteer

History

Although the name reprises that of the Italian region of the same name, the Ontarian community supposedly owes its name to Francis Lombard, a French soldier who settled in the area in the early 1820s. It has also been known by other names, including Landon’s Corners, Landon’s Mills, Lombard’s Corners and South Elmsley. Capitalising on its proximity to Otter Creek, a number of mills were built in Lombardy, along with tradesmen’s shops and hotels and taverns, which served the travelers passing through.

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