July 29, 2008:

Map Source: Hurling Down the Pine, inside back cover



Lac Leamy, site of our present-day Casino, is named after Andrew Leamy, an early lumber
baron. Andrew employed hundreds of men in his lumber mills and on the log drives along
the Ottawa and Gatineau Rivers.

 February 14, 2011: (new picture of Andrew Leamy)
Source: The Hub and the Spokes, page 141




He first appears across the river in the Drouin records of Notre Dame Cathedral, in Bytown, in 1834.
These records are available through www.ancestry.ca. He was a popular best man at weddings of 
his workers and godfather for many families.


  


September 7, 2010:

Thanks to Sue for sending along the following newspaper clipping:

"Probable Murder. - Ten years ago Andrew Leamy, a well-known lumberman, was found lying dead in 
his lane on the Chelsea road, just after having driven from Ottawa.  Wounds were found about the body, 
which some attributed to the horse running away, and others held that a murder had been committed.  
A valuable watch belonging to him was not on his person when found.  Matters remained thus until 
yesterday, when a woman, whose husband used to be in Leamy's employ, called on Mrs. Leamy and 
stated that on the day that her husband was killed, two men left the watch at her place, and it 
was there still."  
 
Montreal Daily Telegraph of August 14, 1878