Lac Leamy / Leamy Lake, Gatineau, Quebec
(Casino Lac Leamy)



New July 29, 2008:

Map Source: Hurling Down the Pine, inside back cover Lac Leamy / Leamy Lake
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. 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.

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