Les Auberges d'Hudson - The Inns of Hudson
The book describes the various inns, boarding houses and B & B's of Hudson from 1792 to the present. Old photos of the buildings, people and stories and anecdotes are throughout the 110 page book.
The book describes the various inns, boarding houses and B & B's of Hudson from 1792 to the present. Old photos of the buildings, people and stories and anecdotes are throughout the 110 page book.
Topics: Hudson | Industries | Society Book
a) The Ottawa River Navigation Company
b) The History of the Hudson Water Works System
c) Hudson's Finest - The Hudson Police Department
d) The Hodgson Brother's Sawmill
e) The Hudson Hosiery
Topics: Hudson | Industries | Society Book
Submitted by webmaster on Wed, 2006-04-26 18:01.As children we have all knocked four nails into the top of a cotton bobbin and by continuously hooking woollen yarn over the nails have produced a circular woollen "rope".
In a typical circular knitting machine for making socks, the four nails are replaced by about 250 needles and hooks, and up to as many as 400 in a machine for making nylon stockings. Although many types of machine were used by Hudson Hosiery including Banner and Komet, the photo shows a typical basic circular sock knitting machine. (This particular machine by Scott and Williams was built around 1915 and was still in operation in the Richelieu Hosiery Plant in Cornwall when it closed in 2000).
Started by a group of local entrepreneurs just before World War II, The Hudson Hosiery Co. Ltd. was for many years the only full time industry in the Town (the ice harvesting operations on the Lake of Two Mountains being seasonal) until it was destroyed by fire in March 1965. During its peak years, the "Hosiery" employed some 100 or so local residents.
In a late 2004 meeting of the Hudson Historical Society, the President, Mr.Kevin O'Donnell commented that very little information on the Hosiery Company existed in the Society's archives, and that it would be useful to record its history while there were still people around who remembered it and worked there. I volunteered to do this, and during the summer of 2005, spent many interesting hours poring through back issues of the Lake of Two Mountains Gazette (which paints a fascinating picture of the development of Hudson over the last 50 years), the Canadian Textile Journal with its many illustrations of changing clothing fashions and talking to ex-employees, all of whom seem to have fond memories of that little company.
This, then, is the story of the Hudson Hosiery Co. Ltd.
Welcome to article resource of the HHS. Here we have collected together all our articles, stories, and news that deal with the history of Hudson and its surrounding areas. There might even be some articles about historical happenings elsewhere in the world, but usually there will always be something in the story that links back to Hudson.
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You have seen Holstein cows in the countryside wherever you have travelled in Canada and the United States. Did you know that many of those herds can trace their ancestry back to Hudson? Holsteins are the main cows of the dairy industry, and Hudson played an important role in making this happen. You can find out more by reading a small (35 pages) book on the topic called T.B. Macaulay and Mount Victoria Farm. It was written by Rod Hodgson, who writes often in the Hudson Gazette on historical topics.
A pictorial tour of Main Road Hudson with historical captions.