Although the Hartshorne is the most recognized house mover, there were others that had moved houses and buildings from the lost villages to present day locations. 



Hartshorne house  movers

Any and  all photos of houses being moved will be posted here
The number of moves is in the range of 600
Not all photos of homes have been identified so
if you spot your house in the unknown section please
send us an E-mail. thanks



MILLE ROCHES


100th house moved
(click on corresponding link on the left)



Unconfirmed, the Manson house?


MOULINETTE

WALES






George and Florence Rice





DICKINSON’S  LANDING




FARRAN’S POINT


AULTSVILLE


The McLaren home
Summer of 1957, photo by Mr. Alan Pratt

The mystery and conflicting information.
Some believe this house was moved from the hamlet of Woodlands, as this is indicated in Jean Jeacle's "To Make a House a Home". In that book it shows the home as being owned by Lorne and Lena McLaren in 1957, now on Pine Street south in Ingleside and by 1975, the home is owned by Lena and Connie McLaren. This book clearly shows the original location to be Woodlands.

In Anne-Marie Shield's book "Lost Villages-Found Communities", the following information is given:

"The Lena and Connie McLaren home, moved from Aultsville to Ingleside, was built in the 1880's. The McLaren home has a number of attractive features such as a one-and-a-half-storey, shallow pitched roof, and high walls. It is an ell-shaped home featuring the gable end turned toward the front of the house, typical of the side-hall plan home building traditions introduced in the 1820's. Thus, the front door is on the shorter side of the rectanglular house. The wider facade of the ell-shaped home also features a side wing which, traditionally, was the kitchen area. The second floor on the left side was added between the original construction period, and before 1929.

The original home exterior was entirely made of bricks. Unbeknownst to the present owners, during a recent upgrade to the house, it was discovered that the exterior was, indeed, built of two courses of bricks. It is suspected that the bricks used to build the McLaren home came from the Elliot Pottery and Brickyard factory, in Aultsville, a short distance west of Dickinson's Landing. Our pioneers used an extra layer of uncured brick, as insulation."

UPDATE, Feb 15,  2010
The photo of this home was passed around at the annual Heritage Day dinner and a former resident of Dickinson’s Landing remembered this being the home of Frank and Georgia McAndrews, also of Dickinson’s Landing.






Yet unknown


MORRISBURG


IROQUOIS


THEN
“The house was built in 1932  by Sullivan Brothers. The house was moved from the shores of the St.  Lawrence by Hartshorne Movers.  The house is three story and  has concrete siding on the second story and was very heavy to move -- the locals say it was the heaviest house moved by Hartshorne. The  house was moved in 1956 and 50 years later, we have very few cracks in the original plaster walls” Jane and Brian McMillan .



NOW




Unknown house being moved in Iroquois
“I must have been about 15 at the time and not yet the international
professional photographer I was to become. At the time of the photo which
was probably 1956, I was living in Kingston and we must have traveled to
the seaway construction site as a high school outing. It was a dull day and
sadly, I made a poor job of most of the photos. This one I have rescued with
quite a bit of help from Photoshop. The old bus to the right of the photo
would have been from the old Wagar Coach company and the lads would have
been my schoolmates.”  Robert Estall





UNKNOWN