Andrew Leamy

Leamy's mill was built and managed for a time by none other than John Rudolphus Booth, who would go on to be a lumber Baron in his own right and the richest man in North America, as a result.

Andrew Leamy donated the family burial ground opened in 1809, to the Oblate Fathers after they purchased the land to create the Notre-Dame Cemetery.

Leamy's farm contained several buildings of which one, right in front of his large home, was a stable for his prized racehorses.

At some unknown time, when people no longer were living on it, the Leamy Road's name became listed by the city as Chemin du Lac-Leamy and then was changed, once again in 2010 to rue Atawe, despite many objections from citizens.

A log building that was still standing in 1884 on Leamy's farm was probably the first home Philemon Wright built on the banks of the Gatineau River when he first arrived in the area in 1800.

[8][9] There is little doubt that Andrew Leamy learned to use his fists in his early days in the timber camps and like so many other fights involving lumbermen, the result could lead to tragedy.

Andrew Leamy pleaded self-defense to the charge of murder in the trial of the death of Donald McRea on August 5, 1846 in Montreal and was acquitted.

To his family, and everyone else, it appeared that Leamy had suffered the same tragic fate that his late father-in-law, Philemon Wright Jr. had, when he also was thrown from his carriage when it overturned, and died some 47 years earlier.

Only, it appears that long after anyone still wondered what happened that night, a "falling out" between a husband & his wife made the mystery about Leamy's death finally solved, 10 years later.

[12] Leamy's murder occurred exactly two weeks to the day after the assassination of his good friend and fellow Irishman, Thomas D'Arcy McGee.

Andrew Leamy is buried in a piece of land that he had donated to the Church for the purpose of creating Notre Dame Cemetery in Gatineau, Quebec.

The stone that marks his grave is inscribed with the words: Philemon Wright's lumbermen happened to be on the banks of the Ottawa River opposite the Rideau Falls, when the young man's body was found.