Farran's Point, Ontario

[1] It was Charles Curtis Farran, affectionately known as C.C., and later on the Kerr brothers, George and Joseph, who were responsible for the village’s early growth.

He also owned a general store, as well as a large tract of land north of the village and west of where the Grand Trunk Railway Station was eventually built.

Joseph, along with his brothers, George, Thomas and William, owned two sawmills, a grits mill, farms and a large general store with branches a Wales and Aultsville.

The huge Kerr home, built on a corner lot that included a store on the east side, was often referred to as Buckingham palace.

[1] The success of the Farran and Kerr operations attracted a number of other businesses to the area and by the mid 1800s the little community boasted a population of around 300[2] and a post office had been established.

At this time, the village also boasted a bakery, a millinery shop, and a couple of taverns on top of the preexisting mills.

Formerly, the building that became the church was a stagecoach stop located west of the village which was moved into Farran's Point.

When construction of these structures was completed, inundation began on July 1, 1958 and resulted in the formation of an artificial widening and deepening in the river which was named Lake St. Lawrence.