Joseph Merrill Currier
N 45° 26.809 W 075° 40.047
18T E 447805 N 5032805
Joseph Merrill Currier was a Canadian member of parliament and businessman.
Waymark Code: WMBD72
Location: Ontario, Canada
Date Posted: 05/08/2011
Views: 22
Currier had three wives: Christina Wilson who he married in 1846 and who died in 1858; Anne "Annie" Elizabeth Crosby; and Hannah Wright, daughter of Ruggles Wright, who he married in 1868. He married his second wife in January 1861 and brought her to Manotick a month later.
While viewing the machinery in the mill, Annie's dress became caught in the turbine shaft and she was thrown against a post and died. Currier is said to have never visited Manotick again and he cut his ties to the business there in 1863. According to local legend, Annie's ghost continues to haunt Watson's Mill in Manotick.
Description:
In 1868, Currier built a house at 24 Sussex Drive, for his third wife Hannah, which is now used as the official residence for the Prime Minister of Canada. Currier named the house Gorffwysfa, Welsh for place of rest.
Date of birth: 06/12/1820
Date of death: 04/22/1884
Area of notoriety: Politics
Marker Type: Monument
Setting: Outdoor
Visiting Hours/Restrictions: Grounds open sunrise to sunset
Fee required?: No
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