So, my mom and I went for a drive in the country to pick up some skis and stopped by Carlsbad springs to poke around.  Here’s what we found:

The Arbuckle property (Concession VII, South 1/2 of lot 2) at Carlsbad springs is now National Capital Commission land;  there’s no evidence of a structure on the property; boo hiss.  Here’s the piece of land I’m talking about; the greyed out area was the town area.

So, I went to the land registry office in Ottawa and found the microfilm with records for the land parcel. The 100 acre land patent was awarded to a George Brownlee in 1837; Jane Arbuckel and Isabella Patterson inherited 50 acres each in 1867. These women then transferred the properties to their husbands James Arbuckel and Martin Patterson. I’m assuming that these women were Brownlee’s daughters, but I haven’t been able to find any records for this Brownlee family.

James Arbuckel mortgaged the property on 23 April 1878 for $200. I think this was to buy out the Patterson 50 acres because on 1 October, 1879 the whole 100 acre property was transferred from James Arbuckle to Jane Arbuckle (wife) and Samuel Arbuckle (son) in his will. On 3 December 1881, Samuel Arbuckle transferred the deed for part of the lot (3 & 55/100 acre) to the Canada A.R.R Company.

From here, I’m a knob. I think I must have missed a page in the records, because I don’t have any information about what finally happened to the land.   More will follow.