Our Very Own ‘Mighty Mississippi‘

Once a powerhouse for milling operations, the river that runs through the municipality of Mississippi Mills now serves to enrich the local lifestyle

- Karen Hirst

Quaint, charmingand picturesque, the villages and towns that dot the banks of the mighty Mississippi River flowing through the municipality of Mississippi Mills in eastern Ontario immerse visitors and inhabitants alike in the essence and soul of their historic origins. Not only that, these long established communities exude passion and energy as they transform vision and potential into concrete action and results.

Comprising the amalgamated communities of Almonte, Pakenham, Appleton and Clayton, as well as the rural areas of Ramsay Township, the municipality shares a 130-year history of woollen mill operations along the banks of the Mississippi River. Each community continues to share with equal pride and gusto the binding ties of the river that flows through them.

With its torrential awakening in the spring, a mellowing flow through the lazy, hazy days of summer and on into the mystical, crystallizing dress of winter, each community experiences its own unique display of the river’s power, its beauty and joyful gaiety and playfulness as it tumbles and rumbles, taking passage under the pathways above and over rocks and deepening excavations in the river bed below.

APPLETON