(As eiven by Mirs.E.T.Younghusband at an Institute keeting, September, 1959). Last spring when CGerald Gow gave up driving the mail it touched off a lot of conâ€" troversy about mail and mailâ€"drivingâ€"â€"when who droveâ€"â€"how longâ€"â€"etc.and gave me the idea for this paper. For such information as I have gathered I am indebted to lirs.Â¥ernon Perry, "T.Anthony Honaghan, Nr.K.A.Greene, Nr.llenry MieOustt, my husband and a few words here uand there from uthers. I am also indebted to Lir.George Kennedy for the use of his 1879 listory . of Carleton County. The first record I found regerding meil distribution was in this old history in the section on Torbolton: " Henry !‘cLaren, the fifth man to settle in Torbolton in 1224 vas © drowned two years later by the upsetting of his canoe when he was returning from warch there there was,this early,a postâ€"office established, and whither he had been to receive a letter from his mother in Scotland." Beside this item was a picture entitled," The first postâ€"office in Liarch, 1845â€"â€"Thomas Read, Postmaster." From this we cen infer that one of the first settlers of llarch, Lieut.Thomas Read, who settled on land between what is now "ilson‘s and Finhey‘s, must have been in cherge of biarch postâ€"office in.1826. To bear this out some of you Institute members have told me of a picnic you had when bessie and Jessie "ilson took you in past their place along the Riverâ€"front to the site of the first gostâ€" office in larch. lail to this probably came by water until roads were built back into the centre of the township. Ceptein Street was the next Postmaster and a story is told of ten dollars disappearâ€" ing on which Captain Street at once called a meeting of his neighbours to clear his honour. The result of the meeting was that they declared him without blemish. by 1879 Lir.W.il.terry was Postmaster and the office was now named North Warch (probably following establishment of South Terch). He was succeeded byBilly Williams (where Wilsons are now) and in l1912â€"14 by Yernon ferry. You will be interested in this comment in the 1879 History: " There seenms to be a patriotism, us it were, among the people of lierch Township, which induces them to call everything by the name of liarch. The Township is karch, one postâ€"office is South . arch the other is Forth larch, the only village of any size is llarch Cornersâ€"â€"we prosume when yas requfrements of the people demand the establishment of other postâ€"offices, they will " ie nemed East Warch, West Liarch, etc." {Another one was nomed Larchuinst.) In 1878 there ves deily meil to and from Ottawa to South iiarch. This postâ€"office had been established ‘ a freat many years before with a ir.Goodman, one of the oldest settlers in the vicinity, ar the first Postmaster. le is mentioned as a township officer in 1842. lirs.berry rememâ€" birs vhen David Nellurtry built the big stone house on the north corner at South Larch and kept the post-orfiée there. He was the Postmaster when the 1879 listory was written. "r. Fhil Orchard is remembered by many as the mailâ€"courier who, for rany years brough b