Louis Peterson

Almost everything I know about Louis Peterson is anecdotal, since by the time I arrived in Almonte in 1976, he had already been retired for a number of years. Of course his fame was that he had started Peterson Ice Cream Company, located in an old woollen mill factory on Mill Street across from John Kerry’s furniture store. The building has since been torn down, after the business (being then run by his son, Jack) essentially failed, and the property was sold in succession, first to Wilson Bassile and then Stephen Brathwaite (who wanted the property to complete his Monopoly-like collection of buildings along the riparian side of Mill Street, Almonte).