Norman Weekes and Elsie Jamieson
	Name:	William J. Norman Weekes
	Birth:	5.29.1891
	Death:	11.26.1978
	Grave:	Lanark Village Cemetery, Lanark
	Spouse:	Elsie Gillies Jamieson
	Birth:	1900 (July 12, 1898)
	Death:	1967
	Grave:	Lanark Village Cemetery, Lanark
	Marriage:	Jan. 2, 1929
	Parents:	Norman: John Alexander Weekes and Hannah Gallagher Elsie: James and S.A. Jamieson
William J. Norman Weekes

Norman and Elva

Norman Weekes was an energetic and creative personality. This is believed to be his first model of a snow machine. It was powered by a four cylinder Indian motorcycle engine driving a propeller. Two levers inside turned the assembly holding the propeller in order to provide steering. It traveled very quickly over snow, with a great deal of noise. The police forced Norman to take the machine off the highway because he was frightening horses. They made him remove the propeller on the spot, and Roy towed him home. The photo is probably from the early 1930's.

Norman dismantled the machine and the propeller hung in the drive shed in Lombardy for many years after that. He then built a snow machine with skis on the back. Memories are a bit vague, but it had some sort of a tubular frame within which an engine was mounted crossways, connected to chains which in turn drove slats which provided forward motion.

Among his other creations were several models of chain and mobile blade saws, the sight of certain models having created a bit of concern among neighbors. Among his many projects was the building of the Four Mile Inn service station in 1932.

Lanark Era, Feb. 6, 1929

Smiths Falls, UC manse, Jan. 2nd, 1929, Elsie Gillies Jamieson, daughter of Mrs. S.A. Jamieson and the late James Jamieson of Lanark, ON, to William Norman Weekes, son of Mr. & Mrs. John Weekes of Lombardy.

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