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September 2006 NEWSandviews The Quarterly Newsletter of the Simcoe County Historical Association Vol. 34, No. 3 ISSN 0700-4427 In this issue... New Location for our New Year Please plan to join us in September For our October meeting, we SCHA Fall Speakers ................ 1 in the Angus Ross Room of the welcome Paul Delaney of Trent SCHA 2006-2007 .................... 1 Barrie Public Library, 60 Worsley University. Paul started working at President’s Message.................. 2 Street. For the following months, we Sainte-Marie 40 years ago this will return to Parkview Centre, 189 summer as a ticket-seller; he became SCHA Executive ...................... 2 Blake Street, Barrie. The Simcoe the first Director of the site itself in Aboriginal WWI Hero Honoured County Museum is currently not 1969 upon graduation from Trent at Base Borden ......................... 3 available as our meeting location, and the Education Faculty at the Official Grand Opening of the except for our Heritage Week event. University of Toronto. He resigned Simcoe County Museum ......... 3 This month, we carry on a new in 1973 to join CUSO and went off to Nigeria to teach. In later years, he Simcoe County Museum tradition by having our Andrew was a member of the Huronia Samplers ................................... 4 Hunter Prize winner present her paper to the membership. Virginia Historical Advisory Council and a Fall Meeting Details for Orillia Morrow’s essay “The Settlement charter member of the Friends of and Tecumseth and West Patterns of Specific Ethnic Groups in Sainte-Marie. Gwillimbury ............................. 4 Early Ontario: Simcoe County as a In November, Donna Wice will lead Farms of Innisfil Order Form .... 5 Case Study” will provide a a conversation about her experiences Nine Mile Portage Heritage stimulating topic for our evening at writing and publishing local history Festival ..................................... 6 the library. in Innisfil. Royal Newfoundland Regiment Bulger’s Company Garrison SCHA 2006-2007 Schedule Weekend ................................... 6 September 19 – Andrew Hunter Prize winner, Virginia Morrow presents her paper at the Barrie Public Library, Angus Ross Room, 7:30 p.m. Governor Simcoe Reprint ......... 7 October 17 – Paul Delaney, former director of Sainte-Marie Among the Andrew Hunter Award ............ 7 Hurons, brings Tales from the Early Days, at the Parkview Centre, 7:30 p.m. Coming Events ........................ 8 November 21 – Donna Wice, author Farms of Innisfil, provides details on Visit our Website the publication of the upcoming book, at the Parkview Centre 7:30 p.m. February 17 – Heritage Week Saturday Seminar – Ellen Millar, Simcoe www.simcoecountyhistory.ca County Archives, and Darryl Wines, Simcoe County Museum, Preservation of your Historical Treasures, Simcoe County Museum, time and cost TBA March 20 – Fred Addis, Curator of the Leacock Museum, at the Orillia Museum of Art and History, 7:30 p.m. Preserving the Past, April 17 – TBA, at the Parkview Centre, 7:30 p.m. in the Present, May 15 – Annual General Meeting for the Future. NEWSandviews 1 President’s Message For some time now, academic research and the public … as well as for the work of professional historians have been aware that the address how history can be made historians has not kept pace. Why is general public is paying less and less meaningful and accessible to the that? Is it merely a question of attention to their work. The gap public.” accessibility, approach, research between the academic community Two very important conferences to interest, or meaning? If it were only so. and communities at large continues be sure. There was a time when How is it that The Bradford West to grow. all Canadian historians were Gwillimbury Local History In a bid to better understand the “amateurs.” Simcoe County’s Association’s Governor Simcoe reasons why, two important Andrew Hunter is a particularly fine Slept Here could sell 1,000 copies in conferences will explore the example. In the early 20th century, less than three months late last year, situation in 2007. The theme of next the discipline professionalized. To be necessitating another printing? Not year’s Atlantic Canada Studies an historian came to mean graduate bad in a country where a national Conference, to be held early next and post-graduate degrees usually best seller is 5,000 copies. I predict May in Halifax, is “Knowledge in backed by a teaching position in a equally brisk sales for the Innisfil Action.” The conference’s call for university.* Historical Society’s, soon to be papers states that “organizers are With the rise of professional released, Farms of Innisfil. So, be particularly interested in papers that historians, the nourishing link sure to order yours today. explore process of knowledge between historians and their When academic historians figure out translation between university communities tended to languish. As why such books are so popular and settings and the broader public, history migrated from the humanities seek out opportunities to engage and community-based research projects, towards the social sciences, what the assist local groups on a long-term and descriptions of collaborative and public expected and demanded of its co-operative basis (and receive interdisciplinary research projects.” historians was something the professional credit for doing so) For its part, the Canadian Historical historians increasingly appeared then and only then will conferences Association's annual meeting, to be loath to provide. Biography was all on “Knowledge in Action” and held in Saskatoon in late May, has as but abandoned and local history “Bridging Communities” cease to be its “overarching” theme: “Bridging frowned upon. The individual and both topical and necessary. Communities: Making Public the unique had to give way to the Knowledge, Making Knowledge collective and, if not general laws, at *For a recent study of this process, I Public.” At this conference, least broad social movements. recommend Donald Wright’s, The Professionalization of History in English “Scholars are encouraged to consider While the public’s craving for Canada (Toronto: University of Toronto the connections between historical history has not abated, its appetite Press, 2005). Simcoe County Historical Association Executive You are invited to submit Brad Rudachyk, President 726-7380 [email protected] photos and articles regarding Mark Fisher, Second Vice President 728-3825 [email protected] your historical happenings in Simcoe County. Photos will Peter Wiseman, Treasurer 725-0224 be returned. Jill Hynes, Corresponding Secretary 739-6220 [email protected] Mail to SCHA, Box 144, Ellen Millar, Recording Secretary 726-9300 ext. 1287 Barrie, ON L4M 4S9. [email protected] Deadline for the For Membership Information, contact next issue is Bill Packham, Membership Chair 739-0906 [email protected] November 25, 2006 2 NEWSandviews Aboriginal WWI Hero Honoured at Base Borden by Bill Packham The date – June 6, 2006, the Corporal Francis Pegahmagabow Many of Corporal Pegahmagabow’s anniversary of the famous WWII D- Born into the Caribou Clan of the descendants, including his daughter, Day invasion Shawanaga First Nation on Georgian grandchildren and great-grandchildren, The Place – Building 113, the Bay on March 8, 1889, Corporal plus many other members of the headquarters of the 3rd Canadian Pegahmagabow was the most highly Wasauksing First Nation, near Parry Ranger Patrol Group at Base Borden decorated aboriginal to serve with the Sound, were in attendance and participated in the moving ceremony. The Event – The Official Naming Canadian Expeditionary Force during Ceremony for the Corporal Francis WWI. Pegahmagabow was a trench Pegahmagabow MM Building raider, messenger, superior scout, and expert sniper who was awarded the Military Medal three times for his courage and exploits. The medals were presented to him by Prince Edward, who later became King Edward VIII. Corporal Pegahmagabow died in hospital in Parry Sound on August 5, 1952. The ceremony at Base Borden this past June was a mixture of both military and aboriginal pomp, presided over by The Honourable James K. Bartleman, Lieutenant Governor of Ontario, a A cairn beside the flag pole in front of Simcoe County native of aboriginal the building was erected using stones ancestry; Brigadier-General G.R. from the Parry Island/Parry Sound Thibault, CD, Commander of the Land area where the Corporal was a tribal Force Central Area; and Colonel leader among other distinctions Stewart E. Moore, CD, Commander following the war. The plaque on this Canadian Forces Support Training cairn commemorates his life and Group/Base Borden. achievements. Official Grand Opening of the Simcoe County Museum Wednesday, June 28th was a day of The Simcoe County Museum is open great celebration at the Simcoe year round, seven days a week. County Museum when the ribbon- Hours are Monday to Saturday, 9:00 cutting ceremony and unveiling of a.m. to 4:30 p.m. and Sunday, 1 p.m. the Museum Donor Wall marked the to 4:30 p.m. It is located at 1151 culmination of partnership and Highway 26, Midhurst, Ontario, construction at this expanded site. minutes northwest of Barrie. The newest wing showcases At the ribbon cutting, left to right: enlarged, state-of-the-art meeting David Walker, Campaign Chair space for use by partner groups, new interpretive rooms for educational Caroline Di Cocco, Minister of programs, a research library, a new Culture gift shop, an orientation gallery, and Daniel Bone, 2006 winner of new offices for the Huronia Tourism Simcoe County Historica Fair Association. Warden Terry Geddes NEWSandviews 3 Simcoe County Museum Samplers by Joan Hodges The Simcoe County Museum has a A lovely booklet “The 1828 Walls sizeable sampler collection including Sampler” has been produced by the two lovely samplers stitched by Simcoe County Museum staff. It Margaret Walls. The first, completed includes a cover picture of the new in 1828 when Margaret was 11 years sampler, a page of Walls family old, was the focus of interest at the history, and instructions with a July 9th “Summer Sunday” at the complete chart for stitching Museum.