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Notes

 Press CTRL-F to search.  Index consists of year, and key words and phrases taken from the clippings or describing the historical notes / interviews within five volumes of scrapbooks.  Volume and page numbers were added by Archives.  Indexed by Volunteer Robin Hilborn, 2015.

Huron Township scrapbook index

Page Description 1 1965 “Sale of schools bring pangs of regret to all”. Three Huron twp. schools sold. Alma school. Lake Shore school, S.S. 7. Purple Grove school will serve as community centre.

3 1962 “Homes destroyed by midnight blaze, owner found dead in adjoining stable.” Archie Faulds, con IV of Huron.

5 1961 “Corners landmark to disappear in program of highway widening soon.” Store and service station at intersection of highways 21 and 86. Was hotel; list of owners.

7 1961 Photo. Ripley Chemicals buys Huron Cheese and Butter Co- operative on con 12.

9 1963 Four Atwood men take nine three-week-old wolf cubs from a den near Point Clark. Bounty on wolves.

11 1962 Death of John James Mahood, 81, married in 1925 Laura Griffith; of Kincardine.

13 1964 “Early history of Clarke”. Presbyterian church, 1867. 1900 fire; present church built.

15 1963 “Rugged life of pioneer west coast doctor who was raised in Huron”. Dr. Donald E. McGillivray, raised on con 4, Huron tp. Left in 1900, went to Seattle; born 1872, died 1950.

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17 1963 “Almost half century away from district”. Danny Muscle, i.e. Donald MacLeod, on con 8, Huron tp. Smiths of Orkney.

19 Receipt; blank form. “Pine River Cheese & Butter Co-operative, G.M. Eckmeir, maker”. Ripley.

21 1962 “First lighthouse in Bruce County converted to automatic control after 105 years of constant vigil”. Point Clark lighthouse. Last season for Jack C. Campbell; started 1946. Names of lightkeepers. View of American shore three times a year, 46 miles away. 1953, mirage of Bay City MI visible. 11 years ago, a tidal wave at Point Clark uprooted trees, moved cottages. [seiche]

23 1962 “First lighthouse in Bruce County converted to automatic control after 105 years of constant vigil”. As at page 21, with photo of Jack Campbell.

25 1959 “Historic churches in Huron”. Rev. R.W. James. St. Margaret’s Church, Cape Chin. Recent rectors at Lion’s Head. Christ Church, Lion’s Head.

26 1959 “Cape Croker Village”. Social notes. Akiwenzie. Johnston. Elliott. Tomah. Solomon. Harold Lamorandiere. Keeshig. Nadjiwon. McLeod. Lavallee. Chegahno. McFadden.

27 1964 “Amberley general store sold, Lucknow man takes over March 1”. Ross Shiells. Bob McNay. Built by James Wilkie. Old store torn down in 1956, corner of highways 21 and 86.

29 Ms., 3 pp. Small notepaper. Notes on Moyse, Colborne Twp., in court for contempt, 30-year debentures.

33 1963 “Educational facilities of new school acclaimed at enthusiastic ceremony”. Ripley cornerstone laying. Lyle Martyn.

35 1963 “Do you know your ancestors?”. Alma town plot. Gambles of Pine River in 1856. Mouth of the Lurgan River. Names of 40 settlers from Pine River to Point Clark, the first settlers of Huron twp.

37 1964 “The blacksmith shop at Reid’s Corners”. About 1878; Hurley; Good; Walden. Loft, McDougall. Dismantled.

39 1962 “Wonderous Point Clark mirages like grounded ships, lightkeeper recalls”. Jack C. Campbell retires. Mirages seen from Point Clark

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lighthouse. 1858, top built by six men from Paris; tower built by John Brown of Thorold. Names of workers.

43 1963 “New Bell’s Bridge spanning Pine River officially opened”. First bridge built 1911. 1870, wooden bridge.

45 1962 “MacKenzie clan will perpetuate family name”. At Reid’s Corners, reunion of descendants of Neil Ban MacKenzie and his wife Mary MacRae who came from Nova Scotia in 1859. Family reunion.

47 1962 History of S.S. 3, Huron. 1855, Pine River log schoolhouse. Names of early settlers. Frame school, the “red school”, closed in 1894. Brick school, 1894. “Some of the pupils recall an Indian family camped in MacIntosh’s field. They bade baskets out of black ash found in Charlie McGraw’s bush. Coopers barrel factory in Kincardine. New school at Ripley. Reunion of teachers and students; list of those signing the register.

49 1964 “It has shone for century”, by Ted McCannel, Kitchener-Waterloo Record. Point Clark lighthouse, its history. Whale oil; lamp oil; electricity with batteries. Photos.

53 1964 Death of John A. Campbell of Amberley, married in 1903 Anna Louise Mahood.

53 1964 Death of John MacKenzie, 93, born 1870, married Mary MacDonald of Ripley.

55 1964 “Many memories recalled in history of school on the sixth” concession and 30th sideroad. New school on Patterson farm. New school two miles east of the highway. 1906 diphtheria epidemic: school closed until 1909; all books burned. Names of teachers.

57 1961 Dismantle Purple Grove Wesley Methodist Church, Kinlough area. Kinlough businesses, families. 1855, first church.

59 1961 “Bruce Historical Society met at Ripley” Legion Hall, 90 members and friends at spring meeting. Three histories donated to Society archives: Chepstow; story of Richard Stanley and Deborah Collins; history of McCosh family of Kincardine. Donation of Tweedsmuir Book of Belmore Women’s Institute.

61 Ms., 1 p. “Origin of name of Huron Township” from Nothing but names.

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63 Ms., 5 pp., typed. Transcribed. “Problems of operation and marketing of cheese factories in Western Ontario, with special reference to the Pine River Cheese and Butter Co-operative”, by F.D. Gillies, Dairy Option, Ontario Agriculture College, 1950. Cheddar cheese factories. History of Pine River factory. Price of milk. Cheese sales. Government subsidies. Production weights. Milk routes. Kraft Foods buys all cheese not sold locally: 90-pound cheddar. Local sales. Whey disposal. [71] Huron Cheese Company.

73 Ms., 2 pp. “Visit with Mrs. and Mrs. Jack Campbell at Point Clarke on Sept. 25, 1955”. “This Sunday afternoon Wayne Hepburn drove with me over to Kincardine and Point Clarke. At Point Clarke I called on Jack Campbell who has been keeper of the lighthouse there for the past 8 years.” Built 1857. Stone from Inverhuron and Kingston. Paris light. Mercury floating light. 1913 storm brought bodies to the lighthouse. Passenger pigeons. Unearthed two balls of shot connected by chain; given to the Barrie museum.

75 B/w photo, original print. “Looking north from lighthouse at Clark’s Point”. House, road, beach, waves.

77 1956 100th anniversary of Knox Presbyterian Church, Ripley. History. Gaelic discontinued.

78 1954 Letter to the editor, Feb. 11, 1954, Wiarton Echo, from Walter R. Hamilton of West Vancouver BC, born 1873, moved 1883 to Huron Twp. Miller. Lennox. Danard. “I left the Bruce for the Klondike in ’98 …”

79 Ms., 10 pp. Letter, from Wally Hamilton, Hollyburn, to Bruce Krug, Nov. 14, 1954. Answering the Krug letter of Nov. 3, re the Hamilton letter printed in the Wiarton Echo. “Your idea of writing a history of Bruce is very interesting …” [80] Greenock Swamp; “I knew Cargill …”. Robert Johnston, reeve of Kincardine; John S. McDonald. [81] Edward Blake speaking in Kincardine. [82] Irishman Sammy Davison story and the priest. [84] Story was in Review, as “Pope Daniel”. At school on 12th of Huron, given recess to see the train go through carrying the 32nd Battalion to Goderich for the Riel rebellion. [85] Left in 1898 to go to the Klondike, met a Bruce boy, Dick Smith, a brother of Nelson Smith of Pine River. Met William Harrigan. [86] To Dawson. Met several Bruce boys; Colwell; Mitchell; Morrison; Collins; Niorreson. [87] Bruce people in Vancouver; Ed Mahon of Paisley “did a lot to keep the annual picnic and monthly gatherings alive”; also McBeath of Paisley, Elliott of Lucknow.

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84 1955 “Fled Fenian Raid, dies at age of 101”. William Robert Hayden, born in Toronto 1854, moved to Sheppardton near Goderich.

89 1955 “St. Luke’s Church”, Lurgan, Pine River, near Kincardine. Photos.

91 Booklet, 16 pp. Typeset, small format. “Pioneer days of Point Clark and Huron Township”. [1] By George Jardine, Lucknow, Ont., n.d. [3] “My grandfather, Robert Jardine, was born … in 1811 … married Mary Davidson …”, both of Dumfriesshire, Scotland. 1844, sailed to Canada. “My great uncle was a blacksmith and he and grandfather worked at their trades in Haysville [near St. Mary’s] until 1848 when grandfather decided to come to the shore of Lake Huron to settle. He built a log cabin on the north side of Pine River which at that time was a very beautiful setting for a home. The ridges were covered with pine trees and the hollows with oak. In the fall of 1848 he returned to Haysville for his family and in the Spring of 1849 moved them to Pine River. I am not sure of how they made the trip to Goderich … sail boat to Pine River … walked over a trail …” [4] “About two miles south of the boundary between Huron and Bruce they left the bush trail for the beach and walked along the Lake shore to Pine River …” Log cabin; snow on floor and beds. “In the spring of 1850 Robert Jardine took up land from the Crown …”; lot 5, south of Point Clark. Log house. “James Jardine who was between fourteen and fifteen years of age at the time lived there and cleared the land. Robert Jardine, being a carpenter, made most of the window sash for the log houses in Ashfield, Huron and Kincardine Townships.” Made coffins. “In the fall of 1850 he and William Henry … walked to Port Elgin to get their deeds. [5] McKendrick’s store in Kincardine. James McDonald. At Pine River bridge, attacked by Indians. Lighthouse at Point Clark. Lurgan. Names of lighthouse builders. [6] 1857, Lurgan sawmill, flour mill, houses: names of builders. Names of business owners. Surveying Lurgan. Lighthouse keepers. [8] Huron Township: settlers, schoolhouse; “the French school had been built on the shore above the Tenth Concession”. [9] Alma. School teachers. Pine River dam, mill. First cemetery, an Indian graveyard “north of the mouth of Pine River right on the sand, and the sand blew away exposing the bones …” [10] Cemetery, beside the Indian graveyard, was moved to beside the Anglican Church. Mailmen; post offices; postman frozen to death. 1860s, Dan Campbell and James Jardine had a large rowboat, took ashes to Kincardine to make potash for soap. [11] Wrecks at Point Clark. [12] “Some time in the fifties…” Indians buried a keg of gold a half mile or less south of Point Clark, which keg was never found. 1893/94 raft of logs ashore. [13] Wrecks of 1908, 1910/11, 1913. After Nov. 9, 1913 storm “I found one man on the sand at the water’s edge, and [14] I found six men and one woman between my home and the Lighthouse …” Around Point Clark, “There

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are almost one hundred cottages there at the present time …” [15] Murdoch McDonald was lightkeeper.

93 Ms., 4 pp. Transcribed. “One hundred years since first settlers arrived from Isle of Lewis.” Top of page 94 is inscribed, “was an account writted by the late Angus Martyn in the History of Bruce County; written by Donald J. MacDonald, Josephine Gamble, Albert Wylds”. [93] “September of this year (1952) marks the centennial of the coming of the original Lewis settlers … settled in the central part of Huron township.” From three miles west of Ripley, along con 8 towards Pine River. “Eleven farms in this three mile stretch are still worked by descendants of these settlers”; named. Names of people of Ripley. [94] Settler leave Lewis. The Lewis Settlement. [96] Arrival in Bruce County, in the centre of Huron Township; 1851 survey; 1852 land sale. See also Yemen, Scrapbooks, “The Lewis Settlement”, p. 112.

97 Ms., 3 pp. “Visit with Ogle Duggan, Poplar Beach – Kincardine, Feb. 24, 1957”. “This Sunday afternoon I visited with Mr. and Mrs. Ogle Duggan at the farm at Poplar Beach, south of Kincardine, being Lot 52, Lake Range, Huron Township.” Grandfather Alexander Duggan had 15 children, near Belleville; train to Goderich, boat to Kincardine. A character, John McQuilland, on con 10 and the lakeshore road; wife Emilie; weaver; liked drink. [98] His house burns; to County Home at Walkerton. Taverns at intervals along the lake shore from Goderich to Kincardine. [99] Found box of books labelled “Azov”, washed ashore, library stamp “Sailors Mission – Loan Library”. Mrs. Miller has a chair washed ashore from Erie Belle.

101 Ms., 2 pp. Transcribed. “Letters describe early county settlement, by J.F. Yemen”. “To page 421 of The History of the County of Bruce the following footnote is appended: ‘The author … thanks to Mr. Welsh’ …” [see foot of p. 421]. Reference to letters on “The Settlement and the Woods of our County” by Mr. Welsh, in Kincardine Review, spring 1904. “A generation has passed since these [letters] were written and it is hoped that many may still find them interesting. Mrs. James Taylor has kindly loaned her father’s scrapbook containing them. Mr. Welsh died in 1932 in his eighty-ninth year. The first letter by Mr. Welsh reads: <> ”. Wilderness. Streams. Trees. Fringe of shrubs at the shore.

103 Ms., 2 pp. Transcribed. “#2. This is the second of a series by the late William Welsh on the settlement and woods of the county.” This text is taken from Yemen, Scrapbooks, “Letters describing early county settlement”, p. 25. The Pine River. Ridges of land. Oak and pine made

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“a very close shade, a great protection to the Indians who camped there regularly and whose wigwams might often be seen summer and winter.” Erosion of shore road. Timbered land; hemlock; maple; beech.

105 Ms., 2 pp. Transcribed. “#3. Dec. 1938. The third of a series of letters by the late William Welsh concerns an early phase of district doings, Indian sugar making. Sugar maple trees; method.

106 Ms., 3 pp. Transcribed. “No. 4. Dec. 15, 1938. Kincardine, in its early days is described in the fourth letter of the late William Walsh.” 1849, open for settlement. 1852, Pentagore town lots. Hemlock. Birdseye maple. Curly maple. Silver maple.

108 Ms., 3 pp. Transcribed. “No. 5.” Hop hornbeam. Blue beech. Ash. Cherry. Mountain Ash. Poplar. Basswood. Willow. Balsam.

111 Ms., 18 pp. Transcribed. “Welsh family pioneered Huron wilderness as Queen’s Bush opened – Story of Huron Township Settlers”, by J.F. Yemen. “The recent death of Matthew Welsh who lived in Huron Township eighty-three years and seven months …” 1772 Bible of Catherine Biggar, married Thomas Welsh; ten children; he died 1856. [112] The Welsh family. Mary Hendry. [115] McCosh. McRindle. Henderson. McKenzie. Young. Gamble. [116] To Goderich for supplies [118] 1855, first school at Pine River. Blair sawmill, 1855. [120] 1866, Mechanics Institute in Kincardine. Tree chopping. Housewife’s recipes. [122] Horse at mouth of Pine River. 1858 Anglican Church. [123] Presbyterian Church, 1864. Alma village. Greenham. [124] Thomas Yemen marries Jane Welsh, 1865. [127] “Letters continued to pass over the sea from America …” [passage from Yemen, Scrapbooks, p. 84] 1867, death of Catherine Biggar, 85. [128] [end of passage from Yemen]

129 Ms., 2 pp. Transcribed. “Interesting career closed with Matt Yemen’s death in South Africa”, in 1949. By J.F. Yemen, 1949. [passage in Scrapbooks, p. 221] Boer War.

131 Ms., 2 pp. Transcribed. “From Bruce County to new South African home”, by J.F. Yemen. Kincardine News, Nov. 23, 1944. [passage in Scrapbooks, p. 221] Boer War. [132] Matt Yemen (1879-1949) married Belle (?-1950).

133 Ms., 5 pp. Transcribed. “Matthew Yemen honored – Presented with a gold watch at Ripley”. “The presentation to Matthew Yemen in the agricultural hall, Ripley …” For his military services in South Africa. History of the campaign. Boer War.

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139 Ms., 2 pp. Transcribed. “Recalls trip across ocean”, by Jane F. Yemen, as told to her by Wm. Welsh, 86; he was ten years old when in 1853 the Albion left the Clyde. Icebergs. Quebec City.

141 Ms., 4 pp. Transcribed. “Snowden family long associates with life of lake shore area”, by Jane F. Yemen, in Kincardine News, June 3, 1948. “The varied origins of the men and women who made log shanties …” John Snowdon crossed Atlantic in 1845. [142] 1857, John and Mary Cochrane set out for Pine River. [143] Visit from “Indians from the Reserve and Mission at Southampton. They regularly made visits to the mouth of Pine River to gather willows for basket making, to collect herbs and roots for remedies for illnesses and called upon all the settlers in the community to trade their clothes baskets, chaff baskets, work baskets, school baskets …” Barter with Indians. Greenham. Inglis.

145 Ms., 3 pp. Transcribed. “Pioneer Days”, by Jane F. Yemen. “The verses given below were found by Mr. Alex Thomson of Ayr … appeared in a Waterloo County paper in 1848, being written by Mr. Walter Anderson. Poem, in “braid Scots”: “A disgusted emigrant. I was well and wad be better … But I maun stop or loons will laugh at / My disconsolate harangue.”

149 Ms., 4 pp. Transcribed. “Closing of Alma Church averted by Huron people” by J.F. Yemen, Kincardine News, Oct. 10, 1940. From the London Free Press. Origin of name Alma. Gamble. Greenham. Watson. History of Alma Church. Emmerton. Cemetery by the water; bones exposed in the sand; skeleton revealed.

153 Ms., 2 pp. Transcribed. “Pioneer Days”, by Miss J. Yemen, 1934. “The letter which appears below is the property of Mr. Matthew Welsh …” Letter, from Robert Welsh, at Portsmouth, to Thomas Welsh, Glasgow, July 17, 1799, on leaving for Charleston SC on a trading venture. [passage in Scrapbooks, p. 178]

155 Ms., 3 pp. Transcribed. “Pioneer Days – 1934”, by Miss Yemen. “Editor, Kincardine Review-Reporter: Dear Sir – I enclose clipping from the Grand Forks Herald …” Neil McDougall. James A. Bottineau. Thornburn/Thorburn. Asia disaster. “… captains I have met: … first steamboat on the east shore of Lake Huron, Captain Duncan Rowans, and his boat the Silver Spray …”

159 Ms., 3 pp. Transcribed. “New version given of foundering of the Asia”, by James A. Thorburn, Tioga ND. Comments of Yemen re “irreconcilable diversities of details”. Manner of launching the lifeboat. Presence of a

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travelling sawmill boiler on deck. Passage appears in Scrapbooks, p. 177.

163 Ms., 4 pp. Transcribed. “Pioneer Days”, by Jane Yemen. “Correction. A reader has kindly called my attention to erroneous statements in my story of Miss Morrison …”. History of the Thorburn family of North Dakota. Mr. McDougall. Thorburn, in 1852, to Goderich and to the beach one and a half miles south of Point Clark. Fraser mill at Point Clark. “My father, John Thorburn married Agnes Fraser in 1867.” Passage appears in Scrapbooks, pp. 186-7.

167 Ms., 2 pp. Transcribed. “Pioneer Days”, by Miss J. Yemen; in Kincardine Review Reporter, 1934. “The famous County of Bruce in early days”, Omemee, N. Dakota, July 25, 1934. “In a recent issue of your paper I read of the burning of an old schooner …” First wagon in Bruce County, owned by Robert Bell, in 1850, near Port Elgin; sons John and William Bell took the wagon to Portage La Prairie. Passage appears in Scrapbooks, pp. 25-6.

169 Ms., 2 pp. Transcribed. “Pioneer Days”, in Kincardine Review-Reporter, 1934, by Miss J. Yemen. “Louis Bellemore” at Pine River in summer 1848, ex-HBC employee. Sign, “A French Tavern”. Larry Bellemore. Passage appears in Scrapbooks, p. 51.

171 Ms., 4 pp. Transcribed. “Pioneer Days”, by Jane Welsh Yemen, 1844- 1924. “The following reminiscences were written by the late Mrs. Thomas Yemen and read at a Women’s Institute in Ripley in 1920 …” Sailing from Goderich. Shanty with a bark roof. McCosh. McCrindle. Animals, fruit, flowers. Lighthouse, churches. Passage appears in Scrapbooks, pp. 174-5.

175 Ms., 3 pp. Transcribed. “The passenger pigeon in Bruce County”. “Norman Robertson … wild pigeon … pigeon pie was a common dish in those days …”. Quotations from various sources: 1876, Paisley Advocate, “The immense flocks of pigeons …”. 1934, Toronto Globe, “In Amabel Township … large rookery of wild pigeons about 1865-1875.” (B.C. Ashcroft of Colpoys Bay) Kincardine News, Miss J.F. Yemen: “Having been for many years interested in birds … fatally gregarious habit … going to their rookery in Ashfield township, Huron county …”

179 Ms., 4 pp. Transcribed. “Pioneer Days”, Jane F. Yemen, 1934. “In quiet unhurried tones Mrs. Esther Huston of Durham street gave me word pictures of life in Huron bush. ‘In 1855 my father Richard Martin …’ ”. Lot 21 on the 20th sideroad. Lost in the woods. Scarlet fever and Diphtheria. The baby wanders away. Househould hints; cooking. Post

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office; nearest was Pine River, a five-mile walk for the Martins. “Indians frequently camped in the woods on both sides of the road where the Bowers afterwards located. They were very friendly with the settlers, and especially with the young folk, who often visited them. Frequently they would sing hymns, for they had especially sweet voices. They made many sorts of baskets, gaudily and tastefully dyed, with vegetable products at hand. They went about the neighbourhood exchanging baskets for pork, flour, etc.” Fruit, beechnuts. Frightening things, to children: Jack o’Lantern, a fearsome light which floated about; balls of fire that fell and travelled along the ground.

183 Ms., 1 pp. Transcribed. “Death of Mrs. Johnston Huston, on September 23 at Kincardine.” Esther Ann Martin, con. 4, Huron twp. Born 1854. [no death date] [repeats parts of article at p. 179]

185 Ms., 5 pp. Transcribed. “Story of Pine River – Mrs. William Steele”. Kincardine News, March 1945. “When the government divided Alma into town lots … St. Luke’s Anglican …” Anglican and Presbyterian cemeteries. School, S.S. 1 in Alma. Hicks gristmill and sawmill. Capt. Gamble’s store in Alma. Watson. Lighthouse keepers; their lives. [186] May 24 picnics, etc. at Point Clark. Perch fishing offshore; black bass in Pine River. Berries. Wilkie. Cardis. Blue. [187] Shaw wagon shop. Brown. Owen. Humphrey. Steele. Thompson. Churchs. Courtney store. Baillie. Harrigan. Keiffer. Fraser. Wilkie. [188] Mail; Ray. Campbell. Harvesting with cradle and flail; threshing; separator. Milk, butter, cream. [189] Institute Hall, Pine River; Granger. Good. Walden. Baiton. Loft. McTavish. The swindle of the West Shore Electric Railway; John Moyes.

191 Ms., 2 pp. Transcribed. “Sentinel story of dark day”. From the Lucknow Sentinel, Lucknow, Ont. “There are few of the younger generation … story of the Dark Day. It happened 63 years ago on September 5th. Bush fire in Michigan. Account reprinted, “The Dark Day – Great excitement in Lucknow. The afternoon and evening … strangest sights … yellowish cloud appeared on the southern horizon …” Sky a greenish- yellow, then red. Dark cloud; dead calm; thunder; ashes fell.

193 Ms., 4 pp. Transcribed. “Timid in panic when day became night”, by Victor Lauriston, London Free press. Huron County, Black Monday, Sept. 5, 1881. Forest fires in Upper Michigan. Account reprinted from Goderich newspaper of Sept. 6. Wroxeter impressed. Brussels account, and Jamestown, Seaforth. Bush fires.

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195 Ms., 1 p. Transcribed. “Battles, paying freak bets were after-election sprees”. London Free Press. 1854, William Cayley defeated Thomas McQueen. Votes cast. Cayley agent in bar fight.

197 1954 “Link with first Bruce land survey”. Photo, log building on Con. 1, Kinloss. 1847, first land in Bruce County surveyed into farm lots was on con. 1, Kinloss. Stanley farm; Ddescription of log building.

199 1953 Poem, “Bruce County Ballad”, Canadian Home Journal. “O, will he not come home again? … Though soft the breezes blow?”. By Mentie Du Val.

203 Ms., 30 pp. Transcribed. “George Blair’s Diary”, edited by Jane F. Yemen. Printed in Kincardine News, Dec. 1935 and Jan. 1936. [See original (printed) text at p. 160, Scrapbooks of J.F. Yemen, 1850–1950, Chapter 9, George Blair’s Diary.] “The Trail to the Cariboo in 1862”. “The Gold Rush to Cariboo is quite forgotten, for it was in 1861. …” William Blair, “Cariboo Bill” Blair, to Huron Twp. in May 1849; first settlers Holmes, Blair, Wanamsher, Donelly, Walden. Pine River sawmill, built at the south end of the Blair farm. Blair diary is still legible after 73 years. “George Blair’s Diary” [transcription] “Note – The Daily Colonist, Victoria, B.C., Apr. 5, 1936, published this Diary commencing at ‘We left San Francisco March 24 …’ It was illustrated with B.C. scenes and a photo of George Blair 1832-1897. … Jean Blair, Vancouver … 1945 … asking for a copy of the ‘Diary’ … ”. George and William Blair left Huron Twp. in 1862. To B.C. via Panama. [226] Williams Creek. [228] Anstead of Paisley wrote 18 letters to Canadian newspapers about B.C. and the Cariboo. [232] Blair left Williams Creek in 1864, returned home.

233 Ms., 21 pp., typed version of ms. at p. 203; some pages carbon copies. “George Blair’s Diary – Edited by Jane F. Yeman [sic]”. “The Trail to the Cariboo in 1862”. “The Gold Rush to Cariboo is quite forgotten, for it was in 1861. …” Ends, p. 279: “ … we made the upper end of Williams Lake and next day at noon Williams ranch where there are three small stores. We bought five pounds of beans at 75 cents”. Incomplete manuscript. [See original (printed) text at p. 160, Scrapbooks of J.F. Yemen, 1850–1950, Chapter 9, George Blair’s Diary.]

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