A2014.003.0557 – Bruce A. Krug, Huron Township Scrapbook Index
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A2014.003.0557 – Bruce A. Krug, Huron Township Scrapbook Index 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. A2004.003.0557 – Bruce A. Krug, Huron Township Scrapbooks Index 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 Bruce County Museum & Cultural Centre 2 A2004.003.0557 – Bruce A. Krug, Huron Township Scrapbooks Index 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. Bruce County Museum & Cultural Centre 3 A2004.003.0557 – Bruce A. Krug, Huron Township Scrapbooks Index 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. Bruce County Museum & Cultural Centre 4 A2004.003.0557 – Bruce A. Krug, Huron Township Scrapbooks Index 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.