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A2014.003.0546 – Bruce A. Krug, Amabel Township Scrapbook Index Notes • Indexed by Volunteer Robin Hilborn, 2014 • Press CTRL-F to search • Index consists of year, and key words and phrases taken from the clippings or describing the historical notes / interviews • Scrapbooks contain newspaper clippings, interspersed with manuscript interviews. There are the occasional b/w photos (original prints). • Page numbers were added by Archives. • Many events in this scrapbook refer to Wiarton Amabel Township Scrapbook Index Page 1 1965 When Father was a Lad [Wiarton Echo]. [News from 20, 35, 50, 65 years ago] Bruce Battalion to train in Walkerton this summer. Military content. 2 1965 Letter, re Hugh MacMillan in Wiarton area, 1845-50. Letter, re Millor cut timber around Wiarton, on White Cloud Island, picnicked at Oliphant. 2 1965 When Father was a Lad [Echo]. [News from 20, 35, 50, 65 years ago] Military content. Tobermory wireless radio station guarded by 25 volunteers. 3 1964 When Father was a Lad [Echo]. [News from 20, 35, 50, 65 years ago] Military content. 50 Years Ago: “Pang John Lee, who has been in business in Southampton for the past two years, has started a laundry in the building next to Parker’s butcher shop …” 65 years ago: telephone line from Lion’s Head to Spry; no electric light Tuesday night; scow loses Seaman’s timber near Hope Bay in gale. 4 1964 When Father was a Lad [Echo]. [News from 20, 35, 50, 65 years ago] Military content. 50 years ago: Kastner Lumber; Cement Plant. 65 years: Western Ontario phone directory out; Wiarton has 57 telephones. Jermyn mill at Dyers Bay; Wiarton Beet Sugar Mfg. 5 1965 When Father was a Lad [Echo]. Military content. 65 years ago: 300 lb. brown bear; men off to work on Rainy River Railroad; men in sugar beet manufacture. 6 1965 Auction, Sam Reckin, con. 19, Keppel Twp.; horses, cattle implements, household effects – organ 80 years old. 7 1964 91st birthday of William John Stead of Wiarton, settled in 1875 at Pike Bay, ran sawmill at Stokes Bay. 8 1964 When Father was a Lad [Echo]. Military content. 35 years ago: fish nets removed from restricted area of Colpoy’s Bay; utilities plants at Wiarton, Southampton and Walkerton operating under strict economy. 50 years ago: Southampton trainman sent to Kingston pen for indecent assault [law/crime]. 9 1964 When Father was a Lad [Echo]. Military content. 50 years ago: tug Pedwell almost swamped; eggs in fish hatchery. 65 years: J.P. Newman has a new phone; Sugar Beet Co., Thos. Lyne. 10 1964 Letter to editor from Douglas R. Olover, Muskoka, Ont. Plaque at Lion’s Head to John Pearson, V.C.; Charles Bell; Indian Mutiny. 11 1964 When Father was a Lad [Echo]. Military content. 50 years ago: three- foot-long wild cat; C.L. Byers pulpwood. 65 years: stock sold in sugar beets; grist mill of Petman sold to Hunter, at Oxenden. 12 1965 92nd birthday of William Mason 1873-? of Amabel Twp.; married Annabel McKenzie ?-1916. 13 1964 When Father was a Lad [Echo]. Military content. 20 years ago: Chief Thomas Jones of Cape Croker in five-hour road trip to Wiarton. 50 years ago: Will Simpson keeps Tobermory light. 65 years ago: Electric Light Co. gets new dynamo; kalsomining and painting the Town Hall. Gunson and Soper cut logs on White Cloud Island. 14 1965 When Father was a Lad [Echo]. Military content. 35 years ago: two timber wolves shot. 50 years ago: Woolen and Knitting Mills. 65 years ago: application made for railroad on Manitoulin. 15 1965 Wiarton’s McNeill mansion, 82 years old, 17 rooms, hit by vandals, to be restored; owner C.H. Franklin of Toronto; photos. 16 1965 “May move old log school to Sauble Beach Park as Amabel Township museum”; 90 years old, it sits about five miles inland from Sauble Beach; Jessie Seaman; photo. 2 18 1965 When Father was a Lad [Echo]. Military content. 50 years ago: Bruce Peninsula Railway running. 65 years ago: rail spur to beet sugar factory. 20 1965 When Father was a Lad [Echo]. 50 years ago: “No less than seven autos passed through Colpoy’s Bay on Sunday”. 65 years ago: Death by drowning of Harry Varco, Joe Milton. Citizen’s Band. 22 1965 “First school reunion of U.S.S. No. 5 school”, Amabel and Keppel; County Line School. 24-26 Ms., 3 pp., numbered -3- and -4-. Transcription of the latter part of an unidentified article on the history of Wiarton. Starts: “The first missionary in these parts was Rev. James McGuire”; ends: “… not been slow to take advantage of this fact.” Echo founded, 1879. Port Dover and Lake Huron Railway. First steamboat at Wiarton harbour, Champion. Petrel, Okonra, Prince Alfred, Wiarton Bell, Wm. Alderson, Jane Miller. “As an Industrial Centre”. Docks. Shipping. Timber, sawmills. Woollen mill, grist mill, foundry, planning mill, sash and door factory. Dominion Fish Co. 28-31 Ms., 4 pp. “The Canadian Echo, Wiarton, October 13, 1920 – Oliphant Camp Created In 1867 – Have been many changes at popular spot lately – Oliphant Post Office was established in 1875.” History of Oliphant. Ottawa Indians; Ojibway at Cape Croker. 1854 Oliphant Treaty. “Came from Goderich – The large stone house, now known as the Old Fort, belonged to Captain Alexander McGregor, who came from Goderich and built it on Main Station Island. … Capt. McGregor spoke four languages, Gaelic, English, French and Ojibway”; fishing license to Niagara Fishing Co.; McGregor went to Tobermory, and Manitoulin Island; buried at Whitefish, the old Hudson Bay post; son Murray captain of Spartan, Chicago, Bayfield and died 1903 in Goderich. Other fishermen at Fishing Islands. “The First Church”; “in 1830 Rev. Charles Hurlburt opened a church at Saugeen. Residents of Oliphant in 1875. “The First Campers”, named, stayed at the Old Fort; Oliphant Camper’s Assn. 32-33 Ms., 2 pp. “B.B. Miller – Wiarton’s veteran police magistrate” resigned after 25 years, was Justice of the Peace for 45 years. 34 Ms., 1 p. “Kastner Mill at Wiarton Burned – Totally destroyed by fire last Monday evening”. 36 Ms., 2 pp. “Wiarton, Ont. March 12, 1919 – Pioneer Settler in District Passes Century Mark”. Mrs. James (Hewitt) Lennox (1819-?) settled at Wiarton over 50 years ago. Other early settlers. Her 12 children. 38 Ms., 2 pp. “The Canadian Echo, Wiarton, Ont., March 6th, 1924 – Wm. Matthew’s Job. The following is a letter from an old Wiarton boy, Mr. P.T. Jermyn, of Toronto”. Letter, Feb. 18, 1924, re memories of Gilpin, Jas. Grier, Thos. Hurst, Hodgins, Dinsmore. Father J.W. Jermyn to Keppel about 1867; to Cape Croker as Indian agent in 1885. Morgan Ely. William Wilfrid. 3 40 Ms., 8 pp. “History of Wiarton, by Wm. Matthews”. Starts: “With this issue of the paper, we commence a series of brief outlines of the early history of Wiarton …” Ends: “… Jew’s harp to a threshing machine.” Survey of Wiarton. 1868 death of Charles Fothergill and $2,000 on Griffith/White Cloud islands. 1869 Congregational Church, destroyed in August 1869 bush fire. 1871, Dr. Eustace bit by pike. Arthur Jones sawmill. D.G. Millar tannery. [45] James Greer, sweeping the street. [46] Post office service. 48 1958 End of passenger train service out of Wiarton. Cartoon by Ting of London Free Press. 50 1965 25 years ago: William Chapman retires as lightkeeper at Cape Croker. 55 years ago: J.J. Downs hotel; Hepworth Progress is first published; record load of hemlock hauled, 1,790 feet, Shouldice camp of Kastner Lumber; William Ferguson arrived in Red Bay about 31 years ago, moves to Saskatchewan; Lyne buys Hurst farm from Jermyn brothers. 40 years ago: fire destroys T.J. Moore bed frame factory; 40-gal. whiskey distillery closed down in Purple Valley. 51 1962 “John Eldridge, Sauble Beach Area Pioneer, Now 95”, born 1867, came to Sauble when 12. 52 1962 “Park Head store closed after 82 years”; M.S. Rourke built it in 1880. 53 1962 20 years ago: fire at Gilpin’s Planning Mill; Seaman Lumber Co.; windstorm flattens buildings. 54 1962 When Father was a Lad [Echo]. Military content. 20 years ago: high school start delayed “to let the students assist with the harvest activities”; Syd. Edmonston of Balaclava moved out to make room for Meaford range. 35 years ago: fire burns Jesse Lawrence sawmill at Limberlost; Jos. Akewenzie of Cape Croker in swim at C.N.E. 50 years ago: Lion’s Head Courier to start publishing; “new wireless station, built at Tobermory this past summer, has finally gone into operation with messages going to Sault Ste. Marie and North Bay” [telegraphy]. 55 1960 Death of Mrs. Ida May (Wood) Swale, 86. 56 1964 When Father was a Lad [Echo]. Military content. 20 years ago: Griffiths Island fire kills 1,500 pheasants. 35 years ago: fourth birthday of W.D. MacDonald store at Mar; Wiarton Furniture Co. expands; deer reappear on peninsula after seven-year closure to hunting; Wiarton Fish Hatchery. 50 years ago: water up four feet in tidal wave at Stokes Bay [seiche]; John W. Hodgins married Parson Cribbis’ daughter, built first store in Oxenden. 57 1964 When Father was a Lad [Echo]. Military content. 35 years ago: Alex Moore, Indian Agent at Cape Croker for seven years, goes to Caradoc Reserve. 50 years ago: Cape Croker quarantine – scarlet fever, three dead; new train station to build at Hepworth; Queen tows scow load of wood to Fitzwilliam Island; traction engine pulls train of wagons with mill machinery up the Peninsula. 4 58 1964 When Father was a Lad [Echo].