BRANT HISTORICAL SOCIETY BOARD OF DIRECTORS President -Mrs Ruth Let ler Past President -Mr, Ed Pancoe First Vice President -Mr, Robert Deboer Treasurer -Mr, Dan Ciona Assistant Treasurer -Mr, Jim Selmes Secretary -Mr, Brian Wood Warden County of Brant -Mr. Robert Chambers DIRECTORS:

Mr. John Bonfield Mr. George Beaver Mr. Ralph Cook Mrs. Angela Files Dr. Hank Hedges Mr. John Johnson Mrs. Gloria Neamtu Mr. Ken Strachan Ms. Anne Westaway BRANT couNT¥ MusEur4 BOARD OF GOVERNORS

Counci 11 or Steve Comisky (Chairman) Counci 11 or I-ouis Campbell Counci 11 or Tom Verth Warden Robert Chambers

Mrs. Margaret Chandler Ms. Ruth Stedman Mr. Edwin Eason CURATOR :

Ms. Susan Twist, BRANT COUNTY MUSEUM & ARCHIVES

PRESIDENT' S REFLECTION

The Steering Committee Streets I acing Presently the has received the I inal Victoria Square in Harriso.n M. Scheak report from Weston, Brantford. The members pewter collection is Larkin Consultants , of the Steering on display at the Concord, . Committee unanimously Brant County Museum. Their recommendation ac cept ed the Be sure to come in and for site location for consultants' decision. view the variety of the Brant County Discussions are now pewter that is on Museum is the Carnegie taking place with the display. The museum Library/Park Baptist County of Brant and staf I has done an Church at the corner City of Brantf ord excellent job of of George and Darling officials. ( continues over page) setting up this taping will take place Museum at 57 Charlotte ECHO PLACE ( part 1 exhibit. The Museum this month with Mr. Street, Brantford on staff has also planned Ken Strachan as host. the third Wednesday of exciting, interesting Mr. Bob Deboer, vice each month at 8:00 pin. Have you ever wondered blacksmith's shop that 2,500,000 bricks per children's programmes president of the Brant The programme how the area of Echo was well patronized by year were produced. during the month of Historical Society and committee is doing an Place developed or the local people. Echo Place also December . Mr. John Prosser I ron excellent job in received its name? Another thriving had a hydro electric T,V. has arrived the Brantf ord Potters I inding interesting This is another business that operated plant which aided f or the Brant Guild will be topics and speakers. interesting story in in Echo Place was Brantford's industrial Historical Society! interviewed about the Please plan to support Brant County's Workman' s Brickyard. growth along the Grand Mr. Ken Strachan has history of local and attend these history. The Echo It was located on River. When the Grand graciously volunteered pottery. This is an interesting meetings. Place district is Hamilton Road on the River Navigation to be our host I or ongoing project. I know that you will bounded on the north right hand side just Company failed, the these programmes. Ken Please read your local not be disappointed. by Hackborn Road, on east of Stanley City of Brantf ord and myself will be T.V. Iistings for On behalf of the the south by the Street. The land on acquired the property appearing in December dates and times I or members of the Brant Canal, Mohawk Lake and which the brickyard and subsequently in on C a b i e 2 0 these programmes. Historical Society I the Grand River, on stood was part of the 1875, sold it to introducing the The regular wish you Seasons the east by Locks Road Glebe Lot and it was Alfred Watts for the Society to the general monthly meetings I or Greetings and the best and on the west by leased I ron the New sum of Sl.00. public. Our series the Brant Historical for the New Year. Stanley Street. England Company. At Due to the drop will be called "Local Society are held at The f ocus I or the Stanley Street, of 33 I eet in the Heroes". The second the Brant County Ruth Let ler area was located on Hamilton Road began to level of the Grand Hamilton Road (later rise sharply and this River I ron Lorne renamed Colborne hill was called Bridge to the locks Street) between "Workman's Hill". By near Locks Road and an Mcconkey's Lane (later the way, in 1810, almost unlimited f low renamed James Avenue) Hamilton Road had been of water, hydro and Locks Road. The laid out to transport electric power could local hotel and troops and army be generated. The fall blacksmith's shop were supplies. In 1812 the was dammed back and almost across the road government upgraded the head was turned from each other. The the road by having into water wheels. In Springbrook Hotel in logs laid crossways to the late l880's Mr. Springbrook, opened in allow troops easier Watts established the the early nineteenth access during the War Brantf ord Electric century. Some of its of 1812. Light Company. The proprietors were Mr. The brickyard was Company remained in John Westbrook, Mr. I irst opened in 1833 existence supplying Hobson and Mr. Orr. by Calvin Houghton. power to local About 1880 the hotel Later Hugh Workman residents until 1914 was purchased by purchased the yard. when the first George Westbrook who Workman , who had residents were converted it to a previously worked for connected to the general store and post Houghton, operated the Ontario Hydro Electric office. As Post Master yard until he died in S y s t em . Mr. Westbrook operated 1879. This was the Today , remnants the I irst post of f ice largest brick yard in of the dam and power in this district. He Brant County. house remain as a also changed the name The clay was visible reminder of an of this area I ron removed I rom a high entrepreneurial past. Springbrook to Echo bank at the eastern Place because of the end of the yard. A END NOTES: unusual echoes which large pond f ormed 1. Echo Place Women's were heard through the where the clay had Institute Tweedsmuir woods and swamp behind been removed. In the Village History Book 1913- his store. early days, the clay 1949; Volume 1. In 1868, Mr. was trod out by oxen 2. Reville, Douglas F. Joseph Taylor, an and moulded by hand History of the County of expert blacksmith and into bricks. Later, Brant; Hurley Printing Co. , farrier, established a with modern machinery, Brantford, 1920. THE BRITISH METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH or THE DRAKE BRITI F±H EPI SCOPAII CHURCH,1 165 M.urra+-€E. PUBLICATIONS ORDER FOR14 TITLE UNIT PRICE QUANTITY TOTAL PRICE

"Kirk of Scotland". The historical missionary circuit, background of the which included the Later this church was British Methodist Queen' s Bush and moved to a location Episcopal Church London, served by Rev. opposite the East Ward commenced in the James Harper.2 Without Public School on United States .... places of worship, Murray Street. It was church services were finally transported to * Add $3.00 to cover the cost of postage, ALL orders are to be prepaid. Seeking Churches ___Q±` held in private homes. the backyard of a Mr. In 1856 the John Mccurtis living Their Own Mail To: NAME : In the year 1816, Canadian churches on Rawdon Street , facing north on Richard Al len and withdrew and I ounded ADDRESS : fifteen Negroes, who the British Methodist Marlborough Street , and became a shed. wished to have their Episcopal Church; Rev. CITY/PROVINCE/POSTAL CODE: own Church home, met Willis Nazrey of the Oyster suppers , in Philadelphia, American church agreed plantation dinners , Please make cheque payable to:Brant Historical Societr Pennslyvania, to form to act as the f irst and musical concerts their bishopric within bishop. That same were held to raise L Send to : Brant Count¥ mseun & Archivesz 57 Charlotte St.i.a.RAFT.F_O_B_D.[QP_I_.__F_3I__2F_€ the American Methodist year, the I irst money I or the church Episcopal Church. British Methodist home. In 1872, the Richard Al len was Church , a I rame congregation was happy elected bishop of the building, was built on that "ef f orts put by Af rican Methodist a 1 ot donated by faith, that Rev. Mr. Episcopal Church. Four member O'Bariyan. It Wood and the years later, one of was situated on the Congregational Church Brant Historic=al Sac:|ety/ their missionaries north side of helped to pay of f the Brant Count]r Museurn a Arc=hives started a congregation Dalhousie Street debt of British in St. Catherines and corner, east side of Methodist Episcopal others followed in Murray Street, church (coloured) in Hamilton, Malden, Brantford. Rev. Walker East Ward; all but thirty dollars. Mr. Toronto, eta. Hawkin, the first L±EL=EH In 1835, with pastor, rose to become Wood was glad for the MEMBERSHIP REGISTRATIONTRAT±ON FOR14 Superintendent of the donati on . "3 only a handful of Individual (S15.00) S black refugees, a Conf erence . congregation of the P r es ent P_aj-Q±La!±± Family ($20.00) S (Af rican) American Church Of Scotland Memorial Church •` Patron ($25.00) Methodist Episcopal Became The Bri t±Lsb The existing brick S denomination was H_ethodi s t Epi s a_g_p_a_I building, Drake organized in Brantf ord Church In Brantf ord Memorial Church, was Benefactor (SIOO.00) S and also a school was During the pastorate erected in 1896 and a Corporation ($250.00) S set up two years later of Rev, Thomas comfortable brick because black children Jefferson in 1869, parsonage was built on Additional Donation S were excluded f ron "the Kirk of Scotland" the north side of the attending Brantford's (on the present day church in 1912. Amount Enclosed S common school . site of Mt. Zion In the book Christian Church, 260 entitled Slaves The Founding Of T±± Dalhousie Street, Without A Master, the British Methodist Brantford), was author states that the ADDRESS : Episcopal Church EL±± purchased. The edifice black hierarchical Ontario was a frame building three caste system in CITY/PROVINCE/POSTAL CODE : Brantf ord was the and over the door the America included: the heart of the American inscription in a semi- African slaves, the TELEPHONE : Methodist Episcopal circle read as follows (continues over page) S:::S:or§:a::e8::n:;yi?::u:a; A:=:B:£i:I;fi:£±£:€E:f3£. , BRANIpoRD. out. N3T 2% f ree emancipated whose death was County); at intervals ENgr#ENRE,ENREr#ELi blacks and the light announced on Saturday taking lecturing tours skinned West Indies was born in the State throughout the country emigres. In the novel, of Maryland in June (visited Brantford written by Harriet 1789 and reached also) and on one Beecher Stowe entitled ninety-four years. occasion visited Era+fit HiEtEFiE=l.1 EEEiE:t±r !Zpg|e _Tom's Cabin or Forty-two years of his England where he was Life Amona the Lowly life were spent in invited to Windsor portraying the evils slavery and the 'fact Castle, and treated of slavery did much to that he was a man of with marked respect by EHHIETfi.{±+±= E=i=EELT HELT=E crystallize the far more ability Queen Victoria. Two militant anti-slavery coupled with the sons and a daughter sentiments in the admission of Mrs. survive him". North and the American Harriet Beecher Stowe Civil War. Throughout that he was the the North American original of her HTEd. BEE..EffihE,±` EIEt,.- fl:Hfl FIT± continent one of the creation of Uncle Tom, most popular plays of gave him f or many the day was "Uncle years a prominent Tom's Cabin" -even in place in the public the small city of eye. His personal EHPEr.iEnEE tilE EiEh+E, EEundE, EmE!!=F anE! Brantford. explanation of slave The entertainment life was not as dark TEE+EE Ef Elir.iEi-maE at tllE column of the January in character, as those 12, 1883 Brantford of many of his Weekly Expositor read: associates, and so far EFE,Ht EEHil±]F EL'`.IHEE:HiiE] "Uncle Tom's Cabin" as the grosser Performance, next indignities, the Monday in Brantford. barbarious cruelties; There are two Topseys Mrs. Stowe's hero is I-I EhE,FIE±t=, E±]] EFE,H±f EFd] and two Marks. This is made to endure, the said to be the best character is not show on the road". identical with that of /cr<-o2.IfL€er~ According to an the acknowledged Uncle ad inserted in the Tom, nyELCH© E©RE EEhi =TEE=HEHj Edii]g=- =mEF.itu=F March 5, 1880 edition The story of his of the Brantf ord escape however is a BORN IN SLAVERY thE Erafl±f Br.d EHPE5itBr., FgEffiiili=E=5 aE]aiJ± Weekly Expositor: "The thrilling one, ESCAPED TO FREEDOM IN CANADA Rev. Josiah Henson, rendered all the more the veritable "Uncle so by the f act that by The Fugitive Sl[a]£e[_ [llr.iEt!mas iF! Erantf Brd lEE !Ear.I aiE; Tom", will tell the an extraordinary Andrew Lucas story of his life, in effort with vigilance, one of theTnteresting !u]EtidE 5qnEE E¥ thE BEF]HT =HEEELEEhi==: Wellington Street he brought his wit e parishioners belonging Methodist Church on and family to Canada to the British [hri5tma5 5tDr.E b! JDE [ELLEEHEH Bf Friday evening, March with him. It was on Methodist Episcopal 19,1880. The editions the morning of october Church of Brantf ord of the newspapers 28, 1830 that Josiah was Andrew Lucas, born the Er.ant TalEtEllEr.5, which followed this Henson crossed the an American slave, on oral presentation did River from But falo and the estate of General not record Rev. I anded in Canada , Andrew Stonewall Henson's speech but where he threw himself Jackson (1767-1845) , three years later, the on the ground, rolled in Tennessee, and was FREE FEETli:`TE FfiHE i May 11, 1883, or the in the sand, seized buried a Canadian Weekly Expositor does handfuls of it, kissed I reeman in the record his iI==Tth as the ground, and danced Greenwood Cemetery , I ol l ows : about so wildly that Brantford, on October the spectators thought 1,1886. The simple The Death of Uncle Tom he was mad. Uncle Tom white slab of stone (1789-1883) finally settled in which marks grave 795 "Rev. Josiah Henson, Bothwell (Kent (contimies over page)

#&#jevffiffi®`#escaffi`ffljffiRE#jevRE®#.1_ YEARS OF THE N"ES OF CLERGYMEN OF BRITISH METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH DI RECTOR I ES BRANTFORD pastor of Drake west is inscribed on Colborne Street. I 1875 - 1876 IRev.T.L.Turpin Before his death, Memorial Church, there Andrew Lucas, Age 120 are no more entries in years. Since no birth Andrew lived with his son, Solomon Lucas on the ensuing year of 1883 - 1886 Rev. Win. Bowers; Rev. Benjamin Stewart records survive his the directories. exact age was not Darling Street, Rev. W.R. Drake -11----- In the year 1995, I 18891893 - 18951895-1896 known. A headline in Brantford. Some of the descendants , Johnson there are only twelve Rev. Blunt British Methodist Family members, still + t:', '- :Ee o# live here today. Episcopal Church let t Rev. W.H. Davis -F `'..qif:if £. states that his death in the Ontario •# . :a-:.a rna r k e d " t h e 1896 - 1897 Rev. C. Washington •* .- ,.. ` *`?S{;a ,- The ames Of Past Conference as follows: termination of a life ? ``y.:=&.`,. ` ,,r`. ``.`? .a. Ministers. Of The Niagara Falls, St. 1897 - 1900 over 120 years".4 Catherines , London , Rev. W.H. Snowden = . . . ``±*I^ife:.-.-.`'-.;.isP,ir At abotit I orty Windsor, Oven Sound, 1900 - 1902 Rev. Henderson Davis ` .^, ,€`:i-. years of age, Andrew g=hsh o¥eth%±i=£= L| Toronto Central , E. v- `,*xp ``"- -.,. Lucas, as a fugitive 1902 - 1903 Rev' Bisho- . ' Washin - ton . :^t^-` i.,^ •EEI f::3:i::gchurEg the Toronto East York, I-.::xrJg=`v'-.-i+.i- slave, I led the UrLited M i s s 1 s s a u g a , 1903 - 1904 Rev. H.D. Wright States, and crossed Exp-the Collingwood, Guelph, 1927, among into Canada at Black 1 and Brantford. The 1904 - 1906 Rev. T.H. Slater earliest ministers of ..I ` . Rock, north of Fort churches in Chatham, the British Methodist i?-..-.-`,- i.f':-.[l Erie, Ontario. He was Fort Erie and 1907 - 1909 Rev. S.R. Drake JI i'I.:;.=`g^*'+r,. protected by Mr. Episcopal Church in ±ir-£ia,I:-tI•.-t-'1 Brantford were: Rev. Woodstock have closed Andrew Kirby, a their doors 1910 - 1911 Rev. S.B. Jones Custom's Officer. Lindsay Armstrong , shattering the dreams I During the war of Rev. Benjamin Stuart, 1913 - 1914 Rev. J.M. Lawson Rev. William Bowers, o I t h e i r I1 1812-1814, Andrew congr eg at i ona I 1915 - 1919 Rev. T.H. JacksonRev.ArthurR.Plummer Lucas f ought in the Rev. P. O'Banyon, Rev. ancestors to have a II Battle of Queenston L. Christine, Rev. 8. 1920 ;i,I.i- place of worship in -. --:. ,.. , .¥, Heights (1813) and he Whipper, Rev. T. -¥ -. 11 Jefferson, Rev. R. their own church 1924 Rev. Walter Adams Thcvc Rc lived in the Niagara homes , d Walle Hawkins, Bi of the Britishpastor[oits Miller, and Rev. Methodist Ep pal Churalion. h, earlier serv area during the On October 16, 1925 Georg:e3:::::; with r `l 'l Mackenzie Rebellion of 1994, Drake Memorial 1837. He arrived in 1926 - 1929 Rev. Herbert Wright the 1875-1876 British Methodist Brantf ord about 1845 Epi.scopal Church and worked with horses Di rectory of 1930 - 1931 Rev. Alfred a. Johnson; Coloured Church on 234 Grey St. Brantford, services of celebrated 138 years listed Rev. John M. Payne I or Job Tripp at the of witnessing I or Brantf ord Hotel and the church were listed as follows : Sunday Jesus Christ in our 1932 - 1933 Rev. Solomon Lucas Jonathan Hale of the c ormun i t y . American Express. He Services 11:00 AM; 1934 Rev. Albert Plummer; Coloured Church on 234 Grey St. also cared for the 7:00 PM; Sunday School listed Rev. Van Sickle, Jas N. horses of Bailiff 3:00 PM. Prayer Meeting Wednesday END NOTES: 1935 - 1942 Rev. Ernest Richardson Joseph Johnson. 1. In 1956, the British In Canada, Andrew 8:00 PM. Many of the Methodist Episcopal Church 1943 Rev. Fred Stewart Lucas married a changed its name to Drake mul atto woman. The clergymen were either 1944 - 1946 James Gilmour I ron fugitive slave Memorial Church in honour couple had fourteen of Rev. S.R. Drake, former children: four sons backgrounds or 1947 - 1963 Rev. George E, Crawford refugees f ron the West pastor and general and two daughters were superintendent of the surviving at the time Indies. Some of .their 1964 Rev. Ronald Blackwood congregation were conference for 18 years. of his death. His son 2. Hill, David G. "Freedom 1965 Rev. George E. Crawford (West Indies) Peter Lucas moved to Baptists but adherents to the British Seekers, Blacks In Early 1966 - 1975 Rev. Ronald Blackwood (Jamaica) the United States : Canada, The Book Society of John Lucas worked I or Methodist Episcopal Church . Canada Ltd.,1981, p.136. 1976 - 1980 Rev. H.L. Jackman (Trinidad) W.E. Welding, Pottery 3. Brantford Weekly Manufacturers; Joseph Expositor, May 31, 1872. 1980 - 1984 Rev. J.L. Jackman [SEE CHART OVER PAGE] became a minister of 4. Ibid., October 1,1886. the Christian Church. 1985 Rev. W. Bill Solomon Mr. Andrew Lucas lived Af ter the 1987 in a house, opposite entry in the City Oat.1986 Rev. Livingston Yardwood helped designate the Church the old Kerby Hotel, Directory of Rev. Livingston Yardwood as 1987 Rev. Livingston Yardwood PUBL I CAT I ON S LIST a a I I,I|| SHOP I TEMS _of tTh=_a Brant H Orlca

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i. Burwell, Lewis, Deputy Surveyor, DIARY Of The Survey Of The Indian Surrender and Town Plot of Brantf ord on the Grand River in the Gore District Commencing 15th March and extending 24 June 1830. (30 pages). Collator Angela Files, Computer Typist Mr. Edward Pancoe. $ 8.00

2. Brantford, Burford, Oakland, Onondaga, South Dumfries Townships - Directory Of The Year 1880 (40 pages). Collator Angela Files. $10.00

3. Tuscarora: Geographical Place Names Of The Six Nations And The New Credit Reserve (20 pages). By Mr. George Beaver, Director of the Brant Historical Society. $ 5.95

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View of an Indian Reserve Brant County Atlas $25 . 00 - George Beaver SOLD OUT POSTERS St.George Continuation School -a. Wesley Switzer $ 7.00 Pelee Island Wine & Vineyards Inc. J.S. Hamilton $20 . 00 Rural Schools of South Dumf ries Township HASTI-NOTES Stedman Postcards -J.C. Webster $ 8.00 Market Square (5's) $ 2.95 Glimpse of the Past SOLD OuT Mohawk Chapel (5's) S i.95

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Brantf ord Pottery Mohawk Chapel -Robert L. Deboer $ 9.95 W. Ross Macdonald School Brantf ord Market Square Arts and Entertainment Bell Homestead -Robert L. Deboer $ 9.95 Brant County Court House Grace Anglican Church From Automobiles to Washing Machines POSTCARQS (various) S.25 -Robert L. Deboer $ 9.95 RAPS OTHER PUBLICATIONS County of Brant-Tremaine $ 2.50 Great Little Inns of Southern City of Brantf ord 1875 $ 5.00 Ontario $ 9.95 Historical Map-Brant County $ 5.00 Real Old Woodstove Cookbook $ 2.95 Discovers of Canada Map $ 5.00 BRENT COUHTY HUSEUH a ARCHIVES 57 Charlotte S|. BranLford, OnL. H3T 2W6