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Sheila Mccahon

From: Historical Society Glencoe Sent: September 18, 2019 6:55 PM To: Sheila Mccahon Subject: Glencoe & District Historical Society - Fall Newsletter

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Glencoe & District Historical

Society

Fall 2019 Newsletter

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G & DHS Executive Committee President - Ken Beecroft Vice President - JoAnn Galbraith Past President - Lorne Munro Treasurer - Marilyn McCallum Secretary - Mary Simpson Director - Harold Carruthers Director - Ina Nelms Director - Ken Willis

Director - Dennis Harmsworth

Well.... here it is September already. I don't know about you, but I found that the summer went by extremely quickly, maybe because of the damp and cool weather. At any rate, no doubt you've all been busy. Here at Glencoe & District Historical Society, we've been busy also. Since our big move to the Archives last Fall, we realize that there's more that we can and should be doing in the way of policy and procedural development, along with better identifying and tracking of our assets, especially books, documents and artifacts. To that end, we've established a committee of volunteers who will work on these goals.... More on that to come.

With regret, I must let you know that G & DHS has lost another past Executive member. Karen Kendrick-Diamond passed away September 11th after a long and courageous battle with cancer. Karen was a life long resident of Glencoe and worked in the past at the Glencoe Library. Her

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Service of Remembrance will be September 26th at Van Heck Funeral Home in Glencoe.

We hope that you'll take time to read our Newsletter and learn more about what is going on with G & DHS. We certainly value the input of our members, clients and patrons. Please continue to Email us and check us out on our Website and Facebook.

Regards Ken Beecroft President, G & DHS

Tartan Days Again as in past years, Tartan Days in Glencoe has given Glencoe and area a chance to celebrate its Scottish heritage. Glencoe and District Historical Society was involved and showed the community that we are here. On July 20th, G&DHS was at Glencoe's Historic Train Station Saturday, from 9 a.m. until about 3 p.m. Our volunteers, dressed in period attire, conducted free tours of this wonderful facility. We were there to share the history of the area, and had interesting books, displays and artifacts to share with the public. This year, volunteers from one of our partner organizations, Backus-Page House near Wallacetown, in Elgin County, were with us with a supurb visual display featuring, Scottish settlement in that area, of course.

Our Archive was also busy that day, with a G & DHS yard sale fund-raising event. As it was a brutally hot day, folks visiting our sale were invited in to cool off and look around. Thanks again to volunteers who helped that day.

Meanwhile, across the street from the Station, members of Upper

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Thames Military Re-inactment Society (UTMRS) were encamped and gave visitors, particularly the children an idea of what the British military defenders of Upper Canada were all about, during the War of 1812. Many thanks to these volunteers who escorted our wonderful piper, along with a number of children up Main Street. (Did I mention that it was brutally hot....those guys wear wool clothing!)

The Classic Car Show, free Pancakes, BBQ's, Thistle Contest, Children's Fun Zone, merchant events, town wide yard sales and many other events pleased many visitors during this year's Tartan Days.

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Gough Cemetery Memorial Event

Each year, G & DHS hosts a community cemetery memorial event to honour and remember the early settlers of the area. On a sunny warm July 28th we were pleased to gather with an interested group of family descendents and society members, at Gough Cemetery on Scotchmere Drive in Adelaide - Metcalfe. There were about forty people in all. President Ken Beecroft provided opening remarks, introduced the Order of Program and thanked Charlie and Heather Towers, who work hard to maintain Gough Cemetery.

After Ken Willis gave a dedication and prayer, G & DHS Executive members Harold Carruthers, Lorne Munro and Marilyn McCallum provided background on the cemetery property itself and detailed history of many of the individuals and families who were interred there. In Marilyn's presentation she recalls as a little girl visiting the cemetery -"We would tread softly, touch the stones, speak the names.....of those who came before." To those who love history, and can appreciate the old country cemeteries, that says it all.

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Gough Cemetery Memorial Event Photo credit to Marie Gagnon-Williams, Hayter Publishing Inc.

PREMIERS OF

Dates of Office Premier Party (Born - Died) 16 Jul 1867 - 20 Dec Lib (b. 1812 - d. 1872) 1871 20 Dec 1871 - 25 Oct Lib (b. 1833 - d. 1912) 1872 25 Oct 1872 - 25 Jul The Honourable Sir Lib (b. 1820 - d. 1903) 1896 25 Jul 1896 - 21 Oct Arthur Hardy Lib (b. 1837 - d. 1901) 1899 21 Oct 1899 - 8 Feb George Ross Lib (b. 1841 - d. 1914) 1905 8 Feb 1905 - 15 Sep Sir Con (b. 1843 - d. 1914) 1914

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2 Oct 1914 - 14 Nov Sir William Hearst Con (b. 1864 - d. 1941) 1919 14 Nov 1919 - 16 Jul Ernest Drury UFO (b. 1878 - d. 1968) 1923 16 Jul 1923 - 15 Dec George Ferguson Con (b. 1870 - d. 1946) 1930 15 Dec 1930 - 10 Jul George Henry Con (b. 1871 - d. 1958) 1934 10 Jul 1934 - 21 Oct Lib (b. 1886 - d. 1953) 1942 21 Oct 1942 - 18 May Gordon Conant Lib (b. 1885 - d. 1953) 1943 18 May 1943 - 17 Aug Lib (b. 1891 - d. 1962) 1943 17 Aug 1943 - 19 Oct Colonel George Drew PC (b. 1894 - d. 1973) 1948 19 Oct 1948 - 4 May Thomas Kennedy PC (b. 1878 - d. 1960) 1949 4 May 1949 - 8 Nov Leslie M. Frost PC (b. 1895 - d. 1973) 1961 8 Nov 1961 - 1 Mar The Honourable PC (b. 1917 - d. 1982) 1971 The Honourable William 1 Mar 1971 - 8 Feb 1985 PC (b. 1929) Grenville Davis 8 Feb 1985 - 26 Jun Frank Miller PC (b. 1927 - d. 2000) 1985 26 Jun 1985 - 1 Oct Lib (b. 1943) 1990 1 Oct 1990 - 26 Jun NDP (b. 1948) 1995 26 Jun 1995 - 15 Apr PC (b. 1945) 2002 15 Apr 2002 - 23 Oct PC (b. 1946) 2003 23 Oct 2003 - 11 Feb Dalton McGuinty Lib (b. 1955) 2013 11 Feb 2013 - 29 Jun Lib (b. 1953) 2018 29 Jun 2018 - PC (b. 1964)

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Movie Poster Fund Raising Campaign

Many thanks go out to our patrons Ina, David and Alicia Nelms for the provision and delivery of a much needed map and document cabinet at The Archives in Glencoe. This cabinet provides a proper place to store and preserve precious documents..... As it turned out though, upon further review during the June delivery at The Archives, to the astonishment of everyone present, the drawers were full of authentic full size movie posters! The first estimate was in the order of four hundred or so posters. After some head scratching and a number of emails and phone calls, the cabinets were previously owned by Sony Canada.... In all, over eleven hundred English and French language original posters, for approximately two hundred Sony titles were counted.

Since then and with the help of student volunteer Brendan McCallum, we now have better control of this inventory. As you may appreciate, the possession of these posters is outside of our mandate. Therefore, G & DHS is endeavouring to sell these posters as a fund-raising activity. For further information to that end, please contact us.

Again, much appreciation to Ina, David and Alicia for their generous donation. This is an example below.

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Glencoe Fair

September 20-22, 2019

Again this year, G&DHS will have a display set up inside the arena for the Glencoe Fair. Please come over and visit us. Check out our display and talk to our volunteers. Local historical books will be available for sale, as well as our fund raising collection of original movie posters.

As is our custom, G&DHS is donating prize money to the Glencoe Fair Board, in order to support and encourage submission of exhibits to the Antiques and Collectibles category. Interested exhibitors are invited to take part and bring in artifacts of historical interest. Our volunteers play a key role in the judging of exhibits on loan in these categories...... Good luck to exhibitors.

Excerpt from The Glencoe Transcript - dated Nov. 2, 1899

"Duncan McIntyre husked three ears of corn in D.C. Black's field, near

Appin, which measured 14 1/2 inches each from end to end of the grain

rows. We fancy it will be pretty hard to beat this for length of ears"

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"The Lands and The Lucas’s" October 16, 2019 at The Archives. 7:00 pm

The Robert Land / Clement Lucas Family Trees

JoAnn Lucas Galbraith, Charter Member of The Glencoe and District Historical Society, Charter member of the Ekfrid Museum, member of the London Branch U.E.L., Strathroy Historical Society, Author, Genealogist, and Historian, will take folks back in time beginning in the 11th century at the time of the Norman Conquest in the British Isles. JoAnn will tell of the family’s voyage from the British Isles to America, their achievements, their similarities and the talents of her United Empire Loyalists families.

This free event will be followed by refreshments and a G & DHS Member's Meeting....Remember - The public is always warmly welcomed at our program Presentations.

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November Program Presentation

For November's Program, we're planning to do something a little different..... We will be at St. John's Anglican Church, 186 Main St., Glencoe, at 7 p.m., November 20th for a special screening of "Weekend Warriors". This is a sixty minute documentary film by Barbara Urbach of Crocodile Productions, in Wardsville. The film features the Upper Thames Military Re-enactment Society, and takes us behind the scenes, where members recreate battle scenes and grueling British military life, from the era of the War of 1812.

We are very pleased that both of these organizations are local to us, and that they are so passionate at what they do. This is a topnotch film that certainly deserves our attention and acclaim. A great opportunity to come and enjoy. Hope to see you there.

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