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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
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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.
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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.
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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”.
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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.
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.
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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.
58
1964 When Father was a Lad [Echo]. Military content. 35 years
ago: Whicher Lumber Co. loses scow of lumber; Capt. W.H. Sinclair lost
a scow off Lonely Island. 65 years ago: E.B. Colby of Hepworth rafts
telephone poles from Pine Tree Harbour to Southampton; shipping
wheat and peas by tug Arbutus.
59
1961 Amabel Twp. Centennial. Mrs. Joseph Warmington of Allenford,
95, and John Eldridge, 94, in photo.
60
19xx “Early Bruce Cty. Names colorful”. Bruce. Walkerton / Rogue’s
Hollow. Cargill / Yokassippi / Mickles. Brant. Hanover / Buck’s Crossing.
Mildmay / Mernersville. Greenock / Enniskillen. Kincardine / Pentagore.
Formosa. Mar. The Devil’s Elbow / North Bruce. Starvation / Pine River.
Dingwall / Ripley. Driftwood Crossing / Allenford. Black Horse / Kinloss.
Saugeen / Saukings, “former Indians of the district”.
61
1960 When Father was a Lad [Echo]. Military content. 20 years
ago: Jack Chapman to continue as Cape Croker lightkeeper after his
father William Chapman, keeper for 30 years. 50 years ago: tug for
sawmill on Berford Lake; horse runaway on train track at Hepworth.
62
19xx
Tax notice from 1887; C.W. Sinclair of Hepworth.
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1960 When Father was a Lad [Echo]. Military content. 50 years
ago: rabies in sheep at William Currie farm, Amabel. J.W. Rodgers dry
goods store to open. 35 years ago: wrecking Hepworth Silica Brick Co.
plant.
64
1960 When Father was a Lad [Echo]. Military content. 20 years
ago: “Gone with the Wind” at Berford Theatre. Stokes Bay: Mr. and
Mrs. Norman McDonald run the range lights; Walter Knight is keeper at
Lyal Island. 50 years ago: steam tug Crawford on weekly runs from
Stokes Bay to Southampton with lumber for factories there.
65
1960 When Father was a Lad [Echo]. Military content. 35 years
ago: fire burns Newman’s mill.
66
1960 “Former Wiarton boy was international strong man”; William J.
Berry of Hanover, in his 60s, brother of George Berry of Boat Lake.
67
19xx “UWO expert praises amateur historians”; Bruce Historical
Society; photo, Bruce Krug, James Talman, Stuart Robertson, Mrs.
George Downey.
68
1960 When Father was a Lad [Echo]. Military content. 35 years
ago: offer to plant 1,000 acres of trees at Sauble Beach turned down.
Low water at Oliphant.
69
1960 When Father was a Lad [Echo]. 35 years ago: new 4.4 beer
to go on sale.
70
1960 When Father was a Lad [Echo]. 35 years ago: wrecking of
Hepworth compressed brick plant done. 50 years ago: Amabel
Telephone Co. will start with 16 telephones.
70
1960
ago.
71
19xx Booklet “Historical Review of Wiarton and the Bruce Peninsula”,
1936, sought.
72
1963 When Father was a Lad [Echo]. Military content. 35 years
ago: Wiarton Public School students to get half pint of milk daily. Dave
Collins and Son, Marconi Radio Sales in Wiarton. Sauble Falls Light and
Power 82Co., Gordon Thede broken arm. 65 years ago: J.H. Jones
refloated and in dry dock. Closure of Owen Sound Saturday Star. W.H.
Gill to build icehouse within city limits.
Death of William J. Williamson, 87, moved to Pike Bay 80 years
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1963 When Father was a Lad [Echo]. Military content. 35 years
ago: Southampton voters reject Foshay proposal for hydro power plant,
Ontario Hydro to take over. 65 years ago: Shallow Lake Cement
Works, three shifts a day. High timber output on the Peninsula this
year.
74
1962 When Father was a Lad [Echo]. Military content. 50 years
ago: Crown Portland Cement Co. closes at Wiarton, in receivership.
75
1963 When Father was a Lad [Echo]. 20 years ago: Farmers may
now buy “coloured” gasoline, tax-free. 65 years ago: new cricket club
76
1963 When Father was a Lad [Echo]. Military content. 20 years
ago: Wiarton Furniture Factory may close; 40 employees. 50 years ago:
32nd Bruce Regiment will march to camp at Goderich this summer. 65
years ago: Marl for cement at Stokes Bay, George Myles.
77
1960
78
1961 [recto] “Sauble Pioneer, Theodore Seaman dies in hospital”, 84,
married Jessie Munn in Southampton in 1926. 3% retail sales tax.
Cooke Family annual reunion; of Sunny Valley. [verso] Radio news and
programming, CFOS 560. TV programs on Wingham, Bay City, Barrie,
Kitchener and London stations; Tuesday schedule.
79
1963 When Father was a Lad [Echo]. Military content. 50 years
ago: “the new No. 1 school at Cape Croker will be ready for
accommodation shortly”. Wiarton photographer Mr. McDonald is on a
trip taking photos for sale. Shaw’s Pike Bay lime kiln. Robinson apple
tree farm. 65 years ago: Herman House renovation in Hepworth. Rice
and Anderson brick factory at Hepworth to open. Tender accepted for
building new County House of Refuge. First anniversary of Owen Sound
Sun. Schooner Lothiar.
80
1963 Maple sap has started to run at district farms: Wiarton, Annan,
Krug Brothers’ farm at Chesley; some maple syrup made.
81
1963 When Father was a Lad [Echo]. Military content. 20 years
ago: marriage McCartney-Huehn in Wiarton. 35 years ago: Churchill in
disrepair at Wiarton dock. 50 years ago: Southampton-based C.M.
Bowman tug sold. 65 years ago: in Wiarton, electric street light.
82
1963 When Father was a Lad [Echo]. Military content. 50 years
ago: Indian named Jones, preacher, buried at Cape Croker.
“Bruce Historical Society Meets”, Nov.
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1963 When Father was a Lad [Echo]. Military content. 20 years
ago: snow bucket brigade used to put out house fire. 35 years ago:
Steamers Alice, Henry Pedwell, Caribou, Manitou. Death of Jas.
Shouldice, settled in Eastnor in 1880. Oxenden marriage, PorterSchroeder. 50 years ago. London train eight hours late due to snow.
Steamer Manitou raised.
84
1963 When Father was a Lad [Echo]. 35 years ago: Ontario
government sends a train touring the province to demonstrate seed
cleaning and give farming lectures, stops in Bruce County. 50 years
ago: ice cutting by Dominion Fish Co.
85
1963 When Father was a Lad [Echo]. Military content. 65 years
ago: timber gang on Lonely Island through winter.
86
1963
When Father was a Lad [Echo]. Military content.
87
1962
When Father was a Lad [Echo]. Military content.
88
1962 When Father was a Lad [Echo]. Military content. 35 years
ago: death of Thomas Gault, 55; death of William Marson, 82, of
Albemarle.
89
1962 When Father was a Lad [Echo]. Military content. 20 years
ago: Radio phone at Tobermory can call South Baymouth. 35 years
ago: Death of John Henry Fielding, 67, was of Wiarton. Men set up
branch of Klu Klux Klan in Lion’s Head, Tobermory. 50 years ago. Tug
Seaman pulls off barge with salt from Goderich.
90
1962 Bruce lots involved in fraud charges; Golden Sands Resorts
defrauded 48 people.
91
1963
92
1963 When Father was a Lad [Echo]. 35 years ago: Bob Simmie
sold two Chevrolet cars last week. 65 years ago: Wiarton to get first
view of Edison’s moving picture machine, the Fire Brigade film, music
by Edison’s Electrophone.
93
1962
94
1962 When Father was a Lad [Echo]. 20 years ago: smelt running
in creeks. 50 years ago: power lost when floods at Sauble Light and
Power Co.
95
1962 When Father was a Lad [Echo]. Military content. 35 years
ago: death of Austin F. Langford, 35. 50 years ago: Methodist churches
Death of E. Ewart Paterson, born in Wiarton 1884.
When Father was a Lad [Echo]. Military content.
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in Bruce County vote for union. Death of Thomas Johnston of Purple
Valley.
96
1962 When Father was a Lad [Echo]. Military content. 35 years
ago: death of Mrs. S.W. Cross, undertaker. Outbreak of smallpox in
Amabel is stemmed.
97
1963 When Father was a Lad [Echo]. Military content. 35 years
ago: death of Dr. Richard McGee; of Sarah McLaren Ewing. Hepworth
sand hills to be mined, for moulding sand. Manitou damaged in fire.
98
1963
Annual meeting of Sauble Valley Conservation Authority.
99
1963
Photos, Sauble Valley Conservation Authority meeting.
100 1963 When Father was a Lad [Echo]. Military content. 50 years
ago: big wind blows down over two million feet of timber on Cape
Croker. Wiarton Creamery to open. Timber: spring cutting at mills of
Kastner, Newman, Johnston, Hunter, Crawford. 65 years ago: Sugar
Beet factory in trouble. Cabot Head light keeper: Charles Webster takes
over from S.J. Parke.
101 1963 When Father was a Lad [Echo]. Military content. 35 years
ago: WGR Buffalo radio received with lots of static.
102 1963 Photo of Highway 6 north of Hepworth, underwater due to
rapidly melting snow.
103 1963
When Father was a Lad [Echo]. Same as No. 81, above.
104 1963 When Father was a Lad [Echo]. Military content. 20 years
ago: J.P. Sam, “genial owner of the only Chinese restaurant in town”
donates to Red Cross. 35 years ago: United Church summer school
camp at Port Elgin.
105 1963
Same as No. 102, above.
106 1963 “District river levels dropping as snow goes”. Death of Thomas
H. Rathwell, 93, of Wiarton. [verso] Radio, TV programs.
107 1963 When Father was a Lad [Echo]. Military content. 20 years
ago: Women await call to report for farm duty in the Niagara district
[farmerette]. Death by drowning of Vern Bravener, off Golden Fisher.
50 years ago: Frank Bellemore rebuilds Snake Island camp. Charles
Jones elected chief of Cape Croker. 9 p.m. curfew for those under 16.
Shipping sand from Hepworth; core sand. Speed limit 8 mph suggested
for cars. 65 years ago: caterpillars cross tracks, force train changes.
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108 1963 When Father was a Lad [Echo]. Military content. 65 years
ago. Population of Wiarton is 2,400.
109 1963 Echo receives 70-year-old copy of paper: Toronto Daily Mail,
Feb. 11, 1893.
110 1963
“Oliphant man shoots black bear”, after chickens.
111 1963 When Father was a Lad [Echo]. Military content. 20 years
ago: Death of James F. Symon, 83, of Wiarton. 50 years ago: tug
Mystery raised at White Cloud Island.
112 1963 “Find four guilty of Bruce lake sales fraud”; Golden Sands
Resorts Ltd. on Spry Lake.
113 1964 When Father was a Lad [Echo]. Military content. 20 years
ago: milkweed pods to make life preservers.
114 1964 When Father was a Lad [Echo]. 20 years ago: Wiarton
Furniture Factory offices move. Death of Albert Webster in
Southampton, killed in Fitton-Parker plant; he ran Hampton Villa, a
summer resort. 35 years ago: Saugeen Power and Electric takes over
assets of Sauble Power and Electric. 65 years ago: Beet Sugar Co.
active.
115 1964 “CNR demolishes Park Head station”; original G.T.R. station
burned over 35 years ago.
116 1964 When Father was a Lad [Echo]. Military content. 35 years
ago: deaths of Mrs. W.T. Parke, Catharine Sinclair, Chas. Tilley. 50
years ago: 110 phone subscribers in Wiarton.
117 1958 Bruce Historical Society newsletter has story of Indian cemetery
at south end of Sauble Beach; six graves; white woman taken from
Niagara to be wife of chief’s son, decided to stay with Indians. [verso]
Bruce County Museum attendance doubles; town donates two fortress
guns to museum, they had stood before Southampton town hall
[cannon]; addition of McKenzie log house. Three flags given to
museum, one from Ontario, presented by the Granvilles; colors of the
160th Bruce Battalion.
118 1964 Letter to editor from Mrs. R.A. Dinniwell, re suggestion for
centennial project for Wiarton.
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119 1964 When Father was a Lad [Echo]. Military content. 20 years
ago: Mar’s “House by the side of the road” hotel sold to Mac White. 50
years ago: [caterpillars] Army worms killed by the roller.
120 1964 “Wiarton quarry yields fossil believed to be 410,000,000 years
old”, cephalopod.
121 1964 When Father was a Lad [Echo]. Military content. 20 years
ago: Death of Wong Lee, in his 60s, owner of Wiarton’s Chinese
laundry. 50 years ago: Death of Mrs. John F. Kent, 59, daughter of
Keppel pioneers, Henry Preston.
122 1964 When Father was a Lad [Echo]. Military content. 35 years
ago: Foshay Co. of Minneapolis owns power stations at Wiarton, Sauble
Falls, Cargill. Booth Co. is now cutting ice, 12 inches thick.
123 1964
Elizabeth Hawes of Colpoy Bay, marks 92nd birthday.
124 1964 When Father was a Lad [Echo]. Military content. 50 years
ago: Bob Nadjiwon of Cape Croker flails his fall wheat to get some to
sow at once.
125 1963 When Father was a Lad [Echo]. Military content. 20 years
ago: Assistant Southampton fish hatchery manager John Matheson
collects 200 quarts of lake trout spawn at Tobermory. 35 years ago:
Ontario Hydro offers to buy Walkerton, Saugeen and Sauble Light and
Power Company. Death of Nina Jermyn, 72, at Wiarton. 50 years ago:
First rural mail delivery on Bruce Peninsula, Keppel to Wiarton. Hotel at
Stokes Bay burns. 65 years ago: Death of Charles Nadjiwan, fell from
balcony of Queen’s Hotel. “The Saugeen Indians have petitioned the
Department of Indian Affairs to sell any parcels of land on the Peninsula
not in use by the band. The islands of Hay and Griffith have also been
put up for sale by the band.”
126 1956 When Father was a Lad [Echo]. 20 years ago: Hepworth’s
well of Nottawa Gas and Oil Co., blew up with a roar heard for miles.
127 1956 When Father was a Lad [Echo]. 20 years ago: power line
reaches Colpoy’s Bay.
128 1956 When Father was a Lad [Echo]. 20 years ago: bush fire
threatens Stoke’s Bay; virgin timber cut 30 years ago. 35 years ago:
Death of Mrs. James Lennox, 103, came to Wiarton in 1866. Miller Lake
to get phone service.
129 1963
Death of Jane McDonald, 79, of Allenford.
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Death of Frank Henry Eyre, 80, of Oliphant.
131-133
Manuscript. Notes on “People to see – Southampton”, including
Alex Root, Billy Smith, Stark, Bob Mahon, 90 years; Joe Cameron,
Jimmie Mason, others. Notes on Bill Vary.
134 19xx “Tugs free dredge from sandbars at Sauble Beach”, towed to
Southampton; had broken loose from its tow off Alpena MI.
135 1956 When Father was a Lad [Echo]. 20 years ago: Fire threatens
cottages on four islands in Fishing Islands. Heavy smoke from bush
fires on Bruce Peninsula; serious lack of rain. Grasshoppers thrive. 35
years ago: Howdenvale Dramatic Club presents popular minstrel show.
700 attend evangelist Jackson’s service at Centreville. 50 years ago:
Talk of re-opening the Sugar Beet Factory.
136 1963 When Father was a Lad [Echo]. Military content. 20 years
ago: Thomas Jones re-elected chief, Cape Croker. 50 years ago: Three
new street lights installed in Wiarton. Smallpox in Meaford. Phone line
run from Tobermory to Cabot Head.
137 1963 When Father was a Lad [Echo]. Military content. 20 years
ago: High water forces cottages to be moved at Bluewater Park. 50
years ago: Athabaska aground at Flowerpot Island. Airplane wrecked at
air show in Port Elgin, fall fair. Death of James Walmsley, postmaster,
65, at Wiarton. Wiarton has 12 automobiles; two years ago, only one.
Boy gets radio set, talks to wireless stations at Goderich and
Tobermory.
138 1963 When Father was a Lad [Echo]. 50 years ago: Death of
William Gilbert, 76, lightkeeper of Wiarton local dock. G.T.R. station at
Hepworth burns.
139 1963
Death of J.E. Matches, 67, of Park Head; warden of Grey County.
140 1963 When Father was a Lad [Echo]. Military content. 20 years
ago: Seiche along Bruce Peninsula moves boats, floods docks.
141 1963 “Resort salesman calls self sucker”; sold for Golden Sands
Resorts.
142 1963 “Found guilty of fraud in sale of lots at Spry Lake in Bruce
County”; Golden Sands Resorts.
143 1956
101st birthday of Mrs. Marjory Arnold.
144 19xx
96th birthday of George Allensen of Wiarton.
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145 1957 “Michigan botanists thrill to plant life of Bruce Peninsula”.
Michigan Botanical Club at Wiarton.
146 19xx
50th wedding anniversary of Mr. and Mrs. J. Winskill of Oliphant.
147 19xx
Photo, Winskills.
148 19xx
ago.
91st birthday of George Fries, who lives alone, came 70 years
149 1956 101st birthday of Marjorie Arnold of Wiarton, oldest resident of
the Bruce Peninsula. At Park Head centennial, three of the eldest: Mrs.
David Mustard, 90; James Longmire, 87; Mrs. Joseph Warmington, 90.
150 1957 When Father was a Lad [Echo]. 50 years ago. Steamer
Telgram made last trip of season. Colonial Portland Cement supplies
concrete for Trent Canal.
151 1959 When Father was a Lad [Echo]. 50 years ago. C. Drinkwalter
will ring the Wiarton town bell for $3 a month.
152 1959 When Father was a Lad [Echo]. 50 years ago. Barge
Herschell loses load of ties in gale.
153 1959 Botanist tells Rotary Club about rare flowers on Peninsula;
orchids.
154 1992 [recto] Schooner John R. Mott burned 50 years ago, now hull
blown up by dynamite.
155 1963 When Father was a Lad [Echo]. Military content. 20 years
ago. Hay Island sold. 50 years ago: A post office set up in Howdenvale.
65 years ago: flour milling at Oxenden. Doyle Brick and Tyle Co.,
Shallow Lake. Brick yard, Hepworth. Chief McGregor re-elected at Cape
Croker.
156 1962
Park Head general store closes; opened in 1880.
157 1954 “Stolen white girl who became wife of chief is buried at Sauble”;
taken at Niagara Falls, refused to return with parents. By Roy F.
Fleming, as told by a Chief’s Point Indian. “Laughing Water”. Indian
cemetery at south end of Sauble Beach. [For date, see 480]
158 19xx
93rd birthday of Mrs. David (Berry) Mustard of Park Head.
159 19xx
Death of Mrs. James Douglas, 84, of Pinkerton.
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160 1959 When Father was a Lad [Echo]. Military content. 50 years
ago: Lumbering on the Peninsula by Kleinschroth, and Lemcke and
Pedwell. James Phillips of Lion’s Head had 21 children, 16 living.
161 [1909] Canada Furniture Factory settles suit in Wiarton. Frog plugs
valve at Seaman, Kent sawmill at Dyers Bay.
162 1959 90th birthday of Mary (Hutchinson) Moore of Oliphant; ten living
children.
163 1959
89th birthday of Thomas Henry Rathwell of Amabel.
164 1959 93rd birthday of Mrs. Joseph Warmington of Allenford (Celina
Greaves).
165 1959
Mrs. Joseph Warmington still knits at 93: photo.
166 19xx One page from notepad: Krug Bros. notepaper with notes on
Philip Ottewell and David Ottewell, both in first Riel Rebellion. Philip
taken prisoner.
167 1959 When Father was a Lad [Echo]. 20 years ago: Hydro lines are
being built in the district. 35 years ago: lighting strikes house of
Andrew Holler at McIvor. 50 years ago. Removal of bodies from old
Indian cemetery, Wiarton; 25 bodies; new plot. Telephone lines reach
Purple Valley, McIver. Shallow Lake cement plant may close.
Renovation of Wiarton cement plant.
168 1962 When Father was a Lad [Echo]. 20 years ago: Storm stayed
were James Whalen (to raise Hibou), Normac, Caribou.
169 1962 When Father was a Lad [Echo]. 20 years ago: Norman
Whetton starts as lightkeeper at Cape Croker, replacing Wes Morrison.
50 year ago: Death of Mr. Ashley, 76, in Wiarton. Manitou aground at
Lonely Island, saved by Midland.
170 1962 When Father was a Lad [Echo]. 35 years ago: Work on
Wiarton’s road over the hill north of town.
171 1959 When Father was a Lad [Echo]. 35 years ago: Wiarton gives
silk hat to first boat arriving in harbour to open the navigation season.
172 Card, 1963, inviting Bruce Krug to Ministry of Lands and Forests event.
173 Notepaper of Grimes Abrasives of Newmarket, Ont. Krug note reads:
“Streets sawmill. Bill Berry, head sawyer. Between Park Head &
Allenford. Young [ ] sawmill.”
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174 1959 “Busy throughout year, Wiarton airport gives entire area
benefits”; boost to tourist and industrial life of Grey-Bruce District;
many landings.
175 1959 53 years as church organist, Elizabeth Eldridge, St. Mary’s
Church, Hepworth.
176 1958 When Father was a Lad [Echo]. 20 years ago: gas pipes torn
up in Hepworth, were installed a couple years ago. 35 years ago:
Pedwell with fish. William Eldridge buys into sawmills at Southampton
and those of Wiarton Lumber Co. Buckley. Wildcats prevalent on the
Peninsula.
177 1958 When Father was a Lad [Echo]. 20 years ago: Ice fishing at
Tobermory, trout. 50 years ago: Stokes Bay lightkeeper Dan L. McLay
freezes to death 200 yards from his home. Wasaga.
178 1962 When Father was a Lad [Echo]. 20 years ago: Tobermory
gets mail three days a week in winter. Wiarton Poultry Fair. 35 years
ago: death of C.E. Whicher, 74, of Colpoy’s Bay. Much storm damage.
Wiarton’s new liquor store open.
179 1962 When Father was a Lad [Echo]. Military content. 20 years
ago: Big sales at poultry fair, Wiarton. 35 years ago: Death of John
McVannell of Wiarton. Township elections. Golden anniversary of Sheriff
and Mrs. Jermyn.
180 1962 When Father was a Lad [Echo]. 20 years ago: plant 7,600
pine trees at Oliphant sand hills. 50 years ago: Turret Cape in repair. A
school house on White Cloud Island. Cement plant. C. Reckin’s bakery.
Lightning hits home and barn.
181 1962 Schooner John R. Mott cleared from Wiarton waterfront by
dynamite; burned 50 years ago.
182 1962 Salvage 60-year-old timber from lake bottom; Colpoy’s Bay;
Burns and Murray Hall of Owen Sound; logging operation from bay.
Pruder’s dump, where logs were collected 75 years ago.
183 1962 When Father was a Lad [Echo]. 20 years ago: sugar, tea and
coffee rationed. Caribou aground. 35 years ago: death of Richard
MacLaren, 54, Wiarton. 50 years ago: Crown Portland Cement Co.
Barge Isabella Sands.
184 Ms., 1 p. “Visit with ___ Tyson at his home in Wiarton, April 1961”.
Tyson farm, east side of Wiarton. Mrs. Jack Preston is a daughter. A.M.
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Tyson, 1893, bought sawmill at Red Bay from Parker. T.A. Currie store
at Howdenvale. Wreck of the Goldhunter, 1892. McLeod store,
Howdenvale.
186 Ms., 4 p. “Visit with John Eldridge and Lizzie Eldridge, Hepworth on
June 26, 1960”. Cemetery on Con. 11, Amabel. J.V. Smith sawmill.
Rev. Green, Methodist, made Epworth into Hepworth. Bob Socket
bought sawmill from Jackson; Alfred Jewell. Mike Kocher told of logs
drawn to Spring Creek sawmill. “Early Cottages at Sauble”. Eldridges
built first summer cottage at Sauble Beach in 1905. “Early Grove”. Big
elm tree. “Store” at Sauble Beach, the oldest. “R.R. Station at
Hepworth”; three other train stations at Hepworth. “Grist mill” on
Hepworth-Sauble Beach road. “Cemetery on Con 11”, or Socket’s
cemetery; Hughes. “Phoebe Barnes”. “Some headstones in the
cemetery”; John Johnson, Robert Pender, Sydney Jackson.
190 Ms., 2 pp. “Bear picture – copy made from original photo borrowed
from Harold Swale, Boat Lake, Amabel Tp. on April 17, 1960”. Dog sent
by train from Woodstock to Cecil Swale of Amabel; named “Rattler”, he
is in the photo with two bear; “taken about 1904 behind the stone
school house in Amabel Township”. Deer hunting. Cecil loses Rattler,
finds him again. “Visit with Harold Swale”; his father, Cecil, was born
1864 and married a Davis girl; east of them lived King; west was Sam
Dunham. [photo caption: see entry 192]. For more, see Mr. Mason;
John Masterson, Tobermory; William Lynch, Dyers Bay, an old trapper.
192 Photo, b/w, 8x10. Caption in entry 190: “In photo of hunters and bears.
Cecil Swale is on right, dog Rattler and George Rogers are on left. This
photo was taken in 1905 behind the stone school house. Harold says
his father used to shoot bobcat and he thinks there is a photo about the
house of a fox, bobcat and deer strung up at the back of the house.”
194 Ms., 6 p. “Visit with William Mason and his son, William Mason at their
farm home, Lot 18 and 19, Con. XXII, Amabel Tp., on May 10th, 1960.”
His wife died in 1916. They came from Yorkshire, had to buy land from
a land speculator; 300 acres. Neighbour Matthew Renshaw; at Oliphant.
Clearing the land. First Oliphant settlers: Cooke, Eyre, McCutcheon,
Hutchison. Swales at Boat Lake. Oliphant school, its teachers.
Passenger pigeons at Chief’s Point. Early sawmill, Fields. [196] Wrecks;
bags of flour washed ashore. Storm of 1913; bodies washed ashore at
Oliphant. Sawmill at Sauble Falls: Stewart, then McLean. Moore sawmill
on Spry Lake burned in 1908. 1908 forest fires. [197] Indian artifacts
on high west side of Boat Lake; showed arrowheads, pipe stems,
French trading axe. Mason farm is on the portage from Boat Lake to
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Spry Lake. Mr. Mason saw Indians on this trail. First cemetery at
Oliphant was moved. Mason remembered Wild Man of Oliphant. Only a
few arrowheads found at Oliphant beach. Steve Bradley rescued
shipwrecked sailors from the barge Severn [198] which lost 500 tons
of coal. Bradley, a “harum-scarum”. Boat Cove. Spring Creek. Nathan
Doran of Southampton ran a sawmill north of Greenough Harbour, took
lumber by boat to Southampton. Sawmill, south end of Miller Lake. Bill
Young tells of portage from Culberts Dump – Cypress Lake – Cameron
Lake – Dorcas Bay. Dalt Wright of Purple Valley has a large bear [199]
trap found in a field. River names: Patanella, between Sky and Isaac
Lake; Pike, between Isaac and Boat Lake. For more, five people to see.
200 1963
Death of Dr. W.A. Wilford, 59, of Wiarton.
202 1959 “Sauble authority would preserve Chief’s Point Reserve land”.
1,600 acres, has only two residents, Mr. and Mrs. Robert Thompson,
there for 78 years. Hauling lumber to Southampton. Grandparents,
William and Catherine Solomon.
204 1913 Pike Bay contraband whiskey. Body found of Charles Jones; trial
of Charles Darraugh of Owen Sound.
204 1898 Marriage at Purple Valley, Charbonneau-McMillan. Charles
Nadjiwan of Cape Croker found fallen from balcony of Queen’s Hotel,
died. GTR train between Port Elgin and Southampton lost power but
pulled into Southampton “with a strong south wind behind her”. Robert
Watt sawmill.
204 1928
Lion’s Head still; two arrested.
204 1943
$45 bounty for wolf.
206 1912 Sugar Beet Property. Hepburn flour and grist mill burns.
Jermyn: deer scarce. Illegal activity at Park Head Hotel. Sale of Bear’s
Rump Island in Georgian Bay, was owned by “Nawash and Saugeen
Bands of the Chippawa Reserve”; 220 acre island. “Coloured man and
his son from Owen Sound” drift three days on Georgian Bay. Marriage
Holland-Cordingley, at Shallow Lake.
206 1961 Stranded plane takes off from Bear’s Rump Island after runway
cleared.
206 1927 Manitoba breaks anchor at Cove Island. Water levels lowest in
67 years.
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206 1911 Pure zinc found in Albemarle. Greene grounded near Devil’s
Island.
207 1927 Whiskey stills carted away. Death of Mrs. Eliza Glazier, wife of
Rev. Adam Glazier, of Hepworth and Cape Croker.
207 1912 W.S. Boyd, lightkeeper at Griffiths Island, sees Georgian Bay
frozen over; skating from Wiarton to Owen Sound. Coldest night in
history of Wiarton, to -48. Portland Cement Co.
207 1942 Death by drowning of James Iggulden. Flight Sergeant James
Matches of Park Head missing over North Sea. Wiarton scraps German
field piece and three anchors. Tug Flagship not raised from harbour.
Body found, that of James Iggulden.
208 1962 “In boat rentals since 1936, Sauble family now has over 40
ships”. Doran’s Boat Livery on Sauble River started in 1927. Canoes,
rowboats and punts. Nathan, Morice and Ralph Doran. Sauble Clipper
on weekly cruises to Howdenvale and Southampton; description of her.
Commercial fishing much declined.
210 1962 “Telegraph office has been with one family 80 years”. Wiarton
office run by Dobson and Matthews families. Canadian National
Telegraph Co. Use of telegraph messages dropping.
212 1963 “Descendants of Amabel Twp. pioneers do renovations on old
Jackson Cemetery plot”. Mrs. Jessie Seaman, Spring Creek Cemetery,
west of Hepworth. Tombstones described. Photos. Deed issued to
James Wright Smith.
218 Ms., 4 pp. “Ottewell settlement established in Amabel in the early
sixties”. Transcribed from The Daily Sun-Times, Owen Sound,
November 30, 1940. (Notation: “From the scrapbook of Mrs. John
Ritchie, 131 Kirby Ave., Dauphin, Manitoba”) “Richard Ottewell,
pioneer, came from Middlesex County, built a log house, established his
family …” Their trip to Amabel. Benjamin Wilson. John McCulloch. Albert
Guest. Death of Richard P. Ottewell, 93, settled in Ontario in 1852,
moved west, prisoner of the Metis during the Riel Rebellion.
222 Ms., 5 pp. “Mr. David Ottowell related experiences in times of pioneers
– Amabel Township man now eighty years of age, made way to present
home through bush in 1865. West west at age of seventeen to fight
against Riel – Helped survey Winneipeg – Returned to Amabel in 1882”,
by W.M. Newman. Ottowell/Ottewell. Transcribed from Owen Sound
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Sun-Times, Owen Sound, July 15, ___. (Notation: “From scrapbook of
Mrs. John Ritchie, 131 Kirby Ave., Dauphin, Manitoba”)
226 Ms., 1 p. “Record of Longevity set by Amabel family – Ages of Richard
Ottewell’s children aggregate 606 years. Shallow Lake, Oct. 28 – …”
Death of Alfred Ottewell, 75. Death of Richard Phillip Ottewell, 94.
227 Ms., 1 p. “Alberta smoke clouding east”. Sun Times, Oct. 2, 1850.
Forest firest.
228 Ms., 1 p. “Howard McNabb and Bruce Krug on trip to Red Bay, Bruce
Peninsula, June 23, 1964”. “This evening Howard McNabb and myself
drove up to Red Bay …” Mrs. Sarah Cunningham. Robert Finlay. House
for sale: Howard and Bruce went “to look through the house for old
papers and antiques”. Description of interior; left as when the old
couple went into nursing home. Bruce found “some photographs of Mrs.
Cunningham and her brother Robert Findlay.”
230 Ms, 3 pp. “Red Bay Cemetery – Bruce Peninsula”. Tombstone
inscriptions (7). Lee. Leonard. Reid. Schell. Steward. Adis.
McFarlane/Campbell.
234 1961 “First white settler in Amabel cleared land near Elsinore.” Sun
Times, Aug. 12, 1961. Source of township name. David Forsythe, the
first white settler, at Elsinore. William Bull, became Indian agent at
Cape Croker. Subsequent history. 1865, Denny’s Bridge; Indian trail to
Owen Sound gravelled by Mr. Gimby of Derby, poorly; regravelled,
1866. Town plots of Wiarton and Oliphant. 1878 railway. 1863 school.
Sand for industry. Hepworth industry, churches. Park Head railway.
1926 hydro.
235 1961 “Amabel Township Centennial Celebrations, 1861-1961”,
program given.
236 1963 “Learned art of spinning in Bavaria, now Wiarton woman uses it
to relax”. Mrs. Betty Allensen of Wiarton. Photos.
240 1899 Lumbering slowed by snow. James Gales, Hepworth. Ontario
Bark Co., Hepworth. Dr. Bonner to the Yukon. Death of George Stafford
in North Dakota.
240 1898 Train derails at Brooke station. Open new House of Refuge on
Jan. 9, 1899; rush of inmates.
240 1914 Meat inspection bylaw. H.A. Kreutzwiser, Wiarton Garage. Mr.
Kent, Dyers Bay chops wood; 18 men; Chemical Co. drags wood. James
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Spears, Lion’s Head, has a new silo. Hepworth: brick, furniture
factories, McKillop Brothers drill for gas and oil. Railway proposed to
Tobermory.
240 1928 Fishing has three-mile limit; sport fishermen protest. Hope Bay
fox ranch sells pelts.
241 1899 Shallow Lake new homes, Cement Works, Wood Working
company. Morrison and Ashcroft, whipping horse, hitting head; of
Purple Valley. Runaway horses at Wiarton. Owen Sound Sugar Beet Co.
proposal for Wiarton.
241 1914 Fish from Tobermory, to Wiarton. Marriage on White Cloud
Island, Stewart/Soper. Man arrested at Cape Chin, choking his wife.
Cape Croker and other bands sue U.S. re treaty of 1833 on fishing
rights of the islands in the Great Lakes.
241 1929
Dr. Anderson quits Tobermory, lack of subsidy.
242 1960 “Recall early history Hepworth churches on eve anniversary”.
United Church, 35th anniversary. History of Presbyterian, Methodist
services. Photos.
244 1906 Death by drowning of Albert Hyde of Wiarton. Lion’s Head
marriage, Carter/Tackaberry. Clavering timber. Accidents at Stokes Bay
mills. Ditch through Eastnor swamp.
244 1921 Train hits car; Hough, Miller, Ames, Munro. Lion’s Head pump
shop burns, Jacob Fries.
244 1899 Oxenden mill, D.A. Kent. Shallow Lake drug store, Manley of
Wiarton.
246 1899
Barrow Bay saw mill, J.W. Jermyn seeks 50 men.
246 1929 Wiarton livery stable and feed barn, Wilson Sims, from Henry
Rydall.
246 1944 First shipment of Bruce County circulating library books at
Wiarton.
246 1928 Wiarton has electric store: Sauble Falls Light and Power Co.
appliances. U.S. company owns Sauble, Saugeen and Walkerton light
and power companies, seeks permission to lay lines along highways.
246 1898 Wiarton ice rink, J. Bailey. Hanover cement works, J.E. Knectle
[Knechtel]. C.P.R. trains collide, Owen Sound. Registration of all
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unsettled land on the Bruce Peninsula; report: tillable land settled;
large forests nearly all cut; “a good deal of the timber has been stolen
as no deeds for the land could be found.”
247 1913 Newmans’ sawmill of Wiarton; timber skidded from Purple Valley
to Gravelly Bay dump; H. Pruder.
247 1943
Gale; Schope’s boat at Tobermory.
248 1964 “Smallest baby to survive at Owen Sound Hospital, Larry Sutter
marks 5th year”; Sutter of Wiarton. Photos.
250 1964 “Good maple syrup crop reported in Wiarton area”. Wilfred Adis
of Red Bay. Photos.
252 1963 When Father was a Lad [Echo]. Military content. 20 years
ago: Raise old Flagship, underwater at Colpoy’s Bay for a couple of
years. Rutherford and Tyndall join up. Wiarton Grist Mill bought by
Charles Tyson. Club Island gravel crushing machinery removed. 35
years ago: soft coal arrives for J.J. Tyson. Liquor permit books issued.
50 years ago: death of Mrs. (Capt.) Sinclair, 46, of Wiarton; Brown.
Marriage Porter/Wright. Unsold lumber; no demand for logs.
253 1964 When Father was a Lad [Echo]. 50 years ago: loan to Canada
Casket Co. Death of Andrew Greig in rig over bluff. Tenders for Port
Elgin school. 65 years ago: Wiarton Cricket Club. John Simmie in
bicycle race. Steamer Milton to Lonely Island.
254 1963 When Father was a Lad [Echo]. 20 years ago: storm; dock
gone at fish hatchery, Wiarton; Clark Dargavel, lightkeeper at long
dock. Smokestack at Wiarton Furniture Factory. Sam Merlina, movie
picture projector operator. 35 years ago: Sauble Light and Power lease
building to sell appliances. 50 years ago: First rural route mail delivery,
Zion-Keppel, R.R. 1. Willis Kent of Dyers Bay, wood splitting machine.
Death by drowning in Colpoy’s Bay of Indian Robert Taylor. Log and
lumber prices down. [255] 65 years ago: Hepworth: brick factory,
blacksmith business. 1,000 lambs and sheep in drive through Wiarton.
Raising of steamer J.H. Jones after collision last month off Manitoulin.
Prohibition vote, majority. Col. Ely: storm signals at Wiarton harbour,
cone and drum by day and lanterns by night. B.B. Miller and tenants.
256 1963 When Father was a Lad [Echo]. Military content. 35 years
ago: Hahn Poolroom. Red Front Pool Room. 50 years ago: mills at
Oxenden. Albemarle bans liquor sales. 65 years ago: start of
Hepworth Furniture factory. Shallow Lake Wood Working Co. Col.
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Belcher of Southampton moves to Toronto. Lime kiln on the
waterfront. B.B. Miller and tenants. Baker Arthur Kidner of
Southampton moves to Wiarton’s bakery J.H. Baker. Erie Stewart loads
timber at Wiarton. J.H. Jones at Owen Sound dry dock. Joe Milton on
hunting excursion.
258 1898 Reid and Anderson of Hepworth to buy steam plant to power
brick factory at Hepworth. … Same as page 254, 65 years ago.
260 1960 “Echo item recalls family tragedy of fifty years ago”. James
Cunningham; drowning of Edward James Cunningham and Andrew
Holler.
262 1961 “Recalls log rafting days”. Log booms taken from Spanish River
area to Sarnia; stray logs on the beach; description of a log boom.
264 1961 “350,000 refugees in Bruce, 15,000 in Wiarton”, in event of a
nuclear war. Bruce County Emergency Measures Organization, E.M.O.
Warning sirens. Bruce the best place to be in a war.
266 1960
94th birthday of Mrs. David Mustard of Park Head. Photo.
268 1912 Huge storm last week [Feb. 22]; C.T.R. train stranded in drifts;
death of Thomas Stewart, lost in storm. Newspaper Lion’s Head
Courier, to start. Kent. Hill. Kreutzwiser. Lemon.
268 1942
cars.
Lemcke, Symon. Gilbert. Kalbfleisch. Single license plate on
268 1910 Elsinor first boat out of Wiarton; Elite, Sandford. Crown Portland
Cement Co. Colpoy’s Bay sawmill of C.E. Whicher burned; built in
1901, employed 25.
269 1940 Alaska wreck being raised. Elgin Atkey surveys storm on George
Hindman, on Lake Superior.
269 1910 R.H. Murray, 53 years since he was first at Oliphant, fishing on
Main Station Island. Cook. Cullin.
269 1925 Fish shipments from Wiarton, by pound. John Hilditch of Hay
Island. “A great tidal wave struck the Canadian shore of Lake Huron …
one big wave from four to six feet in height.” [seiche]
270 Ms., 1p. “Sauble Falls, Bruce County, Ont. – McLean’s Men”. “Note by
L.F. MacRae on ‘McLean’s Men’”. Oct. 1960. [caption to photo, not
shown] “Of only one person in this picture I am sure. The bearded man
at the top of the picture in line with the tree, with his right hand on his
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hip, is my grandfather Lachlan MacLean (1850-1929). To his left is, I
think, his brother Hugh MacLean (1857-1928) and, to his left, highest
in the picture, is likely their younger brother Norman (1860-1936) …
Hector MacLean (1814-1905) … Claude Elliott …”
270 Ms., 1p. “Sawmill & Boat”. “Note by L.F. MacRae”. Oct. 1960. [caption
to photo, not shown] “This picture was in the possession of my
grandfather, Lachlan MacLean … mill at the Sauble. … this tug Phoenix
of Owen Sound … the other two, the Maggie MacLeod … named for my
mother Margaret 1876-1944, and the Maid o’ the Mist, re-named to the
Water Witch, … which the MacLeans bought in Paisley and sledded
overland to above the falls. … my grandmother, Ann MacLean … Mrs.
Claude Elliott.”
272 Ms., 3 pp. By L.F. MacRae, 1.3.1.1., 2188 Lambeth Walk, Ottawa, Oct.
1960. “The MacLean Brothers of Sauble Falls Mills”. Descendants of
Hector MacLean (1814-1905); births, marriages, deaths.
276 “Note by L.F. MacRae, Oct. 1960”. [caption to photo, not shown]
“This picture is of my great-grandfather, Hector MacLean (1814-1905)
…”. His history at Sauble Falls; sawmill run by his three sons; their
history.
277 “Note by L.F. MacRae, Oct. 1960”. [caption to photo, not shown]
“This picture of the MacLean Brothers (my grandfather and his two
younger brothers) was taken in Vancouver, B.C. sometime around
1925. …” Brothers identified. Norman Robertson refers to Hector
MacLean.
278 Letter, 1 p., Oct. 18, 1960. From C.H. Franklin, Toronto, to Bruce Krug,
Chesley, re house at Wiarton area. “I have not yet come to any
conclusion concerning the contents of the house.”
280 1961 “Mr. Mrs. D. Christie among early [summer] residents of Sauble
Beach area”. David Christie, Owen Sound businessman and former
mayor, first visited in 1925; few cottages; water was higher. Photo.
Ryan Bros. store.
282 1961 “Kidnapped blond girl became the bride of Sauble area
chieftain”. Inscription on a grave, “Bima Dashka ‘Laughing Water’, wife
of Chief Metta-wanash”. As a child, taken captive at Niagara. 1925
description of several graves at Sauble. Kidnapped bride. Photo of
grave surrounded by white picket fence. [See also this topic at pg. 157,
1955]
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284 1961 “First summer folk arrived at Sauble Beach by scow in 1906”.
Hepworth-Sauble road opened about 1925. Summer residents:
Johnston, Althouse, Seaborn, Keenlyside, Snellgrove, Reynolds,
Copeland, German, Gay. History of early businesses, churches.
285 19xx “Hole in sand, then ice, Sauble refrigeration is now mostly
artificial”. Cottages used an ice man from Southampton who also
brought lake trout. Doc Carson. First ice house. Ice cut on Silver Lake;
method. Icebox; ice by the block.
286 1962 “Fire destroys local abattoir” at Wiarton. Owned by Eric Toellner
and son. Photo.
287 1962
Death of Harland Hall Lodge, 51, druggist.
288 1961
96th birthday of Emerson Tolton of Allenford. Photo.
290 19xx “Photograph taken at turn of century”, found inside a rocking
chair by Maurice Gowanlock of Allenford. Group shown: employees at
the old chair factory burned about 60 years ago and rebuilt, now
occupied by RCA Victor. Includes: Jack and Ben Best, Fred Spelcher,
Samuel Quinn, George Gurnett. Photo.
292 1961 Letter to editor by Fred G. Millar, on memories of ringing of the
town bell at Wiarton. Curfew. Fires. Volunteer firemen, competitions.
Noon bell. Volunteer bell ringer.
292 1961 When Father was a Lad [Echo]. 20 years ago: Deaths: Mrs.
A.G. Ede, James Jones, Mrs. W.J. Hackett. Marriage Rennie/Taylor. 50
years ago: 6,000 people at Glorious Twelfth celebrations at Wiarton;
many lodges. “The dominion government is advertising for the
construction of a wireless station and residence at Tobermory. Four
acres of land has been purchased and wires are being installed.” [radio]
Albemarle Zinc company. Tug Lemcke. Tyndall of Dyer’s bay has tan
bark business. [tanning bark] New silo of C.E. Whicher of Colpoys’ Bay.
293 1960 When Father was a Lad [Echo]. Military content. 20 years
ago: Lumber for C.E. Whicher. 35 years ago: Akewenzies win plowing
match at Cape Croker Reserve. 50 years ago: death of Sheriff C.V.
Parke, was of Wiarton.
294 1961 “Second dam built on Bruce River”. On Rankin River near Boat
Lake. Description of portage from Wiarton. Mapped portage in 1788.
David Thompson in 1815. Spence and Kennedy in 1848. Source of the
Rankin. Rankin blasted, 1918; Boat Lake level sank drastically; erosion
downstream. 1948, restored level of Boat Lake with dam; mysteriously
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dynamited. Second dam site; Sauble Valley Conservation Authority.
Three photos.
297 1961 “Authority dam will control lakes”. Concrete stop-log dam on the
Rankin river. To raise water level in Boat and Isaac Lakes.
298 1961 “A.S. Danard a former resident writes about the Massassauga
rattler”.
300 1961 “Bruce County Council holds June session at beach”. Photo,
names.
302 1911 Wm. Lobban held a wood bee; games and dancing in the
evening. Death of James McCartney of enlarged heart. Death of
Douglas at cement plant dock, Wiarton. Cecil Swale, largest maker of
maple syrup.
302 1926 CNR to reduce service. Wm. Wolz to set up basket and barrel
factory at old woolen mill property.
302 1941 Alex. Straith fished at Cranberry Island using a canoe, “reputed
to have been built over 100 years ago by Captain Alex. McGregor and
later used by the Oliphant Wild Man”
303 1911 Albemarle Zinc Company, Dr. Wolverton. Death of James / Chas.
McCartney.
303 1910 Death of Wm. Symon, 78, Wiarton pioneer. Talk of an electric
railway to Tobermory. New theatre at Wiarton is called Wonderland.
303 1925 Nathon Landon. Peter Burbee. George Howard. Pedwill, Sanford
in dry dock.
303 1940
Ivan Sutter. O.C. Vail.
304 1940 Don McLeod delivers milk for Bruce Dairy; horses act up.
Chinese Laundry is back at Ashley Block.
304 1910
Officers search for booze at Stokes Bay hotel, Pike Bay hotel.
304 1941 Daily mail to start to Tobermory, Miller Lake and Stokes Bay.
William Busey sees fire at Wiarton furniture factory.
304 1926
Jack Tackaberry buys Alice, to run to Manitoulin.
304 1911 Deaths by drowning of Norman Bannister, 11, and Norman
Given, 8. Liquor search at Lion’s Head finds none.
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305 1941 German cannon to be melted down. Bodies found of Charles
Lloyd and F.R. Ramsey. Cape Croker Indian Reserve population is 480;
52 are enlisted in forces. Albemarle Zinc Company.
305 1911 Purple Valley bush fire burns barn. Sauble Falls Light and Power
plans steam plant in Wiarton. In James McCartney inquest, wounds on
head.
306 1961 Death of E.D. Kalbfleisch, 79; Edwin Dawson Kalbfleisch, born
1882.
308 1910
Ely House burns in Wiarton. Tobermory Lumber Co. for sale.
308 1940
Tobermory to get hydro power; Hydro Commission.
308 1911 Moonshine; stills at Greenoch Point and Eastnor Swamp.
Marriage White-Holler, at Mar. Shallow Lake seeks incorporation as a
village. Crown Portland Cement Co. grows.
309 1911
T.J. Moore lumber mill to Wiarton.
309 1926
Ice bridge from North Keppel to the island. [White Cloud]
309 1925 CNR tries electric car on Southampton branch line; rail. First
radio installed at Berford Lake.
309 1910 Zinc claim of 100 acres. Water shut off at Wiarton fish hatchery.
Closed sugar beet factory. Echo editorial: immigrants from England
sought to take over deserted farms. New telephone line at Park Head.
309 1940
W.W. Smith to make sporting goods in Hepworth.
310 19xx
Photo, “Long sand beach at South Sauble”: aerial photo.
311 1961 Death of Wellington B. Ard, born 1889, Sauble merchant.
Beachcomber Restaurant at Sauble has roof burned.
312 1961 “Old mill once stood at north of Sauble post office at falls.”
Cottager Laura Gay reminiscences. M.W. Althouse built first cottage in
1906. Cottage of Alexander K. Gay, died 1959, at 99. Water higher.
Store at Seaman’s Mill. Lumber mill at river mouth. Ojibway “Mr.
Thompson” lived with family on Chief’s Point, delivered milk in dugout
canoe; aged about 105 when he died; sons Bob and Ed; grandson
Alfred chief of Saugeen Indian Reserve. Train from London to
Hepworth. Old Danard Road named for Dr. A.L. Danard of Owen Sound.
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314 1961 Photo, “Indian Cemetery 30 years ago”, of Indian graves at
south end of Sauble Beach, near 2nd Ave. Pickets falling down; replaced
by modern white picket enclosure. Chippawa Trail was used to walk
from Southampton to Seaman’s lumber mill.
316 1961 “First Sauble cottage build back in 1905 in North River area”,
was The Pines, built by the late John Eldridge, 1837-?, off Lake Ave.
Recalls early days; tents; fishing shanties; poisonous weed deadly.
Cape Croker brass band invited to play for the Saugeen Indians near
Southampton.
318 1961 “Pioneer homestead in Hepworth district once used for Mass”.
John Eldridge, Sr. of Hepworth worked for the Cape Croker and
Saugeen Indians. Memoir, Rev. M.V. Kelly, “A great Christian layman”.
Eldridge homestead built in 1887. Family records. Daughter Elizabeth
Eldridge. Photos.
320 1961 [same as 234 ] “First white settler in Amabel cleared land near
Elsinore”. Lady Amabel. Surveyed in 1855. Land sale in 1857. David
Forsythe, the first in Elsinore. 1867, polling booth at Park Head for
general election. [for more, see 234, above]
322 1961 “Earliest Sauble settler Nathan Seaman owned 2,200 acres of
property”. Seaman Lumber Mill. Four sons. Seaman land includes rights
to the water’s edge. Their boat, Arrow, took fisherman out; also Lily E.
Seaman, Kormax. Steel bridge at the falls. Government dock on north
side of river mouth. Seine nets. Water Witch, Maid of the Mist.
Sandlime brick plant. 12 private cottages. Theodore Seaman, 83,
photo.
324 1911 T.J. Moore novelty factory. Market prices. Death of Mr. Cairns in
fall from Denny Bridge at Southampton; claim paid by Hunter Bridge
and Boiler Co.
324 1941 Fish house records of ice on the bay, day the ice left the bay;
[Colpoy’s Bay]; in 1919 no ice for harvesting, before February; cost of
ice; cutting ice.
324 1926 Death of Elizabeth Thompson Speirs, married 1864, first white
woman to settle in Wiarton. Gilpin Bros. dismantle factory.
324 1940
Hydro turned on in 80 homes in Tobermory; electric lights.
324 1912 Hunter Bridge get Brant bridge contract. CPR moves Owen
Sound boats to Port McNicol.
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324 1942 Death of Richard P. Ottewell in Edmonton. Death of James L.
Shaw of Spry. Death of John O’Sullivan, 88, of Wiarton.
324 1927
New post office in Wiarton.
324 1911 Raft of logs from the North Shore at Kastner and Newman
Lumber Cos.
324 1926 Bridge at Oxenden grist mill falls. J.C. Thede upgrades Sauble
power plant.
326 1960
Photo, ice caves at Sauble Beach.
328 1960 Photo, “Hepworth claim biggest elm”, 24 feet around. “Bruce
giants not all gone”; giant white elm on bank of Sauble River.
330 1959 “Old-timer recalls the sugar days when local farms grew beets”.
Letter to editor by Andrew Galloway. Beet Sugar Factory, Wiarton, its
history, description. George Overholt plantation on the Armour farm.
Employment. Financing. Raw material lacking. Sugar beets.
332 1959 “Sauble family beach growing steadily, but escapes many pitfalls
– kept orderly and free of unattractive commercialization”. 1,500
cottages line the beach. Post office. Businesses. Policing. Churches.
Provincial park. Fishing. Sauble Beach.
334 1959 “CNR service into city started 65 years ago with branch from
Park Head”, started 1891. Photo, engine 5556 steam, Pacific type.
Photo, GTR engine 505. Photo, steam engine 66. Photo, Railiner.
History of rail service to Wiarton, opened 1894. Samson Cement
shipped by rail from Shallow Lake; chalk and marl from McNabb and
Shallow lakes, until 1913. Wiarton rivalry.
338 1959 Ms., 3 pp. “Visit with Mr. Ewart Paterson at his home in Wiarton
on Aug. 18, 1959.” Starts: “This evening Howard and I called on Mr.
Ewart Paterson … formerly a bank manager in Lion’s Head …”. James
Paterson, druggist, moved to Wiarton in 1861. Pharmacy. Wife a midwife / midwife. Passenger pigeons darkened the sun. Indian portage
from Wiarton, in front of the Paterson farm. Indians at Cape Croker; at
Sarawak 14-16 houses were rebuilt at Cape Croker by French-Canadian
carpenters – Desjardins, La Valley, Proulx, Lamorandiere – married into
the tribe; arrival of Catholic church. Notes, re Allen Schlemmer of Hope
Ness found Indian arrowheads, artifacts; Mrs. Mackaie. John David
Richardson of Lion’s Head found tomahawk heads. Wife of Ewart
Paterson’s brother has a copy of the Wiarton history he wrote. See Fox,
Bruce Beckons, for Phil Forbes, McLeod, McDonald, McLay.
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342 1959 “Confirms Red Bay wreck as Sarah”. Capt. Robert Reid, 1907
sinking.
342 1959 “Relics at Red Bay believed to be from sunken ship”. Ship’s
wheel off Main Station Island. Thought to be Sarah.
344 1959 Ms., 8 pp. “Interview with John Eldridge and his sister Lizzie
Eldridge at their home on Lot 12, Con. IX, Amabel Tp. On April 19,
1959”. Starts: “John Eldridge lives with his unmarried sister, Lizzie, on
the old homestead …”. John is 92, married Bridget Costello, their six
children. Arrived 1878. Hired John and William Atcheson. Sauble River
log drives; Lawrence Belmore. McPerson’s sawmill at river mouth. Other
houses in 1878: Warnick, Anderson, Cribbs, Hughes, Blythe, Wilson.
J.W. Smith sawmill on Hepworth Spring Creek; railway through
Hepworth; three sawmills: Murphy, Todd, [347] Withune. Stave
factory. Passenger pigeon rookery. School, Miss McTavish of Paisley.
Sauble Beach in 1880; Indian road; fishing shanties; Henry Very, first
cottage at the river mouth. Justine McLarity cottage, grave. South end
Indian graves. [349] Railway at Hepworth. Cattle; oxen. River bathing.
Hepworth hotels: Plowes, Spencer. Dr. Taylor. Farm equipment owned.
Duke of Devonshire at Hepworth. Reid Sawmill. Mrs. Hughes. [351]
Large elm trees.
352 Photo, original b/w. “Reid’s sawmill – southwest corner of 15th sideroad
and 10th concession of Amabel Tp. Copy made from original in
possession of Lizzie Eldridge.” Four men atop pile of logs; two buildings
in background.
354 1959 “Amabel Township farmer since 1878, John Eldridge has many
interests at 92 – helped father clear 160 acres”. Clearing the land.
Railway. Road to the beach. Two photos. Sister Miss Lizzie.
358-362
Three photos, b/w. 1) Sailboat at dock. 2) Sailboat in water –
two masts. 3) “West end of Sky Lake, April 23, 1950. [photo missing,
“Lime Kiln, Wiarton, April 23, 1950”; see 372]
364 1958 Letter saying no information about Rev. W.W. Gilroy D.D., from
Daily Progress, Charlottesville VA.
366 1958 Letter, carbon copy. From Bruce Krug to Daily Progress, asking
for information about Rev. W.W. Gilroy D.D. “Since I am attempting to
compile a history of Bruce County …”.
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366 1958 Clipping attached by paper clip. “Preached here when Bruce
Peninsula was backwoods”. Gilroy preached on Bruce Peninsula, “over
40 miles from a railroad”, no date.
368 1958 “100-year-old letter is interesting relict of native”. Quotes letter
from William Simpson to his son, Willie Simpson, first settler in Park
Head area, dated “Otonabee, April 30, 1857. My dear Willie: Though I
have received your letter …”; birth of first son; Gaby; Dunkin Cameron;
Tom Armstrong.
370 Photo, small b/w original. “Log house at north end of Oliphant. Sept.
1953”.
372 Photo, b/w original. “Lime kiln, Wiarton Harbor. April 23, 1950.” [was at
362] Letter to editor, Dec. 11, 1958, from Andrew Galloway, re Gilbert
Blue of Wiarton, delivered lime to the building of the Beet Sugar
Factory, from the lime kiln; his mother died at 92.
374 1938 Bush fire burns lumber of N.D. Seaman, Sauble Falls, and house
of Mrs. Winskill. Hepworth has an automobile: George Graves. Fire
burns planing mill of Whicher’s, Colpoy’s Bay.
374 1923 Body found of Robert Parker, Lion’s Head, drowned; found by
Professor Mem-o-rea, “a clairvoyant”, filled nine bread loaves with lime,
they circled the location of the body. Capt. Corson not found. [see 375]
374 1908 Much lumber at Wiarton. Closing down of the Sugar Beet factory
in Wiarton. Fire burns King Edward Hotel, Barrow Bay; Mr. Hayward;
James Hunter. Bush fires from Sauble to Oliphant; losses by W.G.
Simmie, Moore’s sawmill, W.G. Fowler of Oliphant.
375 1923 Drilling for oil at Spry. Disappearance while fishing of Capt. Wm.
Corson and Robert Parker. [see 374]
375 1908 Closing of Canada Furniture Manufacturers in Wiarton. Railway
ties down Lymburner’s Slide hit rowboat with Capt. E.J. Williscroft badly
hurt. Death by drowning of Arthur Vogan, 24. Harry Petsch, James
Hunter; Oxenden mill. Bush fires happen yearly.
376 1958 “Theodore Cutting, 33, charged in death of brother George, 29”.
At Hepworth. Two photos.
378 1958 5 pp. “Survey crews gathering material for full report to new
Sauble Authority – Study 300,000 acre area.” Survey to give Sauble
Conservation Authority information on: sites for parks, historic sites,
water levels, woodlots, fish census, mammal census, soils. Photos.
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384 1958 “Canadian National Rail service to Wiarton terminates Saturday,
track was completed in 1881”. History of train to Wiarton. Early trains.
Passenger cars. Stations. Cement Plant. Photo at Park Head station,
1888 or 1889. Photo, Mogul class engine, no. 66. Photos: Hepworth
Station. Engine 1560. Park Head replacement station. Interior,
passenger coach.
390 1952 “Heronry” off Oliphant, Red Bay, also gulls breeding ground.
Photos: Great Blue Heron nests. Baby gulls. Heron colony. Mac
MacKenzie of Owen Sound.
394 1908 Thomas R. Scott, Herschel, with coal. Royal Hotel, Lion’s Head.
Zinc found four miles from Wiarton. Alaska. Log raft breaks up; Kastner
Lumber Co.
394 1923 Deer, wolf, eagle in St. Edmunds. Joe Currie’s whiskey;
Constable Blood; still / moonshine.
396 Ms., 6 pp. Transcript of newspaper article. Wiarton Echo, June 10,
1948. “The treacherous deep – an appalling tragedy. This story was
taken from the files of the Wiarton Echo – year 1881. The propeller
Jane Miller founders in Colpoys Bay – 28 persons perish”.
402 Ms., 1 p. Transcript of newspaper article. Wiarton Canadian, December
1898. “G.P. Magann & Co.” Dealer in railway ties. 4 million in 12 years.
History of the firm.
404 1954 “Take to Life Raft when yacht grounds on reef at Oliphant”. Big
Squaw Island. Were headed to Southampton. Death of Mrs. Mark
McClyment, 72, of Durham (Golden) (married John McLennan). 50th
anniversary of Adeline Geaven Hogue and James Eyre, Wiarton.
406 1956 “Water Witch wreck finally found”. Pieces at the mouth of the
Rankin River. Parts to go to Bruce County Museum. The only steamship
to navigate the inland waters of Bruce County, built 1879. History. A
dozen iron ribs. Found by Thomas Henry Rathwell, 87. Photo. “Recalls
old boat in the Rankin River”: letter to editor; went fishing and made
headquarters on the boat.
407 1956 “Will try to locate Saugeen frighter”. Conservation Authority to
look for Water Witch.
408 1957 Photo. “Barge ashore at Sauble Beach”. No name. Detroit barge,
broke loose off Alpena MI.
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410 Ms., 1 p. Transcript of newspaper article. “Bruce County Record,
February 1934 – Winnipeg.” “The Pewabic disaster and body found at
Sauble Beach. A true story of Southampton, Bruce County. By Agnes
Tolmie, of Southampton, Bruce County”. The steamship; Troy Bell Co.
of Syracuse; a cracked bell.
412 Ms., 3 p. Transcript of newspaper article. “Free Press, London, Ont.,
Aug. 1, 1942”. “Pieces of copper ore reminders of tragedy – wreck of
Pewabic.” By W.E. Phillips.
416 1956 “Black day for Wiarton – Str. Jones, all hands, lost 50 years
ago”. In Georgian Bay; crew of Wiarton men. From Echo files, Nov. 29,
1906.
418 Ms., 1 p. Transcript of newspaper article. “Captain Crawford – man who
had charge of the steamer Jones had been sailing 25 years”.
420 Ms., 8 p. Transcript of newspaper article. “Daily Sun Times, Owen
Sound, Nov. 22, 1941”. “35 years ago today str. J.H. Jones went down
carrying 29 people to death … by Dorothea Deans.”
428 Ms., 3 pp. Transcript. “Owen Sound Sun Times, 1938”. “Wm. Chapman
of Wiarton typical Great Lakes figure – spent decade sailing Georgian
Bay and Lake Huron boats and then nearly 30 years as lightkeeper at
Cape Croker”. By Dorothea Deans.
432 1955 “Riddle of Round Island source of speculation for Pike Bay
residents – Abandoned by its American owners since 1950”. Cottage
door open. Women’s shoes. Heavy vegetation. Speed boat missing.
Photos. Owners simply went elsewhere.
434 Ms., 1 pp. “Rankin River – Boat Lake Area”. “May 4, 1957 – This
afternoon I walked to the back of my 100 acre lot near Boat Lake. …
drove … met ___ Williamson, a man I believe in his seventies. …” Dave
McCrab. Nearby ranch of 1,000 acres owned by Mr. Lowery. Williamson
recalled Sauble Falls sawmill, logs piled, tan bark.
436 1956 “First settled century ago by Wm. Simpson, Park Head
celebrates anniversary”. First white child; first school contract; first
Sunday school; Methodist Church, Women’s Missionary Society. Street
sawmill on Sauble River sold in 1875 to M.S. Rourke; chopping mill;
blacksmith shop. First store in Park Head. [centennial]
438 1956 “1856 – Park Head Centennial – 1956”. Simpson from Peterboro
County. Pioneers. Cut road; hay; maple syrup; mill; timber; post office;
school; railroad.
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440 Ms., 2 pp. “Buried treasure at Park Head, as told by Al Siegrist to Bruce
Krug on Jan. 8, 1956”. “My great grandfather came out from Germany
as a middle-aged man and settled in Normanby Tp. …” Gold coins in a
chest; fortune teller said to dig; not found. Map, “Orchard with
treasure”.
442 Ms., 2 pp. Transcript. “Gateway to Bruce Peninsula named Hepworth in
mistake” by W.G. Trestain, London Free Press, 1938. Short history of
Hepworth.
444 Ms., 2 pp. “Sketch of the life of James Douglas, Hepworth, by Mrs.
Wm. Harrison, Shallow Lake.” “James Douglas, of Bruce, dubbed
‘Minister of Education’ because he is a living authority on all things
pertaining to educational affairs, was born in Brant Township in 1858
…”
446 1957 “Dramatic race for life saves Hepworth man after rattler’s bite”.
Joseph Hutchinson, 62, of Hepworth. A golden black rattle snake.
448 1956 “Account of Peninsula Portage, by Frank A. Myers”. Reprint of
the letters of Rev. William Case in the July 17 and July 24, 1833 issues
of the Christian Guardian. Starts “Sah-Geeng Indian Mission – Notes by
Rev. Case – Coldwater to Matchedash Bay. June 3, 1833: Having
purchased a canoe … we left Cold-water …”. Ends “Sunday, June 8: Set
sail for Sahgeeng … We landed opposite the Mission house.”
Penetanguishene. Loss of the Notaway war party in crossing
Nottawasaga Bay. Owen Sound. Colpoy’s Bay. Portage to the Fishing
Islands.
451 1956 “Interesting letter” from W.D. Prior, from sources Dan McIntyre
and Lou Gillette. “Some aspects of the Bruce peninsula”. Geology.
Water levels. Exposed beaches at Barrow Bay; a small lake there was
once a bay opening onto Georgian Bay; a bar formed which enclosed
the lake.
452 Ms., 4 pp. “Interview with Mrs. Wm. Dinniwell at home of her daughter,
Mrs. John Pratt, near Louise on September 26, 1954.” “Mrs. Wm.
Dinniwell is spending a few months with her daughter …” She is 91. Her
family settled in 1865 west of Clavering. Yankee McCulloch. Her parents
were the Ottewells. Wilson. Ottewell shanty. [453] Made potash;
method explained. Early Wiarton. Passenger pigeons. [455] Church in
front of the McCulloch farm. Clavering was Billy Jenkins corner. Devitt
sawmill. Benjamin Wilson. Hepworth was Little Hell.
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454 1955 Death of Mrs. Wm. Dinniwell, Mary Helena Ottewell, 92.
[obituary affixed to page 454]
456 Ms., 5 pp. Transcript. “Pioneer story – Ottewell settlement, by Mrs.
Wm. Dinniwell, RR. No. 3, Wiarton”. Canadian Echo, Wiarton, Aug. 17,
1939. “The place now called Ottewell saw its first settlers in the Fall of
1865 …” Richard Ottewell. Benjamin Wilson. McCulloch. David Arnold.
Laughlin Taylor, John Watts, Robert McCrabb. Wm. Allen. George Carr.
David Stinson. Shanties described. [457] Land clearing. Oxen;
harrows; threshing machine; tallow candles made; fruit trees. [458]
Mr. Ottewell was a Methodist preacher. David Stinson. Rev. Josiah
Green, George Brown, David Williams. Rev. Glazier. First school. [459]
Maple sugar making. Beechnuts for pigs. Milk houses sunk in the earth.
[460] Passenger pigeons; rookery. Honey in trees; bees. Fishing in
Boat lake. Black salts made; ashes; lye.
461 Ms., 1 p. Transcript. “Article on the Ottewell settlement”. Owen Sound
Sun Times, Nov. 30, 1940. “The text is similar to that which appeared
in the Wiarton Echo with the following differences listed below …”
462 1954 “Mr. and Mrs. James Eyre celebrate 50th anniversary”. Hogue. In
1874 settled at Oliphant.
464 Ms., 1 p. Transcript. “Mrs. William Ayres of Oliphant – oldest resident of
Bruce County – healthy at 101”. O.S. Sun Times, clipping in Roy
Fleming’s scrapbook. [no date] “A Sun Times representative called on
Mrs. William Ayres …”. Husband built this house at Oliphant over 70
years ago. Settlers came after. Joe Bellmore. The Fernies. Dan and Matt
Wrenshaw, the Reids, the McKenzies. She visited the stone building on
Main Station Island in her earliest years, “with a roof on it and enough
furniture inside so you could stay there awhile”. She saw “a brass
cannon with French markings on it, which the MacAulays or some
fishermen of Southampton had got from a ship wreck”.
465 Ms., 1 p. Transcript. “Dess Simmonds dies suddenly at Oliphant”.
Wiarton Echo, 1950. Was 64. Red sock and green sock.
466 Ms., 1 p. Transcript. “Tribute to Mrs. Ashcroft – Bruce Peninsula
pioneer”. Death of Mrs. B.C. Ashcroft, at Colpoy’s Bay. Born at Park
Head, father the first postmaster. She was Belle Simpson. William
Davie. John Breakenridge, violin maker.
468 Ms., 5 pp. “Trip with George Buckland of Chesley to Amabel Township
on August 18, 1954”. “This was a cloudy evening with a fine rain falling,
but George Buckland said he would go with me up to Mud Lake and
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Gould Lake in Amabel Township in which vicinity he had spent his
boyhood days.” George went to Skipness School. Sawmill at north end
of Mud Lake. Porter. Chambers. Reid. Walker. [469] Jock Harris. Lime
kiln of Jack Everett. John Hammond. Jack Matheson. Bill Loucks. John
George. Henry Shannon. Race Maxwell. [470] Located small cemetery
on the Ed Loucks farm, tombstones on the ground. [471] Burials from
early days of settlement, transcribed (also see Cemetery Listing binder,
Albemarle, “Family Farm Cemetery, W Pt Lot 14, Con C.”): Shannon,
Hahn, Maxwell, Loucks, Loucks, Renwick, Buckland (seven stones).
474 Three b/w photographs, originals: a church/school building; two views
of a barn or workshop with tall chimney fallen down. No captions.
476 1958 Death of Roy F. Fleming, 79, of Derby Township, had summer
home at Oliphant. Articles published in Owen Sound Sun Times. 1912
book Oliphant and the Islands.
478 1955 “Stolen white girl who became wife of chief is buried at Sauble”;
taken at Niagara Falls, refused to return with parents. By Roy F.
Fleming, as told by a Chief’s Point Indian. “Laughing Water”. Indian
cemetery at south end of Sauble Beach. [duplicate of article at 157]
Added Bruce Krug notation: “Pe-Wak-Anep, an Iroquois Indian whose
father, well known to many old timers of Sauble Beach, was a medicine
man who passed through the four degrees.”
479 Ms., 1 p. Letter, Dec. 13, 1954, from Roy F. Fleming, Ottawa, to Bruce
Krug, Chesley. “Dear friend Bruce – I just came across the snap that
you sent me last year of the Indian grave of the white girl buried at
Sauble Beach. So for fear you had not noticed it in last Sat. Globe &
Mail – I am sending you herewith the clipping of story. … my last Indian
article in O.S. Sun Times of the Oxenden Indians I am enclosing also a
copy …”
480 Duplicate of 157 and 478. Added Bruce Krug notation: “Owen Sound
Sun Times, Dec. 11, 1954”.
482 Ms., 2 pp. Transcript. “Sauble Beach Indian Cemetery – Grave of the
white woman – by Samells”. At end: “as told by Gwen Samells to the
writer Roy F. Fleming”. Starts: “In the year 1891, the late John
Eldridge … was appointed to take a census of the Indians of the
Saugeen, Chief’s Point and Sauble Reserves.” He was told of a grave of
a white girl from Niagara District who became the chief’s husband.
Description of grave and pickets. The writer [Fleming] visited the grave,
described the picket fence joinery.
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484 One photo, b/w, original, of man standing behind small square of picket
fence. Verso, “Indian Graves at Sauble Beach. White child’s grave.
Scott looking on.” [Scott not identified; relative of Fleming?]
[Inscription on verso is in the handwriting of Fleming, see letter at
479.]
486 1954 “First ‘summer folk’ reached Sauble in ’06; recalls early camping
– Dr. A.J. Johnston, retired United Church professor of theology, recalls
early days of what is now one of province’s biggest summer resorts.”
2,000 cottages. Hepworth-Sauble road opened up the southern section.
Dr. Johnston arrived in 1913. Mel Althouse. Cottagers from London.
Post office at Sauble Falls. In 1913 about 20 cottages on the beach.
488 1947 “John Eldridge recalls when Sauble Beach had only fish
shanties”. Photo of him. Sauble as a fishing centre. His brother a
district surveyor. Growth of roads. 97 Indians had a share in fishing
boats on the northern part of the bay. Barrels made on the beach.
Farmers traded for fish. French Bay road. Debate on reserve boundary.
Photos of Sauble Beach entrance.
490 1956 “… and enjoyed by everyone”. Unidentified clipping. “Add to
Church”. Stores [in Park Head?]. “New homes”.
492 1957 “Only residents of reserve at Chief’s Point have use 1,600 acres
of woodland”. “Robert ‘Chief’ Thompson, 86, lives with wife and fatherin-law two miles from Sauble Falls – District farmers hold bee to
provide trio with winter’s wood”. Biography of Robert Thompson. Four
photos of the Thompsons. One shows a photograph of her
grandparents, William and Catherine Solomon. [See more at 202]
496 1958 “Legend tells how Indian saved by groundhog as it sought sign
of sun”. Indian legend of groundhog on February 1, from the Mohawk.
Groundhog festival planned for next week.
498 Ms., 6 pp. “Sawmilling at Sauble Falls”. “May 8, 1952 – I read in a
Chesley Enterprise of 1908 … forest fires destroyed all the timber limits
of the sawmill at Sauble Falls. So I was asking Ernest Seaman about
this fire …” Americans took Ranking River logs in rafts over to the U.S.
side, unknown to authorities. The father of the Indian Robert
Thompson, as a boy, saw “white men come to an island off Oliphant
and build a stone house as a shelter for fishing”. Seaman found flint
arrowheads around the Sauble River. [499] Skeletons found at river
mouth, very tall. Cache of flint chips in a trunk. French buried gold at
the river mouth. [500] “June 14, 1952 – I asked Frank Belmore of
Howdenvale to-day about the sawmill at Sauble Falls.” Two tugs on the
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river. Water Witch on Boat Lake had hinged smokestack to pass under
bridge. Brickyard at Sauble and Hepworth. [501] Sawmill at
Howdenvale, Mr. Currie of Detroit. [502] “Sept. 24, 1951 – Ernest
Seaman of Chesley was saying that his father at one time had a
sawmill” on a lot in Keppel, before moving to Sauble. “Sept. 30/51 –
Howard and I to-day walked in to see where Ernest Seaman’s father at
one time operated a sawmill in Keppel Township.” Stonework, house
foundation. [503] Peddling tea to farmers. Great blue herons nesting.
504 Ms., 2 pp. “Sauble Beach Notes”. “August 14, 1951 – Reg Mortimer of
Kichener … dropped in at the office to-day …” Skeleton found in sand
ridge (Storey cottage), also trading axe and soapstone pipe stem which
are in ROM. 40 years ago, body washed up on beach, buried in the sand
at north end of Sauble. “August 28, 1951 – This afternoon Ernest
Seaman … graves at Sauble Beach. Hector Diebel was telling him that
of the five graves near the south end of Sauble Beach …”; five
American fishermen washed ashore, bodies buried by Indians. [505]
Ernie Seaman interviewed Mrs. Wands about the body near the river
mouth; she heard that some people took it away. “Seaman said that
the father of Bill Eldridge of Southampton kept a diary and that if this
diary could be located a lot of the early history of Sauble district could
be learned.” “Sept. 12, 1951 – Ernie Seaman was telling me … a
Southampton fisherman was washed ashore …” and buried there, north
of Sauble River mouth. In an old Indian cemetery at French Bay is
buried a white woman, captured as a baby from white settlers, married
the chief’s son, had several children.
506 Ms., 2 pp. “August 6th, 1951 – Interview with Don Cameron of Don and
Jean’s Restaurant at Stokes Bay. Howard and I stopped for some lunch
… questioning Don Cameron about the Indian skeleton that was
unearthed near the mouth of Black Creek” between Stokes Bay and Old
Woman’s River. “I knew that Fritz Knechtel and Tom Lee and Doug Bell
had unearthed the skeleton and removed it to Hanover.” Don’s father’s
store at Hepworth. First cottage at Sauble, 1907. No road in. Picking up
driftwood. Don found arrowheads at the river mouth, north side, and
Indian skulls, across the river from Doran’s fish house.
508 Ms., 5 pp. “Interview with Mrs. William Steinhoff (nee Elizabeth
Rathwell) at her home at Southampton – Nov. 14, 1956.” “This evening
Lloyd Steinhoff went with me to Southampton to visit his mother, Mrs.
William Steinhoff, who lives with her sister …” Father at Clavering
sawmill. Rathwell farm across from the station. Niebergal sawmill.
Simmie. Sunday school at Ottewell school. Bob Nichol store; Perkins.
William Steinhoff at Gerrery sawmill at Sauble Falls. McFee. Caldwell.
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Lowery. 1901, in their house at Sauble Falls. [509] Hunter. Bell.
Jewell. Move to Southampton in 1904. Very. Uncle Tom’s cabin at
Sauble mouth. Pope. Devine. Seine fishing at Sauble mouth; herring,
sturgeon; exchange with farmers. [510] Tepas. Woodall. Steinhoff.
Shanties on the beach. Mothersill. Bolex. Thompson. Pesto. Shields boy
grave at river mouth. Creamery and dairy. Reeser. Pierce. Williamson.
Dock at Verys. Kolfage. Cameron. Lily Smith. Lily Seaman. Phoenix.
Mary Arnott tugs towed lumber on scows to Southampton. [511]
Caldwell, Berry, McKennie. Very/Vary. Houses at Sauble Beach. [512]
Charlie Smith. McVittie hotel at Denny’s Dam, called the Bull’s Head
Hotel. Cairns and Ruxton drowned at bridge, 1907 or 1908. 1913
storm, Levi James found Capt. Scott’s body, $1,000 reward. Smale
body not found (Lily Bate’s husband). Sours. First cottage at Sauble:
Dunc Perkins, or Simmie.
514 Ms., 1 p. “October 18/56”. “Last evening I called on Mr. and Mrs. Bert
Smalls at Sauble Beach. Picked up Indian arrowheads, a pot scraper, a
skinning stone. Vary. Huff house, in back the Indians buried a chest of
money.
516 Ms., 1 p. Transcript. “Bruce County Record – February 1934 –
Winnipeg”. “Always prepared for emergencies, by Jean MacAulay,
Wiarton, Ontario, Bruce County Old Girl.” “… when not only the cows
wore that contented look, …”. Graham shanty at Sauble Falls. Moved
house to Southampton on wagon, with Mrs. Graham baking a cake in
the oven.
518 1956/1858 “Visit to a pigeon rookery”, by Rev. C. Vandusen,
Methodist missionary. “Owen Sound, Ontario, April 1858. While on a
recent visit at Colpoy’s Bay, to hold a Quarterly meeting among our
Indian friends at that place, … visit a ‘pigeon rookery’ … head of the
bay. … All the branches of the trees were loaded. …” [passenger
pigeon] From the May 12, 1858 issue of Christian Guardian. Copied
November 1955 by Frank A. Myers for the Manitoulin Historical Society.
520 1956 [Globe and Mail] “The Smokehouse Legend”, by Jane Van Every,
of Doon, Grand River Valley. Smokehouse Island. The ghost of Grey
Wolf, Indian killed. Nat Griffin. A fire and a black box.
522 Ms., 8 pp. Transcript. “From the Wiarton Echo, August 20, 1936.
Interesting history about Main Station. A few weeks ago we had a letter
from T.H. Reeve, of Dafoe, Saskatchewan …”. Old stone fort, Main
Station Island, Oliphant. “We are glad to print the following article …
appeared in the Farmers’ Advocate, in the issue of August 15th, 1907.”
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“The Gagheto [Ghegheto] Ruin, by L.S. Gilleland, Ayton, Ont.” Gagheto
or Fishing Islands. Ojibway geego, meaning fish. Possible to wade to
some islands. Passage, “The Gut”. [523] Whitefish Island. Main
Station, “the largest island of the group. On the upper end stands a
massive ruin of gray limestone.” 58 feet by 18 feet; description. [524]
Fabricated stories of visitors. Review of the myths, legends and beliefs.
Then, “the true history of the place”. [525] “In 1831 Captain Alex
McGregor discovered that the waters …”. Niagara Fishing Company got
a lease of the islands from the Indians in 1843. “In this company were
the late Hon. William Cayley, a son of the late Bishop Strachan, W.S.
Gooding, Dr. William Dunlop, [526/7: b/w photo of man {Bruce Krug?}
on crumbled stone wall in wood and meadow setting] [528] of
Goderich. The lease granted to this company … signature … of Chief
Jacob Mitegwal, who was fifty years of age at the time, but has now
been dead sixty years.” “The managers of this Niagara Company … had
a large stone building erected …” “The year following the obtaining of
the lease, work was begun on the building by Jean Martin, a
Frenchman, who had the contract. … A mason named Belmore … this
man’s son, Larry Belmore, of Southampton, who is yet living, visited
the place as a lad when his father was working on the job. He recollects
seeing Jean Martin’s wife gathering stones and wheeling them in a
barrow to help her husband.” Log building. Garden. “Captain Duncan
Lambert … and George E. Smith … visited the stone ruins when boys,
and to have slept in the wooden bunks around the walls. … Mr. John M.
McNabb, of Southampton, visited the ruin in 1855, and found it still in
good condition.” 1848 report of geologist Alexander Murray. Business
sold in 1848. [529] Last catch, 7,000 quintals of 100 lb. each, half
left: lack of salt.
530 Ms., 8 pp. Transcript. “Wiarton Echo. History of Main Station Island and
its fort. By Roy F. Fleming, Aug. ’44.” At the Ghegheto or Fishing
Islands. “According to Norman Robertson …” “In a French map of 1729
a trading post is marked on the east shore of Lac Huron ‘Fort Supose’.”
“The name Ghegheto is the Ojibway name for plenty of fish. Capt. H.W.
Bayfield placed this name of the islands on his charts …” “When the first
fishing licenses for the Islands was issued for this area in 1843 (to the
Niagara Fishing Co. of Goderich), it was authorized and signed by the
Chief Jacob Mitegwal … he lived from 1793 to 1876.” MacGregor
builds the fort. “From 1830 he sailed and fished …” “Robertson states
that the Fort was built in 1834. According to the Longe family … erected
a year or so earlier.” Ned Longe told the writer. La Plante family. Chief
stonemasons Jean Martin and his wife. 58 feet by 20 feet, “walls from
two to three feet thick, the windows [531] narrow like loop-holes.
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Originally there were three rooms …”, then two. Fireplace, chimney.
Stone smoke-house to the east. Log fish house. Cooper’s shop. Log
house before the stone house built. Garden. Bountiful fishing. Seine
nets. “The MacGregors had one and sometimes two large sailing vessels
besides several smaller craft for their work. The only ship known by
name was the Fly, purchased from W.C. Boyd in Owen Sound and
brought around the peninsula in 1843.” Packed in salt. Murray
MacGregor. Other employees: Capt. Duncan Lambert, Larry Bellmore,
Sr., French and Indian helpers. In all some 20 or 25 people, with
families. Used four languages: Gaelic, English, French, Ojibway. [532]
MacGregor’s last catch of final season at Main Station, in 1843, was
largest of all, 7,000 quintals, about 35 long tons, half let go. To
Whiskey Island for whiskey. Bootlegger named Porky supplied the
fishermen of Main Station, also John Kelso and others. The
MacGregors ousted. “A group of Goderich men, … jealous of their
success, formed … Niagara Fishing Co. …” License signed in 1843 by
William Cayley, W.S. Gooding, Dr. William Dunlop and Dr. Morgan
Hamilton. “In this way the MacGregors were ousted from Main Station
and the Islands. The fathers went north to Cape Croker, then to
MacGregor Bay on the North Shore. He died in old age at Whitefish
River.” Fish scarce; company lost money. In 1848 sold to Spence and
Kennedy. [533] Successive fishermen. “The fishermen who followed
… were mostly enterprising Scotchmen … Among the early ones were
three brothers, Duncan, Robert and John Rowan of Southampton”;
sailed Mary Ann, Emily, Ploughboy, 1856. Capt. George McAuley, Rob
Roy, 1864. McGaw. Morrison’s Cove at Main Station Island. Wilkie.
McLeod. Massacre tale. Vet Cole’s fabricated fairy story; possible ill
will between Indians and white men in trading. Charting the waters.
Survey of Sandford Fleming in 1853 of Main Station Island: shows two
stone buildings, two on Whitefish, one on “Chimney Island”
(Smokehouse), “probably represented the original holdings of the
MacGregors.” Stewart survey in Bayfield II, Capt. Murray MacGregor,
established present names of islands. Main Station no-man’s land.
Old fort at times deserted, but roof replaced four times. Lee of the
island a refuge for schooners. Ice industry. In early 70s a Detroit firm
harvested ice; Louis Morin. About 1880, a source of limestone for
Southampton’s breakwater / long dock; stone removed but no payment
to Indians. 1873 visit to the fort by Mrs. William Ayres of Oliphant, saw
coat of arms on fireplace, and a corner-stone said to hold documents;
Frank Petreau had a [535] book of history of Main Station. Camping
days. 1867, first camping expedition; Charlotte Greer (Mrs. S.W.
Cross); Miller, Gilpin, Johnston, Wilmott caught salmon trout (no bass
then); slept in the old fort a week. Private ownership. “Judge Philip
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Holt of Goderich purchased Main Station Island from the Indian Lands
Dept. in the 90’s.” Sold to Robert Nelson. His daughter Mrs. Wm. Whyte
and family stay in summer. [536] Hydrus, one of 11 ships sunk in
1913 storm. Description of island. Main Station Island on James
Warren Indian Dept. charts of 1899 as No. 22; surface; botany;
remains of MacGregor occupation and cemetery. [537] In literature.
A ghost story on the island printed in Toronto Globe. Dr. Wilfred
Campbell wrote poems about the Fishing Islands. “In talking with the
writer (R.F.F.) in Ottawa, Dr. Campbell said that when he was teaching
school at Purple Valley …”; poem “Dawn in the Island Camp” [here
transcribed].
538 Ms., 3 pp. Transcript. [comments on the proof of a book / booklet by
Roy Fleming] “Letter to Roy Fleming re the Islands at Oliphant, from
Fred G. Miller, Hawkesbury, Ont., Nov. 3, 1912.” “Dear Roy,– Many
thanks for the proof of a part of your booklet … Your facts are pretty
accurate … my memories go back to at least 1886 or 7. I remember
well the very low water of 1895-6 when we could walk to Whiskey
Island …” Some things “you would need to change”: Red Bay never saw
a Huron Indian. Whiskey Island never was the site of a “still”; Mr. Pig
brought in a few barrels. Smoke House was where the company did the
curing and smoking of their fish. The Wild Man: not disappointed in
love; name Cummings, once a Goderich shoemaker; had a clumsy
dugout canoe; took milk; [539] stole food; hid in Spence’s store at
Pike Bay; we saw him one morning; he went to Wiarton, locked up; to
asylum at London; Jim Ayres got his canoe “and I bought it from him”;
strong. [540] Mrs. John Kalte’s yarn [massacre of all whites on Main
Station] is a lie; see Robertson. Cook’s mill, not Coak. Al Reid is a liar,
along with the Renshaw brothers.
542 Ms., 1 p. [notes] “Roy Fleming says: Cape Hurd named ‘P. Taronto’ by
De Tery’s Map 1726, also village (Indian) Papinachois about north of
Stokes Bay.” “Articles on the Griffin, by Roy Fleming: 1) ‘First sailer of
the Upper Lakes – La Salle’s Griffon’, The Canadian Magazine, August
1929. 2) Inland Seas, Spring 1950. 3) Canada Geographical Journal,
Feb. 1936.
544 1956 “Find sea scorpion fossils in quarry”. Eurypterus, in Cook’s Stone
Quarry on the Oliphant Road. Dr. Madeleine Fritz, paleontologist. Photo.
546 19xx “Discarded nylon stockings put to good use by Wiarton woman
with unique hobby – Mrs. Margaret Sutherby uses castoff nylons to
copy almost every flower she has found on Bruce Peninsula”. Photo.
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548 19xx “Wiarton cement plant vacant nearly 50 years to house new
industry”. German electric motors: Schwaback-Bell of Nurnburg. “At the
present time the furniture factory is Wiarton’s largest employer, with up
to 85 workers.” Early cement boom. Marl beds in Keppel. Limestone on
White Cloud Island. Plant built. Spurned merger. Forced to close. 1856
auction of Theodore Dance land. Levi Soper, William Flaherty, Almon
Soper. Dance buys farm. Photos of cement plant.
552 Ms., 1 p. “Joseph Robinson, died in 1912 in Owen Sound after an
operation. He was born in London, England in 1846 …” 1870 married;
moved to Tara, store with Kramer. 1873, moved to Wiarton. Built town
hall.
554 1956 “Local men purchase factory”. Furniture factory in Wiarton;
bankrupt a couple of years ago. George Hough.
556 Ms., 6 pp. Transcript. “From Owen Sound Daily Sun Times, Saturday,
Jan. 4, 1947 - Wiarton’s 8 busy mills centre of Bruce Peninsula
lumbering 50 years ago.” Timber became scarce. “Story of pioneers
who built industry that prospered for half a century”. Article taken from
Canadian Lumberman “some time ago”, with additions; by Walter M.
Newman, J.P., of Wiarton, “a son of one of the pioneers who was an
early mill operator”. Railway ties and timber. Bay filled with booms.
Pioneers in the lumber industry.
560 [continuation] “Wiarton was great lumber town at century’s turning
point, by W.M. Newman”. Wiarton Echo, Vol. 73, No. 6, or Owen Sound
Sun Times, Jan. 4, 1947. Timber for Soo locks. Only one raft lost. Slabs
at fifty cents a cord.
563 1960 “Veteran of lumbering days Walter M. Newman dies”, at 88.
Photo.
564 Ms., 1 p. Transcript. “Wiarton sugar beet factory, from Wiarton Echo”.
“Active building operations began this week on the beet sugar factory.”
565 Ms., 1 p. Transcript. “Wiarton woman 100 years old – 1919, Mrs. James
Lennox.” Hewitt. To Wiarton in 1866, the second family.
566 Ms., 3 pp. Transcript. “Visit with Malcolm McNeill at his home just north
of Wiarton on June 17, 1956.” “This noon Al Siegrist and I called on …”
Son of M.P. Alexander McNeill. Born at Burgoyne, 1877, moved to north
of Wiarton in 1879. He remembered Robert Bruce of Bruce’s Cave at
Wiarton, deserted from Indian army; Loney’s looked after him.
Antiquities: swords, axes, baton, powder horn; painting of his
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grandmother and her three-year-old son, Forbes McNeill, artist was
Duncan of Edinburgh. Sleigh built in 1887, used by M.P. father to travel
about Bruce County.
568 Two photographs of the same house, single chimney, glassed
conservatory: presumably the Malcolm McNeill house. A third photo is
missing from the space allotted.
568 1956
“Malcolm McNeill passes at Wiarton in his 83rd year”.
570 19xx “Last of steam-operated sawmills in peninsula is burned to
ground Sunday”. Owner Alan Whicher. At Colpoy Bay. Mill had been
there for 44 years. Photos.
572 19xx “White Cloud Isl. Mystery of 79 years ago not solved, four men
lost their lives – three skeletons found on nearby Griffiths Island 30
years later”. Men believed robbed and slain. Disappearance of four men
from Owen Sound in a sailboat, September 1868. Charles Fothergill.
Brown, Robinson, Notter, Kennedy. Ogilby. Skeletons not from Jane
Miller.
574 1937 Grand Rapids wreck removed from Big Tub harbour, Tobermory.
Rutherford, Gillies. Rev. J. Cadot at Cape Croker dedication of cairn to
him; Jesuit priest there for 27 years.
574 1922 “Rev. Father Jos. Cadot of Cape Croker has been transferred to
the Indian Reserve on the Christian Islands.”
574 1907 Manitoulin tows log raft to Wiarton for J.P. Newman’s sawmill;
largest seen; 1.5 million feet of lumber.
574 1957 “Old gun collection draws many visitors” to window of Bill
Matthews’ paint shop, Wiarton. Oldest is muzzleloading rifle. Also
flintlock Brown Bess, 1837.
575 1907 Colonial Cement Plant, Wiarton. Lien on electric light plant at the
sugar beet factory. Canada Furniture Manufacturers, Wiarton. Telegram
at Lion’s Head. Reid boat. Gillies boat. T.Y. Dealy mill at Stokes Bay.
Morran’s Royal Hotel, Lion’s Head in fire. Stead Bros.’ new lath and
shingle mill at Wiarton. Spragge to Guelph. Kleinschroth and Schultz of
Stokes Bay: Tamarac mills.
575 1937 Meneray fishing tug in fire, of Lion’s Head. Hopkins and
Ransbury with black bear. Wiarton Furniture Co. annual meeting.
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575 1922 Royal Hotel, Hepworth. Downs sells to Harris and Barnes.
Hepworth Brick Co. booms. Pedwell, Lion’s Head on the rocks.
576 1907 Thompson sawmill, Wingfield Basin, burns. Electric wire laid from
Sauble Falls to Wiarton / electricity. Gillies of Tobermory buys City of
Grand Rapids, to replace Jones. Dargavel works on Wiarton
breakwater; building fish hatchery. Miers of Tobermory moves sawmill
to Wiarton. Eldridge Bros. lose Esperanza, buy Gilphie.
576 1907 “On Tuesday evening about ten o’clock, Phil Gilbert, who was
making a raid on a house of ill repute, conducted by Agnes Thomas,
was instantly killed by a shot from a revolver, fired by one of the
women. The women are well known here. Two years ago they pitched
their tent at 4-Mile Point in Keppel. They were tolerated for a while,
kicked out, then tried Albemarle. …” On the edge of Wiarton. Club
struck her arm, altering gun direction to Gilbert’s heart. He had been 20
years a constable in South Africa. [brothel] [Wiarton Echo, Aug. 22,
1907]
577 1907 Re shooting of Phil Gilbert, men “knocked out some of her teeth
when she began firing in the air the pistol she carried in her stocking.”
576 1937 Lumber from Whichers’ mill, St. Joseph’s Island, reaches
Wiarton; lumber to go to Knechtels at Hanover and Wiarton Furniture
Co.
577 1907 Thompson rebuild burnt mill at Wingfield Basin. Lower taxes on
the beet sugar factory. City of Grand Rapids puts out fire on Edward S.
Pease, at the dock. James Flett gets cutters returned from Jones wreck
washed up on Christian Island.
577 1922 Lyal Island lightkeeper McKay gets Imperial Long Service Medal.
Also got President Cleveland’s Gold Medal for the Iowa rescue in 1886.
577 1937 Cairn to William Wilfred Campbell unveiled in Wiarton, erected
by the Wiarton Women’s Institute.
578 1905 Gertie C. burns at Lion’s Head; North Bruce Lumber Co. tug.
New tug Crawford christened. Hepworth furniture factory fire put out by
bucket brigade.
578 1935 “Residents of Howdenvale saw a brilliant meteor in the sky on
Wednesday evening.” Greig barn burns at Lion’s head.
580 1906 Jones opens navigation at Lion’s Head, takes man to hospital at
Owen Sound. “Indians pay day” at Cape Croker; about $7,000.
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Mystery tug launched at Lion’s Head; Sensabaugh. Woman’s body
washed ashore 10 miles south of Stokes Bay; Kaliugu. Hepworth
Manufacturing Co. gets in 500,000 feet of logs. Hepworth grist mill
running.
580 1921
Lindsay Township war memorial to go up at Scotch Corners.
580 1936 Wiarton customs office opened 1894, closed 1936. 65th wedding
anniversary of Mr. and Mrs. John West of Cape Chin, arrived 1884 on
Annie Watt. I.L. Mateer born at Golden Valley 36 years ago.
581 1936
Hibou sinks, seven drown.
581 1906
Gladstone laid up. Sarah: Jim Schell rescued.
581 1905 Skull found in digging on Frank Street sewers. George Vogt,
Adamsville sawmill. Death by drowning of William Hepburn, Hope Bay.
581 1920 Schaver sawmill burns, Keppel. Lynx killed sheep near Pike Bay.
Kastner Lumber Co. loses 11,000 logs in tow to Wiarton.
582 1905 Oliphant dock near completion. Stock train jumps track at
Clavering; one pig killed. Wiarton Cement Brick running full out.
Hepworth Furniture Co. installs dynamo to light factory, replacing gas
light.
582 1935 At Boat Lake, pike and perch. At Gillies Lake, 50,000 young lake
trout placed. In Doran Bros. nets, a two-foot swordfish. Clay pipe in
gravel pit at Cape Croker; Levi Chegahno.
584 1904 Death of Mary Cochrane, 73, of Oliphant, of starvation and
freezing. Death (15 years ago) of Dunham, froze on a walk from Lion’s
Head to Lindsay.
584 1903 Debentures, Wiarton Sugar Beet Co. Lion’s Head fire burns
Pedwell sawmill. Bush fire burns timber near Cameron Lake. Fire burns
Wybern mill, Boat Cove near Stokes Bay.
584 1918 William Eldridge, of Tobermory sawmill, has largest cut of timber
on the Peninsula. Clearing ruins of old Commercial Hotel, Wiarton.
584 1933 Death of Mrs. Samuel Crow, 93, Wiarton, first white girl to set
foot in Wiarton, carried ashore by Robert Bruce (Bruce’s Cave). Paton,
Greig, Galloway, Thompson also settled.
585 1918 Abe Mielhausen of Lion’s Head has the first tractor, a Ford.
Engineer McDowell says drain Boat Lake.
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585 1904 Stokes Bay lumber mills; Tamarack Mills, Wyborn mill, Goderich
Lumber Co. A. Watt lumber camps.
585 1903 Cement works soon done. Ed Downs lights stove, gas explodes
at Royal Hotel, Hepworth. Dan Smith manages Tamarack Mill, Stokes
Bay.
585 1933 Frank Atkey repairs Flowerpot Island. Fire burns Fred Hanbidge
general store in Dobbinton.
585 1934
Fire burns Greig and Hummel general store, Lion’s Head.
585 1930 James Stephens of Oliphant Road is 100, cooper/barrel maker.
Widmeyer family reunion, Ayton. Eastnor, formerly Pedwell, at Wiarton
for winter layover.
586 1905 Cement factory, Shallow Lake, enlarged. Simmie supplies wood
to Grand Trunk Railway; lumber. Storm damages barns, store, school,
church at Hepworth.
586 1920 New Centre Road open, but W. Mitchell has to walk his horse
over it. Shallow Lake Cement Plant machinery goes to Lakefield.
588 1903 Fire burns sawmill of Canada Furniture Co., Wiarton. Wiarton
Cement Brick Co. opens. Light arrives for the dock at Lion’s Head. Fall
mud in Wiarton streets. Meaford dredge rebuilt by A. Hackett.
588 1933 Ex-members of Bruce Battalion meat to discuss an annual
reunion. Eastnor left Lion’s Head for Collin’s Inlet winter camps;
workers named.
588 1918 Wiarton has electric lights and sidewalks. War casualties listed.
Death of Ruben McKachern, invalided home from England.
590 1904 Esperanza to raise McIntosh at Manitoulin, with A. Hackett and
gang. Death by drowning of Alfred Blakely, wine clerk at Commercial
Hotel. Buildings of Wiarton Sugar Beet Co. go up for sale by auction.
Sauble Falls sawmill bought by N.D. Siemon of Jackson. Seaman launch
at Hackett’s Yard. Bears eat sheep at Cape Chin. Beet factory gone;
Colonial Portland Cement Co. “The first Chinaman to settle on the
Peninsula is Ah Sing of Ripley, who is working at Tamarack, Stokes
Bay.” Lightning hits Methodist Church at Oxenden; Lemcke. S.W. Cross
surveys Cranberry Island; lots for sale. Measles epidemic. Hunter plans
flour mill at Oxenden.
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590 1919 Hepworth Gas and Gasoline Co. to drill. Stage service from
Wiarton to Lion’s Head; Hummel, Stewart.
591 1904 Cow bells wake sleepers; rigs accumulate on the street in
Wiarton. John Eldridge bank barn raised, making 25 between Hepworth
and James Kirkland’s corner. Cape Croker has new diaphone fog
warning. Seek grant to drain Eastnor swamp. Norman Robertson going
through old files of the Echo for history of Bruce County. Lightkeepers,
Chas. Webster Sr., Wingfield Basin; Capt. Chapman, Cape Croker. G.
Kastner sawmill. Fish only 20 trout a day from a stream; new
regulation. Price of butter, wheat, flour, eggs.
591 1934 “For the first time, talking pictures will be presented in Wiarton
…” and vaudeville; cinema. New book, Bruce in Khaki, a history of 160th
Battalion; Thos. Johnston.
591 1919 Much “swamp whiskey” seen in Wiarton; stills. Methodist Church
has 249 members. Estate of H. Krug of Albemarle wins lawsuit. Soldiers
arrive home, named.
592 1905 People who have left for the west. Wharf wanted at White Cloud
Island. Reid Bros. brickyard at Hepworth to expand. Man sells sparrows
painted yellow, as canaries. E.M. Meirs lumber mill, Tobermory. Nelson
Hawke, sawyer at Hepworth Manufacturing, injured. Hunter mill at
Oxenden. Robert Watt sawmill, etc. sold to Nierbergall, Hunter,
Crawford.
592 1920 Tobermory sawmill; Macartney, Eldridge. Machinery arrives at
Wiarton Furniture Co.
592 1919 Fire burns shed at Hepworth Furniture, and railcars. Fire at
McIvor Bros., Stokes Bay.
593 1920 Hydro power soon from Eugenia Falls; electricity. Death of
Charles Fetter, Hepworth. New buildings at Wiarton by Dominion Fish
Co. Death of George Atkey, 84, son of first white settler; his father a
missionary at Oxenden about 1857. Hepworth ice cream cone factory.
593 1935 Gas flows on farm of C.A. Barfoot, Shallow Lake; Nottawa Gas
and Oil Co.
593 1905 Farmers must pay debt of Wiarton Sugar Beet Co. Late train
jumps tracks at Neustadt. Pedwell mill, Lion’s Head. Four families
moved to Tamarac Island. Whicher mill, Colpoy’s Bay, expands. Thos.
Gilpin retires from sash and door factory, in the business for over 40
years; Wiarton.
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593B [inserted clipping, from 1950s] “When Father was a Lad”. 20 years
ago: Helena Patterson of Mountain Lake writes words to waltz “My
Dream Girl”. 35 years ago: St. Alban’s Hotel to become grocery store,
restaurant. Fire burns bank barn of W. Jenks, Spry. Market prices. Over
100 empty houses in Wiarton due to failure of factories; to revalue the
town. 50 years ago: Little Lake Bridge is 300 feet. Talk of incorporating
Hepworth. Sale of Grey and Bruce Oil and Gas Co. plant at Hepworth.
[verso] Catherine McCormack, formerly of Lion’s Head, is 90.
594 1929 Fire destroys barge Buckley owned by Peninsula Tug and Towing
of Wiarton.
594 1904 John Spears and girls overnight on Flower Pot Island. Kolfage at
Stokes Bay, lumber to Goderich. Mallard, of Hambley’s Mill, Purple
Valley, “attacked by three Indians”. Dogs attack sheep, A. White, Mar.
George S. Sinclair foundry and drydock comes to Wiarton.
594 1934 Death by drowning of Sylvia Lorenz, 12, of Port Credit while
swimming to wreck of Alaska.
594 1919
Move lighthouse back from the end of the dock at Lion’s Head.
594 1905 John Holler record load of maple into Hope Bay. Reid Bros.,
brickmakers at Hepworth.
595 1904 New range lights at Stokes Bay wharf. Shipping report, Lion’s
Head. Wharf at Oliphant approved. Dominion Fish Co’s. new steamer,
Caribou. New sidewalks at Hepworth. Retirement of Wm. Spencer of
Spencer House, Hepworth. Ties and posts around the Bay. Fire at Lion’s
Head dock sheds. C.H. McIntosh tug ready at Hackett’s shipyard.
Government money for sugar beet growers.
595 1919 “Swamp whiskey” / stills at Hope Bay uncovered; moonshine;
vigilantes needed. Fure burns chair factory of Canada Furniture,
Wiarton. Casket factory offer. “A huge balloon passed over the town,
heading east.”
596 1904 Tanbark from Dyer’s Bay to Berlin tannery. Hitting tie with
“spickaroon”. Lion’s Head steamboat dock sheds and dock burn.
Retirement of John Parker, keeper of Flower Pot Light. Death by
drowning of “a young Indian named Proulx” of Cape Croker.
596 1934 Fire burns Colpoy’s Bay Hotel; George Golding. Stokes Bay
fishermen get salmon, some whitefish.
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596 1919 Balloon found off Cove Island; bodies of two pilots found off
Tobermory. Prohibition sustained. Gas struck at Hepworth; village to
have gas for lighting in 60 days.
597 1954 “Automatic dial telephone system for St. Edmunds”. Gillies
Telephone System. In 1889, a telegraph line opened from Tobermory;
Great Northwestern Telegraph Co., until 1913 when a wireless system
began. In 1904, start of William Gillies’ telephone system. Now 52
telephones in St. Edmunds Township.
598 1904
Acetylene gas explosion at Lymburners’ Hotel, Lion’s Head.
598 1919 Good gill net fishing at Fishing Islands: G. Macaulay of
Southampton and B. Merrifield of Wiarton. To St. Joseph’s Island for
winter lumbering, Stella. Sale of Casket Factory. Hepworth to get full
supply of natural gas. Wiarton population is 1,728. Mr. Hawke of Pine
Tree rewarded for finding body of drowned balloonist. Mogul engine
1304 derails near Clavering; train.
598 1934
Limestone fertilizer at Limberlost. Cat-owl.
599 1905 Hotels get licenses; named. S.W. Cross builds telephone line
across Cranberry Island from Echo Lodge and Dr. Fisher’s cottage. Fire
burns lumber dump at Cape Chin.
600 1904 Sheep drive to Wiarton; John McLeod. Work at Colonial Cement
Co., Wiarton. Consolidate Furniture Factory and Table Factory.
Johnston livery stable at station.
600 1919 Sale of Casket Factory. Many large balloons in international
balloon race from St. Louis; one in water, empty, at Cove Island.
Destructive gale at Oliphant; storm.
600 1934
Car hits train in Wiarton. Boiler recovered from burned Eastnor.
601 1919 Vote in favour of building the Centre Road, to be a county
highway, not the East Shore road.
601 1905 Dankert, Whitthun. Storm: train stuck below Dobbinton for two
days. Galbraith Mill at Mar. Whicher lumbering going well. Colonial
Portland Cement to restart work. Taxes received from Beet Sugar
Factory.
601 1920
Ice allows skating from White Cloud and Griffiths islands.
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602 1906 Ely boat house at Wiarton. Hotel rates go up to $1.40 a day.
Huge log raft to Owen Sound. Many perch caught at Stokes Bay; “the
perch will not last long at that rate”.
602 1921 Pound of butter drops, from 50c to 26c. Milk down to 11 cents.
Tigert picks up lost logs at Lion’s Head. Fire burns Clark Shier store,
Lake Charles. Heaviest county tax rate, 12.5 mills. Ninth Grey Horse
regiment camps at site of the old Sugar Beet Factory.
603 1936 Tidal wave hits Wiarton, washes over dock; seiche?. Death of
Mrs. M.W. Vail in fire at Tobermory.
603 1921 John Hagarty refloated; Capt. John Moore. Bush fire at Sauble
Falls.
603 1906 Capt. George Macaulay of Southampton catches 27.5 lb. fish at
80 fathoms. Bar prices at hotels; whiskey 10c a glass.
604 1905 Death of D.G. Millar, Wiarton’s treasurer. Death by drowning of
Wm. Sensabaugh, in Gillies Lake. Thos. McKeag of Oxenden goes west.
Death by drowning of William Gilchrist of Wiarton, in sinking of Mataafa.
W.G. Simmie to supply 60,000 ties to G.T.R. B.B. Millar of Wiarton
plans to go west.
604 1930
May stock elk on the Peninsula.
604 1920 B.B. Miller, 85, Wiarton magistrate, resigns; second settler, after
Isaac Lennox.
605 1956
Tub.
“New dock completed at Tobermory Harbour”. West side of Little
605 1906 Stokes Bay mill sale; Wyborn, Boyle. Logs cut, cannot be hauled
for lack of snow, Lake Charles. House bricks from Reid Bros., Hepworth.
Snow comes; every team engaged to haul logs. Ice harvesting by
Dominion Fish Co.; cut ice. Annual grain report; farmers’ earnings;
market prices. First piano to reach Tobermory by road, sold to Capt.
McLeod, lightkeeper of Cove Is.
605 1921 Stead basket bottom factory opens at old Sinclair foundry site.
Hepworth: Downs Bros. open music store, pool room, barber shop.
Garbage collection not started yet.
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