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Metadata
Item ID# |
A2012.117.118 |
Title |
Bruce County historical notes, 1970 to 1974 [newsletters] |
Object Name |
Newsletter |
Dates of Creation |
1970 - 1974 |
Creator |
Bruce County Historical Society |
Description |
[To download these newsletters, scroll down through this description to the "Finding Aids, Transcriptions & Links" section and click on: "Download a PDF copy of BCHS Newsletters, February 1970 - May 1974."] This folder contains newsletters of the Bruce County Historical Society, entitled "Bruce County Historical Notes", dated 1970 through 1974. Scroll Down to the "Finding Aids, Transcriptions & Links" for a link from which to download this range of newsletters. 1. BCHS ARCHIVES "Archives building trust fund": BCHS trust fund set up to build an archives building. Donations coming in. 1970 Feb., v12, #1 BCHS Archives: BCHS archives in Tara (walk-in vault) needs furniture. Archives Building Trust Fund is at $455. 1970 Sep., v12, #4 BCHS Archives: Archives Building Trust Fund at $455. October visit to Simcoe County Archives at Minesing. Mrs. Blair Robertson of Port Elgin is cataloguing BCHS material for the archives. 1971 Feb., v13, #1 BCHS Archives: Archives Building Fund at $511. BCHS membership at 321. 1971 July, v13, #2 BCHS Archives: Archives Building Fund at $519. Executive hopes to collect enough to build an archives building. 1971 Sept., v13, #3 BCHS Archives: Archives Building Fund at $521. 1972 Feb., v14, #1 2. BCHS BOOKS "Hasti notes": Pen and ink sketches of Bruce County scenes adorn hasti notes being prepared for sale. 1972 May, v14, #2 "Hasti notes": Four pen and ink sketches of Bruce County scenes adorn hasti notes. $1.75. 1972 July, v14, #3 "Pioneer days in Bruce": David Kennedy's 1903 book Pioneer days in Bruce is being reprinted under a New Horizons grant. 1973 May, v15, #2 "Pioneer days in Bruce": David Kennedy's Pioneer days in Bruce sells well, $2.25. 1973 July, v15, #3 "Year book": 1973 Yearbook ready; 250 extra copies printed. Copies, $1. 1973 May, v15, #2 "Year books": Arrangements made to print a third edition of Norman Robertson's History of Bruce County. 1971 July, v13, #2 Publications: 1972 Yearbook, edited by Mrs. E. Ferris, Cargill. Third edition of Norman Robertson is printed. 1972 Feb., v14, #1 Reprint of Robertson: Possible third edition of Norman Robertson's history. 1971 Feb., v13, #1 Yearbook: 1967 and 1969 Yearbooks have sold out; copies sought. 1973 May, v15, #2 3. BCHS EVENTS "August picnic": Bus tour August 13, 1970 to Tobermory with stops on the way. Bring a lunch. Donation of $200 to BCHS by Murdoch Matheson of Saskatoon. 1970 July, v12, #3 "Bus trip to Black Creek Pioneer Village": 98 people attended the Society’s Aug. 16, 1973 bus trip. Description of Black Creek Pioneer Village. 1973 Sept., v15, #4 "Bus trip": Aug. 13, 1970 bus tour from Kincardine and Walkerton, stops at Wiarton (airport, Eby Quarry) and Lion’s Head, to Tobermory (Sublimnos diver). Stoke’s Bay dinner. 1970 Sep., v12, #4 "Bus trip": Bus trip and picnic August 19, 1971. Douglas Point, box lunch near Tiverton, points eastward. 1971 July, v13, #2 "Bus trip": Bus trip and picnic August 19, 1971 had almost 100 people, in two buses. Douglas Point; box lunch near Tiverton; Formosa; Saugeen Conservation Park; Durham; Chatsworth fish hatchery; Inglis Falls; Owen Sound dinner. 1971 Sept., v13, #3 "Bus trip": Bus trip and picnic Aug. 17, 1972. Simcoe County Museum and Archives, Barrie, Collingwood, Owen Sound. $4. 1972 July, v14, #3 "Bus trip": Bus trip Aug. 16, 1973, to Black Creek Pioneer Village. 1973 July, v15, #3 "Summer bus trip": Bus trip and picnic Aug. 17, 1972. Two buses, of 28 and 42. Visits to Simcoe County Museum, Fort Willow (1812), Collingwood shipyard, Blue Mountain Pottery. 1972 Sept, v14, #4 4. BCHS HISTORY "Film reader": A portable film-reader will be delivered to the Society; for public use at the county library, Port Elgin. 1972 May, v14, #2 "Membership": BCHS membership 287. McLeod’s History of Bruce County is $7. Yearbooks, $1. 1970 Sep., v12, #4 "The Bulletin": Bruce County Historical Notes is edited by Mrs. Earl Ferris of Cargill. A typist in Chesley, for $25, types the stencils, runs 475 copies on a Gestetner. The editor and helpers fold, address and stamp. Mailing costs $25. Total $200 a year. 1973 Sept., v15, #4 BCGS formed: Bruce County Genealogical Society formed as branch of Ontario Genealogical Society, Mrs. Basil Underwood of Burgoyne, president. 1971 Feb., v13, #1 Duties of Society’s representatives: Society representatives are to: solicit memberships, AGM attendance, organize local meetings, sell books. 1972 Feb., v14, #1 New editor: Editor of "Bruce County Historical Notes", Mrs. Earl Ferris. 1971 Feb., v13, #1 5. BCHS IN MEMORIAM "In memoriam": Death of Rosaline Wittig of Kincardine, 100. 1973 Feb., v15, #1 "In memoriam": Death of Mrs. Henshilwood, the former Belle Brown, 90, of Tiverton. Death of Mrs. George Lamont of Kincardine, sister of Mrs. Elmer Norman. Death of Wilfred McNab of Maple, Ont., cousin of the Coumans of Chepstow. 1973 Sept., v15, #4 "In memoriam": Death of Mrs. Pharis Mathers (Maizie Hackett) of Lucknow, wife of the BCHS past president. 1974 Feb., v16, #1 "In memoriam": Death of Murdock M. Matheson of Kincardine township. Death of Gordon Cottrill, Kincardine druggist. Death of Mrs. James Harkley and Mrs. Wm. Dobson of Walkerton. 1974 Feb., v16, #1 "In memoriam": Death of BCHS member Mrs. T.J. Salkeld of Lucknow. 1974 May, v16, #2 Steen, Cecil: Historian Cecil Steen died. He wrote Legend of the Great Lakes and The wreck of the Erie Belle. 1972 Sept, v14, #4 McLeod, Norman: Native of Arran township, author Norman McLeod died. 1972 May, v14, #2 Warren, Winifred: Death of Winifred Warren, Walkerton, who contributed to Society publications. Sister of Mrs. W.H. McBurney. 1972 Feb., v14, #1 6. BCHS MEETINGS "History meeting" : At the January meeting in Ripley crokinole was played; remembrances of early fairs: parades of children, taffy, horse races, lady drivers. 1972 Feb., v14, #1 "January meeting: Indians": Ripley Unit, BCHS, met to discuss Indians. Members recalled Ojibway camping on the lakeshore; trading baskets for eggs, milk and provisions; singing around campfires. Indian cemetery north of Pine River mouth is now covered by cottages. 1970 Apr., v12, #2 "November meeting": Ripley meeting on superstitions. Butcher at the right time of the moon or the meat will shrink; put left shoe on first. 1972 Feb., v14, #1 BCHS AGM: Annual dinner meeting Oct. 8, 1970, Walkerton Legion Hall. Margaret H. Brown of Tiverton, on her life in China. 1970 Sep., v12, #4 BCHS AGM: Annual dinner meeting Oct. 8, 1970, Walkerton Legion Hall was attended by about 130. Margaret H. Brown of Tiverton, on the many Bruce County people she had met travelling to and from China. Missionary for over 40 years. New BCHS president, Mrs. James McClure. Decision to give Yearbook free to the 302 members. Membership, $2. 1971 Feb., v13, #1 BCHS AGM: Annual dinner meeting to be Oct. 7, 1971, Southampton Legion Hall. Dr. Reid of Guelph University. Meal $2.50. 1971 Sept., v13, #3 BCHS AGM: Annual dinner meeting to be Oct. 26, 1972. 1972 July, v14, #3 BCHS AGM: Annual dinner meeting to be Oct. 26, 1972, Tiverton Presbyterian Church. Harvey Davis, Bruce County warden. Meal $2.50. Membership $2. 1972 Sept, v14, #4 BCHS AGM: Annual dinner meeting to be Oct. 25, 1973 at Wiarton Propeller Club. Speaker Carl Whicher of Colpoy Bay. $2.50. 1973 Sept., v15, #4 BCHS AGM: At the BCHS annual meeting, Oct. 25, 1973 at Wiarton, Archie McKinnon of Teeswater was elected president. Speaker Carl Whicher of Colpoys Bay told of the lumber and general store business started by his parents in the 1880s. Lumber shipments needed three steam locomotives. He persuaded Mitchell Hepburn to install hydro in the Bruce, in 1936. 1974 Feb., v16, #1 Local meetings: Ripley meeting of the Local History Group featured dancing, song and readings from the Kincardine Reporter of 1899 and 1900. Kincardine meeting at the Walsh home had 20 people recounting stories from school days and displaying antiques. Neil McDougall’s family arrived in Kincardine in 1851; ten miles on foot through snow. Grandfather of Katie Urqhuart carried mail about 1854 from Kincardine to Southampton on his back. 1972 May, v14, #2 7. BCHS PAPERS/ARTICLES "Agnes Bowes Hall": by Morley Hanbidge. Born 1868 near Pinkerton, Agnes Bowes was a public speaker and author of a novel, Craigie. 1972 July, v14, #3 "An older citizen": Miss Jessie McKay of Lucknow was 102 last October. 1970 Apr., v12, #2 "Another Bruce boy makes good": Robert Dirstein of Chesley, designer in Toronto, appears in a Feb. 3, 1973 article in Weekend Magazine. 1973 Feb., v15, #1 "Bearman plaque": Plaque unveiled June 23, 1973, to the founder of Scone, Thomas Bearman (1806-1899). 1973 July, v15, #3 "Bible Society": Tara-Invermay Branch of the Bible Society reaches 100 years on May 27, 1973. 1973 July, v15, #3 "Bibliography of Bruce County": Rev. Ross Cumming of Port Elgin is compiling a list of all books and brochures about Bruce County people and places. 1973 Feb., v15, #1 "Bruce genealogists": Tour of 11 Greenock Twp. cemeteries to record tombstone inscriptions. 1970 July, v12, #3 "Bruce likely to get faster ferry by ’74": Bigger ferry from Tobermory planned for 1974, with new wharf and disembarking area. 1973 Feb., v15, #1 "Bruce sawyer sees timber supply exhausting": Lorne Bester of Chepstow runs his father’s sawmill, cuts 800,000 board feet a year. Timber supply is dwindling. 1973 July, v15, #3 "Bus service": Loss of train service to Toronto; daily Bruce Coach Lines bus set up by John Bonnett. 1973 Feb., v15, #1 "By-Law No. 13, AD. 1875": By-law passed June 6, 1875, taking measures to prevent the spread of smallpox in Bruce Twp. Board of Health created. Quarantine. Vaccination. Notices posted on houses. 1970 July, v12, #3 "Canadian folk sayings": From London Free Press, June 16, 1962. Etymology of "johnny-cake", "tarnation". 1970 July, v12, #3 "Celebrates 100th birthday": Rosaline Wittig of Kincardine, 100. 1972 Sept, v14, #4 "Centennials": 1974 is the centennial year of Paisley and Port Elgin. Founding of Port Elgin by Henry Hilker, 1852. Paisley settled in 1851 by Simon Orchard and S.J. Rowe. 1974 Feb., v16, #1 "Chesleyan’s poems in Ottawa Library": Poet Pearl McKelvie Paterson Kerr of Chesley sends copies of her books for deposit in the National Library, Ottawa. 1973 Feb., v15, #1 "County to end tartan promotion": County ends its five-year promotion of the Bruce County tartan, suggested by the Women’s Institute in 1962, pursued by Norman McLeod, dedicated in 1965. Royalties went to a scholarship fund for a ward of the Children's Aid Society. 1973 May, v15, #2 "County town": Originally Penetangore, Kincardine fought Walkerton to become county town. Walkerton won, Sept. 15, 1865. 1970 Feb., v12, #1 "Daylight Saving": History of daylight saving time, controversial in rural areas. 1974 May, v16, #2 "Dryden": Bruce connection. Hockey brothers Dave and Ken Dryden have a great-grandfather, Andrew Dryden, married Margaret Murdock of the Lucknow district. 1974 Feb., v16, #1 "Early days at Oliphant": by Mrs. H.J. Murrell of Wiarton, as told to Mrs. Wm. Arnold, July 6, 1970. Father, Charles Howden, was born at sea, 1850. To Oliphant, 1875. Flour carried over the blazed trail from Southampton. Moved to Spry, early 1890s. 1970 Sep., v12, #4 "Early poster, 1923": Fritz Knechtel of Hanover contributes a poster, "Tenth Annual Tamarac Island Fishing Party, Stokes Bay, Bruce County. July 15 to 29, 1923". Members can win prizes fishing bass, perch, pike. Members and guests named. Stunts encouraged. 1971 July, v13, #2 "Early wash days in Canada": Comedic recipe for washing clothes, from Black Creek Pioneer Village. 1973 Sept., v15, #4 "Elderslie Township": by Tena Oswald Munro and Minalda Oswald MacDonald. Land first went on sale in Elderslie on July 30, 1852. The Gillies family came from Scotland in 1853. The first post office, in the Samuel Ewart house, was called Carnegie. Archibald Ewart taught at U.S.S. No. 6, 1857-58. 1974 Feb., v16, #1 "Elementary school contest": Realtor Reg A. Powell will give prizes for essays on the history of old buildings in Bruce, to Grade 6, 7 and 8 students in Bruce County. 1974 May, v16, #2 "Forever depends who wears shoe": About 100 years ago towns in the Bruce Peninsula railroad section gave grants to rail lines being built into the area. Bruce County paid $494,000 and was assured the county would receive freight and passenger service "forever". 1973 July, v15, #3 "Formosa artesian well found in hunt for oil": by Alice Mulvey. Flowing Well, Formosa, didn’t strike oil in 1901, but water. Palace Garden; tap for visitors; church bell; canoes for rent. 15-foot fountain has dropped to 10 ft. 1971 Feb., v13, #1 "French Canadian pea soup": Excerpt from Guillet, Pioneer Travels in Upper Canada, on the diet of river boatmen: pork, biscuits, pea soup. Pea soup recipe. 1971 Sept., v13, #3 "Further information on Elderslie": Mail came by horse from Paisley; the carrier went from Carnagie to Scone, Eden Grove and Paisley; there was no mail in Chesley at the time. The labours of pioneer women. 1974 May, v16, #2 "Greetings": Letter by Phyllis Lindsay, Sidney, B.C., Dec. 30, 1969. Requests list of early newspapers in Bruce County, re Matheson and Deighton families. Traces 1857 Canadian Commonwealth to Bruce Review, Kincardine Standard and Kincardine Review. 1970 Feb., v12, #1 "History of Walkerton in rhyme": Ten stanzas of "The town of Walkerton", a 1971 poem by Irwin Lobsinger, who writes the weekly "Our Valley" column in the Walkerton Herald Times. 1972 Feb., v14, #1 "History of Walkerton in rhyme": 11 more stanzas of "The town of Walkerton", by Irwin Lobsinger. 1972 May, v14, #2 "History of Walkerton in rhyme": Nine more stanzas of "The town of Walkerton", by Irwin Lobsinger. 1972 July, v14, #3 "History of Walkerton in rhyme": 20 more stanzas of "The town of Walkerton", by Irwin Lobsinger, to the conclusion. 1972 Sept, v14, #4 "Homemade ice cream": by Mrs. McClure. Recipe for making ice cream at home. Ice cream made using snow in May and June. 1972 Feb., v14, #1 "Hydro lifts Bradley into nuclear age": Bradley, five miles southwest of Paisley, will become a junction for power from Douglas Point. 900-foot corridor. Founded in 1854 or 1855. Named after William Bradley. 1973 May, v15, #2 "Incidents of Wiarton seventy years ago": by Albert Heid Sr., about 1939. He recalls Wiarton in 1869, having walked from Tara. After two years, move to Chatsworth, then Owen Sound, Red Bay and Oliphant. Early people of Wiarton recalled. 1970 Sep., v12, #4 "Indians nominate woman for chief": At Cape Croker, Keitha Keeshig was first woman nominated to be chief; Wilmer Nadjiwon won election for two years. At Saugeen, chief James Mason was returned for a third term. Elected councillors are named. 1972 July, v14, #3 "Kincardine": History of Inverhuron. Archaeological digs showed Indian occupation back to 1000 B.C. Artifacts in exhibit centre, Inverhuron Provincial Park. White settlement. 1882 fire. 1971 July, v13, #2 "Men of Canada": Two biographies from the book Men of Canada, Stratford, 1891. Malcomb Stalker, 1854-?, doctor in Ripley and Walkerton. Duncan McNabb Halliday, 1837-?, storekeeper in Chesley. 1970 Apr., v12, #2 "Mildmay and Carrick": by Dr. J.E. Weiler (posthumously). Close relationship of the last two districts to be opened up in Bruce, village of Mildmay and township of Carrick. Early settlers, Scots, Irish, German. Population of Mildmay unchanged in 70 years. Disappearing hamlets of Carrick: Deemerton, Ambleside, Balaclava, Moltke, Otter Creek. 1971 Sept., v13, #3 "Mildmay": Liesemers started a hardware business in Mildmay in 1863. Clerk and tinsmith Herb Weiler made pails, cream cans, stove pipes and strainers. 1974 Feb., v16, #1 "Missionaries": First secretary of BCHS in 1957 was Chesley high school teacher Jack Geddes; he became a Presbyterian missionary in Taiwan. Elizabeth Webb is a missionary teacher in Nigeria for Glamis Baptist Church. Dr. Aletta Bell of Glamis-Tiverton area serves the International Christian Fellowship at Prem-Sewa Hospital in Uttar Pradesh, India. 1974 Feb., v16, #1 "More Canadian folk sayings": Etymology of "tarnation", "tarnal", "ternal", "Sunday clothes", "go-to-meetin’ clothes", fire-bringer in a hurry. 1970 Sep., v12, #4 "Mr. and Mrs. Emanuel Richardson": Olive E. Hepburn writes of her grandmother, Elizabeth Ann Ferris from Ireland in 1862, and grandfather, Emanuel Richardson, from Yorkshire in 1867. 1973 Feb., v15, #1 "Nodwell site": Digging proceeds at the Nodwell site, Port Elgin. Palisade erected on the same location as 1400s Indian village. 1972 July, v14, #3 "Of old songs and ballads": Probably by editor Mrs. Earl Ferris. Singing gospel songs as a child. Songs remembered. "Frozen Charlotte". "Lost on the Lady Elgin". "The Wreck of the Asia" (12 stanzas quoted). 1971 July, v13, #2 "Office of the Registrar": Ontario Dept. of Education seeks background on its former registrars. 1970 Sep., v12, #4 "Ontario Dairy Princess": Shirley Pollock of Ripley chosen Ontario Dairy Princess at the C.N.E. Daughter of Wallace Pollock. 1972 Sept, v14, #4 "Paisley oral history project": In September 1972 University of Toronto professor Thomas F. McIlwraith takes students to Paisley to record oral histories. Audio tapes will be transcribed. Focus is on commonplace features of pre-WWI life. 1972 July, v14, #3 "Paisley’s first circus": by W. H. Ree, Winnipeg. The first circus I saw was in Paisley in 1874. It had one tent and one rhinoceros. The grounds were "Thompson’s Flats", west of Laidlaw’s foundry. After the rhinoceros broke loose from the central pole, people jammed up at the exit reported the loss of their wallets to pickpockets. 1974 May, v16, #2 "Paul Henderson": Paul Henderson of Lucknow in Canada-Russia hockey series. 1972 Sept, v14, #4 "Pioneer days": Trip in 1853 of John Crowston and Isabella Louisa Anderson from Toronto to Kinloss Twp. by boat, wagon, ox cart and sleigh. Log shanty. Thomas Wraith and John Murray were farmer neighbours. 1970 Feb., v12, #1 "Plaque at Allenford": BCHS plaque at Allenford destroyed by vandals. 1973 July, v15, #3 "Plaque unveiling": Plaque unveiled Sept. 25, 1971 to Hon. Duncan Marshall, at Gillies Hill. 1971 July, v13, #2 "Plaque unveiling": Plaque unveiled Sept. 25, 1971 to agriculture minister Hon. Duncan Marshall, at Gillies Hill. 200 attended. 1971 Sept., v13, #3 "Queen of the Furrow": Linda Shouldice of Shallow Lake, chosen Queen of the Furrow at the International Ploughing Match, Sebringville. 1972 Sept, v14, #4 "Railroads: then and now???": Grand Trunk Railway reached Chesley in 1881, Wiarton in 1882. Probable stop to rail service, 1970. 1970 Apr., v12, #2 "Red River cart": by Gordon and Olive Hepburn. Place in Manitoba history of the Red River cart, a two-wheeled ox cart built by Métis. 1971 Sept., v13, #3 "Resign": Two long-serving board members of the Bruce Peninsula and District Memorial Hospital have stepped down, BCHS members Ab Cordingley and Carl Whicher. 1974 May, v16, #2 "Robert Burns: the ploughman bard": Poem to Robert Burns by Pearl McKelvie Paterson Kerr of Chesley. 1970 Feb., v12, #1 "Scottish black-face sheep arrive on Bruce County farm": Port Elgin veterinarian Dr. G. Wathke has brought in a ram and 14 ewes; Scottish black-face sheep. (Oct. 1973) 1974 May, v16, #2 "Snow in the house": Excerpt from Pioneers of Old Ontario, by W.L. Smith. McDougall family travels from Brock Twp. to Kincardine Twp. by sleigh, March 1851. Building a shanty. Cattle and oxen. 1970 Apr., v12, #2 "Social history": Local people, as a New Horizons project, are writing a book on the social history of Bruce County, 1850–1925. 1974 Feb., v16, #1 "Statute labor system": Road maintenance was organized by rural councils and done by statute labour. A pathmaster in Carrick Twp. worked on the road for five days per $4,000 of assessment. Carrick abolished such labour in 1921. 1970 Feb., v12, #1 "Straw hats": by Martha Fordyce Buchanan. How to make sun and rain hats of wheat straw; braiding; sewing. 1973 Sept., v15, #4 "Sugar": Sugar rationing in WWII: In 1945 consumers were allowed a pound of sugar a month plus ten pounds for canning. 1974 Feb., v16, #1 "Teachers’ duties in 1872": Work for teachers in 1872: clean chimneys; bring water and coal; whittle pen nibs. Women teachers who marry will be dismissed. 1972 Feb., v14, #1 "The closing of a store": Closing of C.E. Whicher general store at Colpoy’s Bay, 1970, owned by Ronald Gatis, after the death of Stella (Whicher) Gatis in 1969. To be used as clerk’s office. 1970 Apr., v12, #2 "The first railway": A narrow-gauge railway line extension from Tiverton to Kincardine was defeated in 1869. A wide-gauge line of the Wellington, Grey and Bruce Railroad was approved in 1872. Trains reached Kincardine in the fall of 1873. 1970 Feb., v12, #1 "The Malcomb firm in Kincardine": Originally Watson and Malcomb. Andrew Malcomb was managers of the Canada Land Company. 1970 Feb., v12, #1 "The steamer Huronic": Built at Collingwood in 1909, Huronic ran seven-day cruises from Detroit to Duluth, stopping at Sarnia, Sault Ste. Marie and Fort William. She burned in 1945. 1970 Apr., v12, #2 "The weather and Paul Henderson": Paul Henderson’s parents lived several miles south of Kincardine. They took a sleigh through a snowstorm to the hospital, where Paul was born. 1973 Feb., v15, #1 "Thos. O’Hagan": For a plaque, the family seeks information on Thomas O’Hagan, died 1939, high school teacher and poet. 1973 May, v15, #2 "Three pioneers honored by Bruce": Plaques unveiled at Sutton Park Inn, Kincardine, to William Sutton, Paddy Walker and William Withers. 1973 July, v15, #3 "Train to Bruce": Sept. 22, Upper Canada Railroad Assn. runs a train from Toronto by C.P.R. to Owen Sound, then C.N.R. to Chesley and Hanover and return to Toronto. 1973 July, v15, #3 "Unveiling of J.H. Jones plaque": On Aug. 6, 1972 BCHS unveiled a plaque to the steamer J.H. Jones on the Wiarton waterfront. Project leader was W.G. Chesire of Wiarton. 1972 Sept, v14, #4 "Unveiling of the Nodwell site plaque": Nodwell Indian village in Port Elgin was marked by a plaque July 15, 1973. Historical background covers the Nodwell family, a village of 500 Indians about 1350, 12 longhouses, diet, and weapons. Reconstruction under way, assisted by Dr. James Wright, National Museum of Man. 1973 July, v15, #3 "Walkerton woman is 101": Euphemia Little, 101, was born in Teeswater; descendant of Andrew Little, mill operator at Teeswater. 1973 July, v15, #3 "Woman, 100, does her own housework": Mrs. Thomas Murray, born 1873, of Harriston is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Nicholas Eckensweiller of Carrick. 1973 July, v15, #3 "Year Book, 1974": Year book price is up, to $1.50. Yearbook editor is Mrs. Earl Ferris, Cargill, who is also editor of the Historical Notes. 1974 May, v16, #2 Events in 1970: Douglas Point construction started in 1970. End of passenger trains in Bruce. Stagecoach goes from Kincardine to Grey Cup parade. New chiefs, James Mason and Wilmer Nadjiwon. 1971 Feb., v13, #1 J.M. McClure, life member: First life member of the Society is J.M. McClure of Chesley. Membership, $2. 1972 Feb., v14, #1 Law to preserve ginseng: 1891 Ontario Statutes: an Act to prevent destroying the ginseng plant from January to August. Fine, $5 to $20. 1971 July, v13, #2 MacGregor, MacLennan birthdays: Catherine MacGregor of Lucknow, 99th birthday: daughter of D.N. MacGregor and Jessie MacKenzie of Cape Breton. 97th birthday of Margaret Ann MacLennon of Glamis, daughter of Kenneth MacLennan. 1972 May, v14, #2 Milestones: Matilda (Thompson) McKinnon of Brant Twp. was born in 1871. C.J. Halliday of Chesley is 94 on Feb. 19. Walter Chesney of Brant Twp. is 98th warden of Bruce. Mrs. Walter Forster of Ripley takes in city people for farm holidays. 1970 Feb., v12, #1 Mrs. John McKinnon, 100: Feb. 5 birthday of Mrs. John McKinnon of Chesley, 100. 1971 Feb., v13, #1 Museum curator: New curator at the Southampton Museum is Ken Goar. 1974 May, v16, #2 Pinkerton in 1867: Directory of 1867 describes Pinkerton and its businesses. 1971 July, v13, #2 Plaque unveiling, Scone: Plaque to be unveiled at Scone, June 23, 1973, to the founder of Scone, Thomas Bearman. 1973 May, v15, #2 Reprint of Belden, 1880: Bruce Supplement to the Belden 1880 Atlas being reprinted by Rev. Ross Cumming of Port Elgin, $3.50. He is compiling a reference book on Bruce County, seeks input. 1971 Feb., v13, #1 Seek place name sources: How were these lakes named: Beattie, Skye, Isaac, Berford, Sprye, Boat. 1972 Feb., v14, #1 Grant, "Picturesque Canada": From Grant, Picturesque Canada, the country as it is and was, Kingston, 1882. Description of Southampton, "stationary or positively declining", its business drawn away by Port Elgin, has no newspaper, "a charming spot, the very sleepiness of its inhabitants making it pleasant to visitors who long for nothing so much as repose". 1971 Feb., v13, #1 8. NEWSPAPER ARTICLES "Adventure in the Bruce Peninsula": Two University of Windsor students lost their way on the Bruce Trail, fell through the ice, overnighted in a cottage. 1973 May, v15, #2 "First band administrator for Cape Croker reserve": First woman band administrator at Cape Croker is Mrs. Jacqueline Solomon. Land manager is Ernestine Proulx. 1973 Sept., v15, #4 "From the Ontario Historical Society Bulletin": BCHS is "one of the most active of the Local Societies … a very attractive Year Book …". Newsletter editors, Mr. and Mrs. James McClure, Chesley. 1970 Feb., v12, #1 "Hemingway pal browses through a vintage past": From Sunday News, Detroit, March 15, 1970. Joe Bacon, born in Walkerton March 21, 1870; emigrated to Petoskey, Michigan when he was nine; built first snowmobile. Bacon met Ernest Hemingway at Walloon Lake, site of Hemingway cottage. Character Joe Garner in "Ten Indians", in "Up in Michigan" series, was based on Joe Bacon. 1970 July, v12, #3 "Honored at Doon—Hall of Famer got start in Walkerton": Honoured at the Waterloo County Hall of Fame, John A. Rittinger of Doon, editor of weekly Die Glocke. History of the paper, first published in German in Walkerton in 1870. 1973 Sept., v15, #4 "London lady, age 103, was born in Walkerton": by Mary Jane Charters of the London Free Press, 1970. Maggie Teresa Earl of London was 103 on April 12, 1970. Born in Walkerton, one of 13 children of Mr. and Mrs. George Forsythe, moved to London 100 years ago. 1970 Sep., v12, #4 "New Horizons": Canadian Press news release announces federal grants under New Horizons program for retired citizens. 1973 Feb., v15, #1 "The Hepworth Sun and Grey and Bruce Advertiser": First issue, July 18, 1889. Editor lists Hepworth businesses. Haying started. Reward for return of missing wife, Margaret, offered by Michael B. of Owen Sound. Pathmaster Coulter offers pails of beer to road workers. 1970 July, v12, #3 Tiverton girl plays organ: From Zena Cherry column in Globe and Mail. Janet MacFarlane of Tiverton gave church organ recital in Toronto. 1972 May, v14, #2 |
Finding Aids |
See Item ID# BCHS series 6, file 1 for a cursory index of topics included in the BCHS Historical Notes from 1958-1997. |
Articles, Finding Aids, Transcriptions & Links |
Download a PDF copy of BCHS Newsletters, February 1970 - May 1974 Download Index to BCHS Newsletters, 1958-2020 |
Collection |
Bruce County Historical Society fonds |
System of arrangement |
This item is part of the Bruce County Historical Society fonds, series 6, file 1 (Publications - Newsletters). |
Parent Object |
BCHS series 6, file 1 |
Level of Description |
Item |
Physical Description |
1.0 cm of textual records |
Restrictions on Use |
Copyright of the newsletter as a whole remains with the Bruce County Historical Society; copyright of individual articles has been retained in many cases by the article authors. |
Places |
Allenford Arran Township Bruce County Bruce Peninsula Cape Croker Cargill Carrick Township Chepstow Chesley Colpoy's Bay Elderslie Township Formosa Greenock Township Inverhuron Kincardine Lucknow Oliphant Paisley Pinkerton Port Elgin Ripley Scone Southampton Tara Tiverton Tobermory Walkerton Wiarton |
People |
Bearman, Thomas Bester, Lorne Brown, Belle Cottrill, Gordon Cumming, Ross, Rev. Dirstein, Robert Dryden family Henderson, Paul Keeshig, Keitha Liesemer family Little, Euphenia Lobsinger, Irwin Mason, James Mathers, Maizie Hackett Matheson, Murdock McDougall family McKay, Jessie McLeod, Norman McNab, Wilfred Nadjiwon, Wilmer O'Hagan, Thomas Solomon, Jacqueline Stalker, Malcolm Sutton, William Walker, Paddy Warren, Winifred Whicher, Carl Withers, William Wittig, Rosaline |
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