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Dilly U: UPC` CIJUII Ill IJGCRDOII. waft spacing. You save 30 to 50 cent. in laying-and have 0. root of permanent charm and distinc- tion. Made in four fadeless colors. 0. Limited, Bnntford. Ontario u The HON. GEO. S. HENRY, Chaimau. Highway Safety committee UUB 1 For stealing a. shirt from a. laun- dry. James Kelly of Baltimore was sentenced to five years in prison. . , -r\--;_. a1.a.......u AC llnvnnlrlan Bnlenceu Lu uvw yvaun an yu--u. Miss Betty shimon or Milwaukee` is the only woman operator on the butter. and egg market in the Chi- eago mercantile exchange. and her business exceeds $4,000,000 annual- 1:9 Barrio 1'|wI'liay.`AuauIt 28. ` The writirrg of histories has al- ways been considered to bee task requiring qualities of a,h_igh order, -I-|n`\ ca `ili, requiring quaunes 01 a,,n_:gu uxuua, such as fairness, , keen Judgment, the nice faculty of being able to properly assi `credit, and, espec- xally, knowle ge of the facts. In undertaking to write a his- tory of -the vMcConkey Family I feel `that, whatever _may be sai of my other qualicatxons, I am sad- ly lacking in the 1ast.mention--my knowledge of the matter of which 7 cum nnnhnal uhging gnvthing but knowledge or me matter u; wuuzu I `am writing 'bein anything but complete, but `I sha 1 do the est I can with the matter I have been b able to collect. HUI}: LU uuucu u- | In the -rst place I shall conne myself to the last one hundr_ed ,years. the time since the famy `came to this country. ' 11,1-1,_.-1---- -...! 1.3- .-.235 came` LU I/ll.l \.uuuu.J Thomas Mcconkey and his wife. j Sarah Porter. whose memory we have honored today in a tting manner. left the County of Ty- rone. Ireland. for Canada, in 1823, bringing their six sons. `John, James. William. Thomas D., s'~Ro- bert and Oliver, and their three daughters. `Sarah. Jane and Nan- cy. The voyage was accomplished in thirteen weeks. which was con- sidered a ouick voyage in those days of sailing vessels. We acclaim the men and women who face the` `dangers of a trans-Atlantic voy- aze by ying` machine today, but the men and women who faced a sea journey by sailing vessel one hundred-odd years aero exhihited. zreater courage, perhaps. They` faced two unknowns. the danger of the loss of life at sea, and. in i caseof a safe-voyage. the dangers . and hardships of an unknown and strange country. We do well to ` honour the memory of the pion- r eers who crossed: the ocean to hew 3 out homes for themselves and us \ ` .1`3.`.` "."`_"`i.`_. l`." -.... 1..:..' a.....:1.. ln `CHIS NEW 18110. ' Our ancestor and his familyl landed at Quebec. `proceeding by Durham boats to Bytown. now Ot- tawa, the capital of Canada. where they` lived for about one year. They then went to Chipjoawa Creek. near Niagara Falls. where` they resided for two or three years. Later they moved to West Gwillimburv. where a son and daughter. Oliver and Sarah. died. Their next move was to this town- ship of Innisl, Simcoe County. It is the 100th anniversary of the coming of the family to Innisl we are today celebrating, as, from re- McCONKEY FAMILY I.-lvistory of we11.xnown1=ems1y Read By Matt Mabel Clirk of Clinton at the Celebration of tl_1e__ I-_luI:dre_dth Anniversary of the Fam- I` I Illtl stood a any ; Settlement in'inns.a1 r..;...n;;g; cords, it would seem that they" lcame to Canada in 1823. FFCIIEI UK I` The Ball oglaning Co., Ltd., T had been opened! as far as Pene- t tanguishene. `It wasn t the sort of 3. road that we travelled today to get `. here` it was chopped through the woods, had been open a dozen-x years, perhaps. and was a fairly ] ood road for oxen to travel. A ew settlers had made clearings 1 and built log houses here and there . along the road. The McConkeys 3 settled on a farm on the north east corner of the Penetang road and the eighth concession. I un- derstand iMrs. Ed. Mc'Conkey of Stroud has a picture showing the 1 `old homestead. Neighbors were When `Thomas McConkey settl-H ed in this township. the main road 1 few and far between and the ne"a1`- ` est grist mill was at Holland Land- ing. where settlers had to take their wheat. when they grew it, to be ground into our. We are told. that Thomas Mc- Conkey was a superior type of man. He was distinguished in ap- pearance, tall,'we1I-built and hand- some of feature. He was also. we are told, very particular as to his appearance, not by any means a dandy, but with a gentleman s i- l|dea of a proper dignity in dress. > He was also, evidtently, a man of - good judgment and possessing mental ability of a high ty e. He very soon began to take a eading part in the affairs of the commun- .ity and was appointed a Justice of the Peace and went `by the name of Squire Mc`Conkey. Those who knew him said that he invariably used his powers. and with much succes. to have litigants settle their dlisputes amicably, so suc- cessfully following this rule that he came to be known as the 5 Peacemaker. rather than the `Justice of the Peace. He under- stood` the true purpose of his of- ce `and used it for the betterment of the community and the lessen- ing of ill-feeling. . My cousin. the president, A. W. ;Smith, tells me that as a small boy, he used to see and sometimes tie about his own chubby waist, what his mother told him was her grand- father's -Masonic apron, and that from what he remembers of that apron and what he now knows of things Masonic. that he must have occupied a high office in the Or- Agn- UUUUJ der. '1. oer. The same informant tells me. too. that the three sons whom he was privileged` to know, James, Thomas D. and William, were os- sessed of like characters with t eir father. mentally strong. not easily excited! or disturbed. kindly. with a strong sense of humour and the generous quality of looking always for the best in people. It is be- lieved that they inherited their good qualities from both parents. as `Sarah Porter Mciconkey was a very ne type of woman. a tting mate for `her husband. They all had human weaknesses, we may be sure, but all records show that they were ancestors of whom we have no need to be ashamed. in A I` , 1,1, __ ,1 11 .V:`l Two of the sons, John and Wil- liam. married sisters. Catharine and Grace Johnson. and two other sons. Thomas D.. and "Robert. mar- ried sisters. Mary and Jane Ross daughters of Squire Ross, and James married Janet Duncan, all of the same township. The two re- maining daughters. Jane and Nan- cy. married brothers. Roderick and! Robert 1McKay. Highland Scots. who had been members of the Red -River `Settlement. James and William had farms in Innisfil; Robert kept store for a time at Pennville. afterwards taking up farming; Thomas D. went into Barrie about 1843 when it was but a hamlet. and grew up with the town. taking part in the public life of the town and county. He serv- e-d as reeve of the town for some. years and was Warden of the Coun- ty of Simcoe for the years 1860- 61. Later he: represented! the con- stituency of `North `Simcoe in the Dominion `Parliament from 1863 to 1872. `Some time later he was appointed sheriff, a position he held untilhis death. John farmed in Gwillimbury for many years and in 1859, with his wife and twelve children. moved to Lewis- ton..New York state. where he set- tled upon a farm near the village. They crossed Lake Ontario in the old! Zimmerman steamboat, which used cord-wood as fuel, the cross- ing` taking from {seven in the morning` until two in the after- noon. Two of this family later re- turned and settled in Canada. but the others remained in the United States and their descendents are today taking their places in vari- ous parts of the Union. being good citizens of the United States. as tleir Canadian cousins are of Can- a a. ` 1 A .v \n 0` haps, has done an; rnarkably brilliant all have done a fai est. useful work. 11 little. and some above the average. {Janna mnn AN-1'vn:v\e vuoo navy vivvnnw u. -.....- .....-.-.. V- .. many ranking a ranking` much, which bespeaks them good citizens for any coun- try. During the Great War, many members of the` family served -theit country. some with distinc- tion. some also making the sup- reme sacrice. - 1 II II 5605: Those of us who are Canadians are always interested in the visits of royalty to this country, and our American cousins gave the Prince of vWales a -very war`m weicome when` he visited the United' States a few years ago. It-may be inter- estinz to recall that when his zrandtather. King Edward VII. then_Prince of Wales. visited Can- adla. in 1860. a member of this family. AT. D. `M-cconkey, then warden of 'Simcoe `County, greeted Tl-IE amma EXAMINER Keep both front lights in focus _ ' Test brakes /LE often 4 ~ ~ member of the anytl ably c? we fair _ ._ _ .D__I ___ - _.1- ..- .. the`-familv, e anything of a liant character. a` share of_' F'(lCLb'1`. Uul. are of `non- van: 1-n11n`\ per- O TQ- L LC` but l V\r\r`\IlIO J Reception of Prince of Wales in Barrie, !September_10th,p18b0. There were about six or_ seven thousand people at the station. At 11.30 a.m. the -Prince and _suite ar- rived, the County Council, head- ed hy the Warden. T. D. McCon- skey, Esq., in his official 1'o'bes.and Wcocked hat. receiyed the august -' guest. The council generally had` ,'the appearance of gentlemen and, in my opinion, the warden was the most gentlemanlike and dignied- looking man on the stand. He 1 read the address. Themembers of ' the county council. the magistrat- E:es present, the clergy of the diff- tierent denominations and some `Mothers, were personally and indi- 1'vidually presented to His Royal Highness. It is interesting and gratifying to know that the founders of our family were equal `to the tasks which their positions imposed: upon them and that they performed; them with becoming dignity. 5 I was desirous of knowing if, any of the members of the familyj possessed any heirlooms in the shape of articles brought to this country by the original Thomas Me-Conkey and his wife and so far have heard! only of the following: two mahogany carved chairs. which belong to Mrs. Chapin. or- iginally belonging to a set which came out from Ireland, a bureau belonging to the same set which Howard Mc=Conke_v owns." and a piece of the old china which be- longed to great-grandmother Por- ter-McConkey, which is now in the ossession of Agar McConkey, of arrie. As I have said I have conned myself wholly to the period of time the family has spent on this side of the Atlantic. Some mem- bers of the family have informa- tion dating much farther back, tracing the family back, so it * is said. fn an nnulu l 1 4 him at Barrie, the County Town. .The following note is taken from ,the journal of the late Mr. Or- `chard, of Innisl, regarding this occasion. -1. .nuvv'1 vsuvltls LIIC uuuuy UHCK, So it - i-s said, to an early Scottish clan. Those of us who pride ourselves in our Irish ancestry can only commend! the wisdom of our forebears in mak- in.g the change of country. The original name, it is claimed. used in both !Scotland and Ireland. was Maconochi. and, the ancient clan being warlike. as all clans were in those days, had for their coat of arms a bunch of arrows accom- .panied by a motto in Latin His. Nitimur et 'Munitur, which being translated! means. -We rely on these and are strengthened by them. 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