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NORMA19_l1,_lyj._ARSHAIL lief ALLANDALE church the Rev. R; G. Healbert gave an interesting report or `sixty years of missionary work in Trinidad. A1`. the close of the Sunday School les- son there was a. tan: on temperance. f\v1 1m-man nmzmimnr hum -Ininrh son Lnere was a. cum. on wxupurvmuu. On Friday evening two sleigh loads or Collier `St. `young'peop`1e paid a. visit to Crown Hill. Mr.` Drury gave an interesting talk on "Aibraham Lincoln". `Miss Amlbler gave a. reading and Miss Strange. a. solo, which were enjoyedby ell. Negro melodies were interspersed with the address. Mr. Carson oi. Collier St.. acted as chairman in his pleasing way. Aftnr the nmm-am much was DIQEBHIB way. After the program lunch was served by the Crown Hill friend: and a social time spent. "l`l-us hnmn nf `Mr. ant! MPH. Irwin ERG `E 30018.1 tlm sperm The home or Mr._and Mrs. Irwin Luck was taken by storm on Satur- day evening when a number or the friends or Miss Muriel gave a. sur- prise partx before her departure for Toronto. very happy evening was spent in games and music. Muriers many friends are sorry to lose her but wish her success in her new venture. A twin diving suit. which enables a. diver and an observer to descend together, has been devised. When Roads Were Cut Out and Cleared for Only 25c Rod In August, ` 1878, my uncle, J. g bush," as the 'l.I-..u-1A CI!- #15311. 8. Dixon. to `see I went with i the forest around kn man. We -1% v v - - __..,___ Mar. 20--Mr. and Mrs. Jno. I-laugh at Baxter spent a. few days last week with Mr. and Mrs. R. W. Jen- mett. Mr. Haugh also attended the Grand Lodge in Barrie. "~A~--- ft.-..-. -0 Daaltnn -nnnf h big bush," the Ioresu arounu Edenvale was then known. We walked ve miles east from Sunni- dale Corners to his farm, lot 24, con. 2, F105. At 'Spicher s Corners ~|---- '---- a uman `Inn church Flos. At `.sp1cner's uomers there `was a small log church known. as the Hemlock Temple where` the settlers oi that locality met for worship. From there to the town line of Flea and Sunni- dale there were settlers on each . farm, clearing up the `forest and building homes for themselves. On -lot 27, con. 1, Flos, a man by the name of John. A. Collins had squatted. His `chief _occupation was making maple sugar in the season and burning charcoal. He with a few other early- settlers found the life too strenuous and moved elsewhere. `At the same time . a number of stalwart Irish- men, Scotchmen, Welsh and Eng- lishmen with strength, courage and stout hearts, were buying up the heavily timbered lands, erecting log houses and barns and starting to hew out homes for themselves. There were many hardships and sharing each1other s sorrows and sad experiences, but all held on, joys. `Rios Value for $125 - 4.015 v we My uncle had `bought out one, Peter McQueen. There were six- teen acres of splendid crop: four acres of. fall wheat, four acres of peas, two acres of oats, four acres of clover hay and two acres of pot- atoes. My father bought the crop -v- .r--. ` wherrstored in the barn, the pota- toes in the ground,`a team of oxen, cow, calf, large hog, twenty hens, forks, shovels, chains, jumper and ox yokes for $125.00, cash. -_ LL. `.1. --.__ - `Ann `nu nnnn - ant` Road `Building Was One of Serious Problems Tackled by Pioneers of_- Edenvale in_ Carving Out that Settle- ment from The Big Bush; Days When Crop, Oxen, Cow, Calf, Hog, et'c., Were Bought for only $125. But Four of Pioneers Remain. a II. _,I_ -n_.|_g_____\ VA J\IlI\iOJ -Lva `ya-uvuvv Vvliuw-I On the lot was a log house and barn. When the house was built and nished, John `Collins climbed onto the roof with a gallon jug of. whiskey and filled a tinoup, drank a portion and sprinkling what re- mained in the cup over the roof gave the house the name of -Kil- larney Castle and for years afterwards the muddy roads ast this farm wereknown as the ` il- larney Bogs. . In `September my parents moved on to my uncle's farm driving in as far as the old Stagleton clearin on lot 26, con. 2, los. From ere there were Avs`I! an-:1. 4-unssain 6-`kn -urns-H: null 5, I`1Ue PIUHI IIUIU lIUL'_U WUFG only trails through the woods and my uncle met us with the oxen. So rough and muddy were the trails that my mother and we chil- dren. walked. I was driving our milch cow and uncle found it nec- essary to divide our -two deeds of equipment into several loads to get it to the farm. "When the waggon sank to the axles in the mud my uncle let two pigs out of a box and we children were much amus- ed to `see them wallowing through the -black slush as they followed us to the farm. A few days were spent in getting settled. -From out of the woodsneighbors came to offer us any assistance and in this manner were formed friendships not broken to this day. .-_.L _-...L -3 ---_. 1.-..-- _.. 1-1. vuvw -v- v--u-n vv vu---v `nu-gt Just east of our home, on lot 28, /Robert Ludlow and family had come in the revious spring. He had succeede in clearing a small` piece of ground and had a splendid garden, a good crop of potatoes and a small patch of turnips. He had succeeded durin the summer i 3...1.?f`l`".`. .3`.}`13..?."`. .`..`Z...3# .`i%.'3I Ill UIUHLIHB H IIUIISII INN UV HUW ll U five acres of fall wheat. I still re- member how he and his family looked forward to that crop of wheat and _ doubt if any of the splendid crops he raied after- wards ever gave him as `much satisfaction. I. earn: ;.1_-.._ ----..- .n-'...'..--.1- BC IIIDLDU UIVIIO In .1878 there were fewroada. From the old. 'Stepleten`clea1-ing a. bush trail led across the farms now owned by J. Pilkey, Robt; Latimer, Wesley and Henry Cul- ham and across the corner. of the Ru ert farm to town line of Flos an Vespra. Here the roads were ......Ha1Iu Anna and Manual` nave-Ts unu Vipfo IIUI-'5 VINE IIUIUD WUIG partiallly 0 an and turned north on the 01: 1 he Ibetween lots 21 and 22 for a quarter mile, then east across the old Sparling bridge and south to the town line and on through the forest to Minesing. ,'l'nn-nan Duncan 1: uni-Avnn ml 4-Mn Wan JJUUEU {ll Jaunaavo Harry Gray of Beeton spent the mock-end at R. W. Jennews atter gttending Grand Lodge In ~Ba.rrle. on Sunday morning In the United A (Written uougu one Luruau uu mnnuumugo `James Russell, a veteran of the .Big Value for $125 ___ -1- 1.-.}, .L-un.'lnJ- an vw-_ for The Barrio Enninu-`by Major Mark -Robinson) American war` had. settled on lot 24, con. 1, Flos, about 1870. He had considerable clearance and was very comfortably settled. Jno. Culham was living o_n lot 23,- con. 1, Flos and clearing up lot 22 for a home for himself. Peter Gil- christ was established on the lot just west of the Nottawasaga river in .Vespra. Donald McNabb was settled on lot 1, con. 13, Vespra and south of him were located Wm. Sissons and Geo.. H. Miles. Along the 12th concessionof Ves- %`1;a.-John Campbell, Thos. Roe, m. Bremner` and others were busy hewing out -homes in the heavy forest and to the north along the '2nd.' concession of Flos, James Kenney, John Nicholson, Hugh `Lavery, John Coughlin, Michael -Mulroy, Thos. Smith and Noah Grosse had made consider- able progress. 3---L --...J.... :u\ d-`an vunntdns BIJIV `ll V64. I-was Our first winter in the woods was spent in cutting down forty acres of timber. There was no market for the timber and it was thrown down into windrows, the brush cut upzand piled and the trees cut into suita-ble lengths to be piled and burnt. I re-call that the neighbors cattle used to come to our chopping to browse the buds and tender points of the branches of the basswood and elm trees. We used to give them a small ra- tion of straw each day and this, with the browse, was all they got for weeks, and these cattle came out in. good condition in the spring`. 1!_,_,L -1 1-__1__ LL_ ___4_ v-or on avv... v........_.. . A`bout the first of July the set- tlers used; to burn the fallows cut down in the winter. The neighbors would be notied and would come to assist in getting the re started all alongthe side from which the wind was blowing. At the same time this caused a greater heat which cleaned up all the small branches and often much of the heavy timber. Av-M. I-`an A-:n1nnn+ yawn Alva V J uuu ucs u After the different fallows were i burnt came a series of logging bees, everyone helped the other fellow. Those who had. ox teams let those who ha-dn t use theirs when not in use at `home often furnishing the feed for the oxen as well.` Such was the spirit of friendship among the early set- t1ers.?S'hou1d a neighbor be ill the word was passed around and a number of neighbors would gather and cut his hay,-harvest his crop or attend to other farm` duties, then forget they had ever been away from home. The mothers were not `behind their men folk in rendering any assistance when re- quired. There are still living at Edenvale those who can remem- I.-.. LL--- _.....I.. _.D ..-__--_ _--_._I:__. IHUUIIVGIU " UIIUDU VVIIU UGII LUlllClIl' her those angels of mercy wending their way through the snow and mud after a night spent beside a sickbed of a neighbor to do their own work and get a couple of hours" rest and return to relieve another friend who would return to her home and; do likewise. T- J.L-..- -..-- _--_..I-__ A.L_L LL- UV IIUI IIUIIIU GIIUJ UU llI\UWl3Uo Is there any wonder that the sons and grandsons of` these early settlers proved their worth on the fields of France in the late war? Clearing Roads, 25c Rod There was no government assis- tance to -build roads, the resident settlers cleared and built their own roads. I have seen men cutting out and clearing a road two rods wide and for each rod in length receive 25c. I remember James Russell and my father going to Stayner and collecting $50.00 on condition that the residents would give fty days work free and the township would give another $50. Needless to say, the township gave their share and the work was done. This opened the road from Stayner to Minesing and gave the farmers another market for their wheat. A _..L-I ____-!_- J3] WIIUIIVO Postal service did not exist. Any person going out to Stayner or Minesing would bring in any letters or papers for all the settle- ment and in this way a weekly mailwas received for about four years. One day two men drove up to` our home and inquired if- the .-people in this settlement desired a post office. A Dominion election was on hand and after their horse THE BARBIE EXAMINER was ,fed and they themselves had been settled in the house, I was sentto call in some of the neigh- bors and it was settled that a post office would be placed at the home of James Russell to becalled Rus- selton with Mr. Russell as Post Master, and mail would come in from Minesing on `Monday, Wed- nesday and Friday. Another post office was placed at the `home of John Campbell to.be known as Iris. Mr. Campbell was Post Master, al- so mail carrier. `These two post offices were not more than a mile and a half apart in a straight line and continued to serve the people until the death of Mr. Russell. Then a letter went-to Leighton Mc- Carthy, -M.P., expressing a wish that the two post offices be moved vale with Gideon Miller as Post Master. In less than a week the change was made and soon a daily . mail was established. First Divine Service v The first divine service held in I Edenvale was in Killarney Castle. I Wm. Mattenly, a Primitive Meth- ' odist missionary, delivered a stir- ring sermon. How heartily the men and women sang the old hymns at that meeting. It was de- cided to hold service once a month at the home of James Russell, his house being the largest in the set- tlement at that time. These ser- vices were continued for about two years. Then the residents decided that a regular place of meeting was necessary, so a Sabbath school could be formed. John Culham furnished the lot and the people turned out and made the founda- tion timbers. Some took logs to the saw mill that had been built on the north side of the town line and west of the river and run by W. R. Keeley who cut the logs into lum- ber free of charge and gave from his own stock of lumber. In a short time the church was ready for use and was opened in the win- ter of 1881-82. A tea meeting was held in the church. After the sup- per the tables were cleared and taken out and the `seats were re- turned. Then a very interesting program was rendered `by local tal- ent. In this building both Presby- terians and Methodists held their services the same people attending both services. In 1900 the Presby- terians built the new church. Here again the bonds of friendship were so strong that the young people attended and assisted in the ser- vices of both churches with the happy results that today there is only one congregation. 'Du-Julia asnlnnnla you a nvnklnv to Edenvale store and called Eden- Ullly UIIU UUll51'U5GblUllc Public schools was a problem our fathers had to face. I have seen them after a hard day's work in the logging eld come in, wash and change clothing and walk, in a number of cases, four and five miles, to attend a meeting with re- gard to schools and school sections. As a result of these labors, schools were built and from them have gone out into public life lawyers, doctors, engineers, etc., who have made names for themselves. Sure- ly a consolation to those who have lived to see the results of their early eorts to secure an educa- tion for the children of the settle- ment. - --`.. ---wu -av-vs--u cu.--` -v--. In the winter of 1879` several new settlers came to Edenvale HAROLD HILL 43 i"\'1re Bred `Stock Introduced -Establishing A New Standard in Automobiles" OUIIVIN YO COUOII. GOLQ MIDIXNI ONIYII WI-IIN YIIAYID WWII Till? 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