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A2014.003.0546 – Bruce A. Krug, 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 Page

1 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.


Bruce County Museum & Cultural Centre 2

5 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.


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.




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”.



36 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.



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.


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.


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”.


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.



63 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.


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.


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 Death of William J. Williamson, 87, moved to Pike Bay 80 years

ago.

71 19xx Booklet “Historical Review of Wiarton and the Bruce Peninsula”,

1936, sought.


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.



73 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.


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


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 “Bruce Historical Society Meets”, Nov.

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.


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.


ago: Indian named Jones, preacher, buried at Cape Croker.



83 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, Porter-

Schroeder. 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.



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 Death of E. Ewart Paterson, born in Wiarton 1884.

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.


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.


ago: death of Austin F. Langford, 35. 50 years ago: Methodist churches



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.


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.


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.


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.



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.


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.


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.



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.


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.


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.


ago: Bob Nadjiwon of Cape Croker flails his fall wheat to get some to

sow at once.


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.



130 1963 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.


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.



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 91st birthday of George Fries, who lives alone, came 70 years ago.

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.


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.



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.”



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.



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



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.



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



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



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



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.


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.



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 Lemcke, Symon. Gilbert. Kalbfleisch. Single license plate on cars.

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



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]



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.


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



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.



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.



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.



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 mid-wife / 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.



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 …”.



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.



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.



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.



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.



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



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.



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 father-

in-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



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.



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.”



“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.



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



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.



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



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.



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.



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.



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.



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.



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.



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.



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 “New dock completed at Tobermory Harbour”. West side of Little Tub.

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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