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A2014.003.0558 – Bruce A. Krug, Kincardine Township Scrapbook Index

Notes

Press CTRL-F to search. Index consists of year, and key words and phrases taken from the

clippings or describing the historical notes / interviews within five volumes of scrapbooks.

Page numbers were added by Archives.

Indexed by Volunteer Robin Hilborn, 2015.

Kincardine Township scrapbook index

Page Description

1 1965 “Ae’ glint on ither days”, by Hilda Downey. Kincardine News. Bear hunt story in 1868 told in the Tiverton W.I. Tweedsmuir History

Book. The dog, Captain.

3 1963 “Box makers serve on final shift, machinery now being moved to Aurora”. Closing of Circle Bar paper box plant. Box factory in

Kincardine.

5 1962 Photo, Ted Rowcliffe joins staff of Kincardine News;

recommended by Dr. Sherwood Fox.

7 1962 “Rescue of schooner Merrimac one of the Great Lakes’ sagas –

Caught in storm of 1883”. Photo. Adrift five days, rescued off Kincardine by tug Torrent; refitted as Rock Ferry. 46 vessels ashore or foundered

in 1883.

9 1963 “Former smitty shop razed by fire.” Armow blacksmith shop.

Tiverton fire department. On Davey farm, moved from Armow.

11 1963 “Bethel Lodge installs officers”. Lodge 1226. Names of officers,

50-year members.

13 1963 “Lyman Davis fastest on Great Lakes”. A two-master, not three.

Storm in 1915. Photo at dock. Old salt block. Lyman Davis burned at

Sunnyside, Toronto as a spectacle.

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13 1963 Photo, Kincardine’s north pier. Storage shed, torn down in 1919.

Passenger steamer near the lighthouse.

15 1963 “Guest professor at Western University”. Photo, W. Harold Rea,

formerly of Kincardine. His biography.

17 1937 “Do you remember?”. Excerpts from issues of May 1937. King’s

acorns to plant in Victoria Park. Catching herring at Kincardine harbour. Mansion House, Tiverton. Improve tourist camp; rats in junkyard on

Queen Street north. News’ printing plant moved to Ross block Five

Purvis brothers reunited at Gore Bay, Manitoulin Island.

19 1963 Letter: B.C. resident Mrs. A.T. Ryan seeks information of Beaton

family of Kincardine. Descendants of Donald Beaton and Anne MacKenzie.

21 1963 John Bell of Kincardine Volunteer Fire Dept. honoured for 50 years’ service. Fire brigade; worst fires.

22 1963 “Thousands of birds die when caught by storm over bay in migration”. Georgian Bay beaches littered with dead birds of many

species. Migration routes; Thorbury; Meaford.

23 1962 “Bronze crucifix found near breakwater may be key to more

valued treasure”. Bronze crucifix on lake bottom near the Kincardine breakwater. Also, Stan Thornton of Hamilton thinks he found wreck of

Wanderer, sunk 1883 off Kincardine; anchor chain. List of wrecks off Kincardine and their value.

23 1963 Death of James Smith, born Kincardine in 1897, served 27 years

as engineer on tug Onward.

25 1961 “Ninety year old writer to release story of the Yukon for

Christmas”. Walter Hamilton, 90; Mills, Farrell, Hartwick. He went to Klondike from 10th of Huron in 1898. Book, $5, 300 pp., 74

photographs.

25 1961 “Klondyke tales told church club.” Walter Hamilton talk at United

Church. His experiences.

27 1963 “Harness racing almost century old sport”. First race in

Kincardine in 1875; horses arrived by train. Track on the Gentles Estate. Lansdowne Park track, then Connaught Park. Famous owners.



29 1963 “Dozens witness natural phenomenon as tornado threatens over

lake”. Water spout off Kincardine. Photo by Ivan Lloyed of Douglas Point nuclear power project.

31 1964 “Modern new rectory” to be built for Church of the Messiah. Anglican rectory was at Huron Terrace and Lambton Street.

33 1962 100th birthday of John T. Ward of Palmerston. Started as fireman on railway in 1869. Cord wood in boilers. Grand Trunk Railroad. Stage

coach and horseback to carry the mail.

34 1962 “Former owner of general store here now a top figure in business world”. Samuel Fingold. Foundation Co. of Canada. Slater Steel

Industries.

35 1962 “Bishop of the Yukon famous for Dawson City punch recipe”.

Archbishop Isaac Stringer born at Kingarf, attended Kincardine High School. “Archbishop’s Stringer’s Tea Punch”.

36 1962 “Tug loses prop making way to open water”. Five Southampton fishing tugs wintered at Kincardine. Eauclipper, Long Time, Donna Gay

II, Jackson Brothers, G&A.

37 1963 “Recalls heroic rescue from wreck off Kincardine – earned gold

medal from U.S. President”. Thomas McGaw. Ann Maria. Onward. West Reef. Lifting nets. Trains to Kincardine. Sturgeon would tear nets.

Fishing at the Fishing Islands, Johnston’s Harbor, Pine Tree Harbor. Lifeboat station. Photo, 1898 Kincardine harbour.

39 1963 “End of an era”. Fish shanties torn down and burned in 1963.

Putting trout on ice. Letter to editor from Ernie Fisher; Tom McGaw; Saunders, Martin. Cutting ice in the harbour. Unloading coal, salt. Old

pictures of the fishing shanties. McIvor girls. Martyn. McLay.

41 1938 “Do you remember?”. 1938 history. Radio broadcast of “War of

the Worlds”; Orson Welles. Meteor near Millarton; fragments not found. 175 Bruce County old boys and girls at banquet in Regina and district;

stories of Bruce pioneers told.

43 1962 25th anniversary of death of J.W. Moyes, West Shore Electric

Railway promoter. Electric railroad from Kincardine to Goderich. Opposition to scheme. Rails sold, shipped to France. Car barns. Project

to mine salt, by Dr. Lloyd T. Gledhill; Kincardine salt company closed down; salt industry; sealed pumps, capped wells.



45 1962 Earliest military building still standing in Bruce County was

erected about 100 years ago. Armory is now a garage; Capt. William Daniel, 1848; William Millar; Melvin Dahmer. Frame shed, described.

Now Major, William Daniel; stone house built 1867.

47 1962 “Old armoury now garage – Kincardine Township militia used

building in 1863”. Source for article at page 45. Photos, William and Henry Daniel.

51 1962 “Fenian raids in 1866 had repercussions”. Near Bervie in Kinloss

Twp, farm of Mel Dahmer, is armoury built in 1866, now used as a drive shed. Neustadt man, a practical joker. 57 volunteer militia mustered in

Paisley, 1866. Volunteers from other towns. Returned home after a peaceful month in Goderich.

52 1962 “Early pioneer met his death in well”. Kinloss Twp., Black Horse area: death of John Brownscombe, 1882, in a well half-filled with deadly

gas. He was a farmer and made pottery.

52 1964 “Algoma beacons stopped Fenians”. Near Sault Ste. Marie.

Beacons and bugle simulated large force of soldiers; Fenian ship of 300 retreated.

53 1962 “Changes continue marking progress of community”. Main street changes. Tearing down buildings in Kincardine. New business in town.

Gentles home.

55 1964 “Kincardine’s official coat of arms”. Image. Adopted 1948.

55 1964 “Pioneer story retold by society member”. Kincardine Women’s

Institute.

55 1963 “Family name connected with church building”. Death of Mrs.

Robert E. Walpole, 86, was Mamie L. Fettridge.

57 1964 “American shore lights sighted during unusual weather

conditions”. Seen were lights from the American shore. American television stations come in clearly. Recalls sighting of American shore

lights in 1948, probably of Pte. Aux Barques and Harbour Beach. Mirage.

59 1964 “Kincardine gives car to doctor, 71”. Dr. A.E.H. Couch, 71, guest of honour; doctor for 35 years.



61 1961 “Completes 50 years as Kincardine M.D.”. Dr. John George

McLeod came to town in 1911.

63 19xx “Surrey … carry Kincardine name in cup parade”. Grey Cup

parade in Toronto; businessmen plan horse-drawn surrey with fring on top. William Wardell. John Mitchell. “Surry crew draws up plans for trip

to Grey Cup parade”.

64 1961 “Prince and consorts prepare for journey”. Photo of Prince and

surrey, to go to Grey Cup parade.

65 1960 “They like Bruce area”. Article in Saturday Evening Post. Reporter stayed with Cunninghams near Kincardine. Enjoyed parading

down main street with bagpipe band, the “aboat” for “about”.

66 19xx “Early Bruce County names were colorful”. Source of county and

township and town names. From Southampton Beacon.

67 Ms., 2 pp. [untitled] “Iron horse collar, purchased at John Christie

sale, lot 30, con VII, Sullivan Twp., Aug. 31, 1963 …” Ira Fisher foundry in Kincardine in 1860. Iron horse collar promoted by Boss Grey of

Grey’s Castle. Boiler clipper, for trimming the corking in building new boilers. Steel transmission chain, invented by Ira Fisher.

69 1964 “Town once had a last chance saloon”. Hotel at corner of Broadway and Queen. Little Methodist Church. Burnt bridge. Luttrell’s

bake shop. Time Grocery, J.W. Irwin. Templars of Temperance.

69 1962 “Turn of century token unearthed in garden”. Kincardine garden

yields soken from “the People’s Greatest Store – G.H. Hasenflug,

Teeswater. Good for $1.”

69 1964 Letter. The “Desert” was the large area now comprising the

Agricultural Grounds. R.A. Burke was born in Kincardine in 1882.

70 1964 Kincardine United Church dates to 1851; present building to

1876.

70 1964 “Little Methodist” Church of Kincardine: its brick and seats are at

Bervie, a part of St. John’s Anglican Church.

71 1963 Death of Rev. J.C. Hulton, 76, of Kincardine, minister in

Presbyterian and United Churches; retired in 1961.



73 19xx “Recalls heroic rescue from wreck of Kincardine”. Thomas

McGaw. Wreck of Ann Maria. See page 37 above.

75-76 1963 April: Fire at Bethel United Church, five miles south of

Kincardine. May: Fire guts Bethel United Church. October: To dismantle church. December: Wreckers dismantle church.

77 1964 “Decision to build new church made by Bethel congregation.”

79 1964 Death of A.E. “Andy” Robinson, Kincardine Township councillor,

Bruce County councillor, M.P. for Bruce, member of Bruce County

Historical Society, served with 160th Bruce Battalion, Third Battalion of Engineers.

81 1964 “Kincardine Mission described in century old correspondence”. Excerpts from Christian Guardian, Apr. 18, 1855. Description of

“Kincardine Mission and the recent Missionary Anniversaries”; travel conditions between missions at Goderich and Saugeen. Description of

“Pentangore”. McPherson’s mills. Brother Blair.

83 1964 “Veteran administrator with Bruce Phone system Norman Jones

retires”. BMTS superintendent retires after 48 years; joined 1916. History of Bell and independent telephone systems. Switchboard in

Kincardine.

85 1964 “Local car dealer, Les Sparling, featured in London news story”.

In London Free Press was an article by Bill Kearns, re James Cowan and Co. automotive parts, Sparling’s garage in Kincardine, his father a

blacksmith in Beechwood and Seaforth, before 1905.

87 1964 “When corn grew ten feet high”. Farmer and drover Thomas Rowan, his silo built about 70 years ago, Glamis area. Pioneer corn

grower.

87 1963 “Sometimes book values do go up”. When Norman Robertson

was researching for his 1906 book he wrote to Frank H. Leslie of Walkerton asking for a copy of the Glamis Mapleleaf newspaper which

he printed in Tavistock in May 1900. It had a brief history of Glamis. Price of history books goes up.

89 1964 “Historical Society meeting”. BCHS members hear talks on Church of the Messiah, Kincardine salt industry and history of Scouting.

Photo.



89 1963 “Hear tales of early days in district”. BCHS meeting, Archie

McDougall told of arrival of McDougall family in Bruce, winter 1853, con. 10. Ted Rowcliffe on sailing vessels. Harvey Linklater slides of his store,

was the Commercial Hotel, or Pig’s Ear.

91 1964 “Sixty-eight years in family, MacKenzie Brothers sell store”.

Woollen Mill store on Kincardine main street, built 1895. Ebenezer MacKenzie, died 1943.

92 1963 “Items that could be found in an 18th century general store”.

Long list of goods, produce, food, stoves, kitchen equipment. Wrapped in paper. Pioneer stores.

93 1963 Letter to editor. Grace Morrison Keller sends a poem, “The Brown House on the Hill (to Mrs. James Sinclair)”. “When silence wraps … in

memory with the Brown House on the Hill.” By Margaret Gordon. To Mrs. James Sinclair.

95 1964 “Town’s oldest shop now closed”. Fox Jewellry in Kincardine. Edward Fox came in 1871, died 1930 at 83.

96 19xx “Photographer at Kincardine in same studio for 41 years”. Frank Lee. Uncle Dave Barber, photographer in Listowel. 1850, Sam Smith

studio. Barber studio taken over by Charles A. Lee in 1889.

97 1938 “Do you remember?” Excerpts from Kincardine News. Tug Ione

Ross. Names of firemen; fire brigade. Foote’s Drug Store; doctors. Travelling medicine show in Kincardine; pain-killing panacea.

Entertainment at Capitol Theatre, Beach Pavilion (Johny Downs’

orchestra from London), bingo, community carnival. 84th birthday of Angus Munro, born 1855. Paving of highway 21 from Kincardine to Port

Elgin.

98 1937 “Do you remember?” Excerpts from Kincardine News. 100th

birthday of Peter Shiells of Amberley, carpenter at Point Clark lighthouse. First school at Lurgan. Floods north of London. Circle-Bar

Knitting Company, Botany Dry Spinners; union picket. Lacrosse at Kincardine.

99 1938 “Do you remember?” Excerpts from Kincardine News. Lakeshore Mutual Telephone System, in Huron township. Snowy winters; train and

road travel. Death of Peter Shiells, 101, in 1938. 95th birthday of Mrs. Caroline Rinker in 1938, came to Kincardine 55 years ago. Electricity:

HEPC extends lines in the district; power provided soon to Underwood, Tiverton; hydro.



100 1938 “Do you remember?” Excerpts from Kincardine News. Whiskey

still near Bervie; whisky. Olivet Young People play.

100 1963 15 girls under 7 on con. 9, Kincardine township, in 1938. Single

and married names given, for 1963.

100 1964 Letter to editor from Mrs. C. Craddock (Auta Burley) re Church of

the Messiah. Coombs. Whealen. Reynolds. Jacob Burley drove stage from Kincardine to Port Elgin, Walkerton. Rhyndress. Whealon.

101 1939 “Do you remember?” Excerpts from Kincardine News. Kinloss

called “Blackhorse”. CNR train excursion to Toronto to see King and Queen. McLean family, Highland Scotch; Hector McLean left Isle of Tiree

in 1848, to Kincardine township in 1852, con. 10. Glamis girl temporarily lost in Greenock swamp.

102 1938 “Do you remember?” Excerpts from Kincardine News. News quoted from Bruce Reporter of 1884 and Reporter of 1890. Advertising

for patent medicines. Celebrate Queen’s birthday at Ripley. Names of lawyers and doctors in Kincardine, 1880s. Fraternal organizations.

Walker grain storehouse.

102 1939 “Do you remember?” Excerpts from Kincardine News. Death of

George McKay, con. 4 Huron, frozen in snowstorm. Knox Church. Duggan. McLaughlin garage. John F. Corbet, sculler, lived in Kincardine,

died 1939.

103 1964 “Early development of Lakehead largely due to imagination of

young native of Kincardine”. J.J. Carrick, in Mexico City. Carrick family;

the Old Harvie Farm. John J. Carrick was in real estate in Port Arthur and Fort William.

105 1962 Henry’s book store sold to Mrs. J.M. Aspden. Founded by Samuel Henry. “Century old tree removed as dangerous”; Wingham Rural

Hydro cut down old elm on Victoria Street.

106 19xx “Springtime purchases 69 years ago”. 1891 copy of Kincardine

Reporter gives prices for goods advertised; prominent names; Huron Cheese and Butter Company.

107 1962 Photo of the “flats” where one of the salt wells remain capped in the area; salt block at left. Taken before the river was changed in

direction.



109 1959 “Giant of Lorne left his mark on early Bruce”. Rev. William

Fraser. William Sutton’s mill. James Millar. Captain Rowan’s settlement at Port Head. Lorne named after Governor-General.

111 1961 “Memory of civil war surgeon lives on in sunny hours at Kincardine plot”, by Fred Landon. Kincardine sun dial in cemetery at

Kincardine, at grave of Solomon Secord, 1834-1910, doctor.

112 1961 “Kincardine man changed sides”. Battle of Lundy’s Lane.

Monument in Kincardine to Dr. Solomon Secord; his aunt was Laura

Secord.

113 1959 “Lake storm ended Port Head dream”. Capt. Duncan Rowan, born

1822, arrived 1849 in Kincardine; sailed Emily, Kincardine to Goderich. Rowan built a wharf at Port Head / Stoney Island. John McLeod store.

Baird sawmill. He married Miss McLean. Post office, 1857, at Port Head. 1856, takes command of Ploughboy, runs Windsor to Bruce Mines. 1858

fall gale washes away docks, wrecks Ploughboy. Rowan died 1903, his wife died at 93 in 1927. Iron ring north of the island where Rowan tied

his boat.

114 1963 “Fate changed Stoney Island from town site to modern summer

resort”. History of Stoney Island from 1849, arrival of Captain Duncan Rowan.

115 Three b/w photos, original prints. (1) “Lake Huron shore south of Kincardine, spring 1954”; snow and ice. (2) “Entrance to Kincardine

Harbour, spring 1954”, covered in snow. (3) “Lakeshore Road south of

Kincardine, spring 1954”; snow road through bush.

117 1958 91st birthday of Colonel Hugh Clark of Kincardine. He had sold his

newspaper, the Kincardine Review, in 1925, which he bought in 1890. There were in 1890 two papers in town, Review and Reporter. In 1902

Clark was elected MPP for North Bruce; in 1911 MP for Bruce North.

119 Ms., 2 pp. Transcribed. “Beauty and the Beach”, Schooner Days

CCCXVIII. Evening Telegram, 1937. The Hunter Savidge of Kingston. Singapore of Kingston.

121 Ms., 5 pp. Transcribed. “Lake wreck of 35 years ago told vividly by camera”, Schooner Days CCCXIX. Schooner Singapore. Bruce McGaw,

captain of the Kincardine lifeboat. Capt. Sutherland, died at 75, in [1936].



127 Ms., 5 pp. Transcribed. “The bridegroom cometh”, Schooner Days

CCCXXIII. Evening Telegram, 1937. The wreck of the Ann Maria at Kincardine. American vessel, larger than Singapore.

133 Ms., 2 pp. Transcribed. “Two survivors recall tragedy at anniversary thirty-six years ago, the boat Ann Maria crashed near Kincardine;

skipper lost in race to meet bride-to-be – Tom McGaw and James Sinclair only two living who battled storm, wreckage”. By J.W. MacLeod.

Capt. Gordon.

135 Ms., 4 pp. Transcribed. “The wreck of the Erie Belle”, from Kincardine Review. Sole survivor of disaster relates story of the explosion. Capt.

John E. Tobin. “Inside story of Erie Belle rescue – Rescue of Captain J. Tobin was end of the family feud”.

139 Ms., 3 pp. Transcribed. Poem, “copied from a clipping which is in the possession of Ogle Duggan, Poplar Beach, Kincardine, Ont.” “There was

mirth … and awaits the voice of Spring”. The wreck of the Erie Belle.

142 1959 “Boiler Beach recalls tragic salvage bid”. The wreck of the Erie

Belle. Boiler stayed on the beach.

143 19xx Death of Oran Westell, 64, harbormaster and lighthouse keeper

at Kincardine. Calvert.

143 Ms., 2 pp. “Interview with Oran Westell, lighthouse-keeper at

Kincardine”, Sept. 1954. “This evening Harry Lustig and I visited with Oran Westell who operates and lives in the lighthouse at the river

mouth at Kincardine harbour.” Sailed on many schooners. “While

working on the boats, Oran, took many photographs of ships and also has made a collection of news items and articles from daily papers.

These he gratefully loaned to me in my endeavour to get some of the early story of shipping on Lake Huron and especially out of Kincardine.”

Lyman Davis, Sophie, Bert Barnes. Description of schooners. Jim Reid of Howdenvale on Kolfage. Oran has a picture of Kincardine harbor

showing the Coronet, Sarah, Quimby and the tug Swan.

147 Four pages of photographs; six photographs. Probably from the Westell

collection mentioned at page 143. P. 147: (1) b/w photo, copy of an original print; “White ship is Ontario, Kincardine Harbor”; two schooners

and a tug in Kincardine harbour. P. 149: two b/w prints. (2) no caption; two-master schooner with deck load of timber. (3) Docked

vessels in iced-over harbour; timber piles on dock; vessels identified: “Coronet (short spar), Sarah, tug Swan, Quimby – Kincardine Harbor”.

P. 151: two b/w prints. (4) “Deck of Lyman Davis in Nov. 1913



windstorm”; rigging down; planks loose. (5) “Lyman Davis”, view of

two-masted schooner from aft, full sail. P. 153: one b/w print. (6) “Lyman Davis”, view from side; verso stamped “Old Ships & Harbors of

the Great Lakes, J.W. Baid, Midland, Can.”.

155 Ms., 1 p. Transcribed. “Hunter and McIntosh shipwreck – Kincardine

1882”. Quote from Robertson: Death of Elliott Hunter and a man McIntosh, in a gale, returning from the Fishing Islands. [Bruce Krug

writes:] “In an interview with Mrs. William Hunter, Kincardine on Dec.

10, 1953 I learned the following concerning the above mishap. Elliot Hunter was a brother of William Hunter’s father …” Capsized; bodies

found in spring; “Liza recognized her mending on the shirt cuff”.

157 Two pages of photos; three photographs. P. 157: one b/w print. (1)

“Asia and Ontario at Kincardine”. Tied up at dock. P. 159: two b/w prints, no captions, but dated “Jun 56”. (2) Man on dock, lighthouse in

background. (3) Three-storey brick factory, “The C[ ]ombe Furniture Company”, seen across Kincardine harbor.

161 Ms., 1 p. Transcribed. “The wreck of the Ann Maria”, by J.M. Ferguson, of Ruthilda, Sask. formerly of Red Bay, Bruce County. From Bruce

County Record, February 1934, Winnipeg. “On a dark and stormy night in October, 1902 …” William Ferguson, buried at Red Bay.

163 19xx “Bruce man, 91, recalls rescue”. Photo: Thomas McGaw displays medal from Ann Maria; his 91st birthday; Erie Belle.

163 Ms., 2 pp. “Interview with Tom McGaw at Kincardine on Feb. 19,

1956”. “This afternoon Harold Krug and I called on Mr. and Mrs. Tom McGaw …” Just celebrated his 91st birthday; born 1865. Logging at Red

Bay. He and his brother fished at Fishing Islands, headquarters at Snake Island where they had a house. Coronet was his vessel, then

Quimby. Knocking passenger pigeons down with a stick, around Kincardine. He knew Frank Belmore of Red Bay and Kincardine. [164]

Death of Thomas McGaw, 91, in 1956.

165 Ms., 2 pp. Transcribed. “A spectacular waterspout scene on the

eastern shore of Lake Huron”. Off Kincardine, water spout seen by City of the Straits, formerly City of Detroit. [166] “Jane Yemen … someone

should write about the water spout on Lake Huron about 1871. –Pioneer Days, 1934”.

167 Ms., 2 pp. Transcribed. “Captain Murdick McLean”, from Mansfield, History of the Great Lakes, vol. 2, p. 136. He was born in 1885 in

Kincardine. Robert Willis. His uncle Duncan Rowan sailed the Emily.



William Seymour. Adelaide Horton. Welcome. Fannie Campbell. Butcher

Boy. Benton. Burcher. Asia. Manitoba. City of Duluth. Northern Queen. Conestoga. Boston. Samuel F. Hodge. Peerless, and others. Captain

McLean married in 1884 Louisa Strieff of Superior. Lives in Duluth.

169 Ms., 4 pp. “Interview with Neil ‘Skipper’ McKinnon of Con. 11,

Kincardine Tp. on May 6, 1957”. “This evening I called at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Downey on the townline between Glamis and

Tiverton. Mrs. Downey who is quite interested in the history of the area,

contacted Skipper McKinnon by phone and he came over …” His father Capt. Hugh McKinnon owned the Sophie, built in Goderich about 1860 of

rock elm. List of 15 “lake captains who came from Bruce and Kincardine townships”: McKinnon, Munroe, McGinnis, McKenzie, and others, details

given. List of six “tragedies of the lakes”: Jimmie Munroe, 1898; John Munroe, about 1915; McKay; Wells; McLennan; McLeod, 1913.

171 Letter, Apr. 5, 1957, from Hilda Downey to Krug. Gives name of Skipper McKinnon, lot 10, con. 11, over 70 years old.

173 1958 “First Bruce village, Kincardine, named just 100 years ago”. Kincardine made a village in 1857, Southampton in 1858. 1848 settlers.

Was Penetangore.

175 1957 “Bruce ‘cruel’ to missionary in 1887”. Rev. Walter Inglis of the

United Presbyterian Church of Scotland. In 1857 to Riversdale, northwest of Teeswater; left Bruce County in 1869; “treatment he

received in Bruce was cruel and unchristian … Mammon-worship …”

177 Ms., 10 pp. Transcribed. “Walter Inglis – South African missionary”. From Yemen. Inglis, 27, went to South Africa, 1841. Boer War. [181]

Mission to the County of Bruce. [183] Kincardine and Pine River. [184] Riversdale. [186] Local superintendent of education. Rev.

William Cochrane. Rev. Dr. Walters.

189 Ms., 3 pp. Transcribed. “Memories of early elections”, London Free

Press, n.d. “It was frequently said during the recent federal election …” First election in Bruce County, 1850. Six eligible voters. Voting method

at a shanty or log school house. Some brawling. Political disputes settled by fist fights; whiskey. Malcolm Cameron won over William

Cayley. Cameron, Liberal; his background. 1854 separation of Perth from Bruce and Huron. 1854 election, Cayley won Huron and Bruce

riding, defeating editor of Huron Signal, Thomas McQueen. 1857 election. In 1867, 80,000 residents in the counties of Bruce and Huron;

counties were separated. Cameron’s political career. 1868 election in

Bruce. 1872 election.



193 Ms., 6 pp. Transcribed. “The man from Bruce”, Kincardine Reporter,

Sept. 27, 1923. “During the Old Boys Re-union inquiries were made about an article ‘The man from Bruce’, which appeared in the Toronto

Globe, nearly twenty years ago. It was signed ‘Sara’. The article was written by Miss Louise Turner, who visited her sister Mrs. Angus

McArthur, at Tiverton…” Married Dr. King of St. Thomas. Reprint of her article, starting “Inverhuron! I stood spellbound on its shore …”

Beauties of water, sand; Bruce legends: who will write “The Man from

Bruce”? [194] Bruce men in B.C., on the lakes. “Bruce County was largely settled by Scotchmen …” [195] Tales told at firesides [no actual

tales recounted]. [196] Inverhuron lies desolate. [197] Attempted rescue of a schooner off Kincardine; McGaws and Ferguson took out a

boat; Capt. Gordon.

199 Ms., 3 pp. Transcribed. “Early Industry in Kincardine – Brickmaking”,

by Jane Yemen. Brick houses. Brickmaker John Riggin, born 1839; his father, George Riggin. Hill of clay, now gone. John Riggin arrived in

Kincardine, joined his father, in 1875. John married Margaret Hatfield, and then Sarah Small. Riggan brickyard in image in 1880 County of

Bruce Atlas. Clay ground in crusher or pug mill; kiln; cordwood; white bricks. Scouring brick or bath brick; scouring cutlery by scraping off

brick dust onto a damp cloth.

203 Ms., 4 pp. Transcribed. “Early Industry in Kincardine – Tailoring”, by

Jane Yemen; Kincardine News, Feb. 1, 1945. Race track on south side

of Kincardine, home of July celebrations. David Small, tailor. [204] First married Fanny MacAdam, then in 1861 Agnes Sopher, taking in

five motherless children to add to her own 12 children. Agnes Soper Small, daughter of Captain Soper, who from 1849 sailed Wing and

Wing; Capt. Holmes’ dugout canoe, for traffic from Goderich to Bruce ports. David Small’s shop; iron sewing machine, then a Singer. [205]

He went with the client to buy the goods for a suit at the drygoods store. Lining in good farmer’s satin; serge or broadcloth coat.

Measurements. Pockets. Buttons. [206] Coats shown in 1880 Atlas. David Small died 1890.

207 Ms., 3 pp. Transcribed. “Early Industry in Kincardine – Ashery”, by Jane Yemen. Review of the industrial section, where Goderich road joins

the South Line. Maitland mill; Keyworth. Brickyards. Small tailor shop Elgin market for the South concession. Two Elgin Market schools. [208]

Hardwood ashes. Potash industry never flourished among the farmers of

Bruce. 1858, McInnes pot and pearl ashery in Kincardine, and Tiverton. McKinnon ashery on South Line. Bushels of ashes carried on their backs.

Knitting while carrying ashes. Leaching. Potash kettles. Pot ash kettle floated to shore by Capt. Rowan.



211 Ms., 2 pp. Transcribed. “Not charity but loans asked for Bruce during

starvation year”, by Jane F. Yemen. Severe drought of 1858, no harvest; famine of 1859. Quotes from the Commonwealth of March 10,

1859. Bruce County asked for and got a government loan. Also called a hungry year along the St. Lawrence and at Niagara.

213 Ms., 17 pp. Transcribed. “Toronto daily praised Kincardine in 1893 issue”. From Toronto Dail Mail, 1893; reprinted in Kincardine News,

1947. Description of Kincardine. Founding, 1848. Taverns, general

store. Durham Road. Pot ash kettle sailed by Captain Rowan. Reeve, mayors. A pretty location. [216] Population 3,000, Gaelic-speaking.

Assessment. G.T.R. terminus. [217] Schools and churches. [218] Inspector A. Campbell. [219] Board of Trade. Water and light supply.

[220] George Swan. Royal Hotel. [221] J.J. Fisher and Co. McSweyn Brothers. Queen’s Hotel. [222] Conductor John Quirk. George Bissett.

Richard Keyworth. Other business places. Miscellaneous. [224] Lost Industries. Fishing industry. Salt galore. People’s Salt Company. [226]

Kincardine press; newspapers; Reporter, Review. [227] Lieut-Col. J.H. Scott. Watson and Malcolm furniture. George F. Prenter drygoods.

Samuel Henry books. John Moffat grocery. W.J. Henry books.

231 Ms., 15 pp. Transcribed. “Builders of Kincardine – By the late James A.

Macpherson”, Kincardine, Nov. 4, 1920. Edited by J.F. Yemen, 1936. “As I am very susceptible to flattery and some of my friends consider I

am the only person who can write a history of the town of Kincardine …”

Arrived 1854; names of inhabitants in 1854. [233] Salt wells. [235] Early settlers. Businessmen of Kincardine. Politicians. [247] Captain

Duncan Rowan, born 1822, married Mary McLean. Chicora, Rothesay Castle.

249 Ms., 1 p. Transcribed. “Kincardine – A bit of local history – Written in 1866”. “Mayor Baird read a paper before the Kincardine Literary society

one evening last week …” Name was Penetangore. Settlers of 1848 and 1849 named. Land agent George Jackson. Ends, “(to be continued)”.

251 Ms., 1 p. “Trip to Kincardine, April 24, 1955”. “It was a cool, cloudy day when I left Chesley and after I got through Greenock it started to rain …

I called on Secord Hunter … [and] Miss Elizabeth McKenzie … A Miss Yemen had had an apartment in Miss McKenzie’s house, until Miss

Yemen died about a year ago. Miss Yemen wrote historical articles for the Kincardine newspaper … her belongings were taken by Mr. Norvall

Stewart, a nephew, who lives on con. 2, Huron Tp., just east of the

Ripley sideroad.” Driving with Secord Hunter in Kincardine. Gundy Stove Foundry; sawmill; honey extraction. Dan McCaskill’s fear of germs from

the hospital. “Captain Rowan was shipwrecked and drowned and his



body was washed ashore at the foot of the cliff on his own farm, west

side of the lakeshore road. Tiverton tannery.

253 Ms., 1 p., typed. “The first boat into Kincardine …”. Wedding dress of

the grandmother of Mrs. Isabel (Jerry) Hart, Kincardine; is in Duluth, Minn.

255 1956 “New Kincardine industry, Yale Rubber Plant, gives town’s economy big bounce”. Owen Sound Sun-Times. Yale Rubber Company

of Sandusky, Mich. Electricity: Ontario Hydro built 44 kv line to the

abandoned planing mill. Crude rubber; latex from Malaya. Autoclave. Photos.

257 Ms., 4 pp. “Interview with Mrs. William Hunter at her home in Kincardine”, Dec. 10, 1953. “This evening I motored to Kincardine and

called on Secord Hunter of Hunter Bridge & Boiler of Kincardine. Together we called on Secord’s mother, Mrs. William Hunter, who lives

alone … in her 86th year.” Grain merchant Robert Baird; horse stables. Boss Gray’s castle and Anne Fischer’s marriage which never took place.

Her bather, Ebenezer Fischer, invented the steel horse collar. [258] Gray took over the business. He also invented the steel transmission

chain used on conveyors. Kincardine Hospital was the Grant home. House of Kenny McKenzie, brother of Sir Alexander McKenzie. Firm of

McKenzie and Mann. Stewart Construction. [259] Elliot Hunter, drowned, was a brother of Secord’s grandfather. Treallaly Harden,

harbor master at Kincardine. Tannery house; a woollen mill. Grange salt

well at the river mouth. Rhitmyer’s well. Last salt mill closed in 1928. [260] Coleman Pork Packing. Old wreck at the bathing beach, removed

by the Kincardine Kinsmen Club. Secord showed old photos. First rotary snowplow, made for Ideal Snow Plow Co., built by Hunters for the

Allenford man who invented it. William Hunter invented steel sheet piling. John Watson furniture factory.

261 Ms., 7 pp. “Interview with Donald Matheson at home of his daughter, Jessie (Mrs. Kenneth McGregor) on Broadway St. in Kincardine on Sept.

25, 1954.” “This Saturday afternoon I had a visit with Donald Matheson in Kincardine … born on October 23, 1862 at lot 1, Con. V, Bruce Tp.”

His father, Murdoch Matheson, from Cape Breton to Goderich about 1846, to Inverhuron in 1850, but the ship wrecked and many supplies

were lost. A shanty; a log house; a brick house. [262] Ten years to clear 200 acres. Donald stayed home to help his father on the farm.

“Baie de Dore” [e acute] means “bay of pike”; 254 inhabitants; Mrs.

Turner’s hotel and her Mansion House in Tiverton. [263] Shipwrecks; barge in Fisherman’s Bay. Barge at Baie de Dore. Carruthers captain,

Jack Lowe; searching for his body. Grain elevators at Inverhuron; saw



and gristmill. John Bruce hotel at Underwood. Boss Grey ugly but kind.

[264] Grey house, of Inverhuron quarry stone; auction of house contents. Scott, stone cutter; sawmill, gristmill. Passenger pigeons

nested in swamp south of Baie de Dore. Many crows, fewer deer and bear. [265] Sawmills at Baie de Doree; lime kiln; log school house.

Inverhuron log school. Beattie ships called at Inverhuron: Manitoba, Asia, Ontario, Quebec. [266] Visiting a shipwreck at Inverhuron. A

murder at Baie de Doree, about 1872; Johnson killed Price. A second

murder: Dr. Crow, “an intelligent Indian from the Saugeen Reserve”, and family lived in a shack at the back of the Matheson farm in the

bush; young Donald Crow mistakenly shot a McKay boy.

269 1957 “Col. Hugh Clark: a living link with Canadian ‘greats’”. From

Kincardine News. 90th birthday of Col. Hugh Clark, born 1867, editor of Bruce Herald at Walkerton, Kincardine Review; MPP for Bruce, 1902-

1911; commander of 32nd Bruce Regiment.

271 Ms., 8 pp. Transcribed. “I can remember”, from the Kincardine [ ].

“Facts recalled concerning Kincardine in its early days”. List of people and events; pranks; hotels; sports; Carter and James Gardiner. [276]

Train from Kincardine to Palmerston to settle a sporting dispute. Many names and events listed.

279 Ms., 2 pp. Transcribed. “Bonuses have cost Bruce towns plenty”, Canadian Echo, Wiarton, Aug. 17, 1939. Bonus boom 50 years ago, to

attract industries, which last only a short time. 1850, Kincardine,

George Jackson and his gristmill. 1871 bonuses to railways. $50,000 bonds to Ontario West Shore electric Railway from Kincardine to

Goderich; promoter absconded. Stove foundry bonus. Grants to railway companies. [280] Wiarton Beet Sugar Company, 1902. Robert Watt

gristmill at Lion’s Head, 1874. 1881, felt boot factory at Walkerton; woollen mill failed; hosiery company; biscuit factory. Paisley carpet

factory. Port Elgin sawmill burned, as did a harness company. Southampton gave 6.5 acres to a tannery. [from Hanover Post]

281 1956 “Unearth second tombstone for Bruce drowning victim. Malcolm MacPherson, drowned at Kincardine in 1869; his tombstone found.

283 Ms., 2 pp. Transcribed. “Solomon Secord, pioneer Kincardine doctor”, by J.W. MacLeod. Of the same family as Laura Secord, born Burlington

Bay. His biography. Died 1910, at 76.

285 1964 Letter to the editor, from Donalda (Nod) Matheson. Memories of

summers at Stoney Island (Cedar Terraces). Translation of Gaelic item



from old Tiverton newspaper. “Kater (Matheson’s) nieces were land of

Lewis, Scotland”. 1964 Shipley family reunion in Kincardine.

287 1964 “The Islander’s Guide: old Gaelic poem translated by scholars”.

Poem, “Iul An Eilfanaich”, found by Hilda Downey in March 12, 1903 Tiverton Watchman. Four translations into English are given.

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