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WEDNESDAY,. JULY 6th, 1955' t.
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THE: LUCKNO W SErrruk1'EL, LUCKNOW, ONTARIO
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Mr. and Mrs Harry' Torance of
North Bay and natives of this.
eco nn pity, returned recently
from a tripto the Old Country
and Europe,.°•1VIrs. Torrance wrote
an interesting 'account of their
trip which has been summarized
for publication by , Miss Dean.
Leod
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• • Mrs.' .Torrance was • formerly
Eunice Macintosh; .. one of. nine
daughters, of, the ,late: Mr' ` and
Mrs.' Peter M elr iosir of Con. 4,
. Kinloss; Mr. Torrance, is • a son.
of',the late Mr., and 'Mts. Peter
Torrance and `•was:.born` and rear..
ed.• on the homestead a mile •east
of L'ucknOw'. Mrs.' J D. Ander-
son �f town is a sister. .
T'he following Is a summary of:
,Mrs. 'Tofrance's• travelogue. •
We left North Bay Saturday
morning,. March . 26th, ' arriving in
Halifax Monday 'evening where
we. boarded our boat, the. Empress
of Scotland: Upon 'sailing out of
Halifax on the ;29th• 'we were
greatly pleased , to receive so
many niceletters andtelegrams
wishing us • Bon Voyage.
We enjoyed visits vvitl so ‘inany'
'friendly people on board, arid
there wasentertainment, of every
kind..The meals were • excellent
varied. April 3:rd 'was- •xny
birthday and I was,,pleased to.
receive • a cablegram ' from' out
son Peter an • his wife; A birth=
day .cake. Was ,:made for :me' with
;name on .it and I • hadit
shared among' the many guests,
.•We. arrived: ,in Liverpool next
day' and' :thence 'by train to. Lon
don. and !by taxi to our hotel
'near Russel . Squarer, ,Next morn- •,
ing on• a tour we :saw the ;chang.-`•
ing of ,the:, Guards' at Buckingham'
Palace, St Pauls Cathedral_Can-
ada House, 10 Dawning: St., ;etc.
We' left London . April: 6th for
Marwick where we took the. ;1360
to the Hook of Holland, passing
"Trough Rotterdam t;o Amater-
darn,. lovely, ; flat. country, very
neat and tidy. :Had. • a tour of
the' city and never saw',so :many;
bicycles: before. •Leaving for' Bele`.
gumwe passed through ,acres
'and acres of tulkps:,',in ,bloom: In
Brussels •so many of the: stores.
disi;layed beautiful lace. We left'
Brussels for. Cologne,.•where we
were taken on a, walking tour .of
:thecity and saw beautiful paint
sings, and; `works of ai+t, also of-•;
fects . Easter morning
we took" 'a' steamer .down. :the
•-11Thine -and savnoted:-critics -and
spas with'.theirmineral... springs:
Fro Munich we Went' to, Austria
through' h' the sno"vsr-caiaped :ren
,• ner Pass and rode . to our hotel
in. -•V,enice in .a gQxidola. Froi�ra
there, we went 'Id Rome :and saw
,atian.:Cit_y__ and 'Ole -Pope -bless-
ing
ing .1000 'cheering people, From
pioine. we • went to .'Switzerland,
a beautiful `cowu.ritry With'. friendly
people, and next to Paris where
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we had a morning tour and a
night. toiir visiting four night
clubs. From Paris we returned'.
to. London and visited the Houses..
of Parliament, •Westminster Ab-
bey,. etc..,
b-bey,..etc., and had a tour. of the
Shakespeare Country, passing
through Oxford with its 28 ..col1.i
•eges. We -took a tour of the Tross
ackS and • Loch'''Loxnond and to
Edinborough: Where.On April 2,7th.
With'. the honorary. secretary .of.,
the C:lan,...Chattan (Macintosh).
we., went cin a walking • tour Ofthe city.. We. had;Chre�f"`Maclbaosh,
and. the secretary, ' for :dinner at'
our hotel and in the evening at-
tended. a meeting pf the Clan
in the hotel. 'drawing room,
On Our way to Inverness :we
had a four-hour stop. Off •at Kin-
guissie- and saw 'the. graves of
Rev. Angus and Mrs. MacKay
who used to live in I.ducknow.
Rev..Uaelcay married my father
and mOther and baptized Barry '
who 'attended school -with some
f his family. We called Rev
wcita rz a son Or" e r ac
Kays, who. is Chaplain of the
'Hospitals 'in 'Inverness and he and
his 'wife came over to our hotel;
and hada great chat about Luck-
now.
ucknow. They were missionaries in
Peru for 28 .years. They took .us
in their car to the different hos-
pitals and places of interest and
we had them for lunch at aur
hotel. That afternoon Chief Mac-
intosh and Lady MacIntosh took
• is in their ear -to Moy Hall,. (Mac-
intosh Castle), where we had at,
:ternoon tea and uiewed the castle
and gardens, -The Original'. Mac-
intosh:. estate, was a ` .hun dred
thousandacres with r-iany •castles,
and •lodges, but much • of it has
,been sold. From Inverness'. • e
took a ,train•to` the Kyle of 'Loch-
alsh to get' th.$. boat for Portree,
I.'sle of. Skye; wand Rev. and Mrs.
MacKay came down to. the train
to chat and see us off. '
Arriving in Skye, we • had a
grand view of the. Coolin''Hi11`s.
On •Sunday 'evening attended a
servicein the : Free . Church,
where the°y •sit to sing and stand
to pray, no hymns, no organ, but
a precentor. Next . • dray • took a
taxi out ' to, Uigishad der -to see
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