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HIE iii/CKNOW SENTIN IMCKNOW. ONTARIO
(By Prr M. Gordon)
„Seventy years ago four young
c1,10OI teachers net in, the Vill7
age of Lucknow •one.'Saturday
afternoon. The • names of these
teaches were: Jim. MuichiSOri,
Frank.MCLeiman; Jack Cameron,
Jim Gordon.
There was the happy hour. Of
•xelating,professional experiences,
-Then" was proposed that we
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have, our pictures taken.. So we
TreleaVen's gallery.
.4.04 sat forthis- picture which.
-.has -heen.-to--the writer :Lone:of
his most. outstanding treasures
throughout his life.
....These four school teachers were
each born in the year 1869 and
to each was given a goOdlY.litnn.,T
her of years which I shall now
try to describe in a little more
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Four Young ,0.ofteichet'sH.
In going we went by the Lake ,for the Master'S call to come ofl
•Shore road.. But on our return.
trip we decided to go by London.
and callon my old friend once:
again. We had a pleasant two
hours together..That was the last
time we met: as four years later,
the Methodist ministrY. From thiS"
he retired only a few years ago
after many years, a.pastoral life
W6tern Canada. His jetter
few weeks ago told.of a recent.
- strolce he had suffered and later
news reported he has 'passed on
• tohis home beyond the sunset
at the age of 89.
Frank McLennan entered the
medical profession. His 'first gen-
eral practice was in and around
Ripley for. Several years. Then
he proceeded to the City of Wind-
Sor where he- acquired .a ini.16h
larger practice: He,' too, passed
to his home over there about
, -two-years-age at the age of 86..
. , Jack:7CamerLon stuck to the
'teaching profesSforl-as
calling, stepping up from Mblie
School to Collegiate' Institute,
ending his teaching days in. the
eity. of , London where he had
built, a nice home for his retirr
years.
Home to be with loved ones gone
on before. Some day over there
I hope again te. meet these .scheol
teachers and there shall have
then, been' completed,. yes gler:
iouSly cempleted-, this siinple. saga
Jack, •too, was called home.. He of four school teachers who sev-
was 78' years of age. •
Now to cemplete this simple
story 'let me say •a few words
about mYself.. too,: chose the
Medical profession as iny
Calling. After about fifteen 54'0.=
enty years ago met one Satur-
day' afternoon in the Village of
.Lucknow..
RornanCe-.81Oss..0.6104*00..
ucius',,yeks_inj. he general practice LA •
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centering :from .„ItipleY, '.I decid-
ed to try. something • more
-specific in. medicinhis experr
ience was during the horse and
buggy days without telephones
and My. general health was start-
ing to give way, so I decided
diseases of the lungs from .that
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•,„ With him I had been more in-
'. -timate all , down through. the
years. Our birthplaces were•Only
a few miles apart. We went to.
the same public school Wawa-'
'nosh and from' there .graduated
for our Second Class-..eertificate
..:under that :wonderful teacher,
Mr. Morgan. In/ his ten years
as teacher in that school . this
wonder teacher graduated.. over.
forty asPiranti for the.teaehing
'profession'. About that time -he
acquired his first class teaching.
ertificate and left 'SS, No. 4,
' est .Wawariosh, to beconsig a
eacher on the staff of HaiOston
igh School. Later he had: ff
lar position on the staff of the.
ollegiate in the City bf. Port
Arthur.
.NOw. to.' return to my lifelong
• • friend, Jack Cameron. JaCk and
I went tp •Model School together
in Ottawa. In our first experience
at school teaching our schools
were only a few miles . apart' in
the Township .„0 Ashfield.. The
last thie saw Jack was On a
return trip of mine after each of
us had retired. from our -respect
ive callings,- he. as a retired tea-
cher, and. I .as. a retired. M.D.,
living in Battle Creek, Mich: My
• niece had driven me' up north to
isit old friends ' at St .Helens„
Ripley; Lucknow Goderich„ So I am. watching •and waiting
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(By & F...041uni :Vancouver).
::)E3y your .paper. Of -April' .30th, -
1. see that .Bruce County High -
Ways Committee is to share in
..the hard toPping. 'of streets hi
the village,. This brings tomind.
eyjs of over. sixt 'years ago
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WEDNESDAY, JULY 0.,Qtbk, 104a
the
t e Opening 'Of the 'Fine New Hall,
formerly operated as the Lucknow Recreation Centre
The Building is a credit to both; the 1-pgjon'14enThers
and, the Village itself • . . •
So, after a course .at. John Ilop- w en some "df
kins Hospital' in Baltimore and regraded. I watched one .of the
nearly, three years in •Muskoka
and its institutions, I started out
as...an assistant ina fine private
institution-, for- lung trouble in
North Carolina. ° While' there I
was invited to -organize .and be-
come the first medical superin-
streets, parallel to Wheeler, ,be-
ing Scraped by a new right-up-
tdtdate horse drawn grader,. It
was' the first time it had been,
•used 'in, Luelcnow and,Many 'peo,
ple• gathered to see . it Operated.
It Was, a far 'Cry from smile 'Of
tendent of the, Lady Grey Hos, the 'great, power road machines
pita': which name was 'Changed in use now, It was, I believe,
a few years' later to the Royal' quite .efficientfor the class of
.Ottawa. Saiiitorium., There I re-
Mained fOr fifteen years wheri
there came a more lucrative poSit
tion with, the large Battle Creek
• Sanitorium in charge . of- the.
lurig'clepartmeht, Here I was hap-
pily situated in this wonderful
institution of., over a thousand'
-patients. But ,at the beginnin.g,ot.
the list orldt----Wa „
building of fourteen stories was
taken over bYithe
Merit as a medical and surgical
hospital. At thiS.change ,of affairs.
1 decided to retire froinf:' the act-
ive practice. of medicine,: .having,
spent almost fifty years in `lily,.
beloved ..prefession.
years later fly :beloved
wife was called home', and a year'
work .that was being done. If
there are any pf, those' 'graders
in the country now' they are no
doubt. museum pieces. •:
1. also recall .watching the re-
grading. and' levelling of Cainp-
bell Street and the 'building of.
a ..rieW.bridge Over .the branch..,of
We, _wera pleated•.to have Supplied the Paint and
Spray Painting Service in the redecorating
"•, of the Hall ••
ELCOMEOME •
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Former' Residents and Visitors
May .you enjoy the Lucknow Centennial
. and keep fond remernlarances of it •
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_' was at the Caledonian Gimes M at.a word from the' leader, the...
the Nine Mile. River that cross
ed. it. Wallcing along the street
-,-orieLL-would-no_t_ now that there
was a river crossing un er---it-
MoOdieis 'barber shop straddled
the river on one side of the
O When the' floor was swept
1910 When so many hundreds of
former Lucknowites returned for
the great retinien; What I 'par-
ticularly remeniboht-thOSe-
games *as a famous, tug-of-*ar
b e tW e en\ teams representing
• up a..- small trap:. door was lifted ,,Brtice, and 11nron. The • teams
and the sweepings. Went into the I were'. Well . Matched' and as the
riven i.. . 1- • .' .... ' . - ' excitement grew : '''the • People
• Many, a. time in the evening I pressed closer.and closer to the'
walked Up ,..one side .of Camp- cohteStants, The Masten of .cere;
later I Carrie to live with .my mar- bell and down 'the other, as lots monies ..appealed to them „again
lied daughter in Ottawa.' . of other people did.' One. Walked .and again to', stancl,clear but they
Ilere-I am..iiiioat . happily and for exerciSe. If he ..had nerve he persisted in surrounding' the .men
coinfortahly. ifit.iated. , I have a didn't : have .to Walk alone for, .who were struggling .with • the
small. radio .. ..iri: my bedroom 'Jong' for, ;quite bY•.• accident, ' he laSt tounce of their strength Then
,p7er this 1 not only hear the always met a lady friend who
general .,new • .but each s4nday was out walking „too: ,GenerallY
hear , less than. five or . six it was tile' sairlq.140. he. had met
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pipe' band. frOm • '1'aronto quickly
lined . up.: and With pipes and
drums playhig and kitts, waVing
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-the_y_.xna_rchedbetween le team
and the crowd, forcing the latter
to ineve back. up the hill, there
was.'ha • crowding ' after that.,,
Whenever I ..read • that Indian
Mutiny poem with the lines "The
Sweetest .of all'music the pipes
of Lucknow Played'''. I think's. of
the .Caledoriiah,Gaihes and „when:-.
ever 'I think ,of them eati see
• Dr. • MCCrimmon • •'tall, straight
:and tevery inch a Scot Uralking
proudly: along..CamPbell Street.
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L 4on frequent occasions .before. If
sermons ab have not. been. to
the meetings were not ;pre-ar,-,
church for several 'years. But the
minister 6f this s.herne.f. comes out ranged‘theY'Were at least not Airely unexpected. There were
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every few months and we Cele-
brate. together tcre, Sacrament of occasions when I was not alone
the Lord's tipp
when taking my evening Consti-
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AS to reading matter; take tutional walks. it Was / like an
the local paper of
Lucknow, , Easter. parade ev6ry Sunday and
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Kincerdine, Wingham and Goiter-, .on; many at
nights as wellArriving at home One Might,
iCh. 1 'take Life, Look, Time. and .
say, "1 saw Mr. X . and. Miss- Y.
Coronet and have access to many
otit'iValking.tonight 'I Wonder if
more magazines:in this house
eluding two religiousromance is brewing?"'.magaiines.
I: imagine that a goodlY num-
Added .to all these We have the. •
ber of those who afterward be -
daily Ottawa papers. and, for ex -
came Man and wife had paraded.
tra news and ,viewt we have TV.
But in spite of ,all these corn-
those three blocks ' while . they
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forts know and feel that nit- were "keepingcompany"
Among the things that re
ure is ;Wearing very thin and.
member• about -CampbelLStreet,
With eighty-nine years behind,
or 'Main', Street, .as We frequently
the silver cord: may snap. at any
time 'called . it; was that: eaCh. , year
when'. the time approached for
now; • .•
the Caledonian Games,: there
were a nuniber of. "Veleonje"1.
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banners 'strung across' the street.
The Sentinel Office wag, .at the
corner of Outram ;Street and
near it over Campbell Street, was
a .!`banner .with, the strange de
vice' reading "We,: Fear Nae
oet,„and„1.vith_..the_piethre
burly -Scot apparently- -of'suCh
strength that he . manifestly had
no reasonto fear any foe.
I remember several of -these
Caledonian games at all of which
Jimmie Hunter. Was in ,eVidenCe,
V.Vhen. the 'official announcer priy-
elAirned. the. event the croWd'on
the hill Cbuld. only .faintlYhear
him but when Jimmie' repeated
it :ii, his stentorian vice,, every- 1,
one head dOtinctly. . •
• When Jiminie came into 'town I
on a Saturday night' all -and.
Sundry: knew' that h9 was there.
He was fond of singing
when three sheets in the Whid,
whooped it up. All who lived in
or about Lucknow fifty or sixty
years ago will remember hearing
him sing his favorite song. "Will
ye no Come back again?"
think - the last tithe I saw him
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on the Occasion Of their
• 100th BIRTHDAY
May the CelebrAtion be a Success. for those responsible
and may the "OldrTirners" enjoy themselves
to the utmost
• VVillianl. J. Kina
Life Insurance Agent Mit 2t Lticinicow
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ELCOME HOME
....TO THE SEPOY TOWN
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BEST WISHES
SUCCESSFUL CENTENNIAL
ard .and Margaret Agn
LUCKNOW
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BEST WISHES.
-for a anca'essful Centennial, Celebration
Adist 2,, 3, 4
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:ohrtstone's,
Home Furnishings and Funeral Home
(Russ ancL Bit Johnstone)
Phone /6, Lucknow
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