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THE LUCKNOW SENTINEL LUCKNOW, ONTARIO
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DUNGANNON.
Mr . and .Mrs, Lester ,Peck or:
Wallaceburg and `Fred Stirling of
Thamesville visited on Sunday.
with Mr. and Mrs, J. Rieve and
David
: We are sorry that Mrs. John
Spivak is a patient in Wingham
hospital. •
Visiting at the week -end with
Mrs., • Lulu Jones was her daughter,
Mrs. Weldon•Rudow and daughter
Betty and:Debbie Rowe Of Elmira
and ,Mrs. Ray Barker and Mark of
Goderich•.
Robert Sherwood of Sarnia visited
with his parents Mr, and Mrs.
A.J.. Sherwood for the week -end:
Brian Weaver is in Montreal
where he is employed with Bell
Telephone.,
Mrs: Helena Ryan has returned
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WEDNESDAY,. MAY 3rd, 1967'
tVVrites From . White Spruce Capital•
c/o' B. C. Forest' Services
Fort • Fraser,
British Columbia,
14th March 1967
The Editor,
The Lucknow Sentinel,
Lucknow Ontario.
Dear Sire
This, morning .i went into. .a local
cafe and there.on••,the' counter was
a, copy of The Lucknow Sentinel
Atfirst I thought it had• been left
by some Asiatic traveller but on '
looking;, further' found that Lucknow•
was.indeed in Ontario. I` thenasked
the cafe.proprietor where Lucknow
is.situated , but he being a recent
'arrival from Oregon was unable to.
tell rile. Then 'onpage two I found
that Lucknow • `is "The Sepoy Town."
Now I was more intrigued than
ever.
I asked . the•proprietor if 1 could
have the .pape,t. and • brought; it •
home . Now I .have learned two
things; where Lticknow'is•and the
fact that: you; have a first. class
.paper.
One thing.puzzles me though and
;I felt I just had to. w rite to you for
an explanation: Why is Lucknow.;:
Ontario known,as "The Sepoy ;,
Town" I. feel: that ,there is a very
interesting story behind this, and
would certainly appreciate hearing
from you, or from anyone who `could
spare the'time to write
• I. am a,Ranger with the B.C.
Forest Service and.have been in.
Canada for twenty years.. It is how-
ever such an .immense country that
one could never hope to know it : .
all. All of it is interesting .though
and I think that this year
particularly is a good one in which
everyone has an opportunity to
increase his' knowledge
If you are interested I will send.
-you some information about this
area.. We are. about 85 • miles west
'of ,Prince' George , ,known, as "The; '
White Spruce, Capitalof the World".
Yours very sincerely; •
P, F. Griffiths.. •
Editor's :Comment - The :naming '•of.
the village. of Lucknow has.a 'very •
interesting history Mr. Griffiths.:
For your information:, andfor the
information of many Lucknowites
who fail to have this knowledge,' :•
we will reprint a. small section
'from'• the book "A. y
centu r, in •retro
specs" the history of Lucknow/
,written during;Yucknow centennial•:.
in 1958 by the former editor and
publisher of this, paper, •-er the "late
Campbell; Thompson., The printing
of .this history book was sold out a ,.
number of years agog. Sepoys .were'
the names of the Indian rebels
connected with the .Indian Mutiny
'0 1887-68.
•The following section deals with
the naming of the village..
Under these circumstances this
to her home here after spending •:
the winter with her daughter, •Mrs;,.
Gordon kidd.aid Mr. Kidd of
Port Credit,
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settlement officially: came into
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being one hundred years ago, and. ,
wasnamed after 'Lucknow , India,
because of the memorable events .
associated with that city inthe
quelling of the Indian Mutiny, a
barbaric uprising of native rebels
whose hideous, tales of massacre '
had reached even to the •.Canadian
wilderness.
It was in the Fail of 1857 that
Relief of Lucknow , ,.heralded the
quelling =of' the mutiny , and natur-
ally enough James,Somerviile's;
Scottish blood n ust'have thrilled -
with pride that it was troops•of his,
homeland, although ;outnumbered
10 to 1, . who lifted the seige and
won -this tribute .from: their'comrn
ander, ;Sir Colin Campbell: "There
never was: a bolder fete 'of arms
a fete which won six Victoria Cross•
citations for his regiment in two •
days =an unheard' of demonstration
of valour.
'In the Summer of 1857, over •
1, 000 •members of the 93rd' Suther
land Highlanders (later to' become.
the. Argylshire and Sutherland" High
landers) sailed'•for India from the
shires; of .Inverness , Aberdeen and
Sutherland Landing at Calcutta,
they joined the 64th and 53rd Brit-
ish regiments to, create a force of
4._000 men.' The ,British'arhiy in'`_
India had .been depleted^ by 'engage-
ments .in the Crimea and Persia,
and the 'Indian: uprisings had gained
major proportions by the time re:-.
serves could•reach India. •
The force of 4.,096 Made a twelve
day forced march .from Calcutta to
Cawnpore , :where: they. found ,wells
choked; with the bodies of 200:, `
P".
massacred British women and child-.
:ren. Shockedout of their weariness,
the: Sutherlands. pressed on north -
Ward to Lucknow, fearing that this -
city' s 1, 600*Europeans ; beseiged in '
the Residency,. might haves met a
similar fate. '.
In hand to hand. encounters they.
routed the Indian troops numbering
about 4Q.,000 and who were "armed •
to the teeth" : 'Tradition has it that •
the approach of -the Sutherlands
was heralded' by the far -away skirl.
of the ,pipes , first heard by a •'
Scottish maiden within the
beleaghred city, who criedwith
joy, "Dinna ye hear it? Dinna ye •
hear it?"
Sir Colin Campbell, .who led the
.relief force, hadthree years before
commanded the• British forces in the
Crimea. -when that immortal "The
Thin Red Line"', stretched across
the valley at ;Balaclava , and in'
which" campaign •the:"Charge :of the
Light Brigade".::;added a gory.
chapter.' of heroism ; . • .
Lucknow's rnaiii:street was named:
Campbell'Street, supposedly . after.
Sir Colin Campbell, although there
arethose whoclaim it to be after
.Luclknow's,first merchant of the •
andm
sae nameY.s._: tHor.oweverwhich, all ,recordcans
earl hi `.e' :f"
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substantiate. the former assumption
and certainly other streets such as
Havelock,, Outram Willoughby
Rost, Roses; Canning, etc:.,. are;
•after British. generals of that: Indian
Mutiny era The name Stauffer .'
St'. , leadinginto the Village' from
the North ,• ;may well be oafter:•Eli
Stau f fe ,, who: blazed the first :.•
white ran's•trail.-over, a centu
•ago
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