The Bayfield Bulletin, 1965-04-15, Page 3'PAGZ FOUR - -Bayfield Bulletia -Apr.15,1965
1 BUSHY
' TALES
by
ART ELLIOTT
Recent Communications graduates at RCAF
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R.T. Hanel, R.H. MacKay, W.J. Urbaneeki
LAC R.A. Crawford, AC1 G.W. Cole, LAC P.
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The question: "Whit
happened to the beard"
has now been supersed-
ed by the question:
"How come you're grow-
ing a beard 7'
In order to restore
the column heading to
its original bushy
state, the whiskers
will grow until a
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A minor catastrophe
has struck the Bushy
Tales column. The pie-1
tura with the beard
has disappeared, to
coin a poetic phrase,
se now your corresp-
ondent is in the pro-
cess of sprouting a
RSV ern.
The stranger spoke:
"My name is Tom Hash-
imoto," he declared.
"I'm incharge of a
geological party for
the %iebec government
in this area."
Alex gave a relieved
smile. Indians simply
do not grow beards,
and now he was gladto
find he was not gaz-
ing at the first one
that ever did.
Beards cause little
if any comment in the
North. They fulfil a
practical function in
winter or simmer. In
the cold weather, they
make a good face cover
against the bitter
winds, and also eff-
ectively shed the snow
while cutting line in
the spruce forests.
Of course there's a
bit of a nuisance as
the icicles form from
frozen breath, but it
is better than having
to wear a scarf tied
over the face.
In the heat of sum-
mer, a good thick la-
yer of beard discour-
ages the black flies
and also keeps the
moeqitoes and "bull-
dogs" away when well
saturated with "6-12".
Atter .all, beard
growing is a natural
function: Most men
at one time or anoth-
er wish they didn't
have to shave. A good
Here is a second
article on the early
days of Bayfield as
written by Alta-Lind
Bodges in 1953. The
article appeared at
that time in The Lon-
don Free Press. The
Rebellion of the late
1830's drew ready re-
sponse from Bayfield
men, the writer says:
When
a call was made for
men for military ser-
vice during the reb-
ellion, t.11 the able-
bodied men of minter;
y age in the settle-
ment responded, 15 in
all. All their names
are not known today,
but we know that
"Boarding House Riley
responded as did W.
W. Connor, D.H. Bitch
ie, John Morgan, Geo.
Mathieson, John Carr-
uthers, Robert Russel
Christopher Johnson,
Henry 'Tae-7.e and
Poulton.
These were joined
by John McNaughton
look at the kind we
grow and they're glad
the razor was inven-
ted
and Thomas Welles who
had very recently s-
ettled in the bush
east of Bayfield.
Under the coM7rand of
Capt. Lizars ckf God-
erich (whose daugh-
ters later wrote the
almost priceless
book "In The Days of
The Canada Company")
the little company
spent the winter of
1837 and 1838 at Van-
derburg's Corners
now known as Clinton.
"Dr. Dunlop,better
known as 0 Tiger D-
unlop' of Goderich
was colonel of the
regiment. At that
time, the London road
from Clinton to Bru-
cefield had been ch-
opped out, but not
cleared, as the logs
were lying where they
had fallen.
"Bayfield's first
schoolteacher was
Edward Templeton wh-
ose father was an ea-
rly settler on the
Huron Road. now known
as Highway No. 8. He
also had the distinc-
tion of being the
first teacher in the
whole Township of S-
tanley.
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Writer Gives Many Details
Earliest Days of Bayfield
suitably impressive
foliage can be photo-
graphed again.
While on the subject
it is amusing to rem-
ember the astonishm-
ent with which my In-
dian partner, Alex
Mathias stared at a
stranger we met with
one day in the Village
Lakes area of the
Eastmain River region
in Northern Quebec.
The man arrived at
our camp in a big fr-
eighter canoe. He vas
not particularly tall,
was obviously not a
white, having a brown-
ish skin, and his eyes
were in an Oriental
east, as are Eskimos&
and some Indians more
than others.
There was a long
pause as they eyed
each other. The vis-
itor sported a jet
black beard, a long
and curly one that
stood out at least
four inches on each
side of the roundish
face.