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10.,-114 HURON IXPO$ITOR SEAFOrm, ONT., MAY 17, 197
tt t am iRoxboro Dickson.. THE
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Main Corner Clinton
• BLOUSES
• PANT TOPS•
• PULLOVERS
• VESTS
• PANTS
• SKIRTS
OPEN 2 to 6 p.m.
CLOSED WEDNESDAY
Rev. William Proudfoot, a
Presbyterian missionary from
Scotland; travelled ,the Huron
Tract and found the makings of
a congregation in Goderich, also
in the Harpurhey area and on
the London Road. In due course
Toronto Presbytery provided
these charges with a minister,
Rev. Alexander MacKenzie,, who
preached to the three congrega-
tions on alternate Sabbaths.
This is the second and con-
cluding installment of the story
of the Dickson family.
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Mr: Proudfoot wrote in his
diary that he almost fancied
himself in Scotland. "The coun-
try here," he set down after a
visit to Galt in 1833, "is
peopled principally byScotchmen
from Roxburgh and the North
of England. Everything I saw
was just as things are in Scot-
land. Many persons wore the
' Scotch plaid; all spoke with
the Scottish accent."
Among the Roxburghers with
whom. Rev. Mr. Proudfoot found
himself so much at home were..
Archibald Dickson and his son
James, and Robert Scott and
son Robert, who had settled in
August, .1833, in Concessions 11
and 111 of McKillop. Other mem-
bers of these families came out
in the next year. -
James Dickson, whose ad-
ventures were related in part
in a preceding instalment of this
narrative, was born, in Scotland
May 26, 1816. His father, Arch-
ibald, was the youngest son of
Robert Dickson, fanner, of Glad-
swood, near Dryburgh on Tweed.
Archibald's wife was Elizabeth
Rutherford Tunnbull, eldest
daughter of James Turnbull, a
leading farmer of Teviotdale.
Their son James attended Jed-
burgh Grammar School, followed
by a term at Edinburgh Univer-
sity. His educational qualifica-.
tIons were soon recognized and
utilized in the land of his adop-
tion.
The..first Scotts and picksons
settled on the bank of the Mait-
land River, sough branch, and
when a hamlet grew up at'the
crossroad they called it Rox-
burgh. It later years it has
more often been called Roxboro.
There are a few houses, nething
else, at Roxboro now, and 95%
of the Huron residents who drive
along Highway 8, one concession
distant, never heard of Roxboro.
Archibald Dickson obtained
from the Canada Company three
lots in Concession 111, McKillop,
numbers 30, 31 and 32. Robert
Scqtt settled on Lots 31 and
32 in Concession 11, across the
road. lie was still On that
land when ti'died 58 years later,
and it remains in the family.
Robert Scott, junior, is be-
lieved to have been the first
white man to cross the Malt-
land at the point where they set-
tled. There were no neighbors
to the north, and beyond Mc-
Killop was Crown tang ,not yet
opened for settlement. The area
was wooded, and the settlers'
first task to make_a_clear,-
Ing. This they 'commenced in
September, too late to so'w
any crops; indeed, completion
of a comfortable house ahead of
the Canadian winter must have
required most of the time avail-
able.
Members of both families
came out in the following year.
Archibald Dickson had two sons
besides James,' and five daugh-
ters. Robert Scott had two sons
besides Robert, and six daugh-
ters,, but one of the sons,,Joseph,
remained in Scotland. -
There was an epidemic of
cholera in Britain and Europe at
the time. Miss Belle Campbell,
of Seaforths in her interesting
and valuable bOok, From Forest
to Thriving Hamlet, writes "that
three young children of the mig-
rating party contacted the
disease. Archibald, 18-months
son of Mr. and Mrs. Archibald
Dickson, • died aboard the ocean
vessel. Helen, youngest child of
Mr. and Mrs. JohnGovenlock and
granddaughter of Robert Scott,
died at Grosse Isle, and the two-
children were burled there. The
youngest child of the John Hend-
ersons, another grandchild of
Robert Scott, died in Montreal
and was buried there.
From Hamilton, it took three
days' travel by wagon to reach
what is now Roxboro. Here
Margaret Govenlock, Robert
Scott's second daughter, became
the fourth victim of cholera. She
was the mother' of three sons
and, three daughters.
On October 6, 1834, about two
months after arrival of these
families, Mrs: Archibald Dickson.
wrote to James Turnbull, Bedrule
manse, Jedburgh. Her letter,
obvipusly that of an educated per-
son, affords interesting inform-
ation about their journey and
also the progress made on their
land try the two men and their
young sons who had arrived late
in the previous year. -It is re-
markable for a complete absenee
of comment upon the hardships
or handicaps experienced in
household matters, of which there
must have been many. Mrs,
Dickson did mention high prices
for food.
This letter was •posted at
Galt on Oct. 14th. and two shill- ...
ings ten-pence was paid as post-
age to New York. The 'original
was retrieved in 1887 by Reg-
istrar James Dickson 'froni a
cousin of his mother, William
Turnbull of Spittal.
"Our land looks much better
than I expected,..," Mrs. Dickson
wrote, "and seems to produce
abundaptly every kind of crop
plit -into it, and our prospects
are certainly very; cheering,
much better than had we stayed
in Scotland.
"we have not as much crop
this year as will keep the family.
We expect, however, to have
every common article of food
within our property. Many things
are nearly double the price I
could have purchased them for
in Montreal, but carrying cost
is too much.
"A great many settlers have
come in to this neighborhood this
year, both from Britain and other
places in this country, and all
expreSs themselves as well sat-
isfied with the Tract.
"we have no• stated minister,
and 'excepting now and then a
minister of the Methodist sect
we spend our Sabbaths at home.
There is to be a 'meeting to
see what can be- done. There.
is no teacher within reach for
the .-children to go to, but 'we
will try to manage within our-.
selVes. .1fWeleft /VIdefieda.1
Lachine in a Durham boat-by
the St. Lawrence instead of the
Rideau. At Brockville we'boarded
a steamer for Hamilton, then by
wagon three days. We had no
covering by night except the
shelter of an open or shed, so
afraid were the people of cholera
that they would not permit us
in their homes, in many places.
"We have two oxen and' three
cows, two. of which have calves,
and all feed in the woods with-
out a blade of gttss, and look
quite fat.
"wheat and barley harvest is
over, but oats are still standing.
B.R.T, Dickson."
Archibald Dickson on the tenth
of the.saine month was at Dundas.•
tb.bn becoming an industrial
.centre with' a carriage factory,
ship plant, candle factory, last
and boot-treermanufacturers and
shoepeg makers. When he posted
his wife's letter -on the '14tn,,,,
Dickson wrote on the outside
(envelopes were not yet in use):
"I have been down here buying
a wagon, which I have got,
and three cows and two pair
of oxen to help pay expenses on
the road. I intend taking 200 -
acres of land for James tomorrow
The price is now 11 shillings
threepence, which is a great
advance since I bought mine."
Archibald became a justice
of the peace In 1843, and along
with William 'Chalk, J.P., of
Harpurhey, authorized the first
municipal' meeting In McKI flop.
At this meeting, John Govenlock
was appointed township clerk.
Archibald was one of those at-
tending the firsnne'efiiiefliuron
district council, Feb. 8, '1842.
It was at a district council
dinner, with social overtones,
that John Stewart, lawyer and
schoolmaster, chose to sing
'Annie Laurie, and did it so in-
effectively that Dickson advised
him to stick to English songs
and not attempt Scottish airs.
An argument' grew up, and Dr.
Dunlop, noted as a practical
joker, fanned the flames to a
point where a duel was proposed.
Next morning, Archie said he
did not especially want to fight.
"but if fecht I must, fect I will."
The incident ended in laughter.
Archibald in 1851 deeded Lot
30 in Concession 111, McKillop,
to, his son Robert. It consisted
of 92 acres, eight having been
sold to Thomas Scott for a mill
site. It i'belongs now to Peter
McCowan. In 1861 Lot 31 was
acquired by ,James, by that time
a member of the Legislative
Assembly. This lot comprised
93 acres, as result of alienation
of a Township road allowance.
Lot as belonged to John Dickson,
brother of James, but he moved
to 31, James being fully occupied
s ap his TUckersmiTh
farm. In 1$-71, AU .414: idicrtei
Robert McMillan.
Archibald Dickson died in
1862, his wife in 1865, and these
pioneers are buried in Harpurhey
cemetery. James kept his
father's armchair, and in his will
bequeathed it to his eldest son,
Archibald, but Archie died first,
and by codicils the bequests Were
applied to his children. That
chair may still be somebody's
treasure.
" Archibald had three sons and
five daughters. James, the son
who came to Huron with him in
1833, was the, eldest. Agnes,...
subsequently was married o
Robert Scott; ,they.had five so
and three daughters. The daugh-
ter Helen did not marry.
Margaret became the wife of
Rober t Chishelm, a school-
master. Their daughter Eliz-
abeth was married to Tsai Court-
ney, and a daughter of this couple,
Mrs. William Bellows, resides
in Goderich.
Elizabeth Dickson was mar-
ried to Archibald Somerville.
Isabella Mary Dickson became
Mrs. James Scott. Sam Scott
Roxboro, is a grandson, and Mrs.
G. Loxe, Goderich, a grand-
daughter. John T. Dickson, of
Gladswood, married Mary Sloan
a sister of Dr. Sloan of Blyth.
Robert Dickson, the other son,
was a farmer and stock breeder.
When he voted in the 1858
election he was at Lot 30 Con.
Ill on McKillop.
It is generally believed that
James Dickson influenced--or
perhaps determined--the route of
the Grey Turnpike froM EgMond-
yllle along Seaforth's main street
to wroxetee: The settlements
of Harpurhey and Roxboro, one
north-South road to the west,
had hoped for selection of that
route, and the adverse decision
doomed them commercially.
Dickson at the time was in
business at Seaforth. If his in-
fluence was exercised as reeve
of Tuckersmith , it would pro-
bably be in his final year, 1859.
County council minutes reflect
much activity by the Gravel Road
Committee, and there are three
allusions to work north of Sea-
forth. Dickson was one of the
councillors making-up•aniajority
of nine for extension of "the road
north of Seaforth so as to
join the 11th. concession of Howick
the cost not to exceed 500
pounds." Today the route from
Egmondville through Walton and
Brussels to Belmore is Ithron
county road 12, rebuilt to prov-
incial standard.
In 1858, Dickson was proposed
for warden, but he himself nom-
inated Reeve Robert Gibbons of
Goderich'. Gibbons was one of
those voting for Dickson. Reeve
John Govenlock of McKillop voted
for Gibbons, who won, 28 to 12.
Joseph Whitehead, reeve of
Clinton, resigned at the June
session and Samuel Rance was
Seated in his place. Whitehead
later became '1V1.1), for" North
Huron, and M.'C. Cameron, who
as reeve of Goderich was a county
councillor in 1859, was elected
M.P. for South Huron. Gibbons
became Liberal member for
South Huron in the Legislature.
The land which Archibald
Dickson took up for his sae Jaynes
in Tuckersmith comprised Lot 15
in Con. II and 15 in Con. 111.
Through the latter runs the Hay-
field River, its original channel
moved southward here when the
sion road, cutting across,
the lower part of Lot 15, Con./1,
was re-sited.
The.. Canada Company's deed
of the Castramont land -W=1114S
Dickson bears date of Dec. 11,
1840, but he was in occupancy
before that. His neighbor im-
mediately . west would be John
Hannah, and on the east the
CressWells, but not until 1852.
The poll book of the 185,8 elec.;
tion shows Samuel carnochan on
Lot 30 in Con. II, James Car-
nochan on Lot 21, Con. M. Andrew
Govenlock, Lot 26, Con. HI;
Thomas Govenlock, 26, IV, and
Robert Govenlock, Harpurhey
merchant, were sons of Margaret
Govenlock, who died of cholera
in 1834, and grandsons of Robert
Scott. „
This poll book, a record of
oral voting, shows that. James
Carnochan voted for Donald Mc-
Donald , Reform candidate, and
that Samuel Carnochan voted for
.'Ones, the Tory. William Chalk,
entered as "doctor", and Con-
stant Van Egmond both voted
for Jones. Robert Habkirk, Con.
I, and Daniel Sills of Brucefield
voted Reform. Apparently, the
Govenlocks did not turn out -on
this occasion, an election -only
for Legislative Council. ,
James Dickson started a gen-
' eral store at nearby Egmondville
in. 1851, removing to Seaforth
in 1863. His four sons and two
daughters were born at Castra-
mont. His wife. was Jane Car-
nochan, daughter of Samuel Car-
nochan, who married twice; Jane
belonged to the first family.
Dickson also married again, after
the death of his wife in 1881. His
second wife V/as also Jane Car-
nochan. .She died Sept. 28, 1895.
The two Jane Carnodhans were
cousins. The Dickson children
belonged to the first, family.
The Castramont house,q of 14
rooms, is said to have been built
of brick made in a nearby yard.
The date is uncertain, but in
opinion of Mr. Arthur Wallace,
noted Hamilton architect, it would
'be 1850 "or 1860 at the latest."
His own houee,-at Waterdelin,
identical,almeet ,and dateS Tr*
1850. The 12-pane ivindOWS'T eild
interesting front door with side-
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