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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1973-05-17, Page 104 .1 Sale $314.00 OTHER RED TAG Specials too numerous to mention REMEMBER! All- regular prices quoted here are our low every- day prices - not inflated "sug- geste41" list prices. '14 BUDGET TERMS AVAILABLE IP REQUIRED NITURE ONTARIO Reg. $529.95 NOW ONLY $449.00 3 ONLY Vanity Stools 1 / 2 price TREASURE HOUSE Many Items Must Go At SUPER SAVINGS Continental BEDS $49.99 Complete Walnut color, 6-drawer double dresser, framed mirror, panel bed, 4-drawer chest. $109 00 . -HEATH F MITCHELL Exceptional SAVINGS on all styles of Chesterfields 3-PC. BEDROOM SUITE Ana Amia THIRD,. ANNUAL, GIANT 'STOCK. REDUCTION SALE Thursddy, May 17, to.: Satutday„ May. 26. io p.c. off Evercything u0 to 50 p.c. off Featuieliralues • NOT OTHERWISE SPECIALL)Y.,..1)RicER (Except broadloontand vinyl flooriikg) -SPECIALLY MARKED BY 'RED TAGS FOR YOUR CONVENIENCE ' WARDROBES DOUBLE MIRROR DOORS $54.99 COMPARE AT $64.95 2-PC. 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Cedar Roomy Compare at 119.95 $89.99 CHILD'S CAR SEATS Values to 6.50 c l 0 0 NOW EACH 'P i ' 7 SET of 4 TV TABLES Walnut Wood Grain With Separate Stand $17.99 COMPARE at 27.95 TABLE LAMPS $5,99 KROEULER HIGH BACK SWIVEL ROCKER Na8OW $39.99 -4 ONLY VINYL RECLINERS BLACK, GOLD, BROWN Reg. $72.00 s59 • 99 NOW CURVED GLASS FRONT CHINA CABINET $139.00 SOLID ROCK MAPLE 2-Pc Kroehler Cape Cod Chesterfield Suite Gold tweed, high pillow back, wood trim. FRENCH PROVINCIAL Chesterfield Suite Gold and white floral velvet SPECIAL $319.00. 7-PIECE CHROME DINETTE 72" Walnut table, supported vinyl chairs in seneca biege, walnut trim 1 SET 7 n 00 . .„ The ily firs seied n Roxb 10.,-114 HURON IXPO$ITOR SEAFOrm, ONT., MAY 17, 197 tt t am iRoxboro Dickson.. THE SEPARATE SHOPPE 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. 'BY W.E. ELLIOT The Jungle. T These weeds can turn your fields into jungles. Outfox is a post-emergence corn herbicide 'you apply to weeds after they show up. And no residual'effects from one season to the next. So you can rotate crops with no fear of herbicide carryover. Gulf Agricultural CnetnicaleCompuny Limited. Winnipeg 1, Manitoba. Canada Distributed by Ninon Company in Ograrld and Quebec. Outfox. The Jangle fighter from Gun OUTFOX IS AVAILABLE FROM A. MI LTON Lfr DIETZ** RR4, Seaforth. - Phone 527-0608 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- (Continued on Page 11) Ronnenburg Insurance .4kgency ARE NOW PAYING A HIGH OF FOR TRUST CERTIFICATES MONKTON, PHONE 347-2241 BRUSSELS OFFICE OPEN: Tuesdays and Fridays, PHONE 887-6663 0 I