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Where did Seaforth's name come from?
32 Years in Seaforth
In the performance of this, the most exacting of ser-
vices, G. A. Whitney has constantly maintained a
record of integriiind service over the many years.
G. A. WHITNEY
FURNITURE STORE and FUNERAL HOME
PHONE 521-1390
SEAFORTH
When
Seaforth
Was Young
There Was No
Choice , . .
laundry work
.meant hard work
But To-day
SEAFORTH
COIN
OPERATED
LAUNDRY
makes
the difference
While illness has made
..ssitit a slowing up of the
iiies that have been so
n. teristic of her years in
.: •rth. Mks Mabel Turnbull's
st n the community has by
• 41.1e.iiis lessened.
'And so it is that some time ago
• Ai, undertook to determine
the name. Seaforth
When research in The Huron
las and correspondence to
•i ious centres as well as studies
her brother, the late Arnold
I rnbull in the old country, failed
produce the answer, Miss
Turnbull wrote to Edinburgh,
Hie reply she received
.„.cjintirms certain information
Aiready at hand and in addition
pi ovides detail not previously
.available.
This is
Turnbull
Minto, city librarian
Central Public
Edinburgh:
"According to the Encylo-
pedia Canadiana (Vol. 9)
published in 1958, Seaforth the
town was laid out as a township in
1855 by three men,one of whom -
later John A. MacDonald's law
partner - was James Patton, who
named it aft er the Scottish Earl of
Seaforth. The family name of the
Scaforths was Mackenzie and
they held estates in various parts
of the Highlands including Loch
Seaforth on the East coast of the
Island of Lewis. The earldom was
created in 1623 and became
extinct in 1815.
"Loch Seaforth is a beautiful
Stretch of water 15 miles long, 3
4 miles broad at one end and
thIninishing to 1 mile at the other.
It has an island called Seaforth
island. This name does not
appear elsewhere in Scotland. It
is of Gaelic and Norse origin
"James Patton (1824 - 1889) Patton, a native of St. Andrews,
was the son of a Major Andrew (Continued on Page 19) Happy Birthday,,Seaforth
the information Miss
received from C. S.
and curator,
Library
Meaning a sea firth.
14—THE HURON EXPOSITOR, APRIL 17, 1975