The Huron Expositor, 1976-10-21, Page 17Ottober 7 24f
11;00 A,M. Mondoi; WOrshIP
Rev. Dr. Drabamlifide of ColvirY Up tell Chureht
London.
• Guest Preacher
Special music by the choir and the Town and Country' -
Four
° 8:00 P.M. Evening Worship
A musical service presented, by the
WOODSTOCK CHORALAIRES..
You are invited to our
Birthday Celebration
AgriCOr m
ONE OF THE WILLIAMS COMPANIES
A good name to grow by
Congratulates
Brucefield and
Brucefield United Church
on 100 years
of
Growth and Progress
AGRICULTURAL CHEMICALILTD.
Brucefield Phone 482-7241 or 482-3948
Congratulations
to the
People of
Brucefield United Church
on the Occasion of the 100th anniversary of the Founding
of the Congregation. We look forward' to continuing to
co-op-di-ate with our many friends in the community
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PEPSI Tuckey Beverages
Exeter Ontario
MAIN St. BRUCEFIELD — Dixon's Hotel in Brucefield for years
was a favorite stopping place for travellers along the London Road
and those using the Mill Road between Seaforth and Bayfield. The
hotel.which was destroyed by fire and, later replaced by the present
brick structure on the site, was operated by Thomas Snell and
according to an advertisement of the period, rooms were available at
$1 a day. fn the picture taken as the Seaforth,.Bayfield stage arrived
in Brucefield are Wm. Dixon, Tom Snell, his wife Nellie, daughter
Thelma and his mother. Others are Mary Hilderman and a Mr. •
Grainer with the stage.
Early po§tmasters
Scott family inBrucefield from 1854
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(From the 1968 Expositor
Centennial Issue)
The village of Brucefield was
. first settled in 1832, William Scott
came there from Scotland in 1854
and the Scott family has been in
business in the village ever since.
William Scott established a
general store in Brucefield in
1854 with his partner, David
Campbell. In 1857, he bought out
Mr. Campbell and founded. Scott
and. Company. His general and
hardware store was later run by
his son Andrew. After William's
death in 1917, Andrew's son Ross
worked with hiS grandfather and
father. in the store and later
operated the business as part of
his fdther's estate.
Ross Scott now represents the
Sun ' Oil Company in Brucefield
and has a valuable 'collection of
mementoes and -information
about his 'family and village.
According to Mr. Scott,
William Scott left his family's
tenant fdrm near the Scottish
town of Green Wells (which is
within the sight of the English
border on a clear day) with two-
brothers and a sister. They stayed
on the farm 'of Andrew Beattie in.
Westminister Township, just
behind the present site of
Westminister VYterans' Hospital,
Mr. Scott said, William later
married Alice Beattie, Andrew's
daught er.
The old ,Scott and Company
store• was a frame building, just
north of the present location of
Dalryniple's Garage.. The early
store sold almost everything.
Ross Scott says - "whiskey, boots
and .shoes" as well as groceries,
dry goods, etc.
. addition, after the London,
Huron and Bruce Railway went
through. -Brucefield in 1870,
William Scott operated a grain
elevator beside''the tracks. His
general store bought grass, seed
and hides from area farmers and
shipped them to Ontario centres
via the London, Huron and Bruce.
William Scott also had a
contract to buy wood which was
used by the L.H. & B. Company
engines in huge quantities.
Mr. Scott has two of the early
-day books used in his grand-
father's 'store and says that in
1857 ten years before Confeder-,. atum, all accounts are listed in
dollars and cents instead of
pOunds and pence.
All the bills issued by William
scott and Co. featured the motto,
"We fear nae foe", printed at the
top with a scotch thistle!
Mr. Scott has an early picture
of ihe.interior of his grandfather's
store which shows a variety of
boxes, counters and barrels.
The population of Brucefield
was somewhat larger in William
Scott's time than it is now,
according to Ross Scott, A County
of Huron Directory of 1876, '77 in
Mr.Scott's possession describes
the village as having three
general stores, two blacksmith
shops, one carpenter, two doctors
and three hotels: Mr.Scott has a
picture of one of these hotels -
Dixons, which shows an
assortment of strollers on the
street and the open stage which in
the last 'century, ran from
gayfield to Seaforth.
Mrs. Ross Scott, the former
Alice 'Rattenbury also has deep
family roots in Brucefield. For
one hundred continuous years, a
member of her family or of her
husband's family has been
Brucefield postmaster. '
Mr. Scott has a Government of
Canada proclamation, dated in
be
1868, which app0N Mrs. Scott's
grandfather, Ro Marks, as
village postmaster. Mrs. Scott's
uncle was the next postmaster,
followed by her father-in-law, and
her husband, Ken Scott, son of
Mr. and Mrs. Ross Scott, is the
presesnt and •third generation of
Scott's to hold the office. '
Donald McMillan was the first
postmaster in the village,.
according to Mr. Scott. He lived
on the Brucefield-Kippen road,
where Robert.. Allan's farm isz • now.
Mr. Scott has an old book ppe
by early postmasters to record
amounts due for letters received
from other settlements. There
were no stamps in use in the
1850's and postage was collected
from the person to whom the
letter was addressed. •The large
book, whiCh has entries of 1859,
records the receipt of mail from
Elginfield, Clinton and Bayfield.
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THE FARMERS DELL
Extends Congratulations to the
Brucefield United Church
' on its
100th Anniversary
We wish to extend our thanks to the-community for
its Patronage
Gerry & June Martene
The 'Scotts also have a small
book, owned by Robert Marks,
which lists all the postmasters in
Upper Canada in 1861.
Mr. Scott says a very old
Brucefield - house, the frame
building with front veranda
directly across the road from
Dutton's store was originally
inhabited by D. L. Sills , great-
grandfather of Frank and D'Or-
lean Sills of Seaforth.
D. L.Sills had a thriving grain
business in Brucefield and Mr.
Scott says• that he purchased
grain in the village, then hauled it
Bayfield, loaded the grain on
shall boats and took the boats out
through the Bayfield harbour to a