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The Huron Expositor, 1978-06-08, Page 10:NOW PLAYING JUNE.7-10 TWO SHOWINGS ONE SNOWING' L SAY. TA, , '/((r/ ) 4( )4: 0.« JUNE 9.1S ACNE COFICE OPENS SAP SHOWN'S! INS flO,THLISIS. • °NEWSOM PLEASE NOTE TAT • SAT. MAIN MEUSE LAST CHICKEN BARBEQUE Kinburn Thurs., June 8 Sponsored by CANADIAN FORESTERS Served from 5.8 p.m. Adults $3:25 ----- Children 6.12 $1.50 Pre-school free This summer the Seaforth Chamber of Commerce will be presenting Sunday night music in Victoria Park once agaiti, with concerts starting at 7 p.m. On June 11, the musical season starts with a variety concert by the Rising Sun group from -the Christian Reformed, Church of Fieter and Clinton, with the choir directed by Al De "Haan. -On June IS, the Seaforth Daslwood Community' Band, under the present of Charles Toll,-twillpresent an evening of music, The following Sunday, • the London Police Highland Band. with 51irector Superintendent Maurice Coughlin, will entertain concertgoers, On July 9, the Kiwanis' Youth Band of Stratford will perform, and the following week, the Mitchell Legion Band, with director Claire ....French, French, will present-sottiefOnsing Music. On July 24, the' $tcatfOrd 014. Tyne Band and Squaie Dancers directed by Mrs: B. Ebel, will perform. The next Sunday, the Clinton Pipe Band, with Pipe Major Peter Malcolm, will entertain visitors to the park. On August 13, the Stratford Legion Band, with director Paul ,Cress, 'Will. present a concert in the park, On August 20, the' 'Ingersoll Salvation Army Band and Chorus will entertain Seaforthites and the season will close on August. 27 with a variety concert by the Marie Flynn Group. Concertgoers are' asked to bring their own lawn chairs to the evening recitals. A VALUABLE CAKE -- Homemade cakes were auctioned off a couple of times at the Sea.fOMI,Adli.o.0 Rural SocietY:a fund raising auction last Wedoesday_.nig tit at the arena. Here auctioneer Bruce Rathwell takes bids as Ken Moore displays the cake. Below is the lucky . bidder, Marion Coutts of Main St., Seaforth. (Expositor Photo) KINSMEN CA:UB OF HENSALL AND DISTRICTe7 404 BABY SHOW in 'the AUDITORIUM at 1:IS " • NO ENTRY FEE PRIZES for ALL CONTESTANTS Old McDonalds Farm Display PARADE at 6 p.m. with Commerciol Floats and Bond MAPLE CITY• SHOWS 'PONY PULL TOVVN OF SEAFORTH PUBLIC INFORMA'TION MEETING I TAKE NOTICE that -a Public Information meeting will be held in the Council Chambers of the Seaforth Town Hall at IN, • 7:00 p.m.' Monday, June 19, 1978 . At this time all interested persons will have an opportunity to discuss and comment on a request to rezone the area north of Crombie Street, between Victoria Street and the easterly end of Crombie Street, from restricted industrial to residential. JAMES CROCKER Clerk 1 • . 10 -7 THEE URON EXPOSITOR, JUNE 8, 178 SCT By Alice GO When Coldnel Antnony Van Egmond settled in Pennsylvania in 1819, leaving, behind his native Holland, he couldn't have foreseen he would leave an indelible mark on the history of Upper 'Canada. Not only did the colonel start carving the read•into the Huron Tract, exactly 150 years ago this fall, but he also overfooked his aristocratic background -16—defen&the poorer settlers who were, badly done by, first by the Canada Company and by The Familj, Compact, a pompous group determined to establish themselves as the 'aristocracy Of the new land. Colonel Van Egniond believed enough in liberty and the right of his rural neighbours to allow himself to. be, persuaded to, bear aims for MacKenzie's tattered army--a committment which: resulted in his dying in prison, Cheating the hangman from the payment he received for carrying out his duties. But while Colonel Van,Egmond is certainly the most fameu.s•of ' the rebels to die for the cause, he was not the only one who fell in. Upper Canada's civil conflict; Joshua Doan Another equally unlikely rebel was young Joshua Doan, a Quaker from the Sparta area, south of London, who also railed ' against the fact his fellow settlers were treated as little more than. serfs by the Toronto elite. • Doan's father Jonathanhad settled in the Sparta area in 1813, and after carving a ringUtit of the hush, they encouraged '•I other members of he Seciety of Friends to join them. ' Within two years. the Quakers' had 'a distillery, two smithy shops, a tannery and a flour and grain mill to serve the settlers in the area. By 1834, tired of simply calling their settlement The Corners, the residents, decided to choose a more impressive title. Their choice was Sparta--an ironic •choice since the Spartans 'were among the most warlike citizens of early 'Greece and the Quakers were opposed to bearing arms in any conflict. But pacificists or not, the Quakers', who earned their living —fromi the soil:: soon-het earne status On and decided their salvation lay jn the eleet len of 'men with Reformist sympathies to represent them in the provincial, legislature." A number of Refortn candidates were persuaded to add their . names to the ballet and in..1 836. Colonel Thomas Talbot, an ardent member of the Family Compact who lived in the St. - Thomas area, attacked the , Quakers vehemently 'in a public speech. " Xhe Quakers, said Colonel Talbot. "commenced their work of d• kness under the cover of organizing Damned Cold Water'' nkieg Societies (tereperanee groups). where they met .-to communicate their 'poisonous and seditious.. schemes..." The Relbr.re ondiate in the area suffered a severe' defeat in the • election. hu( sympathiZers like Joshua Doan and many of . his, fellew•Quakers, held a secret meeting and stored a cache of arms in the mud blacksmith shop in Sparta. abandoning their religious objection /to arras. • Poorly Armed When 'William Lyon Mackenzie'andhis band of poorly-arnied farmers marehed On Mont go mery's T(bern. the Sparta rebels were still waiting for their orders. By the time they learned of the disastrous march, on the tavern, Colonel Van Egniond was in prison and Mackenzie was teethe run., Now many of the Quaker rebels decided to give Op the • campaign and return ,to t heir, homes. but Joshue Doan and a dedicated band of men • 'nicknamed the Spartan Rangers. volunteded to serve with Mackenzie's lieutenant,-Dr. Charles Duncombe, stationed in Norwich. • By 'this time, the militia was close 'behind the rebels, and at one point Doan himsellnarrowly missed capture by .hiding in the.:! granary of Ephraim Haight, a fellow, Quaker, When the militia passed the Haight farm, they cross-examined the farmer:for some time, and 'the man,finally blurted out, "I saw him '(Doan,) 'going west." The story tit in with his Quaker conscience--he hadn't told a lie, bUt he'd only seen Doan go as far west as the granary at - the side of his house. a• building completely overlooked by the militia in their search. When the' Spartan Rangers fotind most of Dunconibe's 400 men had disbanded they decided to catch a boat at Port Stanley and Set off for Detroit to join a band of 'fellow Reformers and •seme American sympathizers who were -willing to join in the Ouse to_.overthrow the government of Upper' Canada. When they reached MichigUe, With% oilier robe under the command of Dr. E. A. Theller, wile had managed, to find a schooner named the Anne, which mallup,the rebels' naval fleet. Despite winter temperatures and the ice flows in the Detroit River, the rebels sailed their ship up and'down past, Fort Malden in Amherstburg, firing on and wounding some of the militia inside the fort. " Bad Luck •The▪ n, with the kind of bad luelc which had plagued the entire 1837 rebellion, the inexperienced crew of the Anne-ran their vessel aground on a shoal. Doan and some of his fellow rebels escaped from the Schooner, but tile Quaker was captured as he was trying•to -Steal a canoe on the shore, to'make his escape .back ,to shore. „• DOan,, and his fellow rebels, nicknamed the Sandwich prisoners, were brought back to London for trial by military tribunal, presided over by Colonel John Besevick of Port Stanley. In January, 1839, Doan faced the tribunal of 14 officers. Hig defence lay the hands ofjohn, Wilson, a Lpndon lawyer, who made no secret of the fact he Wanted to see the rebels hanged for - theii sins. • The Gazette, a newspaper of the day, reported about Doan's trial--"It was not proved what office he held, or-whether he had one at all; but it was plainly shown, that if he were not an officer, 'he acted very much like one, and must have been, at all events, quite a "High private"". Of the 43 rebels brought before the London tribunal, only six were senteneed, to hang—the ,rest of the men . were either transported out of the country or eventually pardoned. When Joshua Doan learned 'he was sentenced, to death, he 4.eiked a friend to help him write a letter to his wife to break the news she would soon be a widow. , 'The letter JoshUa wrote fell from her coat pocket after her• final visit to her husband and came into the hands of an enterprising journalist, who decided to publish it in the local paper. Part of th e et ter-read,--!..-ten,O.-eloelt--In-th e morn in g..(xekee she could visit Doan), as may suit you best, I wish you to think of such questions as you want to ask' me; as I do not „know how long you, will be pertnitted to stay. Think as little ofiityunhappy fate as you can, as from the love you bear to me and have ever' • evinced. .'know too well it must (the sentence of death) affect you. I wish ,you to inform my father and brother of my -sentence as soon as possible. I Must say good-bye for the night and may God-protect you and my dear child, and give you fyrtitude to meet that coming event..." , • .. ..On February 6, Joshua Doan, 26, and his companion Amos Perley were hanged in the London courtyard, and their bodies. claiMed by Israel Doan, Joshua's brother. Martyrs The men,, regarded as martyrs by their fellow Quakers, were buried in unmarked graves in the Friend's cemetery outside . Sparta. Years later, the son of the, woman who conducted the funeral reminisced about Doan - ',splendid sample'of a man. He was fearless to a fault. and being possessed of a large sinewy frame, few men in the township cared to dispute his prowess. He Was epenheartsd and always willing'to do anyone a good 'turn!" Color -crf Van Egniond, almost 70 years of age and a member of an aristocratic family, 'plagued by a bad leg and arin, died 'in prison because he had'dared to the, challenge the pretensions of the Family Compact. Joshua Doan,'at 26 years of age, frOm a far humbler background, left behind'a young widow and a child and an embittered Quaker community who knew too well that the freedom they sought in the new land was still only a dream. Today; the graves of both men are 'narked by historical plaques and time has written history,-the proud Family Compact, who .oneelabelled the rebels as "common brigands'. and "traitors", and today regarded with far less respect than the men they killed. The men and 'women, who risked their lives, and what little security they hadin the old world to come to Canada:and literally carve out a. new home and life for their descendents_ deserved a country where free 'speech, and the right' to own land was guaranteed. That these rights had. to be gained by bearing arms ,is less a reflection on the rebels. than on the men who thought they could rule Upper Canada with the same iron hand used by ,the British and European aristocracy our forefathers.- fleeing: ., • Summer concerts irk ndipity Rebels defended liberty JUNE 11.15 DUSTIN HOFFMAN itsTRAIGHTTIlviE" A4adenii; 'Ward Wow,, ha Ito allu whli gnyv "N'oto LIghl I ID ML 1.0" "Maxie don't let hini get caught." PLUS COMING JUNE. 30 • "BUDDY HOLLY STORY" . a funny iceve story. "House Calls" 'F JO T HI •S011 PHONE SEL •.ANI• ERI AIRSONONIO.NEN Staris Friday., June 16 OLIVER REED • RAINEL WELCH MARK LESTER ; 1 • . YOU ME IN A RACE AGAINST TIME AND TERROR... JUNE 16-18 IAMILV,WEls•No WALT DISNEY'S . RETURN FROM WITCH MOUNTAIN PLUS NO DEPOSIT...NO RETURN ADDED Fon YOUR mom.* Ride it for X IT L, L T al CI( ••.; • Announce new staff • 1100. ANNUAL .1978. .ENSALL • .laines.Roy.. Artistic Director ()I'. the Blyth Summer Festival is pleased to announce the appointment of ;Inn Dutton as Administrator, Eleanor Besfy as Publicity McCall as guest director for •the 1978 sea son. Aline Roy as Associate Dirt:L.16r and Bjarne Christensen as ()Jodi' eti o n Manager..also add their • strength to the team. Administrator, .Ian Dutton 01' London has been appointed lot' I the year.ancl will co-ordinate the .131-ythCcntrc for the Arts Winter programme. as well as adminster the Summer Festsival. Miss Dutton haS' an extensive_ background in art and`wilf help to expand the activities of the Summer Festival. . .Miss Bcsly is from Toronto and has worked in the publicity department of Ontario Place. Gerd McCall. a native of Dorchester, •is a lecturer and director at the theatre depart mem of Queen's 'University and has many productions to his credit On HentAll COMOInnity Conti* JUNE 16 'and 17, 1978 "WARD ALLEN MEMORIAL TROPHY" OVER $3,100. CASH PRIZES FRIDAY NIGHT, JUNE 18. 700 PM ,..-ELIMINATIONS Mie,A•frr /6J,,,e, EEL, • , SATURDAY AFtENNOON, JUNE 17 100N.-.6TEP DANCING C OMPETITION AND JAMBOREE A,PR. 6,1nIn ST n..T tArtJ91:IAV WOW JUNE 17 700 Mil...PLATOOWFIS • 1110 WL,ne Mee. I en I eN end inn CIO., ',C.V..% SONS,. AR,Ax $1 0 tA••,I,,.. ry nogan/ce.ncp: 54 of MASTER OF CEREMONIES — JOHNNY BRENT • ,• • • ,N• 0 AI.400101 rlarm was AVAIL AT1I f the West Coast. He is currently directing a pla y' in yancouVer and will begin rehearsals for His Own. Boss by Keith Rouyn in Blyth orl :Itine 15th., • The ' Festival is currently promoting a pre-season subscriP- lion campaign. Until the opening date. • Ally '7th, patrons may purchase • vouchers ,for four .adMissions to the theatre at substantial reductions from the .regular adinission vice. Vouchers may be- used' throughout • the whole season, providing reservations are made lit advae cc., A set of four tickets is priced at $12.00 for adults, $10.00 for senior citizens and $8.00 for children. The sets are available from The Festival' Box Office 'or any of our ticket outlets. • Yi Heavy Horses, Light Horses & Ponies Horse Judging to commence Promptly at 5:00 o'clock —FEATURING - is Prize Hereford Feeder Calves TO BE JUDGED and AUCTIONED Auction Sale of Calves 9:30 P M Parade 6:00 A. -- Official Opening 7:30 p.m. B ob McKinley M.P. for Huron-Middlesex' Admission: Adulfs $1.50 - Students $1.50 - Children under 12 Free CI CNX Mobile Unit in Attendance ' • Tuesda June 2 come to the Seaforth Lion's BEEF BAR-B-Q TICKETS FOR SALE Vincents, Larones, Bob & Betty's, Huron Expositor, Rowcliffe, Whitneys, Stewart Bros., Seaforth Banks. and DANCE Saturday, Jup0 Seaforth Community Centre Dancing to. SHANNON -ADMISSION $7.00 EACH Provides a full evening including all the beef you can eat at the Beef Bar-B-Q Dinner 6:30 to 8:30 Lots to eat - Luscious tender beef with au the trimmingS. Beef Bar-B-Q catered by Campbell and Cardiff Dante Tickets only $3.00 per person at the door.