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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1978-10-26, Page 10 (2)( 2 _ 10 THE HIJOON EXPOSI 011'' OcT9BER _1978 1 I I I I I I I I SPECIAL FALL DANCE: Fri. Nov. 10 9 P.M.-1 A.M. At The Stratford Fairgrounds ' THE FABULOUS DUBLIN CORPORATION' Tickets $5 per person Available at The Huron Expositor or at the door 'Refreshments Available SEAN FAGAN IME DISCOUNT COUPON Save $ 1 per ticket SEND THIS COUPON WITH PAYMENT TO: Stratford Fairgrounds Box 204 Stratford • and Receive $1 Discount Per Ticket COtIP'ON coop voi M 2 IMI'S -..alerionemsuribeigineel DANCE to be held for 1-ia 'old :Rose -bikmann ,r nee Flynn Dancing from 10-1 Music By Country Companions Nov: 3rd at blyth Community Centre Everyone Welcome The family of Mr. and Mrs. . Elwin r• RR. 2, Sege:4h • wish to invite relatives and' friends, to celebrate their 50th WEDDING ANNIVERSARY . SAT. OCT. 28 at Seaforth Legion Hall Dancing 9-1 Legion Hallowe 'en Party For members and guests only ri. Oct. 27th Seaforth Legion Hall 9 - 1 No ad-mission lunch served - Appearing rhurs., Fri. & Sat. THE_KINGS & THE LITTLE ONE Next Week Tues. to Sat. HANNON Hallowe'en Dance Seaforth Arena Junior Centenaires Booster Club Sat. Oct. 28 MUSIC BY: Greensleeves DANCING: 9-1 ADMISSION: $5,00 per couple advance, $6.00 per couple at the door. Costumes are optional & peizes for the best costumes. ALL PROCEEDS FOR JUNIOR HOCKEY • TICKETS AVAILABLE from Executvie members, Bob & Betty's, Huron Expositor & Queens Hotel. FRI. & SAT. 7 & 9 HELD OVER TIL TUES. OCT 31 SUN. - THURS. ONE SHOWING 8:00 P.M. It was the Deltas againSt th# the rules 14st! us (Some language _ may be offensive).,,,..; Theatres Br. Ontario 4 NATIONAL LAMPOON': 11111011t11 STARTS WED. NOV. 1st. PETER FRAMPTON THE BEE GEES "SGT. PEPPER'S i LONELY HEARTS CLUB BAND" When was the last time someone jammed Volkiocker;? ; Huron tract's. eccentrics Serei Libre plans Hallowe'en party Saturday, Oct. 28th is the day of the Hallowe'en party at Seaforth 'Library. Any children , aged 4 -to 7 are invited to join in on the fun. The party starts at 1;30 p.m. (regular storyhour time) with. games. They hope to have some relay 'races 'and need lots of participants. Prizes will be awarded to the Winners. ' At "storytime" children will learn about "Georgie's Hallowe'en" and the "Witch's. 'Party," They'll make a Hallowe'en mobile with all the traditional Hal- loween character's. These mobiles' 'can be used to decorate your home on Hal- loween day. The party will be wrapped up around 3:00 with refresh,' ments for everyone as well as prizes for the boy and girl with the best costume. Lottery will fund .hpckey A lottery sponsored by the . raise funds for hockey teams Hockey teams will receive Ontario Minor Hockey As- across the province. Mem- some of the proceeds from sociation is being held to hers of the Seaforth Minor .,- the ticket sales The lottery tickets, which Offer purchasers a chance to win over, $100,000 in prizes are available at a number of local businesses as well as the Seaforth Arena and the Seaforth Legion: . • , `Local 15ushiesses whiCh are 'di4ributing "the' iiekets In qude Bob And Betty's Variety, the Queen's Hotel, the Coinmercial Hotel, the Jack and Jill Shoppe and . Mac's Milk. toeftv vat *vim.", * . , * oneiHurop t 1 HotO ; . it Dublin ok proudly presents , 0 io , IlIon., s Goodwin 2 4 . SHOW ill., 08 . DUBLIN 345-2820 ,1 ,01 1111* The Library will be closed on Remembrance Day, Sat. Nov. 1101,__Story hour has been cancelled for that day. Anyone still wishing to purchase books may do so at regular Library hours. Child- ren's books are on display upstairs. Paperbacks, adult fiction and adult non-fiction books may be viewed in the Reading Room. By Alice Gibb Three men, all eccentrics in their own way, were instrumental in building the Huron Tract road 150 years ago. John Galt we met earlier in.thicolumn, the 13Iyth Festival presented their tribute to William "Tiger" Dunlop this summer, which leaves only our own Anthony Van Egmond, perhaps the most, honorable of the three , individuals. Colonel Van Egniond, the most democratic of the Huron Tract founders, carne froM a very aristocratic European . background. His forefathers were respected members of the Dutch nobility, and one had headed the Spanish mission to England to persuade the infamous Queen Mary (later named "Bloody Mary") to link her country with that of another Catholic monarch. Count Van Egmond was instrumental in arranging the marriage between Queeif -Mary—ifid--KinA Phillip 11 of Spain and was one of the guests at the couple's wedding in Winchester Cathedral in 1554. Unfortunately, as history soon proved, neither Count Van 'Egmond or the married couple were to profit from the union. Religious persecutions in both England and the Continent became more brutal as the two Catholic monarchs tried to stamp• out the growing Protestant movement and Count Van Egmond's name soon appeared on a secret list. of people considered a threat to Catholicism. The count was marked for'death because he had refused to help in the brutal campaign to stamp out the "heretics" (Protestants and liberal Catholics) and although he was warned to flee by his friend, Prince William of Orange, he hesitated too long. In 1568, Count Van Egmond and a friend, Count Van Horn, were publicly beheaded in the main square of Brussels, charged with treason against the king they had served. Undoubtedly the story of this injustice -was told-and retold to Van Egmond descendants and ih'e man who would later settle just four miles from Seaforth' must have knowin the tale by heart. Anthony Van Egmond was 18 years old when the French Revolution erupted south of Holland. After the revolutionary slaughter was over, the French suddenly found themselves with a new hero 'who would soon prove almost as despotic as 'their late lamented king. The hero was the short, swarthy Corsician named Napoleon , and his ambition was simple—to rule all of Europe, perhaps eventually the 'world. In 1794, Holland was overrun by French forces and in 1806 Louis Napoleon, Bonaparte's brother, was reluctantly made king of Holland, nothing.., Although today the records of land purthases and ownership in the early days of the Huron Tract are hazy, at best, most historians agree that it's likely the Van Egmond family owned about 13,000 acres in total in the Huron Tract. Although the colonel might have lived like a feudal landowner', he took the duties of new citizenship seriously. The older settler wanted a country where men could receive an education despite their wealth or the lack of it, wheie people could worship in the faith of their choice and where Canada CornpanY settlers would be served by an efficient system of roads, bridges, inns and canals as they had been promised before they emmigrated, The colonel had four acres of his own land cleared for a schoolhouse and paid the teacher's salary out of his own funds, to assure that settlers in his area could educate their children. Sunday church services were held'ip the Van Egmond home and he donated , land for schools and churches. Also, the colonel helped organize protective measures against the spread of cholera, the dreaded disease which came to Canada with the settlers. VfM Egmond and his family wasted no time in clearing their own property, and by their second year on the land, they harvested a crop of wheat from part of the cleared land. Samuel Strickland, the brother of writers Catherine Parr Trail) and Susanna Moodie, wrote in his book on his early days in Upper Canada, "As this was the first field (of grain) ripe in the tract, the old man (Van Egmond) determined to celebrate the event--.by...asking some-of the gentlemen connected with the Canada Company to dinner and to witness the cutting of the first sheaf." But the _seeds of discontent were-already-festering and Colonel Van Egmond soon became disillusioned with the Canada Company and their broken promises. The settlers who had come to Huron County to carve out a new life free from the restrictions of life in Europe or Britain weren't any. better off than they had been in their native countries.. When John Galt was recalled, and Van Egmond saw the honorable man replaced by the opportunist Thomas Mercer Jones, he realized someone had to take a stand against the injustices. Colonel Van Egmond eventually chose to abandon 'his comfortable position with the company to start crusading for the settlers'. It was a decision he would pay. for with, his life. BENEFIT DANCE for BRIAN &LINDA WILSON (Barn fire Victims) Vanastra Recreation Centre Friday, Nov. 3rd 9 'Music By: WONNETTA TRIO Ladies please bring sandwiches A (Photo by Oke) GODERICH 6TMN 85t)°- 1 A7: program 1:1HOE 24 subject Ark.CONDItiONED to twinge .., The'more countries Bonaparte conquered, the more men he needed for his armies, so he began conscripting soldiers from each country his armies. overran. Anthony Van Egmond was one of the foreign soldiers conscripted into Napoleon's army. In 1802, Van Egmond's military responsibilitieSIncluded sitting as the member of a court judging people arrested for robbery. It wasn't a task he enjoyed, since most,of the robbers were found guilty, despite their crime, and • guillotined publicly.. Van Egmond, a remarkably fair man, said later, "Had' these men been judged by a court purely of equety in lieu of one of law, and their gold deeds had been allowed to weigh in contra of their misdeeds, they would have been honourably acquitted. It was the laws and not the crimes that condemned them." Ironically, in the 1837 Rebellion, it would prove to be the law which condemned many of the rebels in Upper Canada rather than their crime which had simply been to demand fairer treatment at, the hands of the Family Compact and the Canada Company. Sometime during his army career, Anthony Van Egmond married Susanna Dietz, a German girl, and in 1808; in the Rhineland of . Germany, their first son Constant was born. Although it's known V-a7C Egmond was wounded at the Battle. of Waterloo, where he was fighting with the Allies against Napolieon's army, the details of his life in this period are hazy at best. Then in 1819, the Van Egmond family migrated to the UnitedStates and the Colonel traded his weapons for the role of storekeeper in a Pennsylvania settlement. Eight years later the , Van. Egmond_ family moved again—this time following other Pennsylvania Dutch families to Waterloo County in Upper Canada. By now, Van Egmond had five sonsand_three daughters,and by_pioneer_standards„ was considered a wealthy man. • The lure •of •Upper Canada for Van Egmond was likely the same as it was for' John Galt—"to build in the wilderness a refuge-for the fleers from the calamities of the Old World..." Van. Egmond and Galt, with their common conception of Upper Canada's future, soon became friends. When John Galt later learned he was being, unceremoniously recalled to Britain by the Canada Company, who felt that Galt had stopped putting profit ahead of principle, he called on Van Egmond personally to tell him the news. Eventually Van Egmond would describe officers of the Canada, Company as "old parasites and young idlers; half-beggared would-be gentlemen, half:pays and no-pays Scuba DIVING' COURSE Starting Nov. 2, Vanastra Community Centre Enrol. 'now at Vanastra Centre 482-3544 or Travel Sports Equipment 67 WharnclIffe Rd. North, London 1-434-2611 Hot TURKEY SUPPER United Church Walton Wed. Nov. 1st 3:30 - 7:30 Adults $4.00 Children 12 & under , $2.00 Pre Schooler Free RUMMAGE SALE Sat. Oct. 28 1 :30 pm . St. Thomas Anglican Church Parish Hall Seaforth cashiered officers—creatures either half worn out or blit pelf made; knowingthi of n9 thin an capable • THE NATURE:HI - KE— group of GentFalVa Brownies led by Kim Dore and Wendy Bierling marched. down-- -a _hi_11--cturing—SundayLs- hike- through the beautiful Bannockburn Con- servation area.