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THE LUCKNOW SENTINEL, LUCKNOW, ONTARIO WEDNESDAY, NOV, 10th, 19S4
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Rev. Caswell of Colborne took
took charge of the services vin
the Presbyterian Church on
Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs., Tobias Jantzi &
Chattily of Milverton called on
Mrs. Kennedy and visited with
Mrs. Jantzi’s brother, Mr. and
Mrs.- George Fisher on Sunday.
^aelnnes
said son Bill of Walkerton visit-
. «d with his brother, M1* & Mrs.
/ tXames Maclnnes arid Mrs. Ken-
Miss Winnifred Farrier of Tor-
; /GntO rSpSpt the week-end- at her
licimie hdre, »
> axtid Mrs. Percy. Thompson
tmd family of Caledon visited
_iJmtii-V.ilust sister; Mr^ arid Mrs.
- Stanley Moore.
Mr. and Mrs.. T. J. Morrison
and family spent the week-end
in Brantford With his father,
Mr. J. B. Morrison at the home
of Mr. and Mrs. V. Casemorei
The • W.I, are catering- to the
West Wawanosh; Federation of
Agriculture in the Memorial
Hall on. November 16th.
Mr, and Mrs. Les Burnett and
family spent the week-end with
friends in Listowel.
Miss Margaret Taylor retum-
M homie to
erson’s after visiting with rela
tives around Lucknow,
Mr. and Mrs. Melvin Kerry of
Paisley visited with Mr.
MrA A. Copltes.
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PURPLE GROVE
Mr/ and Mrs. Herb Farrell
spent the week-end in London.
?Mr< and Mrs. Donald. , McKay
and Mr. and Mrs. Gprdon Stanley
visited at Guelph recently.
Mr. and Mrs. Louis Misch, Mr.
and Mrs. Charles Brindley of
Riversdale visited at the home
of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Dore
last week.
Mr. and Mrs. Jack Harrison of
Napanee, Mr. Rae HarrisoiL_of_
Toronto visited at the home of
Mr. .and Mrs. Morford McKay,
last-Wednesday and attended the
funeral of their aunt, Mrs. Len
nie Harrison. «• V .
Mi ss Winnifred McFarlane,
nurse of Walkerton, spent the
week-end at the . home of her
parents, Mr;\ and Mrs. Donald
McFarlane.
The Women’s Institute ^as
largely attended at the home of
Mrs. Andrew Patterson on last
Wednesday.
Sympathy is extended to Miss
Annie and Mr. John Wall in the,
death of their sister, Miss Lizzie
Wall. • , 4
Mrs. Angus Graham of London
,s.pent„a^ew_days3dsiting^friends,,
and relatives around the Grove.
Successful Anniversary Services
Anniversary services were held
in the Presbyterian Church at
Kinlough bn Sunday.; Rev. D.
Lane of Clinton, Was the mini
ster for both morping and even
ing services and delivered two
very inspirihg messages/ He took
fpr his text in the morning, “If
L am lifted up I Will draw all
GIVES THUMB NAIL
SKETCH OF “TEX” CAMERON
Referring to the appointment
of E. i>. Cameron as Bruce Co.,
sheriff, Ithe Walkerton Herald-
Times gives the following sketch;
Sheriff Cameron is well known
throughout Bruce. He was 'born
on January 14, 1896, in Lucknow,
Ont., the elder son of Mr. R. D.
Cameron,, a general; merchant in
that town. He attended both pub
lic school and high school there
and at the age of 17 was gradu
ated and took a jbb as a sth°°l
teacher at Paramount in. BrU£e
County ait a salary of $35Q a
year. Prior to enlisting iii the
army in 1^15 he was promoted tp
another school, this time in
Purple Grove, at a salary of $400
a year.-., ■
The unit he joined was the
160th Bruce County Infantry Bat
talion of the C.E.F., and he went
to England with this unit in 1916
as a Lieutenant. He saw active
service in France with the Sec
ond Division Canadian Pioneers
and the Fifth Engineer Division
in 1917 where he was liis unit’s
signals officer. In 1918 he joined
theRoyalFlyingCorpsbutonly
won his observers wings in 1918
at war’s end. ■ . j
The brother of the late pres
ident of the Canada Spool* & Bob
bin Co. Ltd., tiie late Farquhar
Shaw, had 'been paymaster of his
original regiment. After the war
he returned to the company as
its secretary-treasurer and talk-
ed young ^“Tbk”r intcnjoinihg^the
firm in March, 1919.
A few years later, in October,
1924, “Tex’* married Rachel Rog
ers of Walkerton. The Caimerons
haye an only daughter, Mary
Louise, who gave up her nursing
career on May 22 last to . marry
Ross S. Procter of Burlington.
Always an active curler, “Tex”
wryly recounts that after fifty
years of “the game “he~was~ finally
promoted from skip to lead “be
cause I have no voice for the
game now*’. He is a past presi
dent of the Walkerton Curling
Club, a member Of the local Golf
arid Country Club and a charter
member of the Rotary Club of
Walkerton. He is on the Board of
Management of the Walkerton
United Church and is a past mas
ter of his Masonic Lodge and
a member of. the Scottish Rite
Lodge.
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TORONTO, NOV. 12-20
Just recently, as I was putting
away a bundle of not-so^recent
newspapers, my eye caught a col
umn in September 16th issue of
the Goderich Signal-Star, which
interested me'very much.
The following is quoted verb
atim; “Just recently, al Jady. from
the Economics Department of the
Federal Government at Ottawa
Visited Huron County in a survey
of all Ontario to find out how
the Dutch people are being as
similated by the people of On
tario. Her unofficial finding to
date has been that Ontario peo
ple are not putting themselves
out as they should to welcome
the Dutch and make them a part
of their respective communities,
Ontario people are more inclin
ed to criticize the Dutch newcom
ers than to try to make them feel
at home in their adopted country.
Among the criticismisthat-the
Dutch people speak their native
i tongue too much and have their-
own churches”. The article con
cludes with the following re
marks, “Let’s stop being small, in
our outlook and make the Dutch
welcome”.
I think every thinking person
will agree that the practical,
hard-working Dutch with their
initiative and perseverance, their
cleanliness and thrift, do make
ideal immigrants. We . should
realize, and . I think most of us
•do, that it is not at all easy for
them to adjust to Canadian ways,
our speech,- our food, our ways,
of living. They do need help and
encouragement, no doubt.
We are greatly interested in
the manner in which-they-adjust
to Canadian life, since among our
best friends here, we value. the
friendship of a Dutch family.
There are a number in the town,
three families whom we know
quite well. These families started
immediately on their arrival to
try and- make themselves a part
of the town. They went to our
church regularly, before .they
could speak English at all, or un
derstand it. They showed them
selves ready to be friendly, and
people, accepted them at once.
One young couple had come put,
firsth and some time later other
relatives followed; A friend of
mine gave a pantry party for the
wife, and mother, of the later
-arrivalsv-Poor—Lindy—could-not-
speak, nor understand, a word of
English? as'yet, and it was quite
evident that she was torn be
tween acute home- sickness, and
appreciation of the friendly spirit
shown in the parcels brought for
her. Her sister, who had come
earlier, translated for her. A
month or so later they were in
vited to a New Years’ Eve party
at the same home, and had pro
gressed to a few words of Eng-4
lish. Last Christmas Eve they
spent with us, and conversation
flowed freely. Lindy said, “Do
you remember ■ last year’ at
Helen’s on New Years all I could
was was ‘Yes’ and ‘No’? But now,
I can talk English, yes?”.. She
certainly can, as can all her fam
ily. Her husband was interested
in boys’ work' in Holland, and
nbw, in otir town, under the
sponsorship of 'the Recreahibnat
Council, he is gathering together
groups of boys, and teaching them
boxing and other sports.
I think Lindy and Jim have
as many friends .in the town as
we have.. When Lindy was ill the
whole town was concerned. Dif
ferent people, drove her at various
-timek-.to.thecityfor-..x-rays,and.
one friend took her into her home
from the hospital and looked af-
They began to speak English
in-their homes as soon as they
could, • and from * the beginning
were always .well-bred about riot,
talking Dutch with each other
When with others. Sometimes one
or the other would want to say
something and couldn’t juM man
age in English'.' They would ask
our pardpn, arid a fluent flow of
Dutch would .follow; The whole
family would -come to the rescue,
and the, translation would cbnm
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men unto me”. Clark’s quartette
assisted the choir and gave two
numbers. The evening service
was also well att^pded, Mr. Lane
taking for his text, “Lord I be-
lieve, help Thou my unbelief”.
He -pointed out that in the heart
of all believers there is a shadow
of unbelief. The choir, under the
leadership of Mrs.. John Emer-
anthem, “The way
leads Home”-. “The
Galiee” was well
Mrs. Harold Hal-
soloist for the ev-
son, sang an
of the Cross
Stranger of
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ening.
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CANADIAN
NATIONAL
in English: Full friendship was
established when our respective
senses of humour . found a com
mon meeting groiimJ. In any as
sociation I have ha<r with, people
of other countries I am always
happy to find us laUghing at the
same things as we do. It seems
to me that only then have we
reached the
standing.
There are
families in
whom have - been here longer
than Lindy arid Jim, They still
speak broken English, and keep
their interests in their own little
-circle .of Dutch friends;, they go
tq the Dutch Reformed Church in
the* nearby city. Lessons in basic
English were started, but those
who tried to . speak English at
home and amongf friends were
soon making so much faster pro
gress that they finally petered
out. ' ‘ ■ ,■ •.
Perhaps we are to blame for
not making more of an effort to
make them one of us. And, per
haps, we fear that we may seem
to say, iri effect, that our waiys
are better than their, ways. Per
haps we feel that if Lindy 4ndt
Jim and the others were so ready
to make themselves a part of the
town the rest of them should
be alble to do as well. For Lindy
by nature, shy arid reserved, and
was terribly homiesick. at first.
For her, it was a real effort to
Cariadianize herself. I realize it
is by no means easy to adjust
to. a new country and hew ways,
I realize that I know, from per
sonal. experience, nothing at all
of the heartache involved. But
I am convinced from what I have
seen here that, those who have
made a real effort towards ad
justment are already happier, are
less apt to be homesick fhr their
Homeland. This may sound as if
I thought that all effort towards
adjustment was up to them. I
certainly don’t mean that , .. / we
must show a readipeSS to. friend
ship, but we can go only so far.
I. don’t feel that it is at all true
of our .community that we are
more inclined to criticize them
than to try. arid make them feel
at home. And I’m sure our Dutch
friends don’t feel that either.
Their attitude - seems to be, as
if they were saying, “This is.
Canada . . / this is the country,
fn Which we chose to begin’ a
new life”, r •
The Signal-Star suggests that
weshpuld^riotrobjecttofreochim
of religion. Perhaps it is not that
we object fo freedom
in small towns arid country areas,
social life revolves aroand the,
church arid the friends one-makes
iii it.'’ ■
. I feel that -one of the reasons
for the peace that has remained’
throughout the years Withib out*
’own. Dominion, and .between ns
and the United States is the hrt
that we, have tried to Canadian-
ize our -immigrant^ rathier . than
encouraging.isolated communi’ ;os
’■nf >V1 -h
ultimate of under-
several other Dutch
the towfi, some of
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