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"OXFAM, for example, has thrown its resources behind several projects in cooperation with the government of Upper Volta aimed at seed multiplication, dam-building and reforestation. "This type of long-range com- mitment will help halt the southward advance of the Sahara Desert which is con- suming agricultural and grazing land at the rate of one half to one mile per year," she concluded. Canadians can help the drought relief effort by sending a cheque or money order to the Combined Appeal for African Drought Relief, or the par- ticipating agency of their choice, marking the cheque 'For African Drought Relief, P.O. Box 497 Station A, Ottawa. Participants in CAADR are: Canadian Hunger Foundation, Canadian Red Cross Society, Canadian UNIC F Committee, Canadian University. Service Overseas (CUSO), CANSAVE Children, CARE Canada, .OX- FAM-Canada and World Vision. On Saturday, August 25 at 3;00 p.m., an historical plaque marking --the Van Egmond House will be unveiled in front of that structure in Egmond- ville, near Seaforth. This plaque is one of a series being erected throughout the province by the Historical and Museums Branch, Ministry of Colleges and Universities, ac- ting on the advice of the Ar- chaeological and Historic Sites Board of Ontario. Saturday's ceremony is being arranged and sponsored by the Van Egmond Foundation, whose chairman, James Doig, will act as master of ceremonies. Among those who have been invited to take part are: His Worship F.C.J. Sills, Mayor of Seaforth; R.V. Pattison, War- den of Huron County; Elgin Thompson, Reeve, Tuckersmith Township; Robert McKinley, M.P, (Huron); Jack Riddell, M.P.P. (Huron); R. Alan Douglas, Curator, Hiram Walker Historical Museum, who will represent Ontario's Historic Sites Board; Prof. James Scott, the noted historian; Dr. Rodger Whit- man, Vice-Chairman of the Van Egmond Foundation; OPP report Last week the Goderich Detachment of the Ontario Provincial Police investigated nine thefts, including thefts of camping gear, a boat, gasoline, a quantity of eight track stereo tapes, a cast iron horse's head and flags. Thirty five non- criminal matters were also in- vestigated. Officers also investigated nine motor vehicle accidents, one of which resulted/ in in- juries to two persons. in all 61 charges were laid during the 744 duty hours' logged during the week, 45 un- der the Highway Traffic Act, 13 under the Liquor Control Act and three under the Criminal Code. Thirty eight warnings were also issued. In other activities 15 requests for assistance were answered, three prisoner escorts conduc- ted and in Provincial Court 45 persons convicted under the H.T,A. and 17 under the L.C.A. John Flannery, Reeve and for- mer mayor of Seaforth; Harold Turner, President, Huron County Historical Society; and the Reverend Harold Snell, a member of the Foundation and a descendant of Col, Anthony Van Egmond. The plaque will "be unveiled by Miss Susan Van Egmond, a descendant of the Colonel, The Reverend Clifford Britton, a retired United Church minister, and a descendant of Colonel Van Egmond, will dedicate the plaque. The inscription on the plaque reads: THE VAN EGMOND HOUSE This house was built about 1846 by Constant Van Egmond, eldest son of Col. Anthony Van Egmond, a leader of rebel military forces in the Rebellion of 1837. It has the sturdy proportions typical of the Canadian vernacular inter- pretation of the Georgian style seen in many of Ontario's early nineteenth century buildings. The handsome door with its rectangular transom and sidelights belongs to the style of the Classical Revival which dominated the province's ar- chitecture in the 1830's and 1840's. The structure depends for its effect on good propor- tions and, aside from the door, the only architectural detailing consists of a decorative brick frieze under the eaves. It remains as a good example of the region's early architecture. This large attractive house, situated on a hill overlooking the Bayfield River, was at the time of its construction the most substantial house in the area. It was built by John Dietrick Constant Louis Van Egmond, the eldest son of Colonel Anthony Van Egmond, one of the men most prominent in the settlement of the Huron Tract. Of Dutch birth, the elder Van 'Egmond came to America in 1819, settling in Indiana County, Pennsylvania. In 1827 he moved to Waterloo County, Upper Canada, and the following year he began his association with the Huron Tract when he secured the general contract for the con- struction of a road through this newly surveyed region. Van Egmond secured a one hundred acre lot in Hullett Township, a few miles west of the present town of Seaforth. To this land his family was moved from Waterloo County. As cash was in short supply in Upper Canada, Van Egmond was paid for the construction of the Huron Road by means of land credits. This method of payment enabled him to ac- cumulate vast areas of land and by the mid 1830's he was probably the largest landowner in the Tract. His holdings have been estimated at about 14,000 acres. Part of these vast holdings was a 600 acre parcel of land on the Bayfield River in Tuckersmith Township, It ap- pears that the Canada Corn, pany had erected mills there in 1832-33. Van Egmond pur- chased the property on January 30, 1836, but before the deed could be executed he became embroiled in the Rebellion of 1837 as commander of the rebel military forces. Following the skirmish at Montgomery's Tavern in Toronto, Van Egrnond was captured and im- prisoned. Early the following year, before .he had been brought to trial, Van Egmond died in prison. His son Constant acquired many of his properties, in- cluding the mills and the six hundred acres of land on the Bayfield River. It was Con- stant's intention to develop this site into a manor village patter- ned on the great estates of England. The village, which he named Egmondville, began auspiciously and prospered for the first twenty years of its existence, The Van Egniond's were the predominant family and controlled most of the land and industry. Constant operated the grist and flour mills and his brother Leopold erected a sawmill and later a woollen mill. In addition to the Van Egmond enterprises there was a foundry, a brewery, a tannery and several stores and taverns. The community also had a large school and after 1855 a post office. As a residence befitting his position in the community Con- stant built the large 21 /2 storey brick house which still stands in the village of Egmondville. It is a rather plain building and depends for its effect on good proportions rather than architectural detailing. The solid and sturdy proportions are typical of the Canadian ver- nacular interpretation of the Georgian style seen in Ontario in the early 19th century, while the door with its rectangular transom and sidelights belongs to the style of Classical Revival, which dominated On- tario's domestic architecture in the 1830's and 1840's. Apart from this handsome door, the only detailing consists of a decorative brick frieze un- der the eaves. This adds in- terest to the front facade although it is perhaps too finely scaled for the balance of the building. The exterior of the house has been altered by the removal of the original veran- dah and the reconstruction of the roof. The house was recently acquired by the Van Egmond Foundation, a non-profit organization with members throughout Huron County. This organization, with the financial assistance of the On- tario Heritage Foundation, is planning to restore the house to its original appearance and open it to the public as an historic site "recording the words and works of Van Egmond." Mr. Mancini called the latest round of meetings after three days of talks in Lyndon broke off last week with no promise of a settlement, The London meeting represented the first time the two sides had sat down at the bargaining table since the original talks failed to avert a strike in May. Members of Local 682 have been off their jobs now for 12 weeks, The miners' last public wage demand had been set at an in- crease of $1,65 over a three year agreement. Local 682 members had rejected a company offer of $1.05 over the three years just before walking off their jobs. Originally the men had hoped to negotiate a two year pact but agreed to the company terms of a three year agreement. Average wage rate at the mine, under conditions of the previous contract, had been $4.39 per hour. That contract expired on March 31 of this year. OFA wants action port controls on beef and pork. Blunders can be made quickly, so there is no reason that con- structive action cannot be taken at the same pace," adds Hill. "Inaction by the government is playing into the hands of speculators. The cost of this trading in commodity futures will end up on the price tags of food items on the supermarket shelf." ' The OFA executive sent a telegram to Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau last week demanding an immediate end to the strike. Too many vacation drivers are in too big a hurry to get where they're going or come back from where they've been. ,,„They:11., tikke chances. Watch out for them, says the Ontario Safety League. Thirteen million people, twice as many as earlier believed, are facing famine because of drought in sub- Saharan Africa, according to the latest report from the League of Red Cross Societies. Half are children under 15. Eight Canadian relief and development agencies have joined in a Combined Appeal for African Drought Relief (CAADR) to raise $1 million during the month of August. Co-chairman of CAADR, Kenric Marshall, national director of CANSAVE reports that "initial response to the Ap- peal has been less than en- couraging, but we realize that many Canadians are holidaying at this time. If we had had a choice, we would have delayed our Appeal until later in the fall, but when six and a half million children are hungry, thirsty and homeless you don't wait. They need our help NOW." Paul Ignatieff, executive director of the Canadian UNICEF Committee says that this agency is particularly con- cerned with the plight of "vulnerable population groups such as children, pregnant and nursing mothers and the old. The able-bodie men leave with the cattle, driving them southward in search of water and pasture; the women and children are left to fend for themselves in clusters around the few remaining wells 'and waterholes." Rainfall was well below nor- mal during the past five years in the Sahelian zone of Africa stretching more than 2,000 miles along the southern edge of the Sahara desert. Drought is a creeping disaster which takes several years to become full-blown; 1973 is the worst in recent memory in that part of the world. This will be a year of hunger and suffering in Mauritania, Senegal, Mali, Niger, Upper Volta, Chad and Ethiopia. Crops have withered to the point where precious seed grain must be used for food — a mor- tgage on the future ensuring years of hardship even if the rains come this summer. Valuable herds of domestic livestock have died or been slaughtered for lack of pasture. It will take 'years to rebuild. Copies of an agreement ham- mered out by negotiators for Local 6$2 of the International Chemical Workers Union and Domtar Chemicals Ltd. Sifto Salt Division were distributed to the union membership. on Wednesday for their study prior to a ratification vote called for Saturday. Local 682 president Harold Leddy told the Signal-Star on i Wednesday morning that the vote will be held at Victoria Public School at 10:30 a.m. that day. Mr. Leddy would not discuss terms of the tentative agreement saying that it would become public following the vote by membership. The rout was ham- help mered.out late Tuesday evening in meetings at Toronto with Ontario Labor Ministry mediator Terry Mancini. Before the talks went into their final late night session that evening Mr. Mancini had told the press he was "optimistic" that an agreement could be reached later that night. "The Federal government must end the rail strike im- mediately," says Gordon Hill, president, Ontario Federation of Agriculture. Hill is a hog and white bean farmer from Varna. "Delivery of meat and food stuffs is getting more chaotic by the day. This strike is breeding a fear psychology in which people hesitate to buy. Delivery is uncertain, and quality can suffer, "Rail services are too vital to our economy to be disrupted by wage negotiations for a small group of workers. Provinces are dependent on each other, and so are regions, for food and for many other items that must come by rail. Prime Minister Trudeau has admitted that the strike is increasing the cost of food. He realizes this, so it is irresponsible not to do" something about it,' "Trudeau has shown that he can act quickly when he put ex-