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0-e-0.4INTON TmlusPAY.. AUGUST 23, 1973
Van Edmond house to get plaque Sifto Salt strike
may be over Sat.
African children need
"Emergency relief in the
form of food and medical sup-
plies will be needed well into
1974", says Catherine Harvey
of OXFAM-Canada, "but all of
the agencies are putting equal
emphasis on long-term
measures.
"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-