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ELLIOTT from Mr. John Holmes, of To* mine, combines to Make an en- reeve. YOuog Torn Greenway. route, narrative. reeve of Stephen, mOved in Huron county council at the Huron county the family began the slow task of building 1,874 session that $500 be spent a home. Within a short time the t,0 repair the Centre road, this father died of one .of the di- WI'S net allowed", the record seases, prevalent at that time, reveals. Sponsor of the Motion Teen, the eldest child, was only tiros Wel down was, a fitture 12$ but he helped his mother fin- premier of Manitoba, ish the log house. Silt then Tom Greenway was to serve taught school and kept the home fir at es MP for South }Wrap going, and later MP for Lisgar, Tom had received a 00, 11nha, When he died in 19%3 be old-fashioned elementary train• had been in public life for lug, but left school when his fa -More than. 40 years — one of, ther died. He got a job in Lon-many examples of the great don and used to walk there from contribution made to the al. Exeter at weekends. For fairs of this young Dominion by old country stock. -.Reeve Greenway operated 4 general store in Centralia, and ..represented Stephen in county council for 10 years, mostly -With John Persona or Henry Voyle as deputy reeve, The 014 session already mentioned M May have been interesting, 'what with $100 being offered apprehension of horse eves; the reeves being ap- pointed to assist the engineer in disposing of toll houses, and 3, T. Garrow of Goderich (dater eounty judge)- reporting project for a house of refuge and industrial farm, illitEENWAY STORE — 'The 'present Osborne store in entralla is said to be the tend building in which ,'Toni tree nway did business before Migrating west and be. 'ping prettifer Of Manitoba, proprietor of a book store in schools instituted, though it London, was their son, and provided that nondenemination. of jta .l Wriocndell Holmes re- al religious teaching could be side in o given during sehool, hours. It was at Exeter .that Bev. John Holmes met and. married Jane Greenway. Mr, lIo„lines, ar!crililiees.101e:aittCoah te",Aliteld 1Qtr: had been a Bible Christian min- ister, then. Methodist, and later bee demanded that the Act he disallowed at Ottawa, John A. -United, He started in Prince Macdonald("Old Tomorrow")Edward Island, then came to proposed that It be tested in. the courts, UltunatelY, •the jud- iethl committee of the Privy Council in England decided that though it the - time for (Hs- allowance was past, the Domin- ion Government couldreCeiVe onappeaif i 1\tobaRo- man Catholics and, if it wish.- ed, pass "remedial legislation" to restore separate schools. Mackenzie Bov-ke11, a former Grand Master of the Orange Association, was by now ,'prime Minister, He issued an order- in-council instructing the Man- itoba government to restore BC separate schools and their right to share public funds. Greenway's attorney general was Mr, (later ,Sir) Clifford Sifton, with a family tradition — * r Reeve Greenway at this ses- sion moved: "That the engin- atr be instructed to have the bridges across the Aux Sable River on the Huron-Lam bton boundary put in a proper state of repair, providing Larnbton pays half the expense," Mr. Greenway served only 6ne more session in county council. In 187$ he was elected to Jhe House of Commons as member for South Huron. He was 37, and had left school at the age of 12. It was at this time, according to the old Huron. Atlas that the village of Greenway was "called in honor of Thomas Greenway, Esq„ who represented South Huron in the Commons." Four years later, we find Torn Greenway in the Legisla- ture of Manitoba as Liberal member for Mountain, In three years more he was Opposition leader in a provincial House ruled by Hon. John Norquay, Conservative, and in 1888 the Stephen township boy was premier, His term of admini- Oration, which lasted to 1900, was famous across Canada long after the widespread flames of a controversy had subsided, "During his minis- try," states Encyclopedia Can- ediana. with maximum brev- ity, "the Manitoba separate setteel controversy was settled." Thomas Greenway was born March 25; 1838, in Cornwall, England, son of Thomas Green- way. and Elizabeth Heard, who carte out to Canada when Tom was. six. Place of his birth can hardly be disputed, i inas- much as he set it down n his "Parliamentary G u i d e bio- graphy, but there is equally no doubt that the Greenways came from the Tiverton dist- rict in Devonshire, where the family has been known for centuries, Thomas Greenway's parents settled first at a village near Bowmanville, and then moved trite the Huron Tract. Particu- lars of those early years are hard tO come by, but valuable information from Miss Eva Greenway. of Winnipeg. daugh- ter of the former premier, and to $5, Of that campaign an. Interesting word picture is found in. the ineMoirs, ,of Sir John William), whose news- PAM' career is memorialized by a Plaque in Huron .court- house. .1fz At the age of 14„young William) walked from his 'home near Hillsgreen, on the bound,. ary between. I-lay and Stanley townships, to the village of Varna,. He wrote, years later: 0,,A rough frame hustings stood at the crossroads by the tavero. A group of men sal upon the niatform, .and in front and around were people with eyes fixed on a man who was speaking, Mr. Thomas Green- way, standing as the Conserv- ative candidate for South Hur- on. The Liberal candidate was Mr. M, C. Cameron, for long the chief political figure of Huron county . . Mr, Green- way sat down to much clap- ping and cheering. "Then a buggy, turning from the Bayfield road in a cloud of dust, stopped on the edge of the crowd and a heavy figure, with flowing mutton- chop whiskers under a wide, soft hat, made his way to the platform, There were shouts of 'Big Thunder' and 'a tempest of booing and. cheering. Final- ly Mr, Greenway made an earnest appeal to the meeting to give the obnoxious stranger a hearing, and the clamor sub- sided. "And he spoke. His words came with stormy fluency; there was tremendous volume and vigor, The conquest was complete. He seemed to sway the crowd as he would." He was Hon. E. B. Wood, of Brantford, who two years later resigned from the House No. 81 highway.: who .ropresented WE ARE STARTIN0 FALL PLA of NTING ._ Evergreens September 1 CALL US FOR INFORMATION We- will 410 to your a's', donee and advise you on your planting needs. Reder's Florist Phone 235.2603 t*elar of Commons to become Chief Justice of ;Manitoba,' So much for 1873. In the election of 1874 Mr. Cameron was again victor, Ilia. majority Was up. one, at SG, It availed little, for "through the. prelim, of friends, as one .ver- sit) has it, Mr. Cameron was unseated. A ,by-election for South ,Huron was held in 1835, and this time Mr.. Greenway was described as "Indepentl, me candidate, was unop- posed. The government at .0t, tawa at the time was that of Alexander Mackenzie, Liberal, and Greenway, according to Willison, "gave guarded sup- port to the Mackenzie govern- ment .and gradually establish- ed a working relation with the Liberal party, In fact, •theme. was an agreement before he was returned by acclamation that he would support the ad- ministration," * At the end of •his term, in 1878, the Western land boom was reverberating over the DO, minion, and. Torn Greenway and a party of siX joined the throng that was finding its way to the new province of Manitoba. His daughter Eva writes that Mr. Greenway "evidently de- voted ,his energy and skill to the building of the neighbor- hood of Crystal City, However, his reputation and skill in pub- lic affairs led him in 1879 to accept the nomination for the p ro vinci al constituency of Mountain, From that time he was either a member of Man- itoba Legislature or of the House of Commons until 3904 In 1908 he was appointed a member of the Dominion Railway Commission. He died in Ottawa, October 31, 1908," Dr. Fred Landon, former vice-president of the Univers- ity of Western Ontario, who for some years represented the London Free Press in . the Press Gallery at Ottawa, re, calls Mr. Greenway as one who seldom took part in the debates. "He was in the House be- fore the election of 1908," Dr. Landon states, "and I can still picture :him, an old man who never or seldom spoke in the debates. I do not recall ever speaking to him," • Tom Greenway in his Cent- ralia storekeeping days lived at Devon, a mile and a quarter north of Centralia, where there. was once a church and a hotel. The only building there now is E. L. Chaffe & Sons' garage. The Greenway house, last oc. cupied by Mr. Wickwire, was torn down last year, and only its foundations are discernible among the weeds. The old Huron Atlas shows that "W." Greenway owned part of • a lot north of Thomas Essery and the 'McCoys, immediately north of Centralia, Like Harpley, Offa and Pranceton, Devon is scarcely known by name to the present generation, The Devon Build- ing in Exeter perpetuates the title of the English shire. Tom Greenway had two bro- thers and two sisters, and there are many members of the family today in Manitoba and Ontario. Mr. Greenway's first wife. Annie Hicks, who tried in 1875, when he was MP for South Huron, bore him seven children, none now sur- viving. There were also seven children by his marriage to Emma Essery of 'Centralia, Some of these, including twins Elmo and Earle ("Nin and Tuck") remained at Crystal City: others became residents of Winnipeg. Miss Eva Green- YoU can bet your best fur coat WINTER WILL SOON BE HERE! CO•Ora EXETER DISTRICT One sister was married to Mr, Parsons, former postmaster - ,of Centralia, John Greenway of Crystal City, brother of Hon, Thomas, also Married A. Mies. Grace —; and they had •"milte A family," After her death be. took for his second wife Em- ma Elliott, "Mrs. Elliott was an .aunt of my husband," recalls Mrs. An. drew Hicks of Centralia, "and her husband was my uncle, James Elliott, Who died about 1937. She lived on with her mother, And finally they .mov- ed to Exeter, I don't know whether Aunt Emma was an old sweetheart of John Green- way's, but anyway he came back and, they wore married, They went to .Crystal City and later to Nelson, E.G., where Mr, Greenway died," Mary Anne (Pauline) Green- way, sister of the Manitoba premier was married to Dr. J. A. Hollins of Exeter, formerly of Creditors. Her sister Jane was married to Bev. John Holmes, a Methodist minister in the London Conference, sta- tioned at one time in Niles- town. Wendell Holmes, long WIPE'S MEMORIAL— "Erect- ed by Greenway" is inscribed on this memorial to his first wife, Annie Hicks, in an old cemetery south of Centralia RCAF Station. Ontario, where his circuits in- cluded Parkhill, Exeter, Bien. beim, Brussels, Dresden, Niles- town, St. Thomas, London, Bothwell, Lambeth and Talbot- vine, The Hicks family was also from Devon. Three brothers came out in 1846, it is recalled by George Hicks of Centralia, one of the second Canadian- born generation, Rich a r d Hicks, of the trio mentioned, was grandfather of Andrew way lives in the Manitoba * 'A' * capital, and Thomas Greenway in a suburb, East Kildonan, Hicks, South Huron member of the Legislatere from 1919 to 1923 (listed as "People's Party") and unsuccessful Con- servative candidate against 'Coin MacMillan of Tucker- in 1926 for the federal seat, The story of the Manitoba separate school controversy will bear retelling briefly, and the facts here are taken from the account in the book, From Sea Unto Sea, by W. G, Hardy, In the Manitoba Act, setting up the province in 1870, not only had French been made an official language but, though the province was given con- trot of its own educational policy, there was also a pro- vision that no law should be passed to prejudice any right or, privilege with respect to denominational schools which any class of person had by Jaw or practice at the time of the union. * This ensured that Roman Catholic separate schools would be supported by public funds. Though immigration had made Manitoba predominantly Eng- lish-speaking and Protestant-, the BC clergy achieved tight control of their schools as places to instill their faith. In 1890, under Greenway's administration, French as an official language was abolish- ed and a single systemof state - supported non - sectarian of militant protestantism, and who. later broke with Laurier over the educational clauses of the, Alberta and Saskatchewan Autonomy Bill, Ile backed Greenway strongly, and .tho provincial government contend- ed that if Roman Catholics could levy on public fonds, the right must ,be extended to Anglicans, .Presblyerians, .Mpth. odists, Mennonites and every other Christian sect, Manitoba therefore rejected the Ottawa order. Howell gave the provincial government . un- til •-,Tarmery, 189a, to reconaider. In that month the Manitoba government. appealed to the electorate and got a big vote of confidence. * 1,Lr Hewett then tried to push through in the Commons a remedial bill to re-establish separate schools in Manitoba, but seven of his ministers re- volted, Sir Charles Tupper, re- called from England to take charge, .tried to get the bill passed, but collided with in turn to page 3 time he was apprenticed to a tinsmith. When 21 he became proprie- tor of a general store in Centra- lia and within five years had become one of the more pros- perous men of the district. His first wife (Annie Hicks) died of what was called small- pox fever, Mr. Holmes' grand- mother, Jane Greenway, wife of Rev. John Holmes, disregarded all caution and with her mo- ther • went in to look after the family. Tom Greenway early took an interest in public affairs and in 1867 ran for reeve of the town- ship, This office he held for 10 years, "A' * In the Confederation election of 1867, being then 29, Tom Greenway ran as a Conserva- tive against Malcolm Colin Cameron, Goderich lawyer, aged 35. Looking back over the years, it would appear that much Canadian history hinged upon that contest in South Huron. Mr. Cameron won the seat by 171 majority. The same opponents met in 1872, when the reeve of Ste- phen carved Cameron's lead HON. THOMAS GREENWAY Stephen township farm. boy and gene- ral store operator at Centralia, Green- way served 10 years as reeve of his township and four in parliament be- fore going to the west. 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