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GRE Y TOWNSHIP
1867 - 1967 •„i
4..eiethoration
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FLOATS
-- Best Oid Time 1st $25, 2nd $15
i3ebt Cornie 1st $25, 2nd $15
,-- Oldest Car Running 1st $25
--rest Antique Car 1st $15
5 ivtost C,,lorfui float, purely ornamental,
::null .$15
6 — Best Horse Drawn Entry 1st $25, 2nd $15
Overall ,winner to be picked from all categories and
awarded $25 .
PERSONAL ENTRIES
1 — Best Costume 1st $15, 2nd $5
2 Best Clown 1st $15.
3 — 3est Public School pupil 1st $10
Parade will start at 12:30 p.m. from Ethel Ball Park
by County Road to the New Grey Central School. All entries
must be listed with parade Committee by June 12.
Parade Committee: President Jack Conley, Secretary
Edwin Krauter, . Murray Cardiff, Bill Mann, • Ross Smith,
Ken McDonald, Murray Hoover, Robert Bremner. Cent nn
Report
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HISTORY OF
GREY TOWNSHIP
Farms on the 15th & 16th
Concession of Grey Township
By Donald McDonald
11 sH,ins timt in the spring of
1S11.1 the first settlers moved
onto the 15th and 16th concessions
of (Ivey Tov,-nship. By 1861
sonic of the early settlers CO
the 15th (•one, ssion were Jame*
and Thomas Hislop, reter
McDonald. John Sellers, Hindi
sr.ti•wart, Tlionias Dougherty,
`}mantis; Kent, and Andrew Turn.
bull, On the 16th Thonmo
Theobis Breadfoot, Churn-
: .; . !Whorl- and Smait
bough's. James McDonald, Dua
can Mc:Marlin. floury Pall,
Sarnes Mark and Theina,s John.
:Mail. Also nernen
on the 17th Concession are John,
Thomas. imd 7.,.1cPatizenn,
Itugh 'McPhail, lames Ramsay,
lano,s Smiley and Donald MS.
Martin,
Grey Town ,dup wa ,: formed into
fl 51•ParZitn WiinHilwlity in 1.8.;"(1
and the first Nurricil Nmsisted of
Peter 'McDonald, Peter Ferguson,
Robert T.,eckie, John Robertson,
and Thomas 14 trachan, Peter Mc-
Donald was elected chairman. and
Duncan Ferguson was appointed
secretary rit the meeting, Peter
McDonald was appointed reeve,
a poHiion ‘chteil 1)n 11''l(1 ror piny
- The. Cottricil.
appointed John Stewart the first,
Townsillip Clerk Peter McDanald
(the first reeve of thi , township)
tors
Phone 56 Brussels
••114.,.• s.,,,••••••
was JOY ,,reat grandfather .,,30
Wtry ashen to write a short histOry
of the McDonald family,
Peter ..\]cDonald chose Lot 1,
(iwo 1'5, Grey Township, to seALle
in, tin: spring of 1X,52. They had.
a. family four sons and three
girls. Their names wore Peter
On, Jtt 11.1,eS, John, Joan, Bella and
Margaret .Three of the boys,
Peter, Dan and Joan, moved to
he state of Michigan and settled
lu the neckerville, area to farm.,
John returned to the Brussels
area before he died. jean married
Duncan Campbell ' and lived on
Lot 7, Con, 16, Grey, and then
moved to Egnionville. Bella mar-
ried Jim Drone. They moved to
Detroit, Margaret remained single
and lived in a small house which
Stood in, the corner field of Jim
McDonald's present farm. Jarnes;
tire other seri stayed in this area
to farm, Fre married Mary Teifor
and settled onLot 1, C011. 16 Grey,
which he took out of bush. lie
had a family of four boys and*
four girls, Their names were
Peter, who farmed in the Crab-
brook area for a while and then,
lamed 10 Maack, Soskatcheman,
\vhere he farmed, got married,
raised ono girl, Mary, who is mar-
ried tra Jim Spoir, formerly of
Brussels. Thomas. also went west
to ,-:Iiskatchewan, settled in the
4eala ndi a area, married and,
raised a family of three girls.
John married Gertrude Campbell
fl!Irl bought the Telfor farm Ott.
Lot 6, ('on. 16 of Grey Township.
Later he acquired tile Stewart
and 0 Connor farms. MS family`
consisted of Alvin, at home, and
raised one girl, Mary, who ih Mkt'.
married \\ illiam Icratiter and
vod they.purl a. family
Of three boys and two girls.
Ed. of New York. Russell or
Listowel, Albert of Toronto,
Grace of Toronto and Mary (Mrs.
Evei(‘It Errilmion) of Goderieh.
ifit ,”k•ii ,r1 Willitltrt McFad-
z-ean and lived in the Walton.
pre,i. They lad eh!, ThomaS,
who married rAtth Maeravish OC
BrusseN, They now reside fri,
TO r(711,t0., 0111.(:(3 mar ried Angus
Rig Will lived in the Walton
area tor awhile, later moved to
Seafortil .,y.here she now resides.
They had otie daughter, Margorie,
NV ill, td50 Vs at Senforth, Agues
married, Peter Ritchie and they
moved west to the Zettlantlia
droa (It Saslotchewan, They had (1
family of two, 111.ary and Charles,
James, the youngest, chose to
r011tain home and farm his
dad's farm, lie married the form.,
far .1,:(.1ini Knight and raised •a
family of three, Mary, who is
3110 i cJ 10 Sl urray 11 no: her •
and Ii10;,. ni i31'11SSPIS, EL$1111001
v'hu livesi 11 -Norris '1'ovvnship
OIL the former Knight. farm nnd.
honald 1e'110 Ifl r Lots 1. and 2
concession 15, Grey.
The original farm that Peter
:',1cl'ionald settled (Lot 1, Con 15)
\vas sold to Shouldiee and
I purchased it from his grandson,
Shouldice, in 1951. Also
haek In the early years there
was situated on the corner of the
bit a hotel turd 0 number 01'
houto's, which have long since
been demolished. 1 can remember
,s hoy finding an old English
penny dated 1854 and some oil
dishe6 and crockery up there.
This has been a inlet history
ui the family and descendants of
Peter -McDonald emigrant of
Scotland, who with the help of
his soih; look Lot 1, Con. 1,5, and
Lot 1, Con. 16, out of the
blush, lioN‘'Cver, only- one farm stud it is now owned by Mr
(IllailtiuS to be a centennial farm -,ilidson. .1a.mos 1 ,,:! Donald.
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