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LLOYD TANNER DOUGLAS LITTLE,
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TODAYt. CHILD
BY HELEN ALLEN
Noise and profane music
H uron council concern in 1867
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SHE-NEEDS LOVING FAMILY
Elizabeth is five and extremely pretty with blue eyes,
brown hair and fair skin. Her background is Scottish.
This child is in good general health but was born with
cerebral palsy (lack of muscle eontrol), which :iandl:;aps her
only mildly. Her balance is poor, she walks awkwardly and
has limited use of her right hand. She wears orthopedic
boots because of flat feet aid to help her walking.
'Despite these difficulties Elizabeth is very active and
plays all the games other children do. She has a tricycle
and manages it well, Her hand is more help to her than she
realizes because she can use it when reminded and when
on a swing she holds the ropes with both hands. She goes
to the Crippled Children's Centre about every three months
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Elizabeth goes to 'senior kindergarten in the afternoons.
She is considered to be a slow learner but her foster mother .
says she is keeping up with her classmates.
Elizabeth has a good memory. She comes home full of
eager stories about school and likes to sing school songs and
commercials heard on television and radio. '
An affectionate child, Elizabeth is accustomed to m••ch
attention from tier foster parents and their three older
children. She needs a loving home where her liMitations
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closely with a medical team in the interests of helping their
adopted daughter.
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Huron county council in 1867,
the well-preserved minutes
show, cracked down on noisy
games, the running of races,
gambling of any kind, and "pro-
fane music." In a bylaw "to
make provision for the prevention
of nuisances and immoralities
within the county," it started by
prohibiting Sunday work, but snb-
sequent "no no" sections do
not appear to have been related
to Sunday exclusively, One of
these forbade "pretending to tell
fortunes."
Council probably overstepped
the legislative jurisdiction of se-
nior bodies, as in its Sunday
law: "It shall not be lawful for
any person whatsoever to sell
or expose for sale, or purchase,
trade or barter any wares, mer-
chandise, goods or chattels on
the Sabbath or Lord's . Day."
Not specifically related to the
Sabbath is a section making it
unlawful to ''dance or play any
profane music to the annoyance
of any person."
Banned also was the sale
''of any spirits or intoxicating
liquor to any child, apprentice,
servant or idiot without consent
of the parent, master, legal pro-
tector of such person or child."
The bylaw banned the erec-
tion of any indecent placard, or
the uttering of any "profane oath
or oaths."
The penalty upon conviction
under any of these provisions
was ,to be $1 to $20, at discre-
tion of the Justices of the Peace.
Dealt with at one of 010867
sessions was the evidently a-
•larming situation regarding theft
of horses. A reward of $20
was offered for any person who
- shall .pursue and apprehend" a
horse thief.
Confederation brought no
change in the council's con-
stitution, as it was formed in
1841, but 'it so happened that Bruce
at the end of 1866 withdrew from
the United Counties, with
Walkerton as county town. Huron
council decided that the reduction
in number of reeves and deputies
justified a cut in the clerk's
salary, and Peter Adamson re'-
ceived $500 in that year. (The
treasurer was paid $1,200, the
county engineer $800.)
It was also decided that "even
when Bruce was connected with
the county the clerk did not find
sufficient work to require his
remaining in Goderich for the
week succeeding each session of
council, and it is evident that
to require him to attend at
Goderich for the whole week can-
not be justified, nor the incon-
venience and expense to him,
without any equivalent benefit to
the public."
Mr. Adamson had been reeve
of Stanley for 11 years, and at
this time evidently had not bought
the house on Church Street, God-
erich, in which lie lived for the
rest of his life.
In the clerkship lie had suc-
ceeded D,H, Ritchie, of Bayfield,
who was soon to be Conservative
candidate for the House of Com-
mons in South Huron. Remain-
ing in county council, however,
were almost all the other can-
didates for both Houses. Joseph
Whitehead, reeve of Clinton,
nominated by the Reform conven-
tion there, went on to win the
North Huron seat at Ottawa. war-
den Robert Gibbons, .reeve of
Goderich, captured the South
Huron seat in .the Legislature,
defeating Isaac,Carling, reeve of
Exeter, but Mr. Carling got the
seat, temporarily, on an election
petition in 1868. Malcolm Colin
Cameron, who won the South
Huron seat in the Commons, was
not in county council, but had been
a member of Goderich council
for some years.
A report to council in 1868
showed revenue from toll gates
in the preceding year as $10,337.
'Council approved the erection '
of Seaforth to village status,
with right to, a reeve.
County Clerk Adamson, sub-
sequently described asa • a perfect
encyclopedia of municipal lore,"
evidently was author of a set
of rules of order which council
in this year adopted.
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