HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Lucknow Sentinel, 1980-07-16, Page 6SottiSh.piOneOrs
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On the HuronpBruce Boundary
Established 1873
Published Wednesday
SHARON J. DIETZ - Editor
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"Little. 'Rctsett4
Lucknow's "Little Rascals" have a prob-
lem. They have their ball, bits-and gloves.
They've got their running shoes on. They
have a dedicated coach, Joan Hamilton.
They even have new team shirts; nice blue
ones with, their names on them..
But the "Little Rascals" don't have
enough, girls interested in playing ball to
field a team.
They know they're ready to playa game
and win or lose, they don't mind. They are
looking forward to the fun of the sport.
The girls belong to the junior girls
softball team and their looking for any, girl
BY BARRYIVENGER
Something I find extremely difficult to
understand is, the increasing caution of the
board of governors of the Wingham and
District Hospital. A motion passed at the
hospital association's annual meeting,
which ratified an earlier board decision,
will permit only a few designated persons
to make any statements about hospital
business.
During 19 years of service on that same
hospital board, four of them as vice-chair-
man and chairman, I can recall no occasion
on which it was deemed necessary to
impose any rule of silence on board
members. Those members are either
elected or appointed to the board as
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under the age of 12 who would like to have
some fun.
The slimmer is passing quickly and there
isn't much of the baseball season left. They
• would so like to show off their new shirts
and getthe experience of playing at least a
Couple of ,games this summer.
Any girl interested can come to the ball
park Mondays or Wednesdays at 4 p.m.
when the Rascals bold their practices. Or
they can call Joan, Hamilton, the teatiVs1
coach at the Mayfair Restaurnat, 528-3932.
The girls will, share their equipment if
any prospective teanimate doesn't have a
glove, And if you come, bring a friend.
representatives of various municipalities
and organizations on which the hospital
dependS for support. Thus they have, not
only the right, but the obligation to speak
openly to any of their constituents when
questions are asked.
Obviously some aspects of hospital
administration must be held in confidence;
personal matters relate to staff problems
and discussions of any business•which is in
process of being resolved at a future date.
However, in either such instance the
appropriate committee should be dealing
with the subject and committee delibera-
tions are, quite properly held in camera.
Only the final report of the committee need
be presented to the open board.
Quite frankly, had any such restriction of
silence been imposed upon me as a board'
member I would have refused to comply,
even at the risk of "impeachment",
mentioned as a possibility. During those 19
years on the hospital board I represented
the people of Wingham and recognized my
responsibility to keep all who were
interested fully informed about board
decisions.
At the annual meeting it was stated that
"The hospital...is counting on the whole-
hearted support of the community." And
again, the need for "financial and moral
support from the public" in order to
provide health services.
I certainly do not suggest that the
hospital board is attempting to do business
in secret, nor that there are inefficiencies
to be kept under wraps. It is for that very
reason that I totally disagree with
regulation which enforces silence on the
majority of board members. The general
public will inevitably come to the wrong
conclusions about the conduct of hospital
business at the very time when public
support and confidence are so obviously
needed.
—The Wingham Advance-Times
BY SANDY. NICtIOLSON
This is a picture, enlarged from a
snapshot taken in 1916. Rennie Graham,
President of the A. W. Miles company of
Toronto has supplied this picture of his
maternal grandmother who happened to be
my aunt. When she, was 84, -twenty years
after this picture was taken, I wrote, a story
about her for the Lucknow Sentinel in 1936.
I. do not have a' copy of the article,but, I
remember that she answered many ques-
tions I never thought of asking my father.
She knew that she had been born in
Onandago, where a number of the Scottish
folk who had come to Canada had spent •
their first winter.
They had found out that the nearest land
for homesteading would be in Bruce county
which had not been all surveyed. They
were told that if they went by boat to. Port
Albert it would be closet to available land
thari Goderich would be. As she was born
on May 14, 1852, she was very young when
four couples with two infants arrived in
Port Albert.
Duncan and Alexander MacKenzie,
Martin' Maclnnes and Norman Nicholson
and their spouses made up the party. Two
of the women could speak English and very
little Gaelic, and the others had the
opposite problem.
The women, children. and all their
worldly possessions were left by Lake
Huron with some canvas to cover the
belongings, while .the men went inland to
find a half way place where they could
leave the women till they found land and
built their shack. They were lucky to find
the buildings which the surveyors had left
after surveying Ashfield. and Wawanosh in
1836 and 1838. When the men returned to
Pert Albert they found an Indian encamp-
ment. Although the Indiansrdid not molest
them, they were happy to see the men.
When the men reached Kinloss they
found that David, William, and James
Henderson each had 200 acres of the 1,000
acres in Kinloss immediately west of
Lucknow. These lots on concession 1 were
school land and were more expensive. The
MacKenzie brothers, Alexander and Dun-
can decided they would take the remaining
290 acres each. Martin Machines and
Norman Nicholson could not afford more
than 100, so they squatted on lots 7 and 8
on the second concession of Kinloss.
Ten years after they had left Scotland,
my aunt heard interesting conversation she
never forgot. In February of 1851 Norman
Nicholson and his wife, Ann were living in
their log shack where four of their five
children were born when the Census was
taken. But after the snow came, her
Parents were so happy they came to
Canada. They had the big log house where
50 years later my sisters and I Were born.
They could never have had a honse like
that in Scotland.
They were expecting their sixth 'child.
But this time there were problems. .David
Henderson, the only neighbour with
horse went to Goderich and waited to guiide
the Doctor. Although aunty was only nine,
she remembered the Doctor shaking his
head, saying "It is too late, if I had been
here earlier, it might have been diffetent."
Forty eight hours had passed. Her mother
died on December 8, 1851`.
She remembered that Mrs.'Jim Fisher's
father made the coffin. There was, no
undertaker in Lucknow. Four men • with
handspokes would carry the coffin, for a
diStance, when four Others would take a
turn while they dropped to the back of the
line.. They were just a mile from the South
Kinloss Cemetery.
Margaret married John McMurchy and
spent most of her life on the 4th concession
of Huron Township, about two miles West ,
of. the Huron Kinloss boundary. Of the'
family of five sons and three daughters,
Alex of Whitby is the only survivor.
Bessie married Angus Graham and lived
on the fourth of Kinloss where all the
children attended the Grey Ox School.
Margaret and Anna have died. I hope
Mary, Jean, Dorothy, Rennie and Allan
will all write something for the Grey Ox
Publication.
Cassie married Allan MacAuley of
Huron Township. Cameron, their only 'son
is also interested in the Grey Ox as one of
his great grandfathers, Norman Nicholson
paid his money for lot 11 concession 3
Kinloss at the big land sale in 1854.. This
was the land on which the school was later
built.
My aunt did riot discuss in 1936 what she
did in 1903 when our mother died. My
sister Anna was just thirteen months old
when our mother died on May 17, 1903
shortly after we moved from where we had
been born to the house where the Donald
,MacIntyre family are living on the N.H, of
lots 67 and 68, Kinloss.
Aunt Margaret has lost' her own husband
before their youngest son, Alex was born in
1898. She was 52 but she took Anna' and
gave her the loving care she had giveri her
own children till Anna was ready to go to
school. By this time, Anna preferred to
stay with "Aunty". 'They thought that
since she was calling her father "Uncle
Alex" it was time she got to know him
better. I regret taperecorders were not
available in 1936 when my aunt's memory
and outlook on life were so fresh!
Sudden need for caution