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Village Squire, 1980-04, Page 23PEOPLE Claus Breede has been appointed the director of the Minnie Thomson Museum and the Perth County historical collection in Stratford. Mr. Breede has been with the Bruce County Museum, Southampton for the past two years, and before that, worked at the Royal Ontario Museum (ROM), Toronto. The museum director has an extensive background in archaeology and underwater archaeology along the French and Winni- peg fur trade routes. He's also the co-author, with David Newlands, of a book called Introduction to Canadian Archaeology, and is now working on an accompanying nandbook. Mr. Breedewill be starting his new job in May. His first task will be to develop a long range museum policy covering local pre- history, the Canada Company and settle- ment patterns in this part of southwestern Ontario. Mr. Breede, his wife Dagmar and their young son will be moving to Stratford with their 6,000 volume reference library in the .late summer, A former Huron County area woman is to be the first woman in Canada to be in charge of a federal prison for men. Mary Dawson of Warkworth was born in Wingham area and is the daughter of Mn. Rena Fisher of Wingham and the late George Fisher, formerly of Whitechurch. She had worked as an office manager for the Queen's University Arts and Sciences Society in Kingston when she met her husband Robert Dawson, a former resident of Listowel who worked at the Kingston Penitentiary. In 1967, he was transferred to the new Warkworth institution and Mary applied and got a job as secretary to the warden. In 1975, because she had developed a keen interest in the work, she applied and got the job of assistant warden. Anniversaries celebrating SO years of married life are becoming more common, but a Seaforth couple recently celebrated 70 years of marriage. Mr. and Mrs. David Papple of Seaforth, who now live in Huronview, Clinton, were married on March, 1910 at the Egmondville United Church manse. Mrs. Papple, the former Isabella Monk, is 88 years of age, and Mr. Papple is 94 years old. The couple farmed in Tucker - smith Township until moving into Seaforth in 1946. The couple raised a family of 11 children, and they now have 31 grandchildren and 41 great grandchildren. Their children are Mrs. Roy (Ella) West of London; Mrs. Wallace (Mary) Pringle of Brantford; Mrs. Scott (Annie) Kerr of Dorchester; Mrs. Elmer (Myrtle) Scott of California; Mrs. William (Glave) Little of R.R. 1, Seaforth) Mrs. Douglas (Edna) Stinson of London; Gordon of R.R. 5, Seaforth; William of Egmondville; Earle of Seaforth and Lloyd of London. A son Robert, who served in the armed forces, was killed overseas in 1944. A Kippen native, Dr. James A. Traquair, son of Mr. and Mrs. Murray Traquair of Kippen has been awarded a grant from the Alberta Research Council (Farming for the Future Programme). Dr. Traquair is a plant pathologist at the Agriculture Canada Research Station in Lethbridge. His Farming for the Future project would try to develop procedures for screening winter wheat for snow mold resistance under controlled environmental conditions. tmARSHALLS ?sr motYs iSO- 152 Qv( EN ST. GR.iNO CENTRAL MOTEL 1547 - 147 c = tsE AWL- — L= A;!_ � _ Eea r'1• -17 fflRSHLL'S The Grand Central Hotel built in 1 b4.;. u'as for decades a welcom- ing place to spend the night. Today it is a group of three connecting shops. What was once the lane for horses & buggies to reach the stable at the back is now a charming CARD & CANDLE SHOP. The original bar is now the LADIES WEAR with its handcraft section. Browse on into the GIFT SHOP, once the dining room, where lull use has been made of the charm of this old building. y ►- , tarty of the original antiques are used to display imports from around tlu' world. of Si. fflRYS "WHERE THE UNUSUAL IS USUAL" GIFT SHOP LADIES WEAR CARD SHOP 150 QUEEN ST. "DO COME VISIT US SOON" 284-3070 VILLAGE SQUIRE/APRIL 1980 PG. 21