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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.
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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.
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"WHERE THE UNUSUAL IS USUAL"
GIFT SHOP LADIES WEAR CARD SHOP
150 QUEEN ST.
"DO COME VISIT US SOON"
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