Village Squire, 1975-03, Page 22Book Review
Auburn history ...
an interesting
history even
for outsiders
Just about the only kind of book that
regularly gets published in our own area is
the local history book.
At one time or another nearly every town,
village, township and hamlet has its history
written up and most are interesting only to
those who are interested in their community
enough to wade through interminable amount
of local trivia. In other words, to the outsider,
they're about as interesting as last week's
newspaper.
The committee of the Auburn Women's
Institute that was in charge of rewriting a
history of that Huron county hamlet (an
earlier history was written in 1948) has done a
better than average job of producing a local
history. Much of the book, of course, is
devoted to local things: like a listing of every
minister at every church in the village from
1848 to 1973. There was a lot of work went in
to the research for the book though because
one of the local features is a short history of
every house in the village. Do you know the
.history of your house if it was built more than
a dozen years ago?
But to the outsider there is still a good deal
of interest in the book. The committee has
managed to gather a very good collection of
early photographs of the village that gives an
authentic feel of what it must have been like
in a small western Ontario town in the period
just after the pioneer years.
There are some interesting stories of the
early industries of this once thriving village.
These industries were the same. kind of
industries that sprang up in many other towns
in the area. There was a brewery, something
unheard of in a small town today.
There was an apple evaporator which dried
apples for shipment to Europe. An excellent
short history is given of this business that
shows the ebbs and flows of the business to
the point where the industry eventually died.
These same ebbs and flows were followed in
so many other businesses that eventually
went broke in small towns.
The popularity of the book in its own
community is evidenced by the fact it is
going into a second printing after being sold
out of the first 500 copies (the village has a
population of under 300). For those interested
in the history of these small towns that
blossomed in the late 1800's, then wilted, this
might be an interesting book to get.
THE HISTORY OF AUBURN, 1848-1973.
$3.95. O
20, VILLAGE SQUIRE/MARCH 1975
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