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presentation. or it someone moved
away you'd have a presentation."
Dorine left her teaching job soon
after they were married to, as she
says, "become the hired man". In
reality she became a very active
partner in all aspects the farm work.
This included combining, cutting hay
with the haybine, doing the chores,
and myriad of other work common to
a family farm operation, as well as
raising two children. "I enjoyed the
farm work, I really enjoyed it," she
says, and indicated she would do it all
over again in a heartbeat.
Dorine and Ralph shared the
school bus driving duties for
28 years and have many good
memories of those times. In 1966 the
Duncan school closed and they
transported the students to Union for
two years until that school closed and
all the rural students were bused into
town. One of the delightful stories
they have is of the first school bus
that was used in that area in the
1 940s.
"Harold Boyle made the first
school bus to take the high school
kids into town. He made it. He was to
have the bus ready for September, but
he didn't have it ready, so his
brother-in-law took the kids for a few
trips in the stock truck." The bus was
also used to take busloads to hockey
games. They remember the bus
having seats down each side, a seat
across the back and a bench down the
middle which was straddled.
Duncan lies above the Beaver
Valley near the top of the Niagara
Escarpment. The McGuires explain
that years ago the rough, wooded area
south of the open farmland was
mainly pasture farms and bush lots.
Farmers down the "lower loth"
(Collingwood Township) would drive
their cattle up to this area, known as
the Commons, for the summer. There
were no fences and often there would
be a couple of hundred head of cattle
roaming the area.
Ralph elaborates, "The cattle
could go clear to Toronto if they
wanted, but what would happen if
they got too far south into Osprey,
they would set the dogs on them and
drive them back into the Commons. It
was quite a shenanigan in the fall to
get the cattle to the right man, to get
them sorted out. Sometimes they
would get the wrong cattle,