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22 THE RURAL VOICE
worse of liquor so that they had to be
thrown out. There was always
someone capable of throwing you out
if you did not behave yourself."
Still, the different traditions of the
pioneers' homelands were still in
evidence, Green writes.
"One Christmas, I remember we
lived at Dungannon, as my father
worked for Thomas Disher in the
woollen mill. Mr. Disher's ancestors
were Dutch, and wishing to keep up
the traditions of his Dutch ancestors,
he had a suckling pig dressed for
Christmas. I remember father taking
(his brother) David and me over to
Disher's to see the table spread for
the banquet. I remember the little pig
standing in the middle of the table
upon a long platter, looking as if it
was alive. Now, don't mistake me;
we were not at this banquet, but
Scotch William McArthur and some
of the other aristocrats from the
village were there ..."
Part of the leisure life of the
community in those days would
appall many in the more "civilized"
world of today.
"Then there were the old-time
hunting and shooting matches, where
two parties chose captains, about 20
to each side, on a certain set day,
starting at 9:00 o'clock in the
morning and quitting at 4:00 p.m. ,"
h.; writes. "The parties chosen
walked to the bush and hunted inside
a certain limit. Partridges scored 30,
rabbits 10, coons 40, foxes 100,
black squirrels 19, red squirrels 5,
chipmunks 5, woodpeckers 15 and so
on, and whichever side had the game
that scored the highest won. The
losers had to pay for an oyster supper
for the winners and for the fiddlers at
the ball that night. Sometimes the
supper was held at Point Farm (the
luxury resort hotel that was on the
site of today's Point Farm provincial
Park)."
In the 1860s people still lived an
isolated life, no railways, no
telegraph, not even newspapers in
most communities. But in another 20
years community newspapers began
to spring up. "Many people's
entertainment came from the
newspaper articles in their local
paper," says Ann -Marie Collins of
the Bruce County Museum and
Cultural Centre.
Researching through newspapers