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The Lucknow Sentinel
LLICKNOW, ONTARIO
"The Sepey Town"
the Hurop,Bruee Boundary
Aubrey's Obseryations
Established 1873
Published Wednesday
Published by Signal -Star Publishing Ltd.
Sharon J. Dietz - Editor
Anthony N. Johnstone - Advertising and
General Manager
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Subscription rate, $11 per year in advance
Senior Citizens rate, $9 per year in advance
U.S.A. and Foreign, $21.50 per year in advance
Business and Editorial Office Telephone 528-2822
Mailing Adress P.O. Box 400, Lucknow, NOG 2HO
Second class mail registration number - 0847
Where should the money -go?
Because the threatened loss of
hospital beds in small commun-
ities has given rise to some
sharp thinking about the disposi;-
tion .of public funds, we have
heard some interesting com-
ments from people on the street -
in recent weeks. Although there
are dozens of ideas about how .
and where tax and lottery money •
should go, one particular
thought seems to be prevalent.
In one form or another we
have heard many .people ex-
claiming about the availability of
• large handouts to non-essential,
causes such as professional
sports, while the chop falls on •
vital needs -like. health services.
Of course the obvious answer
• from politicians is that money •
• produced by a national lottery
cannot be used for a provincial
responsibility such as hospitals.
That is, quite true, but the
people whoprovide the funds
are all taxpaying citizens. ,They
don't really care who does the
collecting. They see that their
own money whether paid to the
municipality, to the provincial
government or to the federal
authorities is being used for
• purposes they consider trivial
.compared to the pressing need
• for services in their own corn -
munities. •
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- Nor are they so far from. the
truth. After • all, one of the
reasons for the cutbacks in
spending by the provincial min-
istry of health is thecurtailment
of federal grants to the provinces
for health care needs. It is true'
that money raised through the.
federal lottery is earmarked for.
sports and recreation, but if the •
federal minister has enough
• money available to promise $18
milliori.to arenas in the -large
• cities to aid the enfranchisement
of NHL hockey teams, perhaps it
is time to alter the earmarks.
-The Wingham Advance -Times
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Former Lucknow butcher turns 88
My Friends!
1 have a little news item,
that may interest a number
of you.
February 26 was our form-
er butcher, Joe MacMillan's,
88th birthday.
Now, it so happens that
Joe occupies the next room to
ours, and about six -thirty
that morning I was awakened
by a male voice with a strong
Scotch accent, singing, "I
belong to Lucknow, but
to -day Lucknow belongs to
me."
I thought I should pass this
on because I don't think a lot
of you will believe that Joe
could sing so well in the
morning. d
Last week, I wrote on my
feelings about organized lab.
our. I did not intend to give
the impression that labour
should not be organized. I
believe it absolutely neces-
sary that they should be in• all
types of employment, but I
do not believe that they
should do anything more
than protect their own inter,
est against Capitalism.
I do not think that organ-
ized labour should have any-
thing to do with the govern-
ment of the country any more
than as free citizens. They .
should vote for the man or
woman f their own'indivicl-
ual choice and not be Mild-
enced as many large groups :
of employees are to -day.
• I could write this article
about bur govetninent
much the same words, as I
used apeaking of the unions,
and end up the, same way. I
do not like it. •
Starting at the same time,
Canada worked itself out of
the dirty thirties, and with
good government, and a few
wise decisions made work for
every one and the country
prospered.
GREED
What •a mess we are in
to -day, because of a greedy
government that the people
have only themselves to
blame for, not taking enough
interest in what was happen-
ing. I mean by that, they
were content because things
were prospering in almpst
any line of pursuit without
taking a look into the future,
and left men in parliament
that had done just as they
. '
Now we are so far in debt
that the interest alone, a few
months ago, was over $1
million dollars a day, and I
just been a new loan of
several billion from Japan.
Friends, we are not far
from some sort of crash or
upheavel. Stop and take a
• careful look at 10 short years
ago, and try to make. an
• honest comparison with con-
ditions and prices of to -day.
After you have done that ask
yourself, if this continues for
another ten years in the same
manner, "Where are the
taxes corning from?" •
• There was a wonderful
editorial in the Sentinel last
week. One that every one
should read and think deeply
• about. ' •
It seems as though people -
• have to wait until the horse is:
• stolen before • they lock the
door.
It is a well known fact that
over half of the population of
Lucknow is over the retire-
ment age.
This fact to my way of
dunking', does not mean that
they should simply sit down,
and let the rest of the world
take care of itself.
• SEWERS
What about those sewers?
You knew ,12 years ago, as
.well as you know to -day, that
some day you were going to,
have to put them in.
• If there had been action
taken and a portion done
• each year, they could have
been in action now, and all
paid for at a fraction of what
the coat is going to be to -day.
, Supposing we get govern-
ment grants as subsidies.
Where does • that money
come from? It does not come
floating down the river at
Ottawa. No, you pay it in
.-your taxes, and after allthe
big shots get their high
Salaries, free•• transportation
• and entertainment allowan-
ces, then they go out and
borr�w inoney to keep you
- • satisfied. Qr at least to make
• it look a though they Avere
doing something for you.
• BED CLOSURES
It seems to take something
like this cancellation of beds
to get the people stirred up.
I may not be around to see
it, but ,unless the people, of
• this country start to think of
themselvds at once, they will
receive a ini.iCh greater shock
• than they are receiving now
in a very few years.
- • It will take some greatly
dedicated and Sincere men to
• put this country back on its
feet again, and Make the
• people free, as they used to
be.'
They wereso lucky to
BY SANDY NICHOLSON
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• Barbara MacDougall Saur, Sooke, B.C. •
continues her interest. in early history of
Kinloss. She has sent material found in the
1861 Censuswhichdates the building of the
log house on lot 8, concession 2, Kinloss
which my sisters Norma, Anna and I were
born. •
When the Census taker called, in Feb- •
mazy. of 1861, Norman and Ann Nicholson
• and their five children were living in the
small log shack, built in 1852Our grand-
mother died onDecember 8, 1861 when they
were living in the new house built' that year.
• in 1936, when my Aunt Margaret McMur-
chy was 84 she gave information about our
family which I never thought about asking
my father, Norman Nicholson and his wife
and a number of the folk from SkYe„ spent
their fist winter. in Canada working in a_ saw
mill near Brantford, Ontario to earn extra
money before going to a homestead. They
were expecting their first baby. Grand-
ve come to Canada
mother was able to earn enough washing
and • mending for the bachelors ao that they
did not need :to draw any* wages all winter..
They were counting on the extra Money they
would have, ,
Shortly before they finished sawing, 'the
owner asked grandfather, if he would like to
take the fine team he was driving on his
wage account. Norman replied that this
would be impossible as they would not be
• able toafford heriea for several years. A few
days later the sheriff seized horses, lumber
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The Norman Nicholson, house built in 1861 on lot 8,
concession 2 Klidoss. Norma, Mrs. Are* Maclntyre,
Anna, Mrs. Norman 'Wright, and A. M. [Sandy] Nicholson
were all born In h?use.
— [Photo by Marian Nicholson, 1930]
and all the assets. They received no wages
for a hard winter's work. Aunt Margaret was
horn there - Onandag, May .14, 1852.
• Martin MatInnes, Duncan and Alexander
MacKenzie, their wives and one child joined
the Nicholsoiis in travelling to Port Albert,
• North of Goderich by boat. The four women
and two babies were left at Port Albert while
the men set out to find temporary quarters
nearer the homesteads. Ashfield and Wawa
nosh had been - surveyed and settled just
after 1838 so there were no horneateads
closer than Kinloss.
The men found the large log building used
by the suiveyors. It 'was vacant and ideal for
a start. It took several trips to carry their ,
belongings they had brought from Scotland.
The women remained in this building till the
men located -homesteads, and built the first
shacks. •••
Martin Machines selected 10,7 concession
• 2 and Norman Nicholson took lot 8 just east
on the 2nd. They decided to build tlie first
Siianty'haifon7aiid'haifon8sothatthey ..
could move earlier, and start their residence
,requirements at once. .
Duncan MacKenzie took 200 acres on the
1 at concession where the Donald Maclntyre
family, now reside: His brother Alexander
had 200 acres just west. It appears that
• David, William and James Hdnderson and
Duncan and Alexander MacKenzie were the
original 'owners of this 1,000 acre block,
including -part of Lucknow novv.
Aunt Margaret was 9 when her mother
died. Seventy-three years later, in 1936, she
recalled for me a conversation betWeen her
parents just a short time before her mother's
• death.
They were so Ificky to . have to come to
Canada! 'They could never have owned a
house of their own hi Skye. They had five
healthy children, and the future would be
Much brighter in Canada4hey were expect -
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