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The Huron Expositor • June 17, 2009 Pogo 7
Seaforth students learn about rigours of life 150 years ago
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straw held together by tight ropes.
Underneath the bed, they found
something that looked a little unfa-
miliar.
."There was no indoor plumbing, so
when it was too cold to go outside to
the outhouse, or if they were sick,
they used a chamber pot," Spittal
told the group, whose faces contorted
as they tried to consider the rigors of
the 150 -year-old lifestyle.
A further search of the bedroom
turned up a tobacco pipe made of
bone and a pair of hair curlers, which
were heated in the fireplace's coals
before they were used to curl hair.
A list of Egmondville businesses
from the era listed outside the set-
tler home gave the students a better
idea about what daily life was like in
the -1880s.
A walk through the town in those
days would find a saddle shop, black-
smith, brewery, fur dealer, gun shop,
undertaker and more than a dozen
other shops and services.
Constant Van Egmond, the Colo-
nel's eldest child, built the family's
house next to the plot of land where
his father's body was buried in
1838.
He died in York (now Toronto), af-
ter being captured and held in con-
finement by government forces for
his role in Upper Canada Rebellion
of 1837.
Retired teacher Bill Farnell,
dressed as a 19th century physician,
demonstrated to the students what a
soldier in those days had to endure if
a limb needed to be amputated dur-
ing battle.
"An amputation would take only
three minutes," Farnell told the
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group, laying
one student vol-
unteer on the op-
erating table to
demonstrate.
After applying
a tourniquet, the
surgeon would
slice two capi-
tal letter 'C's'
around the limb
and then use a
larger amputa-
tion knife to slice
through to the
bone.
Farnell didn't
hold back any
details from the
students with
his description Peter Spittal describes the muzzle -loading rifles In the display case at the
of the brutal pro- Van Egmond House to a Grade 3 class from Seaforth Public School.
cedure, telling job by sawing through the bone and
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them the physician would finish the cauterizin g the wound using a red-
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hot poker.
After the surgical
demonstration, the stu-
dents were led to the
backyard garden by Van
Egmond Foundation vol-
unteer Pat Saundercock,
where they learned how
the Van Egmond family
grew their own vegeta-
bles and spices.
"We did quite an
extensive pioneering
unit and this really re-
inforces what they've
learned," said Grade 3
teacher Michelle Young.
"But they're also seeing
things they can't see in
the classroom. It's very
hands-on and a great
experience with the pio-
neer -atmosphere."
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