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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Goderich Signal-Star, 1963-03-21, Page 11• a Clean r'with. sim ,Of tet Xiek a s a ns, FAR RAN c YI141 location VTHH With Sta. E us SCHOOL, !Navy officer. He had. two Sis- ters, Sarah and ,Agnes. When the, first church of England clergyman was stationed 'at Goderich. in 1834, .before a ree tory was- ready 'for him, D. Hamilton "obtained for him" a house Themes Kneeshaw had built for himself. So Rev. R. F, Campbell moved in, and Mr. neeshaw got married later. About 1837, the young con:, gregation'"installed square pews and 'a double -deck pulpit in Dr. Morgan Hamilton's barn on West street." . Thereafter, the ,-doctor wal; a prominent parish- ioner, and his signature is found in the. early records as witness to- marriages. 196 Toronto n 11.12 ese three slightly perpleed people are titullarr ly puzzling h problem posedby. panel Jan Millar, Margaret "Morris and Allan modey,ator Paul Soles, the mho who asks anings; permanent panelists on CBC -TVs • them to identify once -famous people or nday evening s e r i g $ , Flashback. The objects, on this weekly television program.. ause of their perplexity? No Vdoubt a par - By: W. E. Elliott "From Goderich we started t for Kincardine with two ds and got to Port Albert, d justgthen Dr. Hamilton had - me off the ice with -a cutter, we thought we would try e lake." So wrote William Swafiield, lalling experiences while aming supplies ' for settlers d merchants in the winter of 56.7. He added: "The ice acked as we went over - it. e got through, but had to he ady to jump." Travel over frozen Lake Hu- -PRO Of 'Y STING .15 sed Car Permit n Suspension - Spare Time His practice left him time for other activities. The Canada Directory for 1851 shows "M. Hamilton" as deputy clerk of the Crown. Clerk of the peace at the time was the Daniel Liz - ars whom Hamilton had rescued from the schooner Rob .Roy 18 years earlier. The doctor dab- bled in real estate, for with George Brown, Jr., he acquired Lots 25 and 26 in Concession 1, Goderich Township in 1848, and earlier the Canada Company had granted him Lot t4 in Con- cession C, which appears to have been land west of the present new separate school on Bennett street. Indeed, pr. Hamilton was one of a small group of gentlemen who pretty well ran things. When Capt. Alexander Mac- Gregor (he of the schooner Rob Roy), made a success of the Main Station island hsheries and had a contract to supply a Detroit company with a mini- mum of 3,000 barrels of fish annually, envy arose among his fellow townsmen of Goderich. They had the ear of the govern- ment and represented that United States interests were getting undue advantage in an exclusive contract, 4s a result, a lease was granted conferring the sole right of fishing at the islands upon a company includ- ing Dr. Hamilton, Dr. William Dunlop and W. S. Gooding. MacGregor had to give up the industry, tried Toberrnory, Cape Croker and Manitoulin with little success, and died on ron was not unusual, as con- the Huron road was carved temporary records attest. It is from the bush, but young. Doc- understndabte as an .alterna- tor Hamilton could hardly .have tive to tine -i.rsh trails that pass- enjoyed an extensive practice, ed for' roads. Mr. Siwaflield, even though he took in Port later a farmer . in Goderich Albert by way of the lake. Township, has left on record The life story of the Huron that in 1856 there was not a County town's first medical mail gravel road in Huron — none should be worthy of research until Perth was reached. by the Huron Medical Associ- ,, ation. What did a physician in Dr. Morgan Hamilton, here Upper Canada -do for his pat - mentioned as on his way to idents a century and a quarter Port Albert via lake ice, was a ago? Why did.he come to this young "Irishman evidently in- tiny settlement? Innumerahlq different to danger. First record potential sources consulted by of him in Goderich is in char- this writer in the past four actor. When Captain Mac- years have yielded only odds Gregor's two -masted schooner and ends of information. Rob Roy stranded in a storm . To present Whir -little routine- while outinewhile bringing Daniel. Lizars, biography is available, Morgan his mother and seven children, James Hamilton was born on from Detroit, Dr. Hamilton August 14, 1810, in. -Cork, Ire - "stood up in a small boat.•,and I land, where his/rather was a called out in his cheery way, 'Hand 'me .the darlings,' and such darlings as were liandable were ‘given to him. The ` quotation is from the book, "In the Days of the Can- ada C•ompany." The authors, seldom concerned with dates, John Thomas Nethery, of ondesboro, was fined $75 and �sts in magistrate's court last hursday for having , a driver's ermit while his licence was spended. He was also fined $50 and osts or_seven days in jail for aving liquor in a place other han residence. - supplied here. the information He said he had obtained a that the Rob Roy affair was in conte in Barrie to drive his October, 1833. That is interest ar home from 'there after his ing, inasmuch as it shows Mor - suspended for six OnHamilton to have been 23 November 14 it years of ace. In his day, medi- cal students took no courses as we knoW them, but appren- ticed themselves to practising physicians, as Hamilton doubt-, less did. in Ireland. In 1833 ---Th asno ung much at Goderich in 1833. Officially, the town dates from 1827, when ,Airman Flne+d a Can Two,. Count James Allister Dyall, 17, of RCAF Station, Clinton, SatUr- I day was fined -$1Q and costs or five days in jail on a charge of driving with an expired 1962 operator's, licence. Tall, arrested at London early Saturday, was charged specifically, under the Highway Traffic Act. for not having a valid licence. An additional $25 fine or al- ternative five-day jail term was imposed by Magistrate G. G. Marshman, Q -Cr, .on a charge of under -age drinking. Lyall :ple•aided' guilty to both' charges. - 11 of Bruce County discloss still another venture. When der -in -council in 1852 abblished the town plot of Greenock, the lands therein were largely held by squatters. "As a matter of speculation," states the history, "the lands were pdrehased from the Crown by Dr. Hamilton of Goderich and'James Webster of Guelph, who succeeded in hav- ing the actual settlement clause waived, on 'condition that they" satisfy the claims of the set- tlers." clear picture .of Dr. Hamilton's politics. When„Capt. Strachai* in 1.841 was elected dyer Dr. Dunlop to the parliament, of Canada; a triumphal proeessioo found Hamilton "in a carriage with Baron de Tuyle of Ridge wood Park and the Canada Company Commissioner, Mercer Jones, escorted by the com- pany's , staff, mOUlnted." But: when Strachan in the same year was unseated, in favor of Dr. Dunlop,, it was on the strength of a petition„ bearing 107 signatures, one being that. of Morgan J. Hamilton! Daniel Lizars' daughters have left on record one, intimate touch. At Meadowlandsa ,in Col- borne, there were musical even ings "when Brewster and Daw Don with his flute, and Dr. Ham- ilton with his wonderful voice, made the hours pass quickly in snatches of opera, ballads of the day and Jacobite songs, all memories of London and Edin- burgh." In Army In spare 'tin7>r, Dir Hamilton served as.•captain in the Second Regiment y of Huron and later as lieutenant -colonel in the Fourth Regiment of Huron. The original commissions are among the treasured possessions of 1VIrs. Norah Hill, Goderich, a granddaughter. Two incidents provide an un - ..,•:.:,..,. ?;%`lir Irish Doctor This Irish doctor With the wonderful .voice ..died July 28, 1858, at the age of 48. When Rev.- E. L. Elwood laid him away on July 30 ---fit. George's Church and burial ground were then on the Crescent •---r there ended a chapter inadequately revealed yet of intriguing inter- est. It is of continuing interest because there are new chapters. AM generations in Canada and the United States. Dr. Morgan James Hamilton married Agnes Charlotte Brown of Goderich Township in 1838, and by her' had three sons and three daughters. After her death he married Ann Lambert Watson, and to them were born two sons and a daughter. Agnes Isabelle Julia, daughter of Mor- gan Hamilton and Agnes Brown. was married to Dr. G. C. Shan• non of ,Goderich, and a mem- orial takllet in St. George's, is headed "Hamilton - Shannon " One son was a King's • Counsel in Regina; another represented Stormont in the House of Com - e The 'Goderich .SialWI-Star, Th niOns;r a grandsondied at Viniyi, Ridm, another, in the RAMC; dier on active service, also ,:n the First World War;. yet an - Other practised medicine , in Cornwall and died 'at the age Of 31. At the foot of the tablet is the inscription: "Until the day break and the shadovits flee away." ursday, Maw2istk 116 11 uranl �I0tl , 7th .Or 4th . amen provinces? 4. The combined spending`of all • governments' tdanada on social seeurity and health and , welfare servii:es arnoltnits to $750,000 per week, $3.fi lion per week, or $0.5 million a week? 5. In order, . name the five lead- ing manufacturing provinces. ANSWERS: 5. Ontario; Que. bec, British Columbia, Alberta and Manitoba. 3. Newfound- land ranks 7th in area, <, 1. It is • named after the -Slave tribe of the Athapaskan Indians, who once lived along its shores. 4. More than $6.5 million a week. „;_•,,. 2. Non-farm job holders totalled 5,578,000 at December 15, 1962. QUICK CANADIAN QUIZ 1. What was the origin of the name of Great. Slave Lake? 2. The total of Canadians with non-farm jobs was 5,04:7,000 at mid-December, 1959. What was the mid-D,ecembef, 1962, total? 3. 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