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Recently Mark Cumming
republished, in hard cover, the
Historical Atlas of Huron
Comity which ori inall saw
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print through the efforts, of the
H. Belden Company in 1879,
The book records much of the
early history of this county
looking atlife in the early and
mid 1800's from various angles
but the most interesting, at this.
time of. a Federal Election,
seems to be the records of elec-
tions between 1835 and 1874. •
-Huron was set up as a con-
stituency in 1835 and in that '
same year the first (as it were)
federal election was held, e, In y
that year one Captain Robert
Braham Dunlop, a ' retried
Royal Navy officer, standing of
the Tory, .paatformvdefeated Coe.
Anthony Van Egmond"a Refor-,.
mer.
They,issue of the day was that)
'of the Family Compact's held)
on governmental affairs and
although the Tories held Hurod
the -house was reassembled in
that year with 34 Reform milts;
and 24 Tories. Henry Wildman,.
was the returning officer for that
historic election and later
became the first. Sheriff of
Huron.
In 1835 elections did not come
and go, even on the local front,
with a minimum of fuss and
—"-"„bo-th r It ac the exact op-
posite was true and Goderich,
on the eve of that first election,
apparently was no different.
Rioters, . termed "Mal'con-
• tents", who weredissatisfied
with the politics of both parties
involved in the election, burned
' the hustings whichhad been set
up in the octagon at Doderich;
-Van Egmond may have been.
defeated at 'the polls that day
but 'he held fast to his Reform
beliefs and when .William Lyon . .
McKenzie decided that force of
arms was the only way respon-
sible government could be.' in-
, stituted Van Egmond"" a former
Dutch army officer who was
reputed ' to have fought both
with and' against Napoleon,
rallied to the cause.
In McKenzie's aborted at-
tempt to over throw the'govern-
ment at York Vau'Eginond was
wounded and captured, later to
die in prison awaiting trial for
treason, Some stories.,, say- he
poisoned himself.
The second election involving.,
Huron was held in 1841. Dr.
William Dunlop (brother of the
Captain) stood for the Tories
and James Magill Strahn, a
follower of the Reform policies,
instituted by Robert Baldwin,
opposed. Strahn was declared
elected but the election was
petitioned against and a com-
mittee of three lawyers sent
from Toronto to straighten mat-
ters out declared Dunlop the
new member after all.
Dunlop took his seat in the
first Parliament of a "United
Canada" . at Kingston.
He retired- when ' the house
dissolved in 1844 but ,, named
William Cayley as his choice of
successor and the Tories agreed
by nominating him their can-
didate in the elections' of that
year.' He managed to . defeat
Reformer John Longworth.
Huron voters went to the polls
Country group makes good
in
for their fourth general election
in 1851 but this time they chose
Reformer Malcolm' Cameron
and Cayley Went into an unin-
tended retirement frdm politics.
,, The ,elections of 1854 saW
Cayley come back, however, to
dump Reformer Thomas
McQueen who was then
publisher" of the Huron Signal.
The Signal was forerunner to
today's Goderich Signal Star.
Cayley was in for a streak of
bad luck . though and when the
elections of 1857 came round he
was defeated -by John Holmes of
Goderich Township, an Irish-
man who had been Warden and
on - the District and County
Councils for many years. ' He
*as, alsok a Reformer. ,
Cayley tried -again--• for -the
Tories in 1861 but lost to
Reform candidate James
Dickson of ,,Tuckersmith who
was returned to his seat in the •
election of 1863 by acclamation
and served there until con-
federation in ' .1867.
By this time the Huron mem-
ber represented probably ,)none
voters than any,other member of
the house with the population of
this riding having grown to
80,000 persons. The riding'
covered both the present day
counties of Huron and Bruce.
troduced and passed in 1867 set
Bruce apart as•a riding with its
own identity and divided Huron
into two seats North. arid South
Huron.
The' first election after Con-
federation saw a three.way bat-
tle in North Huron. Thomas
Farrow was eventually elected
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on the Tory ticket over Indepen-
dent Joseph Whitehead and
Reformer John Holmes, It is' in-
teresting to note that by. • this
time the Tories were beginning
to call themselves Conser-
vatives. In South Hiuron,Reforro
candidate -Malcolm Cameron
dumped D.H. Ritchie.
By the election of 1872 further
divisions had taken place in the
riding of Huron, It was now
divided .into North, South and
Central Huron. • That year
Farrow was re-elected in the
north over Somerville, a
Reformer (now calling himself a
Liberal). Centre. Huron chose
Liberal Horace Horton over In-
dependent Joseph Whitehead
and in the South Reformer -
' Cameron defeated' Greenway; a
Conservative.
• Two years later another elec-
tion was called. Farrow retained
his seat defeating Sloan of Blyth
in the North. Greenway was
elected by acclamation in the
south and Horton downed Con-
servative Chris. Crabb in Centre.
Huron.
Soon after those 1874• elec-
tions, however, Horton` resigned -
and R.J. Cartwright was chosen
as the Liberal representative.
He was elected in . the by-
election over a Conservative
named Platt.
In those first seven years of .
.confederation and the earlier
years' of Huron's existence the J
voters of this riding elected eight
Tories (or Conservatives) to the
Federal House and nine Refor-
mers (or Liberals . as they later
called themselves.)
Toronto loves .Passe Muraille
Theatre Passe. Mura`ilTe,
which stayed - at the old Bird
farm on..the Maitland Line in
Goderich Township for six
weeks this summer, opened
their play about this area in
Toronto last Thursday. The
play, which is about people
and places around Clinton 'and
Holnlesville, ' was very well
received in Toronto. •This
review is •taken from the
Toronto Stdr of last Friday.
BY URJO KAREDA
Toronto Star
The Farm Show, which " is
opening the season at Theatre
Passe Muraille, gives a lot- of
pleasure for a lot of reasons.
As a ' dramatic work, it is
vigorous, informative, stylish°
and often insanely funny. But
its power arises as well from our -
communicados by which this
production was put together.
The Farm Show is "a 'cul
Thompson -organized: r C011; ' v
creation, a form which has been
uniquely perfected at the
Theatre . Passe Muraille and
which, because this talented
man has chosen to work in
Toronto, is now ours as well.
This particular collective
creation seems an advance on
the past because the performers
have had a much more direct'
relationship Ito the material. As
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the performances which adds
depth and color to -the whole ex-
perience.
For sic weeks . this summer,
Thompson took his actors to live
on a farm near Clinton, Ontario,
with the object of creating a
production about, and for, the
farmers of that region.
Working through both a sub-
jective and objective --response to
environment, joining farmers
at their - 'tasks, " meeting local
' residents' and listening, always
listening, the company
developed 'the • dramatic
material which was first presen-
ted in a barn to the farmers
themselves and has now been
transported to Toronto.
The performance in Clinton
must have been electrifying in
its immediacy., In Toronto, we
receive the 'data not with °a
shock of recognition but with a
glow of familiarization. ... /'
The Farm Show is performed
on a raked acting area, the floor
of which is a large map of the
rural area involved, with the
names of the individual farms
boldly labelled. Some very nice
entertainers from the area -
Russ and Dorothy from
Teeswater - provide preliminary
music, and though the fire mar-
shal has vetoed bales of hay,
the atmosphere is unbelievably
evocative. -
That authenticity is the
triumph of the .performers, who
also, of course, created the
material. This is by no means a
cori"ventional documentary,but
it is certainly realism of a magic
intensity, Through mime, song,
narrative, sound poetry,
monologues the whole range of
possible • communication - • we
come very close to the heart of
their experience.
There is a succession of in-
spired Iideas.,
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spi dideas,.,4.f&r'n,..wife•4.1 et -.
Amos), prattling happily about
her cleaning chores, sits in her
wringer -washer, and eventually
becomes the machine itself.. ,
There is a stirring heroic
drama (in verse) about the
.sentimentalize farming is
dispatched in Miles . Potter's
memorable monologue about a
day's hay -loading. Cool looks
are given to such furors as
Orange parades and Jesus
revivals. Miss Amos has a won-
derful sequence about weddings,.
rising to the great line, "We
laughed until we died at the
stupidity of it all."
Darker regions are probed- as
well, There -are moving'. insights
into farm tragedies' and a sharp
vignette about people drifting to
the cities. Very fine, too; is the
section devoted to the strange
recluse .Charlie- Wilson (David
Fox), with his religion, his en-
cyclopedic knowledge of plants
and his cruel, self -inhibiting
.facial tic.
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' DE' icn 'S10t?, - AR.
.Qntario'•Hydro:'t s made-
new offer described as a final;
attempt to end the three month
old strike by 4000.
In .an unusual 9rinovie, ',Flydrq
is urging CUFF Local 1090
members to• request a. .vote .on
the `new offer.. Uniontxenibers
have never''voted in the Current
dispute knowingwhat issues
they were accepting or rejecting.
The original strike vote was
.taken in April before Hydrd had,
an• opportunity to .present any
monetary offer.
"The new proposal," said
Walter Palmer,. Manager of
Fiydro's Clinton Area, "is for 'a
three-year contract. The total
It is difficult to account for
the excitement which this
production brings. Partly there.
is the lucid beauty and ease of
Paul' Thompson's methodology,
and the vividness of six aaoto s -
Anne Angline, Janet Amos, Fin
MacDonnell, David Fox, Mi e
Potter ane: Thompson, hims f -
performing with such versatility,
tact and palpable compassion. '
The evening is filled with
suble cross-references so that we
come to . discover a whole con-
tained world. In The Farm
Show; Thompson and his actors
have helped us to know, under-
stand arid love a community of
people beyond our sphere of
familiarity. As artists, they can
have no higher ambitions.
mythology of tractors. We have
a hilarious plowing match and
with extreme ingenuity, we are
given the fearfulness of a rural
winter, with its dual responses
of cages and escapes.
The fear that the actors might
or
mortgages
see us
first!
Rabi:�S Clinics:
in district
Beginning early in October a
series .of anti rabies clinics is
planned for Huron County un-
der the direction of the Canada
Department -of Agriculture. All'
residents are urged to take their
pets to the nearest clinic to have
them immunized against' the
disease.
A certain threat to humans is
still very real,as is evidenced by
the fact that 52 cases of animal
rabies were confirmed during
1971.: However' the ,majority of
these :'Gases involved wild
animals and only one dog and
. one cat were found to 'be infec-
ted.
The first in this area will be
held October 6 between . 9:00
can 12 . QQ_ p m at the._.cald re..-. '"-
hall in Blyth. October 11 the
clinic ewi11 be offered at the
Auburn Community Centre bet-
ween 1:30 and 4:30 p.m. October
13 .it will be in Lucknow at the
town hall base/Tient between
1:00 and 4:30 p.m. On Monday
Octdber 16 between ' 1:00 and
8:00 p.m. the clinic will be of-
fered at the Goderich Fire "Hall.
• valua. of~ the new Offer la
mdltan: '
.It would prgvide an average
-wage increase of 745 per Bent: rn
the fust year, 6.8 per cent in the
second year and 6.35 per cent in
the third year. ;
Mr. Palmer Sai ,r""The•txades
group would get 41 ;22 per cent
increase. This would add .'$ 1;..19
over the ,, three ,years to their .
present hourly rate not $5,06 for
,
a total of $6:25 an hour in ,1974�
for linemen end' electricians.'
A first; operator at Hydlro's
transformer stations wound •,.
receive, an ' additional, '$d.18 an
hour, bringing' his basic rate to
$7.19 in 1974.
0l
0and, ta1 •'
would reeeive an, average in*
fcrease of 18,1 per` fit ever three
;years,
"Hydro 'has c rmpletely with-
drawn 'the • ,eontintal ° work
week -.issue," said ,Mr fainter.
Hydro '.is also offering im-
proveraeots in . **cation .' and
pension plans. Employees would
receive three weekevacation at-
ter four years' service,.fin: ad-"
ditional ;statutory holiday is in..
eluded in 1978 hringing ttio an-
nual total to 11.
Hydro furtheri'O ' a full°.
earnedpensionP r upon'etlroxnetut
at age 62, effective ih 1973, and
.at age 61 in 1974.
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