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- Nlrs, Josephi'ne`Be'rr,‘ of Gode'rich presented a bouquet of roses to Mrs. -Tim Elliot at the
sod turning; ceremony held at .Alexandra Marine and General Hospital Saturday. ,(staff
photo)
SUGAR `N' SPICE
B Bll� SMILEY.
"And cousins by ,the
dozens." That line from an
Old nursery rhyme or
something seemed to he the
theme when ,trhe Thomson
clan held a family reunion at'
the old homestead.' on a
beautiful day in October,
There was a. lot of kissing
and hugging (we're an
0rhCit'ional far>lily I I w as
bussed and squ.eezed,by a lot
Of middle;pgc'dladies and
made up • for it.,• by heartily
bussing and squeezing a
number of: cxta°em'ely
hussahle, and. squeezeahle
nieces and• daughters of
nephews and various other
attractiy•e young hussies
drifting about.
Me2-S1., people .. have been
sucked' in, at one time or
another: to a family•reunictn.
It can he a ghastly ex-
perience, or'a ,joyful one."This,
one fell into the latter
category.
'There was nu mourning for
the dead. ,only a great sensed
being all% 0, and the pleasure
of knowing that all these
people. of all.''"shapes and
ages, were •h1ood kin, all
sprung ft -aril the fertile loins
of one Walton Thomson, an
Irishman of Scottish 'ex-
traction. away back there in ,
the..liath.ccntury.
Walter was prolific, and his ,
sons were no slouches either
One of them, Mountain Jfhck
Thomson. a ' sometime
scourge
during the great lumherirrg
days, had about 1,0 children
by his first wife, and wahen she
died, married her sister and
produced i93,her large.
family,
William, after
whom I was named, sired 10
children, And there v4as the
last of them, my uncle Ivan,
84, dancing around like a 30 -
year -old, welcoming all' of us
with s5mething close to tears
of joy in his eyes.
Ile's as" handsome "as
always, slim as a boy, blue
eyes spackling, wit bubbling,
striding about as-tlio%igh he'd
never heard of arthritis. A
man of many° talents. a.
conservationist «'h1, plants
trees lovingly, a traveler:
whose next letter might he
from New Z. iland. an artist
in working with ‘+'oo(i...a deep
lover of nature and -people,
and a concerned and loving
patriarch of the chin.
my casual boast, and
my brothers' and sisters'
grudging concession. that .,,I
"take after'hinl." I wish I di'd,
lIc remarried at 80 and' has a
three-year-old grandson.
.Figure that one out. No way
can I match that:
.1 -Ie showed ,me the room in
the old Krick homestead, a
fine house on 41 ,steep bluff
overtook`ing the ' 'Ottawa..
River. the bedrooms in which
my g-randmother hors' the 10
children. No wonder she died
at an•age when most modern
women are just getting their
second wind, or theirsecond
husband. -
He, showed me & picture or
his family at the dining table.
.\t the head, my grandfather,
white hair and huge, curly
heard: ° On, one side, four
strapping sons. On the.ot.her
side, three daughters' and two
• little Solis, and an empty
place set . for Emerson, a
maverick who' was in the
K londyke-when the photo was
taken. How would you like to
try to feed a mob like that in'
these days? You'd be
of the Ottawa VIAley''''hankrupt in a week.
. Another' picture showed my
Uncle. Ivan as the sole sur-
viving :memb,e.r . of the'
Shawville Pontiacs, taken in
the days' when hockey was
deadly serious but played for
fun, and Shawville . used to
journey hy'gleigh to take on
the stalwarts of Renfrew and
Pembroke.
Perhaps sadly, there was
no living to be made for huge
families on the barren land of
Calumet Island, and the tribe
° dispersed, some of the -bocys•
joining 'the great exodusf to
The West, the El Dorado of
those days.. •
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Consumers, businessmen get
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•I'wo hrocla.tlres explaining
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protecting- the many ethical
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shady dealers who have given
Some types of business a bad
Mf
They, were honest, hard-
Turking, good-looking,
gregarious people. B-ut it
was.n•: t enoug-h, • They
established themselves and
,worked like slaves to build
something; Then came the
Depression.
And they suffered. Boy,
how they suffered! All of
Canada took it lin the neck,
hut the prairie farmers took it
in the neck and in the guts and
in Carious other parts of the
anatomy.
Most of =my uncles. went
through The_ ,Great War.
Many of their sons went
through World War II. Some
didn:t come back. r
Things picked up. Some of
t} e-nl,m.a.,de- a„._d.ecgut
living before they died. Their
children are moderately well
off. middle-class people with
warm 'hearts and no
pretensions.
But -they're fiercely proud
of being • Thomsons. ' (And
don't ever try to spell it with a
We have no truck with
the poor white trash Thom-
psons with a "P.-1
Anci there we were, cousins
by the -dozens, on the lawn of
the
103 -year-old
"homestead," looking out
'over- the Ottawa River, where
Grandfather had'heen`a slide
nrtrer in the lumbering
days, ,and Mountain Ja,ck.;'`his
brother, had • been a
' sera.bper" known
throughout the Valley, for his
fists and feet, in the days
when cops were few and far
between, and a man was a
man, or else.
A gang had flown in from
Saskatoa.tl. Others had, come
from the States. It took me 15
hours driving to get there and
hacak.
And I wouldn't have missed
it for the world. I hope some
name,'.
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Minister added, "For this
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consumer and wi11 help
protect the honest
hu5iJle S against
unethical competition:,
"But the whole point is that
-c,the Business Practices Act is
a, tool for people to use'',the
minister concluded. "These
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and businessmen know what
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use it effectively".
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of, the young ones ,got 'the
sense of pride and family that
I did. .
There w„asn't a millionaire
present: There wasn't a
famous person present. But
there they were, salt' ,of the
earth, backbone of Canada. a
lively, loquacious, witty lot,
and I was glad to he one of
them.
Social footnote to
Westerners. My first cousin.
Jack Thoth and his wife'
Louise, •of Saskatoon, were
not, respectively, in. their
underwear and nightgown', as
they were last time I (net
them, a couple of years ago in
Germany.
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