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Home My WebLink AboutClinton News-Record, 1986-07-23, Page 63Less than 15 abled bodied men to protect the area... • from page 16 made to attack Canada anyway. Several fruitless attempts were made across the border in New Brunswick, Quebec and at Fort Erie. In Stanley, rumors of possible landings of, Fenians along the lake shore resulted in several false alarms. When a strange boat was sighted, approaching Wallace's Creek one evening, north of Bayfield, word spread that it was the Fenians. When word reached Varna, John McClymont made a Paul Revere ride down the Parr Line, asking the men, to meet in Varna before daylight the next morning. Little sleep was had that night throughout the township. The Bayfield militia was called out is guard the bridge approaches, the township men loaded guns, moulded bullets, sharpen- ed pikes, collected pitch forks and anything else that could be used as a weapon. Early in the morning, they headed for Bayfield, be- ing joined by more and more men as they moved to meet the threatened invasion. However, like many other alarms, it prov- ed to be false and, after spending the day socializing in Bayfield, they returned home, many of them not too steady on their feet. Catherine Shannon, a daughter of Francis Coleman of the Parr Line, related the story of how her mother, left alone with the" children and fearing what the Fenians might do, removed a picture of King William of Orange from the kitchen wall. Knowing the hatred of the Fenians for the Protestants in general and Orangemen in particular, she hid the picture under the back porch. In the excitement of the safe return of the men that evening, the picture was forgotten. That night it rained, and when King Billy was rescued the next morn- ing, he had brown streaks on him. The pic- ture was put back on the wall, and for years after, the brown streaks were the sub- ject of conversation that would lead to the retelling of the Fenian raid on Stanley. Although the Fenian raids had few adverse effects on Canada, they did help to convince the Maritime Provinces to join into Confederation for their own safety. It was a Fenian that assissinated Thomas D'Arcy McGee, a Father of Confederation, from New Brunswick. Riel Rebellion The two rebellions, Red River Rebellion and North West Rebellion, led by Louis Riel, had no direct effect on Stanley, and it has not been discovered if any Stanley militia were involved. Certainly the cold-blooded murder of Thomas Scott on Riel's orders at Fort Garry in 1870 and loss of life among the volunteers in the later North West Rebellion of 1885 caused feelings to run high. Few tears were shed in Stanley when Riel was hanged on November of 1885 and there seems little doubt that had it been done 15 years sooner for the Scott murder, some 200 Canadian lives might have been saved. World War I In 1914, World War I, the war to end all wars, broke out in Europe. As before in other wars, Stanley Township was well represented. The following list is made up of known veterans of this war. Aikenhead, Duncan; Aikenhead, J.C.; Aikenhead, J.W.; Armstrong, Lorne; Boyce, Frank; Boyce, Wm.; Callow, Ernest; Campbell, George; Clarke, Herbert; Cochrane, Allan; Collins, James; Davidson, Henry; Dewar, Roy; Dunnet, James; Evans, Francis; Evans, Victor; Fisher, Murray; Foote, Alex; Foster, Albert; Fraser, Fred; Fraser, M.C.; Fraser, Wm.; Hanley, George; Hay, Jim; Jarrot, James; Johnston, Alfred; Johnston, Morris; Keys, Clarence; Keys, Albert; Keys, Lloyd; Keys, Ruskin; Love, John; Love, Keith; Makins, James; McBeath, Walter; McBride, Alvin; McClymont, Melville; McGregor, Gregor; McGregor, Hugh; McGregor, Wm.; MacKenzie, John; McQueen, W.N.; Moffat, Walter; Mustard, Ernest; Mustard, Jean; Nash, Wm.; Pat- tison, Edgar; Pratt, Chas.; Pratt, Wm.; Reid, George L.; Reid, Harvey; Rowland, Percy; Sams, Thomas; Saundercock, Wm.; Seeley, J.B.; Simpson, Nettie; Skilton, Jos.; Smith, Harry; Sparks, Neil; Stephenson, George; Stephenson, Geo. H.; Stephenson, Wm. Robert; Ward, Joseph; Watson, Clif- ford; Westlake, Walter; Whitcombe, Wm. and Wilson, Russell. World War II As in World War I, when World War II broke out, a large percentage of the young men and women again volunteered their service for king, and country. The following list is made up of known veterans of that war: Aikenhead, W.P.; Aikenhead, Wm. F.; Aldwinkle, Robert; Armstrong, John; Aubin, Orval; Aubin, Patrick; Aubin, Regis; Baker, Meade; Baker, Bruce; Baker, Robert; Bedard, Rudolph; Blackie, Thomas; Bratherton, Horace; Bratherton, Walter; Burdge, James; Burdge, Wm.; Carnie, Bertram, Carnie, Robert, Crman; Elliott; Collins, Harry;Collins, Cooper, Robert; Cornish, Carlyle, Coultis, Jos; Denomme, John; Ducharme, Donna; Duncalf, Wm.; Durand, Orland; Dutot, Louis; Elliott, Alvin; Elliott, Harold; Etue, Earl; Grainger, Ross; Harrison, Percy; Heard, Gordon; Hill, Allan; Horton, Stuart; Johnston, Rena: Jones, Wesley;Kelly, Page 17 James; Kelly, Myles; Keys, Donald; Keys, Gordon; Keys, Murvin; Lemon, Robert; Manson, Donald; McAsh, Floyd; McAsh, Wm.; McCabe, Richard; McKenzie, Philip; Moffat, Lois; Murdock, Audrey; Murdock, Wm.; Mustard, Annie; Mustard, George; Mustard, John; Peck, Harold; Peck, Robert; Pollock, Hugh; Raffelton, Roy; Rathwell, Lois; Rau, Gerald; Reid, Harry; Reid, Wm. A.; Ross, Ewan; Scotchmer, Thomas; Scott, Kenneth; Smith, Gertrude; Smith, Walter; Snider, Melvin; Stephenson;" Ivan; Swan, Glenn; Taylor, Hubert; Wat- son, Stewart; Watson, Wallace; Wild, Joseph; Wright, Gordon A., and Zaphe, A.W. Two boys made the supreme sacrifice — Wm. Graham and Harvey Parsons. Their names have been engraved on the cenotaph. To those who enlisted, the township gave a $50 bond, plus a ring to those who served overseas. The Cenotaph To honor the fallen heroes of the Great War, the Township of Stanley erected a Soldier's Memorial in Varna at a public ceremony in June, 1920. 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