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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1947-05-22, Page 2THE SEAFORTH NEWS THURSDAY. MAY 22, 1947 HULLETT When Victor Roy took over 1100 acres at lot 18, son. 9. in Hullett township, he had to find $500 of his own money to pay down on the deal, and was then given a government. loan of $4,500 at five percent in- terest, all of which was to be re- paid, The Soldiers' Settlement Act also allowed for a furtherloan, at five and a half per cent., of $1,800 for stock and implements. To find his farm, he had none of the assistance which is given now by by Veterans Land Act Administra- tion. Today's warrior -turned -farmer gets help selecting his farm, and V,L.A. officials, themselves veter- ans, guard himagainst being swind- led or overcharged. When Victor Roy took over his farm. he got ?os - session in August, 1919, had no crop that year. and had to pay the government $325 in interest and principal in 1920. To begin with he had some hay in the barn, but no grain. He had sows and pigs to carry over the first win- ter, for marketing in the spring, but his money melted away before the snow did. With weeks of winter still to get through, he found himself with hogs to feed, no grain to feed them, and no money to buy gram. I Today, Victor Roy doesn't need, to hesitate if he wants to spend' a dollar or a lot of dollars,—but he is not likely to forget a long walk to Clinton early in 1920, at the end) of which the bank manager told him frankly that his credit was no good for evena small loan. He went to a private lender, who took account of his prospects and offered him a loan,—at 12 per cent. interest. Finally, he got enough grain to tide him over, by finding several dealers who would each let him have a little feed on credit. He got his hogs to market. sold them, and had a creditor waiting for every dollar. His first winter on the farm he stayed alone and cut wood in the bush lot at the hack end of the 100 acres; the wood -cutting produced some money to buy groceries and keep the livestock in feed. By the time his second winter began, crops were in. and. though money was still scarce, there was feed in the barn to carry the livestock, and the picture began to look a little brighter. Then /prices began to tumble,' and income from farm produce skidded down- wards, By the end of his second year, Mr. Roy recalls, you'd have to sell everything you produced on the place iust to make the loan pay- ments and keep up with the taxes. f d f At the end of his third year, ''it people who drew his assignment, but' down the road past the farm. Polish- ooked like an impossible future to i ace." It was in this third year that most of the Soldiers' Settlement Aot ventures in Huron were aban-' oned. The young veterans were de- eated; so was Victor Roy, buthe didn't admit it.. Wilfred Victor Roy was born at W allaceburg in 1897, son of Rev. F. E. Roy, a church of England clergy- man. Through two lines, his ancestry is Canadian back to the beginning of white settlement in Canada. He is of the 12th generation in descent from Abraham Martin,one of the first three settlers to come to New France. The Roy family is descend- ed, according to family records, from Marie Martin, one of Abraham's daughters; Marie was baptized at Quebec tApril 10, 1635. The original Martin settler; said to have been a Scot who lived in France before coming to New France. , gave his name to the Plains of Abraham, where Wolfe defeated Montcalm. Father to son, the Roy family in Canada is descended • from Pierre Roy, who was born in France, and married at Montreal in 1672. In 1805 Victor Roy's great -great -great- grandfather, Charles Roy, married a areal -great -great-granddaughter of Abraham Martin. One branch of the Roy family has been Protestant since about 100 year ago; in that time it . has pro- duced 10 Anglican 'clergymen, and one Methodist minister, Victor Roy grew up in London, Ont., where his .father Was diocesan missionary. At 18 years of age, he left Collegiate Institute to join the army: he enlisted, then got his par- ents' consent. Within three months he had sergeant's stripes: and was sent to an army school for training as a physical training and bayonet fighting instructor. Once quualified as in those vigorous arts, he served a physical training and bayonet in- structor at Wolseley Barracks in T.ondon, and then at Valcartier and at Montreal. He war posted overseas in 1916, spent less than two weeks in Eng- land, and went on to France in January. 1917, to get his baptism of fire in the later phases of the Battle of the Somme. His unit at the front was a special company of railway engineers, which operated and main- tained narrow -gauged lines that car- ried ammunition up to the gun -lines; at times they laid track as near as 1.200 yards to the German forward trenches. The ammunition supply lines were entural targets for enemy shellfire. Vitcor Roy was luckier than most n July, 1918, his number came�up ed hardwood floors, and fresh. light - for a double blighty,—shrapnel and colored interior decoration make the poison gas, in the Amiens sector. He I house as attractive as any city home was in hospital in England for three and much more so than most. The months, and was invalided home to modern poultry buildings house 800 Canada just before Nov. 11, 1918. I Barred Rocks; the stables house When the young veteran began to pure-bred Hereford cattle. get acquainted with his 100 acres. her Best testimony of all to his sue - found he had 30 acres which were' cess as a farmer,—Mr. Roy's sons' not arable land, and 70 that were are resolved to follow in the same reasonbly good' light clay" loam. He profession. Bruce, 23, has finished gained experience the hard way, al- his second year at the Ontario Agri - though for the first seven years the cultural College; Murray, 19, is a load of debt with which he started partner in the farm enterprise;. seemed constantly on the verge of Peter, 10, is eager for the day when crushing him. The first ray of en- he can take a man's place in the couiagement came in 1926, when farm work. Eunice, the only daugh- farms taken up under the S.S.A. ter, is to graduate this year as a were revalued. Authorities decided • nurse, at the Toronto East General that the veterans had been put on Hospital. the land at a time of inflated prices, I More than 27 years ago, a yoang and were carrying an unfair load of war veteran. barely recovered from debt inview of real estate values as wounds, trudged westward along the they were in 1926. In the general, township roadfront Loudesboro. and scaling down of Soldiers' Settlement turned in at a farm gate to start ' a indebtedness, Victor Roy's ,debt to, strange new enterprise. When army the Government was reduced . by doctors made their last gesture with about $1,000. In the later 19205 the stethoscope at youthful Victor the burden of the annual payments Roy in 1919, they told him hehad was also eased by some sales of gra-I better, for the sake of his health, vel and timber off the propdrty. BY seek an outdoor way of life. the terms of the loan agreement! 'City -bred, he had gone straight from with the Soldiers' Settlement Board;' school to the array; to arm him for a the veteran on the farm could not farming venture he had neither farm keep for himself any money from, experience nor any kind of business the sale of wood or gravel; it was experience_ Equipped with a lot of paid to the S.S.B., and applied courage, health no - better than fair, against his debt. and next" to nothing in cash, he took g up land under the soldiers' settlement Today. hisfarm is debt -free. The act,•walked to it. and started to work. 70 acres at the front are well drain- Three years later he lifted his nose ed, well fenced, well tilled. The 30 from the grindstone and took stock of acres at the back end of the farm the situe.tion. For three years of dawn form a productive and.well-managed to dark toil; what he bad to show was farm forest. The house has been a load of debt that had grown rusty r equipped with a pressure'system, of shrinking. The prices bf what h' had to sell off his farm liad skidded in the slump of the early 1920s, while overhead costs stayed uncompromis- ingly high. All across Canada hopeful ture, when the hydro line is put young veterans who had tried sold- ONTARIO iiO Pg1hi 5. 2VICF F? O,KC!.sa1&aToro, Ontario s is q Please Sept) further in{ form for the m ce Foapplication Far Force. Ontario information anda t�'aetr. , Service rown (1 . over Avui/a6le%ro,�t. , .. • •F•N2.1] Hundreds of young women have already enlisted in the Farm Service Force, and are earning good money., under pleasant working conditions ... on sunny Southern Ontario farms. All through the summer months, they'll enjoy the healthy companionship of Y supervised community camps. Work on surrounding farms will be carefully supervised. They'll come back in the Fall with cash in their pockets and the deep satisfaction of a job well done. If you are sixteen years of age or over, why not mail the above coupon today?* Join these willing workers itt helping our farmers raise a bumper crop for a starving world. * Application can also be made at the nearest National Employment Service ogre. DOMINION -PROVINCIAL COMMITTEE SEavi��_ ON FARM LABOUR AGRICULTURE LABOUR EDUCATION ONTARIO SEM iers' settlement act farming were ad- mitting defeat, and abandoning their^ farms. Victor Roy still had his health and his courage and stayed with It. Today, of approximately 50 first great war veterans who took up land in Huron county under these arrange- ments, only one remains. VictorRoy has cleared his farm of debt, improved and extended his buildings; raised and. educated his family, and earned him- self a respected place in the farm community as secretary of the Huron Federation of Agriculture. supplying a modern kitchen and bathroom. 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