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Home My WebLink AboutThe Goderich Star, 1932-12-15, Page 2• MAKE CHRISTMAS MERRY with CANDY ••••o-vx•rm, tattattait (liplotte000.0 of Ling p#13-. Novelties Candy Canes lc up Fancy Packages from 25c up Bulk Candy at all pricea PopCorn Balls, Christmas Stockings and Crackers, HOGAN'S CONFECTIONERY Arrataarailarattaillatliatilataalattarneatara ratiresommonasperemearegark for mok ers A box of his favorite .Cigars. Or a new Pipe. Those Show thoughtful- ness in Smokers' Gifts. Then there are scores of other practical and pleasing gifts for smok- ers, all moderately pric- ed, in beautiful gift boxes. If he smokes its the surest way of Mak- Jura hit with RIK Crae Bros. • "The,. 133sy Corner" If there is anything in tobaccos or smokers' sundries we have it. .419111941101004ardelelasalaearlialle DELICIOUS CANDIES The °Sweetest snd Two - ;est Gift of *Irto HER way of Waking are bete in great **eminent. • • CRICI-1'S CONFECTIONERY ltsses Is2aarata4Wrailieltahla7 s "sde • ) For all Kinds 11 hundred and oinety-seven` years have passed shire white men -first keptChristenas in Canada. And that first Canadian Chriaturas was not a :merry one. On the contrary, it was passedl under conditions of severe hardship and within the shadow of calamity and death. It waa kept by a small band of hardy French eailors, and their leader, Jacques Cartier, the discoverer of Canada. The little compaoy that 'rept that first Christmas in Canada were penned up in a small and rudely built fort on the outskirts of the forest, with truculent savages for neighbare, and atilt Worse, with a malignant disease raging among the members of the little band and famine kneeking at the door. Jacques Cartier was on the voyage of discovery which first brought him to the St Lawrence Velley in the early summer of 1585. Ile had passed up the river as far a* Hochelaga, where Montrealnow etands, but when autumn came on he returned to his veseels, moored in the St Charles river, which flowirinto the Sts Lawrence just below the cliffan which Champlain, seventy- three years later, founded the city of Quebec. • • • Here a fort was built enclosed by a palisade, and in it Cartier decided te pass the winter, of the severity of which the Frenchmen had no knowledge. One can readily imagine. that it was with grave anxiety gradually turning into fear as Detember wore on, that Cartier and his men saw the river solid!), .bridged by ke and the drifts of snow rising about the sides of their ship e and the palisade of their fort. As December advanced the visite iff the Indians became lees frequent organized there and of thesplenty that abounded during the winter. No doubt the officere aud men at Port Revel icept a merry Christmas. The colony was elfort-lived, and Champlain next appears in our history at Quebec, 'calla he founded in 160S, and with one brief igterruption he governed the celony of New France until Christmas Day, 1035, when Le passed Erway in a small chamber of the fort be had built. • • Two Christmases saw Quebec besieged—the Christmas of 1709, and that of 1776, After Wolfe's, victory and death on the Plains of Abraham, on September la, 3759, Quebec was' surrendered, and possession was taken by the British army, led by General Murray, one of Wolfe'e Brigadiers, who had succeeded to the command. In the field there was still a Frsnch army commanded by Montcalrn't lieuten- ant, the spirited and clever De Levi; who Promptly collected all the available fences and set out to retrieve the disaster inflicted by Wolfe's victory. Perhaps the state of affairs at Quebec when Christmas came, could scarcely be called a siege, for in a strict sense the city was not yet invested, although large. French fortes were near at hand, and the British did not dare venture farfrom their fortifications. • Early in the spring De Leyis closed in upon the city, and with the hope of driving him away, Murray made a sortie in Wee, but was defeated in the battle'of St Foy and compelled to seek safety once more behind the walls of Que- bec, Soon after a British fleet arrived, when De Levis hurriedly raised the siege and reirealeavto, Montreal, where, in the followints September, Vaudreuil surrendered. Canada to Amherst, Christmas Day, 1775, found Carleton shut up in Quebec, by Montgomery and Arnold, the latter planning their assault of six day' later, which ended in failure and cost Moistgomery his life. * • Years passed, the War of the American Revolution came to an end. Canada was divided into two provinces, and that brave, but rather imperious, old soldier, Col- onel johns Graves Sinicoe, was sent to organize the first goverornelit of Upper Canada. He chose Newark, now called Niagara, as his capital, and there, in the autumn of 1792, he met his first parliament. A few years later the seat of Government was removed to Toronto, where many years before, the French had built a little fort to protect the trail-. ing post against the Indians. . The name of the place was now changed to York, "in consideration and compliment to the Dake of York's victories in Flanders." The town was laid out on an ambitious scale and on the front street no lot was to be sold unless the purchaser bound himself to erect thereon a building 41 feet wide, two storeys high, and eonstructe.aocording to an approved plan. It was mid- summer when Sizreme arid his family went over from Newark, and took up their residence there, living for a time in a wigwam after Indian fashion, „ , Simcoe decided to spend the winter at York, and, seeing that.. , there was not time within which to ' erect a suitable dwelling, he had his ' canvas house brought over from Newark. This 'remarkable strue4' • ture Simcoe had, purchased several year's before in .London from the estate of the celebrated. navigator, Captain James Cook, who first brought a ship to the shores of Brit- .. fell Columbia, and who was killed by nativee of the Sandwich Islands. iir's-Oak* ur."— and then they wholly ceased, The Frenchmen were left to themselves, and then came a time when they taced alone a great calamity. A malignant disease known as the scurvy, due largely to want of fresh vegetable' food, broke out among the garrison, and soon tweuty.four werd dead, leaving only three or four in health -s -too few to attend to the eick and wholly tunable to dig graves for the dead in the frozen ground, The bodice were, therefore, hidden away in the snowdrifts. Fear of the Indians increased, for it wee believed that if the savages learned the condition of the garrison they %%mild finish the work that disease had begun. * And ctJt was from the Indians that the French learned the Cure for - their disease Walking one day near the river, Cartier met an Indian, who, to his knowledge had been prostrate with the ecurvy not long before. Now he was quite well, What had wrought the recovery? The Indian made him understand that it was a tea made from the leaves of an evergreen called "Ameda," which the historian, Parkman, thinlat was a spruces or probably •an arborvitae. . The early 'French historian, C'harlevoix, end that "ameda" was the white pine. The Indian's omedy WaS tried, "The sick men drank copiously of the healing "draught—to copiously Indeed, that in sig days they drank a tree as large as a French oak.' The tearlid all that the Indian claimed for it The sick were euted and health and hope returned to the little garrison. it Was under sueh eireumstames as these that the first Canadian Christ-, mas wee -spent. That vses 897 Yeare ago, only forty-three years after Columbus discovered America, and eighty-five years before the Puritan Pilgrims landed on the shore of NewEnglatid. Seventy yeus later Samuel de Champlain and a SMall company of fellow -adventurers were at Port RoYal, today Annapolia Royal, Nova Scotia, and them they spent 11 merry Christmas. The little company of volonirers had built a fort and comfortable habitations; they had planted • a garden and grown wheat which they ground into flour— the firot wheat grown and the Oat flour produced within what is now the Dominion of Canada. Fish abounded in the river and the adjacent wood- lands contained seemingly inexhaustible supplies of all kinds of game known to this part of the continent. Les- CitbOt, 4 lawyer ot Paris, byprofeseien, a literary Malt by taste, end somewhat of An adventurer, had joined the ornpany at Port Royal 4. ad became a Maser in the jolly life led by the oolonists. Ire wrote att account of his stay at Port Royal, telling about the club of "Good Cheer" alssitatleMrs-Ss.)S-sa.SsZs....S*11taidsloaldeSdeNSWeleateditikl'aelleliellelltledbilOdesslAtt 0 CU 06NE C AIIII•IN •ftrino'n flubbing QtIIRISTMAS and plum pud. ding are synoriontous. This day of testivity would lack much of its charm were it not for the real otd-faehioned English plum - pudding to &deli off.the Christmas meat s Two Christmas plum puddings, one the largest in the tvorld and the other the smallest, made up entirely of ingredients produced within the &mire, were exhibited in London a year Ago. Tho former weighed tea tom and needed a lot of mixing by a eorpsof aesittants. The latter weighed less than 34/ ounce er hardly the tire of an Winery thimble. The two puddings were exhibited side by side at the • Royal Albert Kalb Kensington, The larger one, known at the Prince of Wales' Christmas pudding, needed four healthy home'1a transport it to its show case. The smaller Pudding measured one inch in diameter and weighed 19t1 grains-, It Was specially inade for the Christmas market itt aid Of the People's Dispensary for the Sick Animate of the Poor, by Miss Lily Dalton, of 22a South Molten street Ws Miss Dalton atated tbat she required the assistance of a mathematician and a chemist to work out and weigh the various ingredients, "It was made," she said, "fronto recipe handed on to me by my grand- mother. The la ingredients had to be chopped Many times before they were sufficiently fine." 3tflkUttIErtalsitt arlIB employment of evergreens at Christmastide may be attributed to two causes. One of these was the evident desire to brighten the winter tows standing!' with a touch of woodland life. 1i ther ,wali a relic of the superstitious desire to Appease the spirits of the woodland, who were supposed to inhabit the trees. and forests. The Druids adorned their open temples with green boughs. The Romans decorated their hornet on festive occasions whir branchof laurel, the emblem of victory, or ivy, tatted tt) Da/Ant SUGGESTIONS • Christmas Shoppers Mufflers, Silk Scarfs, • and • Wool Reefs Neckwear §pecial in fancy boxes. 13or1S'iiillfilie"n4*Of pttern Braces, Belts aht eariers;nicelyloied. Shirt,. Pyjamas and Underwear, Children's Kid Mitts, with for cuffs. Gloves in leading Makes. Special in Ladies' Handbrchiefs, 3 to a box, 49c. Sweater Coats and Pullovers. Hits and Caps. 011.0tor Rags; W001.11ed :Sirnatis, an 41fankets. Leather Coats and Winabreakers. Overalls and Work Pants, Men's Overcoats at Clear:6,1 Prices. 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