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K PHONE 5270310 Market Street at High — O ne Block West of Town Hall SEAFORTH Problems of Are (Copies of "The Settlement of Huron. County", by James Scott, may be , obtained - from The Huron Expositor Office Copies are five dollars -each) by W. E. Elliott, Goderich In the Stratford Beacon -Herald When Colonel Anthony Van Egmond became a candidate for the Assembly in 1836, he sought a forum in which to call atten- tion to the Canada Company's disregard of the settlers' welfare. He had done rough himself to as- sist the early settlers of the Hur- on Tract and denounced the failure of the Company to carry out promises made to the British Gover{ament, In the election cam- paign, the Canada Company commissioner, Thomas Mercer Jones, used every means to de- feat Van Egmend and was suc- cessful. Defeated' by Captain Ro- bert Dunlop, Van Egmond evi- dently, came to agree with Wil- liam Lyon MacKenzie that only by .armed conflict would respon- sible government be achieved' in Upper Canada. James Scott' of Seaforth, in "The Settlement of Huron Coun- ty," recently published by the Ryerson Press, has devoted an in- teresting chapter to the events of 1837 as they concern Huron. Without attempting to minimize Van Egmond's tragic mistake, he sets forward the great service performed by the 'county's first farmer, his humanitarian. attitude towards the newcomers facing great hardships, his abil- ity in constructing the Huron Road, and his disdain for the "old parasites and young idl- ers" surrounding Mercer Jones. Against this background of ser- vice and even philanthropy, the old soldier's act of .rebellion has been, magnified in most narrationsout of proportion. Mr. Scott has done him justice, and told the story in sympath- etic vein, as might be expected on the part of dile who 119 years later, and in the same county, ran for the Legislature as a Liberal and .like Van Eg- mond, was unsuccessful. 'Mr. Scott is a descendant of pion- eers ioneers in the same area settled by the Van Egmond family, Contents of the 300 -page book fall, to a large extent,. Into a- definite pattern, namely, a narrative of early settlement in the various townships — names of first settlers, nature of the pioneer industries men- tion of first schools and church- es, municipal bodies, and so on, McKillop, it is noted, had a somewhat complicated munici- pal history, in that it was or- ganized in 1842 with Logan and Hibbert. The three "town wardens" were. all McKillop men. Logan. withdrew after two years. Hibbert a year later. AU through the early years, Mr. Scott writes, financing wasdif- ferent from that in other Hur- on townships, From 1876, the township was divided into wards, . and council's appropria- tions for public improvemeets, would be divided among the four wards. Councillors control- le'd all township work in their own territory, and "the treasur- er of -McKillop never had a dollar of the township's mon- ey in his possession." Even in a work of this scope, it is obviously impossible to fol- low up individual history in more than a few instances, but the story of John Galt's strug- gles with the Canada Company is told at appropriate length and detail, - as well as the prin- cipal facts about his sons. Galt as commissioner was hampered by ignorance of Canada on the part of Canada Company. dir- ecters in England, and the dif- ficulty of communication, neses- -sitating quick decisions on his own part, which often brought him criticism. On the other hand Scott attributes to him a quick tempeir and a rough tongue: A curious incident of Gait's regime was a proposition by an English company to overcome the labor of road -building across Huron by means of "forest railway" on wood: rails and supports, the latter being tree stumps "cut ' at such a height as to preserve the lev- el, so that the expense is no greater whether the land be undulating or otherwise." This, a bright and merry Christmas Pioneers the author comments was '.im- aginative thinking at its best." Adequate attention is given to the 'ships and skippers of Goderich through the years, but residents of the port may not be pleased with a conclusion that this economic contribution is entirely of the past. Though the grain trade centred in. thea big elevators at Goderich har- bor constitutes •»erhaps the. town's biggest -industry,, Mr, Scott writes: "The ships of Goderich and the industry which surrounds then lenever dot Huron countyave ecgnomyminated, not evhe- en that of Goderich. Even to- day, once one has reached the crest of the hill and the har- bor is. left behind, Goderich has no characteristics of a port whatsoever, save for the sole lighthouse in Huron which was established in the early 1850s and has continued to this day." In a chapter on early schools, it is noted that Huron has nev- er had any institutions of ad- vanced learning ' established within its boundaries. For tea- cher training the 'students of Huron have gone mostly to the Normal School at Stratford, and some to London. Of possible in- terest to .childless ratepayers who resent compulsory taxation for education is the fact that under the School Act of 1843 the teachers' salaries were raised by a bill "levied on the parents of children- attending the schools." Though ,the work was' com- missioned by county council as a county history, some . eight years ago, it deals almost exclu- sively with early settlement, and has been titled accordingly. Notwithstanding the time de- voted to research and composi- tion, omposition, minor errors will be not- ed. It• is regretable that Robert Gibbons, ,who as warden; mem- ber of the Legislature and cher iff was prominent in town and co , a affairs . for 60 years, ouL be described as Givins." Ira Lewis was never a county judge, as stated, and his name does not appedr in a list of judges appended. Anthony' Al - earliest setuere" of Millburn. now • Dunlop, but that would more accurately be said of his father, ,John, owner of Dunlop tavern before Anthony. Many familiar sources have been' drawn upon by the auth- or, such as the Huron Gazet- teer, 18634, Belden's Atlas, 1879, Gavin Green's "Day of the Old Log School," the Lizars books, and Ontario Historical So- ciety Records, as vines, .as the Thomas Orr Collection, Strat- ford, files of couritynewspapers and several . books written. in recent years about' Dr. William Duziibp: It is a very great service to the public, and especially to historians, to have drawn to- gether the relevant information contained in varied and scat- tered, aeources and presented it in readable form. With a min- imum of repetition and without cumbersome documentation, Mr. Scott has produced a book which is not only a valuable refer- ence work but which should be read with great interest on its merits as a narrative of the people -and events in Huron in the first three-quarters of last century. He finds that certain sentiments expressed in Van Egmond's time are still ch, rac- teristie of Huron county .thnk. ingAll! pretences to 'side,' to the trappings of an aristocracy which does not belong to this country, are still held in deep scorn. The feeling that public office and positions of respon- sibility should go to native sons or • those with long rest= deuce in the county is still widely held, and no man who attempts to ' set himself above his fellow citizens manages to get very far in Huron." The author acknowledges strong assistance with the book. by Dr. J. .1. Tasman, eldefAib• rarian, University of Western Ontario, .who read the complete manuscript. 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