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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. ' "Western" has
come to be a zgain source of
material for those engaged in
research into the history of the
comihunities and counties in
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