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The Huron Expositor, 1978-10-26, Page 10DANCE to be held for 17100 WA Rose LVVi) rkman nee Flynn Dancing from 10.1 Music By Country Companions Nov. 3rd at blyth Community Centre Everyone Welcome The family of Mt. and Mrs. : RR. 2, Seaforth wish to invite relatives fdends to celebrate. their 50th WEDDING ANNIVERSARY SAT. OCT. 28 at Seaforth Legion Hall Dancing 9-1 Legion Hallowe'en Party For members and guest. only Fri. Oct. 27th Seaforth Legloi Hall 9 - 1 No admission Lunch served Junior Contenaires Booster Club Hallowe'en Dance Seaforth Arena Sat. Oct. 28 MUSIC BY:. Greensleeves DANCING: 9-1 ADMISSION: $5.00, per couple advanCe, $6.00 per couple at the door: Costumes are optional & prizes for the best costumes. ALL PROCEEDS FOR JUNIOR HOCKEY • 'TICKETS AVAILABLE from Executvie members, , Bob & Betty's, Huron Expositor & Queens Hotel. ;$. Available at SEAN FAGAN •. 30 THE SQUAR PilaNt,54-7111i AIRCONDItIONO Pr6gram sub tec t to change I cashiered officers...creatures either half worn out or but, half P , . made; knowing nothing and capable of nothing..." ' ..- . ,-, Saturda . Oct 28th is the y, . 10 THE HURON EXPOSITOR' OCTOBER Serendipity more The countries Bonaparte conquered, the more men he needed for his armies, so he began conscripting soldiers from each country his armies overran, Anthony Van Egmond was one of the foreign soldiers conscripted, into Napoleon's army. In 1802, Van Egmond's military reSponsibilities included sitting as the member of a court judging people arrested for robbery. It wasn't a task he enjoyed, since most of the robbers were found guilty, despite their crime, and guillotined publicly. ° Van Egmond, a remarkably fair man, said later, "Had' these men been judged by a court purely of equety in lieu of one of law, and their good deeds had been allowed to weigh in contra of their misdeeds, they would have been honourably acquitted. It was the laws and not the crimes that condemned them." Ironically, in the 1837 Rebellion, it would prove to be the law which condemned many of the rebels in Upper Canada rather than their crime which had simply been to demand fairer treatment at the handi-of the Family Compact and the Canada Company. Sometime during his army career, Anthony Van Egmond married Susanna Dietz, a German girl, and in 1808; in 'the Rhineland of Gerinany, their first son_Constant was born. Although it's knoWn V"Egmond was wounded at the Battle of Waterloo, where he was fighting with the Allies against NaPolieon's army, the details of his life in this period are hazy at best. • Then in 1819, the Van Egmond family migrated to the UnitedStates and the Colonel traded his weapons' for the role of storekeeper, in •a Pennsylvania settlement. - Eight- years - later the -Van - Eg -family moved again—this time following other Perinsylva a Dutch families, to Waterloo County in Upper Canada. By n , Van Egmond had five sons-and•three daughters, and by pio eer standards, was considered a wealthy man. • The lure of Upper Canada for Van Egmond was likely the same as it was for John Galt—"to build in the wilderness a refuge for the fleers from the calamities of the Old World:.." Van Egmond and Galt, with their common conception of Upper Canada's future, soon became friends. When John Galt later learned he' was being' unceremoniously recalled to Britain by. the 'Canada Company, who felt that Galt had stopped putting profit ahead of principle, he called on Van Egmond personally ,to tell him the news. Eventually Van Egmond would describe officers of the Canada Company as "old parasites and young idlers; half-beggared would-be gentlemen, half-'pays and vno-pays , Although today the records of land purchases and ownership in the early days of the Huron Tract are hazy- at best, most historians agree that it's likely the Van. Egmond family owned about 13,000 acres in total in the Huron Tract. Although the colonel might have lived like a feudal jantlowner, he took the duties of new citizenship seriously, The older settler wanted a country where men could receive an education despite their wealth or the lack of it, where people could worship in the faith of their choice and where Canada Company settlers:vvOuld be sdrved by an efficient system of roads, bridges, inns and canals as they had been promised before they emmigrated. The, colonel had four acres of his own land cleared for a schoolhouse and paid the teacher's salary out of his own funds, to assure that settlers in his area could educate their children. • Sunday church services were held'in the Van tg,mond home and he donated land for schools and churches. Also, the colonel helped organize protective measures against the spread of cholera, the dreaded disease which came to Canada with the settlers. Van Egmond and his family wasted no time in clearing their own property, and by their second year on the land, they harvested a crop of wheat from part of the cleared land. • Samuel Strickland, the brother of writers Catherine Parr Trail and Susanna Moodie, wrote in his book on his early days in Upper Canada, "As this was the first field (of grain) ripe in the tract, the old man (Van Egmond) determinedAo -celebrate -thereVent 'by asking some of the gentlemen connected with the Canada Company to dinner and to witness the cutting of' the first sheaf." Eturthe seeds of discontent were already festering and Colonel Van Egmond soon became disillusioned with the Canada Company 'and their broken promises, The settlers who had come to Huron County to' carve out a new life free from the restrictions of life in Europe or Britain weren't any better off than they had been in their native countries,. • When John Galt was recalled, and Van Egmond saw the honorable man replaced' by the opportunist'Thomas Mercer Jones, he realized someone had to take a stand against the injustices, Colonel Van Egmond eventually chose to abandon 'his comfortable position companywith the to start crusading for the settlers. It was a decision he would pay for with his life. BENEFIT DANCE for BRIAN & 'LINDA WILSON (Barn fire Victims) Vanastra Recreation Centre Friday, Nay. 3td lausic By:-W9.0N.NEin. TTA TRIO Ladies please bring sandwiches day of the Hallowe'en party at Seaforth Library. Any children . aged 4 „to 7 are invited to join in on the fun. The party starts at 1:30 p.m. (regular storyhour time) with games. They hope to 'have some relay races and need lots of participants. Prize's will be awarded to the winners. " At "storytime" children will learn about "Georgie's Hallowe'en" and the "Witch's Party." •They'll make a Hallowe'en mobile with all the traditional Hal- loween characters. These mobiles can be used to decorate your home on Hal- loween day. The party will be wrapped up around 3:00 with refresh- ments for everyone as well as prizes for the boy and girl with the best costume. The Library will be closed on Remembrance Day, Sat. Nov. 11th. Story hour has been cancelled for that day. Anyone still wishing to purchase books may do so at regular Library hours. Child- ren's books are on display upstairs. Paperbacks, adult fiction and adult non-fiction bOoks may be viewed in the Reading Room. Hot TURKEY SUPPER United Church Walton Wed.3 :3Noo. 7:30 v. 1 st Adults $4.00 1°111dre 2 &undner $2-00 Pre Schooler Free THE NATURE HIKE — A group of 'Centralia Brownies led by Kim Dore and Wendy Bierlim marched down 'a' hill during SundaY's hike ' through the beautiful Bannockburn Con- servation area. (Photo by Oke) FRI. & sat 7 & 9 HELD OVER TH. TUES. OCT 31 SUN. - THURS. ONE SHOWING B100 P.M. It was the Deltas against the rules, 'the rules lost! (Some language may be offensive),;.';' Theatres Br. Ontario 26, 1918 By Alice Gibb Three men, all eccentrics in their own way, were instrumental in building the Huron Tract road 150 years, ago. John Galt we met earlier in this column, the Blyth Festival presented their tribute to William "Tiger" Dunlop this simmer, which leaves only our own Anthony Van Egmond; perhaps the most honorable of the three individuals. Colonel Van Esmond, the Most democratic of the Huron Tract . founders, came from a very aristocratic European. background. . • His forefathers were respected Members of the Dutch nobility, and one had headed the Spanish mission to England to persuade the infamous Queen Mary (later named "Bloody Mary") to link her country with that of another Catholic monarch, Count Van Egmond was instrumental in arranging the marriage between Queen Mary and King Philip 11 of Spain and was one of the guests at the couple's wedding in Winchester Cathedral in 1554. Unfortunately, as history soon proved, neither Count Van Egmond or the married couple were to pr it from the union. Religious' persecutions in both England and the Continent became more brutal as the two Catholic monarchs tried to , stamp out the growing Protestant movement and Count Van Egmond's name 'soon appeared on a secret list of people considered' a threat to Catholicism. The count was marked for death because he had refused to help in the brutal campaign to stamp out the "heretics" (Protestants and liberal Catholics) and although he was ,,'warned to flee by his friend, Prince William of Orange, he hesitated too long. In 1568, Count Van Egmond and a friend, Count Van Horn, were...publicly beheaded in.the main square .Brussels...... charged with treason against the king they had served. Undoubtedly the story of this injustice was told and retold Egmond descendants,. and: the man whizwouldLlater settle just four miles from Seaforth must have known the tale by heart. Anthony Van Egmond was 18 years old when the French Revolution erupted south of Holland. After the revolutionary slaughter was over, the French suddenly found themselves with a new hero who would soon prove almost as despotic as their late lamented king. The hero was the short, swarthy Corsician named. Napoleon and his ambition was simple—to rule all of Europe, perhaps eventually the •world, In 1794, Holland was overrun by French forces and in 1806 Louis Napoleon; Bonaparte's brother, was reluctantly made king of. Holland. • • A lottery sponsored by the raise funds for hockey teams Hockey teams will receive Ontario Minor Hockey As- across the province. Mem- , some of the proceeds from _ sociation being __held to bers of the Seaforth Minor the ticket salest The lottery tickets, which offer purchasers a chance to win Over $100,000 in prizes are available at a number of local businesses .as well as the Seaforth Arena and the , Seaforth Legiott:. ; ocal businesses which 'are diSiributing 'the'` tickets in- clude Bob and Betty's Variety, .the Queen's Hotel, the. Commercial Hotel, the Jack and Jill Shoppe and . Mac's Milk. Lottery will fund hockey Scuba DIVING COURSE Starting Nov. 2, Vanastra Community Centre Enrol. now at Vanastra Centre 482-3544 or Travel Sports Equipment 67 VVharncliffe Rd. North, London 1-434.2611 H::•uron:trizicit's eccentrics Tickets $5 per person Fri. Nov. $PECIAL. FALL DANCE I 10 9 P.M. -1 A.M. At The Stratford Fairgrounds ' THE FABULOUS DUBLIN CORPORATION' Ow* s*4 *Imo** * Huron .. * Hotel; st Dublin * proudly pr e s en t s. .0 it it Ron k* *a. Goodwin 2 s . SHOW 1 HIGHWAY 108 DUBLIN 4 4010*111. 10 The 'Huron Expositor or at the door Appearing [hors., Fri. & Sat. THE KINGS & THE LITTLE ONE NextyVeek Tues. to Sat. HANNON Refreshments Available SEND THIS COUPON WITH PAYMENT TO: Strafford Fairgrounds BoX204` Stratford- and Receive $1 Discoun et. ticket COUPON'GOOD P01 2 oticti* DISCOUNT COUPON Save $ 1 per ticket When was the last time • someone jammed your locker?.