The Citizen, 1992-06-03, Page 15THE CITIZEN, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 3,1992. PAGE 15.
History of road building is topic of meeting
A history of road building was
the topic as the Huron County His
torical Society held its annual
meeting in Brussels Library Thurs
day night.
Bill Barlow, author of Everything
for the Road Maker, spoke at the
meeting and showed some of the
376 photographs of old road
machinery he had collected during
the five years he had researched his
book. Mr. Barlow had worked 40
years with Champion Road
Machinery of Goderich but it was
his wife Audrey who sparked the
book. She had written an essay
about the American Road Machin
ery Company (the forerunner of
Champion) when she was studying
for a degree and the professor
urged her to make use of the mate
rial by sharing it with her children.
Mr. Barlow, who didn't think the
histories about Champion that
come out were quite right, took up
the challenge to write a larger book
that took in the history of road
building.
He told the audience about the
formation of the Ontario Good
Roads Association in the 1800’s
which pushed for the end of the
statutory labour method of road
maintenance. In those days, each
stretch of road had a path master
and residents along the road were
to give so many days a year for
maintenance of the road. The result
was a hodgepodge of maintenance
standards and widths of roadways
that made travel a headache. The
association also asked for a bylaw
in townships requiring four-inch
rims on wheels and offsetting
widths of front and back wheels on
wagons so roads wouldn’t be so
badly cut up.
Cathy Bridge presented a history
of the Carnegie Library in Brussels.
Margaret McClure of Crediton
was named to her third term as
President of the Society. Paul
Nichol of Brussels and Adrian Vos
of Blyth were added to the Council
of the Society.
Brussels Mennonite Fellowship guests
speak of missionary experience in Brazil
Histone event
Don Procter led the service at
Brussels Mennonite Fellowship on
Sunday, May 31. guests for the
service were Lois and Glenn
Musselman, who have been
pastoring in Conceicao, Brazil as
Mennonite Missionaries. Lois had a
children's story and Glenn brought
the message. Instead of regular
classes the youth and adults joined
for a slide presentation and sharing
time with the Musselman team,
during the Christian Education
Hour.
The Venture Club brought their
year to an end on Thursday evening
at Howard and Alice Martin's
recreation area. The children and
parents enjoyed an evening of
boating, games, singing and a
wiener roast. Special thanks goes to
Wendy Martin and her assistants
who put so much time and effort
into the program for the past
several months.
Bill Barlow (centre) of Goderich, discussed the history of road building in his speech to the
Huron County Historical Society's annual meeting in Brussels Thursday night. The speech
was based on his book Everything for the Road Maker, which was edited by Rhea Hamilton -
Seeger of Auburn. Ron Latham, (right) of Londesboro was one of the Historical Society
members who enjoyed the talk.
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