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For more information call Jean:
887-6665 or Andrew: 887-8621
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a grown-up when they find
matches and lighters.
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IN Roman Catholic Church Et
254 Drummond St. E., Blyth
Saturday Night Mass
at 7:00 pm
Father John Johnson, Pastor
357-2435
Trinity, Blyth
9:30 a.m.
St. John's, Brussels
11:15 a.m.
THE ANGLICAN CHURCH OF CANADA
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JUNE 27
FOURTH AFTER PENTECOST
The Rev. Tom Wilson, B.A., MDiv. 887-9273
who left a legacy of adventure, hard
work, and large families.
Elizabeth McBain was the first
mother in Blyth, and her son Ronald
was the first child born in Blyth.
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June 27 - Gal. 3:26ff, 5:16 ff
"Christian Baptism:
Crucified, Claimed, Al
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Bring Lawn
Chairs
-- Potluck!
Location changed to J&R Uyl's
NO North St.. Myth
HURON CHAPEL EVANGELICAL
MISSIONARY CHURCH
SING A SON OF Auburn - 526-1131
4048...9 PASTOR DAVE WOOD - 523-4941
Sunday 9:30 a.m. Family Bible Hour
10:30 a.m. Morning Worship Service
7:30 p.m. Evening Worship Service
Wednesday 7:00 - 8:30 p.m. - Youth
7:15 p.m. Adult Bible Study
Community Churc h
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"The Church is not a
d' 4 Building,
%_ It is People Touching
People"
Sunday 9:15 a.m. - Prayer Meeting
9:45 a.m. - Sunday School
11:00 a.m. - Worship Service
Several mid-week events
Phone 523-4875 308 Blyth Rd. E. - Pastor Les Cook 523-4590
MELVILLE
PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH
• BRUSSELS
11:00 a.m. - Sunday Morning Service
- Sunday School
9:30 a.m. - Sunday Belgrave Service
Wheelchair accessible
Nursery care available
Rev. Cathrine Campbell - 887-9831
Celebrating l5O•years of Christian Witness and Service!
Cornerstone
Bible
Fellowship
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Sunday: 9:45-10:30 - Communion
11:00 - 12:00 - Family Bible Hour and Sunday School
Monday - Friday: 9:30 -11:30 am - Vacation Bible School
Children ages 4.12 welcome
Tuesday: 7:30 pm - Prayer & Bible Study
Wednesday: 7:00 - 9:00 pm - Youth (ages 12 & up)
John 14:6 - Jesus said, "I am the WAY, the TRUTH and the LIFE, no
one comes to the Father, but through Me."
Call Pastor Andrew at 887-6123
BLYTH UNITED CHURCH
Corner of Dinsley & Mill Street
Sunday, June 27
Lessons from
the Blyth plays
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Minister: Rev. Dr. Eugen Bannerman
Office: 523-4224
Myth United Church is a welcoming community offaith.
We celebrate God's presence through worship and study, and through
responding to the needs and gifts of each other.
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Sunday, June 27
Morning Worship Service - 10 a.m.
Psalm 130: Dealing with Guilt & Shame
Evening Worship Service - 7:30 p.m.
BLYTH CHRISTIAN REFORMED CHURCH
Pastor John Kuperus
Hwy. 4, Blyth 523-9233
Wheelchair accessible
BRUSSELS - ETHEL PASTORAL CHARGE
UNITED CHURCH OF CANADA
Joan Golden - Diaconal Student Minister
Church Office 887-6259 E-mail - bepc@wcl.on.ca
June 27
Ethel United Church
9:30 a.m.
Worship Service & Sunday School
Brussels United Church
11:00 a.m.
Worship Service
Come and celebrate the Season of Pentecost with us!
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From the Minister's Study
Who gave birth to Blyth's first child?
By Rev. Eugen Bannerman
Blyth United Church
Who gave birth to the first child
born in Blyth?
The distinction belongs to
Elizabeth McBain, wife of Kenneth
McBain. On June I1, 1852, her son
Ronald was born in the log house the
family had built the year before on
the lot now occupied by the Blyth
Inn.
Ronald was Elizabeth's Ilth child.
The population of Canada in 1851
was only 2.4 million, and Kenneth
and Elizabeth had already
contributed 10 children before they
arrived in Blyth. Three children had
been born in Pictou. Nova Scotia.
and seven in Bytown and North
Easthope, adjacent to Stratford,
Ontario.
Elizabeth was 41 years of age
when Ronald was born, and Kenneth
55. Three more children were born
in Blyth. The last daughter Jane was
born in 1859 when Elizabeth was 48.
and Kenneth 62.
Of the 14 children. 10 were
daughters and four sons. One son
and daughter died in infancy. The
daughters all received the surname,
Bain. The father and sons, McBain.
The oldest daughter.. Christina
Bain. had married John Boyd Taylor,
and was living down the road at
Orchill Farms. The Taylors were the
third family to settle in the Blyth
area.
John Taylor helped in getting the
Presbyterian Church started in
Blyth. He held the first Sabbath
School in his home, and began
collecting books for a small library.
He helped arrange the first
Presbyterian service in Blyth at
which Rev. Rennie preached. Since
an overflow crowd was expected, it
was held in Kenneth McBain's barn.
the largest building around.
John Taylor operated the first post
office for Blyth out of his home at
Orchill. from January 1854 to
January 1856.
John Taylor enrolled at Knox
College. Toronto, and became the
first resident of Blyth to enter the
Christian ministry. After a church
was established at Lucknow, he
became their minister.
Across the road from the
McBains' house. Lucius McConnell
had also built a log house. He was
Blyth's first settler, arriving a few
days before the McBains in May
1851. Lucius came with his wife
Mary, and three teenage sons,
including William.
It was inevitaole the McBains and
the McConnells would socialize.
Hughenia Bain was 12 when she
first met William McConnell. who
was 20. Ten years later the
relationship flowered into
matrimony, and the couple Were
married on Jan. 1, 1861.
Blyth's first two families had
become one through marriage.
What happened to Blyth's first
native son. Ronald McBain?
Ronald was 10 when his father
decided to leave Blyth and move his
family to Manitoba. He had built
Blyth's first sawmill which greatly
helped the community. Now it was
time once again ,to move on. He left
Blyth with most of his family in
1862. Kenneth McBain wanted to be
among the first to settle in the new
territories opening up in the west.
After surviving the Louis Riel
rebellion, Kenneth McBain chose
his future home and ploughed a
furrow around 500 acres at the
present town site of Portage la
Prairie. There he established his
amily, the first white settler to
locate and farm west of Winnipeg.
The year was 1866, the year before
Canadian confederation. Ronald was
a teenager who helped on the farm.
Elizabeth McBain died in 1875 at
the age of 64. and Kenneth died in
1898 at the high age of 99. Almost
half a century passed between his
arrival in Blyth and his death in •
Portage la Prairie.
Ronald lived with his parents until
1879. when he married Margaret
Cameron. Ronald and Margaret
farmed for a time in Carberry,
Manitoba, before moving to
Melford. Saskatchewan. where they
farmed and raised their family of 10
children. Ronald died in 1921 and
his wife Margaret in 1902.
Elizabeth and Kenneth McBain
were one of Blyth's pioneer families
10:30 a.m. - Contemporary Worship
Sunday School during Sermon
Pastor: Ernest Dow - 523-4848 ,
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