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Van Egmond artifacts found in B.C. basement
When Ross
Hawthorne
decided to final-
ly open an old
trunk sitting
inside his
father's base-
ment in Victoria,
B.C., he never
thought what
was inside
would lead him
to Egmondville,,
Ont.
Inside the
trunk, amidst
several wedding
photop and other
items, he discov-
ered three old
large pastels of
two individuals.
"All of a sud-
den we had
these beautiful
artifacts," says
Hawthorne.
With the help
of an genealo-
gist, Hawthorne
and his wife
researched the
pastels until
they discovered
that what they
had in their pos-
session were
portraits of
Edward Van
`Egmond} the
third son of
Anthony Van
Egmond and
two of Elisabeth
Runciman,
Edward's wife.
Anthony Van
Egmond was a
veteran of the
Napoleonic war,
who later settled
in Upper
Canada and
played an inte-
gral part in the
development of
the Huron Tract.
While
researching they
also discovered
the Van Egmond
Foundation and
that the house
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Anglican Church
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Jarvis St. Seaforth 527-1522
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May 21', 2006
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Jeff Heuchert photo.
Ross Hawthorne, of Victoria, B.C., presents three old pastels of his Van Egmond ancestors to the Van
Egmond Foundation in Egmondville on Friday.
Edward's broth-
er Constant
built, still
stands and is
now a museum.
This is what
brought the
Hawthornes to
Egmondville last
week where they
donated the pas-
tels to the Van
Egmond
Foundation.
"We're bring-
ing them back to
where I feel they
rightfully
belong," said
Hawthorne at
the donation cer-
emony.
"All my life I
didn't know this
trunk and these
painting existed
in our basement
(in Victoria). I
p -r o b a b l y
climbed on it as
a kid," he says.
Although.
Hawthorne and
his father John,
who could not
attend the dona-
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tion ceremony,
do not know
exactly how the
pastels came
into the family's
possession, they
do know their
connection to
the Van
Egmonds.
Hawthorne's
great-grand-
mother, Mary
Ann, was one of
11 children of
Edward Van
Egmond.
She married
William
Hawthorne, of
Seaforth, who
together had
child named
John.
According to
Ross, years later
after a family
dispute, John
packed up and
drove across the
country to
Victoria in the
1920s.
"It's funny to
think he trav-
elled across
Canada in a big
old vehicle and
then he stuffed
away this trunk
for 65 years," he
says."
"Why he brought
the trunk we
don't know. It's a
real mystery," he
adds.
Years later,
John was plan-
ning to throw
out the trunk
and its contents,
but one of his
daughters,
Elizabeth
Isabella,
thought the con-
tents might be
important and
saved the trunk,
which then
ended up at her
brother's house.
It sat there
until around one
year ago, when
Ross decided to
go though some
of his father's
things, in hopes
of learning more
about the fami-
ly's genealogy. .
"My father
said I should do
with them what
I want, but he
said the best
place for them
would be- in a
museum," he
says.
By Jeff
Heuchert