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families► , p otograplis of pater* and
today. .
The stories ..theinselves are fascinating;
They cover well oyer 150 year and recount
the experiences of .the first pioneers to -the
most recent families . to settle in the
township. The stories tell of both family
triumphs and tragedies.
'There's the story of Walter Hick, for ex-
aniple. He . arrived. in Canada from Corn-
wall, England, like many others in the ;1030s.
The young immigrant married Caroline
Scenes, a daughter of William and Anne
Hore Scares.
Anne Hore (1793-1874)'came from a small
Devonshire village. ide (pronounced led)
married William Scenes and they
emigrated in 1846 with their six daughters.
On disembarking at Quebec, Mr. Scanes,
wearing his worldly wealth in his money
belt, missed his footing on the gangplank,
fell and was drowned. His body was never
recovered. His widow went to Kingston
where she opened a bakery. Her daughters
married and scattered, but Anne made her
final home in Goderich - with her daughter,
Caroline Hick.
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erected a home there known as the "'Pebble
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prnthnioe, is still in "use for ; His
dson"spoke-Qf helping to gatherthe. peb.
le. for. the eikterio othe hoouse. A
newspaper report said it s. built .000
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to ' mo 4 e
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seven generations, Tt �.
with Goderich Townshi a ..
Thomas "Gunn, who came`
Township from County Cork Ira in
He purchased C lt/I,1112 fro r
Company in 1834, HP Met EPabet Stui
here and they had the .:distinction of be
"The history of our anlages is the history of our country in small pieces"
- Victor Hugo
egg-shaped well -matched stones carried
from the shores of Lake Huron and
transported home by team and wagon.
In the same vein, one of the township's
more recent settlers, Steve and Cindy
(Leeking) Brennan recount the monumen-
tal task involving the construction of their
1,500 square foot cabin, built in 1982, at
Bluewater Beach.
Steve designed the home and the pine logs
came from Mennonites in Tillsonburg. The
Brennans skinned the bark from the logs
with antique knives and Steve chiseled the
corners by hand. It took two years to build
the 28 foot by 36 foot home. It features a loft
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the first white couple married in Goderich
Township.
Early settlement in the township
recollects life in "the wilderness." For
William and Charlotte Elizabeth Jowett,
Canada less than met their expectations.
The couple sold their tea business and set
sail for Canada in 1833. They found life in the
colonies to be lonely and difficult. They set-
tletinear Bayfield. Their area had no school,
so the`following letter was writt
Goderih Township
22nd January, 1847
To the Sirs of the Council of the County of
Huron -
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+: trlul aker:4842-1936) was four years Old
hen y crossed the Atlantic a
from relnd to Canada. Elis pare to Robert.
and miry Anne,: bought a tract Of denael)►
wooded land at <Ct/L72 and proceeded to •
clear it:A story in theWinton News -Record
noted, "Tao youngsters with•' a basket:. of
fresh produce from, the farm of Robert
Baker, an Irish' gentleman and earty
pioneer in Goderich Township, trudged 12
miles with only a blazed trail to follow. It
was evening when the lads returned along
the same blazed trail, covering 24 miles in
all and carrying each a brand new hoe over
the shoulder to assist their father in farm-
ing." The young lads were John Baker and
one of his brothers.
Stories tell of orphan Home Boys from
England, like Henry Corey who came from
Birmingham, England in 1855 to the William
Wise family in Goderich Township.
Family history in the township recounts
the great immigration in the late 1940's and -
early 1950's from Holland. Names like Hank
and Greidanus are now well known in the
township.
Their stories recall the war years, of the
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