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The Lucknow Sentinel, 2015-10-28, Page 9Wednesday, October 28, 2015 • Lucknow Sentinel 9 Once upon a time -Bruce County Memories Bard of the Canadian Lakes Indian Summer Along the line of smoky hills, The crimson forest stands And all the day the blue jay calls Throughout the autumn lands. Now by the brook the maple leans With all his glory spread, And all the sumacs on the hills Have turned their green to red. Do the above lines recall nostalgic memories of school days? At such a season as the poet describes, on those lazy, hazy colourful days, the alert Bruce County teacher assigned this poem as memory work, for in their sheer loveliness, they portrayed a scene very familiar to her pupils. The short lines with their vivid pictures sang their way into the very recesses of the mind-- a trib- ute to the composer who spent sev- eral of his youthful years in the Bruce Peninsula. William Wilfred Campbell was born in Kitchener in 1861, the son of an Anglican minis- ter. The family followed Rev. Campbell' s ministry ultimately to Wiarton where William lived until 1884. The surroundings were to prove an inspiration to the youth with his love for the beautiful. Blue, limpid, mighty restless lakes, God's mirrors underneath the sky. The poet, himself, when Lake Lyr- ics was published, wrote in the Toronto Globe that he saw the great waters as " blue, limpid and lumi- nous, throbbing and placid in the Ii3 ' IP Jr_ Bruce County Museum & Cultural Centre: A2015.016, Victor Last The William Campbell cairn was erected at the northern entrance to Wiarton in memory of the Bruce County poet. It has since been moved to the Wiarton park. sunlight, ---angry and tumultuous with storm and thunder in spring and autumn and cold -grey or white - sheeted in the dull winter days." As a memorial to William Campbell, a cairn was erected at the northern entrance to Wiarton. It has since been moved to the Wiarton park where it stands in memory of a poet who contributed much to Canada in general and to the Bruce Peninsula in particular. Adapted from an article by Mar- garet Ferris published in the 1970 yearbook of the Bruce County His- torical Society. 7MMIIT'T1 rn'i ii Kindergarten Registration Avon Maitland Schools Monday Morning, November 2 Brookside Public School - 519-529-7900 Tuesday Morning, November 10 Maitland River Elementary School - 519-357-3551 Registration packages are now available for pickup at your local school. Call your school to make an appointment. Junior Kindergarten Children 3 years old by December 31, 2015 are eligible for JK in September 2016 education S year L rc+a Senior Kindergarten Children 4 years old by December 31, 2015 are eligible for SK in September 2016 Ted Doherty Director of Education yourschools.ca Randy Wagler Chair Lucknow & District Chamber of Commerce 2015 Members Amanda McClenaghan Real Estate Armstrong's Home Bakery Barb's Country Catering BASE Farm Equipment BMO Bank of Montreal Britespan Building Systems BUG Busters Clera Windows & Doors Cliff's Plumbing & Heating Connect Equipment Co. Crawford, Mill & Davies Danceology Dance Studio Donald A. Andrew Accounting Dungannon Kitchens Ltd. Equity Bookkeeping Solutions Evans Computing Everlastings Flowers & Gifts Fisherman's Cove Tent & Trailer Park Gagnon Painting Green's Meat Market Grundy Family Dental Care Helm Welding Hodgins Home Hardware Hodgins Lumber/RONA Hoek Farms Huron Landscaping IWTB'S Lil Bitty Boutique. 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