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son, John Wesley, was ,born in 1868. It stood in the
w , midst of the • virgin forept. This was the Beattie home
For a time after Rev. Matthew Barr came to the till John built, in 1175, and moved to theloge white.
community, he boarded at the home of Robert Hays. It who dhouse
d s tome t stall the Seaforth way.
Market House
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was. agreed by all whenas he arrived home
this wes the followed Beattie,.It was• Mrs. Wm. Hay who renovated
place he must board, as the Hays home,was the only the house in the 1940 s. The present occupant is Ray
one in the congregation where white flour was used. •
Henderson. •'
I Later Rev. Barr purchased ten acres on the west To the east of the old home, John Beattie built
side of the Roxboro Road, halfway between Roxboro another frame house in 1886. This was occupied by his
and the Huron Road. On it he built a large brick .cot- son-in-law, J. H. Pyper, and was later J. WesleyBeattie's
tage with a good sized stable to th,e west of it. This was home. This house, when the highway was rebuilt in
his home till he passed away in 1908,' and also the home 1954, was shifted across to its present location. It is
of his. second wife till she died in 1915, Robert, Goven- now the home and antique shop of John'S granddaugh*
lock, a son-in-law,'then got the property, and sometime ters, 1Viisses Florence and Ethel •Beattie.
k later the buildings were torn down. .—i..,West of John Beattie'& was the 'borne of "Jock"
• Winter, father of John and Robert, "Jock" was describ-•
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Was one of "wee-bit-lambe-fame". His son John was
- - a framer and Robert, a well known cattle drover. Thom -
The first trustees of S.S. No. 7 School in the Town- as Little, the blacksmith, Game next,' then Andrew
ship of Tuckersmith were elected at a meeting held for Lamb and in later years, Widow Lamb and her son,
that purpose at the home of Thomas Knox, Harpurhey curly -headed Jack. John Shaw, brickleyer and plasterer,
on January 7, 1853. Francis Fowler waschairman and was the first to livein the present home of Andrew
George Gouinlock, secretary. The trustees appointed Calder.
were Francis Scott, Malcolm, McDermid and Francis , Joseph Brown, a. native of England,. arrived in
Fowler. Donald Scott was then as -to take, the chair Harpurhey in time to help build the railway in the
while a unanimous vote of thanks as `extended by the 1850's. It was then a thriving hamlet with several
meeting to Mr. Fowler for his con uct in the chair con- places of business. Joseph supplied the people • with
cerning this matter. The meeting then adjourned. , milk, and he was followed by his son-in-law, Dan Grum-
On February 17 the trustees ,met at the home of mett. When Dan retired his son, Joseph Grummett, car -
Malcolm McDermid. After the .appointment of Malcolm ried on the dairy 1'iisiness. In later years they also - sup-
McDermid as secretary -treasurer, the following motions plied"'the town of -Seaforth. This dairy 'wa$ carried on
were male and carried. Moved by Francis Scott and by the family for the long period of seventy-six years..
seconded by Francis Fowler that 'the secretary be Grummett's Maple Leaf Dairy wasthe first to.pasteurize
authorized to, ascertain from the following parties, milk in this community.
,namely : William Chalk, George Gouinlock, George Wors- West of . Brown's was Hugh Robb's store, home
ley, Thomas Burton,.. Michael Haws and Francis >' ow- and pork factory. ,The store was a hang out, for the
ler if they will dispose of a parcel of land in, a suitable village lads. This was the last store to close its doors.
place for a schoolhouse site and the price. The others had earlier pulled up stakes and settled in
Seaforth. Mr. and Mrs. Robb both died in the Robb
A special meeting of the freeholders and .house- home; Hugh in 1887 and Mrs. Robb in 1903: Frank
holders of the section was held on June 2,; 1853, in Borrett was a later occupant. It was his wife who was
Thomas Knox's Hotel, when it was decided TO accept
the instigator of Russel'liteism in this area. This sect
the offer of George Gouinlock for a schoolhouse site. in time merged into . the• present day Jehovah Witness
The. site to consist of half an acre of land to be known cult.
as village lots 48 and 49 in the village of Harpurhey. Hugh Robb's pork packing plant dated back to
The price to be seven pounds,' ten shillings currency. 1856. By December,, 1884, he and Frank Case were do -
Edward Cash then moved and furte William McCarron sec-
ing an extensive business. Their products of high quail-
onded the motion that the further considerations for
erecting a schoolhouse be postponed until this day twelve ty were in great demand from all parts of the Dominion,
month. Carried. In October, 1886, they started to cure beef as well as
pork in their plant. T. R. F. Case & Co. was still carry -
Because a deed could not be 'procured for the site ing on business in this factory after the turn of,..,the
purchased earlier from George Gouinlock, now deceas-
century.
ed, another meeting was held on April 17, 1854, to ac- Miss,Agnes Harvey's home was on the corner, and
cept Francis Fowler's offer of'a site. This one consist- it was here the road, leading to Roxboro, -branched off'
ed of only a fourth of an acre, situated on the .north- the Huron Road. North of Miss Harvey was the home
east corner of his lot 17, concession 1, Tuckersmith. The of midwife Mrs. James Johnston and her daughter, Mrs.
price paid was the same as they had bargained for A: P. young. Alex. McDonald's trailer home is now on
'George Gouinlock's half acre. The trustees were em- this.. lot.
powered to borrow the sum of one hundred and fifty On the west .;side •were two small homes. These, at
)pounds "for a term of not more than ten years, nor less different times; were occupied by. Dan Grummett and
than six years, for the purpose of , building a brick several others. The north one was sold to Wes Free. He
schooAhouse. The building was to be not less than thirty .had it moved to his home property on Spa'ling St.,
feet square and ten feet between the floors, with a Seaforth, after his house was burned. In the 1950's a'
porch on 'the front, ten feet by twelve feet.• house from Goderich St. East, Was moved to "this same
At the annual meeting in January, 1855, a motion site. The other small house was used later by Grum-
was passed that S.S. No. '7 be a Free School. Tenders metts for a garage. These two were in the Gash Plan.
had been called for a board fence around• the school By 1851 Edward Cash had his home and general
,site, but, as these were 'so. high, it was decided that a store near the corner, with only a driveway between
rail fence be erected in place of.a board one. For 1855 the two, buildings. These were moved to Seaforth in the
Francis Scott was to collect the school taxes ; a rate bill ._early' 1860's. Near this same "location, Francis Holm -
of three shillings and nine; pence per quarter was to sted; a well known Seaforth lawyer, by the 1870's, had
be paid for the teacher's salary, application was also a frame cottage on the corner. Another storey was
to be made to the township -council to raise by taxation added to it in later .years. After Holrnsted, Dan Grum-
from the section, fifty-six ,pounds to pay the balance mett lived in it,. and Iater. his. son Joseph Grummett.
0f -the teacher's salary and improvements on the school Dr. Paul Brady purchased the property in the 1950's
ground.and again alterations were 'made on the house. •
Pupils from McKillop also attended this school , - Next to Cash was John Murray's blacksmith shop.
and they were listed as non-residents. The total on the A pump with . an acorn carved on the handle is the
1855 roll was eighty-one. In,October that year the trus-. only landmark' left here. Murray moved to Seaforth and
tees engaged William Gerrond as the teacher .for 1856 died there of tuberculosis in 1882. Hattie, who passed
at a salary of eighty pounds, with schobl to be conduct- away in 1965, was the last survivor of the Murray
ed through the entire year, with only a two, week hobs" family.
day ,in August. In 1858 Archibald Dewar was appoint,, By the 1840's Thomas Knox opened ' Harpurhey
ed the teacher at a salary of one hundred pounds, and, Hotel a little farther west. As well as a place to eat and
in 1862, William Grassie was paid' $400.00 per annum. sleep, this hotel served many useful purposes in the
Changes made in school sections also brought early days. Division Court and meetings of various
about changes in the schools. Such was the case with kinds were held here. It was in Knox Hall that the An-
S.S. No. 7
H.uron, Mill �lQd
Two Workshops
-.Huron Presbyterial united
Church Woinen. heldr two work
shops in Mensal and in Blytkz
on Monday sand Tuesday of last
week an -the theme "A More
"ental UCW". . .
.1Ield..by._Miss Marjorie Smith,
fields. worker for the Board o£
Women of the United Church,
the work shops. featured the in
books, "Panorama of the Bible"
production of the new study
and "Japan Profiles"; a Bible
study session on the Meaning of
covenant; and discussion groups
OP Social Issuesrof Today.
Mrs. W. B. ‘Cruikshank of
Wingham, president of (London
Conference U1CW, ,brought greet
,ings from the conference. Mrk.
„Gilbert Beecroft, member of the
.conference finance, committee,
explained the new system of
self-deternnination, , which „le to
replace the allocation system
in i968,;w
and shoed a ,ilia
strip: entitled "Brew, Laughter
razi4 pignity" which portrayed
the olatreach of the chur�elh's
Work in many parts of' "the
World, .....
shorter, work shop was held
Monday evening i�v Ontario St.
ghureh, ,Clinton; for ladies who
could not attend! either of the
daytime sessions. '•
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o1 glicans held their first church services from 1855 till
From a report prepared in 1910. on Schools of On-. 1859, with Rev. William Cresswell in charge. The Ag-
tario, we find that the school system in Seaforth was ricultural Society used it to display the exhibits -at the
first organized in 1866. School was held for a short time the quarter mile' race track was being used across
time in a private house on Goderich St East. At the the road, on a mud street.
beginning of January, 1867, Mr. J. H. Colborne, later, ., In 1866 Knox opened the Commercial Hotel in
a Goderich merchant, was engaged as the first princi- Seaforth. He died in 1875. There is record that Mrs.
pal. School commenced with an enrollment of about 40 Knox still had this hotel aslate as 1896. In 1904 she was
pupils. Dr. T. T. Coleman, Julius Duncan and Thomas offering this property for sale which consisted of two
Johnstoricomposed thefirstBoard of Trustees. In the acres of land, a ,large frame house and a stable. Mrs.
summer of 1867, the first public school was built. When Knox died in ,June, 1906, The large stable, still owned
it was completed a fee of fortyfive cents, payable quer- by the Knox Estate, was completely dest eyed by fire of
• ,terly, was charged for each pupil on the roll. unknown origin in January, 1908. At this time_it was
In the .1880's Hannah's School was built one arid a -used for storage of coal and wood: Harold; Coleman is
quarter miles south of Harpurhey. These two schools the. present owner of this vacant -Plot of land.
and also a degrease in the Ilarpurhey population led In 1847 a Presbyterian -Kirk Was built on the next
to the closing of S.S. No. 7 in the 1880's. Prom then the plot, on Lot 15 in'the Gouinlock Plan. The Kirk is gone,
Harpurhey children attended Hannah's School. but in the grat'eyard that surrounded it fte many _of
the sturdy pioneers, who faced obstacles and difficul-
" THE--�HARPUR�HEYTHAT WAS '
ties without umber. These they surmounted with tour-
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age and • for itude till the wilderness w,ae transformed
With the hamlet in its heyday having as many as into beautiful and productive homesteads. A poet speak -
Inv Y Inv of these noble traits wrote:
five populated streets; it is hard, at this late date, to - Possessing these you're armed to face -
find the exact location of 'a number of the early places Whatever is to be,,
of business.'8ome of these streets are now farm land. The blows of fate, the sneers of men
The Harpurhey that was differs greatly from the , And dire calamity. •
4 one that is today. The hotels, factories, stores and shops Here lie the founders of Roxburgh and Harpurhey,
of every variety have vanished. This hive of 'activity Robert Scott, Sr., Archibald Dickson, and D. William
has given way to a quiet residential section. ,Since the Chalk; Rev. William Cresswell, who conducted the first
early 1950's there has been a building"boom of •beauti- Anglican church services ; Rev.- Matthew Barr, whose
fuL modern bungalows and ranch houses .along the dog- sermons pointed, the straight and narrow - way to his
leg curve of what was a part of the Huron Road, before flock for many years; Dr. T. T. Coleman and Dr. James
�No. 8 Highway was -'straightened. G Scott, pioneerdoctors ; George Gouinlock, Ludwig
Will you take_with me a leisurely stroll around Meyer, eer, • Adtlph Meyer, Thomas Knox,, Robert Hays,
the Harpurhey that was, but is no more, and recall Joseph P. Brine and Others who played a' prominent
what we can of the past. We shall travel on the first part in the development of the settlement. `Another here
lap of -our-journey from the Seaforth town corporation was the agnoitic William Small, whose tragic death
line to Hannah's sideroad, along a board sidewalk. Here cast a gloo over the neighborhood on the Sabbath
many a barefoot lad stubbed a toe ,as he hoofed along morning of Christmas day, 1859. ,
it to school, pr wherever he Chose to go for his.recrea- Tan granite shafts, huge gra.rrite block, field stone
tion or on errands. At this time the taxiing era had riot and .marble slabs, both erect and embedded in the
yet beguun. • - ground, mark the last resting place of. these gallant
first plot in the Fowler. Plan, on the Propels sou'ls', who left their footprints in the sands of time in
Scott farm, Lot 18, was -owned by John.Peattie. He,"by their adopted countr
he brill a a ( •utinued neat week
• S+�»fortir,,.ai� this lot .
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this : time, owned a flax mill and ,p^ork pac'ldng plant in
fr me .house before his
eep -a-GOOD-
workng
for
HURON..
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Charlie MacNaughton has achieved an out-
standing record of _effective representation
for Huron riding.. Just a few highlights:
* Centrh,lia Industrial Park -•
* Agriculture & Home- Economics School ..
* New Schools.* New Roads
* More hospital beds
* More senior. citizen facilities
* Point Farms Provincial Park
* Support for a Community College Campus
MAN
And for ONTARIO
Charlie, MacNaughton expresses the common-sense
attitude of Huron Riding at senior Government level
* Realistic level of total taxation to continue sound growth
* Stress on economy and efficiency in governrrfent operations
* Equalized industrial opportunity for slow -growth areas
* Support for farm capital grants program
Re-elect Charlie
acNA GHTON
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TO THE ROBARTS TEAM .' .
OCT. 17 YOUR DATE WITH PROGRESS
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