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			'text' => 'The Portrait of a Family By Marjorie Paterson 11 .r ; K[N & JUDY ~acK(NHON BOX 314 • PILOT MOUND. MB ROG lPO AUTHOR I AUTEUR 'iJ Mo.r i -ra.ter:5 o .___._~ _ ____, TITLE TITRE CJ \\ -=-C el lou;1 C The Portrait Of A Family Written from my memories and clippings from Aunt Elizabeth Parkin' s Scrap Book. By Marjorie Edna (Worsley, Parkin) Paterson 1986 Published by The Sentinel Courier November, 1986 All Rights Reserved Dedicated to my three Grandsons -Jordan, Leif and Cole Paterson -so they will know about the family connection in Ontario. Worsley Hall It all began in England in the Village of Worsley, or before that in Worsley Hall, N.E. Manchester, England. Worsley Hall -, ~. . . --------.••• -ï -. . • c---Worsley, England 1 The following was taken from a write-up of one of the first Worsley Reunions. Joseph and Anne (Hodgkin) Worsley who were born in 1807 and 1812 respectively near Manchester, England. The mother and daughters and youngest son came to this country in 1858, the father and four sons having arrived sometime previous. There were twelve children in the family, namely: Edwin, Warren, Emma, Job, Edna, Lois, Mary Ann, Eli, Hannah, Sarah, Charlotte and Lott. The Worsley family is a very ancient one. There is a town near Manchester, England, named Worsley, taking its name from Worsley Castle, a beautiful structure containing 365 rooms. Within the gates of the estate stands a lodge with tenants named Worsley in whose possession is an ancient family tree bearing the names of many old members of the Worsley family, including knights and ladies dating back to the time of the Crusades. Historical records show it was a knight named Worsley who assisted in the escape of Bonnie Prince Charlie during the revolution ih Cromwell's time. The following page shows an old record of the births and deaths of the original family who came to this country and settled in Fenelon Tsp., Victoria County, Ontario, Canada. 2 3 PARKIN. SARAH, Beloved Wife of TAYLOR PARKIN, A.~ed 4+ years, 8 ,Vonths. The funeral wilt leave the family resicte11ce L,;t I I, Concession 5, Fme!on, on Tv EDN ESDA Y, November £6th, at 2 o'clock, and proceed to Zzon Cemetery for interment. F,ïienas and acquai11ta11cts are tnpectfully i'nvit,d to atttnd. 4 Sarah Worsley My father's mother was Sarah Worsley, one of the original family. She married Taylor Parkin who caxne from Yorkshire, England. He told me that when he was a boy he used to herd cattle in England. He settled on a farm near Zion Church and later bought a farm two miles north and west of Cameron. He built the house there. That's where he raised his family. They were: Annie, Elizabeth, William, Jane, Edna, George (my Dad) and Arthur. When Arthur was four and Dad ten, their mother died and Aunt Lizzie stayed home and kept house for Grandpa and more or less brought up Dad and Uncle Arthur. She never married. Another of Dad's sisters, Annie, married John Cunday and died when Walter (her son) was born. When Walter grew up he went to England and was in the Canadian Army during the First World War. He married an English girl, Daisy Young, and brought her back to Canada. They lived on Grandpa Parkin's homestead near Zion. They had two girls, Thelma and Ruby, who were always close to our family. They and Daisy live in Lindsay now. Aunt Jane Aunt Jane married a man by the name of George Gilson. I believe it was an arranged marriage by Grandpa. She was very unhappy. She had four sons -Fred, Walter, Howard and Bruce. Walter was her stand-by. When he was old enough to work he took his mother and moved with Howard and Bruce to Lindsay. Walter and Howard were good carpenters. Bruce was musical and never in good health. He plays the organ in Mackie's Funeral Home and used to work in Lindsay's Library. He was a twin and his twin died at birth. At this time of writing, he is still living. Howard died of cancer. He has one daughter, Shirley. Walter married Dorothy Wilson, a nurse, after his mother died. They had no children. Walter had polio and spent a lot of time in hospital. Bruce spent a lot of time giving him massage and therapy-long before such a thing was heard of. He became able to walk and even work again. He made beautiful bowls, lamps, etc. on a wood turning lathe. He died a couple of years ago (around 1979). His wife Dorothy always welcomes me to her home when I go to Lindsay. They had no children. Uncle Will Dad's brother Will married Mabel Curran. They had twin boys, Roy and Ross. They homesteaded in Alberta when the boys were little. They caxne back to Pefferlaw, Ont. when the boys were old enough for school and had a farm there. I remember visiting them there when quite young. Later in life Will and Dad fell out and we never saw much of them after. They bought a house in Lindsay when they retired from the farm. Ross maintained ties with our family. He and Lucille came to visit us here at Pilot Mound when we lived on the farm. He married Lucille O'Toole, a Catholic girl and they had no family. They live in Peterboro and we exchange Christmas cards. Roy married Maze Hancock, but I never met her. They had four children, but since have divorced, I believe, and I have lost track of them. 5 OBITUARIES MRS~GILSON On Frida:i:, ; • nth, l!MO Mrs. Mary_,l!: Ö. .;Uson Jl"~•, . .-<'-/,• eternity, in her seventy-tt.~ • ï: She born in Mariposa TIS\\vn­ship, where the greater part of her earthly life was lived. At the time of her death, she was a member of Queen Street United.Church, Lind­say. The home, the church and the community are the poorer for her passing, but she ha.s left us a splendid moral and spiritual legacy which cannot be taken away from us. She leaves to mourn her passing four sons, Fred of P(•niel, and Wal-ter, Howard and Bruce of Lindsay; four grandchildren (who live at Peniel); two sisters, Mrs. William Chris~ian, of Cameron and Miss E. Parkin, of Lindsay;' three bro­thers, William of Pefferlaw, George and Arthur, of Cameron. Her hus­band predeceased her in June, 1933. The funeral service was held at the re.sidence, 39 Albert St. N .. Lind­say, on Monday, December 16th at 2.30 p.m. Rev. H. C. Wolfr~im preached a comforting message and eulogized the Christian character of the deceased. The pall-bearers were John McKay, Hector McFay_ den, Andrew Power, John MacMil­lan, Archie Glenney, William Ch~;5_ tian. Interment took place at Sal­em (Mariposa) Cemetery. In Lmdsdy, on Monddy, Mdy 27th, 1946 WILLIAM CHRISTIAN Beloved husbdnd of EdM P<Hkin and de:dr fdther of Mrs. Lloyd Wood (Albcrtd/ of Oshdwd In his 80th yei,r 0:he 1F'1mcral ' '--' Resting dt the Funerdl Home of John Anderson limited, PePI St., for service 1n the Chdpel, on 1:t/ednesddy, Mdy 29th, at 2.30 p.m. D.S. T. Interment dt Riverside Cemetery. 6 An item of interest to residents time. Had the first .little 'ba:by here of Cameron and • district was pub-baby was Alberta Christian, born­Ã¯lished in a reeent issue of The Pro-June 1st, 1900 wh!Clh w11,; the !>U-"'l~ v~t News, of <Provost, Alta. mer the steel was laid. My husband. The news item states that M!ven W.illiam Chrjstian, was one of tbe years ago, Henry Wendell of ,Pro-first carpenters in Pr~vost and •l)uilf "loot, while making some alterations this house himself, but helped to 'to. his house was using a pick .on an build quite a numbei' 'here before inside sur.!ace -cement foundation, he bui-1.t this. when a broken cement ïïblock re-"Edna ,Parkln Chrlstlan." vealed a glass bottle in which was !After ma'kin,g a f,:w eriquiries scrai,) of .paper with some writin.r among the old timers tn Provost, on it. Seven years later, the piece the Provost News dis,Ö-overed that pt .pa9er was brought into the :News the author of the above letter and pffke and it was fouild to !bear the her husband, Mr. and ,Mrs. William tollowing message: • Christian, are still living, and now "Provost, ~-7. li.'M. reside at Cameron, Ont. The "first "This, our house, was built 1909, little ba'by here " Alberta • 11 ;he owner was married in 1907, ' ' 15 ow !ame to Provost UIOB and was the Mrs. Wood, her nusl:,and has a p<>-Prst woman in Provost. There were, sitio~ with General Motors in f!)Ul" ouildJngs h%?re at Uuu Oshawa. Suddenly, at her home, 79 Peel St., Lindsay, on Thursday, June 3, 1954, ELIZABETH NEOMI PARKIN Daughter of the late Taylor and Sarah Parkin In her S?nd yea, Resting at the Mackey Funeral Horne, Peel St., Lindsay, for service in the Chapel, on Saturday, June 5th, 1954, at 2 p rn. Interment at Z,on Cemetery, Fenelon. Friends dnd dcouaintances wdl please accept this 1nt1mat1on. 7 Aunt Edna Aunt Edna (Dad's sister) married Wm. Christian. They went to Alberta in the early days and lived in Provost. They had one daughter, Alberta, the first white baby born in that town. She was very delicate and not expected to live. Aunt Lizzie lived with them and spoke of carrying her around on a pillow. She was a blue baby and very tiny. Uncle Will was a carpenter and built many houses in Provost. Alberta was invited back to one of Provost's celebrations. They later came back to Lindsay, Ont. He carpentered there and Howard and Walter Gilson worked with him. I used to love to go there for holidays. As Alberta was an only child, she was rather spoiled, but she loved her cousins and we had good times. However, I had one failing. I would get homesick and billious and they'd have to get up in the middle of the night and take me home -what fun! Uncle Will loved me because I would say "Where's Uncle Will? I want him to come and keep me company.'' Later he built a house in Oshawa on Mary Street. Uncle Will worked in the motors. They lived there a longtime and I spent many a weekend there and holiday time. We used to go out to Oshawa on the Lake (Ont.) on the streetcar -for swimming and picnics. The last year I taught before marriage was at Inglewood. I would go to Toronto by bus and then to Oshawa for the weekend with Alberta and Lloyd Wood. They bought the house from Uncle Will and Aunt Edna and they moved to Cameron where Uncle Will built a house. When Will died Aunt Edna moved back to Lindsay to live to be near Lizzie and Mother and Dad. Alberta and Lloyd adopted a little girl, Rosemary. Aunt Lizzie Aunt Lizzie, I believe was the oldest girl. She staye<i on the farm with Grandpa and Dad and Uncle Arthur. When Dad grew up he married my mother Rosena Violet Worsley and they rented Grandpa Taylor Parkin' s farm and it was to be Dad's when Grandpa died. I think he was to pay some bequests to his sisters. Grandpa Parkin married a Miss Ball and they lived in Uxbridge until his wife's death. Aunt Lizzie kept house for him there for a while too. We kids used to spend some of the summer holidays there. They had a green gages plum tree in the back yard with delicious plums on it. Later Aunt Lizzie and Grandpa moved to Lindsay and bought a house at 79 Peel St. Aunt Lizzie worked in Cole's Brass Works in the packing dept. She always had to work hard it seemed to me. She looked after Grandpa till he died at the age of 86. I remember his funeral was from our home on the farm and he was buried in Zion Cemetery. Dad always felt that he had to wait too long for his inheritance. He sold the farm to my brother Roy when he retired to live in Lindsay. 8 Aunt Elizabeth Parkin 9 Uncle Arthur Uncle ArthW: was the ba}:>y of the f~;r, born in 1887. He was only 4 yrs. old when his mother died. Aunt Lizzie must have brought him up. He was a quiet, unassuming man. He married Myrtle Anderson and they bought a fannclose to Cameron, Ont. It had a plateau out behind the house and many sumaac trees grew there. It was a good hill for sleigh riding in the winter. They had three children: Keith -a couple of years older than I am Ray-about ~y' sage and Muriel -a few years younger. Keith and Ray took after their mother who was dark skinned. Muriel was very fair like her father. I went to school at Cameron with Ray and Keith. Ray loved to entertain and mimic people. Ray's wife Jean died of cancer. He has two girls, Donna and Carol (an adopted girl with a crippled leg). Ray took over his Dad's fann and Uncle Arthur and Aunt Myrtle moved a log house onto the corner of the fann close to Cameron. I was teaching at Cameron at the time and saw the house being moved by the :3Chool by about ~went! teams ~(horses. An exciting event. They fixed 1t up and later sided 1t and built a closed in porch onto it. They were quite happy there. Aunt Myrtle loved flowers and grew gorgeous climbing roses trained up the side of the house. For years I never went home to Lindsay or Cameron without calling on Uncle Arthur and Aunt Myrtle. , Ray and Jean sold the fann and lived in Cameron in the old Maybee house for several years. When Jean died Ray lived on there for years and was the mail driver on R.R. I out of Cameron Post Office. When he retired he moved to Lindsay and bought Aunt Lizzie's old house on Peel St. Keith married Alice Woods. I was at their wedding. It was quite lovely. They bought a fann about a mile north of the Village of Cameron. They had no children and never adopted. When they quit farming they built a house over on the highway. ~en I was teaching and came home for a visit they had me for a meal qwte often. I also went to see them in their new house too. They were hard workers and did many odd jobs to make money. Muriel married Jack McNabb and lived on his home fann between Cameron and Fenelon Falls. They were always good to me too and had me for many meals and evenings. They adopted a boy, Teddy, whom I have never met. 10 PAIUtlN-WOOI> O&aere!D, Oct. 2. (aw.ff om-­pondence) -A marriage ceremqn1_ tor which the beautifully decorated • Ansllca.n Church was the chosen .9ettln1 at 2.30 o'clock sa.turday af­ternoon, was that which united Alice Mae, daughter of Mr .. and Mrs. Eld.win WOOd and Keith Altonï, .son of Mr. and ~-Arthur Parkin, cameron. Rev. R. Withers officiated. Mrs. Walter Bowen, aunt of the bride, presided at the organ and Miss Margaret Bov.-en sang sweetly1 "I Love You TrulY'.' during the sign­ing"or' the register. The bride was givenï in marriage by her father and wore a gown of v.-hite muslin de soie with candle-wick roses over v.-hite slipper satin extending into a train, her finger-tip veil df em­i>roidered tulle was worn over the face • and surmounted by • a halo which was encircle<l with orang~ blossom.s. She carried a bouquet of rOllea with baby's breath and ala~ diolus. Miss Muriel Parkin, sister of the groom, v.-as maid of honor and wu gowned 1n floor lenat.h blush pink silk net over taffeta with matching bolero and wide pink aaah, v.-hlte gloves, white flnier•tip veil and white shoes, and carried a bouquet of pink 1l&diolW1, rosebuds andïfem. Miss Dorothy Wood was her sis• ter's bridesmaid and wore a floor length gown of Queen's blue ,silk net over taffeta, with full ak1rt lace Jacket, v.ïhite glovea, 1t1i1lie ftnger-tip veil ari4 white ahO!e.s, and carried a bouquet of roaebudl and blue delphiniums . Little Ethel Wood, young slater of the bride, made a charming i,ttle flowerï girl ani was dressed ln pink taffeta trimmed with blue and carried a basket of mixed flow­ers. Mr. Edwin W~ attended the groom as best man, and the ushers v.ïere: Messrs. Bill WOOd and Roy Following the ïceremony ,a reeep­~:on for the immediate relatives v,as held at the home Of the bride's parent! . Receiving with the bride wïas her mother, dressed in._ f>t&ck triple sheer, black acee~riea and corsage of red roses, allo the groom's mother, dressed in wine silk crepe, black accessories and cor• sage of red roses. Later the bride and groom left by motor for weat­,m Ontario, the bride travelling in Japonica rust dress v.ïith pleated Jacket, fuchsia coat with nayy a:e.; cesaories and wore the gift • of the groom, a gold sweetheart locket. On their return they will reside on the groom's farm, near Cameron. 11 George Walter Parkin My dear father, George Walter Parkin, was the second youngest child. It must have been hard for him to lose his mother at the age of ten as he would have been old enough to understand. I have seen a picture of him when he was young. He had long blond ringlets. I don't expect he liked them too much. Ha! Aunt Lizzy must have been a good mother to him. He never talked much about his childhood years. He went to school at Cameron. Mr. Cundall was his teacher. He was a very strict man with two sons of his own. One anecdote Dad used to tell was as follows: One day some boys were playing with matches. They set a fire and ran away. Dad, being an innocent bystander, stayed and watched. He was caught and punished for setting the fire which he hadn't done. He also told that he never went a full year to school. Spring and fall he had to stay home and help on the farm and went to school in the winter. Grandad told Mr. Cundle -'Just teach him readin', writin' and a bit of arithmetic.' Dad had to quit school in Grade Eight, but as he was a great reader, he ïwas a self educated man and greatly respected. When he was twenty-five he married my mother -Rosena Violet Worsley who was a daughter of Tom Worsley and a granddaughter of Uncle Edwin Worsley, the eldest of the original Worsley family that came to Canada. Thus Mother and Dad were .first cousins once removed. They started married life in a log house north of Grandpa's place. Mother told the story that she took her pearl engagement ring off to wash dishes and put it on the window sill. It fell down a crack and was never recovered. She said she wanted to be there when that house was torn down to get her ring. But she is gone and the old house remains standing. 12 Uncle Warren and Grandpa Tom lived here. Dad and Mother lived here and I on holidays. Roy and Olive lived here when first married. Gary and second wife Sherill also lived here. Roy and Olive built on a summer kitchen on to the north. Gary and Sherill built on a living room to the south and trimmed it up inside. Thelma and I and dog Sport in front of the home where we were both born. Mother and Dad later moved down to this house. It was a brick house that Grandpa built. Here we three children were born and brought up. 13 Another picture ot the home place Laken later. Mother and Dad lived here until after Roy and Olive were married. Roy and Olive lived for a while in the log house until Mother and Dad were ready to retire. Dad sold Roy the farm and bought two houses in Lindsay. They lived in the one at 33 Sussex St. S. and rented the other one. Dad and Mother were active in the community. Dad became Reeve of the tsp. of Fenelon and later Warden of Victoria County. The Wardens were expected to treat the councillors to liquor. Dad being a temperance man disliked to do that. He said he gave them money once and told them they could buy what they liked. Ha! Another time he treated them all to big dishes of ice cream -a dish he really liked himself. Every warden gave a picnic to all the councillors and their wives and children. This was actually a catered steak dinner. Every year there was a farmer's picnic, usually held in a picnic gro_~ds beside the lake. There were ball games, booths for treats, political speeches and food. The men paid 25 cents to get in and everyone else was free. Those were the days of the Model T Ford and Chev. touring. Our home village ~as Cameron. Lindsay, about ten miles away south, was our shoppmg centre. Fenelon Falls was eight miles north. Manyofourmoredistant relatives (Worsleys) lived there and we were often there too. This area was surrounded by the Kawartha Lakes. Cameron was close to wng Beach on Sturgeon Lake. Fenelon was on Cameron Lake. North of Zion Church was Balsam Lake where Aunt Edna and Uncle Will Christian had a cottage. We often were there for fun. One would think, being surrounded by lakes I would have learned to swim. However Dad, being a farmer, had no time to take us, except on Sw_iday and he ~dn't believe in swimming on Sunday. He didn't like to go m _the water himself, but mother did. Sometimes we got there in the evenmgs. 14 We went to Zion to church. Grandpa Taylor Parkin had helped to build it. Dad was superintendant of the Sunday School for years and Mother played the organ. We were all taken to church from the time we were babes in arms. Church was always in the afternoon with S.S. before it in the church basement. Dad was a strong Orangeman. The area where we lived was the home of the Orange Order in Canada. They built a hall in Cameron called the Orange Hall. It is still there and is used for a Community Hall on the first floor, lodge rooms on the second floor and fowl suppers, etc. are held in the basement. Dad belonged to the Men's wdge and also to the Ladies' wdge where he was a guard. Our farm was one hundred acres and a mixed farm. There was a bush at the bottom end so it was not all under cultivation. We had a big L shaped barn. Dad later put a hip roof on it so there was more room for hay. He kept a lot of cattle, pigs and horses. We used to milk cows and ship cream. The a,nimals were all kept in the barn and fed and cleaned out every day. They (the cows) were let out and watered at the trough. Many' s the spell we had pumping water. In the summer time we used to drive them away north over a mile to the creek to drink. The whole family worked hard caring for the animals. In the summer the hay was mowed, raked (my job) and loaded on a hay rack with a hay loader. I drove the horses while Dad made the load. It was hauled to the barn and put up in the mow with a hay fork pulled up by the team which I drove. Dad would operate the fork and fill it with the bundles of hay. Haying was a very busy season on an Ontario farm. . There was always a field of fall wheat and a field of mixed grain for feed. These fields when ripe would be cut with a binder and stooked. Then they were hauled in to the barn and forked into the mows by hand. After harvest was threshing. There were three threshing outfits in Cameron -Wally Dunn, Edgar and Earl Dunn and Hilliard Perrin. They each had their circuits for threshing. Edgar Dunn's outfit came to our place. Then all the neighbours took turns helping each other thresh the grain. The threshers came in the fall to give the farmers feed, then they made another circuit later to thresh them out. My husband is very fond of steam engines as he was one who ran them. But my dad said all they meant to him was a lot of hard work and that's about what they meant to me. The women were very busy feeding the men. Pies, cakes, biscuits and bread to be baked, vegetables to be peeled and meat to be cooked. One time I remember the threshing outfit was set at our barn over the Christmas holidays ready to go again when holidays were over. During the 1930's we had depression in Ontario too, but we were always a~le to grow crops. Our main source of income, though, was fat cattle which were kept and fed and watered and cleaned out for two years. I remember one day Dad was sitting listening to the cattle markets on the radio (a homemade one set in a gramaphone cabinet. Uncle Lyle Boadway had made it and gave it to us when he made 15 himself a better one.) Dad listened every day and was keeping his cattle, which were ready for market, hoping the price would go up. When it went to 5 cents a pound, he decided he'd better sell or he'd be giving them away. A poor return for all his hard work. In the 1930' s depression we could grow crops and gardens. Carloads of produce were shipped to the west. Our home was a gathering place. I can remember our verandah loaded with pumpkins, potatoes, onions, etc. awaiting shipment. It was sent to ministers in western towns who doled it out to their parishioners. Dad was quite a religious man. He read the Bible every morning to the family and led us in prayer. He was an elder of the church and superintendent of the Sunday School. He sang in the choir when we had one. I have heard him take a church service at Cambray Church when the minister was elsewhere. He was a self educated, well read man. Dad sang in a male quartet, 1st tenor, called "The Maple Leaf Quartette.'' They entertained a lot, especially at outdoor church services and strawberry socials. Other members of the quartet were Jack Westaway, George Bagshaw and Sam McKinnon, 2nd tenor. Dad and Mother sang duets. One of their favorites was ''Let's Grow Old Together.'' One of Dad's favourites that he often wanted me to play and sing was ''That Silver Haired Daddy of Mine.'' When Mother and Dad quit farming they movJd to Lindsay and joined Cambridge St. United Church. Dad became an elder of that church too. When Mother became ill he looked after her and kept house for years. When he was in his 80' sit became too much for him and much against his own wishes he had to put her in Waterston' s nursing home but visited her faithfully every day. ' After her death he continued to live on at 33 Sussex St. S. He had good neighbours and Thelma's and Roy's visited him often. I did when I could. He came to visit us at the farm a couple of times, once at Christmas time and once in the summer. When he first moved to Lindsay he took a job in Silverwood's Dairy on Kent St. He worked in the egg breaking dept. supervising a crew of women. They broke eggs that were dried and packaged. He also worked as guard at the Lindsay Jail. He was a guard when a young woman was on trial for shooting her husband. Dad felt that she had justification. The judge asked him his advice and Dad advised him to 'temper justice with mercy.' I think the girl was sentenced for a short prison term for her deed. At least she wasn't hung -and there was the death penalty in those days -about forty-five or fifty years ago. He was at one time guarding a trio of men. Part of their punishment was to saw wood in the court yard and do other chores around the jail. One day they went down on a sit down strike. Dad didn't know what to do so he consulted the warden of the jail. He said '' Just cut off their food. They'll soon come around.'' They held out for a day or so and then went back to work. Ha! 16 Red Ryan, a famous outlaw, was jailed in Lindsay Jail, but I don't think Dad was a guard at that time. Dad died in Ross Memorial Hospital in Lindsay at the age of 83. He had had a straight stroke. Most strokes are either left side or right side, but Dad's was straight down the middle. I was teaching at Stuartville at the time. Glenn and I flew down to visit Dad in the hospital and stayed for the funeral. It was a sad meeting at Dad's house after when we six met and read the will. He had made it as fairly as he could. He had three children and eight gr~dchil<;fren, so the estate was divided into thirty-eight shares. Each child received ten shares and each grandchild one share. And there was no quarreling among our family. Thelma, Roy and I divided up their personal things fairly too and I have many momentos of my Mother and Dad's life together. Back Row (L-R): Paul, Joy, Joan, Anne, Gary Front Row (L-R): Vaughn, Mother, Dad, George and Glenda Mother and Dad and all their grandchildren at their golden wedding. 17 At the Ross Memorial Hospital, Lindsay on Wednesday, November 25th, 1964. GEORGE WALTER PARKIN Beloved husband of the late Rosena Worsley, in his 84th year. The floral tribute given by the grandchildren. 18 Mother Mother was born Rosena Violet Worsley, May 21st, 1885. She was the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Worsley. Her mother was Mary Hill before her marriage. Mother was one of a family of seven, four boys and three girls. She came from a broken home as her mother left when she was quite young and took her two youngest children with her. They were Carl and Reta. She couldn't keep them and put them in a home. Grandpa got them out and took them home. Mother never talked much about her young days, but they must have been pretty sad. She had to leave school when she was in about Grade IV and stay home and keep house for her Dad and look after the younger ones. She had an older sister May and four brothers -Sam, George, Carl and Perce. I never knew any of them except Perce. He went out west, later married ancfbecame a steam engineer. His wife, Aunt Dolly, is still living in Calgary. She writes to me every Christmas. Grandpa Tom was my Dad's first cousin so Mother and Dad were first cousins once removed. They were very happy. I never remember either of them saying a cross word to the other. They lived most of their married life on the farm near Cameron. Mother was more or less self educated. She read a lot and wrote me many good letters. When my brother Roy got married Mother and Dad sold him the farm and moved to Lindsay. Mother had an outward goiter most of her life. The Dr. advised her if it didn't bother her not to bother it. So it was never operated on. While at Cameron Mother was very active in the community. She played the organ in Zion Church and was active in the Ladies' Aid and Missionary Society. She hated to sew, but children's clothes were not in the stores at that time and she had to sew for us girls. She always gave me the impression that sewing was a terribly hard job. Mother was active in the Ladies' Orange Order and was the first president or Worthy Mistress of Cameron wdge. When they moved to Lindsay, Mother and Dad went to Cambridge St. United and Mother became a life member of their Ladies' Aid or u.c.w. While they lived on the farm Mother did much of the barn and field work as well as being a good cook and house keeper. About 1927 Grandpa Worsley, her father, took a stroke and was bed ridden. Mother took him into her home and looked after him for several years. Mother was a great Christian lady -very unassuming and humble. When in her sixties she took Parkinson's Disease. Dad looked after her for several years in their home on Sussex St. S. When he couldn't look after her any longer she became a patient in Waterston' s Nursing Home in Lindsay. She died there in her 77th year (1961). 19 At 3Rest At the Wdterman Privdte: Hospital, Lindsdy, on Sunddy, November 12th, 1961, ROSENA VIOLET PARKIN Beloved wife of George Wolter Perkin in her 77th Ytdr. Resting et the Mockey Funer•I Home, Peel St., L,nd,dy for funerdl service in the Chdpel, on Wednesddy, November 15th at 2 p.m. lntc:rmtnt dt Zion Cemetery, Fenelon Townshq:•. ' Friends and acoua1ntances will olease acceot th1; inr,ma•otn Mr. (-r Mrs. George Porkin Honoured On Thirty-fifth Wedding Anniversary About thirty relatlYes and friends a&embled recently at the home of Mr. and M111. Oeorire Partin to cele­brate with them their thirty-fifth wedding annlver8&J"Y. Mr. and Mrs. Partin were una­ware of the honor that was to be shown them and were very muchï surprised when about five o'clock the children, grandchlldttn, broth­ers and slstera arrived and served a hot fowl dinner at which the bride was asked to cut the wedding cake. 20 In the evening the nephews and nieces arrived to offer congratula­tions. During the evening the bride and groom ,n,re a11ted to take chairs when their granddaughter. Miss Joy Westaway, read an a.d­drees . Many beautiful and useful gifts were present~d. among which was a cabinet of silver from the chil­dren and grandchildren. Mr. and Mni. Parkin th~ed thoge present for the ltind thought that had prompted their eoming and warmly welcomed all to their home. The evening was spent In games and a social time. The &'Uests on leaving wished their boat and h011tees ~any more :,ftl'S ef happy married Ufe. Mother loved to crochet. I have and treasure many of her doilies that she crocheted. She also did tatting. She loved flowers and had a beautifully landscaped yard. She had two gardens, one on each side of the house, where she grew the family vegetables. Dad also grew a large patch of table canning peas out in the field. Mother canned many quarts of peas. Those were the days before freezing and freezers were ever heard of. We used to go to the woods and pick wild raspberries, also for canning. On a rainy day in summer when we couldn't hay, we'd take the touring 'Chev' car to the rocks -miles north to pick huckleberries. The whole family would pick and come home with cream cans full of berries which then had to be winnowed in the breeze to take out leaves and twigs and then picked over by hand before canning or served with sugar and cream. Delicious. There was no electricity and no refrigeration so nothing could be kept too long without canning or cooking. Dad used to kill a pig once in a while and Mother would slice it up and fry it down. It was then stored in a crock and covered with the pork fat and stored in the basement. Our basement was cool in summer and was our refrigerator. We always kept a herd of milk cows. We kids did most of the milking when we were at home. The milk was carried to the house, and separated in the hand cranked separator. The cream was stored in the basement and shipped by train once a week to the Silverwood Creamery in Lindsay. The skimmed milk was fed to the calves in the pasture and to the pigs in the barn. Dad always had two or three pens of pigs in the barn. Turnips were grown in the field and ground up by a grinder in the barn every day to feed them. Roy and I did most of the grinding. Hay would be put down from the hay loft to feed the cattle. Fat cattle were kept in the barn in the winter and fed hay and chop and turned out to water at the trough where water was pumped for them. Horses were kept in another part of the barn and fed, watered and cleaned out as well. In the cattle ham there was a manure carrier on a track which was filled, pushed out in the yard and dumped in a pile. This pile was spread on the fields in the summer. Many' s the time Mother would do the chores when we kids were away and Dad was away to municipal meetings. Such hard work! I have often wondered if that is why she got Parkinson's Disease. The fann was only a hundred acres, so it was in the barn that most of the money was made. There was also a combined hen house and sheep pen and both hens and sheep were kept. So it was intensive fanning at that time in Ontario. The little field on the south west comer was the sheep pasture beside the Spring hill. The cows were kept in other fields and we would call them or send the dog or go ourselves to bring them up for milking twice a day. Every August there was a Decoration Day at Zion Cemetery which is the grounds around Zion Church. Most of our relatives are buried there. Mother would make wreaths and sprays from her own flowers 21 and moss gathered from the swamp. Now Olive carries on the good work with financial help from me as there are many more graves to decorate now. . Dad and Mother lived to celebrate their Golden Wedding. There was a reception in their home in Lindsay and a family dinner. George and Glenda and I went, but as it was in harvest season, Glenn was not able to be there. He phoned his congratulations in the evening. Ir. amf Mr!. Geo. Parkin . Observe Colden Wedding Amid ap. rofusion of exquish~ flowers and surrounded by their family and a host of friends, Mr. and Mrs. George Parkin, 33 Sussex street, south, celebrated their gol­den wedding anniversary on Wed­nesday, September 19th. On a lovely September afternoon fifty years ago George Parkin and ~na. Woq;ley pi1ghted their . troth in. a wedding ceremony on the lawn at the brWa'• J:>arentf,ï Mr. Thomas Worsley of Cam­eron. with the late Rev. l!:. A. Tonk­in, minister of the Cambray-Zion circuit officiating and "they've liv­ed happUy ever after" as tJ:i.ey've ~• urneyed down the stream of-life gether • ,Mr. Atthl' Parkin brother of the !room wa .st man Mas Mary Vorsley, s of the bride, (since eceliBed) the bride's att.,'1.d-nt. • UntlJ thirteen years ago when !hty moved to Lindsay, Mi-. ..nd \\1rs. Parkin farmed in the Cameron iistrict where they were active.in lhurch, cormnunity and municipai ff11ir$. Mr Parktt1ï having been ?lected to the highest honor in :he county, namely that of Warden ror the riar 1942. • I During the afternoon arid even-~• g _.abl;>ut 2!50 itrieil~s called to offer nrratuIM!ons and best wishes to . s J>OP\\llar couple and they re­ceived 180 cards and many ïbt-auti­ful gifts. Mr. Parkin presented his wife with a wrist watch and there 22 were gifts of a Bulova waich and a Royal Arch Deiree ring for Mr .. Parkin from his family and grand­children and a pearl ring and a lovely handbag for Mrs. Parkin, also a basket of fifty yellow roses from their great grandchildren. Their two daughters are ïMrs. Richard. W~way (Thelma> of Ca!TM!r~n and ,Mrs. Gle1' Paterson <Marjorie) -of "f>iJot ound, • Mani­toba, and their son is Mr. • Roy Parkintn the homestead near-C.m-Pron. Thei;-eight grandchildrel) are Mrs. Eric Freeborn (Joy Westa­way) Lindsay, 1 Mrs, Cedri<; Russell <Joai;i Westaway) Oshawa, Mrs. Bert Douglas( Anne Westaway) of Cam'eron and Gary, Paul, aJld Vaugh Parkin, Ca:merqn and Geo. and Glenda Paterson, Pilot Mound, Man., and the five great grandchil­dre1,1 are Kim and Eugene Free­bqrn, Terry and Truldy Anne Rus­sell and Laurie Douglas.} •the twienty-two members of the mily group only one was absen from the • happy celebration. M Glen Paterson of ,Manitoba telephoned con~ratulations. 'Dhe gue:ats were received at the door by Mr. Roy Parkin and Joy Freeborn was in charge of t h e guest book. • 'L'hc tea hostesses were 'Mrs. Wal­ter Gilson dm:ing the afternoon and 'Ml'6. Lloyd Wood in the evenin;. The: tea table was resplendent in a lace cloth and steaming silver andc (entered with a three-tierl!d wedding cake flanked -by tall tepers PNlsiided over by Mrs. Edna Chril;­tian, Mrs. A. Parkin, and Mrs. F. Gilson in the afternoon and by Mrs. John Weatawa,y, Mrs. L Boa4-way and Mrs. Jean FredC?rick 11nd .Mrs. Walter Cundy in the evening. The • young ladies who served the dainty delicacies in the afternoon wer~ MJ:s. B .. Kelly~. Mrs. J. Mc­Nabb, ~rs. K. Parkin, and l!f~­J. Russell and ln the evening Miss Doreen Douglas, Mrs. M. McKin­non,. Mrs. JL DllnR alld .Mrs. A Jfat)pr. Mr. and Mrs: Lewis Gordon, next door neighbours offered the use of their home for the family din­ner party at 5:30. This was enjoy­ed ,by the family and group and intimate friends when 40 men, women and children sat down to a beautifully set table and partook of a sumptuous repast. served by Mrs. E. Beggs, Mrs. V. Mark, Mrs. A. Mark, Mrs. J. Daniel and Mrs. E. Dunn. During t}lis part of the festive ocasion Dr ti~ B. Neal, minister of ïCambrid;::e Sii-eet United Church extended his personal congratula­tions to the. bride and groom and also those of the church of which ,Mr. and Mrs. Parkin are honored members. ltev. Gordon Maxwell, a former • rriinistei-of the Cambray­Zion . ~ircuit and now of Trinity Unitedï Church, Peterboroul(h, in a few weli-c:hosen words, proposed a ïtoast to . the bride of 50 years ago to which the groom of 50 years Bao ably responded and then he took the opportunity of publiciJy expressing their appreciatin of the kindness of the Gordons and all Joined in singing "For They Are Jolly Good Fellows." Returning,~ .the Parkin home a number of flash kodachrime pic­tures were taken ht-fore the even­ing reception began. 23 Aunt Reta Boadway Mother and later Mother and Dad more or less brought up Aunt Reta. She went to Toronto at an early age and worked in Eaton's mail order wrapping parcels. She met Lyle Boadway who was a barber and they were married. They lived in a nice home and rented out rooms. I stayed with them when I went to Toronto to summer school. One summer a couple of my friends stayed there too. Uncle Lyle would take us out to the country on picnics. There were no freeways then and it would take us hours to get back at night because of the traffic. Aunt Reta was a good housekeeper and a good cook and also a good seamstress. She made all her own clothes to save money as Uncle Lyle only gave her $8.00 a week for groceries. She had to save out of that to buy herself a winter coat and an insurance policy to pay for a funeral when she died. Lyle loved to go rainbow trout fishing and bought cars, trailers and fishing equipment. In the winter time in his younger days he would go sail skating on the ponds and lakes. He ~as also quite musical and bought himself a piano, organ and an accordian. He was a natural player and played by ear. He also had a lovely tenor voice. His mother said he didn't need music lessons, so she gave them to his brother and sister who weren't so musical. Aunt Reta had a green thumb and grew flowers aroupd their Toronto home. In later years Lyle sold their home in Toronto and built a house in Unionville. Connected to it he built a barber shop and took his nephew Bev Boadway in with him. There they had a big garden and fruit trees. So Aunt Reta was kept pretty busy. One day she took a stroke which affected her left side and her speech. Lyle looked after her and when , she recovered somewhat they still went fishing and trailering. In her younger days Aunt Reta did a lot of crocheting. When I was married she gave me a beautiful crocheted lace table cloth which is on the round oak table in the family room and much treasured. Lyle and Reta had no family as Lyle didn't want children interfering with his fishing and holidays. In later years we nieces and nephews were their family. When Lyle was in his 80' s they moved to Strathaven Nursing Home in Bowmanville. Lyle died there in his 87th year. He was a very difficult and uncooperative patient as he had been so badly spoiled all his life and done exactly as he liked. Aunt Reta lived on there for some time. Roy and Olive were looking after her affairs and they later moved her to a Sunderland Nursing Home called Bon Air. Here she lived for some years and one day she fell out of bed and b7oke her hip. Roy and Olive moved her to Ross Memorial Hospital in Lindsay where she spent her remaining days. She is buried with her husband and father in Zion Fenelon Cemetery. Her estate was divided between Roy, I, Thelma's three girls and her brother Percy Worsley, Calgary. 24 CE'JJ;BRA ff: GOLIEN WEIQNG We extend congratulations to Mr. and Mrs. Lyle Boad­way of Unionville, who cele­brated their 50th Wedding Anniversary last Sunday. An 'At Home' was heldinthea!­temoon and a great many of their friends called to have a visit with them. Relatives frmt Cameron, Lindsay and Toronto were also able to be present. During the after­noon, Mrs. Boadway's niece Mrs. Patterson ot Pilot Mound, Man., telephoned' a message of congratula­tions. Mrs. George Boadway of Toronto and Mrs. Harry Boadway of Unionville poured tea. At the Ross Memorial Hospital, Lindsay on Sunday, October 18th, 1981 RETA HARRIETT WORSLEY Beloved wife of the late Lyle Boadway in her 87th year. Aunt May Aunt May was mother's older sister. She married Fred Green and lived on Cambridge Street in Lindsay. She had a daughter Vira and a son Lyle. I used to visit there in holidays. When Vira grew up she became a Registered Nurse and an Airline Hostess. In her later years Aunt May took a stroke and was in a wheel chair. She had a lady look after her in her home. Vira married and had two children, Barbara and George. When she was still quite young she took Parkinson's Disease and later died of it. Lyle had also married and had a couple of children. He and his wife finally split up. Roy told me he is still living, but I don't know where. 25 26 Thelma Sarah Parkin Westaway Richard Luther Westaway Thelma Thelma and Dick's home at Cameron My older sister, Thelma Sarah Parkin was born in July 1910. When she was six and I was two Mother and Dad took a trip on the train to the western provinces. Mother didn't like the west at that time so they didn't move out to settle. On account of that trip Thelma was seven when she started to school at Cameron and consequently found school work easy. She went to school with the Mark family across the road who drove a horse and buggy. When she was twelve she started to keep company with Richard (Dick) Westaway. When she finished two years of high school at Cameron she stayed home to help Mother look after Grandpa Worsley who was a bed patient. By that time she was eighteen and Mother and Dad were going to send her to business college in Lindsay, but Dick begged her to marry him instead. So she decided to do that. They were married April 23, 1930. Dick's Mother and Dad built a house in Cambray and Thelma and Dick were married and lived on the Westaway farm on the southern outskirts of Cameron. It was a beautiful home with five bedrooms upstairs and a big bathroom with running water. There was a pressure pump in the basement and water was pumped by hand up to the kitchen and bathroom from the large cistern. I lived with them a lot when I was teaching at Cameron. They had three little girls -Joy, Joan and Anne. I loved them as my own. They were all born in their home. Thelma and Dick kept a herd of Jersey cattle and farmed with horses at first. They had a hard row to hoe the first ten years of their married life as it was deep in the depression. They were very hard up. I remember Thelma went with Mother and Dad and Roy and I to Lindsay 27 before Christmas one year to do her Christmas shopping. She took a basket of eggs to sell and that's all the money she had. She broke down and cried and Dad gave her some extra money, but he didn't have much either. But there were lots of people in the same boat. When the girls were grown and gone they decided to sell the farm. They built a little two bedroom cottage on a comer of the farm closest to Cameron. It was tastefully decorated and furnished and had a beautifully landscaped yard. Dick was a good carpenter and earned their living building houses. He built their own and went on from there. He was never lacking work and had a gang of carpenters working with him. Thelma never had a full time job out of the home, but took the census one year and did a lot for Mother and Dad and her own family. Dick sold insurance for Co-op and Thelma did most of his paper work. When they were on the farm she milked cows and did chores to no end. They bought a travel trailer and parked it at Beaver Park on a river east of Lindsay. In the winter ,they hauled it to Florida and spent several months there every year. Dick was a heavy smoker for years, but Thelma never smoked. However, she was unfortunate enought to get lung cancer. She had a long, painful illness and died in Ross Memorial Hospital in Lindsay on December 4, 1974 at the age of 64, so she never lived to collect her pension and have her own income. • She and Dick were active in Cameron community life. They both sang in the church choir and were church members and Thelma belonged to the U.C.W. They both belonged to the Orange wdges which were active in Cameron. As in all small communities, there were many activities to keep them busy. They both loved the sport of curling in the winter and watched baseball in the summer. They had many, many friends. They loved their family and their eleven grandchildren. I think on the whole Thelma and Dick were happy. They celebrated their fortieth Wedding Anniversary. Not too long after Thelma's death Dick married Edith (Graham) Burton. They carried on living in the Cameron home and in the trailer in Florida in the winter. One spring on their way home to Cameron Dick became very ill with annurisms in his legs. He was in hospital for weeks and underwent operations. He recovered enough to get home but was never very well after. He finally died of another annurism very suddenly. We went east to his funeral service in Lindsay. He and Thelma are both buried in Eden Cemetery -east of Cambray. They were a very good brother and sister to me and I miss them and Thelma's letters very much. They came to visit us on the farm several times and brought Mother and Dad with them at least twice. The stories of their three girls as I remember them follows. 28 J Joy Thelma Joy Westaway, eldest daughter of Thelma and Richard Westaway was born August 15, 1931. She was born in the Westaway farm home at Cameron, Ont. She was a beautiful little golden haired baby and brought much joy into their home. Hence her name. When she was six she started to school in Cameron. I was her teacher for three years. She was a clever little girl and found learning easy. When she finished at Cameron School she went on to Lindsay Collegiate. After graduation she worked for a year or two in a bank. She met and married Eric Freeborn. They bought a house on William St. N. in Lindsay and raised five children -Eugene, Kim, Kevin, Hope and Heather. She stayed home and raised her family. Eric was a chartered accountant and eventually became administrator of Lindsay Hospital. Joy was always a.good singer. She has a beautiful soprano voice. Eric was also a beautiful tenor and they did a lot of entertaining. When her children were older Joy decided to go toï Sir Stanford Flemming University in Lindsay. She obtained her B.A. and B. Ed. Degrees. One day she shocked us all by announcing that her marriage was ended and she moved out of her home into an apartment. Eventually Eric remarried but to date Joy is single. She had a hard job to get a position to use her education and talents but finally got one in a girls' school in Hamilton. She went to Paris France and took a course in Conversational French. On returning home she started a business in Peterborough. Joy has five children -Eugene, who is married and a hospital administrator like his father, Kim who is married with at least one child, Kevin who is in the hotel business, and two girls -Hope and Heather who are living and working in Lindsay. The following is her -card. JOY fliEtBORN, El.A., B.Ed. ql!GfN.E:R#,,TN:E QQl.JN$f;.:J.0f-! JO!;• G~org~ St N., 'Pm~rbl,,)rnu~h, Cil.1&fi(1 .cKSf1 :3:SS 1705} 748•9904 29 Joan Doreen Westaway Joan Doreen, Thelma and Dick's second daughter, was born September 7, 1932 -also in the farm home at Cameron. The two girls were close together in age and were always great pals. Joan started to Cameron School the same time as Joy and I was her first teacher. I can still see them coming around the comer to school hand in hand.ï Joan, being only five, had a difficult time keeping up to Joy and eventually on the recommendation of the Inspector had to take an extra year in the junior grades. I think she always held it against me as she said she passed but still had to repeat a year. She developed into a lovely girl and is a beautiful singer. She and Joy sang many duets. Joan was alto and Joy soprano. They were also soloists. Joan went to Lindsay Collegiate to complete her education. After that she went to live and work in Toronto. There she met and married Cedric Russell from Nova Scotia. They lived in an apartment in Toronto for a time, then moved to Bowmanville where they bought a house. They had four children -the 4 T's, Terry, Trudy, Tanya and Todd. They were all beautiful, smart children. When Todd was two years old he was struck by a car and almost killed. He had brain damage and although a lovely, kind, well mannered boy, he wru.t at a disadvantage in life. They are all married now except Todd. I hear he has a job. Joan is working at Strathaven Sr. Citizens Complex in Bowmanville where she is assistant manager. She also is a good dressmaker and still does a lot of singing. I am always welcome in their lovely home. Her husband, Cedric, worked in the General Motors in Oshawa and is now working in a furniture factory. For a time he had his own car wash and gas bar in Bowmanville. Tanya has two little girls -Charity and Sarah. Joan and Joy 30 Joan singing at a wedding. Joan and Ced and Grandchildren, Charity -3 yrs., 9 mo. Sarah -1 yr., 5 mo. 31 Anne Violet Westaway Anne, Thelma and Dick's youngest daughter, was born in their home December 5, 1935. I remember Mother being so pleased and telling me 'the more they come the better they get.' She was a darling baby. When or before she was five she kept saying 'I'll be five on the fifth of Dec.' Being the youngest in the family she had a lot of competition and had to yell to be heard. She didn't think she had a baby picture. Years later I found an old film and had it developed. There was Anne as a baby, sitting on a blanket on the verandah of Mother and Dad's house. I had taken her picture when 'keeping' her, as baby sitting was called then. I gave Anne the picture so haven't one myself. Anne went to Cameron School and Lindsay Collegiate. She took training as a hair dresser. She worked in Lindsay and did my hair once. She married Bert Douglas and they built a house in Cameron. Later they sold it and bought a house at Long Beach on Sturgeon Lake and renovated it. About this time she was having marital troubles which finally ended in divorce. She and Bert had two daughters, Lori and Lisa. Lori married Tom Adkins. This marriaged didn't last long and they are now divorced. Lori is hairdressing in Toronto. Lisa married Paul Malcomson and they have a little daughter, Katrina. Anne decided to go back to University and obtained her B.A. and is working on her Masters Degree. She is presently doing 'Guidance' work in the Fort Francis, Ont. schools. She met and married Don Hopkins. They live in Fort Francis and 32 have recently bought and renovated an old house. Anne's talents for house design were given free reign and her husband Don collaborated in building a very unique house at 606 Crowe Ave. in Fort Frances, Ontario. Outside of my immediate family Anne is my closest relative. We were to visit her last in October 1984. I hear that she and Don are still buying old houses in Fort Frances and renovating them. Lisa and Paul's Wedding Lisa's elder relatives Roy and Olive Parkin, Bert's Aunt, Mrs. Douglas, Edith Westaway, Paul and Lisa, Viola Westaway, Marjorie Paterson, Gertie and John Catchpole. 33 Roy My brother Roy was two years younger than I, born in February 17, 1917. I could boss him till he got bigger than I was, then I avoided him. He loved to tease his sisters but he felt badly when Thelma got married. He was twelve years old and shed tears the day she was married. He went to Cameron to school but wasn't a good student. He would rather tease the teacher. One of them used to strap him every day and he would yell at the top of his voice so she wouldn't keep it up too long. It was very embarassing to me as I never was strapped in my life. Roy never got past Grade VIII or Sr. IV as it was called at that time. One of the trustees spoke to Dad about Roy's strappings. But Dad saidifhedidn'tdeserveithe wouldn't get it. Dad felt that she was the only teacher who taught Roy anything. When he finished school he stayed home and helped Dad on the farm. He started going with Olive Watts who lived on her mother and dad's farm at or near Oakwood, Ont. She had several brothers and he loved to go there for more than one reason. Roy and Olive were married in June 1938 in Oakwood United Church and the family reception was in her mother and dad's house. It was to have been in May, but Roy had to have an operation frr appendicitus so it had to be postponed a month. I was Olive's bndesmaid and her brother Harry was Roy's best man. They started married life in the log house on Dad's other place. Olive was very disappointed as she had hoped to live in the brick house but Mother and Dad weren't ready to retire yet. Mother and Dad finally let them move to the home place and THEY lived for a time in the log house before buying a house in Lindsay and moving there. Roy and Olive were successful farmers and had a lot of livestock. They had three boys -Gary, Paul and Vaughn. Gary was born when they were living in the log house. Paul was born in Lindsay Hospital when they were living on the home place. Vaughn was born when they were in their new house on the farm. When Gary and Paul were little, 1945, they were playing with matches one morning when Roy and Olive were in the barn doing chores and the house was demolished by fire. The following newspaper clipping gives an account of the fire and rescue of the two boys who were hiding under the bed -not sleeping as the account states. 34 ~W--ïïffl01NER SAVES $15NS FROM BLAZING HOUSI yta. Roy Parkin miraculoll.tlly her retreat waa cut oft, With ua,. aavell_ tht Uvea of her two small usual presence of iniild abe ac,na __ who were sleeping on the ed a window 1h the room and tow­lleQODll. floor ot their farm home, ered the one child to Mr. Min, loe&ted near cambray, when It who waa standing below. Bf 1lltl caupt fue . and burned to the time her huaband ha4 • 1Mr«.., ,­,round early yesterday morning. • ret,_ up on the nnndah cl M h~ e.nd ~de ha awa, .. house . at -1,out 8.30 on Prlday 1n the -~ ~. hia ï, wife an~ tba morning e.nd lmniedlately set off other child. fdr the home to Investigate. & Mr!. Parkin l!Uff;red a leVerelt he neared the house he met Mrs. lacerated arm u a reault of brei.ii­Parkin who waa returning to the Ing the window and required medl,. house from the barn where she had cal -attention. been assisting her hll.tlband with I The youn, couple bad Ju8t • the milking. He drew her atten-I cently settled In the ho~ wbfdl tlon to the smoke and she Imme-I wa.s owned by the h111b&nd'1 f&ther dlately made a dash for the house , and they are hea.rt-brolren tfffft the and sped through flame and smoke ! loss not only of the home t,f which greeted her u she opened i their entire furniahlnp. the door, to the second fioor of j They are preeently ltoPP1DI with the two-stoÖ. brl It t t their neighbor, Mr. Alvin Mai:t-• ~., c I rue ure until the make other __ ÖÖÖ__ where her two youn, aona were . Y can Ö _ sleeping. ment& . Portunately the wind, which WM & abe made her way to their blowing from the 1011tli'll'Mt ean1ecl rooma the fire had advanced to sparks from the ln.tn1lnt such an extentï that the noor over away from the other buildings on •hlch lhe ,raa 1'alk1ng was begin-the tarm and the 10& .-a.-; c-:,n!in­ntnr t.o give wa:, beneath _her.ang I ed entireb' to the house. Roy tried to get in to get his wallet which held around $100, but had to be restrained or he might have been burned. The community rallied around the family and showed the high esteem in which they were held. A large sum of money was collected for them and a household shower was held in the Cameron Orange Hall. Mother and Dad helped Roy and Olive and they sanded the bricks from the old house and used them in the new one. Roy bought a couple of old houses and dismantled them -one of which was said to have three floors. Out of one they got beautiful birch flooring for their new house. Money was scarce in 1945, but they managed to build a beautiful new home for themselves. Vaughn was born to them that year. 35 They had Christmas for the family a good many times in the new house. Olive was very proud of it and kept it meticulously. One Christmas I remember saying ''Once there were five of us. Now there are twenty-five of us." Dad and Mother's family were all there. Roy and Olive were a very hospitable couple. They farmed until the boys were grown up. They kept a barn full of livestock. Olive worked right along beside ;Roy all the time. None of the boys were interested in farming and all had off the farm jobs. Vaughn took over for a while and Roy and Olive built a new house near Thelma and Dick south of Cameron. In fact Dick and his carpenter gang built it. Vaughn finally gave up farming and Roy and Olive reluctantly sold the farm. Roy worked for the Ontario Automobile Association and had many customers. They have a beautiful home and a large garden where they grow strawberries, raspberries and vegetables. They sell some to other people. Olive makes beautiful.butter tarts which she sells to the village store. They have no trouble selling them to the villagers and tourists at the nearby Sturgeon Lake. Roy and Olive are active in Cameron United Church and community activities. They belong to the Orange Lodge. This order is very active in this part of Ontario. They sing in the church choir. Olive writes me letters with news of the happenings in the village. P.S. -Since I wrote the above, Roy passed away suddenly from a heart attack on April 16, 1986. He had had a past history of bone disease and heart trouble, but thought he was making a good recovery, so his death was a great shock to his wife and family. Carol and Vaughn, Shirley and Gary, Verna and Paul, Olive and Roy 36 Gary Gary was born when Roy and Olive lived in the log house. He grew up on the farm. He didn't go very far in school. He loved horses and has spent most of his life training race horses. He married three times. His first wife was a West Indian girl named Shirley. They had a little boy named Brent. Gary and Shirley broke up and he married Cheryl. They had two boys. They lived for a time in the log house. They renovated it and added on a living room to the front. Later Gary had a job in Oshawa Motors and they bought a house in Whitby. They finally broke up too and after their divorce Gary married another girl named Shirley Stacey. He met me at the airport once when I went to visit and I had a nice time in their home near Barrie. Brent had an unfortunate drowning accident. He had lived all his life with Roy and Olive and was going to Fenelon Falls High School. Several of the boys were swimming in the Canal when one boy got in trouble. Brent called "Don't struggle Kevin and I'll save you." He jumped in to save him and they both drowned. Gary had two other boys, Travis and Mossam with Cheryl and two girls Foan and Ambar with his present wife Shirley. Gary and Shirley and girls are now living at Wmdsor where he has a farrier business and works with Vaughn selling used cars. 37 ~illage Stunned In Double Drowning Accident KevlnByme ÖÖ.. Tragedy struck the area last Wednesday, when two local teenage boys drowned while swimming in the area of the CNR ~wine bridRe in Fenelon Falls. Kevin Phillip Byrne, 15. of R.R. #2 Fenelon Falls and Brent Leroy Parkin, 16, of R.R. 2 Cameron perished when Kevin had dif­ficulty in the water and Brent attempted to rescue him. Several nearby youths pulled the boys to shore and performed mouth-to­mouth resusitation, but to no avail. Constable .Oon Mackay of the Coboconk O:P.P. detachment was the investigat\\ng officer. Kevin was the son of Mr. and Mrs. Leo Byrne. He had completed his elementarv educa­tion at the Bobcaygeo~ Public School and was a grade nine student at Fenelon Falls Second­ary School. He was very active in minor hO('kev Brent was the son of Mr. Gary Parkin and grandson of Mr. and Mrs. Roy Parkin. He was also a grade nine student at Fenelon Falls Secondary School. . he had gone to Fenelon Township Public School for his elementary school­ing. Brent had just qualified for the Ontario Regional Championship Track and Field and he was very active in minor hockey. When speaking to Mr. Larry Skitch, Vice-Principal of the Fenelon Falls Secondary School he said "Both boys were good solid students at school and they would be missed by their friends" . 38 Paul Roy Parlcin Roy and Olive's second boy Paul was born December 21, 1941. He went to Gr. X in school and then went to Toronto to work as assistant manager at a Woolworth's store. He was transferred to Port Hope as manager of a store there. They wouldn't give him an assistant so found he had no free time. He left and started work in a file factory and had to give that up as standing in one place caused him to have the cartilage removed from one knee. Then he learned stone and brick laying. He met and married Verna Yeo and they lived in an older home in Port Hope, which they completely remodeled. They built a new home on Rice Lake and lived there for some time. They have a little boy Benjamin. Last year Verna shocked us all by leaving Paul and moving in with another man. So Paul had to sell his house and give her half the proceeds. He is planning to build another smaller house in the same area. He is still doing stone and brick work. Paul is a good solid boy and is a great support to his mother in her hour of sorrow following Roy's death. Vaughn Richard George Parlcin Vaughn, Roy and Olive's youngest son was born February 23, 1946. He was named after both his grandparents -Richard Watts and George Parkin. He also went to Grade X in school at Cameron and Fenelon Falls. He helped Roy and Olive on the farm then went to South view, a summer resort near Cameron and helped put in cement basements. Then to Markham and Windsor at the same kind of job. He returned to the farm so Roy decided to give up farming in 1968 and they built their house near Cameron. In the winter of 1968 Roy, Olive, Gary, Vaughn and Brent all worked to take out 85 loads of maple and elm logs out of the bush on the 4th line, the Dingo and the ranch. Roy and Olive trucked the logs to Lindsay to a saw mill where Fred Maunder was the sawyer. In 1971 Vaughn gave up farming. By that time he had ninety-one head of cattle and went back to Windsor. He worked as a car salesman and now owns his own car lot. He built a home on a small farm on the edge of Windsor. He and his wife Carol, a French teacher, have a little boy named Lonnie. 39 Marjorie Edna ( Parlcin) Paterson Descendant of Sarah Worsley Now I come to my own story which I feel will be the hardest to write. I was born in the family home on the farm near Cameron, Ont. on January 13, 1915. I always rather resented the fact that I was born in the dead of winter as I could never have any nice birthday parties as my sister and some girl friends had. My brother Roy was born two years later in February so he wasn't much better off birthday party wise. Before Roy was born Mother and Dad took a train trip out west to see what the prospects of relocating in the west were like. Dad's older brother Will had moved to Alberta. However, Mother didn't care for the wide open spaces and the primitive conditions the pioneers were forced to live in so they went back to Ontario and were happy to stay there. Of course Thelma and I went with them on this trip. They told the story of a Chinese man taking a great liking to me. He carried me off the train at stations and gave me treats. I sometimes think if he had kidnapped me I might have been brought up as a Chinese girl. Of course I don't remember that. My earliest memory was pulling myself up to the top of the round oak table to see what was on it. The house had a pantry with built-in kitchen cupboards and kitchen sinks. The water supply was a small pump which brought soft water up from a cistern in the basement. The pantry connected with a large winter kitchen which had a big wood stove. The hot water supply was a reservoir on the back of the stove kept full of water. The kitchen was furnished with an oak dining room suite with a round table, sideboard, chair, couch, planters, organ and a setee in the corner by the stove. One cold morning I was standing in a rocking chair by the stove , getting dressed and fell forward onto the stove and burned the palms of my hands severely. For a while I had no doll and would grab my sister's china dolls and of course drop them and broke them. Finally at one Christmas concert at Zion Church I heard my name called and an Eaton Beauty doll was passed back to me. I must have been quite small but it is one of my most vivid memories. It didn't have a stitch on it but my Aunt Rita made some clothes for it. I treasured that doll but I think it must have burned when the house did many years later. 40 Thelma, Myself, Mother, Dad, Roy School Days at Cameron Up until I started to school Thelma went with the Marks family. When I started and Ray Mark there were too many so Dad bought us a Shetland pony named Brownie. We always took a bag of hay in the buggy for Brownie's noon lunch and stabled him in the village. Then we had to go and feed him at noon. It was rather a hardship on cold winter days, but often the man of the house, Vince Dunn, would stable and unharness him for us. My first teacher was a Miss Lonsborough. She was one of these people with a smile that never came off. I loved school and found learning to read a joy and was very impatient with others in my class who found it more difficult. I have been a book worm ever since. As I went through school one of my favourite subjects was British History. I thought studying about Kings and Queens very romantic. We had teachers who believed in putting us through two grades a year and so I passed what was known as the Entrance Exams when I was 12 years old. The exams were held at Fenelon Falls and it was quite an experience for a twelve year old. I took my first two years of high shcool at Cameron and then went to Lindsay Collegiate Institute. While I was at home I took piano lessons from my cousin Bruce Cooper -Aunt Edna Cooper's son. He was a very musical man and made his living teaching piano and playing a pipe organ in a church in Fenelon Falls. As I grew older I played the organ for church in Zion, Fenelon 01urch where our family always went to church. The cemetery at Zion 1s where a great many of my ancestors are buried. 41 When I went to Collegiate in Lindsay I stayed with Aunt Elizabeth Parkin and Grandpa Parkin. I enjoyed high school but found it difficult to make friends with the town kids as they already had friends. So we country kids chummed together. I had a couple of girl friends from Burnt River -Gladys Godwin and Grace Campbell. I also found the academic work in High School difficult as I was so young. However, I managed to struggle through and went to Peterborough to Normal School. While going to Lindsay Collegiate Institute I stayed with Grandpa Parkin and Aunt Lizzie. Normal School was another rather painful experience as I was very nervous doing practise teaching in front of the class room teacher, a normal master or two, my teaching partner and two other normal students. They were all lined up along the back of the room taking notes on your job and told you about it after. Gladys Godwin and I boarded with a maiden lady on Water St. who had a cross dog. Finally we decided we had enough of that and moved to a house on George St. and boarded there. Another Normalite, Eldon Bonter, and I became best friends. We might have married but two people could not live on one salary and if a girl were married school boards would not hire her. We gradually drifted apart and after six years stopped corresponding. When I graduated from Normal School in 1935, schools were hard to come by. It was in the depths of the depression and teachers were a drug on the market. As a result we did a lot of under bidding until finally Mr. Mitchel Hepburn, who was then Premier of Ontario, put a floor price of $500 on teachers' salaries. Dad and Mother drove me around and I was interviewed by a lot of school boards. Finally I was accepted at a school called Horncastle -a few miles north of Victoria Rd., at the princely salary of $500 a year or ' $50 a month. However, I felt lucky to have a school at any price as many of my fellow Normalites did not. I only had three pupils at Horncastle -One in Gr. V, Lorne Holder; one in Gr. VIII, Willis Jacobs; and one in Gr. X, Lillian Holder. Even with only three pupils I had lots to do with three grades. However, it was a memorable year. I boarded with Mr. and Mrs. Jack Millaley for fifteen dollars a month. They were very kind to me, but Mr. M. liked his liquor which he obtained from a bootlegger in the district. I had never in my life before seen anyone the worse for liquor. So that was something new. I lived only a little over a mile from school so walked every day. In the winter I snowshoed across the fields. The school building itself was very small and heated by a box stove. Lillian had the job of sweeping and coming early in the winter to start the fire. One warm day in early summer the kids thought they'd play a joke on me. They put a roaring fire on in the stove and thought they'd roast me out. But they found the joke was on them as their seats were close to the stove and my desk was farther away at the front. They didn't try that again. At Christmas we had a concert, which wasn't easy with three pupils and no piano. However, I was in the plays too and we managed. It was 42 in the afternoon. Mother and Dad came and Mother brought lunch. The adults turned up and we had a nice party. Horncastle was quite a new experience for me, but I found it quite rewarding as Lillian passed all her Grade X departmental exams and one Grade IX subject she had failed the year before and Willis passed his entrance exams. I also promoted Lorne to Gr. VI. The next year the school was closed for lack of pupils and I was out of a job. The children went to Kirkfield. Willis, Lillian, Lorne Zion School. With one year's experience I applied for and got a school close to home. This school had about thirteen pupils from Gr. I-VIII. The girl in Gr. VIII was Doreen Crawford -a lovely girl and I enjoyed her very much. Gr. VII had two big boys who gave me a rather difficult time discipline wise and at the end of the year I applied for and got the junior room in Cameron School, my home school. Cameron School. I enjoyed teaching the junior grades and stayed there three years. While I was there, Ray Mark, my childhood friend and neighbour taught the senior room. Carmen Byrnell substituted for him for two months when he had scarlet fever. While teaching at Cameron and Zion I boarded with Mother and Dad and also with Thelma and Dick. One year the young people put on a play 'Marigold.' I was in it and had the title roll. Berniece Perrin directed it and we performed around the country at anniversaries, etc. 43 La ya11ee School -1940-1943. After teaching for five years and boarding at home for four of those years, I decided it was time to get out on my own. I sent out a lot of applications and of course accepted the first one who replied. This was at a school in Rainy River District twelve miles west of Fort Frances, namely La Vallee. It was a two roo~ school and I was accepted as teacher of the Jr. Room teaching grades I to VI. ' . I stayed there for three years and it was quit~ a new experience for a girl _who had bee~ brought u.p in an An~lo Saxon community. This was a rmxed commumty of English, Ukraruan and Polish. The first year I boarded with Mr. and Mrs. Pierson who were Swedes. He was foreman of the C.P.R. road gang. I had several principals while I was there. The first year it was Laud!-e Koso~ who joined the navy at the end of the year. The second ye~ 1~ was Jim McGregor, 3rd year a man who came out from the east prmc1pally for the hunting, as Rainy River was considered a huntsman's paradise. He resigend at Christmas and a local lady Merle Cornell, finished out the year with me. ' The community gave me a farewell party in the community hall and presented me with a silver service. I still have it and treasure it very much. The girl I chummed with was Olga Kosowick. She lived at home with her mother ~d looked afte~ the station -meeting all the trains, looking after the freight and keepmg the fires on and the station clean. The second year I moved and rented a house of my own. Two girls who worked in the creamery stayed with me and lived upstairs. This arrangement lasted until I left La Vallee and went back to Lindsay where my mother and father were then living. La Vallee, Ont. Jr. Rm. 1941 44 I made many friends at La Vallee and still go back to visit Isla and Gamet Cornell. A year ago there was an all class reunion of pupils and teachers of La Vallee School. My friend, Dorothy Cox and I attended it and it was a pleasure to see so many of my former pupils and friends. Sad to say many have passed away or were too ill to attend . I revisited the village and the little church which I attended and taught Sunday School and played the organ. If I happened to miss a Sunday someone would phone me to see if I were ill. It was like most small villages -they were like a family to me. The school was about a mile or so east of the village on the highway, and having no car I had to walk. The La Vallee River ran beside the village and regularly flooded in the spring. Thus there were millions of mosquitos, which was a drawback. The first year I stayed all year and spent Christmas with a friend, Clara Forester and her father and little girl. Her father ran the creamery and butter factory there. Her husband had been killed during the war. When they moved away to Wmnipeg, I moved into their house and ran my own show. The next two years I went home to Lindsay for Christmas with my people. I would take the bus to Kenora and catch the train to Toronto and Lindsay. I also took that way home at school closing in June. In 1942 on my way home I met Glenn Paterson. He was in the Airforce on his way from sick leave at his home near Pilot Mound, Man. to Manning Depot in Toronto for posting he didn't know where. He sat across the isle from me for two nights and a day and of course got into conversation. He was posted to Mountain View, an R.C.A.F. station near Belleville, Ont. That summer we corresponded and he came to visit a few times. In May 1943 we became engaged when I came to Pilot Mound to visit him and his folks. Glenn was posted to Coal Harbour, an R.C.A.F. station on the north east coast of Vancouver Island. The living conditions were pretty primitive so we postponed marriage for another year, when he was posted to No. 5 Operational Training Unit, Boundary Bay, B.C. -near New Westminster. In the meantime I decided to teach another year and took a school at Inglewood, Ont. -again a Jr. Room, near Brampton in the Caledon Hills -a very beautiful part of the country. I boarded with Mr. and Mrs. Rex McCannell in the village. It was a nice little town but there wasn't much social life as most of the young men were away in the forces. I found it a difficult year as I was itching to get out of teaching and do something else. At that time teachers were frozen into the profession as they were scarce on account of so many joining the forces. In the evenings I would hear the train going through town and wish I were on it. Finally the end of June came and I was on it heading home to Lindsay where Mother and Dad were now living. The teacher in the middle room was Joyce Lamb and the principal of the three room school was Jerry Leader. Jerry was married and had a 45 little girl. He and his wife sometimes had us to visit. Joyce and I often went for long walks in the evenings. On the weekends we would sometimes go in to Brampton on the bus or train. I was trying to save money but it was very difficult on ninety dollars a month. I got an extra hundred dollars for teaching music in the three rooms. 46 Marriage October 7, 1944 Glenn and Marj Paterson 47 I spent the summer at home and gathered a trousseau. Things were hard to find as consumer goods were scarce in war time. I found some brocaded sheer and my girlfriend at Cameron -Marjorie Rutherford -made my dress. I still have it and can still get into it. My mother and dad went with me to Vancouver and New Westminster in October, 1944 where Glenn and I were married in his aunt's church, Robson Memorial, by Rev. Joseph Herdman, on October 7. Not being on the spot, I wasn't able to do much of the planning. Glenn's Aunt Laura and his cousins helped him make all the arrangements and they did a good job. Aunt Laura had a party for us the night before in her home. After the wedding there was a reception in the Hotel Georgia. It was alJ held in the evening. My bridesmaid was my La Vallee girlfriend, Olga Kosowich, who was living in Vancouver at this time. She wore a floor length gown of turquoise sheer. Glenn's best man was Roderick Stanbrook, an air force friend and the ushers were two other air force friends. All the men wote air force uniforms. After all festivities were over, we took the evening ferry to Victoria where we honeymooned. It was quite a thrill to ride out under the Lion's Gate Bridge and see the lights of Vancouver in the distance. Mother and Dad took a little apartment for a couple o.f weeks as they had never been that far west before and then went back home on the train. Glenn and I lived in New Westminster that year and came back to Manitoba in the spring. Glenn was given compassionate leave to help his Dad put in the crop. I stayed on the farm as I was expecting George. The war was over shortly and Glenn was discharged. Mr. and Mrs. Paterson moved to Pilot Mound in November and we stayed on the farm. We farmed there for thirty-five years and built anew house in 1956. Rural electrification came to the farm in 194 7 and made life much easier. Glenda was born to us in 1949. Her story is elsewhere. 48 Gowancroft I decided to go back teaching in 1954 and taught Gowancroft rural school with all the grades. I took the two children with me. It was a terrible winter and Glenn spent most of it plowing the road to town so we could get back and forth. New House The next winter I stayed home and made plans to build our new house. We built it the summer of 1956. The old house was tom down and the new basement was dug a little to the east and the old basement filled in. The head carpenter was Andy Milljour from Clearwater who worked for 75 cents an hour -going wages. The summer before we had built a new shop and we lived in it while building the house. I fed gangs of men in there. We moved in in November after having spent only $5,000. It was nice to have a warm place with plumbing and electricity. Ariel picture of our Centennial farm. The house we built in the foreground. 49 Stuartville School 1958-64 I started teaching Stuartville School in 1958 and stayed there longer than any other teacher -six years. The first year I taught all the grades, including Gr. IX to Simone Hacault. I enjoyed my years there and have since received letters of appreciation for all the extra-curricular work I did -especially festival work. It was great fun and they were a great bunch to work with. Some of them still come to me with their problems -which is very rewarding. In 1964 Stuartville S.D. consolidated with Pilot Mound and the school was closed. Stuartville School 1964 with trophies won many times at Festivals. Back Row: Roger Delorme, Judy Vassart, Mrs. Paterson 2nd Row: Audrey Nelson, Lorraine Hacault, Linda Evans, Leith McCannell 3rd Row: Bruce McCannell, Rita Evans, Helen Hacault, Mariette Delorme Front Row: Jerry Delorme, Bob Evans, Darlene Vassart, Trudy McCannell. 50 Purves School Sept. 1964 -Feb. 1966 I was now out of a job and expected to retire. However, Purves School Board cmne to interview me and asked me to teach their school. I consented and taught there until the school burned down one cold night in January 1966. They consolidated with Crystal City and the children were bused there. Crystal City School Feb. 1966-72 • I was accepted into Crystal City School and taught Gr. m for six and a half years. It was a pleasure to have only one grade to teach and to have the association with the rest of the staff. Glenda, Glenn and Marjorie Our 25th Wedding Anniversary 51 At the end of my fifteenth year of teaching in Manitoba legislation was passed that teachers could retire at age fifty-five with fifteen years experience and receive a partial pension. I decided to take advantage of this and, as I was fifty-seven at the time, I retired. The school staff headed by principal Len Neufeld gave me a lovely retirement party at the Chalet in La Riviere and presented me with a large framed picture. After retirement I was able to devote more time to horticulture and worked on the yard making shrub plantings and building a big perrenial border along the north side. I also took on the leadership of the United Church Choir for several years. I found this difficult as most of the choir members could sing better and knew more about singing than I did, but none of them would take the job. Now our organist Anne Brown both plays the organ and leads the choir and is doing a real fine job. I was also president of the U. C. W. for a three year term, President of the Horticulture Society for two years, Sec. of the Horticulture for two years, President of the Lady Foresters, and Sec. of the mixed Lodge after the men and ladies combined. My U.C.W. Evening Unit Back Row: Len Nicol, Myself, June Evans, Dorothy Cox, Carol Banman, Pat Neuman and Dallas, Jean Cohoe Front Row: Bertha Fraser, Chris Black, wis McKitrick and Kae Deamel 52 Our back yard The house we bwlt m 1'1.loL Mowict 1979 Glenn, Ernie Watts and Roy Parkin 53 Over the years I have done a lot of festival work both when I was teaching and after I retired. I and others did a lot of work in Pilot Mound School teaching the children solo work and choral work for teachers who had no musical ability. It was work which for the most part I enjoyed very much. Besides all my teaching and community work I was also a farmer's wife, sometimes helping with the field work, and getting meals for extra men in seeding and harvest. When George and Penny decided they would like to farm, Glenn and I decided to build a house in Pilot Mound and retire to town. I drew the plans for the house and Chimo Builders from Roseisle contracted to build it. They were good carpenters, butl think most of the men on the gang built a house for themselves that summer. As a result the work went slowly and we had trouble keeping them on the job. We finally got moved in December 13, 1979 and I held Christmas for Grandma Paterson, Dorothy and Ike and all our own family. Glenda, Glenn, Marjorie and George 54 Glenn -High Vice Chief Ranger, Canadian Foresters Life Insurance Society. We have travelled across Canada and knew many people because of this connection. !Po Sterling, Glenn Paterson, Ivan Adams One of the steam engines they have reconditioned and show. 55 Since my retirement from teaching we have done a lot of travelling, both in Canada and the U.S.A. We have wintered in Florida, California, Hawaii and Arizona. We decided we liked Arizona the best and have a Park Model trailer in Citrus Gardens, Mesa. We have made friends there and enjoy the Saturday night dances, going for long drives to see the sights and going out to eat nearly every evening. There are hundreds of good places to eat there which is a big plus. Glenn likes to be home by the first of March as he is still in the auction business and that's when farmers who are retiring or otherwise going out of business start listing auction sales. He is easing up now as he has given up selling at Pilot Mound and Strathclair Auction Marts where he sold for many years. He also has a young man, Roy McKee, helping him. We have had many ups and downs in our married life, but I feel that I have had a very interesting, rewarding life and we have weathered the storms for fortv-two years Oct. 7, 1986. Glenn is now playing his saxaphone in a dance band ''The Crystal Ramblers.'' They play for reunions, anniversaries, benefits, etc. 56 George George Lee Paterson, our son, was born August 17, 1945 in Mrs. Robin's Nursing Home in Crystal City, Man. Dr. Farkus was my doctor. George was a lovely baby and a dear little boy. One of his favorite sayings was 'Ope the door, 'ichard.' He was a great one for exploring and often wandered away from home, often following the dog. One evening we missed him and had a search party out. We took the truck out to the field and met him coming home. He said he'd been out looking at the flax. Ha! I always worried that he'd follow the dog across the creek and drown. When he grew up he told me that he almost drowned a few times. He started to school in Goudney and Jean McKay was his first teacher. When he was in Grade V. T went to teach in Gowancroft. and George and Glenda both went with me. The following year he went back to Goudney and stayed there till Gr. VIII. He took his high school in Pilot Mound. He got a full Grade X and some of XI. He took piano lessons from Ami Swenson and Sister Benedict. Later he went to Brandon Music School and took lessons from Lawrence Jones. He then went to Regina and took his Gr. X piano with honors. He loved sports but wasn't a good skater, so didn't do well playing hockey. He turned to curling and track and field. When he was in Brandon he got his letter in running. He liked competing and did well playing piano at festivals and in public speaking. 57 George and Penny on their wedding day • George taught piano when in Regina and drove out to Wolseley and Carlyle to teach. Later he formed a band and played all over the west. When he was twenty-four he married Carolyn Buck. After about one year that marriage came to an end. After his divorce he married Penny Taylor of Bengough, Sask., who sang in his band. They had a baby boy, Jordan. Later they decided to come back home and farm. They lived in a little house in Pilot Mound for a couple of years. While there Leif was born in Swan Lake Hospital. In 1979 we built a house in Pilot Mound and George and Penny moved to the farm. They moved to Calgary for a time. Later they came back to Winnipeg where Cole was born. While he was still a baby, they moved back to the farm again. George grain farmed for a couple of years and then went in to sheep farming -renting the land to Leo Sterling and sons. It is nice to have them living at the farm where we can keep in touch with our grandsons. They are now twelve yrs., eight and four and doing well in school. George and Penny are still using their music. George plays an electric keyboard and Penny sings and plays the guitar. They have been entertaining at the Chalet at La Riviere for the last four years. 58 George and Penny performing. Myself, Glenn, Olive Paterson (Glenn's Mother) at George and Penny's wedding 59 Penny and Glenda Glenda Marjorie Paterson Our daughter Glenda Marjorie was born to us November 27, 1949 at Crystal City Hospital. It was the old Thomas Greenway house which had been converted to a small hospital. She grew into a cute perky little girl. She and George both went with me to Gowancroft School when I first started back teaching. The next four years she went to Goudney School and then went to Pilot Mound for the rest of her schooling. She had 60 Betty McCoy for a teacher in Gr. V and loved her very much. She changed Glenda's attitude to school and she did much better after that. Glenda loved drama and appeared in several plays and musicals. On graduation she went to look for a job in Winnipeg and lived for a time in the Y.W.C.A. Then she and three other girls rented an apartment on Colony St. When Glenda was ten she joined the 4-H. At that time she wanted to beanursewhenshegrewup. Then she got ajob as a nurses aid in the Pilot Mound Hospital. Unfortunately, somebody died and that finished Glenda's nursing ambition. One summer she worked in the Co-op Store in Pilot Mound but didn't like that very much. When in Winnipeg she took a course at Success Business College and worked in offices. She then decided to go to Regina and obtained a job working in an Insurance Office. After a time she returned to Winnipeg and worked for three years in the collections department of Macleod Gambles' head office. She liked that but when they closed that deptartment she had to look for another job. Now she is caretaking a condominium block across thP street from where she has an apartment. She likes that so I hope she is able to hang on there. I think Glenda, like a lot of us, had most of her education in the university of life. Glenda is a kind and loving girl and has been a good daughter to us, never forgetting us on special occasions. So far she has remained single, although she was engaged once. She has a wide circle of friends and often has parties and get togethers in her apartment for them. Glenda has many interests other than work. She works every year at the Winnipeg Folk Festival held in Birdshill Park in July. She looks after the Lock Up where the artists leave their instruments for safe keeping. Glenda proposed and organized the first and annual Foresters Fiddling Championship in conjunction with the Manitoba and No~h Western Ontario Foresters' Prov. Assembly. These are usually held m and around Winnipeg. The net proceeds are given to Cancer Research. Our daughter is a good cook and often has us to her apt. for meals. Glenda and I have gone on some trips together. fu August 1970 we went to Bermuda. This was quite a thrill for both of us as it is a unique island. fu September 1980 we went to England with Glenda's friend Kathy Mcfutyre and her Aunt Charlotte. Kathy was a good driver, so we rented a car and went bed and breakfast around England and up into Scotland to Edinburough. We visited the town of Worsley near Manchester where the clan originated. It was very interesting but we were disappointed in not seeing the Worsley Castle as it had been damaged by a fire bomb during World War II and finally tom down. However, it was quite a thrill to be back where the clan originated. 61 Christmas at Glendas 1984 Glenn, Glenda, George, Penny Leif, Jordan, Cole 62 A couple of years ago she flew to Ireland on her own and stayed for a month with a friend she met at the Folk Festival. Unfortunately she missed her plane to come home on account of car trouble. She'd had enough of Ireland in winter and went to England and spent Christmas with friends she had met in Winnipeg. She came home in January and all was well. Needless to say we were late going south that year as we wRitPcl until shp was crnf P homp before we left. Glenda took piano lessons and singing lessons and is a good singer. She has sung solos at her girlfriends weddings and also been bridesmaid at some. 63 So that is the end of my story. There are many more things I could have written, but as the saying goes -''I haven't revealed all.'' I hope I have not injured anyone or told anything that is not right. If so, I apologize. To all my friends and relatives, Yours Sincerely, Marjorie Edna (Worsley, Parkin) Paterson 64 ., 1 i'i<1CK l NriOH BOY-314 PIL01 !o!OUNO. MB ROG lPO ',
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		'name' => 'Clearwater',
		'description' => '<p>Home of the Harvest Moon Festival.</p>',
		'latitude' => '49.13331',
		'longtitude' => ' -99.0366',
		'then_url' => 'Clearwater a.jpg',
		'now_url' => 'Clearwater b.jpg'
	)
)
$background_image = array(
	'Design' => array(
		'value' => 'Clearwater a.jpg'
	)
)
$yearrange = array(
	(int) 0 => 'unknown',
	(int) 1800 => (int) 1800,
	(int) 1801 => (int) 1801,
	(int) 1802 => (int) 1802,
	(int) 1803 => (int) 1803,
	(int) 1804 => (int) 1804,
	(int) 1805 => (int) 1805,
	(int) 1806 => (int) 1806,
	(int) 1807 => (int) 1807,
	(int) 1808 => (int) 1808,
	(int) 1809 => (int) 1809,
	(int) 1810 => (int) 1810,
	(int) 1811 => (int) 1811,
	(int) 1812 => (int) 1812,
	(int) 1813 => (int) 1813,
	(int) 1814 => (int) 1814,
	(int) 1815 => (int) 1815,
	(int) 1816 => (int) 1816,
	(int) 1817 => (int) 1817,
	(int) 1818 => (int) 1818,
	(int) 1819 => (int) 1819,
	(int) 1820 => (int) 1820,
	(int) 1821 => (int) 1821,
	(int) 1822 => (int) 1822,
	(int) 1823 => (int) 1823,
	(int) 1824 => (int) 1824,
	(int) 1825 => (int) 1825,
	(int) 1826 => (int) 1826,
	(int) 1827 => (int) 1827,
	(int) 1828 => (int) 1828,
	(int) 1829 => (int) 1829,
	(int) 1830 => (int) 1830,
	(int) 1831 => (int) 1831,
	(int) 1832 => (int) 1832,
	(int) 1833 => (int) 1833,
	(int) 1834 => (int) 1834,
	(int) 1835 => (int) 1835,
	(int) 1836 => (int) 1836,
	(int) 1837 => (int) 1837,
	(int) 1838 => (int) 1838,
	(int) 1839 => (int) 1839,
	(int) 1840 => (int) 1840,
	(int) 1841 => (int) 1841,
	(int) 1842 => (int) 1842,
	(int) 1843 => (int) 1843,
	(int) 1844 => (int) 1844,
	(int) 1845 => (int) 1845,
	(int) 1846 => (int) 1846,
	(int) 1847 => (int) 1847,
	(int) 1848 => (int) 1848,
	(int) 1849 => (int) 1849,
	(int) 1850 => (int) 1850,
	(int) 1851 => (int) 1851,
	(int) 1852 => (int) 1852,
	(int) 1853 => (int) 1853,
	(int) 1854 => (int) 1854,
	(int) 1855 => (int) 1855,
	(int) 1856 => (int) 1856,
	(int) 1857 => (int) 1857,
	(int) 1858 => (int) 1858,
	(int) 1859 => (int) 1859,
	(int) 1860 => (int) 1860,
	(int) 1861 => (int) 1861,
	(int) 1862 => (int) 1862,
	(int) 1863 => (int) 1863,
	(int) 1864 => (int) 1864,
	(int) 1865 => (int) 1865,
	(int) 1866 => (int) 1866,
	(int) 1867 => (int) 1867,
	(int) 1868 => (int) 1868,
	(int) 1869 => (int) 1869,
	(int) 1870 => (int) 1870,
	(int) 1871 => (int) 1871,
	(int) 1872 => (int) 1872,
	(int) 1873 => (int) 1873,
	(int) 1874 => (int) 1874,
	(int) 1875 => (int) 1875,
	(int) 1876 => (int) 1876,
	(int) 1877 => (int) 1877,
	(int) 1878 => (int) 1878,
	(int) 1879 => (int) 1879,
	(int) 1880 => (int) 1880,
	(int) 1881 => (int) 1881,
	(int) 1882 => (int) 1882,
	(int) 1883 => (int) 1883,
	(int) 1884 => (int) 1884,
	(int) 1885 => (int) 1885,
	(int) 1886 => (int) 1886,
	(int) 1887 => (int) 1887,
	(int) 1888 => (int) 1888,
	(int) 1889 => (int) 1889,
	(int) 1890 => (int) 1890,
	(int) 1891 => (int) 1891,
	(int) 1892 => (int) 1892,
	(int) 1893 => (int) 1893,
	(int) 1894 => (int) 1894,
	(int) 1895 => (int) 1895,
	(int) 1896 => (int) 1896,
	(int) 1897 => (int) 1897,
	(int) 1898 => (int) 1898,
	(int) 1899 => (int) 1899,
	(int) 1900 => (int) 1900,
	(int) 1901 => (int) 1901,
	(int) 1902 => (int) 1902,
	(int) 1903 => (int) 1903,
	(int) 1904 => (int) 1904,
	(int) 1905 => (int) 1905,
	(int) 1906 => (int) 1906,
	(int) 1907 => (int) 1907,
	(int) 1908 => (int) 1908,
	(int) 1909 => (int) 1909,
	(int) 1910 => (int) 1910,
	(int) 1911 => (int) 1911,
	(int) 1912 => (int) 1912,
	(int) 1913 => (int) 1913,
	(int) 1914 => (int) 1914,
	(int) 1915 => (int) 1915,
	(int) 1916 => (int) 1916,
	(int) 1917 => (int) 1917,
	(int) 1918 => (int) 1918,
	(int) 1919 => (int) 1919,
	(int) 1920 => (int) 1920,
	(int) 1921 => (int) 1921,
	(int) 1922 => (int) 1922,
	(int) 1923 => (int) 1923,
	(int) 1924 => (int) 1924,
	(int) 1925 => (int) 1925,
	(int) 1926 => (int) 1926,
	(int) 1927 => (int) 1927,
	(int) 1928 => (int) 1928,
	(int) 1929 => (int) 1929,
	(int) 1930 => (int) 1930,
	(int) 1931 => (int) 1931,
	(int) 1932 => (int) 1932,
	(int) 1933 => (int) 1933,
	(int) 1934 => (int) 1934,
	(int) 1935 => (int) 1935,
	(int) 1936 => (int) 1936,
	(int) 1937 => (int) 1937,
	(int) 1938 => (int) 1938,
	(int) 1939 => (int) 1939,
	(int) 1940 => (int) 1940,
	(int) 1941 => (int) 1941,
	(int) 1942 => (int) 1942,
	(int) 1943 => (int) 1943,
	(int) 1944 => (int) 1944,
	(int) 1945 => (int) 1945,
	(int) 1946 => (int) 1946,
	(int) 1947 => (int) 1947,
	(int) 1948 => (int) 1948,
	(int) 1949 => (int) 1949,
	(int) 1950 => (int) 1950,
	(int) 1951 => (int) 1951,
	(int) 1952 => (int) 1952,
	(int) 1953 => (int) 1953,
	(int) 1954 => (int) 1954,
	(int) 1955 => (int) 1955,
	(int) 1956 => (int) 1956,
	(int) 1957 => (int) 1957,
	(int) 1958 => (int) 1958,
	(int) 1959 => (int) 1959,
	(int) 1960 => (int) 1960,
	(int) 1961 => (int) 1961,
	(int) 1962 => (int) 1962,
	(int) 1963 => (int) 1963,
	(int) 1964 => (int) 1964,
	(int) 1965 => (int) 1965,
	(int) 1966 => (int) 1966,
	(int) 1967 => (int) 1967,
	(int) 1968 => (int) 1968,
	(int) 1969 => (int) 1969,
	(int) 1970 => (int) 1970,
	(int) 1971 => (int) 1971,
	(int) 1972 => (int) 1972,
	(int) 1973 => (int) 1973,
	(int) 1974 => (int) 1974,
	(int) 1975 => (int) 1975,
	(int) 1976 => (int) 1976,
	(int) 1977 => (int) 1977,
	(int) 1978 => (int) 1978,
	(int) 1979 => (int) 1979,
	(int) 1980 => (int) 1980,
	(int) 1981 => (int) 1981,
	(int) 1982 => (int) 1982,
	(int) 1983 => (int) 1983,
	(int) 1984 => (int) 1984,
	(int) 1985 => (int) 1985,
	(int) 1986 => (int) 1986,
	(int) 1987 => (int) 1987,
	(int) 1988 => (int) 1988,
	(int) 1989 => (int) 1989,
	(int) 1990 => (int) 1990,
	(int) 1991 => (int) 1991,
	(int) 1992 => (int) 1992,
	(int) 1993 => (int) 1993,
	(int) 1994 => (int) 1994,
	(int) 1995 => (int) 1995,
	(int) 1996 => (int) 1996,
	(int) 1997 => (int) 1997,
	(int) 1998 => (int) 1998,
	(int) 1999 => (int) 1999,
	(int) 2000 => (int) 2000,
	(int) 2001 => (int) 2001,
	(int) 2002 => (int) 2002,
	(int) 2003 => (int) 2003,
	(int) 2004 => (int) 2004,
	(int) 2005 => (int) 2005,
	(int) 2006 => (int) 2006,
	(int) 2007 => (int) 2007,
	(int) 2008 => (int) 2008,
	(int) 2009 => (int) 2009,
	(int) 2010 => (int) 2010,
	(int) 2011 => (int) 2011,
	(int) 2012 => (int) 2012,
	(int) 2013 => (int) 2013,
	(int) 2014 => (int) 2014,
	(int) 2015 => (int) 2015,
	(int) 2016 => (int) 2016,
	(int) 2017 => (int) 2017,
	(int) 2018 => (int) 2018,
	(int) 2019 => (int) 2019,
	(int) 2020 => (int) 2020,
	(int) 2021 => (int) 2021,
	(int) 2022 => (int) 2022,
	(int) 2023 => (int) 2023,
	(int) 2024 => (int) 2024,
	(int) 2025 => (int) 2025,
	(int) 2026 => (int) 2026,
	(int) 2027 => (int) 2027,
	(int) 2028 => (int) 2028,
	(int) 2029 => (int) 2029,
	(int) 2030 => (int) 2030,
	(int) 2031 => (int) 2031,
	(int) 2032 => (int) 2032,
	(int) 2033 => (int) 2033,
	(int) 2034 => (int) 2034,
	(int) 2035 => (int) 2035,
	(int) 2036 => (int) 2036,
	(int) 2037 => (int) 2037,
	(int) 2038 => (int) 2038,
	(int) 2039 => (int) 2039,
	(int) 2040 => (int) 2040
)
$sites = array(
	(int) 1 => 'Pembina Manitou',
	(int) 2 => 'Spruce Grove'
)
$base = ''
$url = 'communities/view/85/37'
$user = null
$index = (int) 0
include - APP/View/Communities/view.ctp, line 62
View::_evaluate() - CORE/Cake/View/View.php, line 971
View::_render() - CORE/Cake/View/View.php, line 933
View::render() - CORE/Cake/View/View.php, line 473
Controller::render() - CORE/Cake/Controller/Controller.php, line 968
Dispatcher::_invoke() - CORE/Cake/Routing/Dispatcher.php, line 200
Dispatcher::dispatch() - CORE/Cake/Routing/Dispatcher.php, line 167
[main] - APP/webroot/index.php, line 92