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HAS BEEN M.4.DETO RESORT TO THE ARCHIVES FOR DOCUMENrARYDATA TO THIS FRmIDLY LITTLE COl4}.1UNITY,BUT, WHILE ENJOYmG THE HOSPITALITY OF MARBLE POINT LOooE, I HAVE ENDEAVOUREDTO SHOm, AND I TRUST, AN lNTERESTING HISTORY OF THE SURROUNDING IT 1·1USTBE UNDERSTOOD, HOVlEVER, THAT GREAT CARE WAS TAKEN IN THE FACTS AND TRADITIONS ACCUMULATED.

WITHOUT THE KIND ASSISTANCE AND GEllEROUS CO-OPERATION OF THE FOLLOWlNG CITIZENS THIS WORK COULD NOT HAVE BEEN POssmLE, AND I NOWTHANK THEM FOR THEIR KlNmESSES: MR. OONALD GUNN, PROPRIE1'OR OF THE 1OooE; MR. W. J. COTTRELL, LOCAL N»lS REPORTER; THE REVEREND FATHER H. J. FARRELL OF THE CHURCH OF THE SACRED HEART; THE REVEREND J. M. BROvJNLIE, RECTOR OF ST. PAUL'S ANGLICAN CHURCH; THE MISSES CLAREMONT, MR. T. \tARRm AND HIS DAUGHTERGRACE; CONSTABLE W. D. LAv:FlmER, MR. JAl4ES SHANNON, PHM.B.; r.ffiS. CHASe A. BLEEKER, MR. AND NHS. T. E. POTTS, MISS MA.RYHUGH.ES, lITSS MAHION SAVAGE, I>ffiS. ELIZABETH FEENEY, MRS. JOSEPHINE THOMPSON, AND DR. AND MRS. NORl-!ANF. FOY OF TORONTO.

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THE STORY OF HARN:ORAIS, F'UNDAMFll'TALLY,A REPETITION OF THE STORY OF THE PIONEER t S STRUGGLE WITH THE FOREST AND THE INCONVENIENCES OF EARLY CANADA. I SHALL NOT Ilm.L UPON THIS Hi.ASE OF THE HISTORY, BECAUSE MUCH HAS BEEN \'ffiITTElJ UPON THE SUBJFCl'.

THE NA...'1E, 'l-iARMORA' , IS THE PWRAL OF THE LATll'J' \'lORD 'MAlli'IDR', WHICH lolEANSMARBLE, A FACT WHICH THE HOLIDAY-VISITOR WILL APPRECIATE, AFrER A FEll \'lALKS THROUGH THESE PICTURESQUE SURROUNDINGS. THE LOmE ITSELF HAS BEEN \f.ISELY NAMED 'MARBLE POINT LOroE', FOR THE POINT UPON l'r'HICH IT STANDS HAS DEPOSITS OF \'llIITE, GREY, GREEN, RED, AND FAWN ~rARBLE. NATURE HAS TOSSED ABOUT AND EXPOSED HUGE MASSES OF OTHER ROCK FORMATIONS, WHICH SOON BEWITCH THE STUDENT OF GIDLOGY. ON THE HIGH RIOOE ABOVE THE COTTAGES, MAY BE SEEN GREAT ROLLS OF BLACK GRANITE. THESE ROLLS ARE SMOOTH AND BEAR THE POTHOLES \''lHICH TELL US THAT AT ONE TIME THE COUNl'RY WAS SUBl1EHGED. ANOTHER INTERESTING AND VERY USEFUL ROCK TO BE FOUND IN THIS DISTRICJl' IS THE LITHOGRAPHIC STONE USED BY PRINTERS. IT IS PARTICULARLY FINE AND, YEARS AGO, TI' \'1AS HAULED ACROSS CROVTE LAKE BY THE STEAMER, 'HELEN', ~row ROTTING IN HER GRAVE ON THE SOUTH-EAST SHORE OF THE LAKE. IT WOULDBE mo:ss OF l-IE SHOULD I NOT MENTION THE GREAT lIDUNDS OF IRON ORE ON THE SOUTH-WEST SHORE OF THE LAKE, FOR THE HISTORY OF VJARlIDRAWOULD BE ROBBED OF MUCH OF ITS GLAMOURwrrHOUT THE PR.ESENCE OF THIS ORE. THm, TOO, THERE ARE , SPRINKLINGS OF GOLD AND SILVER, WHICH TEMPi', BUT 00 t~OT RFlVARDTHE MINER. IT IS OF TI'JTEREST TO NOTE, HOWEVER, THAT IN THE EARLY DAYS OF MARlvfORA, FAR.~ USED TO HAUL WAGON-LOADSOF GOLD ORE TO THE SErTLEMFln' AND RECEIVE FROM FIVE TO TEE DOLLARS FOR THEIR 'CROP', ACCORDING TO THE MARKET PRIC~ EASIER THJ'l.l RAISING POTATOES ON THIS STONEY LAND.

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WITHOUT GOmG 000 THE IlETAILS OF INDIAN LIFE, IT IS SUFFICmJT TO STATE THAT THE OJIBWAYS ROAMEDOVER THIS PART OF ONTARIO. THEY v1ER.E mmERS OF THE MISSISSAUGAS, WHO OCCUPlED MUCH OF EASTE.~l ONTARIO. THE OJIBWAY TERRITORY INCLUDED SUCH VILLAGES AS ALDERVILI..E, HIAWATHA, AND ROSmEATH. THEIR FAl-o:LY NAl·1E3WERE SUCH AS TO DEPICT WILD LIFE AND TRIBAL HABITS, AND, ACCORDINGLY, \V& FmD NA}1ES OF BEAVER, SMOKE, STONE, AND CROWE. IT IS FROl-i THE LATTER NMfE THAT THE CHA.m.1INGLAKE DJ FRONT OF THE LOmE AlIJDTHE RIVER FLOvIDrG FRO~1 IT AND PAST THE VILLAGE RECEIVE THEIR NAMES.• IN THE EARLY lBOO' s, MARMORAWAS A SMALL SEr'l':Lm.fENT OF SOME NINE LOO-HOUSES. T'rlE FIRST ONE TO BE BUn.T WAS LOCATED WHERE THE SOAP FACTORY NOW STANDS. THIS BUn.DING Y1AS NOT ONI.Y THE FIRST RESIDENCE, BUT IT WAS ALSO THE FIRST SCHOOL-HOUSE. UNFORl'mIATELY, THE NANE OF THE FIRST TEACHER HAS BEEN

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FOR.GO'.M']N, BUT THE PRESEl1JT OLDER CrrIZENS RECALL A MR. ANDERSON AS ONE OF THE EARLIEST INSTRUCTORS. WHY PIONEERS WOULD BUILD HOMES SO FAR NORTH, AT SUCH AN EARLY DATE, IS A MYSTERY, \iHICH CAN BE SOLVED WHEN WE REFLECT THAT MAN HAS ALWAYSHAD, AND, PERHAPS, ALWAYS WILL HAVE THAT URGE TO VEm'URE INTO THE UNKNOWNTO PRESS EVER ONWARDm SO~1E SORT OF BATTLE, AND TO SACRIFICE FOR FUTURE GENERATIONS. AT THE Tllm THAT THESE FEW HONES WERE BUILT, SURVEYORS HAD DONE LITrLE IN THESE NORI'HERN TGINSHIPS, BUT IN PERFORMING THEIR PRIME DUTY THEY WERE ALvlAYS RECORDING THE TDmER AND MnlERAL vJEALTH OF THE COUNrRY OVER w1IICH THEY PASSED. DURmG THE SEVmrmrrH CENTURY, maN WAS ESSENTIAL FOR NAVAL AND MILITARY PUF.POSES, AND, UNOOUBTEDLY, THE GOVERNMENr HAD REPORl'S OF HIGH GRADE IRON ORE IN MARMORATOVJNSHIP. THIS LOWLY MErAL SERVED AS AN INTRODUCTORY LlNK FOR !-JR. HAYES OF THE IRON WORKS AT KING'S DOCK YARm, ENGLAND, m COMING TO CANADA. WE FIND HIM BEFORE THE LEnISLATURE, ON OCT. 26, 1820, ASKING PERMISSION TO OPEN A ROAD FROU LOUIS ROSEBUSH'S FARM, DJ SYDNEY TOWNSHIP:J TO l.fA.RMJRA, AND ALSO THAT HE MIGHT ESTABLISH AN IRON WORKS AT CROWE LAKE, MABMORA, n~THE MIDIAND DISTRICT. THE ROSEBUSH FARM WAS SrI'UATED DJ THE NORTHERN PART OF THE PRESENT VILLAGE OF STIRLING. PERNISSION WAS GRANTED FOR THE CONSTRUCTION OF THE ROAD AND 1200 ACRES OF wm WERE GRANTED FOR THE IDNE-\'lORlIDJGS, IN ORDER TO Y~1JFACTURE 'BAR IRON' AND 'HOLIDW WARE'.

SHOULD THE GOVERNMENr BE SATISFIED WITH MR. HAYESt UNIlERTAKlNG, 1200 ADDrrIONAL ACRES \VERE TO BE ~"TED FOR FUEL RJRPOSES. ON FEB. 26, 1821, NR. HAYES REPORTED THAT A FIFrEEN-lm:..E ROAD HAD BE::m OPmED. THIS ROAD EXTENDED FROM THE ROSEBUSH FARM TO THE OLD ROAD cosrsc INTO }lIARMORAFROH MADOC. THIS LATTER ROAD IS STILL CALLED MADOC STREET, IN THE VILLAGE OF MARMOHA,AND THE ROYAL HOTEL" ON TdE CORNER, IS THE POINT WHERE THE HAYES' ROAD TERMINATED. ON OCT.• 1ST. OF THE SAME YEAR, ].ffi. HAYES REPORTED THAT HE HAD 'A VAST NUMBER OF MEN WORKING ON THE IRON vJORKS'.

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MADOC STREEl' EXTmllS TO THE RIVER-BANK, AND, ALTHOUGH THAT PART OF THIS STREI!.'T FROM MAIN STREEr TO THE RIVER, IS NOW OVERGROWNlVITH WEEDS, ONE CAN FOLLOW IT TO THE WATER. THIS IS THE EAST BANK OF CRO\<lERIVER, AND ON THIS BANK THE IRON WORKS \iERE BUn.T. THEY OCCUPIED A CONSIDERABLE· DISTANCE UP AND DOWNTHE RIVER. AS TO THE WIDTH OF THESE 'WORKS', AS THEY 1tlERE CALLED, IT COVERED ALL THE LAND BETWEEN THE WATER AND MAIN STR.:EF:l', \VHICH IS ON A ROCKY LElXXE AND PARA.LLEL TO THE RIVER..

THIS WAS, INDEED, MAIN STREEl', FOR THE MAIN OORANCES TO THE MORE IMPORTANT BUILDlliGS OPENED ON THIS THOROUGHFARE.. THERE viAS MUCHACTIVITY HERE OOE TO THE VARIOUS COMPONEm' PARTS OF THE NEtl INroSTRY, AND THIS OLD STREEl' HAS BE&N DESCRIBED AS 'A SOLID MASS OF BUILDlliGS t • THE 'WORKSt CONSISTED OF HEAD OFFICE, FOUNDRY, SMELTER, CASTING-HOUSE, PAT'l"EmJ-SHOP, REDUCTION PLANT, CHARCOAL PITS, LUMBER YARDS, SA\i l1ILLS, WHEELHOUSE), BELLOvl5HOUSES, WOOI.I.l.'ll' l-ULLS, GRIST l-m..tS, L.tillGE STABLES, BUCKSNITH SHOPS, CARPENTER SHOPS, BAKE-SHOPS, STORES, HOUSES, AND EVERY SORT OF BUSImSS OR BUILDING NEEDED FOR A THRIVING 1{ANUFACTURINGCENTRE. THE VISITOR MUST NOT CONFUSE THE PR.ESENT BUSINESS SECTION WITH THIS 'n~ANT CITY', AS THE CHIEIP'INTEREST \oJ'ASMAIN STREFJI' AND THE RIVER.BA.NK. TIME HAS DONE 1ruCH TO CREATE THE PRESEm' FORLORN SIGHT, BUT FIRE HAS OOME, PERHAPS, l.fORE. ONLY A rnv TALL STONE WALLS WITH THEIR GAPING \IDIDOWS R»fAnJ, AND THE LAND IS OVERGP..()\VN WITH WILIDWS, l>lEEDS, AND SCRUB.. ANOTHER SHORT STREET, NORl'H OF MADOCSTREET AND LEADlliG TO THE lUVER FROM MAIN, IS CALLED 'SLAB STREET' BY SOME OF THE CITIZENS. THIS NAME SUGGESTS THAT DIGNITY HAS DEPARTED. IT CF..RTAINLYHAS, BUT HE WHO CARES TO STRUGGLE 'l"rlROUGHTHE

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3 TANGLED SHRUBBERY, kVILI. FIND SLABS IN ABUNDANCEAND DEEP, SPRINGY SOIL MADE FROl-I TONS OF ROTTED SAW-DUST. THERE ARE ALSO THE FOUNDATIONS AND RUINS OF THOSE OlJCE IMPOSING BUILDINGS. BESIDES TURNmG FROM THE ROAD BUILT BY MR. HAYES AND AFPROACHmG THE RIVER BY l>fADOCOR 'SrABt STREETS, THERE \'lAS, APPARENTLY, A TURN FROl<I THIS ROAD AT THE CORNER WHERE THE PRESmT POST OFFICE IS LOCATED. THIS TURN "lOULD BE A SECTION OF THE PRESmT MATTH禄IS STREEl', AS rr CONTINUES OilER THE MODERN BRIOOE. AT THAT TD1E MA'l'TlfEHS STRFXf WAS A WAGoN-TRACK AND THERE WAS NO BRIOOE AT THIS PODIT. THE PURPOSE OF THE TURN WOULD BE TO ENTER THE SOUTHERN END OF THE ROAD, WHICH vlOUND ITS wa TlffiOUGH THE WOOJFACTURING DISTRIc-r AND JOnIED 'SLAB' OR, PROPERLY NAMING IT, MILL STREET a OLDER CITI.ZFllS RECALL TRAvw.ING ALONG THIS RIVER-ROAD. ITS SOUTHERN END ltlOULD BE NEAR THE EAST ENrRANCE TO THE PRFSENT BRIOOE. THIS BRIDGE AND MATTH:&WS STREET ARE PART OF' NUMBER SEVEN HIGHWAY. WHILE MR. HAYES WAS SUCCEEDING IN HIS INITIAL ENDEAVOURS, HE DISCOVERED THAT THE UAIN ORE nsrosrr WAS NOT WITHIN THE ORIGINAL GRANT. HE, THEREFORE, APPROACHED THE GOVERNNENT AGAIN AND ASKED FOR mCRE.~ED ACREI\GE. HE REQUESTED ALSO THAT, AS A COMP.EllJ'SATION, HE lUGHT BE PERMITrED TO HAVE A PERCENTAGE OF LAND, SUCH PERCENTAGE TO INCLUDE THE ~1A.m LODE. THE GOVERNMErITACTED ACCORDINGLY AND EXTENDED HIS GRANT INTO THE TOV'JNSHIPS OF l-IDRA, AND NENIA OR CAlll..OS, NO\'l BEU-IDlJT, LAKE, AND }[ETHU"NE. THE SURVEYOn...GEllEFAL ORDERED THESE T~lSHIPS SURVEYED, AND 'JlIE LOvl RATE OF FOUR PER CmT 11AS T"dE FEE CHARGED. IT IS TO BE INFERRED THAT THE S!mTER WAS IN OPERATION BY 1823, AS MR. HAYES ~J1E}10RIAr.lZED THE GOVERNMENTTO HAVE HIS PATENTS ISSUED. THIS ~TAS ON JUNE 7, 1823, AND THE PATENTS \iERE ISSUED THE FOLLOWING AUGUST. DURll~G THE SANE YE.lill, THE SURVEYS lrlERE PRACTICALLY COMPLETED, SINCE, ON JUNE 14TH., HE REQUESTED THAT ALL HIS PERC~lTAGE BE IN BELMONT. HE EXPIAINED, AT THE SAME TD4E:J THAT HE INTENDED ro BUILD A CANAL FRm路! THE SOUTH WEST CORNER OF CRO\'lE LAKE TO THE NARRO\'lS ON THE TRENT RIVER (NOVl TRENT RIVER VILLAGE).

THE MAIN DIGGINGS rJERE on THE SOUTH kOOT SHORE OF THE LAKE, AND THE CANAL t"lAS TO OPEdIJA ROUTE FROM THEM TO RICE LAKE ,fiTH TRANSPORTATION EITHER WAY. t

WE NOVl NOTE THAT THE SCENE OF INTEREST HAS EXTmmED FROM THE WORKS IN MARHOP.ATO THE SOUTH v.1EST CORNER OF THE I..AKE -- A DISTANCE OF ABOUT FIVE ~UL.1lS. FROH THE BEACH IN FRONT OF 1.fARBLE roDIT' LOOOE ONE CAN READILY SEE Ho\j THIS BEAUTIFUL BODY OF WATER SERVED AS A vlATEm'1AY FROM THE DIGGINGS TO THE NORl'H EAST CORNER OF THE LAKE, WHERE CReME RIVER BOOINS ITS COURSE TO THE VII..LAGE. THE PATElITS ,mm ISSUED FOR THE HOLDINGS IN JULy OF 1824 AND INCLUDED 8534 ACRES IN BELMONT TOWNSHIP AS 11Ft. HAYE3' REMUNERATION. LOT 8, CON. 1 WAS THE HIGH TRUNP, Jl.ND HERE THE VISITOR MAY SEE THE GREAT lIDUNOO OF BLACK, HIGH-GRADE ORE. THEY STILL AWAIT TRANSPORTATION TO THE SMELTER. THE PRECIPITOUS CUTTINGS ARE A SCENIC MONUI;fi!lIlTTO. THE MEr-DRY OF AN ENERGErIC AND 'VEIJ'"TURESOHEHAM. THESE CUTTllIDS OR DIGGINGS vlERE CALLED BLAIRTON NINES, AND THE VTI.l.AGE OF BLAIRTON WAS NEARBY. 'l'HIS VILIAGE BECAHE SO THRIVING THAT THE HOUSES HAD TO BE NUHBERED FOR CONVENIENCE. N<Nl IT RESTS IN THE BOSOlcIOF OBLIVIOl~ WITH ONLY THE OUTLINES OF ITS STHEEl'S REf.1AINING, \~1Hn.E srrzacs SITS MUSING. ANOTHER OUTSTANDING MAN IN MAIDIDRA'S EARLY HISTORY WAS ANTHONY }K)N.AIiAN. HE rJM BOmJ AT l路fOUNT BELT.E.i, COUNTY GlUlIlAY, IRELAND, IN 1794 AND CAME TO

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THE FOLLOWING YEAR, HE WAS APPOINTED MANAGER OF THE \lORKS AND LIVED DJ THE HOUSE NOW OCCUPIED BY DRG H. CRAWFORD. THIS HOUSE USED TO BE A HOTEL HANAGED BY HRS. MARGAREr BRADY, WHOSE t-1AIDEN NAME viAS VAN NOm-fAN.. LATER, l.ffi. G. \'1. BLEEKER LIVED THE.i1E AND l-fANAGEDA HOTEL TOO. AT THAT rne, THE HOUSE WAS MUCH NEARER THE RIVER AND FACED THE WATER. ITS PRESENT FRONT WAS rrs REAR. BEFORE IT \lIAS MOVED, THE ORIGINAL FRONT i'lAS ON N:.A.lN STREEl', AND, THIS BEING SO, MAIN STREET MUST HAVE CONTINUED SOUTH, ACROSS 1-tLADOO STREET AND, UNDOUBTEDLY, JOmED THE HAYES" ROAD NEAR 'l'HE POST OFFICE. \,ffin.E MR. G. W. BLEEKER LIVED THERE, HIS SON, CHARLES, \'lAS BORN. THE LATE CHARLES BLEEKER WAS HIGHLY RESPECTED AND USED TO REVJillK, \{I'lTILY, THAT HE \'lAS BORN III DR. CRAlrJFORD'S vlAITING-RooM. SOON AFTER THE PATENTS l-JERE ISSUED TO }1R. HAYES, HE FOUND HINSELF IN FINANCIAL DIFFlCUIJfns..

DJ ORDER TO BRIOOE THE TROUBLED \'lATERS HE ASSIGNED, IN TRUST, A PORTION OF HIS HOLDmGS TO THE HON. mER MCGILL OF HONTREAL, 1'ffiO vlAS HIS CHIEF CREDITOR, MR. MONAHAN, AND NR. ROBT. HAYES. THIS WAS ]l,l SEPTEl'-IDER OF 1824.

IN FEBRUARY 1825, 11E3SRS. ~1CGILL AND NDNAHAN SURRENDERED THEIR TRUST TO CHAR.I.ES AND ROBERT HAYES. MR. l·ICGILL PURCHASED PART OF THE PROPERTY DJ 1826 AND CONDUCTED THE BUSlNFSS THROUGH TliAT YEAR. THE NEXT CHANGE IN THIS RAPIDLY MOVING SCENE viAS DJ 1828 WHl'lJ' MR.. HCGILL PETITIONED THE GOVEm~ FOR A LOAN OF £10,000 AND AN ENLARGEl1EN'l' QIt' THE FUEL GRANT TO 1800 ACRES. HE REQUESTED, ALSO, THAT THE GRANT BE CONFIR11ED TO HIM DJ PERPETUITY. THE LOAN WAS REFUSED, BUT 600 EXTRA ACRES WERE ADDED, WTI'H THE PROVISON THAT THE l'10RK 1-1USTBE CONTINUED, UNTh"TERRUPl'EDLY, FOR li()RE THAN THREE YEARS. nr 18.30, A MR. HETHERINGTON PURCHASED THE PROPERTY FROM l-1R. MCGILL. AT THIS POINT, IT IS INTERESTING TO NOTE THAT A COl4MISSION WAS APPOINTED, IN 1837, TO ASCERl'AlN THE TERNS NECESSARY FOR ACQUIRING THE PROPERTY FOR THE GOVERNMENTiiITH THE OBJECT OF MOVING THE PEm'rENTIARY FROM KINGSTON TO r-rARl·!OFA. THE CONVICTS vlOULD, OF COURSE, BE USED IN THE MIl~ AND \oJORKS. THE ACREAGE WAS THEN 10,935 ACRES PLUS 1800 ACRES FOR THE FUEL RESERVE. HR .• MCGn.t HAD BECOl-!E OlrJNERAGAIN AND ASKED £.25,000 FOR HIS DlTERESTS. • THE CO!,OO:SSION MADE A THOROUGH mvESTIGATION OF THE RroOROO AND DISCOVERED THAT THE ORE viAS EXCEPTIONALLY HIGH IN IRON CONTENT. IT FOUND ASLO, THAT A FIFrY TON VESSEL, ~IANNED BY A CRFl'l OF FOUR, COULD TRAJJSFER 150 TONS OF ORE ACROSS THE LAKE AND OOtill THE RIVER TO I>1ARMORACHEAP TRAl"JSPORTATION PROFITS WERE VERY SATISFACTORY. 'WITH RIDARD TO THE l-iANJAL LABOUR IT IS HISTORICALLY :IN'l'ERESTING TO NarE, THAT FOR THE PERIOD OF DEe. 15, 1825 TO ~~Y 15, 1826 , BALLAST-l1DULDER SIDRIFF, RECEIVED £38 - THAT IS 152 DAYS AT 58 PER DIEM. SIDRIFF}fADE BARS OF IRON \'UTH HOLES THROUGH THE ENDS. THI!SE BARS \'lERE USED FOR BALLAST ON OCEAN-GOING VESSELS. CABLES WERE TlLrmADED THROUGH THE HOLES SO THAT THE BAHS MIGHT BE SHIFTED CONVEmENl'LY. JOHN JOl~ES vIAS A FOUNDER AT THE WORKS AND RECEIVED 155 PER DIEM. DYER AND CAMPBELL WERE FIREMEN AND RECEIVED 65 ~3dEACH PER Dm1.

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ON THE cm~ITSSION vJERE ANTIiONY MONAHAN, GIDRGE N. RIDLEY, AND ISAAC FRASER OF ERlJESTr~m.

THE FOOT TtVO REPORTED FAVOURABLY, maLE MR. FRASER, IN PRESENTING A NlNIORITY REPORT, DOUBTED THE AlJ\1lSABILITY OF THE GOVERNHEM ENTERDrG THE BUSINESS WORLD INSTEAD OF LEAVING THAT VENTURE TO INDIVIDUALS FOR FREE OONPETITION. NEITHER COULD HE SEE ANY \iISDO!-f IN BRlNGDl'G CONVICTS INTO A WILDERNESS, rJHERE GUARDING WOULD BE A HAJOR

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5 PROBI..E1-1AND THE EXPENDrI'URE OF PUBLIC FUNDS FOR HOUSING PURPOSES, EXTRAVAGANT. THE WARDEN AT KINGSTON AGREED wrrH THE FRASER REPORl', AND THE PROJECT WAS ABANDONED. THUS THE MATTER STOOD UNTIL 1847, 1'JHEN MR. JOSEPH VAN NORMAN PURCHASED THE PROPERI'Y FOR $21,000.

HE SPIm' A LARGE SUM ON REPAIRS AND vIAS MANUFACTURING m 1848. HIS EFFORTS TOO vlERE unsucCESSFUL, ALTHOUGH HE EXPERlME.NTED vlITH THE TRANSPORTATION PROBLEM BY USING l'lAOONS AND HAULING TO BELLEVILLE AND HEALY FALLS. HE TRIED ALSO THE COBotmG OUTI..Er VIA TRENT RIVER, RICE LAKE, AND HAFMooD. EVEN CONSIDERING THAT HE HAD TO BREAK BULK THREE TIM1iS OVER THE LATTER ROUTE, IT PROVED CHEAPER THAN HAULlNG TO BELLEVILLE. AT ONE TIME, THE ORE viAS TAKEN BY BOAT TO THE SOUTH EAST CORlma OF THE LAKE AND THEN TRANSFERRED TO \'lAOONS AND DRAWN THROUGH THE vlooDS TO THE liORKS. THIS OLD ROAD IS lVELL DEFINED YEr AND CAN BE FOLLOWED TO THE RIVER. IT BRANCHES OFF 'rHE ROAD, FROM THE LOOOE TO THE HIGH-WAY. DURmG TilE VARIOUS ATTEHPl'S TO SOLVE THE .J.O:NE'S CONUHDRtJl.1S, ONE ORGANIZATION WAS AN mGLISH FIRM KNO\iN AS FORSYTH, MCGILL, AND BURSTALL COMPANY, BUT THERE IS NOT SUFFICIENT TIME TO IDENTIFY ITS PART IN THE DRAMA. MEmION HAS BEEN HADE OF THIS BECAUSE THE VILLAGE HAS FORSYTH AND BURSTALL STREEJI'S AS WELL AS MCGILL STREET. THERE IS ALSO A HAYES STREET. REORGANIZATIONS OF THE VARIOUS COMPANIES APPEAR TO HAVE OCCUPIED ABOUT AS NUCH Tll4E AS THE ACTUAL MANUFACTURING, BUT THE ULTIMATE FAlLURE HlliGED ON TWO THINGS: THE TRANSPORTATION FACTOR AND 'mE LACK OF KNO\iLElXiE m TREATING THE SULPHUR CONTmT IN THE ORE - WOOD DID NOT CREATE ENOUGH HEAT TO ELDUNATE THE SULPHUR. m MODERN SMELTING THE SlJI.HIUR IS OF VALUE IN TREATmG IRON ORE. THE COBOURG-PETERBOROUGH-¥..Am·iORA RAILWAY COMPANYWAS, AT ONE TUlE, nJVOINED m THE :f.UNE vIORKINGS. AN ABANDONED RAn.WAY FROM BLAIRTON TO TRENT RIVER BEARS MUTE TESTIMONY TO THIS. IlJ.lvlP CARS RAN OVER THl!SE RAILS AND, AFTER REACHING THEIR DFSTINATION, THEY WERE EMPTIED INTO 'WALKING BEAI>! BOATS t • THE 11 ISAAC BUTTS' l'l.AS ONE OF 'I'H.ESE BOATS AND THE 'OOLDEN EYE' USED TO PLY UP AND OOvlN THE TRENT RIVER AJ."JDRICE LAKE. ~ONE OLD HAM BECAlvIE THRILLED AS HE RELATED STORllS OF THE EARLY DAYS. F.E viAS DETERNINED TO TELL OF THE HONOURS HE HAD vlON BY RECEIVING TitT.El!TY-ONE FIRST PRIZES FOR HIS STEP-DANCING. NOW CRIPPED AND MANIPULAmG Tun CANES, HE REMARKED, uTIIE11 \'lERE THE DAYS.. IF IT \'/EREN'T .FOR THIS CONFOUNDED RHEUHATIZ', I COULD DANCE YET. HAD A STROKE SOME TINE BACK AND ~IAS LAID RIGHT OUT. COULIlI'T MOVE 'N ARM OR LID - DEAD GONE. THE ONLY THmG I COULD WIGGLE lOO Ht TONGUE AND I'VE KEPT IT oom' EVER SINCE,

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OTHER 1-1Eli, WHO WERE ASSOCIATED \UTH THIS COLOURFUL OR.F,...VENTURElr/ERE: MR. A. T. GALT, NR. ALEXA..~DERSlllPSON, MR. WILLIAH EVANS, MR. JAMBS GREElITSHIELDS OF l{ONTREAL, J.ffi •• Wll.LIAM RHODES OF QUEBEC, AND MR. W. A. HA'l'TlIllWS, NAYOR OF SHEFF'IELD, ENGLAND. DURllID THE CAREER OF THE WORKS, SHIPMENrS OF ORE 'VlERE MADE TO PITTSBURG AND CLEVELAND, BUT THE OPENL"lG .

OF -THE CANALS ON THE ST. LAWRENCE AND THE CONVENIENCE OF THE GREAT LAKEs FOR UICHIGAN FIRMS TOIJ.ED THE BELL FOR MAmDRA AND ITS RICH ORE DEPOSITS AT BLAIRTON.. THE UNDEVELOPED NORTH COULD NOT WIN THE TRANSPORTATION BATTLE.. THUS CLOSES A LONG CHAPTER OF GREAT F1U1EAVOUR, AND EQUALLY

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6 GREAT WERE THE FINANCIAL LOSS~.

THE MINING UNDERTAm!G CEASED TO OPERATE AS SUCH IN 1873 , AND MR. T. P. PEARCE OF TORONTO PURCHASED AIL THE I..ANOO, BUILDll'las, ArID RIGHTS IN 188,3.

THE PEARC.E ORGAW....zA'l'IONCARRIED ON AN EXTHl'SIVE LllmER BUSINESS, AND, AS THE VILLAGE GRENl TO THE NORTH AND vm3T, STREZrS, SUCH AS FRANK, PEARCE, WILLIAM AND THOMAS, \'lERE NAlcfEDAFl'ER MEMBERS OF THEIR FAMILY. IlFSCENDANTS OF THE FANILY STILL LIVE IN MARHORAAND THEY A..tm STILL ACTIVE IN THE LUMBER BUSIN.ESS. MR. HAYES MUST HAVE PASSED ON BEFORE 18,30 AND MR. lvIONAHANABOUT 18,38.

TRADITION STATFS THAT THE LATTER WAS BURIED m vJHAT 'tiAS KNOvJNAS 'THE COl1IDN CEl{ETER!t.

CHAPl'ER 2 THE TERM, "COMMONCEl>1ETERY1', WAS APPLIED TO WHAT USED TO BE AN OLD INDIAN OEHETERY AT THE EAST BOUNDARY OF THE VILLAGE. AFTER THE \'lHITE PEOPLE BEGAN THE SErTmfENT OF MARMORA, THEY BURIED THEm LOVED ONES IN THESE GROUNDS. ALL DENONlNATIONS OF THAT TlME ARE REP~ENTED THERE. THE GRAVES HAD TO BE DUG AS WILLED BY THE GREAT ROCKS AND STALWART TREES. THE EARLIER GRAVES COULD NOT BE Ml\RKED PROPERLY BECAUSE IT WAS n.fi'OSSIBLE TO PROCURE SUITABLE STONES. AS YEARS PASSED, THIS BURIAL GROUND BEClUfE LITTLE BErTER THAN A POTTER'S FIELD. LATER, MRS. z..IABGARETBRADY WAS n~TRUHE:ITAL IN HAVING THE GR.OUNll3 CLE.lffiED, AND NR. lm..LIA1~ LIDNARD OONATED A NEAT FEUCE TO PROTECT THE PROPERTY. THE PRESENT SUBSTANTIAL FENCE m;rLACED THE ORIGINAL ONE, AND THE CITIZENS OF UARIDRA ARE TO BE CONGRATULATED UPON THE ll.fi>OSING APPEARANCE OF THE ~.

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HERE ONE HAY FIND THE RE2-1ARKABLERECORD OF ROYAL KEYS, WHO DIED ON JULy 28, 1871, AGED 107 YEARS, 1 J.10NTHAND 26 DAYS - A NATIVE OF FEPJ4ANACH, IRELAND. WHETHER MR. ANTHONY NONAHAN RESTS HEF.E OR NOT HE BE:GAN A v/ORK vffiICH DEVELOPED INTO A MOl\1UMENT14UCHMORE VITAL THAN A TOMB-STONE.. AFTER HIS ARRIVAL m l<1:ARIDRA, HE SAri THE NEED OF A PLACE OF \iORSHIP. ACCORDINGLY, A SITE FOR A CHURCH WAS CHosm ON THE WEST SIDE OF THE RIVER AND NOT r"'AR UP THE RIVER FRaIl{ THE IVEST END OF THE PRESmT DAM. ALL DENONINA'frONS CON'rRIBUTED, IN SOl.m :t-.iAmlER, TO THE ERECTION OF THE BUILDD!G, BUT IT WAS THE FIRST RON'AN CATHOLIC CHURCH IN THE VICINITY. IN ORDER TO UlJDERSTAND \'ffiY THE SITE FOR THE CHURCH WAS CHOSEN ON THE \<J'ESTSIDE OF THE RIVER INSTEAD OF IN THE VILLAGE PROPER, IT IS NECESSARY TO PICK UP THE I'lORTHERtf TRAIL OF HUN STREET AND THE EAST RIVER ROAD. THIS ROAD, UNOOUBTEDLY, TURNED EAST, UP THE CRAGGY BANK BY }路fE.l\NSOF Im.L STREEl' AND JOINED HAll! STREET. THE NORTHERN END OF MAIN STREET cmmNUED NORTH AS THE ROAD TO SHANICK AND CARDOVA, BUT IT ALSO BRANCHED w'EST TO THE RIVER \mERE THERE UAS A vlOOmJ BRIOOE CROSSING THE STREAM IN A SOUTH\'JESTERLY DIRECTION.. THIS t'1A5 THE ONLY BRIOOE CROSSm:;. THE RIVER AND ITS WESTERN FlID RESTED ON LARGE FLAT STONES OF THE RIVER'S BANK. THESE GREAT STONES STlLL HEf4AlN AND THEY ARE THE ONLY THDlG LEFT TO IIIDICATE THE OLD BRIDGE SITE. ALL TRAFFIC FROl-I THE EAST CROSSED OVER THIS BRIOOE ON ITS \-lAY TO HAVELOCK OR NOFT..dOOD. AFTER CROSSnJG THE BHrOOE, THE ROAD COf..tTlNUED m A SOUTHERLY DIRlOOTION ALONG THE \00'1' RANK OF THE RIVER, V/HICH, IN SPOTS, IS EXTREMELY HIGH AND DANGEROUS, ROUNDED A HIGH ROCKY KNOIJ., \'1HICH IS Nm1 A CUTTING AT THE WESTERN END ON THE PRESENT METAL BRIDGE ON NO. 7 HIG}I\'lAY, AND CONTDlUED TO NORWOOD. THE OLD BRlInE FORMED THE BASE OF A U. THE CHURCH viAS BUILT ABOUT 200 PEEr FROM THE WEST ]}ID OF THE OLD BRIOOE AND RIGHT BESIDE THE ROAD. IT STOOD ON A HIGH LEVEL SPOT AND CONMANDED A BE.~UTn'UL VIElv OF THE \~ATER. IN ALL PROBABILITY, MR. MONAHANDONATED

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7 THE LAND AND FANCIED THE QtTIEl' SURROUNDINGS FOR A PLACE OF WORSHIP. THERE IS A POSSIBILITY TOO THAT l-IE WAS THlNKING OF THE BLAIROON PARISHIONERS AND THE INTERI4EDIATE SETTLEF's. SHOULD THAT HAVE BEEN THE CASE, THE CHURCH t'lAS N:ORE CENTRAL. THESE REASONS FOR CHOOSING THE SITE ON 'J,'HE tOOT SIDE OF 'l'HE RIVER INSTEAD OF THE EAST ARE, AT LEAST, ~IDRE l.OOICAL THAN THE WEAK S'l'ATEr-mm 'l"HAT 'MR. MONAHANtiANTED A LONGER WALK'.

THE LITTLE CHURCH l'ITASBUILT m 1825. l1R. LAUGHLIN lIDGlJE), GRANDFATHER OF THE LATE HRS. JOHN A MCCOLLUM, WAS ONE OF THOSE tmo ASSISTED IN CHOOSING THE SITE. HR. RICHARD Jom-m, GREAT-UNCLE TO THE LATE NR. CHARLES A. BLEEKER, UAS ONE OF THE CARPENTERS ~UAGED BUILDING THE CHURCH. NBS. MCC01Lm.~ \iAS M.lffiR.IED IN THIS CmJRCH AND FOUR OF HER CHILDREN WERE BAPrIZED nI IT. APPARENTLY, ALL DENOl1mATIONS GAVE WILLINGLY TOliARDS THE CONSTRUCTION OF THE CHURCH, AND THAT SAIvIB SPIRIT OF GOOllrrLL HAS BEEN AND STILL IS A 'TAKEN-FOR-GRANTEDI ATl'ITUDE IN J.!APJ.IORA. IT IS REFRESHING TO LEARN THAT, AS F..ACH OF THE LATER CHURCHES WERE BUILT, ALL THE OTHER CHURCHE:) ASSISTED Di SOME J.iANNER - ROMAN CATHOLICS ASSISTED THE ANGLICANS AND MEl'HODISTS, HETHODISTS OFFERED \tn.LING HANDS TO THE OTHERS AND THE ANGLICANS DID LIK»lISE. A \'lAVE OF ENTHUSllS111-IDST HAVE PASSED OVER TmSE vn.LA.GERS TIr 1874 , SINCE ALL THREE DENOMINATIONS BUILT NEli CHURCIrm DURING THAT YEAR. IN THIS RmARD THE PIDPLE OF 1·1ARJDRAHAVE SHOVlN A TRULY ClffiISTIAN SPIRIT..

THEIR DELIGHTFUL LIBRARY MID THE NFAT POST OFFICE \UTH ITS LITTLE 'BIG BENt ARE FURTHER EVIDENCES OF COMMUNITY CO-OPERATION.

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IN ORDER TO HAVE A m:.rrER UNDERSTANDING OF THE OLD CHURCH AND BRIOOE, ONE IIDST ELIMINATE F'ROM THE PICTURE THE DISCARDED WRECKS OF OLD PIERS, NOW DECAYING RENNANTS OF THE LOGGING INDUSTRY. 'rHEY HAD MOTHmG TO 00 v1!TH THE BRIOOE. 1'1' IS COMPLETELY GONE. THE PIERS WERE USED \'lHEN THOUSANDS OF CHOICE lOOS KEPT THE BED OF CRONE RIVER SCOURED CLEAN OF GP.D\'JTH OR FISH - WHEN TAt'lNY RIVER-DRlVERS RODE ON THE \'lINGS OF DANGER, HALLOOING TO EACH OTHER, AS THEY R.~ISED THEIR HUSKY ARMS TO STRIKE l'JHEP..E A KEY-LOG :WCKED THE WHOLE IN ITS ANGRY RUSH TO THE RAPIDS BELOW. lMOOIATELY ro THE SOUTH-WEST OF THE FLAT ROCKS, vJHICH SUPPORTED THE END OF THE BRIDGE, THERE IS A SHALL QUARRY. THIS DID NOT EXIST IN 1825, BUT THE READ PASSED OVER THIS KlIOLL AND CROSSED AN OPEN SPACE. AT THE SOUTH EDGE OF THIS SPACE IS A CLUMP OF CEDARS HIDING THE WINS OF THE CHURCH. THE ANcmrCE ROAD IS WELL DEFINED HERE AND PASSES CIDSE t BY THE i<lEST FOUNllA.TION OF THE RUINS AND on TO THE HIGffi'lAY. THIS STRETCH OF ROAD l-1AKES A DELIGHTroL WALK, BUT IT IS EXTREl-1ELY DANGEROUS ON THE RIVER-SlDE OF 1'1'.

IT IS DIFFICULT TO :t:E3CRIBE THE FIRST IMPRESSION ONE ~, \mEN CONING UPON THESE RUJ1IS. THEY ARE CONCEALED FROM vm'l BY A VEIL OF SOFT EVERGREENS AND \'JRAPPED m SILENCE. COMING ACROSS THE FIELJl3 FROU l·WU3LE POL'\f.i.' LODGE IS A FAVOURITE vlALl{ - ESPECIALLY ALONG THE RIVER" vJHERE THE PATH IS CAPTIVATING IN ITS BEtiUTY. PEP.HAPS IT IS '!'HE SURPRISE IN FDIDlliG SONErHING so TOTALLY UNEXPECTED AFl'ER LEAVING THE SHELTER OF THE CANOPIED PATH, SONErHING so FllTIRELY DIFFERENT, OR IT MAY BE THE SUDDEN CHANGE FROM ONE TREND OF THOUGHT TO ANOTHER. AWE" AT LEAST, PERVADES THE QUIEr SPOT; REVERENCE IS PAlW'DUNT. ONLY THE EAST AND A PORTION OF THE SOUTH l'lALLS REMAIN •

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BY THE COMPASS, IT IS DUE NORTH AND SOUTH 1:1ITH THE ENTRANCE FACING NORTH. NOTHING REHA.DlS QlI~ THE DOORJ BUT rrs STYLE iiAS THAT OF THE REMAINING iiIlmows Dl 1'HE EAST iiALL. THERE \VASA S1-1A.LLCDtCUIAR vmmow ABOVE THE Et:lTRANCE AND HIGH :rn THE GABLE. ON THE PEAK WAS AN IRON CROSS SET DJ

8 THE STONE vlORK. THE WALLS WERE CONSTRUCTED OF NATIVE STONE, QUARRIED NEAR BY. THE HORTAR IS FAt-IN IN COLOUR, WE EITHER TO AGE OR A CLAY CONTENI' • THE EAST WALL IS TVlENTY FEE:r HIGH AND HAS THREE GOTHIC WINIXl'IS EACH SIX FEET \ffilE. THEY HAVE ENOUGH OF THE MOULDING LEFT TO SHOW THE TYPE USED. THE GLASS IN THE WINOOtlS \'lAS PLAm, AND THERE WERE FOUR PANES IN THE 10\00 SECTIONS AND 'l'HREE FAN-sHAPED ONES IN THE TOP PARr OF EACH. THE SOUTH WALL HAD A PANEL IN ITS CEmRE, ON THE OUTSIDE. IT 1'lAB INSNI' ABOUT THREE INCHES AND CONFORMED TO THE LDOO OF THE MAIN wmoows. ABOVE THIS PANEL WAS A LONG NAR.RCM \IDIDOW REACHING ALMOST TO THE GABLE. IT ltlAS SIMILAR IN STYLE TO THE OTHERS. ON EITHER SIDE OF THIS N:AR.R<»11'1INOOWWERE TWO SMALLER WINDOWS, SET NEAR THE ROOF AND CORRESPONDED TO THE TOP PARTS OF THE LARGE ONES.. THE SILlS OF THESE THREE HIGH vmmows WERE m ALIGNHENT. ANCYl'HERIRON CORSS 'L'IAS ON THE REAR PEAK. 1"HE GABLE ROOF HAD A PITCH WITH SOUETHIID OF A SPANISH ATHOSPHERE ABOUT IT. THERE WAS A STONE CHDt.TEY ON THE EXTREME SOUTH-WEST CORNER. THE UEST ltlALL \'lAS IDENTICAL IN CONSTRUCTION TO THE EAS'r ONE, AND THE STrnJCTURE viAS IMPOSING IN ITS SIMPLICITY.

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THE INTERIOR OF THE BUILDING WAS PLAIN, AND REFLECTED NCYl'ONLY THE USE OF LOCAL HATERIAL, BUT ALSO THE MANNER IN WHICH THE PIONEERS LIVED. A PUTTY-COAT OF vmITE PLASTER COVERED ALL THE WALlS. AS YEARS PASSED AND THE BUILDn~G \'lAS ABANOONED, HUNDREOO OF NAMES OF LUMBER-MEN AND RIVERDF.IVERS OF VARIOUS NATIONALITIES WERE SCRAWLED OVER THE ONCE NEAT INTERIOR. THE CEILING WAS LATHED AND PLASTERED AND FOLIJ)VlED THE RAFrERS UNTll. IT APPROACHED THE APEX: OF THE ROOF It-lHERE IT \'lAS ROUNDED OR CURVED SLIGHTLY INSTEAD OF OONTINUlNG TO THE ANGLE OF '!HE GABLE. THE FLOOR \vAS HADE OF WIDE, CLEAR, PINE PLANKS, ABOUT THREE INC~ THICK. THEY WERE TONGUED AND GROOVED AND HAND-lIADE. STRANGE TO RELATE, BUT THESE SAME PLANKS ARE NOW PART OF A BUILDING O\'iNED BY l-ffiS. MCGRAWOF MARJorOM. THERE WAS, AlSO, A NOF..RCl'lBASE-BOARD. AT THE SOUTH ElID OF THE INrERIOR viAS THE ALTAR, AND, ABOVE IT, THE THREE SHALL \'1JNOO\'lS ALREADY DESCRIBED. IT WAS ABOUT FIVE FESl' LONG AND PLAn~.

AT THE BOTTOM OF THE THREE STEPS APPROACHED IT viAS THE COMMUNIrnF.AIL, EJITENDING FROM l'lALL TO VlALL. THE RAIL WAS NOT ORNATE, BUT THE SLATS OR PICKETS SUPPORTING IT tiERE MODESTLY DECORATIVE. THE USUAL GATE VIAS IN THE ~fIDDLE OF THE RAIL. mm:ND THE COMMUNION-RAIL AND IN THE SOUTH EAST CORNER WAS THE CONFESSIONAL. IT WAS ABOUT FIVE BY THREE mT AND SIX FEET HIGH. THE FRONT OF IT HAD A RED DRAPE, SIMILAR TO OUR. N:ODERN REPP. THE TOP OF THE CONFESSIONAL WAS OPEN AND SO WAS THE ENTRANCE FROH THE ALTAR. IT HAS BEEN SAID THAT THE FIRST PE'lS WERE SQUARED TDmERS. THIS MAY BE TIIDE, BUT THOSE WHO HAVE RECOLLECTIONS OF THE FURNISHINGS DESCRIBE THEM AS SEATS, STI-1PLE IN CONSTRUCTION AND MADE OF PINE. ON THE LEFT SIDE OF THE ClPJRCH, THE PEWS EXTmDED FROl-f THE FRONT TO THE NORTH WALL, AND, ON THE RIGHT, l'lAS A SPACE NEAR THE NORTH vlALL - PERHAPS FOR A STOVE. THE IRON lrIOF.KS MADE THE CROSS~ AT THE FOUNDRY AND SUPPLIED THE NDNEI FOR THE vlOOD-WORK AND FURNISHINGS. THE TetrAL COST IS SUPPOSED TO lL4.VE BEEN $200.00 ACROSS THE ROAD, IN FRONT OF THE CHURCH, AND OtI THE FLAT STRIP AT THE' FOOT' OF THE ROCKY HILLSIDE, WAS THE BUF.IAL GROUND. IT vIAS NORTH-VlEST FROM THE BUILDlNG AND IS NOli QUITE DIFFICULT TO LOCATE, BECAUSE NOTHItIr m,lAINS BUT A FlM GRAVE-DF.PRESSIONS, LEFT AFrER THE REl-IDVAL OF BODIJiS. EVERGREENS HAVE CREPr ACROSS TIllS SECLUDED 'LAND OF THE mumOVlN SLUNBERERS t AND HAVE SPREAD THEIR PEACEFULNESS OVER IT. ABOUT THIRl'Y GM VES 1I'iERE IN THESE GROUNDS, BUT GREAT DIFFICULTY WAS EXPERIENCED \"JHEN

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9 IT BECAME NECESSARY TO DIG A GRAVE. IN FACT, AFTER EXAlIDITNG THE SOn. AND SEEING THE GREAT SQUARES OF ROCK, ONE WONDERS HOW EVm ONE GRAVE COULD HAVE BEEN EXCAVATED. EVENTUALLY, THESE ROCKS DEFIED ANY ATTEMPTS TO DIG, AND THE PL~CE WAS ABANOONED. THERE vJERE l.fONtJl.rnNTS HOWEVER, AND THOSE NOT RmOVED BY RELATIVES WERE BROKEN BY THOUGHTLESS RIVER-DRIVERS, WHO USED THE OLD CHURCH AS A 'lWlG-OUT-CWB'.

FINALLY, THE EVER PRESENT AND DESPICABLE VANDALS CAME TO DESTROY THE REMAINING MOSS-COVERED MEMORIAIS. STILL RESTING IN THIS OLD CEMETERY ARE SHANNCi'lS (VERY EARLY SEl'TLERS) , AND ALEXANDER MCCOLLUM, GREAT GRANDFATHER OF 1.ffiS. ELIZABETH FEENEY. HE CAME FROM CUSHINDALL, COUNTY ANTRIM, IRELAND AND HAD LOCATED NEAR DELORA ON A CROWN GRANT. WHILE ON HIS WAY WITH FOOD FOR lW CUTTING MARSH-GRASS, HE BECAME LOST ALONG THE RIVER TO MALONE AND PERISHED. HIS BODY WAS FOUND IN THE SPRING, AND HE WAS BURIED IN THIS CEMEl'ERY. THE PRESENT SPELLING OF THIS FAMILY NAME IS MCCALWH. ANOTHER, STILL SLEEPING HERE, IS JOHN, SON OF LAUGHLIN HUGHES WHO ASSISTED IN CHOOSING THE SITE FOR THE CHURCH. LITTLE DID THE FATHER KNCM THAT HIS OWN SON l-IOULD BE THE FIRST ONE TO BE nITERRED THERE - JOHN \iJ..s DROVJNEOIN THE RIVER, NEAR THE CHURCH. THIS l-lOULD INDEED BE AN IMPRESSIVE SERVICE, FOR THE SD1PATHIZING SETTLERS WOULD COME FROM MIL.ES AROUND ON THIS OCCASION. JUST A LITTLE TO THE NORTH OF THE OLD CEMErERY AND AMONG THE FASCnJATING BLOCKS OF STONE, IS TO BE FOtlJND THE 'HAUNTED SPRING'.

IT IS SO SQUARE AND REGULARLY SHAPED THAT ONE WOULD, IN OOE'S INFANT SURPRISE, EXPRESS THE OPINION THAT IT HAD BEEN ]trADE WITH A CHISEL. CLOSE EXA1·m~ATION SHOWS THAT THE UNlFORl.f STRATA OF NATURE FORMS A DEEP BOX FOR THE WATER. LIDEND TEUS OF A PRErTY FRENCH MAIDEN, WHO viAS MURDERED NEAR THIS SPa!' BY A JEALOUS LOVER. THE LONELY TRAVELLER COULD HEAR HER SOBBING QUIEl'LY, AS HE APPROACHED; SOBBING, SOBBlNG, SOBBING, UNTn. HER TEAl1S COULD BE HEARD - DROPPING, DROPPING, DROPPING, AND THE LITTLE BROOK F'ROM THE SPRING BECAME A FRNrFUL, RUSHING STREAN:. THEli, ALL THE WATER WOULD DISAPPEAR SUDDENLY ArID COliPLErELY. EVEN NOW, THIS SPRING GUSHES FORTH IN THE FRESH, Im'l SEASON AND CEASES ENTIRELY DUamG THE SUMM.E.~. SHOULD YOU GO 'l'HERE AND LISTElJ CAREFULLY, YOU MAY HEAR THE PUnITIVE CALL OF A STRANGE, • UNKNO...mBIRD, SIGHING AND SOBBING AS DID THE BEAU'rlFUL FRENCH MAIDEN, OR, SHOULD YOU PASS DURING A WARM, GmTT.....E SHo\VER, YOU l!AY ACTUAIJ..Y SEE THE EVERGREENS SHEDDING THEIR CRYSTAL TEARS OVER THE REI.w:NS OF FORGOTTEN SErTLERS 0

YOU \'illJ." OF COURSE, BE EAGER TO VISIT THIS 'HAUNTED SPRING' AND TO SEE THE GREAT LEDGES OF N:OSS-COVERED ROCKS, vffiICH TaNEE ABOVE IT. PLEASE, DO NOT DISTRUB THE PATCHES OF 'GREEN VELVEl", NOR TREAD UPON THE FRAGILE FERNS ABOUT· THE SPRING. IN OP.DE..t(TO APPROACH THIS SPRING FP..oM MARBLE POINT LODGE, DO NOT CROSS THE FIELDS TO THE RIVER, BUT FOLI.DVl THE IWAD FROM THE LODGE TO THE BEND WHERE THE OLD ROAD BRANCHES Th'"TO THE v/OODS e THIS OLD ROAD IS THE ONE THAT WAS USED FOR HAULING ORE FROM CROWE LAKE TO MARMORA. WHEN YOU COME OUT OF THE SHADOWY \'lOODS, AT THE END OF THE ROAD, TURN LEFT MID LISTEN CAREFULLY AS YOU ENTER THE DIM SILE!WE. AT THIS POINT, IT IS \'lELL TO NOTE 'I'HE RELATIONSHIp· OF THIS OLD ROAD TO THE SPACE IN FRONT OF THE CHURCH AND THE 11ARMORA •••NOID'IOODROAD. WHO CELEBRA'rED THE FIRST MASS IN THE CHURCH IS STILL TO BE DISCOVERED, BUT FATHER BRF.mJAN, OF BEI..LEYILLE, MADE YEARLY vrsns DURING THE 1840'S AND EARLY 1850'S •. ELIZABEl'H (MCCALLUM) Gn..LEN, vJHO \iAS BORN JPl~. 7, 1833 AND \'1tIO WAS THE 1'IO'1'HER OF J.ffiS. ELIZABErH FEENEY, viAS BAPrIZED Ili THIS CHURCH BY FATHER BREl"mAN. AT ONE TIME, HIS GRACE BISHOP PHAI..m

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10 CAME WITH FATHER BRENNAN AND THEY \'/ERE ENTERTAINED AT THE HOl·m OF MR. SIDRIFF. IN THANKING MRS. SIDRIFF FOR HER HOSPITALITY, HIS GRACE PRESENTED HER vlITH AN EMERALD RING. IN 1855, FATHER BEILY CELEBRATED MASS MONTHLY AND, FOLLOWING HIM, OOIE FATHER LAvlLER, UNCLE TO !v1ISS GERTRUDE LAWLER OF TORONTO, WHO WAS VERY PROMINm'T m CATHOLIC ACTIVITIES. FATHER LAWLER HAD CHARGE OF NAOOC, HUNGERFORD, AND MARHORAAND LIVED IN MAOOC AS DID HIS SUCCESSOR, FATHER DAVIS. llJRnlG THE mcm-mANCY OF FATHER. DAVIS, A BRICK CHURCH WAS BUILT AND IT WAS LOCATED ON THE SITE WHERE THE PRESENT MAGNIFICENT CHURCH OF THE SACRED HEART STANDS. FATHER DAVIS \iAS THE FIRST CANADIAN PRIEST , HAVING BEEN BORN AT KINGSTON, ONTARIO. ABOUT 1855, THE HUGHES FAMILY DONATED LAND FOR A CEMF.:l'ERY. THIS BURIAL GROUND IS TwO OR THREE MILES NORTH WEST OF MARMORA, ACROOS THE ROAD FROM THE OLD HUGHES' HOMESTEAD AND ABOUT A QUARTER OF A MILE \VEST. IT IS CALLED THE HUGHFS' CEMETERY, AND THE MISSES HUGHES, \'lHO ARE DESCENDANTS OF THE ORIGINAL FM.fILY, STILL LIVE III THE OLD HOME. IT W.5 BErn PODTTED OUT ALREADY THAT THE OLD CEMErERY WAS VERY STONEY AND, UNDOUBTEDLY, THIS GIFT OF LAND WAS nrrmmm TO OVERCOME THE DIFFICULTY • AS THE HUGHES CEMETERY IS A LINK BETIiEEN CHURCH-TIn'ERESTS ON THE \'lEST SIDE OF THE RIVER AND LATER Jm'ERESTS ON THE EAST SIDE, IT MAY BE OF INTEREST TO MENTION A ml RECORDS FROM THIS BURIAL-GROUND. FEl1 MOll.TUMENTS REl4AlN. ONE BEARS THE DATE 1858. A GROUP OF THREE MONtOOlfrS TO THREE YOUNG Mm-1, FAR FROM HOME, CAUSllS THE VISITOR TO APPRECIATE HO\-J THE:Y MUST HAVE LIVED AND WORKED. THEm LI\TF.3 WERE VENTURESOME AND COLOURroL. DANGER viAS TmiPERED WITH SKILL, AS THEY DROVE THE ROLLING LOGS MUCH AS A DROVER OOIDLES HIS HERr.6, BUT OBVIOUSLY, \iITH I·IDCH GREATER AGILITY. ONE CA.TIln·!A.GlNE THEl-1 SKIPpn~G FROl-l LOO TO LOG AS THE ROLLICKING l'lORm OF "DIGUE DINIlAllmt LAUGHINGLY FELL FROM THEIR LIPS tlQUAND JtErAIS DE CHEZ MON PERE, DIGUE DINDA.INE JEUNE FILLE A MARIER DlGUE DINDAINE.u 'f\VHEll I LIVED A HOME WITH FATHER DmG-.A-DING-DAIN-A WAITING FOR Ifi' WEDDING DAY, A-DING-A-Dn~G-DAY. tf OFI'm, IN Hn..ARIOUS MOMENTS, THEY WOULD VIE vlITH ONE ANOTHER BY STOUTLY HURLING THEIR POLES INTO THE ENDS OF THE LOGS UPON WHICH THEY B.WNCED; THEN TUP..N FEOM THE QUIVERING POLES AND WALK wrrH CONTROLLED NIMBLmESS TO THE FAR ENDS, .KNEZL, BEND OVER AND DRINK FROM THE RIVER, RISE AND RErURN TO THE AImous POLES. A PANNIKIN OF \iHISKEY FROl-1 THE liEARBY PAns WAS THE RFliARD FUR SUCCESS IN SUCH FEATS. IN QUIEl'ER l{OODS, THEY lITGHT HAVE BEEN HEARD SlNGlllf FROM THE VERSES OF tfmJ CANADmI ERRANT" "0 JOURS SI PLEINS D'APPAS VOUS RrES DISPARUS •••••• ET V.DN PAYS, HELAS! JE NE LE VERBAl

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11 AND MY OWN LAND - ALASI NEVER AGAIN I'LL VIE.W. n THESE TWO SONGS ARE SIGNIFICANT AND PORTRI\Y THE LIVES AND FATm OF MAI1'YFINE YOUNG MEN FROM WV1ER CANADA - YOUNG Mm WHO LOVED THE RIVER AND THE STRENUOUS LIFE OF THE RIVER-DRIVER - YOUNG uCANADIENSu, \tHO NO\~ SLEEP WITH THE HOST OF UNKNOWNPIONEERS, BUT 'mE THREE, WHO HAVE IvIONID1ENTSERECTED TO THEIR MEMORY, MUST HAVE BEEN mrrmoOO>, srscs THEY \VERE NOT FUROOTTEN' BY MR. JULIAN BISSONNETTE, OFFICIAL IN THE GILMOUR COlJIPANY, AND J.1R. R. DOWNS, OF THE PAGE COMPANY. MR. BISSONNErTE ERECTED NEAT MONUNENTSTO THE ME!t:>RY OF TWO OF THEM: JOSEPH RICHA.ROO, OF ST. lvfAURICE, C.E. (CANADA EAST), \'JHO WAS DROWNED IN DEER RIVER ON NAY 3RD, 1867, AT THE AGE OF 'IWENTY-TY10 YEARS, AND ULDERIC DESILETS, OF ST. GR.IinOIRE, \'JHO WAS DROWNEDIN BEAVER CREEK ON'MAY 13TH, 1869, AT THE AGE OF TWENTY-5n: YEARS. MR. DOWNS FITTIOOLY REMENBERF.DTHE THIRD ONE. THE mBCRIPrIOlJ IS TO THE MEMORYOF IGNACE PARADIS, OF BT. LAMBERT, QUE, WHO WAS DRmmEO AT DEER RIVER FALLS, BELNONT TO\'JNSHIP, ON MAY 10TH, 1869, AT THE AGE OF nmrrY YEARS. ALL THREE WERE RIVER-DRIVERS. ASTOUNDING IS THE MONUMENTTO OBELF.DSE, WIFE OF L. B. TALLION, WHO DIED THE 5TH OF JUNE, 1868, ttwmI A Ttn-K>R, t¥EIGHING 142 LBS., A.a.~ER SUFFERDJG Tm YEARS, AGE 53 YEARS".

AT THE TrnE OF THIS DEATH, ONE BELLEVn..LE DOCTOR liOULD NOT BELIEVE THE REPORT IN THE N»ISPAPER, BUT THE LATE DR. H. M. JONF.S ATTENDED THE CASE AND PERMITTED DOUBTFUL CITIZENS TO SEE THE GRD'ilrH.

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WITH THE CONING OF FATHER lIDRTAGH TO THE PARISH OF ¥.ARMORA, A NEW' ERA BIDAN. AT FIRST, HE MADE HIS HOME WITH I<m. AND !-ffiS. OtNEIL, Pi\.RFlITS OF MRS. HUGHES. THERE WAS NO PARISH HOUSE UNTIL AFrER HE CA~iE. HE WAS APPOINTED TO THE PARISH ON oer, 22ND, 1894 AND WAS THE FIRST RESIDENT PRIEST. THE HUGHES' CEr.mERY HAD BEEN DISUSED srscs THE CONSECRATION OF THE GROUNDS AROUND THE BRICK CHURCH, AND DURING THE NOON-HOUR, ON AUG. 20TH, 1903, LIGHTNDJG STRUCK THE TOWER OF THE CHURCH, AND THE BUILDING \iAS BURNED. LITTLE TIME WAS LOST IN REBUILDING. SERVICIiS WERE HELD IN THE TOWN HALL DURING THE INTERIM, AND THE PRESENT BEAU1'IFUL CHURCH OF THE SACRED HEART WAS BUn.T WRThTG 1904. vlORK BEGAN ON MAY 8TH AND ON NOV. 20TH THE BUILDING viAS READY FOR CONSECF.ATION - E\lERY DETAil. OF rrs FURNISHINGS BEING READY. THUS, THE BELOVED FATHER MURTAGHWAS THE FOUNDER OF 'l'HIS D{P()Sl1'l.f STRUC'IURE. IT 1JAS HE, TOO, vmo DID SO MUCH TO PRESERVE THE LITTLE, NIDLECTED SHRltJE ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE RIVER. IN THE GROUNDS OF THE SACRED HEART CHURCH STANDS A l'roNU1@fl' TO HIS MEmRY. IT WAS ERECTED BY THE PARISHIONERS, WHO I~ST HAVE LOVED RD-f. HERE, TOO, WILL BE FOUND THE FOI..LO\aNG: 1.

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l.fARY YOUNG, WIFE OF JOHN WOLFE, DIED FEB. 19, 1B80, 80 YEARS, A NATIVE OF CO. CORK, IREIAND. JOHN rl0LFE, DIED JAN. 10, 1885, AGED 103 YEARS.

AGED

"THE PATHS OF DEATH ARE PAST, LABOR AND SORRO\rl CEASE, AND LIFE'S LONG WARFARE CLOSED AT LAST THEm· SOUlS IS FUUND IN PEACE".

THESE lNSCRIPTIONS ARE OF nrrEREST, SINCE rr IS UNDERSTOOD THAT THIS JOHN \'lOLFE viAS RELATED TO GENERAL WOLFE, WHO TOOK QUEBEC.

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12 ANOTHER UNIQUE STONE TO BE FOUND HERE IS RESTmG FAR UP HILLSIDE AMONGTHE WJJ.J) ROSES. IT IS A PIECE OF NATIVE SIX !"Em' LONG AND SOME THIRTY INCHES WIDE. THE BASE IS BOTTQl.i OF THE SLAB. THE SURFACE HAS BEEN SMOOTHED, AND INSCRIPrION 14AY BE FOUND UPON IT:

ON THE SLAB, ABOUT THE UNTRDn.fED THE FOLLOWING

ttSACREDTO THE MEMORYOF MARGAREl' HUGHES, WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE ON THE 15TH OF AUG., 1828, AGED 14 YEARS. REQUIESCAT IN PACE" \omEN MARGAREl' DIED, SHE WAS BURIED m THE 'COMMON CEMErERY', AND, \<IISHD1G TO HAVE HER BODY DISINTERRED AND REBURIED HY THE LrrTLE CHURCH ON THE WEST BANK OF THE RIVER, HER BRarHER, PATRICK, HAD THIS STONE INSCRIBED IN BELLEVILLE AT A COST OF THmTY OOI1..A.RS. THE STONE WAS BROUGHT TO MAm10RA AND PLACED BESIDE THE ORIGINAL CHURCH, BUT PATRICK DIED AND MARGARF.'TvSBODY WAS NEVER R»10VED. HER RESTINGPLACE IS, THEREFORE, UNMARKED. IN HIS EAGERNESS TO PRESERVE THE REMNANTS OF GRAVESTONE ACROSS THE RIVER, FATHER MURTAGHHAD THIS MONUMEN'I'TAKEN TO ITS PRESENT RE:lTING-PLACE m SACRED HEART CEHETl'ERYLITTLE ~iARGAREl', OF WHOMIDRE IS KlIOWN OF HER TOle.sTONE THAN OF HER TENDER YEARS. FR:rnIDLY CEDARS STA!ID WITHm AND AROUNDTHE OLD CHURCH FOR COMPANIONSHIP AND SOME, MORE STURDY THAN arHERS, HAVE GROWNUP THROUGH 'nvO OF THE ~fAINING \riINOOvlS. ABOVE THE WINDOWS, THEY CLASP THE }'1ASONRYAS IF THEY ,,/ERE PR'EV.El>J"TING THE WAI..L FROM FALLING. ARE THEY OOING THIS IN A SILENT APPEAL FOR US TO A\llAKm FROM OUR SLm1BERS AND REBUILD THIS HISTORIC GEM? ARE THEIR POSTURES l-10RE FOP£EFUL? ARE THEY SPEAKING TO US IN THIS FASHION - "WON'T YOU RESTORE THESE WALLS AND CREATE A SHRINE IN miORY OF THESE FOROOTTm PIONEERS, WHO LAID THIS FOUNDATION SO THAT YOU IUGHT BECOME GREAT, WHO LAID THIS FOUNDATION, vlHICH IS THE EMBRYO OF SACRED HEART?" FURTHER RESEARCH MAY BRmG TO LIGHT SOl-rE NAME, WHICH WOULD BE SUITABLE FOR THIS SHRINE, SHOULD IT BE REBUIT.'l'. KEEN INTEREST IN THE PRESERVATION OF ALL BEAUTIFUL THINGS IS THE MOTIVE IN TAKING THE LIBERTY OF OF'FERnlG THESE SUGGFSTIONS. CHAPI'ER 3 ALTHOUGH THIS HISTORY IS, ESSENrIALLY, ONE OF 'THE mON \'iORKS' AND THE OLD ROHAN CATHOLIC CHURCH, IT WOULD BE INCOMPLEl'E wrfHOUT SOME RECORffi OF CONTEMPORARYCHURCHES. UNDOUBTEDLY, EARLY ANGLICANS DID THE SANE AS arHER PIONEER DENOMINATIONS BY HOLDmG THEIR MEETINGS IN THE LOC-HOUSES OF THE SETTLERS. AFTER A CHURCH \'lAS BUILT IN STIRIJ:OO, IT viAS NOT UNUSUAL FOR ANGLICANS TO RIDE HORSE-BACK TO THAT VILLAGE FOR ¥ATINS AND VESPERS. IN 1865, ST. JOHN'S CHURCH WAS BUILT IN MAOOC, AND WJ.!Y FRO!>! J.iA.RMORATOOK ADVANTAGEOF THAT CONVENIENCE. THE FIRST ANGLICAN ~nSSIONARY WAS, PERHAPS, THE REVEREND MR. GANDER OF ST. AUGUSTINE'S COLLEGE, CANTERBURY, BUT IT REMAmED FOR MISS ANGELINE BENl'LEY, DAUGHl'ER OF DAVID, TO ORGANIZE THE FIRST CHURCH SCHOOL ll'J MA.RL,,{ORA..THE SCHOOL WAS IIELD IN THE TOWN HALL, AND ALL .

DENOMINATIONS ATTENDED. BEING AN ENERGEl'IC INDIVIDUAL, MISS BENTLEY SOON HAD AN ATTElUlANCE OF SillY-FIVE MEMBEF.S. THIS NUMBER INCREASED GRAOOALLY, AND HER WORK DID MUCH TO OVERC01-!EDELINQUENCY IN THE VILLAGE. MR. D. G. BOW'l!li, J. P. AND POST MASTER, ASSISTED m THE \'lORK. MR. J" FIDLAR, BY THE WAY, WAS MARMORA t S FIRST POST MASTER~

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13 JU.I0NG THE EARLY ANGLICAN PRIESTS, WHO HELD SERVICES IN THE TOWn HALL WERE: THE REVEPtEND MR. GROVES, THE R.EVERmD JAMES PRESTON OF STIRLING, THE REVEREND GEORGE GROUT, AND THE REVEREND ElliARD BmRY MASSEY BAKER. THE LAST NAME IS THAT OF A VEmRABLE PATRIARCH OF THE ANGLICAN CHURCH FOR FIFl'Y YEARS. HE WAS, AT ONE Tm, CANON OF ST. GEX>RGE'S CATHEDRAL, KINGSTON. HE WAS BORN IN NORWICH, NORFOLK COUNTY, mDLAND, ON FEB. 8TH, 1827.

HIS FATHER WAS GEORGE WILLIAM BAKER AND HIS MOTHER WAS ANN, DAUGHrER OF J. COLE, MAYOROF NORWICH. GEOP..GEWAS A CAPl'Am IN THE ROYAL ARrILLERY AND A VErERAN OF WATERLOO. BEFORE CANON BAKER'S PARENTS CAME TO CANADA, IN 1832, THE FATtIER WAS LICENSED TO BE POST MASTER AT BlTOv.JN (OTTAWA). THE BOY, EDWARD, ATTENDED THE GRAMMAR SCHOOL TAUGHr BY OOCTOR \tlARDROPE AND, AFrER THIS TRAllUNG, HE CLERKED IN GENERAL STORES IN GALT AND HAMILTON. THE LATTER POSITION \'lAS IN MR. E. vi. J. ROY'S FANCY GOODS BUSINESS. LATER, HE SECURED WORK IN NE;J YORK, THROUGH THE ASSISTANCE OF MR. CIRUS CURTISS, AND WHILE THERE, HE DECIDED TO mTER THE MlNISTRY. THE REVEREND RICHARD COX WAS mSTRUMEmAL IN YOUNG BAKER BECOMING A LAY-READER WITH THE REVEREND J. \'lATERFORD OF TROY, N. Y. AT THE END OF ONE YEAR HE MATRICULATED AND ENTERED THE GENERAL THEOlOOICAL SEHINARY IN NEW YORK, WHERE HE WAS A CLASS-HATE WTI'H THE LATE BISHOP SEYMOUR, BISHOP WILLIAM E. ARMITAGE, AND BISHOP BABCOCK. THE RVEREND BISHOP WAINtffiIGHT OF TRINITY CHURCH, NEW YORK, ORDAINF..DHIM A DEACON IN 1854.

HE WAS THF.N APPOINTED CURATE OF ST. MARK'S IN PHILADELPHIA. THE ftEVEREND MORGAr~DIX WAS AT ST. MARK'S AT THAT TDfE. IN 1855, THE YOUNG CURATE WAS RAISED TO THE PRIESTHOOD IN BURLlNGTON, N&l JERSEY,

BY THE REVEREND BISHOP GEORGE WASHINGTON DOANE. SHORTLY AFTER THIS, THE REVEREND EDWARDBAKER REl'URNF..DTO BrroWN, AND_J BISHOP STRACHAN GLADLY ACCEPl'ED HIM AS A MISSIONARY. HIS FIRST APPOINT},1F)."TWAS AT PErIDROKE, WHERE HE lL~D CHARGE OF FnANSMITH, STAFFORD, AND WESTMEATH. HIS NEXT FIELD WAS AT CARLEl'0l{ PLACE, WHERE HE t'!AS APPOINTED BY BISHOP LEWIS. DURING THIS PERIOD, A CHURCH WAS BUILT AT ALMONTE - HIS NEXT APPOINTMFm AND MOST PROSPEROUS CIRCUIT. OTHER APPOINTM."ENTS\</ERE HILLIER, vlELI.INGTON, AND GERO\I] GORE. HE THJ.lll CHANGED PARISHES vUTH THE REVEREND JAMES PRESTON OF STIRLING AND SERVED THE..lill FOR TEN YEARS. IT WAS DURING THIS PERIOD THAT HE VISITED l-IARMORA. HE WAS ALSO A NISSIONARY AMONGTHE nIDIANS OF THE • TYENDINIDA RESERVE. OTHER PLACES HONOUREDBY HIS SERVICES WERE BEAVERBROOK, BATH, AND THE CARRYING PLACE.. HONORARYCANONRYWAS CONFEFIH.EDUPON HlM IN 1899.

HE WAS A STAUNCH FRJ:END OF ST. JAMES' CHURCH, GUELPH, ONTARIO AND, AFTER HE PASSED TO HIS REWARDON APRIL 16TH, 1908, THE LAST RITES OF HIS BELOVED CHURCH \'iERE PERFORMED FOR HD1 THERE. THESE REHARKS ON CANON BAKER HAVE BEEN RATHER LmGTHY, BUT THEY ARE TYPICAL OF MAl>rYCULTURED MEN, WHO GAVE UP THE COMFORl'S OF GOOD HOMES TO SERVE m THE WILDERNESSES OF CANADA. }K.AYviE KEEP THIS IN MIND AS WE STUDY THE LIVES OF PIONEER MISSIONARIES. LET US, INDEED, SAY OF THEM AS vJE STRIVE TO HAVE IT SAID OF US, "SEMPER FIDELIS".

THE REVEREND CHARLES MOUNTAIN HARRIS BECAME THE FIRST RESIDENT ANGLICJu~ RF.£TOR m HARMOR!. THE URGE TO HAVE A CHURCH OF THEIR OWN STU1ULATED THE MEMi3EF.5 AND THEY TOOK STEPS TO F:rnD A STIlE FOR A BUILDING. THE LOCATION CHOSE}l CONSISTED OF TI<10lDTS. ONE WAS DONATED BY THE COBOURr~PErERBOROUGH-MA.Rl~ORARAILWAY COMPANY. THE OTHER WAS PURCHASED FROH THIS COMPANYFOR FIFrY OOLLARS. ON APRIL 11TH, 1874, THE ¥.oNEY WAS RAISED FOR THE PADrnm', AND THE FOLUJvl!NG

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14 PARISHIONERS OONATED Tm DOLLARS EACH: SOLOMotJ JOHNS, DAVID BENTLEY, WILLIAU LEONARD, A. W. CARSCA:LLEN, AND DAVID FITCHEI'T. PLANS FOR THE ERECTION OF THE CHURCH DEVELOPED READILY, AIm THE CORNER-STONE WAS LAID ON SEPl'EMBER 1ST, 1874.

THIS CEREMONYWAS UNDER THE AUSPICES OF THE ~fASONIC LODGE, AND THE RT. WORe BRO. S. S. LAZIER, D.D.G.M., OF PRINCE EIYi'lARDDISTRICT, WAS MASTER OF CERF>roNJE3.

AT THIS CEREMONY, IflSS l-mmIE BlEEKER, YOUNG DAUGHTER OF MR. AND MBB. G. W. BLEEKER OF THE MANOR HOUSE, PRESmTED THE SILVER TROWEL. THE INSCRIPI'IO:t-1 ON THE TROlrJEL WAS THIS PRESENTED TO RT .WOR.BRO.S.S. LAZIER, D.D.G.M. P.E.D.

BY THE LADIES OF 11AmlORA, ON THE OCCASION OF HIS LAYING THE CORl.'lER-STONE OF ST • PAUL'S CHURCH, MAmDRA. SEPl'. 1ST, 1874.

CANOO HARRIS WAS ALWAYS DEEPLY INTERESTED IN ST. PAUL'S CHURCH, BUT HIS MODESTY PR.EVIWrE.T) HIM FROM BECOMING ELATED. IT IS A DELIGHTFUL LITTLE CHURCH AND WILL BE CET.EBRATING ITS SEVENTY-FIFTH ANNIVERSARY DJ' 1949.

THE pmsmT PULPIT viAS INSTALLED THROUGH THE EFFORl'S OF r.1ISS FRANCES JONES. THE OLD ONE IS NOW n~ST. MARK'S CHURCH, RAWOON. THE CLEF.GY STALL IS A HEl10RIAL TO THE LATE T'dOMAS CAMPION, WHO DONATED THE FIftST FURNACE. THE EARLY COAL-OIL LAMPS AND CHANDELIERS \~1ERE GIFTS ALSO. THERE IS A BEAUTIFUL STADlED-GLASS vlINDOW TO THE MEMORYOF THE Lf\TE EZEKIEL BOYD" AND THE EAST wnmow PERPEl'UATES THE HALLOllED MErIDRY OF THE LATE CAlmN C. M. HARRIS. THE SUBJECT OF THIS 'VJINOO\V'IS "THE GOOD SHEPHERDrt - A CONSISTmT MEMORIAL. THE INSCRIPTION REAOO - liTHE LORD IS MY SHEPHERD TO THE GLORY OF GOD AND IN MEliORY OF REVEREND CANON CHAFLES MOUNTAIN HARRIS. BORN JANUARY 7TH" 1854.

DIED }'!ARCH 13TH" 1923.

FOR FORTY-FOUR YEARS, RECTOR OF THIS CHURCH. ERECTED BY FRmlDS, 1932".

ONE OTHER ATTRACTIVE FEATURE ABOUT THE INTERIOR OF THE G"rlURCHIS THE WOOD-CARVING ON THE FRONT OF THE ALTAR AND ALSO ON THE LECTERN. THIS CARVING WAS DONE BY THE LATE MR. JAl-IES MCCLUSKEY, ABOUT srxrr YEARS AGO. HE WAS 11. JEliELLER AND PHOTOGRAPHER IN MARtlORA AND GIFTED IN WOOD-CARVlNG. IT HAS BEEN STATED ALREADY THAT THE FIRST MF:l'HODIST CHURCH \'/AS BUTI.T IN 1874.

UNFORTUNATELY, TJl.1E OONES NOT PERMIT MORE THAN A CUPBORY OUTLINE OF ITS HISTORY. ONE OF THE EARLIER loIINlSTERS, t'lliO rlAS :IN MARN:ORABEFORE THIS CHURCH viAS BUILT, rlAS THE REVEREND PHILIP ROSE. HE \vAS HIGHLY RESPECTED. IN AIJ.. PROBABILITY HE WAS A MEMBER OF THE ROSE F~NILY OF EHNESTTOtVl~ OR ADOLPHUSTOWNAND, THEREFORE, A LOYJU.•IST IlF..5CENDANT. THE HOUSE m \itIICH HE LIVED WAS MOVED TO A STONE FOUNDATION, l00CH WAS NE.~ THE SOAP FACTORY. AT THE TIME OF HIS DEATH HE WAS ONLY FORl'Y-ONE lEARS, ELEVEN MONTHS, AND 'l'WEN'rY-NINE DAYS OLD. IT APPEARS THAT HE WAS TAKm ILL SUDDENLY, AND JPJ-rES, SON OF DANIEL G. OOim, J. P., RODE THE MINISTER'S FINE YOUNG HORSE TO STIRLING FOR OOOTOR El'lGUSH. BEFORE YOUNG BOWEN ARRIVED AT STIRLING, THE MINISTER HAD DIED. THE DATE OF HIS PASSING WAS nEC. 29, 1862. ,OTHER EARLY HETHODIST l{INISTERS WERE: THE F.EVEF.END JOHN OOWLER, AND THE REVEREND N. I{. H01iARD. THE PRESENT mUTED CHURCH lWISTER IS THE REVEREND E. H. CADIGAN, \'lHO IS A DEVOTED SERVANT TO ClffiISTIANITY AND MINISTERS TO A THRIVING CONGRIDATION. BOTH THE CHURCH-BUILDING AND THE P.ARSONAGE ARE A CREDIT TO THE COMMUNITY.

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15 AN OLD LIST OF EARLY MARMORARESIDENTS GIVES, NOT ONLY THE NAMFS OF CITImlS, BUT ALSO THE OCCUPATIONS OF THOSE TIMES: W. W. ARMSTRONG, LAND AGENT; JULI.AN BISSONNEl'TE, Gm!OUR AGENl'j BAPl'ISTE BRlJNEAU, LABOURER; THE REVEREND M. ~1CGn.VRAY, PRESBYTERIAN MINISTER; PATRICK CRAWFORD, MERCHANT; NErSON MCliILLIAMS, HOTEL-KEEPER; MINERVA PRINGLE, WIDOW; JAMES RANNEY, CONTRACTOR; LEVI ROSE, COOPER; WILLIAM SIMMONS, YEOMAN; LOUIS TALLION, CABINEI'-MAKER; JOHN SLOAN, MILLER; ROBERT WAoo\iORTH, TlN-SIUTHj JAMES DERRY, YEOMAN (A BRIOOE NORTH OF MARMORA IS CALLED DERRYtS BRIOOE); H. R. MORDEN, TAILOR; THOMAS WARREN, CARRIAGE-MAKER; THQ1.1ASSMITH, YIDMANj W. P. CHAMBLIS, MANAGmG DIRECTOR OF THE C.P.M. RAILWAY CO.; DAVlD BENTLEY, MARMORAAGF.:NTFOR THE SAME COl路WANY; HUGH JONES, REEVE. THE POPULATIW OF MARMORAWAS 369 IN 1839. AT PRF..SmT IS IS ABOUT 1000.

CHAPl'ER FOUR HAVING GIVEN A RESUME OF THE THREE MAJOR CHURCHES AND THE EARLY BUSINESS THROES OF MARMORA, IT IS REFRESHING TO RErURN TO MARBLE ram LOOO:E WHERE CRO'lVELAKE \iAGES THE El'ERNAL BATTLE \-11TH THE SANDY BEACH - ALvlAYS lAPPING OR POUNDING IT BUT NEVER OVERCOMING ITS GOLIDJ SANDS. N'ANY SHORl'ER WALKS, THAN GOING TO }.!AmI>RA, MAY BE TAKEl~ RIGHT ON THE LODGE GROUNOO. IT IS SIMPLY A MATTER OF CLIMBING THE WOODED SLOPE TO THE HIGHEST COTTAGE, AND, FROM THIS POINT OF VANTAGE, ONE CAN VmI THE \'ffiOLE LAKE IN ALL rrs BEAUTY - JUST STAND THERE m SILENCE AND ABSORB THE RESTFUlNESS OF THE SEl'TING. IT IS AT THIS SPOT THAT ONE APPRECIATE THE \vORDS, tPEACE, PERFECT PEACEt. AFTER A REST, CHOOSE THE SLENDER PATH ALONG THE RIDGE NEAR THE WATER. RED CEDAR, PINE, OAK, mn.oCK, MAPLE, smca, AND BUr HAVE ALL AGREED WITH THE POPLAR AND THE JUNIPER TO MAKE THIS ROCKY HILL FASCINATING. SLENDER HEt.rLOCK BOUGHS TANTALIZE YOU \'llTH VISTAS AND HINTS OF THE BWE WATERS BEYOND. AS YOU GAlN THE HIGHEST PODfl' YOU ARE ON THE RIM OF A CLIFF OVERLOOKING A FAIRYLAND BELOVl - ONE GREAT MARBLE SLAB HAS MIDLED AND STANDS UPRIGHT. THIS SLAB MUST BE THIRTY FEET HIGH. ALL ABOUT ITS BASE THE FERNS AND LOW-BUSH JUNIPERS HAVE DONE THKIR BE3T TO IvIAKETHE SCmE PROVOKINGLY ATTRACTIVE - NATURE DOES THINGS NONCHALANTLY. MAN IS HELPLESS. YOU MAY CONTmuE THIS WALK AND ENJOY IT EQUALLY AS MUCH AS YOU WILL THE ENTICmG MEAL AWAITmG YOUR RE1'URN , TO THE LODGE. THERE ARE SEVERAL HEALTHFUL SHOIfl' TRIPS ABOUT THE POINT EACH HAVING ITS mm PARl'ICULAR CHARM. ALTHOUGH THE PATH TO THE OLD CHURCH HAS BEEN MENTIONED, IT MAY NOT BE REDUNDANT TO OFFER A mv INSTRUCTIONS m ORDER TO SAVE WALKING-TIME: LEAVE THE LOOOE GROUNDS BY THE }.fAIN GATE. GO UP THE ROAD TO THE HOME OF ~m.OTTA NIKKOIA. OPEN HIS BARN-YARD GATE AND PASS THROUGH THE LANE (HE WILL NOT OBJECT, PROVIDED YOU CLOSE THE GATE).

BEAR SOUTH EAST OVER THREE FIELDS UNTIL YOU COME TO THE TELEPHONE LINE. FOI..UM THE COVl-PATH TOVIARns THE RIVER. KEEP TO THIS PATH ALONG THE WATER, AND, AFl'ER CRAWLING UNDER A PIIDE OF BARBED-WIRE FENCING, ~OU WILL BIDlN ONE OF THE MOST ALLURING vlA!.KS m THE DISTRIcrf.

FLAG-STONES, OVER WHICH THE INDIANS MUST HAVE TRAVELLED AND CERTAINLY THE RIVER-MEN DID, HAKE A SOLID FOOTING. OVER-HANGING TREES AND CURIom HEIGHTS .

OF ROCK, BEHDID AND TO THE RIGHT OF THEM, ARE LAVISH \'lITH THEm GRACE AND SOMBRE DIGNITY; THE CEDARS ARE SO UNIFORM THAT THEY APPEAR TO HAVE BEEN CLIPPED. BITTER-SWEET ENTWINES ITSELF THROUGH THE BIRCH BOUGHS, CREATING A VAULTED CORRIDOR. EAGERNESS DRAWS;YOU 00 AND ON, AS THE PATH RISES AND FALI..S.

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EAGERNESS DRAWS YOU ON :'1NDON, AS THE PATH RISES AND F:lLLS. GREAT CAT-TAILS FLAUNT THEIR UNTEMPEREO FOILS NEAR THE WATER'S EDGE - THEY MUST 'GROW FROM TEN TO TWELVE FEET TALL. ARROWHEADS STAND PROUDLY, WHILE THE BLIND-GENTIANS KEEP THEIR BLUE NOSES STUCK TOWARDS THE TREE-TOPS AND DISDAIN THEM IMPUDENTLY. THE PALE PINK OF THE TURTLEHEAO IS MOST UNLIKE ITS GAWKy NAMESAKE'S COLOUR, BUT THE BRILLIANCY OF THE TUFTS OF CARDINAL FLOWER OVERCOMES ALL THE FAULTS OF THEIR COMPANIONS

BY THEIR DAZZLING RED. ALL THESE THINGS YOU MAY SEE WHILE WINDING ALONG THJS CO~L SECLUOED PATH. VOU WILL PASS OLD QUARRIES, WHICH HAVE SUPPLIED THE STONE FOR "MANY BUILDINGS. 00 NOT FAIL TO CONTINUE THIS WALK P~ST THE OLO CHURCH AND ON TO THE 路DAM. KEEP TO THE LEFT OF THE CHURCH, BECAUSE THIS PATH WiLL LEAD PAST WALLS OF Ft.""TROCK AND, FINALLY, TO THE WHEEL-HOUSE OF THE DAM. FROM THE DAM, YOU MAY V!EW THE PRECIPITGUS CLIFF AND UNDERSTAND WHY iT WAS SO DANGEROUS FOR CHUHCH-MEMBERS TO HAZARD AN APPROACH ALONG THE SLIPPERY MARGIN ABOVE. IT IS EQUALLY AS HAZARDOUS TO TELL OR WRITE ANYTHING ABOUT FISHING..

IMMEDIA TELY, ONE IS SEIZED WITH AN UNSETTLED TREND OF THOUGHT - RATHER A FIDGETY SENSA T ION CREEPS IIHO THE M INO, "AND THE PEN RESPONDS TO THIS. THAT FEELING ALWAYS MAKES ITSELF EVIDENT WH-拢N FISH-STORIES ARE SIMMERING - STR,\NGE. WHY IS THIS? PERH~PS IT COULD BE OVERCOME BY TELLING STORIES QUICKLY AND THUS PREVENTING ANY TENDENCY TO STAMMER. HERE ARE TWO OR THREE: MASKINONGE, L"IRGE AND SMALL-MOUTHED BASS," AND PICKEREL ARE FOUND IN THE SPAilKLlNG WATERS OF CROWE LAKE. THAT IS TRUE; DURING THE SUMMER OF 1946, ONE GUEST, AT M~RBlE POINT LODGE, CAUGHT A MASKINONGE, WHICH ME~SURED ABOUT FIFTYONE INCHES LONG "~NO HE (THE GUES T) WA S 0 VER THREE H OURS BR ING-

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ING IT TO SHORE. THAT IS TRUE - COMPARATIVELY; THE FISH IN CROWE LAKE ARE VERY SPORTIVE, AND EQUALLY KEEN-EYED FISHERMeN DO CATCH THEM AND DISPLAY THEM FOR THE CAMERA'S CLICK, THE JEALOUS ADMIRATION OF LESS FORTUNATE GUESTS, AND, FINALLY, FOR THE MAGIC WAND OF A PATIENT, BUT EXCELLENT COOK. THAT STORY DESERVES HONOURABLE MENTION; TWO GUESTS FROM THE LODGE, STAUNCH IN TRUTH, STOOD ON THE BEACH ONE EVENING, ON OR ABOUT THURSDAY, AUG. 22, 1946 A.O. AND 010 SEE A KINGFISHER DIVE FOR A TIOBIT. AT THE EXACT MOMENT OF 'REALIZATION OF ANTICIPATION' A VERY LARGE MASKINONGE - SOME FORTY FEET - FROM SHORE, WHERE IT ALL HAPPENED, AROSE FROM THE WATERS WITH HIS JOWLS OPENED AND SWALLOWED THE KING-FISHER - TO THE AMAZEMENT OF ALL PARTIES CONCERNED. IT IS TO BE INFERRED THAT THE FISH TOOK THE BIRD FOR A TRIP AROUND THE LAKE, FOR IT MUST BE AODED RELUCTANTLY - LEST THE STORY BE DISCREDITED, THAT ANOTHER GUEST RELATES THAT HE HAD A FAINT RECOLLECTION OF SEEING, ON THE FOLLOWING DAY, OR IT MAY HAVE BEEN DURING THE EARLY MOONLIGHT HOURS OF THE SAME EVENING, A HUGH FISH, WHOM THEY CALL'MABE~ AT THE LODGE, FLYING IN REVERSE OVER THE PLACID WATERS AND THAT NO WINGS WERE TO 8E SEEN - A BEAU JEU BEAU RETOUR. THAT IS - A TRUE FISH STORY. THE FLARE OF CURIOSITY, WHICH GAVE BIRTH TO THIS SHORT HISTORY AND ITS ACCOMPANyiNG HOLIDAY-GLEANINGS, IS WANING WITH THE WANING VACATION. CLOUDY DAYS, OR OCCASIONS WHEN IT WAS NOT CONVENIENT TO BASK IN THE SUMMER SUNSHINE OR SPLASH IN THE LAKE, HAVE BEEN MADE MORE ENJOYABLE BY THiS PASS-TIME. THE DYING DAY PREVENTS FURTHER WRITING - DUSK HAS CREPT DOWN THE HILLSIDE FROM ITS HIDING-PLACE IN THE WOODS AND IS HAUNTING tHE BEACH. KEeN FISHERMEN ARE ADJUSTING OUTBOARD MOTORS OR TESTING REELS BEFORE ATTEMPTING TO INVEIGLE THE BASS FROM THEIR COOL RETREATS. LITTLE SHOVELS, PAILS, AND TOY DUCKS LAY STREWN ALONG THE SAND WHERE HAPPY CHILDREN WORRIED THEM ALL DAY LONG. THE EVENING UNFOLDS WITH AN EVER-CHANGING SYMPHONY OF COLOUR AND SOUND MUCH AS ONE MIGHT TURN THE PAGES OF A GOOD BOOK. THE TREES ARE PENSIVELY BENDING, AND A LATE-RETURNING BIRD TROUBLES THEIR OROWSY LEAVES. THE SUN HAS JUST SLIPPED BELOW THE DISTANT HILLS AND FLUNG ITS GLORY SO HIGH THAT SOME OF IT TUMBLED WITH A NOISLESS CRASH SPREADING A THIN ROSE SHAWL OVER THE SLEEPING WAVES. WITH THE ENOING OF THE SUN'S REGIME, A COOL BREEZE COMES TO HERALD A WHITE HALF MOON PASTED ON THE BLUE NIGHT SKY. THE STARS OPEN THEIR PETALS IN THE GARDEN OF HEAVEN, AND WHIP-POOR-WILLS ARE CALLIN~ CALLING AS THEY 010 WHEN THE OJIBWAY DEFTLY PADDLED HIS CANOE OVER THE SHADOWY LANES OF THE LAKE, OR A LATE BARGE MADE ITS FUTILE TRIP TO THE WORKS, OR A VESPER HYM~ WAS BEING CHANT~O AT THE LITTLE CHURCH. THE BREEZE Is SPENT, AND THE SiLLY popLARS HAVE CEASED THEIR GIGGLING TO WAIT FOR ANOTHER DAY. WHERE THE RESTLESS GULLS BOBBED ON THE FRILLED WAVES, THE ILLUSIVE AND DUSKY LOONS, COMING FROM 'NOWHERE', ARE SITTING.,";1()CKINGLYLAUGHING AT U~ LAUGHING AT OUR HOPES, OUR ENDEAVOURS, OUR SUCCESSES, OUR FAILURES. ABOVE ALL THIS WOEBLING RIDICULE, THE PLEADING VOICE OF THE WHIP-POOR-WILL PERSISTS LIKE A MICROCOSMIC VOICE Or GOD - GENTLY PERSUASIVE AND WITH TENDER ENCOURAGEMENT.

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