VILLAGE UNCLAIMED TREASURES

THE HUTTON SISTERS                   They sewed for the village ladies

FANNY SUTHERLAND                   The fussy general store clerk

MINNIE LONGFIELD                      My first Sunday School teachers

ROSE McCRACKEN                         A prim and proper lady

THE SUTHERLAND SISTERS          Refined ladies in their "Golden Years"

WINNIE KINCADE                           A professional educator

THE McCANDLESS SISTERS           The tall and the short of it

THE BURNHAM SISTERS                Mr. B. Lipsit's charges

MARY KELLISTINE                         What would the Post Office have been                                                              without her?

SOME VILLAGE LADIES

MRS. L. CARL                                   The village nurse

MRS. HUGH McPHAIL                     The leader of the W.C.T.U.

MRS. CLIFF TOLES                          The first village hairdresser

MRS. JOE (GRANNY) HADDEN     The village newspaper

MRS. JOHN SEXTON                        A mother, a midwife and village                                                             caregiver

MRS. ED. TROTT                              She provided a proper boardinghouse for                                                             school teachers

MRS. BUSBEE                                   My mother's butter lady

MRS. STEVE BOND                          She took charge of the mashed potatoes                                                             for the church supper

MARY (DOC) THOMPSON              Sunday School pianist -Many village                                                             children sang the "Old Tyme Hymns"                                                             under her leadership

MRS. JOHN WYATT                         A village mother who always had an                                                             extra room for the C.N .R. relief                                                             operators

VILLAGE EDUCATORS

MISS SARAH BRODIE                     Over four decades as principal of                                                             S.S.#15, and educator to several                                                             generations

MARG COULTHARD                       She blended morals with education -                                                             "The teacher is always right"

MR. LINDSAY                                  He came with his family of boys to head                                                             the Continuation School in the mid '20s

MISS McNABB                                 She headed the institution of higher                                                            learning, following Lindsay

KATE DUNCANSON                       The book throwing mistress of the                                                            Continuation School

MISS PURVIS                                    She married a banker and gave up                                                            teaching

MISS McROBERTS                          When a young teacher caught the eye of a                                                            local farmer, her teaching days were                                                            numbered

MISS STANFIELD                            Illness shortened her teaching career

MARGARET EADIE                        The pedagogue of the S.S.#15 lower room

WALTER KELLY                             Started his career teaching at the village                                                             Continuation School and went on to                                                             become a teaching professional

THEY KEPT THE VILLAGE ON THE STRAIGHT AND NARROW

REV. MILLER Early                          '20s Methodist Church

REV. RUTHERFORD                         Methodist Church Minister before umon

REV. HENRY PARNABY                  First United Church Minister

REV. D. W. WILLIAMS                     The builder Minister

REV. I .R. SOUTHCOTT                     Jack was a man among the village                                                               people, he understood the youth\of the                                                               period

REV. BALDWIN                                 He led the Baptist flock

REV. McKILLOP                                 A Scottish Presbytarian, the Minister at                                                               Cooks Church and on occasion, would                                                               serenade the village people with his                                                               pipes

REV. WILLIAMS                                His charge was the kirk at the fourth                                                               concession

REV. ELLSON                                     In charge of the spiritual affairs for                                                               Cooks Church

THE RAILWAY PEOPLE OF THE VILLAGE

JOE HADDEN                                      Retired G. T .R. section foreman

BOB TWIGG                                        C.N .R. section foreman -He followed                                                                in the steps of his father-in-law

ED DINGMAN                                     A ribbon of steel maintenance man

ARTHUR JANES                                  A steel pounding man

CLIFF TOLES                                      A steam crane engineer for the C.P.R.

BILL GORDON                                   C.P.R. Bridge and Building

BILL FOX                                            C.P.R. Bridge and Building

LORNE ARSCOTT                              Caradoc C.P.R. agent

HARRY KINDER                                Village C.N.R. agent

MAC McALISTER                              He followed Kinder

JIM ANDERSON                                 C.P.R. agent operator

FAIRBANKS                                        C.P.R. section foreman

SKINNER                                             Followed Fairbanks as foreman

THE BANKERS

LAIRD                                                  Early '20s Bank Manager; several boys                                                               in his family maintained a greyhound                                                               kennel in the garage

WILLIAM BEATTIE                           He was "THE BANKER II and his wife                                                               was known in the village as                                                               'THE BANKER'S WIFE'

JAMES FLETT                                     The depression years when the village                                                                bank was staffed by the manager and a                                                                teller


A YOUNG GENERATION OF VILLAGE BANKERS - Gertrude Gibbs, one of the ladies who worked in the bank when it was a man's vocation; she married Blake Steer. Grenville Harding started his banking career in the village bank. Herman Pincombe started in the village bank and became a long term employee of the bank in other communities.
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