The Taylors – Part 2 My grandmother, Mrs. Joe Stringer, was one of the most remarkable people that I ever heard tell of. She was as strong as any lumberjack. My uncle, Robert Graham, told me of seeing her one day at the Conroy farm. She watched two young lumberjacks trying to put a barrel […]
Month: April 2022
HENRY TAYLOR Part 5
YORK RIVER SETTLEMENT The Taylors Dan Forest was born and raised in Scotland where he died at age 96. His son John immigrated to Canada in 1820 where he met and married Mary Short(t.) Their daughter, Agnes, married Robinson Taylor, an Irish immigrant. Taylor moved to Little Ireland but “ he didn’t stay too long. […]
HENRY TAYLOR Part 4
YORK RIVER SETTLEMENT Henry Makes His Entrance Henry Taylor’s older brother Bob was 17 at the time. They lived in a hemlock log house on lot 30, concession 8, in Carlow Township, about 40 or 50 yards from the Hastings and Renfrew boundary. Bob retired about 9 o’clock in the evening of September 19,1904. It […]
HENRY TAYLOR Part 3
YORK RIVER SETTLEMENT The Stringer Saga After his falling out with Sparks in Bytown ( Ottawa ,) John Stringer left with Peter McIntyre and his family and settled near Arnprior along the Madawaska River at Burnstown where he married McIntyre’s daughter Catherine. Among their children were Peter ( named after Grandfather McIntyre,) and John ( […]
HENRY TAYLOR Part 2
Stringer After Bill Stringer deserted ship, according to Henry Taylor, he was regarded as an outcast by white society and still fearing for his life for beating the ship’s captain he joined up with a passing band of Hurons and disappeared. In 1969 Henry Taylor retired from the Ministry of Natural Resources after 42 years […]
HENRY TAYLOR Part 1
HENRY TAYLOR – A Legend in His Own Time In November of 1999 Henry Taylor, then 95, received recognition from the Ontario Museum Association as Bancroft’s Citizen of the Century. At the same time the iconic outdoorsman also received the association’s Lifetime Achievement Award of Merit. “It was a great shock to my nervous system,” […]
RALPH BICE
A LIFE OF SUSTAINABILITY “There’s a lot of talk these days, mostly from fairly high paid civil servants and politicians about sustainable development,” former editor Gary Ball wrote in the Angler & Hunter magazine in 1990. “For Ralph Bice sustainable development is a way of life.” As best I can translate it, sustainable development really […]