Ben Foster “ At the time of those old first settlers, when a person died the neighbours were the undertaker. That was still in effect when I was a young man. I helped to lay away Ben Foster, the last of the Conroy lumberjacks.” Ben lived on lot 23, Concession 8, Carlow. He got up […]
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BAILED OVER BELGIUM – Conclusion
PART 3 BAILED OVER BELGIUM – Taffy’s Account We took off about 10:00 p.m. with 22 other aircraft and joined the main bomber stream of about 150 planes and flew at 6000 feet to the English coast after which we climbed to our bombing height of 14,000 feet. The flight to the target was quiet, […]
BAILED OVER BELGIUM – Part 2
BAILED OVER BELGIUM – PART 2 When he learned that the American Army was approaching Bill Robertson knew that his liberation was at hand. He could see Jerry troops passing through in trucks, by horse drawn wagon or by shanks mare as they withdrew. One of the most surprising occurances for Bill was to see […]
BAILED OVER BELGIUM
BAILED OVER BELGIUM PART 1 In His 94th year, World War Two veteran William (Robbie) Robertson, a member of the Memory Project, finds November to be his busiest month of the year. “I have to pace myself”, he told me, as he is much in demand during our month of Remembrance. Robertson had signed up […]
HENRY TAYLOR Part 7
Life on the Farm Mother did most of the gardening and I helped her. Andrew and I ploughed the garden with oxen. We raised cattle and sheep. We drove the animals to Fort Stewart where we bartered them at the General store. Father came along in the horse and buggy. He would buy a package […]
HENRY TAYLOR Part 6
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 […]
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 […]