BANCROFT SHRINERS AFTER DINNER SPEECH Wasn’t that a fine meal? It reminds me of two down and out Irishmen, Casey and Murphy. As they passed a restaurant they spied a sign that proclaimed: “If we don’t have it we’ll pay you 100 pounds.” “Let’s try it,” said Murphy. “We haven’t got any money. What if […]
SCHOOL EXAMS June Examinations, 1922 LOWER SCHOOL ZOOLOGY (a) State two points of difference between (i) a spider and an insect, or between (ii) a butterfly and a moth. (b) Name two harmful insects which infest orchard trees and two which infest garden vegetables. State the injury done by any two of them and the […]
EDUCATION IN NORTH HASTINGS The first Bancroft Public School was built circa 1870 just south of Quarry, a.k.a. Marble Lake, on the old Hastings Settlement Road. William Davy, Senior, originally settled his family on land between L’Amable and Quarry Lake. According to the author who signed his name I.W.T. (guess what those initials mean) “the […]
BIA DINNER MARCH 5, 2005 The following was a presentation at the Bancroft Legion. Good evening. Before I start I would like to point out that the easiest way to stay awake during an after-dinner speech is to deliver it. By the way, your museum, next to the post office, was built in 1879. While […]
