DEATH in the WILDERNESS Joe Stringer was hewing square timber for the Conroy Lumber Company on the south side of the York River about one half mile above Foster’s Rapids. He had partially hewed a stick of white pine. It was Saturday, he had a bad cold, and feeling sick he went home to his […]
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HENRY TAYLOR – Part 8
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 […]
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 […]
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,” […]