OCTOBER 1ST to 8TH is NEWSPAPER WEEK in CANADA The dates have been set by Newspaper Associations in Canada and the United States for the purpose of inviting readers to visit the Newspaper to see how type is set and newspapers and job printing put together. To this end The Times invites you to visit […]
DUNGANNON SCHOOL TEACHER HELD UP and ROBBED Miss Alice Mitchell, teacher at S.S. No. 1 Dungannon township, about eight miles south of here, on her way to school Monday morning, at a lonely spot in the old Hastings Road, was held up and robbed by an unknown armed man, who sprang from a clump of […]
749 October/November 1940 THE TIMES TRAVELLER by BARNEY MOORHOUSE Murder Charge to be Heard at Hastings County Fall Assizes Frederick Thain, Rawdon township farmer, faces two charges of murder, being accused of murdering Mr. and Mrs. Wellman at their home, Rawdon, last February. He will be defended by Robert McCulloch, Belleville barrister. /Nov. 1940 […]
749 October/November 1940 THE TIMES TRAVELLER by BARNEY MOORHOUSE Hunter Decamps On Finding Bear With Gun A bear in the wild woods is usually a terrifying sight for most men, but a bear in the wild woods with a gun proved to be too much for Martin Bierworth, of Bancroft, an experienced hunter and trapper. […]
THE TIMES TRAVELLER by BARNEY MOORHOUSE For Reproduction Rights call Access 1-800-893-5777 SINGER CASTLE Quickie Quiz. Multiple Choice. At any given time, the building in the accompanying photo was: a) a castle (beware the obvious) b) a fishing camp c) a hunting lodge d) a religious retreat? Crossing at the Ivy lee Bridge, we entered […]
My Financial Career by Stephen Leacock Canadian currency, 1914 When I go into a bank I get rattled. The clerks rattle me; the wickets rattle me; the sight of the money rattles me; everything rattles me. The moment I cross the threshold of a bank and attempt to transact business there, I become an irresponsible […]
From The Time Traveller WATSON VOTED TO ALL STARS Congratulations to Bryan Watson of this Village (Bancroft), who is playing hockey with Peterborough Petes Junior Hockey Club in being chosen to the Junior All Stars. Bryan grabbed the other side of the blueline as defenceman. BRYAN WATSON, LOCAL HOCKEY PLAYER HAPPY WITH CANADIANS Bryan […]
The schooner sailed for Hudson Bay, and on the trip had numerous miraculous escapes from icebergs and ice floes, and was nearly wrecked several times. Finally Chesterfield inlet was reached. The party pressed inland, and for three years scoured a vast land some half a million square miles in area in a vain search for […]
Early in the spring of 1916 the patrol again took up the trail and crossed over the Divide to the Coppermine River, thence down that stream to Coronation Gulf on the Arctic. Here they were fortunate in falling in with Corporal Bruce, one of the members of Stefansson’s expedition. Although he had heard nothing of […]
HISTORY OF THE NWMP – Continued “It seemed,” said McIntyre, “as though we were suddenly passing from winter into spring.” Soon after they came upon the first of numberless hot springs, the snow disappeared entirely, and dense vegetation took the place of the stunted bush and timber of the plains. Because of necessarily slow travel […]
