THE TIMES TRAVELLER by BARNEY MOORHOUSE For Reproduction Rights call Access 1.800.893.5777 FLASHBACK – 937. December 1953 Readers may recall this item. CAR CLIMBED BRIDGE GIRDER THEN FELL 18 FEET TO FLOOR “I guess we are lucky to be alive,” was the comment by Thomas Elliott, 30, of Highland Grove, owner and driver of a […]
FIRE TOWERS IN NORTH HASTINGS I have always had a fascination with fire towers. Due to their nature they were easily spotted. Rising at first light while guiding a canoe trip we crossed Lake Nipissing while the lake remained calm. Being a shallow, but large body of water, she could flare up at a moment’s […]
A VERY COLD CASE SOME BACKGROUND To date I have written over 1000 columns in The Bancroft Times called the Times Traveller. My source is the paper’s archives. Some have credited me with an imagination more vivid than real. I don’t make it up. In 2004 I wrote about a provincial Game Warden that went […]
Managing Wildlife Hunting regulations in British North America date to 1762 when General Thomas Gage, military governor of Montreal, proclaimed a closed season on “partridges” (as ruffed grouse were commonly called) at that time, and to-day for that matter, from March 15 to July 15, “during which time they were not to be hunted, taken […]
HANK BUNKER’S CAT RANCH PROVES UNSUCCESSFUL No matter the times – whether they be in a recession, depression or bountiful – there are always entrepreneurs charged with optimism seeking their fame and fortune. Hank Bunker was such a man. The following tale was published in the August 23, 1923 edition of The Bancroft Times. On […]
Mitch Hepburn Elected at 37, Liberal leader Mitch Hepburn became the youngest Premier in Ontario in 1934. An onion farmer, he ruled during the depression into the WW2 years. Hepburn created a volunteer police force – “Hepburn’s Hussars” – known by some as “Sons of Mitches” – as strike breakers, a strategy that failed. During […]
THE TIMES TRAVELLER by Barney Moorhouse PART 2 THE HAVELOCK BANK ROBBERY The following items were published in The Bancroft Times. LASSWADE – September 7, 1961 Lasswade has been a busy place for the last few days. Thursday morning a green ’60 Buick with three or four men in it went tearing down the Lasswade […]
#768 THE TIMES TRAVELLER by Barney Moorhouse Two Part Special For reproduction Rights call Access 1.800.893.5777 THE HAVELOCK BANK ROBBERY In January I read Grace Barker’s book – The Bad Luck Bank Robbers – concerning the 1961 Havelock Bank robbery. It’s available at Ashley’s Book Store. While it was fresh in my mind I took […]
ONTARIO’S FIRE WATCHTOWERS by BARNEY MOORHOUSE During the late ‘60s and early ‘70s I did a lot of canoe tripping throughout Ontario. Whenever I saw a fire tower I was obsessed to find and climb it. Somewhere, among boxes of film and slides, are loads of photos and the wonderful views. Somewhere! Apparently, at one […]
ROAD RAGE 1926 STYLE by BARNEY MOORHOUSE For Reproduction Rights call Access 1-800-893-5777 Some of my fondest memories have arisen from conversation with senior citizens more senior than me. Consider the following. My name is George Robinson. This June I’ll turn 93. I was 12 years of age at the time of this story and […]
