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YORK RIVER SETTLEMENT Part Two

WILLIAM DURLAND DAVY As recounted by Marguerite McColl (nee Davy) to Barney Moorhouse For reproduction rights call CanCopy 1-800-893-5777 The Davy Brothers built the first Catholic Church in York River (Bancroft.) It is now the Tin Shed, a commercial establishment; formerly the Eastern Star Hall. William A. was the contractor for the United Church. The […]

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YORK RIVER SETTLEMENT

PART ONE The following is recounted by Marguerite McColl ( nee Davy), who was born in Bancroft on November 9, 1909. “ It was just a little village,” she recalls. WILLIAM   DURLAND   DAVY William Durland Davy was of Loyalist stock. Several Davy families (who came originally from Wales) left the U.S.A. after the Revolution of […]