Nelson A. Jeffrey died on Friday January 6, 1984 – just one week shy of his 86th birthday. For most of his life Nels, as his friends called him, lived the life of a hermit in his cabin back in the bush of Faraday Township. Born on the family farm in 1898 Nelson grew up […]
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 […]
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 […]
FROM THE BICE PAPERS – Just Gripes (from 1976) If anyone who starts to read this does not like gripes or fault finding, better read something else. At this time of the year, with the weather so nice and summer just ahead a person should not be finding fault. Least of all me. But there […]
Heather, who pens “Heather’s Musings” weekly in The Times, asked if I knew who owned the Bancroft theatre in the ‘40s and ‘50s. I could blame my glasses, or lack thereof, but in fact my brain, or lack thereof, translated theatre to Times and I happily sent her my response. When Heather kindly corrected my […]
