Hi Deb, Your mention of the name Burke of Midland made me remember that we had digitized the Midland High School Review for 1932 some time ago and I wondered if such a prominent family might have had students in the school at that time? Well, it turns out that there was a girl named Ruth Burke in form 1A who was the form representative on the Athletics committee and who won the junior base ball throw at the schools track meet. Doing a little "loose" math it turns out that Ruth could possibly have been a daughter of the Capt. Fred Burke you mention. If you want to see more information on the publication you can find it in our catalogue as a Gleaning* number CAG048. (* Gleanings are small - and so cheap - publications designed to be downloaded directly to you over the net. Available on CD at an additional charge.) I thought this might help you if you are starting to explore the family genealogies in Midland as well. Malcolm Archive CD Books Canada Inc. President: Malcolm Moody PO Box 11 Manotick Ontario, K4M 1A2 Canada. (613) 692-2667 WEB SITE: http://www.ArchiveCDBooks.ca FACEBOOK: http://tinyurl.com/ACDB-Can-on-Facebook On 3 Sep, 2010, at 4:00 PM, can-ont-simcoe-request@rootsweb.com wrote: > Message: 9 > Date: Fri, 3 Sep 2010 16:00:54 -0400 > From: Deborah Crawford <deborahc8@gmail.com> > Subject: [CAN-ONT-SIMCOE] News from the homefront.... > To: can-ont-simcoe@rootsweb.com > Message-ID: > <AANLkTikHR62YfSTSOmaiJ83D0RzjbwC7JV-pvQmk_5-r@mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 > > In keeping with the theme of World War Two news; here is another brief > article in which Midland is mentioned, from the Hamilton Spectator of May 6 > 1940. Headline: Sailors Spend Day in Midland: Group from Canadian Navy on > Shore Leave yesterday. "Midland, Ont., May 6. A group of sailors of the > Royal Canadian Navy, said to have come here from Ottawa, strolled through > this Georgian bay town yesterday on shore leave. Cap bands of the tars bore > the names of several vessels of the Dominion's navy, but the purpose of the > visit here was veiled in official silence. Several of the men attended a > memorial service at St. Mark's Anglican church for Captain Fred Burke, 52, > Midland, who was drowned when his vessel, the Arlington, sank during a storm > on Lake Superior last Wednesday. A preliminary inquiry into the sinking > began Friday after the Arlington crew landed here on the rescue boat, > Collingwood. The inquiry ended Saturday and the results will be forwarded > to federal authorities at Ottawa." > > For those of us from Midland, the Burke name is a familiar one; many of them > being sea-faring souls. One of my JEWITT great grand aunties married a > BURKE, uncertain if it's kin to the above mentioned captain, but I suspect > he was. In the town of Midland's heritage house inventory, there is a home > (or maybe two) belonging to BURKE family members designated as a heritage > home. > > My story for the day. Tomorrow........threats of invasion? > > Deborah