-----Original Message----- From: Ken McEvoy <kenm@benetech.com> Sent: Mar 2, 2004 10:22 AM To: KNOWLTON-L@rootsweb.com Subject: RE: [KNOWLTON] Renaming of Knowlton, Quebec Unfortunately, some of the provincial governments in Canada have decided that one way to reduce costs at the municipal level is to roll together a group of smaller communities into one larger one. This has happened both with the largest cities (e.g. Toronto and Montreal) as well as with many smaller centres. So Knowlton, Que. has disappeared - as have Bondville, East Hill, Foster, Fulford, Iron Hill, and West Brome - into the aggregation now referred to as Ville de Lac Brome. This foolishness has not been restricted to Quebec - Ontario has made even more of a mess of it. Cheers, Ken M. ========== Hi, Ken: You are quite right. One of my treasured photos is of my grandfather, Derrick Dutton, standing in front of a large highway sign for Dutton, in Ontario. Now I have to explain why the sign existed, because the community doesn't. Darrell Knowlton and Dutton descendant Darrell A. Martin a native Vermonter in exile in Illinois darrellm@sprynet.com