----- Original Message ----- From: Gordon A. Watts To: Canada Census Campaign Sent: Sunday, November 07, 2004 5:27 PM Subject: Remembrance Day - "A Pittance of Time" Subject: Remembrance Day "A Pittance of Time" Greetings All. As November 11 is approaching a number of mail lists to which I normally send Post 1901 Census messages are experiencing problems and are offline. It is hoped that these problems will soon be resolved so that this message might be viewed in a timely manner. The following URL was sent to me by someone who normally only sends me jokes. I accessed the website by the URL provided and read the opening page. As I viewed the video and listened to the song I found tears coming to my eyes. We hope soon to have access to the 1911 Census of Canada. Many enumerated at that time went to fight in World War I. Many did not return to be enumerated in the following Census. They died so that the rest of us could live a better life -- so that we would not have to live under a regime that might otherwise have been forced upon us. Many others have fought and died in other wars so that we might enjoy the life we have today. November 11 is Remembrance Day. I urge all to access the website below. Watch the video and listen to the song. Let us not forget those who have gone before us, or those who still fight for the freedom we enjoy today. http://www.army.gc.ca/chief_land_staff/remembrance/English/Home.asp Lest we forget. Gordon A. Watts [email protected] Co-chair Canada Census Committee Port Coquitlam, BC http://www.globalgenealogy.com/Census en francais http://www.globalgenealogy.com/Census/Index_f Permission to forward without notice is granted ======= I have listened to the song, played the music -- it will bring the real thoughts of Remembrance Day to everyone. We must also remember POWs and others who suffered in both World War I and World War II -- and thank the many unknown people who worked at home in the war effort. WE MUST NOT FORGET!!! Muriel M. Davidson Co-Chair, Canada Census Committee

Have you tried the Canada 1901 Census on line? At http://automatedgenealogy.com/census/index.html Frank Allen ----- Original Message ----- From: <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, November 05, 2004 7:35 PM Subject: [QC-ETANGLO] 1891 census Sherbrooke - lookup? > For William Hopkinson, I only found his name in the Sherbrooke Directoy > for > the year 1890-91. At that time, Hopkinson was a worker for the Paton Mills > (a > woolen mill). He lived on London Street. (The Johnston Family also lived > on > London Street.) > Would like to establish whether this listing was for WILLIAM CUELL > HOPKINSON > b. England 1830 or his son WILLIAM HOPKINSON b.October 12, 1855 Sherbrooke > Quebec. > I attempted to find both WILLIAM HOPKINSON's in the 1891 census for > Coaticook > to no avail. > Thanks for help here. > Jacqueline Sleeper Russell > > > ============================== > New! OneWorldTree. Building Trees. Connecting Families. Learn more: > http://www.ancestry.com/s13970/rd.ashx > >

Betty wrote: >This week I decided to find out more about Levy MILLER again. and >John Metcalf's web site shows that Levi was born in Laconia, NH. and then >if Levi MILLER was a farmer, and was living in the villages along the shore of Lake Winnepesauki in NH, which had very good farmland, why would he and his wife have moved to Canada.. between 1815 and 1820 - and why .. Argenteuil County ? Your letter caught my interest, Betty, Just a guess as to why Levi Miller might have picked up and left New Hampshire in 1815-1820.. 1816 was 'the year without summer' in the Vermont/New hampshire area.. after a three or four year drought, there was a cold spell that included snow in June (In Quebec too) and hail in September and October and major crop failures. One article online about this situation is located at: http://www.islandnet.com/~see/weather/history/1816.htm http://www.eeb.cornell.edu/goodale/2003%20Goodale%20Appalachia.pdf is the site of a paper on Forest Fires in the White Mountains (Of New Hampshire) and includes references to a hurricane that hit New Hampshire in 1815 and several forest fires followed from 1815-1820 (possibly made worse by the downed/drying timber). In my own family tree, one patriarch of the family killed himself in Shelburne, Vermont in the fall of 1816. It took nearly 20 years to finally settle his estate. His family scattered to the homes of older siblings and uncles.. in Brome and Knowlton, Quebec, in Richford and Colchester, Vermont and the youngest went off to Mooers and Clinton, New York. If anyone has access to the ancestry.com newspapers collection, other neat historical bits might give more clues to why people in general were migrating, even though we may never find precisely why a particular family moved. Good luck, Ellan

Hello, This week I decided to find out more about Levy MILLER again. I did this a few years ago, and couldn't really find anything else about him. According to John Metcalf's web site, Levy was born in 1790 in NH. And, the church records show he married Elizabeth KERR in St. Andrews in 1832. The census records show that he was in the 1842 Census with the following information: Levi MILLER, 7 in family 1 IRL, 5 CB, 1 USA Here 20 years This would mean that Levi arrived in Argenteuil County about 1822. And, the church record mentions that he was a widower when he married in 1832. I had originally made a few "guesses" about the 3 or more MILLER men who were showing up in "Gore" in the 1842 Census. But, another look shows that: Peter MILLER, 3 in family 2 SCT, 1 CB, here 9 years John MILLER, 4 in family 4 IRL (I thought I had spotted a James MILLER someplace, but am not seeing it this a.m.) If these records are accurate, then the 3 MILLER families in town in the 1840's, each came from a different country. Also, I had made a guess that Levi MILLER had been born and raised in NH, married there, but, upon being widowed, left for Canada ... This Census information shows that he came up to Canada in 1822, even before the HENDERSON's and KERR's arrived. So, if he was ~32 years old when he "migrated to Canada," he could have been widowed before he left or perhaps he came up with a wife and she died soon after arriving. (He did not marry Elizabeth KERR until ten years after arriving.) John Metcalf's web site shows that Levi was born in Laconia, NH. But, I did a little on-line investigating yesterday, and Laconia wasn't incorporated as a town until 1840. Before that it was "Meredith Bridge Village." During the 1700's there were only a few, official villages along the shore of Lake Winnepesauki. I placed a few queries on the NH Lists, and so far no MILLER is known of there in the 1700's. If I have time today, I'll check the 1790 NH census to see how many MILLER's were in NH, and I'll check the LDS web site to see what it has to offer. (I did check the archives of the MILLER List, and found a James MILLER living in NH being born there in 1795 (Levi born 1790), and one of his family moved to Bethel, ME. Coincidentally, one of Levi MILLER's sons died in Bethel, ME, at Age 20.) ??? http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~jmetcalf/5806.htm OOPS .. I just checked the MILLER information on John Metcalf's web site again, and he has Levi and Mary MILLER living in St. Andrews "before 1820." He has them having 2 sons born in 1818 and 1819, Levi dying at Age 1. If Levi remarried as a widower in early 1832, then his first wife, Mary, must have died in 1830 or 1831. (There is no further information on his son, Joseph. But, he does have another Joseph MILLER born a few years earlier who married Deborah WARDELL.) Most of the Levi MILLER extended family remained in Argenteuil County or moved to Compton County, as many of the KERR's did. One grandchild seems to have moved to Alberta. FYI: As I mentioned to the people on the NH Lists, if Levi MILLER was a farmer, and was living in the villages along the shore of Lake Winnepesauki in NH, which had very good farmland, why would he and his wife have moved to Canada.. between 1815 and 1820 - and why .. Argenteuil County ? Betty (near Lowell, MA, USA) Eileen's web site http://www3.telus.net/public/mcelroye/webpages/gore.html/intro.html

To all:- Senator Lorna Milne presented Bill S-18 on November 2nd -- an unrestrictive Bill which, if passed in both Houses of Parliament, will ensure automatic transfer of records from 1911 to 2001. The following site will give all the information to describe Bill S-18. http://www.globalgenealogy.com/Census/S18milnenews.htm Bill S-18 can be supported by signatures on petitions. Thanks to Gordon Watts for posting the above site. Muriel M. Davidson [email protected] Co-Chair, Canada Census committee Brampton, NS -- formerly Nova Scotia

For William Hopkinson, I only found his name in the Sherbrooke Directoy for the year 1890-91. At that time, Hopkinson was a worker for the Paton Mills (a woolen mill). He lived on London Street. (The Johnston Family also lived on London Street.) Would like to establish whether this listing was for WILLIAM CUELL HOPKINSON b. England 1830 or his son WILLIAM HOPKINSON b.October 12, 1855 Sherbrooke Quebec. I attempted to find both WILLIAM HOPKINSON's in the 1891 census for Coaticook to no avail. Thanks for help here. Jacqueline Sleeper Russell

Is anyone working this line that knows the parents of Eunice CURTIS b. abt. 1810, married to John SALLS/SAILS and living in Clarenceville and who died in 1871? [I ran into a potential link to a family that I am working on but I have no research on CURTIS myself. A few quick clues would be very helpful.] David E.

MEN OF TODAY IN THE EASTERN TOWNSHIPS, introductory chapters by V.E. Morrill, biographical section compiled by Erastus G. Pierce (Sherbrooke, Que.: Sherbrooke Record, 1918), 297 p. Page 195 PHOTO: (Caption - GEO. JOHNSTON) JOHNSTON, GEORGE, 27 Walton Ave., Sherbrooke, Que. - Born at Sherbrooke, Que., Jan 26, 1871, son of WILLIAM and JANE (SANGSTER) JOHNSTON; Scotch; father was born in Aberdeen, Scotland, came to Sherbrooke, 1870; E. at Sherbrooke; learned photography with the late GEO. H. PRESBY, Sherbrooke, later went to Windsor, N.S., and for some time had charge of studios in that place, also Quebec city; in 1895 purchased business of L. MAYHEW, Wellington St., Sherbrooke; 1912 owing to increase in business moved to present premises, 24 King St.; member of Photographers' Ass'n of America; interested in athletic sports, many years a member of Sherbrooke Lacrosse and hockey teams; A. F. & K.T., I.O.O.F., Y.M.C.A.; Independent; Presbyterian; married VIOLET HOPKINSON, daughter of WM. HOPKINSON, Sherbrooke, Que., Nov 3, 1897; one daughter, VEDA V. =========== My thanks to Hélène Liard, archiviste, La Société d'histoire de Sherbrooke, for e-mailing me this listing in MEN OF TODAY IN THE EASTERN TOWNSHIPS and for scan of photo by GEORGE JOHNSTON in the societies' archives. From e-mail: I enclose a scan of the photograph of George Johnston at a Sugar Party. I enclose also a scan of a portrait of George Johnston as written in Men of Today in the Eastern Townships, edited in 1917. It was the last year where George Johnston lived in Sherbrooke. George Johnston began his career as a photographer in 1890 in his home on London Street. From 1895 to 1912, he had a studio on Wellington Street; between 1913 and 1918, his studio was on King Street.

From: THE BRIEF STORY OF THE DOBSON FAMILY - by PERRY & FRANKLIN DOBSON (1967) Page four. KATHERINE MARGARET DOBSON. Born October 10, 1860 on the farm back of Port Hope. As the eldest of a family which grew up around her, KATE was the mainstay of mother and the companion and comfort of father. She used to tell of her days as a little girl in Port Hope - especially of wearing a pretty dress to Sunday School. In Peterborough, she was living at home helping run the house and look after the children. She went to Sunday School and Young People's Society and George Street Methodist church. At this time "JOE FLAVELLE" used to deliver flour at the house and showed some attention to KATE, although he married CLARA ASHFORD. KATE used to go to prayer meeting with father. About 1926 SIR J. FLAVELLE told me how he always remembered father's prayers and his good voice. In the hard days at Courtland, KATE used to read such books as "LOCK on the Human Understanding," propped up on the was tub and the ironing board. She attended the Courtland School. MR. BENNETT was the teacher. On one occasion, he tried to kiss KATE after school, but she threw her books in his face. During the later years in Courtland a friendship sprang up between KATE and LOU DEAN who taught a school about four miles east of our farm. KATE often told of driving "TIP" and the basket phaeton from Courtland to Binbrook when we moved there. When, a year later, we moved to Simcoe, KATE became very prominent in the church and had a big class of girls. She also worked in the store part of the time and taught music to a few pupils. I remember her pointing out the notes with a peacock feather. While KATE and ALVER were on a trip to the West, Lincoln and Denver, they met an attractive young man who was in the West for his health, ADELBERT HENRY GALE. He and KATE became interested in each other and he afterwards visited her in Simcoe. He had been married, but his wife, MARY LADD, had died at the birth of her daughter, MARY ELIZABETH. Page five. Some time during the four years in Simcoe, KATE took a course at the British American Business College in Toronto. She wrote a good hand and had shrewd business sense. She was also ambitious enough to take up the four year reading course conducted by the Chatauqua Literary and Scientific Circle and she graduated in the class of '87, with MRS. ALDEN, known as "PANSY." After our moved to Toronto, father's death, and her own serious illness, KATE took on new responsibilities in Parkdale and in Bowmanville, where mother died in 1889. Shortly after this, KATE married ADELBERT GALE and moved to Waterville, Quebec, taking over the direction of the beautiful house on the hill and the care of little MARY ELIZABETH then about five years old. Her son, WARREN DOBSON GALE, was born October 15, 1890. Even then KATE was not free from her DOBSON responsibilities. JULIA then about 19 had gone to MOULTON College in Toronto, but almost immediately had a hemorrhage and for several years fought T.B. with the constant care and assistance of KATE and ADELBERT. The old house in Bowmanville was broken up and after ALVER left, PERRY also made his home at times at Waterville. After JULIA's death, about 1898, ADELBERT took over the English branch of GEORGE GALE & SONS and the family moved to England, living first at Birmingham, then after the business was sold, in Oxford. ADELBERT returned to Waterville bringing the family and began to develop his interests there. But the old lung trouble returned and they went to Georgia where he went into the lumber business in Thomasville but died there in April 1901. KATE returned to Waterville with WARREN and MARY and sent for PERRY to come back from Oxford. MARY went to Annesley Hall, Toronto, and then to Columbia to study art. WARREN attended Stanstead College, Bishops College School, Toronto University then to Columbia. Meanwhile KATE was left alone a good deal in Waterville and married DR. REGINALD KING of Compton who came to live with her in the Waterville home. Page six. For some years they were quite happy together until his death. After that KATE lived alone at the Waterville house and built a little cabin near PERRY on Lake Memphremagog. There she spent part of each summer and made many trips to England in the Winter. She spent a good deal of time at ST. THOMAS and with MARY in Minneapolis, where she died in January 1943, while visiting MARY and ARNOLD HOBBS. PERRY went to Minneapolis where a simple service was held and then took his last journey with KATE, a very sad one, to Waterville where a great company of old friends and relatives were waiting. A beautiful service was held in ST. JOHN'S Church and we laid her body beside ADELBERT in the family plot under the spreading elm. KATE was a woman of strong character and fine ability. She was most artistic and appreciated fine things. She was a second mother to JULIA and PERRY, and was greatly beloved by the people of Waterville and all who knew her. ========================== NOTES: first beau of KATE's "JOE FLAVELLE" Flavelle, Sir Joseph Wesley from TCE Standard Flavelle, Sir Joseph Wesley, meat packer, financier, philanthropist (b at Peterborough, Canada W 15 Feb 1858; d at Palm Beach, Fla 7 Mar 1939). Inspired by Methodism's demand for personal holiness, self-denial and careful stewardship, Flavelle rose from humble origins to become one of Canada's most able, respected and influential businessmen as president of the British Empire's largest pork packer, William Davies Co of Toronto, and as chairman of the Bank of Commerce, the National Trust Co and Simpsons Ltd. Successful in business, he devoted much of his wealth and energy after 1900 to charities, needy individuals and public service. He played a major role in the affairs of the University of Toronto, the Methodist Church, the Toronto General Hospital and the CNR. Chairman of the Imperial Munitions Board in WWI, Flavelle converted a scandal-ridden and inefficient industry into a vast, well-organized operation and received a baronetcy in 1917 - the last resident citizen of Canada to receive a hereditary title. Shortly thereafter, he and the William Davies Co were accused of profiteering from the wartime bacon business and, though an inquiry exonerated him, the episode sullied Flavelle's reputation. Author J. LINDSEY FLAVELLE AWARD Sir Joseph Wesley Flavelle (1858-1939), a financier and businessman of Toronto, endowed a medal in 1924. The medal is awarded for an outstanding contribution to biological science during the preceding ten years or for significant additions to a previous outstanding contribution to biological science.

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DR. CHARLES R. FLANDERS would have been headmaster of Stanstead College, when my grandmother ETHEL MAY SLEEPER attended the school. FLANDERS was the uncle of RUTH STEVENS who was the second wife of PERRY S. DOBSON, who was the brother in law of ADELBERT H. GALE of Waterville, Quebec. From Website: http://www.stansteadcollege.com/sc/about/history/Flanders/index.htm Dr. Flanders was born in the Eastern Townships in 1852 to Reverend Rufus Arlington Flanders and Mary Charlotte Ruston. Dr. Flanders was educated at Waterloo Academy and Victoria University. While at Stanstead College, he received his degree as Doctor of Divinity from the Wesleyan College in Montreal. His background and experience well prepared him to lead the school through a period of tremendous growth. In 1881, Charles married Martha Elizabeth Davies. They were blessed with eight children: John Arlington 1182-1952, Sidney Reginald 1883-1921, Ruth Ruston 1887-?, Harold Wilfred 1889-1892, Mary Marjorie 1892-?, Charles Robert 1893-1898, Annie Beatrice 1897-1977, Elizabeth 1902-199? Mrs. Flanders, an alumna of the school, was the lady principal. The Flanders were devoted leaders of Stanstead College, but Dr. Flanders regretted how much time he had to spend on fund-raising and balancing budgets as his passion was teaching and spending time with the students. He always insisted on teaching at least one course. "It was a happy place. There was discipline, undoubtedly, but the teachers seemed like friends and no corporal punishment was allowed. The teachers lived in residence, and were carefully picked, of course. In the spring, my father would arrange to take over a sugar bush for the day and we would all go out - my father driving an old coach, drawn by four horses, and some of the teacher would ride in that, the rest of us piled into large sleighs. The sugar would be boiling when we arrive, ready to eat on clean snow, a sort of toffee. It could be stirred in saucers into "maple cream" with little wooden paddles, which the boys carved for their girl friends. After one was sated with sweetness there were olives and dried herring, and then more sugar! The spring woods were lovely, and we watched the men collecting the sap from the buckets on the trees. At Christmas, anyone that wished could go out to get the Christmas tree on big sled, and any pupils who could not go home for the holiday helped with the tree and celebration, of course." Beatrice Bull (nee Flanders), daughter In 1894, Flanders reported to the Board of Trustees that "one hundred and sixty young pupils had been in attendance, representing a constituency extending from Ottawa to Gaspe with several students from Newfoundland and the neighbouring republic. Among these were members of almost every religious denomination, including Roman Catholic and Jewish. "Many of the students were children of missionaries in Turkey and China. "The College has again distinguished itself at McGill exams. Of the five students taking the exams, all have passed in every subject and with good rank. Stanstead has repeatedly stood the test of the McGill exams with commendable success. This fact should convince the public that they have in their midst, and institution which is able to give first class instruction in the first two years of the B.A. course at rates which bring the privileges of a university within each of the moderate income. How reasonable rates are may be seen in the fact that while the tuition per year at McGill is $60, in Stanstead, it is $12. Let it not be thought that this contrast is pointed out with the thought of dissuading young people from going to great university. It is rather to show of the moderate means who cannot see their way clear to go Montreal that the undergraduate course, in part at least, is within their reach." The period when Dr. Flanders was Headmaster of the school was a period of great expansion. Dr. Flanders resigned in 1908 and became pastor of the Centenary Church in St. John, New Brunswick. He certainly left behind a much-expanded Stanstead College, but more importantly, as one of his students wrote, "The optimistic vision which these buildings represent has become settled policy of the College." School With a Heart. The heart at the front of Colby House has a long history. Principal Flanders first conceived the idea of the heart in 1893. He planted the hedges and trees, laid out roads and paths and made an attractive flower garden in the shape of a heart in front of the main building. The heart quickly became a focal point of the campus and is enjoyed as much as it was back then.

"[18] KNOWLTON CEMETERY Situated in Knowlton's Landing, this cemetery is named after Levi Knowlton (1768-1842), who arrived in 1821 from Templeton, Massachusetts via Stukely. He settled at the "Landing" where a passenger boat made daily trips across Lake Memphremagog from Georgeville. His wife, Philesua (?-1850) is buried here along with Miles E. Knowlton (1810-1882) buildier of the Pine Lodge, now known as l'Aubergine." Note: Potton Twp., Quebec borders on North Troy, Vermont. Source is "Potton Cemetery Route: A Tribute to our ancestors", provided by Miss Arlene Royea, Managing Director, Brome County Historical Society, [email protected] Transcribed by Jan Jordan

"[19] In a beautiful clearing on the border of Potton township and Bolton East, Quebec, lie two tombstones bearing the names of Colonel William Burbank (1805-1885) and Frank L. Dobson. The name Emily Fuller (1807-1888?) is inscribed on the same stone as that of Mr. W. Burbank." Note: Potton Twp., Quebec borders on North Troy, Vermont. This is the last cemetery on the map. Source is "Potton Cemetery Route: A Tribute to our ancestors", provided by Miss Arlene Royea, Managing Director, Brome County Historical Society, [email protected] Transcribed by Jan Jordan

~CORRECTION~ [16] VALE PERKINS, Brome County, PQ Located on private land still owned by the Jones family, Gardner Jones (1818-1886) Samuel Perkins (1763-1845), founder of Vale Perkins and his wife Levina Edson (1765-1855) are buried here along with many of their descendants. Besides Jones others families include, Geer, Hand, and Levoy. The Levoy families lost several of their children between 1851 & 1871." Note: Potton Twp., Quebec borders on North Troy, Vermont. Source is "Potton Cemetery Route: A Tribute to our ancestors", provided by Miss Arlene Royea, Managing Director, Brome County Historical Society, [email protected] Transcribed by Jan Jordan

~CORRECTION~ [16] VALE PERKINS, Brome County, PQ Located on private land still owned by the Jones family, Gardner Jones (1818-1886) Samuel Perkins (1763-1845), founder of Vale Perkins and his wife Levina Edson (1765-1855) are buried here along with many of their descendants. Besides Jones others families include, Geer, Hand, and Levoy. The Levoy families lost several of their children between 1851 & 1871." Note: Potton Twp., Quebec borders on North Troy, Vermont. Source is "Potton Cemetery Route: A Tribute to our ancestors", provided by Miss Arlene Royea, Managing Director, Brome County Historical Society, [email protected] Transcribed by Jan Jordan

"[17] GEORGE CEMETERY near Knowlton and Chateau Landings, Potton Twp., Quebec has a view of Owl's Head and Lake Memphremagog so this cemetery exudes tranquility. Abigail Channel George (1782-1859) and her husband Moses Hayes George (1771-1853) arrived in the area from New Hampshire around 1794. They were among the first pioneers of the township of Bolton, Quebec. Many of their descendants are buried here." Note: Potton Twp., Quebec borders on North Troy, Vermont. Source is "Potton Cemetery Route: A Tribute to our ancestors", provided by Miss Arlene Royea, Managing Director, Brome County Historical Society, [email protected] Transcribed by Jan Jordan

STANSTEAD JOURNAL VITAL STATISTICS 1876-1890 Page 114. BIRTH - STEVENS At Stanstead Plain, Dec. 18, 1884, the wife of S. STEVENS, of a daughter. ===================== From THE BRIEF STORY OF THE DOBSON FAMILY - by PERRY & FRANKLIN DOBSON (1967) Page twenty two. RUTH STEVENS RUTH was born at Stanstead on the 19th of December, 1884, the daughter of SIDNEY STEVENS, manager of the Eastern Townships Bank, afterwards the Canadian Bank of Commerce. MRS. STEVENS was HARRIET JANE FLANDERS, who was the sister of the REVEREND C. R. FLANDERS, D.D., for many years principal of Stanstead College. This was where RUTH began her education in the kindergarten and continued on to the "A A.", as university matriculation was then called in Quebec. Then she spent two years at Royal VICTORIA College, McGILL, taking English and music. In 1914 RUTH married HARRY LAMB, B.Sc., then professor of civil engineering at McGILL. There were five children: RUSTON, now a lawyer in Montreal; MARTHA, MRS. D. H. McLEAN, Summit, N. J.; MARGARET, MRS. R. A. MONTGOMERY, Montreal West; BARBARA, MRS. H. G. INGRAHAM, Northport, L. I.; and SIDNEY, now professor of English in the University of the Gold Coast, W. Africa. HARRY died in 1925, and RUTH lived a part of the time in Montreal, and a part in Stanstead. After the death of her father and mother, and the sale of "Ingleside," RUTH took up residence with RUSTON and SIDNEY in Montreal. Then PERRY DOBSON came along and was fortunate enough to persuade RUTH to marry him and come to live in ST. THOMAS. Here she is very active in ALMA College affairs and in various organizations of the city, such as The Canadian Club, The Evening Music, The Women's Art Society, and The ALMA College Alumnae. RUTH has been warmly welcomed into the DOBSON family. Her sincere affection and her cheerful good nature are highly prized by everyone.

Hello, After I clicked Send on the last e-mail, I discovered there was a "character" problem. If people cannot read the text of the letter I copy/pasted, please let me know. I will retype it into another e-mail. ...The main purpose of the letter from the County Sligo Heritage Centre was respond to both my e-mail and my slow-mail letter to their office. They are saying that they have considered the matter, and they have decided to accept "one fee" for the research of the 5 .. seemingly directly related KERR and HENDERSON couples. This would mean that, if I sent them "80 pounds" (slightly more in US funds), they would start an "initial search." In the meantime, they are asking for "religion information" which I had forgotten to include in my e-mail and slow-mail letters. Within the past few weeks, I have found out that most of the families were "Wesleyan Methodists" while in Argenteuil County. But, the Wesleyan Methodists only had a church in County Sligo in 1819, which was only a few years before they left Ireland in 1823-1825. So, the people on the Sligo List have suggested that they were .. Methodists ... On additional question the Sligo Heritage Center asked this morning -- was whether anyone had found and read the marriage record of .... (Miss) Elizabeth KERR and Levi MILLER in Argenteuil County. I just checked John Metcalf's web site, and he has them marrying on Feb. 13, 1832, in "St. Andrews, Argenteuil, Quebec, Canada." The lady suggested that Elizabeth KERR's parents' or father's name "might" be on the marriage record. (Levi MILLER was said to have been born in Laconia, NH, USA.) (Levi and two other MILLER men seemingly arrived in Argenteuil County in the 1820's, also.) Also, I've seen "St. Andrews" mentioned as a town a few times, and I wonder whether someone could remind me whether it was a neighboring town to "the former Township of Gore." (Or, was it or is it .. between Lakefield and Lachute?) If anyone wants to help out, I will handle the paperwork. A few years ago I found out that an "international money order" would cost approx. $3-5, and I would need to go remind myself what the "exchange rate" would say would be the total cost in US money. (OR, if someone in Canada wanted to handle the paperwork, I would write a check to them, for say, $30 (U.S.)* Thank you for your time. Enjoy your November weekend ! Betty (near Lowell, MA, USA) *As I mentioned in a previous e-mail, during the summer I stopped a lot of procrastinating, and spent ~$20 U.S. for my great-grandfather's birth certificate from Liverpool, England. (other side of family tree) And, .. a whole new world opened up to me. (I found out my great-grandfather had many cousins in Liverpool when he "was sent to Canada" in 1874.)

Hello, I have just heard from the County Sligo Heritage Centre in Ireland, and would like to offer the text of their e-mail to me: Dear Betty, Further to your e-mail dated 13th October 2004 and subsequent letter of 19th October 2004 regarding your Sligo born ancestors. As you feel that the four couples - William& Mary Henderson, Patrick & Elizabeth Kerr, John & Ann Kerr, Samuel and Catherine Henderson and the single Kerr lady (Elizabeth) were related, we are prepared to accept one application form together with a fee of ?80.00 to conduct an initial search on your behalf. Should we find anything which we feel might be relevant to your ancestors then we would be in a position to provide a quotation of further research costs if any. If you decide to follow up on this offer, perhaps it might be worth checking the marriage record of Elizabeth Kerr and Levi Miller, as it may have recorded her parent's names. You omitted to state what religion your ancestor's practiced; we base our research on the surviving church records which are as follows: 20 Church of Ireland Parishes, the earliest baptismal and marriage registers dates back to 1762 25 Roman Catholic Parishes, the earliest baptismal and marriage register dates back to 1796 Presbyterian Sligo Circuit, baptismal registers date back to 1806, marriages 1845 Methodist Sligo Circuit, baptismal registers date back to 1819, marriages 1846. Yours sincerely, Theresa Finnegan Research Officer I will write a separate e-mail asking some questions ! Betty (near Lowell, MA, USA)

Page eighteen - from THE BRIEF STORY OF THE DOBSON FAMILY - by PERRY & FRANKLIN DOBSON (1967) THE PAGE FAMILY Unfortunately we know very little about the ancestors of the PAGE family. The name is well known in Vermont where there have been two State Governors of that name. The last was GOVERNOR CARROL PAGE elected in 1892. DOCTOR FRANKLIN PAGE was a cousin and was born in the same village of Hyde Park. For some reason he came to Canada and wroked for WILLIAM HENRY DOW in the furniture and undertaking business in Sutton , Quebec. MRS. DOW was a daughter of SOLOMON SQUIRE. About 1884 he married their daughter SARAH, and operated a chair factory. When the factory burned FRANKLIN decided to take up dentistry. So his wife took 5 year old HARRIET with her to the country and taught school while her husband went to college in Baltimore, although he was then over thirty years. Too much study led to a breakdown in health. FRANKLIN went to Florida and started an orange orchard. This was not successful, but he regained his health and returned to college and obtained his degree. His first venture as a dentist was in Mansonville, Que. but he soon moved to North Troy, Vermont, where he built up an excellent practice. He became well known for his thoroughly good work and as a strong minded honourable citizen. MRS. PAGE ws a great help to him and became a leader in the Congregational Church and all sorts of village enterprises. When HALLIE's health seemed to require a change, DR. PAGE built a cottage on Lake Memphremagog, in what was later called "Trojan Park". When this place became too populous he bought the site of the "Chateau Hotel" several miles north and built a cottage there. MRS. PAGE died about 1891 and DR. PAGE continued to live at North Troy with occasional visits to ST. THOMAS. He died in 1921 and was buried with Masonic honours beside his wife on the hillside facing the hills and mountains he loved. A stone of Vermont Granite, his own design, depicts the unfiinished task of the workman and gives us a hint of his philosophy of life. He was a fine citizen, good workman, a devoted father, and his wife was a cultured, widely-respected member of the community.