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 PENCIL SKETCHES AND PEN PICTURE^ 
 
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 PAT PRODPEN 
 
 Most respectfully Inscribed as a slight token of esteem to 
 
 ¥ • ■ ..V- - ■ ■ 
 
 
 SIR OLIVER MOWAT 
 
 FOR OVER TWENTY YEARS PREMIER OF ONTARIO. 
 
To tlje many kind friends whom I have found 
 in the various towns and villages I have visited in 
 the picturesque regions of northern Canada, I owe 
 an apology for my delay in getting out this little 
 volume, which will be my tenth venture in this line 
 of business. However I will not care to trouble 
 my readers with a wearisome explanation, but I 
 will proceed to the business I have on hand in un- 
 dertaking to get out this modest little candidate 
 for public favor. First tendering my most 
 grateful thanks to my many kind and con- 
 siderate patrons, whom I have always found in 
 every place I have ever visited with the single ex- 
 ception of the wretched little village of Lloydtown, 
 in the prosperous and beautifully ruralisticly 
 lanscaped Township of King, the third in the tier 
 of townships north of Toronto ; which city has 
 grown from what it was when I first saw the light 
 of the full orb'd moon in it— ^(a small sized town) to 
 be-one of the largest, most wonderfully prosperous 
 and marvellously rapidly growing cities in Can- 
 ada's long and wide Dominion. Grown also to be, 
 but only so far as the governing body of its 
 Board of Trade Corporation was concerned, a 
 greedy, grasping, gluttenous, grunting, gourmandis- 
 ing old " Hog" in unjustly seeking to prevent aid 
 being given to a railway intended to benefit the 
 Town of Parry Sound, in Northern Canada. When 
 the proposed line of railway would connect the 
 town with a city in the east, instead of turning 
 south, when it was finished, to a certain point, but 
 then it would be manifestly unjust to ban the whole 
 population of a large city for the fault of a com- 
 paratively small number of its citizens. But it is 
 clearly the destiny of Parry Sound " City " that its 
 interests shall not be controlled by any body of 
 legalized bandits, it has too many and too im- • 
 portant advantages to be seriously effected af- 
 ter such a brigand fashion, and for one I feel 
 certain that the good common sense, strong 
 
i-nfir^olr f ' *^ ^*^® prejud ce of the vital 
 
 ?f nnf .£°" .°^ '""= "'-^ '«"ds across he brin^ ^^ 
 .a. a^ ^™p:f '^llls^^rre ^!J^ 
 
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 Liverpool, Belfast and Glascow. Under these cir 
 
 Sn'Jhrt'^T''"" ''^">' obtuse menSlT^'n': 
 Dart th,» f m"'** "°t ^mprehend the important 
 adding fl ?/*■'**»; "^ ^"'y Sound would play in 
 adding to the population and prosperity of the town 
 and gmng it all the great and manifold advantages 
 of a shipping and manufacturing centre Besides 
 greatly increasing its accessability and attraction' 
 as a summer resort, and in this lit r«,4ct U has 
 
 P acef in'cr'!,'' ''""'"i"?" "•«' ve^l^l'^otto 
 Places in Canada can claim on the score of a 
 
 bracing and exhilarating atmosphere, pSre water 
 and sublimely beautiful sceneryf hunting fishina 
 and sail-boating and steam-yachting, not^ib3 
 
 camo mJf" "'''''"= "h"* « numerously attS 
 canip-meetng is annually held in the months of 
 each recurring August, in a singularly wMd and 
 eaS'sho^ '''*"f »' g^-^n copficed ^deH on tSe 
 
 thaT''pi!?r*.r^c^''T'*^^ *"^ !«'=''"»'• attractions 
 h^ th rpL^r"'' ^^^^^ f°' persons seeking 
 health, recreation and a rural home during the hot 
 
 se^a°l ofT"" 'T' ■"?* ^'" "" incentive fo 
 
 wTlir Wnl-^^'lP™"""'"' ""'^^"^ of the town, 
 with Mr. William Beatty at their head, to for a 
 
 jomt stock company, to erect a la,|e and con! 
 
 rnodious summer hotel on the summit of onTof 
 he mountain heights that rampart like surround 
 he harbour and the town at almost all points of 
 
 the compass where pleasure seeking pilgrims from 
 
 a^Srtftemf '"''' '°^"' alo^'nvlnientt'S 
 
 i87oT,f"l *''* T"S! i September of the year 
 SS, c I^^ ^°'^^^ "■•"* "">« the town site of 
 
 ^s^Mh^iufT^°^y "'T'°'y- There was only 
 aho^fi 5r ** *"1. ^' 'hat time, consisting of 
 about a dozen or oerhans a .ror» «. i:~i ?- " 
 
 Temperance ho el kept by Mr. Robert Blair and 
 his excellent wife, but owned by Mr. Beatty. who 
 
also owned a water power saw-mitl and a water 
 power ^ist-mtll, (on the outskirts of the Town 
 site), besides a large and well stocked general 
 store, part of the store building being occupied by 
 the Post Office and Crown Lands Agency office, 
 the honorable and responsible position of Crown 
 Lands agent for the western part of the large dis- 
 tfict of Parry Sound was at that time most ably 
 and efficiently filled by my very kind and con- 
 siderate friend John Beatty, now one of the most 
 prominent, most useful and highly esteemed citizens 
 of the beautiful Town of Sarnia, on the eastern 
 bank of the Saint Clair River, that forms a small 
 part of the boundary line between Canada and the 
 great confederacy pf States, south of its long divid- 
 ing line stretching from a wide world of waters on 
 the east to a wide world of waters on the west, 
 among the other pioneer settlers of the town were 
 Messrs. John McClelland, D. L. McDonald, Francis 
 Strain, Francis Dowell, Arthur Starkey, Judge 
 McCurry and Jack ? no not " Jack the Jiant Killer," 
 but " Jack Truck," who with that restless and rov- 
 ing disposition for which persons of weak and 
 wavering minds are sometimes noted, soon remov- 
 ed from the embryo town to a place he hoped to 
 find more congenial for the exercise of his peculiar 
 talents, and in a short time he made himself quite 
 
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 conspiciuous as the vampire bat of one of the most 
 fertile townships in the district. It was indeed a 
 
very cold and gloomy day for th* township of 
 McKcllar when this wryneckcd, lopp shouJdewd, 
 squintey eyed, vulture clawed, old harpy, settled 
 down and made itself a roosting place within its 
 limits, and you can well believe me my kind friends 
 when I assure with one hand upon my heart and 
 the other and my remaining eye raised upwards to- 
 toward the blue vault of heaven, that I do 
 feel most heartily sorry to have occasion to write 
 in such a bitter mood about anything wearing the 
 guise and garb ofhu.nanity— but when I think of 
 the utterly mean, greedy, grasping, avaricious, 
 and unscrupulously dishonest and dishonorable line 
 of conduct and plan of action, this crafty, cunning, 
 covetous creature followed and persistently carried 
 out towards me during about a dozen years of the 
 darkest days of my sublunary existence, when 
 circumstance^ compelled me to have business deal- 
 ings with it and tajce payment out of its old truck 
 store in McKellar Village. I feel incited by the 
 feelings of resentment that a sense of wrong and 
 suffering and injustice inspires to give it a few 
 prods from a sharply pointed pencil, and after all, 
 where is the harm in calling things by their right 
 names ? Where is the harm in describing things 
 exactly as they are, in painting pictures in their 
 true colours ? Shall a man be denied the right to 
 discriminate between he good and the bad, be- 
 tween the just and th i unjust, shall a man be pro- 
 hibited from portraying crimes and photographing 
 criminals in all their dark deformity, or has a man 
 just cause of complaint at being called to a strict 
 account for the wicked deeds that his evil instincts 
 have incited him to commit, and should this ravin- 
 ously, greedy, property grabbing, old gripe gut, 
 this miserable canting hypocrite, who seeks to 
 make professions of religion a mask to hide his true 
 character, feel aggrieved by the remarks I have 
 made, he is heartily welcome as far as I am con- 
 cerned to seek redress in any way or manner that 
 he may think will give him the best chance to 
 secure it, as the first attempt on his part to do so. 
 
would be the signal for me to enter upon the task 
 of giving a full account, a minute detail of the 
 various business transactions I have had with him 
 during about three-fourths of the time I lived in 
 the township of McKellar, and in all our business 
 dealings it was his invariable custom to attempt in 
 every possible way to take an unjust, a discredit- 
 able and dishonorable advantage of me. He took 
 it as his, not to be questioned, much less to be dis- 
 puted right, that he was entitled to the " butt end " 
 of every bargain, and too often incited by his 
 insatiable craving for money, he cunningly plotted 
 to obtain not only the " butt end " but both ends 
 of a bargain, and now not doubting, but that my 
 friends have got quite enough of old Jack Truck 
 to serve them for one •* full meal," I will resume 
 my account of people from whom I have received 
 quite different treatment— I will resume my 
 description of a place that sho^vs up quite differ- 
 ently from a place that has suffered for years under 
 the galling yoke of that grim old tyrant beelzebub 
 Truck, with a hang dog looking son of his called 
 Jack to act as his first Lieutenant— but for one I 
 thank God that the dark pall of leaden coloured 
 clouds that so long hung over and shut in the 
 horizon of the township and village of McKellar, 
 have begun to part and break up so as to allow 
 their people glimpses of a blue sky beyond and the 
 roseate dawn of better times. As at the recent 
 municipal elections for the township, one of its 
 pioneer settlers, my worthy and esteemed friend 
 John Thomson, almost literally flung this slippery 
 handed, slimy fingered Jack Truck, one of the 
 numerous sons of old Beelzebub Truck, out of 
 the office of reeve of the township, by an over- 
 whelming majority of the votes of the good and 
 true people of McKellar, and I do hope that for 
 the sake of their own credit and with a wise re- 
 gard for their own interests, they will never disgrace 
 themselves by putting such a sorry apology for a 
 man with a decent character into such a respon- 
 sible position, that they will never again so 
 
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 degrade themselves as to tolerate or permit a 
 ghoul ishly, greedy speculator, a twice broken down 
 old bankrupt, an apple of sodom sort of a thing, 
 to have any authority over them or any influence 
 in their affairs. That they will, with a proper re- 
 spect for themselves and the opinion that other 
 people may entertain of their sanity, and with a 
 wise regard for their prosperity and welfare (nental, 
 moral and physical, graciously grant this plausablc 
 old hypocrite unconditional permission and unre- 
 stricted liberty to stay at home and help his wife 
 to wash the dishes — wash the dishes ! no his 
 hands are too dirty for that, well then let him go 
 to the shed and split wood and clean out the cow's 
 stable, and do chores about the house or anything 
 else that may have the effect of diverting his 
 attention from watching for an opportunity to 
 snatch a slice from every loaf of bread that the in- 
 dustrious wives of the hardy and hard working 
 settlers may bake for their own families. And with 
 this parting kick in the rump I will bid you good 
 bye for a while, for a while Jack Truck, while I 
 resume my description of the fair Town of Parry 
 Sound, which under the prophetic, foresight, watch- 
 ful, oversight and skillful management of William 
 Beatty, Esq., the proprietor of the town site, (who 
 was formely a member of the Provincial Parlia- 
 ment for the County of Welland). This place has 
 rapidly grown from the size of a small hamlet to 
 the fair proportions of a large sized town, a 
 miniature city. If I am rightly informed Mr. Beatty 
 purchased this site from my old time friend Peter 
 Gibson, Esq., P. L. S., of VVillowdale, near Toronto, 
 son of the first owner, (next to the Aborogmes and 
 the Queen of England). David Gibson, P. L. S., 
 who was quite a prominent figure in the Canadian 
 Rebellion of 1837 and 1838, and whose remains 
 have long been peacefully reposing in the quiet 
 
 the Village or Tovvnland of Willowdale, on Yonge 
 street, about 6 or 7 miles from the northren limits 
 of Toronto. 
 
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 One of the most noticeable buiiditigs In Parry 
 Sound is th6 large sumwet hotel I have already 
 mfehtiened, this fine building forms a glorious crown 
 and a crowning glory to the grand head of the 
 noble hill on which it is so appropriately placed, 
 and as seen afar by the passengers of an incoming 
 steamer, it looks like the watch tower of the town, 
 its many western windows transformed into blazing 
 beacon fires by the level rays of a setting summer 
 sun, perhaps one of the most extensive, most com- 
 prehensive and captivatingly beautiful views of 
 the town, and its various and varied environments 
 can be obtained from one of the most elevated of 
 the many rock crowned heads of its eastern range of 
 mountainous hills and from this vantage ground of 
 observation, the panorama presented to the de- 
 lighted eye of a poet or painter as seen under 
 the softened radience of the golden sunlight, and 
 through the gauzey veil of silvery mist of a 
 glittering, glancing, dew gem'd July morning is 
 almost entrancingly subiime. Nor is the land- 
 scape with its strong contrasts of light and shadow 
 much less absorbingly beautiful when seen in the 
 more softened light of a clear calm summer 
 eventide when the golden beams of the setting sun 
 transform a wide belt of the smooth waters of 
 the bay into a broad band of burnished gold, a 
 dazzling pathway of scintillating light as if lead- 
 ing to some heavenly land. 
 
 Parry Sound has five places of religious worship, 
 one neat Methodist church with a tastefully or- 
 namented spire or steeple, one Church of Eng- 
 land, (Trinity Church), with a handsome square 
 tower that greatly adds to its appearance, one neat 
 Baptist church recently erected, a modest looking 
 Presbyterian chapel and a well appointed Catholic 
 church or chapel in the east ward of the town, also 
 a Town and Temperance Hall and three or four 
 first-class School buildings. Among the many 
 tastefully built and pleasantly located residences 
 those of Wm. Beatty, J. B. Miller, David Beatty, 
 Geo. G. Gladman, J. C. Fitzgerald, John McClel- 
 
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 landi SherifT Armstrong, Wm. Ireland, D. h. Mc^ 
 Donald and Jiidge McCurry, are specially worthy 
 of notice. I do not know the exact number of 
 stores in the town but it must be close onto a score 
 or more. Mr. A. Logan, has a first-class, well fur- 
 nished, furniture and funeral furnishing store,and Mr. 
 Pratt, another well furnished furniture store, and 
 Mrs. Pratt, a first-class photograph gallery, Mr. T. 
 W. Huff, has a watch and jewellery store, and two 
 enterprising young gentlemen from the Southern 
 States, Messrs. Breadner & Casson, have another 
 well stocked watch and jewellery store, there is 
 also two well stocked dmg stores, one kept by Mr. 
 W. R. Foote and the ot. : by Dr. Appelbe. J. F. 
 Mosley, has a first-class restaurant and confection- 
 ery store, and nearly opposite Mr. Mosley's on the 
 other side of the street another esteemed young 
 friend, Miss Maud Legitt, has a similar establish- 
 ment. I do not know how many baker shops 
 there are in the town, but my old time friend 
 Francis Donell has done well in that line, and he 
 is now as he has always been for over a quarter of 
 a century at the head of this business in Parry 
 Sound. There are two first-class merchant tailor 
 shops, Messrs. H. Meggitt and F. C. King. Messrs. 
 Richard Johnston and Thomas A. Clarke, have 
 each an excellent harness and saddlery shop. 
 Messrs. Thomas Ryder and John Lawrence, are 
 deservedly at the head of the butcher business of 
 the burgh. At the head of the list of large general 
 stores I must place Mr. Wm. Beatty's, as it is not 
 only the first stori started in the town, but the 
 pioneer store of the whole district. Among the 
 other leading stores are the Parry Sound Lumber 
 Company's, Messrs. D. W. Ross & Company's, 
 Milton Pearces and A. A. Richmond's, the three 
 last mentioned all in the east ward of the town. 
 And the last but not least the general dry goods 
 and ready-made clothing emporium kept by my 
 very kind friends Thomas and John M. Begg. 
 There is three large saw-mills in the town, two 
 driven by steam and one by the waters of the 
 
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 plf^^^'jV"!" *•"'« it empties itself into 
 Parry Sound liarbor, and Mr. Beatty owns another 
 
 M^:% '"'" rt ^'"■"e'' 'nill on ?he'",orth 
 ^uu\°^°"l °f ">« nortliern debouchine arms 
 
 M± f^^'.r^^^ °"« ■""« from thetown.^ ThI 
 M dland and North Shore Lumber Company, wiVh 
 
 one ^of th. r*''' ^' "' •'«*''• °«'" «"d operate 
 I?,m^ n '*^'" i'"*" saw-mills, the Conger 
 
 Mr w'r °'SP^7' "'"• **^- """"' it» head and 
 Mr W. R. Beatty as an efficient manaeer own^ 
 
 and operates the other, while the Parfy Sound 
 
 Wend lohn Mr/^^ii V'T^ ^"'' ""^h esteemed 
 first mavor »^H . ^*"'' 7'"' '^^^ ^^''^ Sounds' 
 and resoonoihl. « "'^ ^'*'^'*'' '° *»t honorable 
 Parrv Sound ^."^"^ '^°"^ of the principles in the 
 care to wr?t. ^^^' Company, I would hardly 
 . thanks to olH I '"^ ''^T. '*' ^^ I ""-^ »o little 
 Purvis rwh^ hnM "'°'' Sliallowman, puff ball 
 this"omMrv^ f i*""^ responsible position in 
 
 reatS fTL'^^'r^ ""t?" '""^ ungentlemanly 
 treatment I received from h m when I went to Jp 
 
 him, expect ng him to act like a gentTeman°and 
 that he would contribute at least 25 centeJiaW 
 
 rn%:;ld!.'}f •'"''?. ^°'* °^S'""g »" extrriong and 
 residerinW^ f^ account of the town in whkh he 
 Wmsefft^h /''I ''^ ";°"" '" 'his matter allow 
 B^^tt,; T^4 '"fl"enced by the example of Wm 
 WK 1^' t^^% McCurry, Captain Stewart DM 
 Whyte,Wm Ireland, D. L. McDonald, A A Law 
 f"' J?h" McClleland, Mrs. J. C. Muier 1^7; 
 
 cons"d«ite' f ■" ^" '"T "u"""'^' of other k[id and 
 considerate friends who have so willinelv contri- 
 
 ac«^. n°r* *'■= '"''J^'='- «"' no fXad of 
 ventu^r. f ' "^'y reasonable, rational and I wil 
 
 Ind snL MX ^' P*'"°.*'= "'^""^■•- h* began to grow 
 
 shttTie^^^^^r'cTac''"?'™''^^' "J ^"'s^''' 
 tried to ininS i "1 ''""Sing me of having 
 "'l^... 'J}}}}'1 the interests of the town bv 
 
 thTpoorit'ltte^'M'" ^'"^V'^'f the interests o'f 
 OntanWn , H K V' «?« 'n the whole Province of 
 Ontario could be injured or affected by telling the 
 
 
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 strict truth about a puerily, penurious and par- 
 parsimonious prevaricator, whose untruthful and 
 avaricious instincts prompted him to dishonor his 
 own signature in the small matter of 25 cents, to 
 the the best of my recollection, during my recent 
 canvas of the town. Not a single person showed the 
 slightest sympathy for Bill Taylor or said one word 
 in extenuation of his miserably mean and unmanly 
 conduct, save only and except poor old Solomon 
 Shallowman pufif-ball purvis, and the queer way 
 this crotchety old crank howled about my " abuse of 
 Bill Taylor " and another miserable old scallawag 
 who used to live in Richmond Hill, (on Yonge 
 street, near Toronto), whom he had never seen or 
 heard of except through the medium of one of my 
 little books, was enough to make a large elephant 
 " feel tired" let alone a poor old man like " me," so 
 I civilly bade him good bye and I might have 
 added thereto the solemn words " may the blissin 
 ave God follow yees all the days ave your loife and 
 .never overtake yees," and I here will just add that 
 if it had not been for S. S. P. P. simulating sym- 
 pathy for " Bill Taylor " I would not have even 
 thought of mentioning him again in this book, as 
 he has done nothing whatever to provoke a re- 
 newal of hostilities on my part, so it looks very 
 much like as if he too owes old Solomon Shallow- 
 man puff-ball purvis little thanks for provoking old 
 pat prodpen porkupine to throw another quill at 
 him, for if every one treated me as meanly as B. T. 
 
 and S. S. P. P., and Jack Truck, the good Lord only 
 knows what would become of me unless heshould be 
 pleased to treat me with as much kind consider- 
 ation as he did the Isrealites of old, and send 
 
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 down manna from the skies to keep the iircatfa tjf 
 l.fe in my poor old body at leasttong enJSgh to 
 ^}^LT =K f?™ P^'^'"* '"'« " Bill TayW? and 
 
 Jnou^h1.»!f';^'"?' " ^'^ Sood thumps. long 
 Sul th»nl,°.^'r •"= "•"« t° off" my most 
 hate so k^Hl„ "^""^ "^^^ """"y ^'"'^ ''"«"ds who 
 enance anH fn^ ^ considerately given me count- 
 enance and encouragement 
 
 tion o7fh'i^i°"^'"f ?''°? ' "='•""« "y descrip. 
 Ind Town hT A^,''"' '^!?^ ''"•^'' Court house 
 hotel a^H ^ ^ '"^^ ""•'^ ''"O- brick clad 
 .u„u * "">' "«*' »"d convenient Baptist 
 r.r^nH "^ ^™°"g *he most noticeable builXgs 
 recently erected And I hope these are only Jhe 
 precursors of still more beautiful and larger build! 
 mgs of pubhc utility that will rise S?th the advent 
 of the railway, with the advent I hope of niore 
 than one railway. Mr. Edward Tavlor aiToM 
 aSr ™nf '>■■ '"'"" ^"ducts'the lAel He 
 
 KeZr ffi^ stage from Parry Sound to Mc 
 cellar i6 miles, and from McKellar throueh to 
 rhinchurch 12 miles, the same day connS at 
 
 fnd'retitw *; 'p^ ""'i^'^^^ for'^Ahmic harLr 
 L^fi, 'f"f"'"S, to Parry Sound on alternate days 
 
 ^oves ^hat Mr t'^""^^ ="' **>' ^^^ ^""d, t4 
 proves that Mr. Taylor is a noticably progressive 
 
 tween'^h. r " 2""? u^ distinctive diffe^« te! 
 
 Wh" i ? fl '*F "1°^ '.''^ """^ ™"s and the little 
 
 n^the nt* f ""'^^ ^^"^'"S house he managed 
 
 in the interests and under the control of Tack 
 
 yea"rsVeo''u''J"'^^f,"f^'=""' «""^ '5- ^ 
 years ago. It does not look as if he cared to have 
 
 wXYafk Tr t J" *'^ ^'^u °' •'"^-ess deaUngs 
 wim jack Truck now, as he utter' refused fn~ 
 
 in MCK.el ar. Poor Jack, your sooty hue'd elder 
 brother Nichols with the horny hoofLh" griH " 
 horns. a„rt fh- ,„„„ ,i„„„„3 t^,., ^itj, 7^/;^^;- 
 
 spear head on the end of it ought to take iMtv 
 you. but hen. lest a wrong imKn sh,S;S 
 
 
 p*ty on 
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 . - ^ Old Nick and Jack Trock. 
 
 left on the mmd of the minds of those who may- 
 read these pages I must not forget to mention that 
 the store in McKellar does not exactly belong to 
 Jack Truck now, as if I am not greatly mistaken it 
 is under the supervision of my esteemed young 
 friend Charles Armstrong, eldest son of the sheriff 
 of Parry Sound District, in the interests of William 
 Beatty, Esq., merchant of Parry Sound, as Jack 
 Truck is a broken down bankrupt, is he not ? 
 Having twice failed in business within the lapse of 
 a few years between each failure. The first time 
 paying 50c on the dollar and the second time pay- 
 ing 40c. on the dollar, and should he again start in 
 business and fail a third time, as considering his 
 antecedents he would be quite likely to do, I have 
 an idea that he would only pay 30c. on the dollar. 
 Now I will give Jack Truck " a rest " while I return 
 again to Parry Sound and proceed to devote my 
 attention to and make remarks concerning one of 
 the most important and far reaching industrial 
 enterprises of the town, which takes the form of a 
 well regulated and well furnished Weekly News- 
 paper and Job Printing office, with my old time 
 friend William Ireland as owner, editor and busi- 
 ness manager. In whose behalf I would appeal to 
 the many kind friends I have among the most 
 intelligent settlers of the District of Parry Sound, 
 
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 to patronize their own paper, it is their peculiar 
 pnv.l^e, their special duty to do so, as H the 
 champion of the r rights, the exponent of their 
 needs and necessities, and the advertiser and ad' 
 vocate of their wants and their wishes, and for thSe 
 several advantages, the small pittance they wS 
 mdivdua lly have to pay once in each recurring 
 year would be a very small item in comparison 
 with the substantial and permanent beneZ thev 
 would receive m return. The mind needs exercUe 
 and nourishment as well as the body for the fuU 
 development of all its latent powers and in th J 
 way of a ''clubbing" connectfon wtth hi "own 
 pa^r Mr. Ireland offers a large amount of vlh." 
 able interesting, and instructive reading for a 
 small amount of n,oney. My kind friend Mr 
 
 Im"'^ r^^^"*"''- "'''° '"'''= "=»■• 'he b^autm,! 
 Village of Magnettawan, and whose fine farm, large 
 clearing U cultivated fields, model bams afd 
 out-buildmfe., and fine large brick dwelling house 
 bears testimony to his untiring and intellS 
 industry ,s a subscriber for and an ajprec ia1l?e 
 reader of the North Star Newspaper of PaJrv 
 Sound. And I have littte doubt but that a laree 
 
 ThTDUtri t imi^af f?' "!"'' '"'«'%-» farmi"!: 
 tne JJistrict imitate his wise example 
 
 And now I must turn my attention to themedi- 
 
 and^lTn^tS^'r^ ' •." '^^'^'xi" '^' °^^«^ ^^ ^^"^7 
 and length of residence Dr. Walton claims first 
 
 mention, in the earlier years of his residence ?n 
 
 Parry Sound I did not like him very wdt not so 
 
 much on my own account as from the extremely 
 
 bad feelings he exhibited towards my very S 
 
 and generous friend the late lamented ;c 
 
 Miller, Esq (the first member of the prov nciai 
 
 Parliament for the Districts of Muskoka and Par^ 
 
 Sound,) on the score of political partisanship bS^ 
 
 greatly modified and ameliorated Dr. Walton's" 
 exu-euie opinions of himself and others I have 
 reason to think that the lessons of experience the 
 awakening voice of conscience and the sobering 
 
 
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 influence of the revolving years have taught 
 Thomas Walton wisdom, and that he is very far 
 from being now as he was then the presumptiously 
 proud, arrogant, insolent, egotistical, self assuming 
 fussy old fiddlestick, who appeared to fondly! 
 foDhshly and futilely imagine that he was the only 
 person m the whole district for whom the sun rose 
 in the morning and the twinkling stars kept their 
 silent watch in the sky at night. Another medical 
 gentleman Dr. John R. Stone, has given evidence 
 u'u l^^^^^^^^^ skill and scientific knowledge to 
 which he has attained for so young a practitioner 
 by a most skillful surgical operation performed on 
 a httle boy in McKellar, for a bad case of hare lip 
 and so successfully that a stranger would never 
 suspect from present appearances that anything 
 particularly wrong had ever effected his features. 
 And last, but not least, comes Dr. Applelbe, who in 
 addition to attending most dilligently to his pro- 
 fessional duties, keeps a first-class drug store and 
 apothecaries shop. And now having particularized 
 quite a number of my kind friends among the best 
 people of Parry Sound, it only remains for me to 
 mention quite a number of other kind friends 
 among the most prominent citizens of the town, 
 in the way of a business directory, to bring this 
 present notice to an end as my space is extremely 
 limited. -^ 
 
 John Galna, 25c., Thomas Kennedy, 25c., M. M 
 Olmstead, 25c., Rev. G. H. Caviller, Incumbent 
 Trinity Church, 25c., Rev. J. B. Duncan, 2Sc., Rob- 
 ert Spring, 2SC., Peter Leushner, McKellar P.O 
 2SC John Moffatt 25c., Fred Collins, 25c.. Thos! 
 l^isher, 2SC., John Purvis, flour and feed store, 2Sc., 
 J. Calder, general blacksmith, 250., T. R. Davis, 
 25c. Ellis Lipscombe, barber, 25c., Ellis Lips- 
 combe, sen., store keeper, 2Sc., H. Q. Richards, 
 house and sign painter, 25c., M. M. Ryder, wag- 
 gon maker, 25c., R. Moulton, grocer, 25c., T. J. 
 McGowan, 2Sc., Adam Burnside, boarding house 
 25c., Mrs. McCoy, boarding house, 25c., T. W' 
 Quin. 2SC., Joseph Calverley, livery stable, 25c." 
 
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 r r J^°f^' ^^*^ ' ^- P"^®*"' 2SC , VV. Adair, 25c., 
 
 Sh ;. tT*"' ^^o" i*"'^ ^'"^' 25c., James Mof- 
 fatt, 25c., Thomas Ryder, jun., 25c., J. C Whichelo, 
 C.PR. agent 25c Miss M. R. Campbell, dress 
 ^c. T ^^\ ^- ^- McKinley, 25c.. James Johnson, 
 25c., Joseph Farrar, pohce magistrate, 25c. 
 
 MUSKOKA. 
 
 Now for Gravenhurst, the gateway town of the 
 
 Rr!L «'•"?* ?;'*"^*..^f Muskoka. Gravenhurst. 
 Brace Bridge, Huntsville, Burk's Falls, Sundridge 
 and Powassin, on the Northern Division of the 
 W^n^ Trunk Railway are splendid monuments. 
 Wonderful examples of what can be accompHshed 
 by the push, pluck, and persistent perseverance of 
 I«^^ / pioneers of a new and a rough country, 
 and the foremost man among the foremost men of 
 
 friend. A. P. Cockburn, Esq., of Gravenhurst, to 
 whom njore than to any other man in it the Dis- 
 trict of Muskoka owes its phenomenal progress in 
 the way of a rapid development of its rescources. 
 and a steady and healthy increase of its population 
 and consequent material improvement and pros- 
 
 nj\ ?• *'!?^ ""i^}}^ ^**'*"*^* '^' gf^atest and most 
 helpful friend and benefactor has been Sir Oliver 
 Mowat himself, under whose wise and paternal 
 administration this part of Canada has received 
 most important, most valuable, and altogether in- 
 dispensable pecuniary aid in the shape of liberal 
 grants to construct and repair colonization roads 
 and bridges to build locks, to dredge rivers, to 
 build court houses, school houses, and « lock-ups " 
 ^?:u n "^"5^*'°"^^ purposes, and the older parts 
 of the Province more favored by nature ought not 
 to look ^ylth a jealous eye upon the aid thus given 
 to the Districts of Muskoka and Parry Sound as 
 they are not only most justly entitled to this foster- 
 ing assistance but to liberal and judiciously be- 
 stowed bonuses for railway construction purposes 
 as well^for surely it would be rather too hard on 
 a new. country to deprive it of one of its most 
 
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 sh^Dfi?»^T'"'°r ^'"' e'^« '■' nothing in the 
 Shape of an equivalent in return and it was indeed 
 
 IXn. ^^"f^'^^'y ?«lfi=h-a most disgurtingly fm^ 
 body of men m Toronto to scream like a tret'd 
 
 to^oZTlV' ° ^r' ''^' ^ P^^l^ °f famished wo res 
 to squeal like a lassoed land Dike mV a^ fi,. v, ' 
 
 U:^Z,°t'i •'^'"S g'ven'tra'p^c't'hlwng f^ 
 and & ^ '>^"«fi«ing of one of the most worth^ 
 and deservmg classes of men in society the hardv 
 
 newtnd°^he' ?"' i"""''"""' Pioneer';et?ler' ^f ^a 
 SutertlTctu?:'""' '"^ ~™^^ ^'°- °f *e 
 
 betTAV^^.^^"y '^''^^'"S»ishsd men" who have 
 Deen led by their innate love for the attractmn !^r 
 grandly sublime and beautiful scenery or by Ae^ 
 of hunliSrand"'/?''^ P'^^™'^^ -^ excisemen 
 
 rf Sciak^^rsrwi'^.„T; k 
 
 read H J^°'""^= 'f ""'""'^'y written o^wouM 
 read like a romance, and who has written one of 
 
 eaT^heT'f-r",? '=''"^"^' sketches I Save ev^r 
 Story of " iSSn- r ^ '"l"? «"'' '^^ly pathetic 
 story of Minnie Grey, the butter maker of Mus- 
 
 to fe wf^fy?°^^' little Heroine, it is a cfed t 
 «nd J; u "* '".*"■>' '»'«"ts and attainments 
 
 aervishes of the Toronto Board of Trade. And now 
 Z^.? 'T"'""'^'' ^ beautiful town where trainT 
 north and south make connection with the Steam 
 ers on Lakes Musknka P-=eaii ar^ T- i, i 
 ing daily communication ™fthevarioT''Ll'r" 
 resorts on the beautiful shelving'tf no r„ck bZd' 
 
 ^«krLake°'^"^' ''''"'' ^' '""- ""^ 
 eeautiful Lakes, were it not that this time of the 
 
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 cramped for space ,ttt>"°'"^ ""•"''■' ' ^"^ ''° 
 abilities and e^ver watch ul care of ^^^ ^f "'' 
 Esq., and his unremittins attentfnn f ^: ?°'='*''urn, 
 and arduous duties as Lnlt ^ ^'^ ^^"°"s 
 
 the Steamboat se vice on ^h^^M 1"1 '1r"^^^'y °f 
 the Magnetawan R verThif •. *'"^'*°^a Lakes and 
 
 appointed anZo^rm 'nda^,;' IfficSTnd^ '^^" 
 
 w° /prearacce°p?r '"'^^^ '" ^^^^""^^'^ "^"^ 
 J. M^NdV MaTor o^f Z tr''^"' **"''=■ -("hn 
 courteous 'gentleman. 35' Tp VZl ^'"i """ 
 Rev. GeorgI Brown, 25 Rev I B^^r,*""""' ^- **• 
 Link, 25, Fred Hasbridge 2^' Dr^ror""n' ^^'A^^' 
 
 r;.''A''l "*• Duchops,^Serchant 25 H Ri°''"- 
 cattle dealer ?e Tr^^J cu 't» -^Si ". K. Kinsf, 
 
 Gravenhurst 2^ banW Q^'^^'P' Caledonia Hotel 
 
 Barrie, a real 'nEe Htf^' P°'' ?'^'^« Inspector 
 
 Grave;,hurst i;, j F YounT^H '^}°"' ' ■"« '" 
 Harrow, Photo^;ip,^^,7^^^^^^^^^^^^^ 
 
 Kir rimeT^e^ha t ftp'^^^'j'^^^'' ^^'^ 
 25, F. J. O^en Trunks '»n^ ^r 'i^^- ^''J' ^°°ds, 
 Mourey\ Co.,' Sn:"'shlpn,^5. ^ R. 
 
 Dyment & Son, lumber merrhante h r"'''^ 
 Camper, 10, E. A. Sanders ToWv^ ?,' '^^°''Se 
 ter and contractor, 25. ' ^«""ell, carpen- 
 
 BRACEBRIDGE. 
 
 frie^nTf lifaf ■p'^lt'^T'' °' ™y °'d time Aurora 
 and intSm ^I^To'^^ •' F^r'e: SoTt^. 
 
 SuikXaXt^HS-ri^^^^^^ 
 
 space will not pe mTtle t ''^^oat. Want of ' 
 
 description in dS of alUt^v ■ '"'° " """"*« 
 I must reserve this for some '^t^^'°;"/«f«Ft'ons. 
 
 ceed at once to rprnr,i ti! '""* *"<^ Pro- 
 
 nce to record the names of kind friends 
 
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 whom I have found in this prosperous and pro- 
 gressive place, to the kind generous hearted 
 clerical gentlemen of Bracebridge I owe special 
 thanks, especially to the Rev. Father P. J. McGuire, 
 a large bodied, large hearted, liberal minded, 
 generous, genial, whole-souled gentleman. He is 
 deservedly one of the most popular men in the 
 town, and throughout the District. Rev. George 
 M. Brown, 25, Rev. Wm. Clark, D.D,, 25, Rev. J. 
 Mydell, 25, Rev. Wm. Armitage, 25, J. W. Dill, 
 25, James Dollar, 25, R. A. Topp, M.D., 25, J. 
 Foster, M.D., 25, G. H. Fuller, Merchant, 25, J. W. 
 B. Topp, Dentist, 25, James W. Bcttes, 25, J. Pratt, 
 25, J. H. Thomas, 25, Geo. W. Morris, 25, James 
 Whitten, manager " Muskoka Leather Co." 25, 
 John Lieshman, British Lion Hotel, 25, R. J. Mc- 
 Ewan, Merchant Tailor, 25, J. C. Nelson, Carpenter, 
 25, Thos. M. Bowerman, Mllr Mrchnt Dv. Crt. 
 Clrk. Mrrg Lssns 25, T. J. Anderson, 25, J. R. 
 Simmons, Gen. Store, 25, R. W. Ryan, Photo- 
 grapher, 25, Ball Bros., Jewelers, 25, J. P. Humph- 
 ries, General Store, 25, H. J. Bird, Woollen Mills, 
 25, J. O. Phillips, Groceries and Provisions, 25, Mrs. 
 Wm. Hewitt, 25, Geo. Carr, Baker, 13. 
 
 HUNTSVILLE. 
 
 Now for the beautiful backwoods forest town 
 of Huntsville, where I made $4 in the short space 
 of one winter afternoon, (Dec. 31, 1890). Hunts- 
 ville like Gravenhurst, Bracebridge and Burk's 
 Falls on the line of the Northern Division of the 
 Grand Trunk R. R., is a port for steamboats travers- 
 ing the various beautiful lakes and winding rivers 
 of the Districts of Muskoka and Parry Sound, 
 there is one first-class weekly newspaper published 
 in the town, the " Huntsville Forester," with my 
 kind, clever, clear-headed friend, F. W. Clearwater, 
 as Editor and proprietor. Rev. J, F, Severight, 
 25c., Rev. A. E. Rowe, 25c., C. A. Walton, Druggist, 
 25c,, Ceo. Ewalt, P. M., 25c., J. R. Reece, 25c., C. 
 A. Wattson, Druggist, 25c., Thomas A. Birtch, 
 Toronto and Nipising Hotel, a first-class livery in 
 
connection. I iu*l grateful to this kind gentleman 
 for the very liberal treatmc nt I received from him 
 and thts reminds me that 1 a o owe my best thanks 
 to J Vv'. Carey, proprietor of the Dunchurch Hotel 
 m the thrifty village of Dunchurch, for his kind 
 generous and geijtlemanly conduct towards me' 
 and for a like rea sonmy piAlic acknowledgments 
 are also due to his excellent and model managing 
 wife. This debt paid I resume my Directory of 
 Huntsville. M. Murphy, Dominion Hotel, 25c 
 James Middleton, Boot & Shoe maker, 25c J D 
 Thomas, Barber, Boats kept for hire, Edwin Flax- 
 man, Merchant Tailor, 25c., Sargeant & Co., 25c, 
 Miss G. Hunt, Dress-maker, 20c., A. Sicveright, 
 Druggist & Stationer, 30c., F. Slater, cheap cash 
 store, 25c., Gilchrist's Hotel, A. Gilchrist, prop. 50c. 
 James Montgomery, General Merchant, 25c., Thos 
 Wilhs, Butcher, 2Sc., J. VV. Gledhill, Watch & 
 Clock-maker 25c., Goldie & Foster, 25c., the Misses 
 Chaffey millinery, 25c., Chas. S. Gray, Barber & 
 Fur dealer. 2sc., J. Matthews, 2Sc., Tait, the Tailor, 
 M u A'^'"^"'"^^' Scotland, 25c., A. Ganon, 
 f ^^Jhant Tailor, 15c., J. C. Parliament, Agt. for 
 li/Mr "Y,*/ P?P' Huntsville Hospital. 25c., P 
 Williams, Watch maker, loc, Geo. Montgomery, 
 lor Charley Birtch, loc, James Pells, loc., Chas. 
 tord IOC, Geo. Hubertson & Son, 250., Doctor 
 Howland, 25c., M. B. Strachan, loc, J. Bl^hn^. 
 
 1 5c. 'J I ^ 
 
 EMSDALE. 
 
 Emsdale a very pleasant and prosperous village 
 on the Northern Division of the G.TR., a few miles 
 north -m where the Parry Sound Colonization 
 K.R. eo . ■. ■■c. w- «^h it. Emsdale is, for its size, one 
 ofthe rD5 Irx. aland f«nlightened places I have 
 evervhrn-D In Emsn^le I had the pleasure of 
 meeting with a very kind and generous friend of 
 --— V /-"» - --ic^ii^ing, ivlr. ivobcrt Tavior, who was 
 at the time of my visit a contractor on the P S C 
 R.R., but who is now a highly esteemed citizen' of 
 Winnipeg, Manitoba. 
 
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 J. W. McDonald, general merchat, 50c., A. R. 
 Munn, general store and saw mill, 50c., J. P. Shf»w, 
 general merchant, 50c., W. M. Drew, 25c., T. F. 
 Berlsand, 25c., Wm. Thos. Wheatley, Barber, 25c., 
 C. G. Chappin, Watch-maker & Jeweler, 25c., M. 
 Brooks, Mail Contractor, 25c., J. A. Brooks, Agt. 
 G.T.R., 25c., T. T. Birchard, Contractor, P.S.C.R., 
 Scotia, 25c., Andrew Little, R.R. Contractor, 25c., 
 
 iohn McDonald, Shoemaker, ?5c., Geo. Thomas, 
 Uacksmith, 25c., David Thomas, 25c., J. W. Gilpin, 
 Queen's Hotel, 25c., M. D. Mitchell, 25c., H. Pilch, 
 prop. Grand Central Hotel, 25c., Alfred N. H. 
 Chowne, 25c. 
 
 BURK'S FALLS. 
 
 To my very kind and generous friends Messrs. 
 James Sharpe, M.P.P., for the District of Parry 
 Sound, E. O. Taylor, merchant, J. D. Reid, the able 
 and intelligent Editor of the " Burk's Falls Arrow," 
 M. C. Drew, hardware merchant, Herman Hall, G. 
 T.R. agent, J. D. Burk, Proprietor of Burk's Hotel, 
 and Frederick Brasher of the Clifton House Hotel, 
 and other kind and considerate friends of the 
 romanticly, beautiful and exceedingly picturesque 
 Town of Burk's Falls, I tender my best thanks and 
 most grateful acknowledgments. This enter- 
 prising town has communication through one of 
 Mr. Cockburn's line of steamers on the beautiful 
 Magnettawan River, with Magncttawan and Ahmic 
 Harbor Villages during the season of navigation, 
 and by mail stage when this avenue of com- 
 munication is closed by Jack Frost. Rev. P. J. 
 Robinson, Incumbent of All Saints' Church, 30c., 
 Rev. J. V. Plunkett, 25c., Captain W. M. Kennedy, 
 Magnettawan, 25c., C. Caughell, M.D., 25c., G. C. 
 Church, dry, goods and groceries, 25c., J. C. 
 Mitchell, variety store, 25c., Joseph Prior, Tel. 
 Operator, 25c., J. Menzies & Co., general merchants, 
 
 25c., K. a. J. x-,i*niL;, iiica;. iiia.i.--u ki:--: Ut-..^ r 
 
 25c., J. W. Templeman, merchant, 25c., Peter 
 Sollmann, 25c., Robert Staff, barber, 25c., Wm. 
 Wilson, undertaker, 25c., J. W. Dodds, manu- 
 
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 iacturer and dealer in hoots and shoes, 25c., Knight 
 Bros., sash and door factory, 25c., E. Basset, Dep. 
 L. Surgeon, 25c., R. Appleby, postmaster, Katrine.' 
 25c., A. P. Coolege, tel. operator, 250., John Hol- 
 bert, saw and shingle mill, 250., J. B. Smith, 25c., 
 Moses Robinson, 25c. 
 
 SUNDRIDGE. 
 
 Sundridge is in one respect the very opposite of 
 Burk's Falls, the site on which it stands is about as 
 level as a table top and instead of a rushing mill 
 race running through it, it fronts the low-lying 
 shore of a lovely lake. It is a very prosperous and ' 
 pleasant town for such a new country, with three 
 large hotels and a first-class weekly newspaper, the 
 " Sundridge Echo," with my kind friend R. Hewat, 
 as its Editor and pbp. Rev. J. T. Morris (a rising 
 young minister), 45c., J. C. Faulkner, photographer, 
 2Sc., J. E. Black, Jewelry & Fancy goods, A. Car- 
 michael, M.D., 25c., H. Carter, Druggist, 2Sc., W. 
 Carter, Reeve, 25c., John Carter, post.Tiaster, 25c., 
 John Jackson, Queen's Hotel, 25c., John McGowan, 
 Revere House, 2Sc., George Thomson, Grand 
 Central Hotel, Wm. Dobson, General Store, 25c., 
 Jas. Durie, Furniture & Undertaker, 250., David 
 Matchett, Shoemaker, 2Sc., Wm. Houston, Mer- 
 chant Tailor, 25c., A. E. Peters, Hardware & 
 Stoves, 2Sc. 
 
 POWASSAN. 
 IrJThe tov/n site of Powassan is a sort of com- 
 promise between the flat faced surface of the town 
 site of Sundridge and the picturesquely steep-slope- 
 ing and slanting site of Burk's Falls, the Quebec in 
 minature of the District of Muskoka with the 
 Magnetteman River for its St. Lawrence. The 
 Porters of Powassan appeared to be a peculiar 
 if not a powerful people in that particular place, 
 but this remark refers more especially to the old 
 man the original progenitor and prop, of the 
 Porters of Powassan when I first saw him he was 
 sitting at the stove in his store dilligently engaged 
 in the perusual of an " old Mother Hubbard went 
 
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 to the cupboard " or a " bold Robin Hood " or a 
 Babes in the wood " sort of a loudly illustrated 
 child's book and so absorbed was he in this pursuit 
 of amusement and eddification that myself and my 
 Book and my business were at least "20,000 
 leagues beneath " his notice and when I again 
 visited his store in the afternoon of the same day 
 I found him sedulously engaged in the delectable 
 occupation of snapping a toy pistol and playing on 
 a mouth organ ; but then as some excuse for the 
 dotagy doings of this old man, I must state that it 
 was in the " Merry Christmas time " when I 
 paid a visit to Powassan, yet he was quite a con- 
 trast to another fine old gentleman, Mr. W. F. 
 Clarke, a model sample of an industrious pioneer 
 settler whose cosy comfortable well furnished low 
 roofed cottage home was on the outskirts of the 
 village. From a remark let fall by little Willie Wag- 
 tail, tipsy tongue Gibson, I inferred that Mr. Clark 
 was the first proprietor of the town plot of 
 Powassan as wee Willie Wagtail said something 
 about Mr. Clarke having given him a free lot to 
 build a house on to " start the town," to startle the 
 town would, (one would quite naturally suppose 
 from the queer way he carried on part of the time 
 I was there) be a more expressive and suitable re- 
 mark, it was also a rather amuseing thing to see 
 some of the good natured merry hearted shanty 
 boys bring a plump qniet tempered little horse into 
 the bar-room and up to the bar of one of the two 
 hotels of the town and the very gentlemanly way 
 the little horse acknowledged the honor by politely 
 raising — not his hat, for he had none — but his tail 
 and in the most quiet matter of fact manner de- 
 posit a good sized pile of dung on the floor behind 
 him — had it been the big bossy bovine, that John 
 Tait of McKellar is represented as ridjng home on 
 the manner and matter would have been different. 
 
 But now for the names of kind friends in 
 Powassan. Rev. A, Jamieson, 25c., Rev. M. J. 
 Ellis, 25c., W. F. Clark, 25c., Thos. Irvine, 25c., 
 J. A. Porter, M.D., 25c., Mrs. S. S. Grasley, Millin- 
 
Mitchell & McRae, saw mill, shingle mill and 
 planingfactory 2SC.. J. J. O. Shaughnessey, saddler. 
 25c., W. A. Inglis. tinsmith & taxedermist, 2<c 
 
 JrH?nnr^ '^ ^^"c *' blacksmith, 2SC., H. A. Rich'-' 
 ardson, G T. R. Station agent, 2Sc, Cunningham 
 Bros., butchers, 25c., J. C. Frederick, merchant 
 tailor, 25c, J. Lucas, prop. Queen's Hotel, 2Sc. 
 
 
 
 John Tait, the cowboy on his cow 
 here see him "heading" homeward now 
 
 perhaps—to make this matter plain, 
 you'll see him in my book again 
 as some have seen him once before 
 (yes some alas who are no more^ 
 amongst them, good grand William Beane 
 who loved the good, and scorned the mean) 
 unless John Tait should " look alive " 
 and pay to me those dollars five 
 of which he seeks to swindle me 
 and yet I yield not passively 
 to gross attempts at fraud and wrong 
 without a protest loud and strong. 
 CALLANDER. 
 
 Callander the next station of importance on'the 
 line of the Northern Division of the G.T.R. has 
 also the advantage of being a shipping port, as it 
 « Hieasanny located on the eastern shore of a bav- 
 like extension of Lake Nippissing, making it quite 
 convenient as a hunting and fishing resort It has 
 !y!^''!i'^^^9 tc^s with every conve nience for the 
 
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 accommodation and comfort of guests, and to Mr. 
 Brown and Mr. White, the courteous and gentle- 
 menly proprietors, I must acknowledge my in- 
 debtedness for the very kind and generous treat- 
 ment I received from them. H. T. Gervis, lumber 
 dealer, 25c., J. B. Brown, Prop. Pacific Hotel, 50c.. 
 Joseph White, Prop. White House, 50c., George 
 Morrison, general merchant, 25c., Joseph Hicks» 
 general store, 25c., M. F. Ellis, postmaster and fancy 
 store, 25c., Alfred Guidal, lumber culler, 25c., send 
 book to 198 Dunn ave., Parkdale, Francis Bell 
 Ferris, land surveyor, Lorimer Lake, McKellar 
 P. O. 25c., John B. Moore, 25c., Thomas Kingston, 
 25c., Robert Graham, Y. H. Swale, loc. 
 
 WISAWARA. 
 
 While in Callender I paid a flying visit to a 
 small Hamlet with the odd, wild, wierd name of 
 Wisawara, located in a wierdly wild sort of a place 
 with a meeting house, school-house, store and post- 
 office, and for the place a really magnificent wool- 
 carding and cloth weaving mill driven by water 
 power, where the wool comes from to keep this 
 mill going was a mystery to me. F. G. Watts, 
 store and post office, 25c., Cronkhite Bros, 
 Wisawara Woollen Mills, 25c. 
 
 ' NORTH BAY, 
 
 It was to me not simply a matter of pleasurable 
 surprise but of delighted astonishment to find such 
 a large, prosperous and populous town in this far 
 nothern district of Canada, the joint result as we 
 might say of a large and beautiful inland lake, the 
 handiwork of God, and one of the most gigantic en- 
 terprises of modern times, a grand highway of glit- 
 tering steel for Antipodean Nations to travel over 
 in their intercourse with each other. The creation 
 
 sive mind. The wonderfully magnetic, not to say 
 mesmeric personality, the far extending, and high 
 reaching influence. The almost kingly power of 
 one man. The late, greatly missed and much la- 
 
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 mented Sir John A. Macdonald, one of the grandest 
 and greatest men whose feet have ever trod the soil 
 of Canada, and whose honoured name will ever live 
 written in letters of gold in the annals of his adop- 
 ted country's long and wide Dominion, and if no 
 other monument should be erected to his memory 
 the Canadian Pacific Railway would be a lasting 
 monument of his remarkably useful life. Of his 
 wonderful influence over men, and his grand 
 supremacy as a man and a statesman. In the 
 earlier years of Canadian Parliamentary History 
 the Hon. Robert Baldwin, and later on the Hon 
 George Brown, and still later on Sir John Abbot 
 were remarkably and deservedly popular men. 
 But Sir John Macdonald was as much above and 
 beyond them as the brilliant light of the evening 
 star outshines the lesser lights that sparkle round it 
 and here I will advance the theory as a conclusive 
 proof of the wonderful providence, the all-seeing wis- 
 dom of God. That Sir John Macdonald would not 
 have been the grand man he was or have occupied 
 the exalted position he did but for his associations 
 with a greatly good and noble woman, his most ex- 
 cellent and rarely gifted wife, and this remark will 
 apply with equal' force to that grand old English 
 statesman Gladstone. But what I would ask are 
 the greatest men that now live or have ever' lived 
 on earth in comparison with the Almighty and ever- 
 lasting God who created and sustains it ? but as 
 a gram of sand on the shores of its largest ocean. 
 But as a handful of dust in one of the scales of a 
 balance large enough to weigh two worlds. Want of 
 space will not permit me to enter into a full descrip- 
 tion of everything worthy of notice in this beauti- 
 ful Town! must confine myselfto giving the names 
 ot kind friends and patrons in the way of a business 
 directory with no comparative or special notice of 
 any person in particular. 
 
 North Bav is most nnhVahhr w*>ii fq^r/-.,,ri^j a„ r,^ 
 as ample hotel accommodation is concerned as it has 
 nearly half a dozen hotels of almost metropolitan 
 dimensions- and appointments for the comfort and 
 
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 convenience of its patrons, at the head of this impos- 
 ing array I must place the Pacific Hotel, tho' Mr. 
 Lynch of the Queen's Hotel claims that his Hotel 
 is the finest in the town. 
 
 Wm. Murray & Co, proprietors of Pacific Hotel, 
 Thos. Meagher manager, a first class hotel in all re- 
 spects, beside this hotel Mr. Murray & Co., keep a 
 large general store and also owns and operates a 
 large awmill and a door and sash factory ; a special 
 feature of their business is the furnishing of railway 
 supplies, they also pay the highest price for raw furs, 
 $i.oo. Queen's Hotel, E. Lynch, 50c., Rev. A. C. 
 Miles, " Church of England Clergyman," 25c., Rev. 
 J. Webster, 2Sc., N. P. Phelps, Editor " Times," 25c., 
 Rev. Wm. Johnston, 25c., D. Perrins, hardware 
 merchant, 25c., O.Gauthier, groceries and provisions, 
 25c., John Ferguson, real estate dealer and lumber 
 merchant, 25c., A. B. Lanning, stationery and fancy 
 goods, 25c., John Blanchet, steam soda water, 
 factory, fruit fish and game, 25., Francis Brill, 
 carpenter, 25c., Mr. D. Mclntyre, groceries, 25c., 
 J. A. Kinsella & Co., groceries and teas, 25c., Wm. 
 McKenzie, groceries, provisions and restaurant, 
 25c., Graham & Co., hardware merchants, 25c., 
 W. A. Simpson, butcher and sausage maker, 2Sc., 
 W. D. Thompson, C. P. R. engineer, 25c., A. H. 
 Chamberlain, 25c., Wm. Doran, stipendary magis- 
 trate and Registrar, 25c., E. H. Ross & Co., watch- 
 makers and jewelers, 25c., Winnipeg Hotel, A. J. 
 Doyle, prop., 25c., Jas. P. Ball, watchmaker atid re- 
 pairer, 25c., J. B. Carruthers, M.D., 25c., R. Mc- 
 Knight, surgeon dentist, 25c., Wm. Maurhiney, 
 insurance, Iban and real estate agent, 2Sc., Half- 
 penny & Co., Boot & Shoes & Gent's Furnishings, 
 25c., Mr. D. McDonald, asst. postmaster, 25c., 
 Mrs. D. McKenzie, boarding house, 25c., Miss 
 Pelletier, dressmaker, 25c., McLeod Bros., dairy- 
 men, 25c., D. H. Darr, merchant tailor, 25c., S. 
 Dunlap & Co., star shoe store, 25c., Tookey 
 Gregson, groceries and provisions, 25c,, W.G.Farmer, 
 biker and confectioner, 25c., M. C. Caverhill, gen'l 
 merchant, 25c., Burgess & Co., dry goods and gro- 
 
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 Sood^, ^Sc.; Windsor Hote''te''f^"'y ""^ 
 |5c.. Grand Union HoterS:!;i/, ^Tk^' P-P- 
 
 W. Deegan. choice "tkV"!^^^ -^--. -SC / 
 Richardson & Co. stovp« =.„JV *"°^' ^Sc, 
 
 I';iiey, conductor C. P R ,?' r''=- Thomas 
 ha,r cutting and shaving parlor L n% ^^^"• 
 barber, Front St -.i-^ F-r'or, 25c., D. St. Piere. 
 
 blacksmith 25c: T Cuthbl°i\^°"""">'' genera 
 W. J. Beamish! M kSa'^" ^n^"^''''!- ^Sc.. 
 25c., Wm MrDnnoi^ ''*^X» 25c.,. K. K. Booth 
 
 McDonaTd /jc mIp a''"?'''"^'/?^'. M'^'' Bella 
 and fancy good^; 2JC. ^ Edwards, millinry 
 
 TORONTO. 
 
 Among the kindest, the best »n^ ^u 
 generous friends I have VonnH »„ u ° *''* "ost 
 
 honor of number „/one of tlr^'"';^'*' ' '»"«"'« 
 ^gacious and Z^t rarely ^fftT^Pf'-"'"'' -""^t 
 has ever been placed bv ,^ ^ -.^ Statesman, who 
 the head of any Onterio'^?-T '°"' ^^^'l^^' a* 
 thrice written hirnrm^at^h^rrSro't r'" ""A^ 
 
 htrti^oTor'^Zt-^-^^^^^^^^^^^ 
 kindest and °nosteenero^»f""^/"'°"S my best, 
 
 popular, mosTTaSd anH l'* ''.°"^ of the most 
 in Toronto alone buHn »n r '"i"^ ministers, not 
 signed his name fn my canva^,^'*''' Z*"",^""' *''"« 
 Wild. ^ canvassing books, Joseph 
 
 RefiSr^lTI/r'^^^f 0"t«-. $'. 
 Soc., Rev. Samuel T, ;i, "• ^'^'°'" Withrow 
 
 33 Richmond" stelt"west™ir" R """^r^' ' 
 Potts, 25c., Rev lohn q1 ' ' ^*^- John 
 
 Mowat, 'sherfr of^T^^onto •---5'=-W''''2'<'"^'^ 
 Manager of Globe PrinVini V^ ■ ^- Taylor. 
 
 •D. Pardee, Commissioner of Crown Lands, 
 
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 50c., F. L. Wilson, Merchants' Exchange, Front 
 
 Street, $1, J. W. Bengough, Poet and Artist, $1, 
 
 Hon. W. H. Howland, twice elected Mayor of 
 
 Toronto, $1, Dr. Cochrane, 50c., Aubrey White, 
 
 Esq., Assistant Commissioner of Crown Lands, 
 
 5QC. 
 
 TORONTO JUNCTION. 
 
 Toronto Junction. — W. R. Gillespie, M.D., 25c., 
 G. W. Glendenan, 25c., Mayor, 25c., Rev. M. J. 
 Barkwell, 25c., Dr. Mavety, 25c., Robert J. Leigh, 
 Town Clerk, 2Sc., A. B. Pipher, Architect, 25c., 
 Dr. Reid, 25c. 
 
 YORK MILLS. 
 
 York Mills, Yonge st. — D. B. Birrell, proprietor 
 York Mills Hotel, about half a mile north of the 
 present terminus of the Yonge St. Electric Railway, 
 but I earnestly hope that it will reach Thornhill 
 and Richmond Hill before the lapse of many 
 years, and this most desirable consumation would 
 hav3 the effect of doubling their population and 
 quadrupling their attractions, and would virtually 
 make these fine villages part of the northern 
 suburbs of Toronto, inside of 10 years from the day 
 the railway would reach Richmond Hill. It would 
 not be a very difficult or hasardous undertaking for 
 a good strong company to take this enterprise in 
 hand, and then Mr. Thompson could buy a farm and 
 use his stage horses to plow his stubble fields, and 
 everyone concerned could travel this route in one- 
 half the time and at one-half the cost than is pos- 
 sible now. And it would be quite possible to 
 utilize this railway and its rolling stock, (if circum- 
 stances required it and it should be found ex- 
 pedient) for freight as well as passenger traffic. 
 
 WILLOWDALE. 
 
 Willowdale, Yonge st. — Peter S. Gibson, P.L.S., 
 25c., Vv. o. oiusuii, r.Li.o., ^S^-> J' ^- oaiiucriiun, 
 IOC, Wm. Stevenson, merchant and post master, 
 25c., Mrs. C. Murphy, 15c., Mrs. E. Pickering, 25c., 
 Mrs. Smith, 15c., J. McKenzie, lOc, Dan Stong, 
 IOC., Sara H. Keppler, loc. 
 
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 NEWTONBROOK 
 iar'^HrstToc ^W^ti^^^" ^- Steele. Popu. 
 and post office, 25c. I'Ouiding. general store 
 
 AURORA. 
 
 Vo'^g:"t^4t'"o:e''o?&?" ^"-t ^8 -nnes up 
 '" the Province of OntarS ?'''^.''^™''^^'' "»o? 
 three-quarters of a centurvi^ constructed nearly 
 ■•u'e and patriotic Government n"/r *^ P^'«™«^ 
 coe, after whom that exteS "'^Governor Sim- 
 near its northern end warnL *i"^ ^^^"tiful lalce 
 population of between 20^""^; ^"~^^ ha» a 
 q"'te a city like apneara^:-?^ ^"^ ^.OOO and has 
 coming up Yonge'^ft'eS from' t^" ^^^ '^«^'"er 
 number, size and imposfn/=n ^^ '°"*^' ^"<i the 
 buildings, testifies TSe^Jn'i"'"?"'^^ "f'ts public 
 sp'ritofalarge maioritv J ". ^'l'^ and patriotic 
 ample accommod"?ton for L ' '"''\t'itants, it has 
 travellers, as it has four <,?^ ^u'"^^'' """ber of 
 and best being the Ouef n?, uT'' '^' ^"S^'t 
 managed by mf- ktZi ^f ^ ''"'e'. owned Ind 
 
 Wells^sq^ 2 M ' WdlfSe?-'"^""'' ^''^"^ 
 finest hotel in Aurorrh, t K'^ ""="■ ""'y the 
 
 largest hotels north o^To'n?'" °^ ?"= ""est'^and 
 a model hotel-keeper 'ulT.' '" *"= ''' '''''"^elf 
 P?ssesed. Another'teVk^-nd anH*f """"^ ^"'^ =elf 
 fnend of mine in the Kr u ^™erous old time 
 John Steele, of the "Pno,?! ^^'^P'"g hne is Mr. 
 ant tovvnland o NewtorBronk""''' J" *^ P'eas- 
 somewhere about mTdw=.v K . ' °" ^™?e street, 
 .Aurora, this hotel is vervTn.""?^" J°™"to and 
 ■s one of the most DnnnP™P''J^'^'y "^^cd as it 
 hotels on Yongrstreet ^^^^ ""i* '^'' Patronized 
 Steele is himfelf ^'nt of ^hr^" '° ""''• ^s Mr. 
 popular landlords in the whllr."'°" genial and 
 this connection a i" ,'^1*!?°'^ "^"""ty of York, in 
 
 to mention another gelitle^'^^f P^^Pt^ me 
 k'nd and considerate frienTf^ "'''°. "'^^ « ^ery 
 years of my literary c„eer Mr W-ir "'^ earlier 
 
 / "eer, Mr. William Wilson, 
 
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31 
 
 
 who some 12 or 13 years ago kept a hotel at Fair- 
 bank, on the 3rd concession of West York. Nor 
 will I forget to acknowledge the very kind and 
 courteous treatment I received from the noticeably, 
 handsome, bright eyed, pleasant mannered, lady- 
 like young landlady of the Queen's hotel, Thorn- 
 hill, Mrs. Scott, on the occasion of my recent visit 
 tc that pleasant if not progressive village. To re- 
 turn to Aurora, this favored town is located in the 
 heart of a fine farming country, and one of the 
 finest and best cultivated farms in its immediate 
 neighborhood is owned and cultivated by my 
 esteemed friends John and Hugh Scott, whom I 
 have known since they were little boys in petti- 
 coats, who are wisely following the prudent, in- 
 dustrous and exemplary example of their lamented 
 father the late WaLer Scott. Esq. And now 
 having paid a slight tribute of respect to a few 
 kind and generous friends I will take the liberty of 
 paying my worst respects to a couple of men who 
 have shown quite an opposite tendency. I was 
 tellirfg a bright young gentleman in Mr. Ferguson's 
 store, about my having found old Ned Stevenson 
 one of the meanest and most close-fisted old men 
 in Aurora, at which he laughed heartly,and on my 
 telling him that old Henry Machell was something 
 
 OLD HENRY OR HANK MACHELL AND OLD NED STEYENSON. 
 
 like old Ned Stevenson, he laughed still more 
 heartily and shook hands with me telling me he 
 
I 
 
 ners, from hrmothe7.r 'r ''u'^ P^^"«"' •"»"- 
 kno; in Aurora tnH. °f 'i".^ ""^^'' '*^'" I 
 fine, large and wHI 1 '^f'""^^'''^ good looking, 
 
 that if H^nry felt'indLl?:^ ^°"'t" "' "^"- ^° 
 she could g,vc him such a 1-? ^'?u ^1' ^"y '«»'« 
 palm of her openanHV. ^t^" *^ '"S with the 
 
 markable men before I I Jt A .? [ *^^^ '*" "■«- 
 will see that I have Jnl °'^J """ "'J' ''"^"ds 
 omission from memorv T°"'^^ \° fPP'^ '^is 
 wore his hair quiteT^7«iK"°uT'' *''^' "^""-y 
 peculiar religious sect rt. l^^ ^^°"S'"^ '° =ome 
 hunkers or tunkers and 1 ^f^^"^ °' 1"^'^«'-=. *e 
 have put th s esDeci»?r T ^"'=."?' *'" =«« '''at I 
 
 of his'iead mXe LIctureTh °^'"^ ''"^^ °^ ^^'"«' 
 his special benefit Ann 1 f"^ f°' engraved for 
 kind friends whom I found ?n I"' "'^ "^™"' °^'he 
 
 Wilkinsons old stand^ '"^'' as a machinist in 
 
 Richard Wells, Queen's Hotel coc Dr cjf. 
 5>n, 25c. Rev. Mr Musson 2 c^ t I T" 
 Esq., proprietor and edito? of ^'L J;^- ^r^^ 
 "Aurora Banner" 2 cr n u 1! ">« ^^o reliable 
 Michigan, Mrs Char?^' n "'''"^'•. ^°^ ""■•on, 
 IOC., C Bu Cher ,^ T? ^"'i°=;' J' ^- McNally 
 Tracy, mercSt t^io/'?^' ^"t'Z'' A"^' J^"" 
 Newberry artist .rt t ' i"**" McDonald, R. 
 fruit, lot Wm ' Hastier' * •:°- ^™^^"« ^"^ 
 A. York, drugSst ,oc i' TT^T f°'- '<^- 
 confectioner. ,r^' ^°^' ^ /_ ^canlan, baker and 
 
 .oc.. E. Braund," WdX ^^""r D°^P "°"^'' 
 general store, loc S H„ii .S'" • ^- ^^^guson, 
 
 -. P. T. Bond°Ur"a^^t;nre:n^:n: 
 
 •■'.[^ 
 

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 33 
 
 Evans bakery and confectionery, lOc, Wm. Ough, 
 stoves and hardware, lOC. G. D. Patterson, drug- 
 gS. IOC, John W. Lloyd book and stationery. 
 IOC M. Forsyth, music and book store, lOc, L. A. 
 Wiilson, V.S: IOC, James G. Tinline, barber loc.. 
 W W Royce, Singer sewmgmachmcs, IOC James 
 Bond carriage trimmer, loc , W. J. Bassett, butcher 
 IOC, Wm. Willis, harness and saddles, loc Joseph 
 Bond, groceries and provisions, lOc, K. VVatkms, 
 
 barber, loc 
 
 WOODBRIDGE. 
 
 Woodbridge is in someparts and in some respects 
 an exceedingly pretty and picturesque village, with 
 a fine farming country surrounding ^t-th^ energy 
 enterorise and business tact and talent of the Wal- 
 laceBrothers.withold John Abelasanablecoadjuto^^^ 
 
 was among the most important factors in the early 
 development and building up of the town in my 
 Si? opinion old John Abel did not do the right 
 thine in deserting a place where he laid the foun- 
 dation of his fortune. If the Wallace Brothers had 
 ™ed his example it would have leit the town 
 in a "rather unpleasant Perd^canrient. If hoary 
 headed old Johnnie had been far sighted and fore- 
 sSited enough to obtain a site near the railway, 
 and put up improved buildings, with'a switch to the 
 mUway, instead of deserving as he does now to 
 
 •♦ OLD HARRY " ABEL AND DOCTOR TOM. 
 
 have a switch well laid across his brawny back, he 
 would richly merit a crown of bay leaves bound 
 around his patriot brow and the honor of a seat in 
 the great council room of his adopted land And 
 the buildings he has put up instead of being a 
 
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 34 
 
 ^i^i^oah"Sli:l^^'"^^" 'fy -^^ - the 
 be a noble monument fo m/ '^""^ '''"^e^"''^' ^^""^^ 
 fanscendant bur^^'^b lide^ ' AnVno?"^ ^'J^'^ 
 are now occupying the place thev i ''f ^^^>^ 
 
 up as they were fn hL^oId at-a^^^^^^ ,T 
 monument of short-sighted follv r.f ."""'.g^.^tly 
 greedv masmncr 1 ^. •'"">'' ^'an msat ably, 
 s v-tuy, giaspmg, avaricious amhl*mn \r i . 
 
 Town of Woodbrid.rc to vvh' m r i^" S"°'' "''' 
 
 heartfelt thanks for the favor IhT'^u ""^ J""'^' 
 me. ""^""^ '"ey have shown 
 
 _ F. L. Brown, 2i;c.. Rev W p c n 
 25c., T. F. Wallace ,6c r T ru Swallows, 
 John McClure. loc Ge^^ie mT: ^^^""'^7- 'oc. 
 T. Wallace, lie Dr pTi ^ ?"' '°''- ^''^- ^■ 
 Wilson, .oc!, . Amos M^yna;d^,o^^c-'■H"M''"• 
 head, ,oc- John Mclntos^h. oc AJexan^e? p"^'- 
 tiss, ioc„ Harris & Horslev 2n^ l^iexfi'der Pren- 
 Milton Rogers Toe ,r.7' l^^' ^" ^^"•^- 'Oc., 
 Keedwell ,oc f r ' i n"f"'°"> '°=- Mrs. I 
 
 Baxtei, .oc.?' Le°w' EZ^ f^T "w' T' ^"■• 
 IOC., Mrs. E. D.- Haslam i^' .''V^'uLawrcnce, 
 Miss Olive McMullen loc jLS n»T' '°'- 
 
 frrw'inTh 7orr''°V' ^ ^-'<'° 
 
 E.:Prentiss" ,o? G E Mrrf"'^^ ^"'f °"- 'o^'. R 
 .oc.. Wm.Osb;r„e ■," s"%r- ^- ^^^'"^«. 
 masterCP.R 20c And „o ? ""' ^°''- ^'^''on 
 
 of the most insoentt mean oU^T'^l \^°" °"« 
 
 Thorn Tr\ -"-'>- who°'c'ar"hiLdr S? 
 
 te, a "rreTedT.W'' ?'i ^om a" d'l^rs 
 
 was H maJv^w!. '!^''.^^y^^ "^et w^th any where. he 
 
35 
 
 Wilson, of Ri< imond Hill, and Dr. Rogers of New- 
 market, and scores of other kind friends amonjr the 
 medical profession whose names I have not space 
 to mention here, to judge from the appear- 
 ance old " Doctor Tom " presented when f saw 
 him, no decent woman who had the least respect 
 for herself or the slightest regard for what other 
 people might think about her, would tolerate his 
 presence in her house longer than it would take 
 her to help him out of it with the valuable assist- 
 ance of a good strong, old fashioned, blue beech 
 broom stick. In my humble opinion this old 
 fellow and old John Abel's "nasty "old brother 
 •• Hennerre," who played the "old Harry " with the 
 wife of a decent citizen of Woodbridge some years 
 ago, would make an admirably well matched team 
 of short ear'd asses. There are two first-class brick 
 hotels in Woodbridge, the Inkcrman hotel, Mr. 
 Alfred Haystead, and the Woodbridge house, Mr. 
 John Emler. 
 
 AHMIC HARBOR. 
 This very pretty and picturesque village at the 
 western terminus of steamboat navigatian on the 
 Magnettawan River owes its origin to the energy 
 and enterprise of Mr. John Crosswell, a rather gris- 
 sled and grim looking old gentleman. Tho' whe- 
 ther Mr. Crosswell does well to look cross is a ques- 
 tion that at present I have no inclination to investi- 
 gate but will proceed at once to give the names of 
 those kind friends I found in this pleasant and salu- 
 brious summer resort. John Kyle, hotel keeper 
 $i.oo, John Crosswell, 50c., S. L. Ritter, 30c' 
 Samuel Young, 25c., Less Cliff, 25c., Malcolm 
 Geddes, 25c., Fred Somers. Dunchurch P.O. 20c 
 Miss D. Kyle, 20c , Miss K. Gibson, loc. 
 MAGNETTAWAN. 
 I have very pleasant recollections of the beauti- 
 ful village of Magnettawan near the falls of the 
 Magnettawan river it is situated in one of the fair- 
 est and most fertile sections of the free Grant Dis- 
 tricts with communication with the outside world 
 by steamboats during nearly two-thirds of the year 
 
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 and by mail stages the balance of the revolving 
 seasons. (The winter time of the year), as naviga- 
 tion on the Magncttawan river is kept going as 
 long as Mr. Frost may be pleased to grant permis- 
 sion. I should like tc give a more extended ac- 
 count of this enterprising and prosperous town, but 
 limited space forbids. Just room to give the names 
 of friends with heartiest and most heartfelt thanks. 
 Thomas Stewart, 50c., S. G. Best, crown land 
 agent and telegraph office, 50c., H. Irwin, 50c., 
 Rev. Arthur John Young, 50c., Rev. W. D. Farrar, 
 25c., S. Walton, groceries, j$c., T. J. Carscadden, 
 tinware, hardware and stoves, 25c., James Matchett, 
 shoemaker, 25c., George M. Knight, general mer- 
 chant, 25c., F. W. Blekner, merchant tailor, 25c., 
 D. McMillan, post master and drug store, 25c., 
 A. Fitszer, Magnettawan hotel, 25c., John Arthurs, 
 general store, 25c., Mrs. Almina Avery, 25c., Mrs, 
 J. Hollaad, laundry, loc, Mrs. George, Pletzer, 15c. 
 And here I must bring this book to an end 
 as I have extended it by the favour of the accom- 
 modating and gentlemanly young printer who has 
 printed it to twelve pages more than w^as originally 
 contemplated. I would like very much to giye a 
 good write up of the fine town of Weston perhaps 
 designed at no very distant day to form part of 
 the western suburbs of Toronto. Should the pro- 
 posed Toronto and Georgian Bay Canal become an 
 established fact in the history of the first part of 
 the 20th century but I must defer this and a de- 
 scription of the beautiful and prosperous towns of 
 Newmarket, Georgetown, Brampton and other places 
 and a business directory of Thorn Hill and Rich- 
 HiOnd Hill to some other time and so I conclude 
 this little volume by a well deserved honorary no- 
 tice of two estimable young gentlemen Messrs. 
 Moore & Alexander, 16 Adelaide St. West, whose 
 professional and artistic skill in reproducing marvel- 
 lously true and most wonderfully accurate copies 
 of photographs and artistic designs and drawings is 
 truly most remarkable and worthy of all commenda- 
 tion. 
 
i% 
 
 BILL McDOODLE, 
 
 A Big, Brave Ballad of a Bold, Bad Boy 
 
 " Yt u aut to rite a histiiy 
 of youre own life," thus said to me 
 
 a yowling yelping two-legged pup 
 
witti self conceit all swollen up "^ 
 puffed up and bloated like a frojr 
 that sings at sundown in a Bog 
 ^H **?. ^^^^^^^ to serenade 
 wjth all his might some kindred maid 
 but no-McDo(jdle-Doodle ~ Doo 
 
 you little frisky Jackass you— 
 you are the one whose "histirv" 
 X mean to "rite" "now wait and see 
 tSZ ^ v*° P'.'sh yon right along 
 through a wild Ballad or a song 
 
 your picture here yonr Priehds will 
 
 ^» 
 
 see- 
 
^» 
 
 f I > 
 
 with a bold g^rl upon your knee 
 tind I will say; because its true, 
 you love such women— yes you do— 
 for you were this way from your Birth 
 one of the tainted ones of Earth 
 indeed you are (to say the least) 
 a dirty, filthy, stinking Beast 
 the filthy words that you have said 
 the filthy pictures you have made 
 I wont forget while memories hist 
 of things and days in years gone piist 
 but to your birthmari^ staunchly trua 
 such things coipe natural to you 
 sad the disgrace and great tlie shame 
 that you bring on an honored name 
 some men love women and some love wine 
 and some love both— the Libertine- 
 has this instinct— from age to age 
 it is man's evil heritage 
 yes— ever since the world began 
 
 f.Tiia ain Kao K<u.n 4'kA Tlan^k nif man 
 
 tis to this vile unhallowed 6in 
 that you Bill owe your origin 
 

 ita taint descends from sire to son 
 as I will show ere I am done 
 , with you my little Bantam man 
 at least ni try as best I can 
 and yet ^ ee Willy for this shame 
 
 iu c\ "^* ^**y y<^" ^^e to blame 
 tne blame rests on your evil sire 
 who triflled lyith foibidden fire 
 who is your sire?-! hardly know 
 
 th« m««^VV';*"-y°"^"«an show 
 the man that for >our sire you claim 
 
 so different from yourself-the shaSe 
 rests dubiously upon his head 
 
 i fl'lfi K-®* *'*"^ *^® 'i»»^«y read 
 a fine big man -with every trace 
 of iwble instincts in his face 
 I ask myself quote doubtingly 
 if It is true that he can be 
 
 K .?'5® 2i ^^^^ * braliftless Brat 
 oh ".iosh"- wee Bill move out of that, 
 rx.ove out- move in-move on my mm 
 8 and up for right against the wreS^ *^ 
 stand up for truth against deceit 
 ^i?f * '^/"F^^A^'sehood neath the feet 
 the feet significant in rhyme 
 that sonorous roareh to measured time 
 SJ yf«~wee Bill-juat trust tome,® 
 to show you up-"now wait and see" 
 
 J^ ^? i*^® y®^* **•»* you have used) 
 the minds of men all disabused 
 
 the mask of truth stript from your face 
 and sin's vile stamp put in its pl?^ 
 neath colors false as false can be 
 you are afloat on life's rough sea 
 a pirate hulk all guise and guUe 
 your heart so hollow and your smile 
 like that which glints from oceans waves 
 when artic suns shines oe'rits caves 
 where down in depths unfathomed 
 strange horrid things are nursed and fed 
 
 [TO BE CONTINUED IN NBXT BOOK.] 
 
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