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  1. WIF69-1-0 - Gleneden WIF69 Volume 1 - Normanby / West Grey
  2. WIF69-1-001 - Gleneden WIF69 Volume 1 - Normanby / West Grey
  3. WIF69-1-002 - Gleneden WIF69 Volume 1 - Normanby / West Grey
    The first meeting members were Mrs. Ezra Holliday, Mrs. Robert Dickson, Mrs. Robert Sockett, Mrs. Jack Clark, Mrs. 0. C. Bradwin, Mrs. S. S. Holliday, Mrs. tim. The Drew members, Sarah Moatz, Mrs. Bill Turner, 1crs, Geo, Crow and Mrs. Wm, Page Sr. came over to organize Gleneden Women's Institutes On Nov. 12, 1947, Mrs. the first life member, On Jan. 14., 1950, Mrs. Mrs. Allen (Mary) Holliday John (Lulu) Clark was made Robert(Ethel) Sockett and were made life members.

  4. WIF69-1-003 - Gleneden WIF69 Volume 1 - Normanby / West Grey
    The Owen Sound road was surveyed in 1840-1841 and other roads followed in 1845. Industries The first saw mill was built on the Owen Sound road by John Dickson on the Saugeen River. Post Offites The first Post Office was three miles north of Mount Forest called Egremont.

  5. WIF69-1-004 - Gleneden WIF69 Volume 1 - Normanby / West Grey
    Churches and Cemeteries Church was held in the school after the new crick school was built in 1875 and was later closed when a new church was built in 1R76 at, Letter Breen. Names of Ministers from 1873 to 1900 were Rev. Names of Ministers after 1900 were Rev.

  6. WIF69-1-005 - Gleneden WIF69 Volume 1 - Normanby / West Grey
    Orange Lodge and Institute The first Orange Lodge was a log building situated on the Owen Sound road four miles north of Mount Forest. Military History The first Military History was a grant of land (300 acres) to Sockett's on the 2nd Concession of Normanby for military service. A oii R Other names of persons in the First World War were RobinErneSt McKeown, Calvin Baker (killed in action), Walter Fiermiston, Walter Adair, Bert Adair, Charlie Stevenson, Tom Sockett and Claude Witherow.

  7. WIF69-1-006 - Gleneden WIF69 Volume 1 - Normanby / West Grey
    They were Donald McQuarrie, Beverly irown, Allison Risebrogh, Clarence Drier, Ira Stevenson and Arthur Ammerman. Biographies One person, Joseph Holmes, is worthy of mention as a writer of poetry about the years 1980 to 1905. The following is a poem written by Holmes: ONLY MOTHER GONE HO1 Only an aged one gone to her rest Only what God in his mercy saw best Only a widow lone, only a wife Only a drop from the ocean of life.

  8. WIF69-1-007 - Gleneden WIF69 Volume 1 - Normanby / West Grey
    August 2:, 1E95, John R. Anderson was the first Grange Man to receive the Royal Arch degree iii the new hall. In 1905 a man was expelled from the lodge for five years for bad language in the lodge room. In 1945 the Lodge shed was sold for $50 and the money was used to repair the hall.

  9. WIF69-1-008 - Gleneden WIF69 Volume 1 - Normanby / West Grey
    Area L.O.L. hi Ni I sins vrar thu etter Breen Lo'5a1 r.ne lodges arrtalgatiiared a':.: the Letter Breen hail ott NF. By all accounts it appears as though the dinners for the 12th of July were paid for out of lodge funds. Stewart Stevenson offered to draw the colors to Mount Forest if the lodge would buy the feed for Iris horses.

  10. WIF69-1-009 - Gleneden WIF69 Volume 1 - Normanby / West Grey
    Our ancestors, when they left the old country and came to the Glen Eden neighbour- hood, helped to make Canadian history just as Cartier, Champlain and the Jesuit father's helped to make it. Soil must have seen a regular gift from Heaven whea John Dickson started the Glen Eden Mill. A few rods up river you'll see a heavy timber lying accross the stream, that was the site of the original Dickson Mill.

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