Category: Personal Story
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Newspaper Articles about Stokes Bay during 1940s and 1950s
A fantastic collection of newspaper articles gathered by Helene Scott about stories and people of Stokes Bay. Thanks to Virginia Elliott for making these treasures available. Use the crossed arrows to enter and exit full screen mode Zoom in with the +/- magnifying glass
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Memoir by Margaret Laughlin Given McGee 1862-1955
Christmas, 1947, and I am 85 years old today. I am going to reverse my policy of looking forward at life, and instead I am going to take a backward glance and for a little while live with my memories which are both rich and satisfying. I have had a very busy life; being the…
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Mrs Louis Sutter Recalls Many Changes on the Bruce Peninsula since 1871
By Mrs. Louis Sutter, R. R. 1 Mar, born Jane McMaster 1856-1943 First prize winner of Pioneer Story Contest, July 6, 1939, Wiarton Echo Having heard that you would like to receive pioneer stories of the early days on the Bruce Peninsula, I thought perhaps my experiences would be of interest to some of your…
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Stokes Bay 1946-1960s: Some Tiny Tales
Cows with No Borders In the late 40s and early 50s, we would often be awakened in the mornings to the sound of cowbells in our backyard. At the time there were hardly any fences around the yards and the cows, in this case from McArthur’s place a bit east of us, wandered all over…
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Community Softball Games on the Sand
Supplement #2 to initial post – Stokes Bay Photos and Memories from Jack Bertrand Another fun community activity in the late-1940s and early 1950s were the softball games played on the sand behind Vaughan’s Camp. That is, they were played when the lake water was low enough to allow a big enough sand area for…
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Dances at Jeanne & Don’s in the 1950s
One activity I remember fondly were the dances at Jeanne & Don’s in the 1950s, which brought the community together on a regular basis in the summers: The dances were a regular social activity for one and all, held Wednesdays and Saturdays from, I think, 9pm to midnight at the Restaurant/Dance Hall. The Saturday dances…
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The Sinking of The Asia and Christie Ann Morrison
Excerpt from The Sun Times, Owen Sound, article #942575, At one o’clock in the morning on Sept. 14, 1882, the wooden steamer Asia left her berth in the darkness of Owen Sound’s harbour. The Asia was on her way to a rendezvous with a storm. It would be the nine-year old ship’s last voyage and…
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Stokes Bay Photos and Memories from Jack Bertrand
The following pages are some glimpses of my and my family’s time in Stokes Bay, which began in the mid-1930s and continued to the early 1990s. That was mostly my parent’s time. I was a part of it from my birth in the late 1930s to around 1960, when I graduated from university and started…
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The Big Seige 1952 – Stokes Bay, Ontario, Canada
A collection of media and stories related to The Big Seige in Stokes Bay of 1952, including first hand accounts and newspaper articles. Photos courtesy of Jack Bertrand The Big Seiche by Vincent Elliott May 5, 1952 The Big Seiche of 1952 in Stokes Bay will be long remembered by the people who had to…
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Flossie the Christmas Angel
A True Christmas story By Lourena Akins “Mom, here comes Flossie” Yes, I always got excited when I saw our next-door neighbour coming. I could see her home from my little cot Daddy had put by my window. The hours were long for me because I was only seven years old. Hadn’t walked for 2…
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Helene Scott
The history of Stokes Bay, Ontario, Canada could not be told with such clarity, if it were not for Helene (Murray) Scott. A great deal of gratitude is owed to her relentless quest to record the memories of the ‘Old Timers’ of the time. Most of the Tweedsmuir Books that are attributed to the community…