. The township of Biddulph : short sketch of municipal history and official life, with some of the most important municipal events from the pioneer days of 1830 to 1912 : with The consolidated by-laws of the township . red in the cause of the Loyalists,and the fifth remained at home to fell browse to keep the cattleof the volunteers from starving. In 1866, at the time of theFenian invasion, the Township of Biddulph raised as fine andbrave a company of volunteers as could be found in all Canada,known as the Lucan Blazers, under the leadership of CaptainJohn Frank and Lieutenant W. H. Atkinson.
. The township of Biddulph : short sketch of municipal history and official life, with some of the most important municipal events from the pioneer days of 1830 to 1912 : with The consolidated by-laws of the township . red in the cause of the Loyalists,and the fifth remained at home to fell browse to keep the cattleof the volunteers from starving. In 1866, at the time of theFenian invasion, the Township of Biddulph raised as fine andbrave a company of volunteers as could be found in all Canada,known as the Lucan Blazers, under the leadership of CaptainJohn Frank and Lieutenant W. H. Atkinson. The latter in-herited all the martial ardour of his noble father, Long JohnAtkinson. In matters of patriotism Biddulph responded to everycall, and may justly be termed the Township of the patriotic andbrave, as well as the Home of the Free. —12- Not only in the cause of Freedom and Patriotism has ourTownship stood to the front, but in the peaceful arts of hus^bandry it has won distinction. At the Centennial, held in Phila^delphia in 1876, in competition with the whole >A/orld, two ofour citizens, Mr. Samuel Langford and Mr. Philip Brooks, car-ried off the Gold Medals and First Prizes for long-wooled CALEB RYAN, Councillor If they had rendered such substantial and signal service to theircountry in some other calling they might have been knighted bytheir Sovereign. In the early history of the Township there were fifteenplaces where intoxicating liquors were sold. To-day this is allchanged, and through the many christianizing influences that -13- surround our homes this traffic is now welUnigh people may now claim that in the highest and best senseof the word we are a temperance people. Toll Gates Those relics of Feudal times and emblems of the DarkAges—Toll-gates—were handed down to the Township as anheirloom from the County of Huron on the one hand, and fromthe Proof Line and St. Marys Gravel Road Company on theother. The people never took kindly t
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