. Report. ville owned a large property, including the mill privilege, sprang into existencesoon after this. It was incorporated as a village in , and as a town in 1858. Now wehave in Bowmanville one of the finest towns of its size in Ontario, possessing a fine harbourand many substantial residences and superb schools. But to drive through Durham County at the present time and see the comfortabledwellings of the prosperous farmers and the well-cultivated land stretched out before us,we are apt to forget that our ancestors alone are worthy of credit for this. They foundDurham County a dense
. Report. ville owned a large property, including the mill privilege, sprang into existencesoon after this. It was incorporated as a village in , and as a town in 1858. Now wehave in Bowmanville one of the finest towns of its size in Ontario, possessing a fine harbourand many substantial residences and superb schools. But to drive through Durham County at the present time and see the comfortabledwellings of the prosperous farmers and the well-cultivated land stretched out before us,we are apt to forget that our ancestors alone are worthy of credit for this. They foundDurham County a dense and impenetrable forest and covered with heavy timber, but theyleft it a county which is one of the finest in Ontario, both as to the fertility of its soil, andalso as to the large number of its inhabitants who are direct descendants of those who,through their diligent labour, opened up for us this vast and fair domain. GoKDON D. Conant. 52 THE REPORT OF THE No. 48 THE SETTLING OF THE RENWICKS IN CLARKE.*. TiREIiKRT RKXWICK. lA PiONBEK Settler. The Renwicks, of Clarke, came toCanada in 1833. Herbert Ren wick, ofBeattock, the head of the family, hadbeen a substantial yeoman of Coven-anting stock and Covenanting char-acter, dwelling near Moffat, Dumfries-shire. The social discontent of theperiod it was that seems to have movedhim to leave his old home ; and hedecided to go to Canada because there,in a land where the settler might, hewas told, obtain fertile acres for theasking, he expected to be able to pro-vide for his growing family betterthan was possible in Scotland. So inthe spring of seventy years ago he andhis good wife, Sara VVightnian, dis-posed of all their heavy furniture,packed their carpets, bedding, andclothing, their china and silver, theirfire-irons and fender, the works of thefamily clock,—uncased and stowedlike a dead thing—candlesticks, cook-ing utensils, saddles, and spinning-wheel ; gathered about them their eight children and the two dogs ; and set off
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