The New Liskeard Story
by Louis S. Kurowski
In a fascinating approach to local history, this story includes recollections obtained by personal interviews with pioneers. Those featured are: Allie Bateson, Mrs. S.B. Moore, Mr. & Mrs. Frank Herron, Alex and Ruth Brown, Bertha Loach, Doug Mackey, the Shepherdsons and Walter Scott. Thomas McCamus, Angus McKelvie, Ruby Dunn Wathen and Ernest Sawford-Dye are also discussed.
The public and separate educational systems are covered from the early one-room shacks to the present multi-room, modern learning centres. Reviews are given of the 50th and the 75th anniversary celebrations of the town of New Liskeard. The stories of the T. & N.O. Railway and the Nipissing Central Railway are presented in detail.
There is a brief description of our sister town in Liskeard, Cornwall. England, as well as an update of developments in New Liskeard.
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ISBN: 0-88954-342-9 | WMPub#1169 | 8½" x 5½"
192 pages; hard cover with dust jacket; 38 photos | $19.95
Table of Contents
1 Early Scene
7 C.C. Farr and H.B.C.[Hudson Bay Company]
17 Early Settlers
30 T,N.& O. Railway
42 Other Means of Transportation
52 George Alvin (Allie) Bateson
74 Mr. & Mrs. Frank Herron
80 Alex and Ruth Brown
90 Mrs. Bertha Loach
97 Mr. Doug Mackey
102 The Shepherdsons
108 Walter Scott
116 50th Anniversary
126 McCamus-McKelvie
132 Ruby Dunn Wathen
136 Ernest Sawford-Dye
145 New Liskeard Public School
147 New Liskeard Secondary School
154 Separate Schools
156 Demonstration Farm
169 Seventy-fifth Anniversary
174 Our Sister Town
177 New Liskeard Today
177 Footnotes
179 1906 T.& N.O. Railway Timetable
180 Mayors of the Town of New Liskeard
181 The Shepherdson Family
183 Fiftieth Anniversary Participants
186 Song of the Hub