Claybelt Memories
Stories from Previous Generations
Volume 4
After the success of our Claybelt Chronicles project of interviews with seniors of the area, we started to realize that we had missed some of the stories from the previous generations. Although many of them had passed on, fortunately some of them had written memoirs which were generously shared with us by them and/or their families. In addition, starting in 1992 the Little Claybelt Homesteaders Museum had interviewed several seniors and their stories have also been included in this book. The lives of some had been documented by family members, an organization, or the Temiskaming Speaker. Still others were found in the Womens' Institutes Tweedsmuir histories.
This series is a collection of some of these stories. Our thanks go to the many authors for helping us to capture this past for future generations.
If you would like to order one, download this PDF form and mail it in with payment, or call a Museum director at 705-647-5580 or 705-679-5555 to get your copy. They are available at the Museum's Gift Shop, open in the summer while the Museum is open, other times by appointment. Available year round online at White Mountain Publications, and in store at 50 Silver Street, Cobalt, ON
Table of Contents | Index for this volume
ISBN: 978-1-989293-00-3 | 8½" x 11" | 186 pages, trade paperback | $30.00
Table of Contents
3 Introduction
6 Bailey and Field Families of Beauchamp and Armstrong Townships
10 May Alexandra Ball
12 The Bass Family
22 Beatty and King Families
26 Briggs-Chrysler Family
32 Out of the Past (by Mrs. T. N. Briscoe)
35 The Brodericks
37 Jean Irene Brown - My Mother's Memories (The Brown Family)
43 Early Settlers of New Liskeard
45 Clippings Of Early Settlers To New Liskeard Area
46 Byberg Farm 1943 To 1992
56 Canning Factory
58 The Carleton Family
60 Frank Coutts
62 Thomas Cragg
65 David Alexander James Roger Dunn
70 Dunn Family Pioneer Days in Temiskaming
73 Harry or H.M. (Harold Melbourne) Edwards
76 Food Supply on the farm at the Northern Power Colony on the Matabitchuan River
81 Forrest Family
83 William Henry Foster
91 Haddow Family
97 Hager Family
106 Village of Highland
107 Winter in The Northlands (Poem)
110 Pioneer Days in Temiskaming
115 More Pioneering Stories in Kerns Township
118 Yearbook 1935 - 1936 U.S.S.# 3 Kerns And Armstrong
121 The History Of Two Schools
129 Percy Leggett
132 Uncle Fred Newlove
136 Where are my Friends? (Poem)
141 Three Generations of the Paddon Family in New Liskeard
143 William Humphrey Perrin 1859-1920
146 Butter Making
148 Nellee Reid
151 The Thwaites Story
155 Time No Object
157 A Big Blow on Lake Temiskaming
160 School Days by Elsie (Logan) Tucker
163 Rim Lake Farm - Harris Township
168 The Veleys
172 Village of Milberta
187 Index