A salty story from a local scrapbook.At the local level, old scrapbooks can prove to be a goldmine for researchers. Collections of whatever caught the fancy of the compiler, they frequently contain a variety of births, deaths and marriages. Lately I had the pleasure of checking out such a scrapbook A Macintosh disk file that holds frequently used text and graphics objects, such as a company letterhead. Contrast with "clipboard," which is reserved memory that holds data only for the current session. . Local Clippings is the title given to this particular scrapbook focusing on the Brighton, Ontario area from the 1910s to the 1940s. It was purchased at an auction by the Stickle stick·le intr.v. stick·led, stick·ling, stick·les 1. To argue or contend stubbornly, especially about trivial or petty points. 2. To have or raise objections; scruple. family, made available by Frank Chatten, husband of Winnie Stickle, and copied by Shawnee Spencer UE. If I may digress di·gress intr.v. di·gressed, di·gress·ing, di·gress·es To turn aside, especially from the main subject in writing or speaking; stray. See Synonyms at swerve. for a moment, Shawnee has been a source of a number of local genealogical sources over the twenty-plus years I have known her. Back in the spring of 1979, I was checking out Carman Car´man n. 1. A man whose employment is to drive, or to convey goods in, a car or car. Cemetery north of Brighton, searching for Maybee links. I overheard a couple of kids talking about the markers, and one noted that the Maybees were her relatives. While I had been looking for Looking for In the context of general equities, this describing a buy interest in which a dealer is asked to offer stock, often involving a capital commitment. Antithesis of in touch with. remote family members, I stumbled upon a living one! Following this up, I was soon introduced to Shawnee, aunt of the girl who had been in the cemetery. Shawnee has several Loyalist ancestors and we share a Maybee Loyalist. In the photography article from the Spring 2001 Gazette, Shawnee made available a rare Ontario daguerreotype daguerreotype First successful form of photography. It is named for Louis-Jacques-Mandé Daguerre, who invented the technique in collaboration with Nicéphore Niépce. of one of her ancestors. Over the Christmas holidays, Shawnee showed me this latest scrapbook find. It is a mixture of world events (especially World War I), local stories, and local births, deaths and marriages, (including my grandparents' 1916 marriage). Along with the other material was this 18th century story that I reproduce here for you, but make no claims about its historical authenticity: Canada's Navy in 1777 Navy Week, in the Province of Ontario, kindles the imagination of the people and stirs their patriotism to recall that Canada had a navy as early as 1777. There lives in the city of Brantford a direct descendant of one of its principal officers in the person of Miss Isabella Grant Gilkison, great granddaughter Noun 1. great granddaughter - a daughter of your grandson or granddaughter great grandchild - a child of your grandson or granddaughter of Commodore Grant. Miss Gilkison has written to The Globe an account of the origin and composition of that first Grand Fleet. Gen. Amherst, early realizing the need of water transport, had ships built to carry his troops up and down the Great Lakes Great Lakes, group of five freshwater lakes, central North America, creating a natural border between the United States and Canada and forming the largest body of freshwater in the world, with a combined surface area of c.95,000 sq mi (246,050 sq km). . For seaman he used privates from his regiments and for officers in the navy he selected commissioned men from the army who had been midshipmen on British warships. Lieut. Alex. Grant was first Commodore of the Upper Lakes and established headquarters in 1777 at Detroit, which was a British possession. It was at Detroit that Commodore Grant paid his officers and seamen. Fort Amherstburg was also used as headquarters. Commodore Grant, who was one of the gallant men to wrest wrest tr.v. wrest·ed, wrest·ing, wrests 1. To obtain by or as if by pulling with violent twisting movements: wrested the book out of his hands; wrested the islands from the settlers. New France from the French, was the second son of the Laird of Glenmorriston, Inverness, Scotland, and came to Canada with a Highland regiment, the Glengarry Fencibles, raised for Canadian service in 1759. In Lady Simcoe's diary it is recorded: "Commodore Grant arrived at Fort Erie in his largest ship, the Chippewa. I drove with Governor Simcoe from Niagara to Fort Erie and went on board with Captain Hamilton." M.P. in Simcoe's Time Commodore Grant was 50 years in command of the Lakes fleet, and was one of the first members of Parliament during Gov. Simcoe's regime from 1792 to 1813. The Commodore was of commanding appearance and was very hospitable. Tecumseh and other illustrious men of that time were frequently his guests. He died in May 1813, aged 80 years, on his estate, Grosse Pointe Farm near Detroit, and was buried in St. John Church grounds at Sandwich, Ontario. Following is a list of the Lakes fleet, under Commodore Grant: * General Gage, a brig, Captain John Burnet; * Lord Dunmore, schooner schooner (sk  `nər), sailing vessel, rigged fore-and-aft, with from two to seven masts. , Captain James Graham;
* Hope, schooner, Captain Harry Ford; * Angelica, sloop sloop, fore-and-aft-rigged, single-masted sailing vessel with a single headsail jib. A sloop differs from a cutter in that it has a jibstay—a support leading from the bow to the masthead on which the jib is set. , Captain James Underston; * Felicity, Captain Norman McKay; * Wyandotte, Captain William Gibson; * Adventure, Captain James Canning; * Chippewa, gunboat gunboat, small warship for use on rivers and along coasts in places inaccessible to vessels of larger displacement. In the U.S. Civil War both sides used as gunboats, on the Mississippi and other rivers, any boat that had an engine and had room to mount a gun. , Captain Hamilton; * Welcome, sloop; and * Faith, schooner, Captain George Andrews. All these vessels were built in Detroit between the years 1771 and 1796. This article, dated 1918, is reproduced here for your entertainment rather than from any claim of historical accuracy. |
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