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‘ e, -. .k__... ,-_. , 'George Bremner (lardlfi 1116 o owing nugrap tcn Si.ClLli t-t tlu- lute Grater llrcnmcr Cattlm. tit-ed Kt, urtv of the disturt's bui harks, “ho (lit-d llt‘Yp last Monday )5 fUYl'IISl'ICLl the ltt'nfruw Junum through the kindnu-ss of Mr. ,I, I Jin-mnt-r. of town: , ‘ “'l'l'w eldesr son, and child or ii“ file (it-o, Card”? and Elizabeth Brt-m- cr, his_wife, was born in lht- 'l‘mm» hip 01' ‘.\'orth Elmslvy, Lanark Coun- ~ _\', on the 2nd clay of April, 133:, and am: when a child of two years ultl \'_ith his parents to the present Car- tfl' honestcad in .‘tdrnastonJ wlm. they arrived on the 4th day of March. 153+ His father, together “'llh it: lam John Bremner and the late John and PL'ICI Campbell, were the nr~1 permanent settlers in the township Hch Young George grew up to b: model, physical specnnen of it mm. a giant nlmosr in strength. uh» 1, “(In all nt-rdt-d, in after years', and n the piunt‘t-r work of clearing Li from We original forest and ml.“ envy work, as there were no "ca-5) 'ohs in those days. Wherever he wax ho was always found pushing and tnkinglthe heavy end of everything, and, as to his enormous strength it as been often related of him by hi~ ntimates, that when he was in hlr rime he could lift a weight of 1,40‘ s. ofl’ the ground. And one of tin ardships of the early settlement w.» 'n getting men enough to raise a put up a log building, and he oftrn valked from home in the mornin. down to Horton or McNah. do h: share at one of these “raisrngs,' n~ ually fitting and putting up a corn” on the building, and then wall: homr again at night, and perhaps on till next day go west as far as 3rd Chutv. now Douglas, going through [in same performance. People in those times, more thnii n0\v,J1ad to help one another or [bi ould not have got along at all, and 5 Mr. Cardifi was an expert axetnun, he chief work of the times, his son ices were sought after from far anti ear at those raising bees, and all his younger manhood was spent in _he heavy and hard work of clear- ,mg the timber off the homeStem and getting a fine farm out of tlw forest. HI: “its \cr) successlul all, with his {other in making a blur tul home. Then about 1860 he brmu I‘d out as a lumbt-r jobber 1n the .. tar Station. his first contract helix; 1 ‘the Black Donald Creek, taking 9 saw logs for the late Johuau: Francis, At this work he CODlln‘UL with the usual ups and downs or ll‘. umber firms, but always attended ' is farm in the summer season. a: ring an expert horseman, the I‘ could always be {cund at his pl.” and was always worth going to 2 He was a man with an exceptional “'le balanced mind, could hard.) 1, milled or irritated, and generally h the happy faculty of getting on t. or seeing the good side or en thing. He served in the Township (.er ril of Admaston {or some eigh: ten years, where his sound comul» sense and advice was much appre ed. but he never sought for, nor . ed for the glare of public life, at“. prefering the qpier life of his hon. .and his famil 7" He was‘ a Liberal 1. politics, ‘out when asked ' his friends on more 11.. one occasion to let his name go In ore a convention for political nano- lhe steadfastly refused, .and new, rould Eisten to such proposals. He was married on the toth Jan . 1359, to Benha Carswell, clde~ aughter of the late Dr. Allan Car: well, and to this union ten childrt‘ ' were born, five of whom have prt-ch ceased him. He is survived by rm. brothers and two siSters, John, c' Calgary; and William, of Admaston Mrs. Chas. Moore, of Dakota; l\l.- Dudley Moore, or Vancouver; als- his wife and three sons and two daughters, Geo, F., Allan and Vin. James, all farmers in Admaston, tht latter being on the homestead, This daughters are: Mrs. Chas. Maybe“. of chfrew, and Mrs. Hugh Beach. of Portage La Prairie, Manitoba, Mr. Cardiff came to- reside in Reri~ ,fiew about eight years ago, his youngest son taking over the home» stead. Here he has lived quietly. but spending a great deal of his [HIDE with his boys out. in the country, as it seemed more like home to a man of his energy and active nature, though in his 84th year. he was qll‘llc fresh -and smart up to Within four days of his death, and could walk up town- as sharp and quick as mam men so years his junior, but on Tu esday, 26th May, after haying dinnrsr‘ as ustlal, he was doing some wor l around the house when he sudden“ took an inward pain and although ‘ Dr’. ‘Mann was called in soon after. :he seemed to get no relief and gradu ally weakened until the end cam: early on the morning of the 29m. surrounded by his dearesr friends thus ending a long life well and her orably spent. , His funeral on MO 'y was ven largely attended, 41) etically even. family and connection in the distric. being represented He was buried with Masonic honors in the Admas: ton cemetery, in the countrynde hm J had helped to tame and build up. . O h 7