Balsam Hill WI Tweedsmuir Community History - Community #3. Pioneers and current events, p. 3

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mes District ': Preparevl 'by‘fl‘he Citizen’s ,1 ' r menial: Stall, pl then-respondents. AnMAsIoN : n' Renfrew county was named it: 3 er a vlllege in StaffbrdshIIELQEnfi- and. In the lei-mauve 'days it: his district 01d!_»CDuntl‘v survey- rs were employed to chain new 7 That Is how ' e known 'as- such ‘ north ahd'snufl: ‘ ,. paralleling the . cNeueh ton l. Bunneeherc riv‘er, Ithe ‘ sowexor, e'McNauEhton, ‘Dernef'rliated his name . 17m 1322, but Jehn Ce' pbeil}; .131?!) Bremner, Archibald Patter- ‘ sin and Geqrge Cardiff fromiuen-f ‘ ugshire. Scablahd, were {tl‘i'ejre aim-before the survey been p’gfieled. Next came the quwns. Riven: and Graves, then quick- . renewed the Irish families who named Mounc st. Fabric}; «3 seem-oak. 'r'gFe'reuelea in tile nemejqwnshi Lake. Man-led in 1887 to P I had two dfldxen, Nellie (Mr: Rizal: Dick co Opeongo Line, am- _ ory. séng'ind legend.(a. trail of the early lumbermen and I the endless caravans that supplied ‘the needs of the army of men and horses In the ‘pine foresfls. wound its "devious way through the loveâ€" ‘ly hills and dale; of Admaston. One qtfihe first Good Template societies in Cinema. was organized in Admeston and then came the Sons of' Temperance including such nemeerron the charter as David Graham. Robert Bi'own, Archibald Paterson, Henry Airth, James Brawn. John Brown. George Brown, William Beyne, James Ferguson and Alexander Brown: They still have the original chaf- ' ter.‘ . “Aiflitfwaetterson was the first postmlstresé and the seoond was Nils; Margaret O‘Dey, who died in Renfiyew only last year. ‘ The first localâ€" school was es- tablisth early in the nineteenth - century and George Brgwn of Adâ€" maetan. who came from Glasgow, Scotland, was the first superin- tendent of schools in Renfrew county. The first-eight teachers in the pioneer schoal were Sergt. Harry Airth.’,Hexry Wolford. Rev. Themyeon. ‘ Gebrge Berlanquet, Miss Helliday. Alex Mc‘favism AnnGrahem and E '11 La nt.‘ ' I 14, / 44 a“ 4i Pender, and William. She died in 1930. she )0

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