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i Adina Admaston Townshifi was est- ablished in 1843, In the origin f the name of this township the theme associations of the Gover- nor. Sir Charles Bagot. appear Admaaton was named after [a little village lying near Ecclesâ€" Vhall and Newport._ in his native 'Staffordshire, England. An old map of 1836 shows Ad- maston as Kenmore. In the formative days of Renfrew County, British born surveyors mm usually employed to chart new municipalities. Fre- quently they were permitted or invited to name these local town- ships. Thus in Admaston the North and South McNaughton lines paralleling the Bonnechere River perpetuate the name of surveyeor John McNaughton. who made the original survey of this and several other townships. The survey of Admaston town« ship was commenced in 1338 and completed in 1842. The Land Office was located on the south east corner of Lot I, Concession I. A new survey was completed in 1847 of lots in Admaston and Bromley townships fronting on the Bonnechere River from the District Line to*the head or the Fourth Chuter There is a photo- ‘static copy of this survey on file in the Admaston municipal office. Long narrow lots were surveyed on both sides of the river and the road allowance of tone chain (66') surveyed at the jends of the lots were named the .North and South McNaughton iLines. From the Department of Muni- cipal Affairs, Admaston was first {mentioned in Canada Statutes. l1845. Copter 7. listed along with Blythfield. Bagot, Bromley, Hor- ton. McNab. Pakenham, Pem- broke. Ross and Stafford as com- prising the County of Renfrew. It was incorporated under the Baldwin Act effective January lst. 1850, and the District of Bathurst passed a lay-law where in Adinaston. Bromley and Blytht‘ieid were joined. and set the place for the first meeting for election of councillors to be “the place where the meeting of ;the township of Admaston was last held." Thus it was held where the present municipal building is located. to later years every second meeting of Admas- ton Council was held in Sham- rock School to give ratepayers in that part of the municipality an opportunity to attend. No on In 1850 a memorial from the reeves of Admaston. Bromley and Blythfield was presented to Lannrk and Renfrew Counties United. - It dealt with the separation of the township of Blythfield from such united townships. There was also a Memorial on the subject oi separation and division of the township of Bromley into rural wards. County Council re- commended that this not be ef- fective until the Collector's Roll for the year was taken. Follow- ing the separation in 1351, Ad- maston was divided into five wards and the reeve was chosen from the elected councillors at the first meeting each year. The municipal building was erected in the 1850's by a builder from Douglas. There were two small rooms on eachaside of the front door. One p rtition has been removed and the other is used to store records and it serves as a polling booth. A “Show Fair" was held in the early days in this building, with one room for baking exhib- its. one for sewing and knitting and the main room for grain. fruits and vegetables. Cattle and horses were shown in a ring across the road, This was across County Road 5 from the present McDougali post office, Fair dates are unknown but R. W. Brown, born in 1873 had a faint recollection of attending the Fair as a small boy. The first settlers arrived in the area designated now as Ad» maston township about 1830. They came up the Bonncchere River. climbed the Pinnacle at Renrrew and decided to settle along the Fourth and Fifth Con- cessions which were allame with the maple' leaves growing there. They realized that where hard- woods grew there was fertile soil. Land along the Bonnechere River had been burned over and there was nothing growing there but small poplars among the “Rampikes” left standing after the fire. This section of the township is still referred to as “The Brule”. These set< tiers of Scotch descent came from the Lanai-h and Perth dis- tricts where they relatives had settled. An Irish settlement was established in the south western part of the township with the hamlets being named with hatrick anLShamrofll such Irish names as Mount St. ‘ZI'oiwnship BY EVELYN MEIDRE PRICE Thomas Whelan with W. Gib‘ bons as reeve. George Brown was appointed as clerk at a sal- ary of 1M Es, Had. Auditors William S. Thompson and James Gorman received one pound each, Collector â€" John Gormâ€" an. 11E; assessor â€"â€" David Gra-i ham. 9E, tax rate was set at two‘ and one-half pence on the pound, Boundaries of publicl school sections 2, 3 and It were: altered and the new section No' 7 was established. A ratepayer. William Harris, was granted eight pounds as expenses to go to Quebec to pre- sent a copy of the original memâ€" orial passed by Admaston town- ship praying that reconsiderat- ion be given to appointing Pem- broke village as the county town. John Lorne McDougall was named as alternate dele- gate. There were public schools established at l-lurd’s Lake, No. 71, and the first school located at Spring Creek was No. 2 Lyons, half a mile west of where the next one was built and now the Women‘s I n s t i t ute Hall on County Road 5. No. 3 was est- ablished in 1353 and closed when Separate School No. 3 known as Martin‘s School was opened. No. 4 at Shamrock was estab- lished in 1854; No. 5, Foy's and No. 6, Rosebank. 1862; No. 9, Mhusk's; No, 10, Galbraith's; No. 11, Ferguslea. established in 1892. According to an Atlas pub» lished in 1881, the township of Admasion, although large in area had only about 560 inhabi- tanis and excepting Mount st. Patrick on the western bound- ary. no settlement worthy of special mention. The Methodists established the Rosebank Church in 1846 and at Hurd's Lake, which was part of Calabogie. Ashdad. Byer‘s Mis- sion Field. First services were held in the German language by a minister who came from Port» age do Fort on horse back_ The Presbyterians were established in Admaston with their second church opened in 1381 by Rev. P. MacVicar, LL.D. of Montreal Presbyterian College. Services held at Northcote first were in the Temperance Hall until the church in Eganville was purâ€" chased and moved to Northcote. The Lutherans also had their church establishegd in 183;.