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Jane Page ga Georgetown v do election Serving you better in so many ways Settling on Esquesing farmland the family Young The Young family their farm on west half of Lot Concession in the early spring of 1919 They came on tht train from the village of from Bract bridge They loaded four hordes head of cattle into a boxcar and two oldest boys Roy rode down in the car with the slock They also hail sheep and some calves boxed up in one end of the tar It was so cold that night that the water for stock froie in the barrel during the trip It was also extremely bumpy because the frost had heaved tracks during the begin ning of the spring breakup retired from his farm north of High in IQti ind moved into Tht trip from llttcrson v is more comfortable for tht rest of the family thin it was for his older brothers Mr siys his parents his two sisters and his younger brother diun itch the passmgir train until marly midnight The station brought them up to his for the tuning nit then packed thtm a lunch taki on the train Thej arrived in ton uefort noon and his arm i tht 1 it the hi idtd for the bush stayed there right through the lambing season fed them rolled oats he recalls they survived I the lambs all survived A neighbour who his sheep run in shtd barn They gel hat in Iht stable then d out in the shed in a draught says Hi lost quite few with pneumonia thai spring Vc expected trouble but I guess keeping tool all the turn they mi hint the I nuily sheep give of sort in Thty ni to slip through a he post and in down I ml irossroid iHigrnny into town floik was seen v ind disappearing up over Iht railway of town l was tht following before Mr Young found them at a farm i tht I irst line I hi farm is two lire farms to hack running from to the iflh I ints The back hundred had only cleared and Hit Youngs went at it to finish what thtlr predecessor had started in the winter of The pru Youngs up the brush thai had been left behind and Finished tutting down the timber that had to be removed There was very for land way it in Mr Young says When tret was filled only wire lopped off the top to It lo be clearing land Mr Young says The family used the limbs for firewood the first winter but thi logs wen hauled out and sold and thty sold lord wood in Alton Mr Young graded the Fourth I inc as part of his work In the tarly days far could do work on the paying I rood There was gran I tic dug and on the ro id is will as the grading so rtsidtnls on Iht road had a of which task they took the Youngs first on the I me it wis more than a three through a field No bothered lo grade it and there wire three paths where the and wagon wheel won grass track gravilled through the swamp but not on the high ground The grader Mr Young used was constructed of iron wood with a long runner on one side and a snow plough affair on the other Mr Young says It was pulled by a md was eventually sold for scrap iron during World War Two Mr Young says the remains of a house were found on the back half of farm one year during the fall plowing They ploughed up some dishes and told them there had been a house which faced an old road that passed through the bush at that point and continued north for a piece before turning west toward the Fourth Line is also rumoured that there were graves the home although Mr Young says some of the fomily were supposed to have been buried in the pioneer cemetery at the tilth fine corner Mr Young t know the of the family who owned the old On the OakviDe road Armstrong took this photo of the Sinclair family going to an the I Indiay farm with a steam engine water tank to supply the strain engine The men pictured are Jack Sinclair and his two and KenCner with the pipe and William Hitchcock driving the horses Thin picture Indicates how the Seventh line above the school in the early 1900s this the really good road used by all and sundry for tr to Photo courtesy or Harding No farm complete without horses and not always just for working No farm hive complete without its horses part of and the interest I mil to dr lught w th linds- owned it corner of the incindllighwiy but Mr I indsiy Residence used lo show his hackneys at furs from Toronto He used to his horses to Can National I- and the Royal Agricultural Winter in Toronto on thi radial trains but later he sent them down by track He says he would take five or six horses to and some of would be shown in three or four classes He would begone for two weeks at a lime because in those days exhibitors- bring their stock home after the show They had to wait until the entire show was over They lived in stalls next to their animals and got their meals where they could Mr Lindsay says Competitors returned year after year and many of became friends over the years Mr Lindsay a way with horses and a lot of luck at picking good ones his Jean says He sold some of his prize hackneys to the United States He even sold Ihe Toronto Police Department the only on force One day Miss I saw him on the street and went over inquire of officer where he had come from because hi resembled the one her brother had owned The officer told her he belonged Ihc inspector and was special because he was only the force owned Mr Lindsay a father was an uncle of a well known clerk K C Lindsay He brought his bride to the arm near Acton in 1B92 and they built the present 14 room house complete with a tower In Mr Lindsay father drew plans for the house and It took over a year to complete The oleic Is large enough for another four or five rooms Mr Lindsay but It wqb never finished Mr parent punted all the trees which the w indhrtak around the down I me The I ind wis completely iltared when il bought from Brown family and there wisn I even i Mrs I indsay ind irnt iUintitns of the and down I mi Miss I sht somttimis supplied lor wtddings in Knox Insbyttrnn in I originally and shipped World Two thty changed n ihuiklc litre ind wltii lly needed urn sim wmlilfo in I gi i hi ir two ml let il thaw before Ihey put it in cattle 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