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... decided that the family should yield to the ever-growing demand for home-building properties near Hamilton and the homestead was sold accordingly. Thus passed another of the steady succession of pioneers' landmarks to fall before the spread of population in this area. A municipality, like a nation, must grow and flourish or weaken and decline, which knowledge affords some solace to those who view the inevitable with regret and nostalgic memories. At date of writing the Long Family is still represented in this district by two sons, Arthur and Stanley, and three daughters, Eva, Blanche and Dora, who are Mrs. Percy Filman, Mrs. Arthur Klodt and Mrs. Howard Bowen, respectively and all still on farms, by W. Roy now the oldest surviving member and retired, and by Raymond R., civil servant, Parliament Buildings, Ottawa. The remaining two daughters are Edith F. (Mrs. R. Croden of London) and Alice M. (Mrs. W. Churchill of Simcoe). A total of some seventeen grandchildren and sixteen great-grandchildren also survive as descendants of George Brown Long and Emma Catharine King.