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i Vol. 3 — No. 21 Thi . I REMEMBER gy we an aM LY ae Reminiscences of CSlbernac By Jim Bell How time changes. Customs, opinions, dress, politics, dress, transportation, standard of liv- ing. There is no use trying to enumerate them all. It would take up too much space. Monday we celebrated or were supposed to commerate good Queen Vic- toria’s Birthday, the 24th of May. Monday was only the 22nd, but that did not matter, The holiday week-end was what counted. Labor Day and Thanks- giving Day must now be held on a Monday for the same reason. I suppose if the First of July, Dominion Day, falls on any cther day, it will have to be held on a Monday too. JI won- der if we are wise in brushing aside, so carelessly, the reasons these days were instituted as Public Holidays. The old tradi- tions that so many now look on|. as bits of out-dated past his- tory, were the corner stones of the foundation of this great Canada of ours. But that is enough preaching for this time, so we will switch to a lighter vein, On Monday, the 14th day of October, 1901, the Royal Train, bearing the Duke and Duchess of Cornwall and York, was scheduled to pass through Col- borne at 11.00 p.m. and although it would likely be streaking along at about sixty miles an hour, hundreds of citizens from town and vicinity rushed to the station at about nine o’clock and jostled or joked each other till the train had pounded past and disappeared toward Brighton. They did not see the Royal _ couple but they saw the train and they went home happy. That was real Colonial patriotism. This incident, that 1 have just related, brought to the minds of some of the oldsters at that time a similar incident about thirty years earlier, when Prince Arthur passed through. Sir John A. McDonald was in the Prince’s party and some joker in Cobourg sent a message in his name say- ing that the train would stop in Colborne for half an hour. The news spread like wild fire. Our council donned full dress and, led. by the Reeve, J. G. Webb, infernal (this is not my word, copied it directly from the orig- inal report. ) address in hand, the populace in a blazing August | sun following. The excitement | was great but it was over in a minute, the train dashing | past | in a few seconds, a cloud of dust obscuring it. Personal items copied from the Colborne Express of Oetober 17th, 1901: Mr. D. C. McTavish, Miss MeTavish and Miss Grace]: McTavish were in Toronto dur. ing the visit of the Duke and Duchess of York. Among-the first t,he present. ed to the Duke and Duchess of} York on Friday evening were Miss Lillian and Messrs. Ernest and Hector Payne. J said in the beginning of: this article that time changes - things. This advertisement the Lost Column of the sie paper proves it. Lost — Between the cheese factory and Colborne, a red chest containing one brass par- iM lor lamp, one glass lamp — numerous other articles. Fini will be suitably rewarded.