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V3- W LOT 6 cowé KINLoss Taken up from the crown in 1853 bv Dr. Horton, evidentlv for speculation. Original price $150.00. He made a small clearing and built a log shantv with a sod roof. In the spring of 1856 he sold his equitv for $300. to Samuel MacDonsld of the Parish of Kilmuir, Isle of Skve, Scotland., who with his bride Marion MacKinnon and his sister Margaret hsd just arrived at Goderich from Glasgow after a six weeks voyage in a sailing vessel. Thev were natives of Olan, Isle of Skve. It has been told to their descendants manv times how Mr. MacDonald got his neig‘b01r Malcolm MacLeod who owned a team of oxen to go with him to Goderich, to get their chests containing their bedding and other possessions. Goderinhpeing about thirty miles distant, following a blazed trail ( a chip off the trees in the forest®,thev ex- pected to be gone three or four nights. The first night the young women, each twentvptwo years of age, were terrified bv the howling and prowling of a number of wolves, who climbed the slanting sod roof. Suddenlv one remembered hearing that wolves hated the smell of smoke so they built a roaring fire in the fireplace and scared them off. Mr. and Mrs. MacDonald had a familv of nine, five girls and four bovs. Two clildren, a bow and a girl died in childhood from diptheria. Two others ‘ recovered,after Dr. Garnier, a practitioner from Edinburgh, located at Lucknow, burned the diotheria membrane from their throats 7'7 with some kind of an acid. Mr. MacDonald died in //Z%m 'a "'l-‘v w/V" vu/ ' //3 1903 at the age of 77 Vears, and Mrs. MacDonald l ) died in 1908 at the age of seventvâ€"seven. In /4fiflg¢flaw/ avammxnéyngfiégéfi/défl 7M 1903 the farm passed to their voungest son, James A. He sold it to Alex Sutherland in 1910 éiééb and he went to Alberta. Alex Sutherland married /4? Etta Machinnon R.N- in June of 1923 and thev reâ€" /6;/ 17/ C)’7 ;;Z7 sided herétill 1949 when thev sold the farm to 447cm? ,M”%flétfi"’ 4152/0711” Jim Burt ,.who with his wife and three voung rm / A»;Agégmaégjé;gfiahezgflgn6{ daughters still reside there. The house on this farm was built in 1873, with an insul brick sidinz added b" uex Sutherland. “Hf/572.7403 rgfé4l’fll/fifl/IM’W’ Contributed bv Mrs. Alex Sutherland EEELaéfl,%§;Mflzé; Li“: I; Janes A. Burt was born and educated at Holvrood. Emploved in Toronto for 5 Vrs. from 1939 - l9hh where he metried Eva Bawks of Midland,0nt. Thev returned to the former Nelson Bushell farm on the lhth of Kinloss. After renting there for 5 vrs., thew bought the 6th Con. of Kinloss farm of Alex Sutherland in 191+9 consisting of 150 acres. Their children's names being Eileen, Donna, Nancv and Robert. For the first 10 yrs. thew kept a herd of Durham cows. After the first improvement of hvdro install- atiin in l9§9 the barn was changed over for the raising of oeef cattle. before ho herd were kept now an average of 100 nan be aired for av one man. The following inprovements were also made â€" a cement slab silo, installed water press- Iim and Eva Burt ure to house and barn, complete drainazp 0? far“, 535talled a oathroon, a wood and oil furnace, insulwted the house. A power mower Keros the grounds tidier. lithninv rods on the house. Q new clothes stsu_ 9nd thD outside orivv renewed. ’he piotures1ue rail fences L178 been reolaced 07 lire fences, The hirdwood rails of tie fence nekinv 000d firewood. First start- ing out with a walking olowand horse we have grafluallv senlred power implenents