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, Betery 2y 1e 1/ | 179 3 £1 ¢ â€" f l ‘ a US 00 § | t 1 oi g o usds } watching f 4 $ 2e . | By Pat Bell : â€" Wwms " & . â€" s * §*: 3 {Citizen staff writer "We set another time, and woâ€" é in 5 xgi,j; â€" 3 . to . 54 ; men came from miles and miles | 1 e tss $ ‘ $3 olg:r\:g?; Jszi]rée iEfl:)(\:-lri c\sa; llbycars around;! There must have been 50 ?“ s .z " . e . #" 5e ersathat Ahe in ts ne 1 e)r rothâ€" or 60," she. said. "We started ’: :V‘%@E\ \ @apt. . € 5 i0‘‘d onger. going . with their first interests, which [ SoP P & «u. | : f t can and. black their boots. were their own homes and comâ€" [ #a of e "<~‘ en | ; That was in Yorkshire in 1895 j s | es \5, w | I Eightcen vears 187 es munity, .but then it spgeaq out to [ e @5 Smt: _ on en years later, she was _ the district and the region." t B use Wl ie icouraging fellow pioneer farm Ducie‘s home soon became the | _ "i \ iâ€" 4 f \vaes in Canada to join together headquarters for the travelling liâ€" ? 53 po 3 gfiscer OrTTe“std“al S‘%PEOH- f brary supplied to the group by _ w 1/ J& aa « g~« t3 \OO?Y'mg t, at Rideau Hall,. the provincial government. . . (195s . wl s Airend f & yearâ€"old teacher was hoâ€" Women attending meetings | _ _ h e nored for her work in improvingâ€" would pick up books from the bis [ woeh. "Q FFS.s . the status of women in rural Saâ€" grey box on the front porch. i e y s * WB wee > K B skatchewan. & â€"_~ "Perhaps I was a bit bossy, but | _ _ |> i e .. 0/ S She was one of five Canadian I guided them in their reading," |nowo6 ate® _ & & i # women to receive a Persons she said. "Some people I had to § ut R Award from Gov.â€"Gen. Edward _ poke and push into reading, but I fwre o. Th f $ Schreyer. Established four: years found you could get to them *% §5 4 y .c * ~%§.:-'â€"‘ : ago, the award commemorates the through their children, because & > i\ m cls â€" ols . e 1929 amendment to the British they were so anxious that they [® 6 'i §>5) h~~~ es e :.o 5 North America Act which grantâ€" â€" have an education." *h 4 ~,.‘§’:3% se f@,a'i’, ed women "persons" status, and Ducie, who became a provincial c E3 ie 3 o teink . : > .. . ale °+‘ f won them the legal right to be president of the rural women‘s orâ€" t d f i5~ 4, 3 .‘q;g; To3 ;-'-E}:;;-;: 3 appointed to the Senatc. ganization, later served on the adâ€" WÂ¥ t +4 oo Aal t . â€" ty y . Urging today‘s feminists to be visory council of the University of * <i1%¢ â€"~ $Teke * en R _: vei sure they are seeking justice, not â€" Saskatchewan College of Agriculâ€" We 0 a4% :09 °t e _ * Yox u. 3?.",, privileged treatment, Ducie said, . ture. In 1977, her name was inâ€" [ s i: Hoska~ 4 e c ies k ... . _ "you don‘t have the same opposiâ€" cluded in the Saskatchewan Hall [W» % md »ts 3. __ 4 "Hee es "ark tion as we used to. Women are. of Fame in recognition of her P WBR apae ~ § . _ e io »oes | being treated well indeed." work to improve the living condiâ€" mfi T ~mcaRe _ o l | _ Ducie, who immigrated with‘ tions of rural women. es Rfrrmaege i e ‘ on esnt A oo Lt mss "C"l her family to Saskatchewan in The first woman (in 1916) to "fi;@y es .A . 003C tm o : (3 fker 1907, after graduating from the receive a Bachelor of Law degrec * El s â€"cu _ _ ie on (hk ~â€" Home and Colonial Teachers from the University of Manitoba . es i hâ€"‘”fi“ ky .A ~~> on oo t "'r“:" Training College in London, Eng., was also given a Persons Award _ |" e (osce â€" goot es o. 1 Plle en was one of the founders of the Tuesday. Isabel Ross Hunt, who Eg;'_;;:*‘-'s-.;:@,,:,. o en amomy Sha fa l ts e °_ ead Hom\;makcrs’ Clubs, later called celebrates her 89th birthday toâ€" P ts s â€" _ _ Wayne Cuddington, Gitizen the Women‘s Institute. day, was the first woman to esâ€" i i f in an. intefview" Tuesday, she taglish a deworhes imiweliecs Ducie chats with Gov. Gen. Ed Schreyer Tuesday recalled her disappointment when Canada. In 1929 she was the first Toronto Sun columnist Laura _ cher and women‘s association voâ€" nobody came to the first scheâ€"â€" woman to be hired as a solicitor Sabia, Toronto; Marie Hamilton, â€" lunteer. duled gathcring in 1913. There was . by the City of Winnipeg, and in . of Halifax, a teacher and preâ€" In the 1960s, Sabia headed the a farmers‘ meeting the same day, 1953 the first woman in Manitoâ€" school coâ€"ordinator working to Committee for the Equality of and with no more than one horse . ba to be named Queen‘s Counsel. > improve the status â€"of black woâ€" â€" Women, which led to the Royal and buggy to a family, the woâ€" Other winners are: longâ€"time. men in. Nova Scotia; and Gaâ€" â€" Commission on the Status of Woâ€" men had no transportation. activist for women‘s rights and brielle Labbé, of Montreal, a teaâ€" _ men. later more pioneers arrived and the had a son, Hugh Kirby Gilmour, who y need was great for a road here in this _ was a young man graduated in 1927 This is our part of Ross township. The settlers from McGill University, Montreal, beâ€" 3 took the necessary steps and petitioned ing ordained as a Presbyterian C the government for a charter to help _ minister. His first cha}'ge was . at valley herltage build a road. It is said that Queen Vicâ€" Lemesurier, Que, p_rcachmg there for toria, upon hearing of all these settlers 12 years before being stationed at St ; without a road, granted that such a Elmo, where he served a very large a by Evelyn Moore Price > travelling route be established. _ In â€" congregation. & Many of the early thoroughfares in _ gratitude the settlers wishes to name it Later he was at Richmond, where he Renfrew County meandered, Tollowing _ Victoria Road, but as time went on, the _ died at the age of 50 years. the line of least resistance, but Ross _ name "Queen‘s Line" was adopted. A great grandson ass_umcd ownerâ€" township‘s Queen‘s Line was not OnC In these early years a combined _ ship of the farm and their son in turn 7 of these. Before 1812 in this area of _ general store and post office was built _ was named Stephen Hugh Gilmour. a what later became Renfrew County, by JC Anderson on the farm of James _ Thus five generations of Gilmour, eac}1 ' there was a straight stretch of road, Headrick. It was known as Queen‘s _ named Hugh, resided on this Queen‘s which was approximately six miles long _ Line post office until rural routes were _ Line homestead. j ; which never deviated from its straight established, just before World War 1. On this same farm was built the first 7 @ and narrow path. It had its beginnings _ Queen‘s Line lost its post office to RR schoolâ€"SS No 8 Ross. The first s at â€" the Cobdenâ€"Beachburg Road, _ 1, Foresters Falls. The store had a sueâ€" . trustees were Thomas Appleby, formerly a part of Highway 17, and exâ€" _ cession of owners in the ensuing years, _ Richard Oattes and Hugh Gilmour. tellded down between the Sixth and | being remodelled to each owner‘s taste _ The first school inspector was Rev § Seventh Concession of Ross township.. in renovations. James Hugh Cameron, minister . of Situated as it was between the Ottawa Hugh Gilmour was the second setâ€" Kerr Line Presbyterian. Church. He River and East of Muskrat Lake, it was _ tler, whose wife was formerly Miss _ rode on horseback to visit schools and > P heavily timbered swampland over rUn Ellien Metcalfe from Almonte. They early settlers. § . by wild animals and crissâ€"crossed the _ purchased land from the crown, settlâ€" Queen‘s Line attained more recogn}â€" f Indian trails. There is still evidence of _ ing on S 1/2 Lot 14, Concession 6. _ tion as it became the artery of travel to Indian graves on the rocky places along _ They lived there all their lives and as the Dominion Magnesium Mine near : where these Indian trails were situated. _ common in these days, they raised a _ Haley‘s Station. s & 4j Many older residents recall where these _ large family. One son named after his Research into Our Valley Heritage in graves were located. father, inherited the property. _ He this bicentennial year of 1984 brings to © There are claims that Don McCaskill _ matried a neighbor‘s daughter, Tessie â€" life another facet in the story of early 4 was the first settler about 1850 and _ Headrick. The second Hugh Gilmour settlement! t s . i ie e maie x cAea c f (9g! P f