Savard WI Tweedsmuir Community History, Volume 4, [1891] - [1974], p. 6

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‘ (6) _ After completeing, as I thought, this history of' the Attwater family, I find that there are several things that I have omitted. I will record them here in the order in which they should come. ' I have mentioned that when oswald first came north in 1903 the railroad had not yet passed beyond New Liskeard, if it was that far. Travellers coming north to Charlton or Robillard Township, id it was summer, travelled by steam boat to Toltta-. bovm, then followed the surveyed line west past Heaslip, where the Gross Roads Church is now, until the vicinity of Charlton and Robillard was reached. I believe that the name of the steam boat was the Meteor. Those proceeding to Charlton would have tuam- ed north at what we know as the Charlton Corner. Those going into Robillard would have proceeded west another mile to the boundary between the tormships of Deck and Robillard at what we know as BilllDraper's Cornea. I do pot know how the John The T Baptist (I think that that would be the English name for it. In French it sounds like "Jab-a-teese", and that is the name that it goes by,) River near Heaslip, or Sunday Greek, or the falls between east and west Charlton were crossed. The former is 11saa11y shallow and possibly could have been forded. Sunday Creek is narrow enough that a couple of? trees could have been felled across it. Possibly before the dam was build at Charlton the falls could have been crossed in the same way. In winter the route north was along surveyed lines, probably where the railroad right-or-va-y is new. It was quite the usual thing in those days to walk from Charlton to New Liskeard and back. On one occas ions Oswald carried a poll of tar paper on his back from New Lislceard up to Charlton. Anyone who has carried a roll ot' roofing for even a . short distance will realise that this was no small feat. When the Attwater family moved to Canada from England, as well as the daughter Gertrude, there was one son, Wilfred, The oldest of the family, left in England. Gertrude was never married. Wilfred was married but there were no children. He died about 1928.

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