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  1. ray slack
    September 8, 2016 @ 4:18 pm

    Very well done, brings back a lot of memories, I had never seen a picture of Bain s Store before, i had forgotten how small it was. The Bain s were a wonderful couple, lots of times we d ride down on our bikes for a soft drink in the evening. In the summer Mrs Bain delivered the mail to the mail boxes, but in the winter you had to drive to the store to pick it up.

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    • Jeff Spicer
      September 9, 2016 @ 1:02 am

      That is very interesting to know about that a lot history there I never knew about. I do remember some stuff the Grandma n Grandpa had told me. That’s cool to know about the area that u grew up in.

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      • John
        September 9, 2016 @ 11:57 am

        Gad that you enjoyed the story and the memories. Keep an eye on our site as we will be posting more stories and photos of the other forgotten hamlets in Elizabethtown and Kitley

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    • John
      September 9, 2016 @ 11:56 am

      Glad you enjoyed the story and memories

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    • andrea walling
      January 8, 2017 @ 1:36 am

      is anyone familiar with the house at 5952 Bains road…of its history and who built it ?

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  2. Joyce Campbell
    September 9, 2016 @ 6:35 pm

    Awesome article I grew up there and remember the store ect. Great pictures and my family of Spicers are still there

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  3. andrea walling
    January 8, 2017 @ 1:36 am

    hello….looking to get some history on a home on Bains road ….anyone can help me ?

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    • John
      January 8, 2017 @ 11:56 am

      I will post on our Facebook page to see if any one knows. Unfortunately I don’t

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    • Elane La Salle
      September 10, 2017 @ 8:38 pm

      My parents (Eugene and Gabrielle La Salle) cleared the swamp land behind Bains Store in 1970.

      Mr. Bain was a very good friend to me when I was a child. I spent many hours talking to him each day. My mother made Me. Bain dinner several times a week. She worried that he did not eat healthy enough. I miss those wonderful days.

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  4. Dawn
    June 12, 2017 @ 11:09 am

    Hello,
    I am a descendant of Nathan Clark and Sarah Gifford, through my maternal grandmother Norma Lees née Clark, my information regarding Nathan and Sarah is somewhat different and I would be thrilled to trade information.
    Thanks

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  5. John Clark
    July 7, 2018 @ 5:18 am

    I also am a direct descendant of Nathan Clark and was very pleased to come across this information. It is my desire to drive up there one day to see the place in person.

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  6. Robert Hunter
    September 10, 2018 @ 12:16 pm

    I’m descendent of Robert Vout. I would like to have any information that anyone would have on the Vouts, Bains and Leepy families. My email is corpsgrdarrow@yahoo.ca I have lots of information on the Vouts but still have many blanks.

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  7. Richard Hallam
    September 19, 2020 @ 6:55 pm

    My father Claude Hallam, just out of the army and back in Canada in 1947, moved his wife Ada and three kids, including me, into the farm he had purchased from Wallace McDougal. This was my family’s introduction to county life, having moved from Niagara Falls. For my sister, it meant a trip to Brockville every day to attend high school . For brother, at age 17, to become a full-time farmer. For my mom the challenge of making a home in a drafty out house with coal oil lamps, no indoor facilities and no central heating or water. But she did did it and we went on to remember it as probably the happiest time we ever had as a family. Me? Why I we went to Mrs McKinley’s school with the Dier kids, the. Browns and the Throup brothers. I could write a book but most would assume it was fiction but no, it all happened in a little community far back in time and all but forgotten, but not by me because for me it was magical.

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    • Ray Slack
      September 28, 2020 @ 11:11 am

      Hello, Just read your comments this morning, made me smile, it must of been an experience growing up with some of the Browns, lol can t imagine the stories you recall. Where was the Wallace Mc Dougal Farm?? I grew up on North Augusta Rd, north of Bain s Store, Ray Slack.

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      • Richard Hallam
        September 30, 2020 @ 5:36 pm

        As a kid I knew the Slack name very well as they were the prominent family in the neighbourhood, The McDougal brothers, Wallace and Verton, lived lived side by side but managed to never speak to each other at least when we lived there. The farms were on what was called Bains Road since they were the couple who ran the corner store on the North Augusta road and also delivered the mail. So you turned east on Bains Road and followed a more or less strait run to Reuban Brown’s place where the road swung to the left. You followed it straight then it also curved to the left. If you followed, you came to yet another sharp curve, this time to the right. Two large stone farm houses were on this curve, first Wallace, then to the right up a sloping drive, Verton’s place I have been back to “my country roots’ several times, the last time in 2019 with my daughter and grandkids. It was a time my family never forgot because, coming as it did right after the war and depression years. it was the first time we had all been together. And so many adventures!

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  8. jame lee
    February 26, 2021 @ 4:12 pm

    My name is James Lee and my grandparents lived on North Augusta Road just south of Bains road. My Dad(Ron Lee) told me that they used to hold barn dances at their farm. I would love to hear more stories from people who may have known my fathers family in the 30’s/40’s. My grandfather was Bill(William) Lee.

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    • Ray Slack
      February 27, 2021 @ 12:23 pm

      Hi Jame Lee,,my name is Ray Slack. We lived a mile North of the Lee s.. My Dad, Walter Slack purchased the original Lee Farm on the 6 th Concession in the early 40 s , after the house had burned down.. Our Family always referred to it as The Lee Place, no matter what we were doing or talking about .It will always be The Lee Place to me. I sold Our Farm in 2005. I never had any experiences with The Barn Dances, a bit before my time, but I am sure they were Fun Times. I think someone started them up again in the early 60 s.. We used to move our Dairy Herd down the Bain s Rd to graze 2 nd growth hay in the late summer s and on Sunday Mornings we would see quite a few empty bottles on the side of the road just down the Hill,, someone had enjoyed some Beverages there i guess.. Wish i could tell you more but thats all i ve got.. Shirley Greer might know more about it, Bryan Lee Greer could help you with that.

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  9. Catherine Swan
    February 4, 2022 @ 6:07 pm

    Hi, My name is Catherine Swan. We are the fourth owners of the property at 5754 Fairfield Road. I found it very interesting reading the posts. Some of it is familiar but a lot is new to me. I am looking for any info on the old building that used to sit on the western edge of our property, which the Fairfield W.I. used to use before it was demolished. I understand that it was formerly a church?
    Thanks so much,
    Catherine

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