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Heritage Place Museum

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Home∕Old stories

Old stories

Log Canoes

May 21, 2017August 12, 2017 John 0

From the book “How Dear to My Heart” by Walter Kilborn Billings   The only log canoe that I can remember appeared first on the Lyn pond. An Indian had brought it down from the back lakes, portaging it from back of Temperance Lake, through the canals, over the dams, and finally pulled it up […]

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The Swimming Hole

May 9, 2017August 11, 2017 John 0

From the book “How Dear to My Heart” by Walter Kilborn Billings   Our old farm house was situated on the south side of the Lyn road. It had been re-modelled about the year 1871, and with lots of apple trees around it was a very pleasant spot to be brought up in. South of […]

Tagged Elizabethtown Township, Lyn Ontario, Old stories, Walter Billings
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