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Home∕Walter Billings

Walter Billings

Tobogganing

July 17, 2017August 11, 2017 John 0

  From the book “How Dear to My Heart” by Walter Kilborn Billings   In my youth, Harper’s hill was all that could be desired as a spot to spend an afternoon on. At first the big hand sleigh at the farm was the only means of conveyance, but many times, unless the snow was […]

Tagged Elizabethtown Township Ontario, Lyn Ontario, Tobogging, Walter Billings

Fishing

July 11, 2017August 11, 2017 John 0

  From the book “How Dear to My Heart” by Walter Kilborn Billings   I never seemed to have much luck at this sport. As a boy I could go down to the creek and over to the falls, where with a can of worms I could catch a dozen bullheads, which when cleaned and […]

Tagged Ai Haffie, Elizabethtown Ontario, Fishing, Jones Creek Ontario, Leeds and Grenville County, Lyn Ontario, Mallorytown Landing Ontario, Walter Billings

Haying Time

June 22, 2017August 11, 2017 John 0

From the book “How Dear to My Heart” by Walter Kilborn Billings The modern way of caring for the hay crop seems a far cry from the old way in which the weather had a lot to do with curing and stacking. The horse fork for unloading was a wonderful improvement, as before it was […]

Tagged Agriculture, Elizabethtown Township Ontario, John Johnston Faring, Lyn Ontario, Walter Billings

Drawing Milk to the Cheese Factory

June 20, 2017August 11, 2017 John 0

  From the book “How Dear to My Heart” by Walter Kilborn Billings   In Lyn the cheese factory was located at the foot of the Jarvis Hill, just across the creek from the tan-bark field where they used to play ball. One road led around the corner at the hotel (Stacks), down the mill […]

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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 Sunburn

May 12, 2017August 11, 2017 John 0

  From the book “How Dear to My Heart” by Walter Kilborn Billings It was nearly the end of July 1881. The hay crop had been all taken care of when Father and Mother decided to take a holiday and drive to Gananoque, a town about thirty miles west, to visit her sister. It was […]

Tagged Elizabethtown Township, Lyn Ontario, St. Lawrence Park, Walter Billings

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 […]

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More Bees

April 30, 2017August 11, 2017 John 0

From the book “How Dear to My Heart” by Walter Kilborn Billings   It was nearly the last week of haying. Father and a neighbour, Chris Bateson, had done this work together on both farms, and I drove the rake. This day we were on our neighbour’s farm, and I was following the wagon, cleaning […]

Tagged Bee Keeping, Elizabethtown, Lyn Ontario, Walter Billings

My Cousin

April 25, 2017August 11, 2017 John 0

From the book “How Dear to My Heart” by Walter Kilborn Billings My cousin Eck Kilborn, a boy of about my own age, and doubly related to me, (his mother was a first cousin of my father and his father a brother of my mother), was an only child and so for companionship was always […]

Tagged Elizabethtown, Leeds and Grenville, Lyn, Stories of Lyn, Walter Billings

The Bear Story

April 20, 2017August 11, 2017 John 0

As told by Marble Billings many years ago, about 1879 Shortly after I was married and moved to my farm east of Lyn, I was called to the door one morning in November by a neighbour, William Judson, who said that he had left his horses out in the back pasture the day before, and […]

Tagged Black Bear Sleigh Robe, Elizabethtown, Lyn, Walter Billings

Christmas – 1886

November 24, 2016April 25, 2018 John 0

Christmas 1886 By Walter K. Billings It was Christmas morning about the year 1886. We had been up early to get down to the kitchen where the eight stockings had been hung the night before. Now we were all in one big bedroom looking at the candy elephants, pigs, sheep and rabbits that were already […]

Tagged Christmas, Elizabethtown, Lyn, Walter Billings
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