…and over the ashes the stories are told
The fourth installment by Nancy Dupuis.
Wondering always about the past of my hometown and area and the many remnants of actual old woollen mills, I went in search of some prior history one afternoon – why did these settlers quickly establish such mills in our local area, I wondered?
Sir Alexander Fleming, born in 1881 was one of the greatest medical pioneers who won the Nobel Prize for Medicine, in 1945 for the discovery of Penicillin. Read more about Sir Alexander Fleming.
Read More”There are few residents of the Ramsay district whose family names are not to be found on the tombstones of the Auld Kirk Cemetery. They are all here, our relatives and our acquaintances; decrepit age and vigorous life, blooming youth and helpless infancy—all. Source: The Ottawa Journal, 20 January 1973, page 38”
Read MoreHaving retired from the military after 35 years service as a member of the Royal Canadian Regiment, along with learning the bagpipes, I joined the Scottish Society of Ottawa and became the Volunteer Director (assigning marching orders and supervising seemed an obvious fit for an ex Infantry NCO/Officer). One other job I took on was looking after our supplies. This led me to discover that the SSO had received a donation of several copies How to be Scottish: A Guide for North Americans written by a certain retired Infantry Colonel from my Regiment, and whom I personally knew, Colonel Strome Galloway.
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