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Persoonlijke gegevens Duncan Robertson 

• Hij is geboren op 10 oktober 1825 in Tabusintac, Northhumberland, New Brunswick, Canada.
• Hij is overleden op 11 juli 1893 in Bridgeville, Gaspe, Quebec, Canada, hij was toen 67 jaar oud.
• Hij is begraven in St.Peter's Anglican Church Mal Bay Quebec.
• Een kind van Private John Robertson en Mary (Polly) McCallum

Gezin van Duncan Robertson

(1) Hij is getrouwd met Jane Duncan.

Zij zijn getrouwd op 25 juli 1861 te Episcopal, Malbaie, Gaspe, Quebec, Canada, hij was toen 35 jaar oud.

Kind(eren):

1. Alexander Duncan Robertson  1862-1930
2. John Robertson  1864-1864
3. Mary Ann Robertson  1865-1937 
4. Albert Edward Robertson  1867-1898 
5. Eliza Robertson  1869-1934
6. Miriam Jane Robertson  1872-1923
7. William Robertson  1873-1951 
8. Alice Martha Robertson  1875-????

(2) Hij is getrouwd met Eliza Lancaster.

Zij zijn getrouwd op 1 april 1851 te Episcopal, Malbaie, Gaspe, Quebec, Canada, hij was toen 25 jaar oud.

Kind(eren):

1. Margaret Robertson  1854-????
2. Harriet Christina Robertson  1854-????

Notities over Duncan Robertson

Duncan Robertson lived in Tabusintac N. B. and worked for the Shaw Lumber Company up the Ottawa River. In the

spring, he came down the Ottawa River on the lumber rafts as far as Quebec. When the Shaw Lumber Company moved to

Barachois Bar, Gaspe Co., Quebec, Duncan moved from Tabusintac to Bridgeville around 1847 - 1848 and the government

granted him two lots of land.

Duncan Robertson built and lived in the house that was later the residence of his son Mr. Will Robertson and later by his

grandson John Robertson.

 

And God Looked At Bridgeville, Smiled and Exclaimed "Perfect!"

Why did Thomas McCallum and his wife Annabel Robertson leave Tabusintac in 1849 to move to

Bridgeville?

From an email I received:

"Subject: letter

Date: Sat, 16 Oct 1999 11:46:26 -0400 (EDT)

From: (XXXXX@XXXX.XXX)

To: (XXXXX@XXXX.XXX)

Hi Guys & Girls,

While in Tabusintac a cousin brought up some paper work from Herbert

Robertson. He was interested in Genogeoligy. Most of what he had was

what Uncle John Robertson already had. He did however have a copy of

a letter that follows. Can anyone identfy this Duncan Robertson?

Duncan Robertson lived in Tabusintac, NB. And went to work on the

Ottawa River for Shaw lumber Co. In the spring he came down the river

on the square timber raft as far as Quebec. He moved to Gaspe width

Shaw Lumber Co. And worked there. He moved to Bridgevelle and the

Government granted him two lots of land, one which he gave to his

brother-in-law from Tabusintac, Thomas McCallum and the other lot is

the one on which the house of John Robertson now stands.

In later years Duncan Robertson went to Tabusintac, NB bought a fine

horse and carriage and drove back to Gaspe. This horse was one of the

first horses in the area. Prior to that oxen were used in the place

of horses.

Around 1890 Duncan Robertson and the McCallums built a sailing vessel

on Barachois bar. This vessel was used to run to Barbados and carried

lumber and shingles to Barbsdos and return with sugar and molasses.

This vessel sailed at the same time as the Buckley's vessel, which

disappeared without a trace on her maiden voyage.

In 1916 the Robertson's built a freighter which was called "The Gaspe

Trader." The Gaspe Trader ran for about twenty years.

PS The spelling is as the letter shows.

Elva"

'Around 1890' means 'Prior to 1888' because that's the year Duncan died to this world. The Robertsons

were good friends with the McCallums, but under those circumstances the McCallum Motto of "He has

attempted difficult things" doesn't even work for Noah "Popeye" McCallum and his wife Joan of Arc.

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The Loss of the Mizpah

Composed by Lewis J. Urquhart

It tells of a vessel built by the Buckley brothers. She sailed away and never returned.

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Come kind friends gather around me It was on an autumn evening

Put mirth and jest away Just as the close of day

I'm going to entertain you The sun gave out his parting beams

With a melancholy lay. With soft and mellow ray

While I my tale pursue The sea as silvery and serene

And to relate the mournful fate As nature could provide

Of the Mizpah and her crew. When the Mizpah glided off her ways

To meet the ocean tide.

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And the yielding azure waters To man her and to freight her

Received her to its arms Was the next thing to be done

As a lover would his darling A goodly ship, she was thought fit

Possessed her many charms A foreign voyage to run

Decked as it were in bridal robes When blustery Chill December

Of pure and snowy white Crew on its mantle gray

Her beauteous form she did adorn Before its gale with flowing sail

With graceful movement light. The Mizpah bore away.

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And parting tears were wiped away It was but a few days afterward

That day from many an eye That dreadful news it came

And little did our loved ones think A wreck at sea was sighted

They had bade their last goodbye And the Mizpah was its name

Little they thought that noble crew Dismasted and abandoned

As they sailed from the shore So ran the doleful tale

That their friends at home their loss would mourn With boat nor crew nowhere in view

And never see them more. The victim of a gale.

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What wrecked the good ship Mizpah? There was no lack of courage

How perished her brave crew? Nor were there want of skill

What many have conjectured But the storm-king raged as it engaged

The same I'll tell you To do some demon's will

For none returned to tell the tale The wind did howl with maniac shriek

How grievous was the storm That dreadful night or day

When fortunes lowered and waves o'er powered And the mad waves roared and broke on board

The Mizpah gallant form. And tore and carried away.

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It was then brave captain Robson Then his thoughts went back to that

For the first time grew dismayed loving wife and little one at home

That seaman bold we've all been told Who would prove kind when left behind

No storm could make afraid To face the world alone

Gale on gale he had been through No kind friend nor relation

But this one seemed to be Could their woeful loss repair

Really sent or some way meant And give them back a Husband's love

To prove his destiny. And a father's tender care.

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No more that kiss of welcome It was then the sailor owners

On his returning home I mean the Buckley two

Her loving smile for him beguiled Saw their days were numbered

The billow's angry foam And their hours were but few

The winsome glance of her bright eye O blame them not if briny tears

His beacon in the storm Fast trickle down each cheek

Alas he now must leave her On seeing their hopes all blasted

A widow quite forlorn. And their graves beneath their feet.

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They too leave friends behind them They too leave friends to mourn their loss

A father dear to mourn A brother and sisters dear

Broken hearted for his sons Will not their spirits wander back

When they will not return And unto them appear

His eldest with his youngest one In midnight's silent hour

The staff of his old age When all the world's asleep

His trust secure peace to insure Their ghosts may tell what fate befell

When ills their wars would rage. Upon the treacherous deep.

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Of Taylor Boyle and Tuzo Was it on that shattered deck?

What have we got to say Or was it in their boat?

Two able seamen and their steward Death came with dreadful majesty

They too were called away And gave the final stroke

When tyrant death called of his roll Then let us hope the Mighty

Their names too did appear And powerful to save

With their shipmates and captain Gave them due resignation

To boldly answer here. To meet their watery grave.

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O mourn for them good people For cruel and relentless death

Where e'er these tidings go Most cruel must be

Sing for them a Requiem To choose the wild Atlantic's moan

Ye howling winds that blow Their funeral dirge to be

Chant ye foaming lashing waves And bury those we loved so dear

A mournful lullaby Far in its bring deep

Pour out a pliant without restraint And nothing's left to friends bereft

In one continued sigh. But for to sit and weep.

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No graves are there to visit

And deck with loving care

The lily and the violet

Cannot be planted there

But sea-birds cry and hover nigh

Where waves roll high and blue

As guardinas o'er the slumber

Of the Mizpah's gallant crew.

Grandma Mac's sister Bertha was married to Elias Buckley. Regularly daddy, John Robertson, Aunt

Luena, Uncle Elias and others would talk for hours about the roots and history of the people of

Bridgeville. Hundreds of time I listened in our home as Uncle Elias closed his eyes and repeated this

poem with feelings.

Thomas McCallum (1810 - Feb 15, 1888) moved to Bridgeville from Tabusintac in1849. My father, Alva

Lionel McCallum born June 8, 1898 died September 29th, 1964. The Beginning and the End of the

McCallums in Bridgeville and to a great degree Bridgeville because it has become French and Social

Assistance infested . . .

The first night, Thomas and family slept under a big tree on the property he was to later own. Thomas had

twenty-five cents in his pocket.

After much research, I believe that Duncan Robertson (1822 - July 11, 1893) preceded Thomas

McCallum by about nine to fifteen months in moving from Tabusintac to Bridgeville. In the fall of the

year, Duncan would leave Tabusintac and go up the Ottawa River Valley to work in the woods for the

Shaw Lumber Company. In the Spring, he'd work on the large log rafts that brought the logs down to the

mill just inside the Quebec Border. The Shaw Lumber Company moved their operation about 1847 -

1848. They cut logs behind Bridgeville, drove them down the Baity River to their mill which they built

about half way down the Bar (the cement furnace still stands). CNR put a siding in at the mill and the

lumber was loaded in box cars and shipped away. Part of the attractive deal that the Quebec Government

made with the Shaw Lumber Company was that their workers who relocated got two lots of land. When I

grew up I knew those two lots as Mr. Wills and Mr. Alexander, both sons of Duncan. Duncan was lonely,

including missing his girl friend Eliza Lancaster. Duncan's mother, Polly McCallum was Thomas's sister.

Thomas was married to Duncan's aunt Annabel. With encouragement from Duncan, including a job offer

in the mill, Thomas and family moved to Bridgeville. Eliza Lancaster followed. Duncan married Eliza

Lancaster in 1851 in St Peter's Anglican Church, Mal Bay and they had a daughter, Harriet Christine,

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born in 1854. When Harriet was six years old, her mother died, 19 Feb 1860. She was brought up by her

Aunt Annabel and Uncle Thomas. Duncan next married Jane Duncan, John Robertson's grandmother.

John Robertson, the last Robertson in Bridgeville, moved away sometime during the 1970s. Bridgeville

as it was for so long was and is no more. With Quebec being a have not province receiving Equalization

Payments contributed by Canada's have provinces, Natural (Victors on the Plains of Abraham) Canadians

pay for Quebec's ethnic cleansing. Let's get back to who the Victors were on the Plains of Abraham, elect

Prime Ministers from other than Quebec and correct the damage done by the Quebec Prime Ministers.

Brian Mulroney was Irish origin in label only and just as separatist oriented as his Quebec Cabinet

Ministers. Loud and clear "NO" to Quebec's French Drenched Paul Martin.

Duncan's older brother Sylvanus moved to Mal Bay between 1856 and 1857 and then moved to Guelph

Ontario in 1867.

Bridgeville is tucked away between Barachois and Corner of the Beach. Barachois is at the head of a

broad embayment known as Mal Bay. A sand bar five miles long and two hundred yards wide separate

the salt water of the Bay of Mal Bay from the fresh water of the Portgage, Baity and Main (Mal Bay)

Rivers that run through an inland lagoon of marshes in Bridgeville and join together at Barachois to

empty through a narrow channel into the Bay of Mal Bay of the Bay of Chaleur.

Starting in the East at the Main River (rich flat land) and moving west were lots of land belonging to

Buckley, McCallum(3), Robertson(2), Ross, Rehel, Hodgins, LeMesurier(2), Vibert, Buckley(2),

Robertson.

To the West, Bridgeville has a suburb known as Grand-Mare with lots belonging to Vibert, Bond, Trudel,

Prevost. It was a small marsh low level area situated off the main road with just a narrow bridge built over

the Baity River with a path leading up through the small settlement. It was in 1925 that the first road was

built leading up through Grand-Mare. In 1974, new routes were surveyed all through Bridgeville, passing

up through Grand-Mare and placing it on the main road.

Almost from the beginning, because of necessity, the McCallums had a sawmill on a pie shaped piece of

land where Duck River splits off from the Main River on two sides and the highway on the third. It

remained there until 1940. It's mission, if you will, was first to meet their needs and secondly to help the

local people. In 1940, my father Alva McCallum, better known by his nickname of Abby turned it into a

commercial business and moved it to Bridgeville's Rang-St-Paul (half way through Bridgeville). At one

time the mill was owned and operated by brothers Thomas and Clarence McCallum, Clarence being my

grandfather. When Uncle Tom moved from Bridgeville to L'Anse a Brillant, his brother Clarence bought

his share and operated with my father until Grandpa became too sick and then my father took it over.

The Municipality of Bridgeville consisted of Bridgeville in the East, Rang St Paul in the middle and

Grand-Mare in the West. Most people mistakenly treat Rang St Paul La Grand-Mare. From the last

Robertson mentioned above to Corner of the Beach ninety-nine percent of the people were French origin

but all could speak English. Many of them worked for my father year around.

In the early days, confusion often lumped Bridgeville in with Barachois. From Lovell's Business

Directory of the Province of Quebec 1871 "Barachois De Malbaie - A village in the township of

Malbaie, county and district of Gaspe. The place is the seat of extensive fisheries and possess a safe

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harbour. Distant from Perce, a landing of the Quebec and Gulf Ports steamers, 9 miles, from Gaspe Basin

23 miles. Mail tri-weekly. Population about 150.

Bacon Francois, carpenter

Bacon Joseph, carpenter

Brown Benjamin, carpenter

Burman Charles Henry, baliff, fish merchant and cod liver oil refiner

Chicoine Henri, cooper

Chicoine Jean, cooper

Dion Pierre, shoemaker

Hodgins John, councillor

Jones Patrick, storekeeper, president of school commissioners

Lawrence John, school secretary-treasurer

Lemesurier John, carpenter

Lepage Rev Jean Josue, R. catholic

McCallum Thomas, councillor

Martin David, shoemaker

Miville Hospice, miller

Piton Abraham, blacksmith

Rehel Miss Elizabeth, school teacher

Robertson Duncan, saw mill

Ross John, ship owner

Tapp Thomas, postmaster

Urquhart Lewis, councillor"

John Hodgins, John Lemesurier, Thomas McCallum, Duncan Roberstson were from Bridgeville. "Duncan

Robertson, saw mill" is a different mill connotation than the one with the Shaw Lumber Company. The

Shaw Lumber Company lasted for about half a dozen years. Thomas McCallum (12 years older than

Duncan Robertson) and Duncan Robertson built and operated a mill back of Bridgeville on the Baity

River at a location that I knew as I grew up there as the Old Mill and still can go to. Lovell's Business

Directory of the Province of Quebec 1890 -1891 corrects this with "Robertson & McCallum, saw mill and

ship owners."

Next I will present information on the McCallum Bridgeville Connections. Before I do, I must address the

matter of the large number of errors that people defend because they got them from a religious or

government source. Religions and governments are not scientific with their twisted truth.

For starters, the information in the Mal Bay Register contains errors about my own baptism. I've

communicated with The Reverend and Venerable Hugh Matheson about these matters. His reply is "In

terms of errors in the registers, it is simple. The minister writes it out as best as can be, and then the

witnesses to sign, that they had read the entry and found it correct. Most never read it, so mistakes were

never discovered until it was too late." The following possibilities are worthy of consideration. Some of

them never read them because they couldn't read and they didn't embarrass themselves by pretending.

Others consider it a sin or nearly to point out mistakes made by clergy. Very, very few of the clergy were

born and raised in the area so their understanding, including the points on the compass, was deficient.

When there is holy brotherly love, why fuss when North really means West.

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The Episcopal Church in Canada is no more credible than the WWF (World Wrestling Federation).

According to the Reverend and Venerable Matheson, there is a Christian religion known as the Church of

England. In different countries it takes on different labels. In the USA it is "known as" the Episcopal. In

Canada, Africa and other countries it is "known as" the Anglican. To quote the Reverend and Venerable

Matheson "You have always been a member of all of them." To quote the Reverend and Venerable

Matheson again 'It was thought that the word "Anglican" would anger or confuse Francophones' so the

word Episcopal was used randomly. Once again from the Reverend and Venerable Matheson, 'in the mid

1980's Eglise Anglican du Canada became the official french name'. See "What is the Episcopal Church?"

http://www.mit.edu/afs/athena.mit.edu/user/t/b/tb/www/anglican/intro/ec-whatis.html If one from another

country is an Episcopal and chooses to reside in Canada legally or illegally, they automatically become an

Anglican without notice, effort, ritual or fanfare. The Episcopal Church in Canada has never been

anything more than a ploy by the victorious of the Plains of Abraham to trick the conquered. There have

never been Martians nor Episcopal beings in Canada, ever.

The reckless substitution of Barachois North for Barachois West is next. For starters, lets present

Barachois North's name changes from the beginning: (1) Colonization Road (2) Cote Haut (3) Coteau (4)

Barachois North. They are approximately three miles apart and separate and distinct.

I was born in March in my grandfather's house in Bridgeville. During June of that year I moved with my

parents to Barachois West where we lived for the next six years until my Uncle Leslie moved to Birchton

in the Eastern Township and my father bough his property and we moved to Bridgeville. Jimmy Ste Croix

of Barachois West was my baby sitter on many an occasion and I have very fond memories of Mr. Alfred,

Katy, Stanny, Ralph, Harris Ste-Croix, our neighbours at an early stage of my life. My two very best

friends were Victor Chicoine and Mervin Ross. Both were from Barachois West. And other touching

memories. I'll never skip an opportunity to point out the insanity of substituting Barachois North for

Barachois West.

The Anglican Church for Bridgeville is in Barachois West. The next Anglican Church to the east is about

ten miles away in Mal Bay. Never was one in Barachois North.

St. Paul's Anglican Church is situated in Barachois West. The church was incorporated and construction

started in the year 1893. The churches in Barachois West and Mal Bay are two separate corporations. The

exterior of the church was built by Thomas John Touzel. The interior of the church was completed by

Fred Hodgins. Service was held at Barachois West for the first time on June 23rd 1895. It was consecrated

on July 21, 1895. The graveyard was used prior to the preceding dates. Thomas McCallum of Bridgeville

died Feb 15, 1888 and is buried there and he may not be the first. Duncan Robertson of Bridgeville died

July 11, 1893 and is buried in Mal Bay with both his wife, Eliza Lancaster who died in Bridgeville Feb

19, 1860 and Jane Duncan who died in Bridgeville Jan 9, 1989.

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People of Bridgeville

When I lived There

In Sequence By Residence

1. "Grandma" Mac (Emma McCallum) who, during the summer, slept in our house and went over the

hill to hers each morning. In the winter, she went away to live with Aunt Lyla.

a. "Daddy" (Alva McCallum)

b. "Mommy" (Irene McCallum)

c. My Sister "Doreen" McCallum

d. My Brother "Clarence" McCallum

e. "Loretta" Quirion who worked for my mother and lived in our house.

f. "Regis" Quirion who worked for my father and lived in our house.

g. "Mr. Ross" (Will) who befriended my father and his three young daughters when his wife

died, moved in with us when he got old.

2. Aunt Anne (Mrs. Norman McCallum)

a. "Uncle Irving" McCallum

b. "Aunt Mary Anne" McCallum

c. "Betty" McCallum

d. "Norman" McCallum

3. "Mrs. Alexander Robertson"

a. "Lessie" (Celestine Buckley Robertson)

4. "Pops" Mr Will Robertson

a. "Aunt Tilly" (Mrs. Will Robertson)

b. "John" Robertson

c. "Muriel" Robertson

d. "Barbara" Robertson

e. "Carol" Robertson

5. "Mr. Norman" Rehel

a. "Emila" (Mrs. Norman Rehel

b. "Lucy" Rehel

c. "Guy" Rehel

d. "Ruth" Rehel

e. "Andrew" Rehel

f. "Nora" Rehel

6. "Harold" Hodgins

a. "Mrs. Harold" Hodgins

b. "Laura" Hodgins

c. "Happy" Hodgins

d. "Hazel" Hodgins

e. "Jasper" Hodgins

7. "Bernie" Lemessieur

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a. "Dempsey" (Mrs. Bernie Lemessieur)

8. "Alden" Lemessieur

a. "Mrs. Alden"

b. eleventeen kids

9. "Malcolm" Lemessieur

a. "Saphora" (Mrs. Malcolm)

b. "Maretta"

c. "Jean"

d. "Albert"

e. "Edna"

10. "Willie" Vibert

a. "Ray" Vibert

b. "Joyce" Vibert

10. "Mr. Tommy" DeVouge

a. "Mrs. Tommy" (Olive DeVouge)

b. "Boyd" DeVouge

c. "Ivan" DeVouge

d. "Viola" DeVouge

e. "Lillian" DeVouge

f. "Jean" DeVouge

g. "Phyllis" DeVouge

h. "Helen" DeVouge

i. "Tom" DeVouge

j. "Lorne" DeVouge

11. "Uncle Elias" Buckley

a. "Aunt Bertha" Buckley

b. "Little Elias" Buckley

12. "Ansel" Buckley

13. "Sandy" Robertson

a. "Ola" Robertson

b. "Bobby" (Robert Robertson)

c. "Linda" Robertson

d. "Gloria" Robertson

e. "Gary" Robertson

f. "Larry" Robertson

g. "Mary Edna" Robertson

h. "Terry" Robertson

i. "Clinton" Robertson

14. "Mr. George" Robertson

a. "Mrs. George" Edna Robertson

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b. "Ralph" Robertson

c. "Junior" (George Austin Robertson)

15. "Mr Frank" Belanger

a. "Clem"

b. "Valo"

16."Amab" Rehel

17. "Herbert" Laflamme

a. "Donalda" (Mrs. Herbert)

b. "Lewis"

18."Emedy" Rehel

a. "Ellen"

b. "Cathleen"

c. "Rex"

d. "Floyd"

19. "Mr. Anthony" Mitchell

a. "Mrs. Anthony"

b. "Shirley"

c. "Emery"

20. "Bon Homme"

a. "La Toon"

21. "Jean" Vibert

22. "Charlie" Ste Croix

a. "Da Silva"

b. "Leo"

23. "Emile" Asselin

a. "Mrs. Emile"

b. "Violet"

24. "Joseph" Asselin

a. "Mrs. Joseph"

25. "Pierrot' Chicoine

26. "Clarence" Chicoine

a. "Effy"

b. "Arnold"

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27. "Daniel" Rehel

a. "Poncho" Yvon Rehel

b. "Laurent"

28. "Dominique" Asselin

a. "Mrs. Dominique"

29. "Alley" Rehel

a. "Jessie"

30. "Irving" Chicoine

a. "Alex"

b. "James"

31. "Laurent" Quirion

32. "Stanley" Quirion

a. "Mrs. Stanley" (Irene)

33. "Mrs. Cleophas Quirion

a. "BuBut" (Herbert)

b. "Gerald"

c. "Reo"

34. "Regis' Father"

a. "Regis" Mother

b. "Mena"

c. "Renald"

35. "Eldege" Rehel

36. "Mr. Arthur" Chicoine

a. "Ivanora" Mrs. Arthur Chicoine

37. "Robbie" Rehel

a. "Huzzy" Irvin

38. "Little Simon"

a. "Rene"

39. "Mr. Thibault" (?)

40. "Artie" Cotton

a. "Mrs. Artie"

b. "Luena"

c. "Loretta"

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d. "Wilson

e. "Howard"

f. "Ralph"

g. "Emery"

41. "Gelas" Quirion

42. "Clare" Thibault

a. "Mrs. Clare"

b. "Joan"

c. "Clifton"

d. "Eddy"

43. "Mathias" Thibault

44. "Silas" Thibault

a. "T Georges"

45. "Ben" Hammond

46. "Raymond Nay" Dorion

a. "T Crut" (Little Dung"

b. Twenty-two Little Cruts

47. "Charles" Bacon

48 "Clarence" Laflamme

48. "Anthony" Francis

a. "Mrs. Anthony"

49. "Joe" Francis

50. ?

51. ?

52. "Mr. Jacob" Rehel

53. "Hermas" Rehel

a. "Rita" (Mrs. Hermas

54. "Albert" Rehel

55. "Joe" Rehel

a. "Abel" Rehel

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56. "Rene" Rehel

57. ?

58. "Paul" Thibault

59. "John " Vibert

60. "John" Bond

61. "Moise" Trudel

62. "Arthur" Trudel

63. "Wenslas" Prevost

64. "Remi" Prevost

65. "Noah" Trudel

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"Some of the Men who worked In The Mill

1. John Vibert - worked on the SLIP that took the logs from the water into the mill

2. Remi Prevost - rolled the logs on the log-bed

3. Laurent Rehel -Canter (rolled the logs from the log-bed onto the carriage)

4. Frank Belanger - dogger (on the carriage)

5. Norman Chicoine - - dogger (on the carriage)

6. Allan Girard - sawyer

7. Charles Bacon - Cleared the saw

8. Eldege Rehel - Edgerman

9. Howard Cotton - cleared the edger

10. Ralph Cotton - cut the slabs into four foot lengths

11. Ansel Buckley - Marker

12. Valo Maloney - Marker

13. Irving McCallum - Marker

14. Artie Cotton - Trimmer

15. John Bond - Sorting Table

16. Bon Homme - picked the slabs out of the conveyor and put them in a pile

17. Paul Belanger - drove the horse that hauled the sawdust

18. Arthur Chicoine - Fireman

19. Jacob Rehel - Fireman

20. Willie Vibert - Fireman

21. Francis Chicoine - Fireman

22. Emile Asselin - hauled the lumber from the sorting table to the lumber yard

23. Anthony Mitchell - Millwright

24. Malcolm Lemessieur - Millwright

25. Herbert Laflamme - Truck Driver that loaded the lumber into the CNR boxcars

26. Raymond DeVouge - Truck Driver.that loaded the lumber into the CNR boxcars

27. Stanley Quirion - Truck Driver that hauled logs to the mill

28. Reo Quirion - Truck Driver that hauled logs to the mill

29. Gerald Quirion - Truck Driver that hauled logs to the mill

30. Joseph Asselin - truck Driver that hauled logs to the mill

31. BuBut - drove the truck that delivered the slabs

32. Tommy Ingroville - Office Clerk

33. Tom Tapp - Accountant

34. Raymond Nay - Screwier Upper (fired often and rehired when his children were hungry)

35. Simon Quirion - loaded lumber into CNR boxcars

36. Rene Quirion - loaded lumber into CNR boxcars

The following only worked when the Canada Steamship Lines Great Lakes Boats were at Mal Bay

wharf:

37. Tesla Ross - Straw Boss with the crew loading lumber into the Great Lake Boats at Mal Bay.

38. Stuart Duncan - hauled lumber from the Mill to the big boat at Mal Bay Wharf

39. Ansel Element - hauled lumber from the Mill to the big boat at Mal Bay Wharf

40. Eug Chicoine - hauled lumber from the Mill to the big boat at Mal Bay Wharf

41. Albert Methot - hauled lumber from the Mill to the big boat at Mal Bay Wharf

42. Basil Gendreau - hauled lumber from the Mill to the big boat at Mal Bay Wharf

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43. Leslie Vibert - hauled lumber from the Mill to the big boat at Mal Bay Wharf

44. Yvon Smith - hauled lumber from the Mill to the big boat at Mal Bay Wharf

45. Gaudias Delaire - hauled lumber from the Mill to the big boat at Mal Bay Wharf

46. Keith McCallum started off as a four year old self-appointed curious investigator

47. Many more.

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I'll close this awesome Chapter with an appropriate home grown McCallum roots touching poem and a

yearning temptation that the next great Chapter has another one by the same delightful author.

MEMORIES OF MY BARACHOIS HOME

When I wake up each morning,

And gaze out through the trees,

From the windows of my dear old home,

It always brings the tears.

As I watch that glorious sunrise

Creeping slowly 'long the "Bar",

Memories of my childhood

Push o'er from afar.

Me seems I see my Mum and Dad,

As they were in days of yore,

With my sisters and brothers,

But their voices are no more.

Now all I see are empty chairs

As silent shadows fall

Like twilight when the evening comes

And casts it gloom o'er all.

But the I pause and realize

One has to carry on

And meet life's problems face to face,

Preserving sacred memories

Life's trials can't erase.

Though some of us are called before,

It's part of God's great plan,

That we all meet at Jesus' feet

When time shall be no more.

Elizabeth (Chicoine ) Devouge

Tijdbalk Duncan Robertson

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