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Author's Night at the Bruce County Museum |
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Bruce Country is filled with stories of bygone eras, of
times when the first Europeans landed in the new land to those who were
part of the fur trade and who became part of the Metis culture.
Virginia Barter Virginia Barter, Author of 'Searching for the Silver Fox: a Fur Trade Family History, which is about the Miles Spencer family of Southampton and included in the anthology, "The Long Journey of a Forgotten People: Metis Identities and Histories", spoke of her Metis family history. "The family always thought that Miles Spencer came from England and, then, we learned that he was in fact of Metis ancestry."
Bruce Miller Writer, Bruce Miller, a retired mathematician, talked about life in "Tara before 1981" and "The Miller's Tale", a book with over 100 stories about Bruce County families with names such as Aiken, Moffet, Brown, Johnson, Greig, Calder, Langstraff, Morran, and others. |
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William Stewart William (Bill) Stewart, a retired school teacher and author of "At the Crossroads: a History of Hepworth with pictures, anecdotes and reminiscences" recounted the many stories of the little town of Hepworth from the 1800s to the early 1900s. Many of his stories are derived from written accounts of actual happenings and some are also based on local folklore
Mary MacKay Mary MacKay, also a retired teacher, has written
several books about early families and life in Elderslie Township. Among
her works are: Down Petticoat Lane, Tatters in My Life, The Scooptown
Diary and others. "I started writing about Lauchlin MacNeil of the
Island of Colonsay and how, in the time when Scots were Presbyterians,
he became a Baptist minister, as did his sons after him, and started the
Baptist Church in Paisley. John MacNeil, in fact, eventually became the
head of the Foreign Mission for the Baptist Church in Canada.
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