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Royal Cross Medal Maud Stirling 1,2 President’s Message 3 Ancestry Tree 4

Archives Report 5Summer Student Reflections

Admiral Henry Wolsey Bayfield 6,7

Speaker Series 8,9 Volunteer Recognition Bob Merrimen 10 Bayfield’s Early Telephone System 11

Board of Directors - 2019 12

In this IssueAnnual Newsletter for 2019

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20 Main St. North, P.O. Box 161Bayfield, Ontario N0M 1G0

The Bayfield Historical Society

During this year’s Remembrance Day ceremony at the Bayfield Cenotaph in Clan Gregor Square relatives of a World War 1 hero-ine, Maud Stirling, presented her Royal Red Cross medal to the village for safekeeping by the Bayfield Historical Society. This medal was presented to Maud at Buckingham Palace by King George V and Queen Alexandra on January 30, 1918 in recogni-tion of her conspicuous acts of bravery as a Nursing Sister at a hospital camp near the killing fields of Salonika in Greece. Maud was singled out an extraordinary three times in Dispatches.Maud’s inspirational life story began on a farm near Bayfield where she was one of 15 children born to pioneers, William Stir-ling and Rebecca Colwell Stirling. In September 1914, when war

Maud Stirling Courtesy of the Stirling family

was declared, Maud was amongst the first group of nurses from all over Canada who answered the call. She joined No. 4 University of Toronto Base Hospital which was sent to Greece, near the town of Saloni-ka, where they established a tent hospital near the front line in response to the slaughter of the Australian and Kiwi troops in nearby Gallipoli. After the war, in civilian life, Maud had a successful career as theMatron at several hospitals in Ontario. When she retired, Maud returned to Bayfield, where she became a beloved member of the community.

Royal Red Cross Medal

Maud Stirling

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Carol Simons Grand Niece of Maud Stirling

Stirling family and Doug Brown/Bayfield Archives

Remembrance Day Ceremony 2018

Photos courtesy of Tom Burns

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President’s Message 2018 by Doug Brown

Although the Board of Directors has operated dur-ing 2018 with fewer Directors than usual it has been productive. We were able to keep the Heritage Centre open to visitors at least five days per week during the summer by volunteering at the Centre. Two summer students were hired with the help of a generous dona-tion from the Virtual High School and a grant from Employment Ontario. We recruited speakers for the general meetings; approved an annual plan for the archivist work; encouraged membership renewals; looked for every opportunity to generate revenue; gar-dened; cleaned the building inside and outside; and, applied for funding to support the Cataloguing and In-ventory project. Thank you Board members for your willingness to step up and meet our expectations in spite of the four vacant Director positions.

Our new archivist, Joy Yates, began her tenure un-officially in February 2018 and took over officially on July 1 with the resignation of Ellen Whelan and Hailey Arts. Ellen and Hailey introduced new policies and procedures that offered guidance to the operation of the Heritage Centre and Archives. They educated the Board about its role as steward of the valuable his-torical collection. They helped the Board appreciate the value of social media in promoting the Society’s visibility within our community. The new archivist brings experience, local knowledge and energy to her role. She has introduced a monthly historical message that is sent to our members; helped establish a plan to continue our Cataloguing and Inventory Project; and offered clarification of her role compared to that of the other Board members.

The Helen MacLeod II (HM II) restoration continued under the leadership of a new committee of Phil Ge-meinhardt, Bill Rowat, Bob Merrimen, Greg Stewart and Peter Jeffers. The committee’s current plan is to build a shelter on the south shore of the harbour in which the HM II will be displayed to the public. The committee has met twice with key staff from the

municipal government to obtain support and feed-back for this project. Rob McCrae made a drawing of the structure that has helped us visualize it. Philip Keightley has offer technical consultation for a site plan. Lastly the committee is exploring fund raising alternatives.

The Society, in partnership with the Bayfield Area Chamber of Commerce, is planning an Admiral Bay-field Day to commemorate his role in the founding of the village of Bayfield and surveying the Great Lakes, St. Lawrence River and the Gulf of St. Lawrence. See the separate article in this issue about Admiral Henry Wolsey Bayfield.

As stewards of the Heritage Centre and Archives’ col-lection of historical artifacts the Board recognizes the importance of preserving the collection and making it accessible to the public. To this end we have ap-proved the Cataloguing and Inventory Project that will digitize all photos, articles and other artifacts in the collection. When completed the collection will be digitally available to researchers and other users and will be handled less, thus, preserving the items. The special software has been chosen. A group of volun-teers are lined up to begin work early in 2019 with Joy Yates’ supervising. The big challenge will be to obtain funds to hire staff dedicated to this project over the next 2 – 3 years. We have had some success in obtaining funding for the first year.

In ending I would like to share my thoughts about the Bayfield Historical Society’s memberships. The paid memberships are a critical portion of the Society’s an-nual operating revenue. We believe that those who purchase these memberships support our mission. Our challenge is to get more people who support our mis-sion to take out an annual paid membership. Our goal is to have 125 paid members that would equal almost half of the annual operating revenue. So, please en-courage friends to support this valuable community service.

Stories from the Ancestry Tree

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Our Ancestry Tree service which was started this year has created a lot of interest. I answered over 60 queries using records from Ancestry, and completed 7 trees which raised over $1000 for the Historical Society.

EVANS FAMILY from HolmesvilleWe did research for a family from Montana who are descendants of the Barnard Evans (b.1775) family from London, England. The Evans fam-ily were one of the original homesteaders on the Huron Tract (arriving 1840) settling on Maitland Concession Holmesville on the Maitland River purchasing the land from the Canada Company.

When they arrived Barnard was 64 yrs and his wife Alice (Smith) was 60 yrs. They left 3 married children in England and brought 6 with them: John and Mary with their spouses; Catherine who met Charles White Williams II on the voyage and married; Emma who married William Hayward c.1845 who was the druggist/chemist of Bayfield; Ellen who married David Burns a renowned potter 1863; and Henry who married Louisa Cole 1863.

When Barnard died a year after arriving, Alice remained on the homestead with her loyal grown children, while Catherine and Charles Williams owned the homestead and lot beside them. When Ellen married David Burns he started a pottery kiln on the property which was open from 1860-1900.

The following is extracted from the book In the Days of the Canada Company by sisters Kath-leen MacFarlane & Robina Lizars written in 1897, starting page 297:

It was a large cabin right on the edge of the bank of the Minnesetung River (now called the Mait-land) with the river being 70 feet below. Mrs. Ev-ans wore black satin gowns, Indian muslin turbans (London style at the time), gloves and satin slippers while pan frying trout from the river over the large open fireplace. Her deportment was more like a princess and not as the wife of a backwoodsman. They held dances in their very large residence with someone playing on the piano. Alice Evans died in 1866 at the age of 87.

I drove to Maitland Concession, Holmesville to take photos of the land today which is now owned by the Lobb family (descended from the same time period) who allow public hiking on the trails beside the Maitland River. A beautiful trail and so gen-erous of the Lobb family. My first surprise was a plaque in the parking lot for David William Burns (1842) the potter who married Ellen, the daughter of Barnard Evans.

Hiking further on the trail I came across ruins over-grown with grass and another very worn plaque marking the site as the original homestead of the Evans family! The plaque is a reproduction of pag-es in the book In The Days of the Canada Com-pany written in 1897 (as mentioned above) which describes the Evans family life and the homestead on the banks of the river. You may already know, but ancestors of the Walt Disney family settled on the same Maitland Con-cession.

This is one of my stories! There is so much history to be told, documented and preserved.If you are interested in having your own family tree officially documented and saved digitally for fu-ture generations get in touch with Ruth Gibson at bhsmembers@gmail.com

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Archives Report by Joy Yates

What an honour it is to be the archivist/protectorate of such a comprehensive collection of Bayfield’s his-tory!! For those who think that nothing ever happens in Bayfield, I have pages and pages of events, heroes and heroines, the famous and infamous, but mostly the collection contains almost minute by minute sto-ries regular people who, through hard work and de-termination built a village that we all love. Such a collection is a rare find. We were proud to receive many donations this year. Included is the Royal Red Cross from Carol Simons in memory of her aunt Maude Stirling a World War One nursing sister. Along with this she presented a napkin ring fashioned from a derrigible that was shot down in Italy, after several sorties over England. She also gave us Maude’s military papers. Also interesting was a donation from Geordie Palmer. It is a silk/ linen Union Jack torn by the wind as it flew proudly.We have articles and pictures about the Lindsay fam-

ily who were Bayfield originals. We received several scrapbooks from Marg Hayter who has collected in-formation for many years. Thousands of people came into the Archives and Her-itage Centre this year. Many of them received in-formation from our summer students Will Stevenson and Ella Baker Lehnen who passed along Bayfield’s general history. The popularity of Ancestry research has brought in queries about family roots and dates of origin. We have been able to provide pictures and information of events in the area as well as assisted with county projects.The biggest project in progress is the digitization of our collection. There are a few reasons to do this; preservation, access, indexing and the overall idea of what our collection consists of. We have a team of volunteers working on data entry in order to make the collection accessible to anyone with a computer. Thank you for entrusting me with this interesting op-portunity.

Summer Student ReflectionsFrom my employment at the Society on June 21st , to my final day of work on the 26th of August, we have accomplished a great deal at the Heritage Centre and Archives. These contributions were focused primarily on five facets, including the cataloguing and scanning of artifacts, admission of tourists into the Heritage Centre, public outreach, the completion of research requests, as well as miscellaneous contributions.The vast majority of my time spent in the Archives was dedicated to the cataloguing of artifacts, as part of a push to move the Society towards an accessible model of preservation, utilizing the resources avail-able to assist researchers and the public at large. Dur-ing my tenure I have catalogued and scanned three boxes of artifacts in the Grey Box collection totaling upwards of 450 pieces, which will be readily acces-sible for future inquiries.In regards to admission and general customer service to tourists, 2421 people had been greeted and served by staff here at the Heritage Centre since June 21st.Public outreach as a means of promoting the Society to those other than tourists visiting the Heritage Cen-tre was another contribution made this summer. Out-reach achieved through Facebook from my posts was substantial, reaching over 1200 people and receiving

115 interactions on a single post. In addition to this online outreach, I participated in both the Antique Show to promote the interests of the Society, as well as participating in Community Futures, Huron’s pro-motional video to showcase our progress and goals as an institution.Research requests provided by the Society’s archi-val staff is also a significant part of the service we render to the public, and as such, considerable time was spent completing these, which ranged in nature from genealogy to proprietary. In total 11 individual requests were completed, in addition to a multitude of other unrecorded interactions primarily related to cemetery records.Finally, miscellaneous contributions to be reported on include the creation of new donation and cataloguing forms unique to the Bayfield Historical Society, gen-eral IT support and other recommendations on the on-going preservation of artifacts in the Archives which was presented to the Board on August 20th.I have thoroughly enjoyed my time here at the Bay-field Historical Society, and wish the Society and its members the very best in the future.William J.L. Stevenson

Admiral Henry Wolsey Bayfield

The Bayfield Historical Society (BHS) is pleased to announce it will be hosting a Village of Bay-field’s Admiral Henry Wolsey Bayfield Com-memorative the weekend of April 26, 2019. The celebration will take place at the Town Hall on Friday and Saturday evenings and each evening will include an informational display on Admi-ral Bayfield, a play written and directed by Judy Keightley about Admiral Bayfield followed by a wine and cheese event. More details will follow. Admiral Henry Wolsey Bayfield was born in Kingston upon Hull, England on January 21, 1795. It is understood that he was educated by a private tutor during a time when England was un-der the threat of invasion by Napoleon Bonaparte. At 10 years of age, he was accepted as a volun-teer in the Royal Navy on the H.M.S. Pompey and subsequently served on many navy ships before coming to Canada. In January 1816, Bayfield was transferred to Kin-ston Ontario, which was the British naval head-quarters for the province. Bayfield became act-ing master on the sloop Star, a vessel employed in the Royal Navy’s surveying service on the Canadian lakes under the command of Captain

William Futz William Owens. It was Owens who trained Bayfield in nautical surveying and who commented on Bayfield’s remarkable talent for the work. He was promoted to lieutenant in 1816 while aboard the Star. At the age of 22, Bayfield was placed in charge of the surveys when Owens returned to England. For financial reasons, the Admiralty greatly reduced the surveying estab-lishment. Bayfield had only one inexperienced assistant and two small boats. They continued to survey both Lake Erie and Lake Huron making Penetanguishene their headquarters. From 1816-1856 he surveyed the Great Lakes, the St. Lawrence River, Gulf of St Lawrence and the Maritime Provinces. Although Bayfield was largely self-trained he was highly disciplined and self-diligent. It was said he was observant, had an analytical mind and was well read. He was keenly interested in aspects of science and practised astronomy. He studied such phenomena as tides, mirages and the aurora borealis. It was these skills that enabled him to become a pioneer of hydrography in Canada providing navigation charts detailing maps of shorelines which sur-veyed almost the entire shoreline from Lake Su-perior to the Atlantic Ocean. In 1822 Bayfield was engaged to survey Lake Huron. It was part of the Royal Navy’s efforts to find defensive harbours and berthing for ships should the U.S. re-attack Canada (which was then an English possession) following the Napoleonic War. The Bayfield river, with its extensive flats caught Bayfield’s eye as a prospective defensive location, which he noted when he returned to England. The Canada Company later named both the river and the town-site Bayfield. He was pro-moted to Commander in 1826 and Captain 1834. On April 2, 1838, he married Fanny Amelia Wright, who was the only daughter of General Charles Wright. As a result of moving his head-quarters in 1841, the couple and their six chil-dren, moved to Charlottetown, Prince Edward Is-

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land. Fanny was a successful artist and one of the first female art instructors in Charlottetown. Her work is held by a number of galleries and private collections throughout Canada. It is said that Bayfield was distinguished in appearance, courteous and kindly, but very formal in manner. Bayfield, in declining health, retired from active surveying in 1856, eleven years before Confed-eration and he became a Rear-Admiral. He was promoted to Vice-Admiral in 1863 and Admiral in 1867. Admiral Bayfield passed away February 10, 1885 in Charlottetown at the age of 90.

Survey Map by Henry WolseyBayfield, 1822

Henry Wolsey Bayfield

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Bayfield’s hydrographic successors in Canada have built on his pioneering work. John George Boulton, the first Canadian hydrographic sur-veyor after confederation paid him this tribute: ”I doubt whether the British Navy has ever pos-sessed so gifted and zealous a Surveyor as Bay-field.”

By Deborah Curran(Information taken from My Memoirs by Harry Baker; Bayfield The History of Our Harbour; Dictionary of Cana-dian Biography; and Wikipedia)

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Gayle Detenbeck, Ruth Brown & Gayle Waters

Speaker Series

The current Little Inn building was built in the 1840’s which means it has been operating for about 178 years. During that time, three individuals, Gayle

Each year, our General Meetings feature a guest speaker who presents informative insights about local people, events, or places. For many years, our program chair was Phil Ge-meinhardt who, with his extensive knowledge of the area, was able to seek out presenters for each month. Then, last year, Phil retired from the Board and we knew we were in trouble! Thank-fully, Pat Mihm stepped up to fill the void. The Board decided to have only four guest speaker evenings for 2018 in an effort to ease Pat into this position. For 2019, we have committed to 8 eve-ning speakers. Suggestions are always welcome. Just let Pat or anyone on the Board know if you have an idea for an evening presenter.

For 2018, we featured these evening speakers:April 23, 2018 Hailey Arts, one of BHS’s Ar-chivists, spoke about the difference between an Archive and a Museum; and what an Archivist

does. Hailey had been involved with the BHS and archives for three years in a number of dif-ferent capacities, and noted that smaller holdings such as Bayfield are a ‘mixed media’ collection: ie we have both 2D and 3D holdings, as well as offering community based services. . In answer to ‘what does an Archivist do’ Hailey explained the 7 steps that are followed if someone wants to donate something to the collection.

June 25, 2018 our guest speaker was John Kend-all. John gave the history of his great-great grand-father, William Jowett, a pattenmaker, who emi-grated from London, England to Bayfield, with his wife and 6 children to take up the challenge of farming. He purchased land on what is now the Windmill lake property. He went on to talk about Williams’ son, Thomas, who married a Middleton and settled near his father’s property. John then described how his grandfather, William Jowett,

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Detenbeck, Ruth Brown & Gayle Waters still living in Bayfield, are from families that owned The Little Inn for a combined period of 55 years. They presented “Voices From The Little Inn” using an informal armchair discussion to share stories about owning this historic inn. Their stories reflected the humour and enjoyment in running this well established Inn.

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who was a miller, began developing the property known as Jowett’s Grove. He married a Moorehouse. He told stories about his great-great uncle who belonged to the clergy and contributed a lot to the development of the area.

July 23, 2018, presenter Carolyn Brophy, a retired educator who volunteers at the School on Wheels in Clinton spoke to a good sized audience. Carolyn noted that her aim was to en-tice attendees to visit or revisit the Museum and she presented a varied background to the story of the School on Wheels. She concentrated on some of the background history of the school train itself, but emphasized the Sloman Family and the impact they had on the communities that the school train vis-ited from 1926 to 1967. She enhanced her presentation with DVDs, maps, photos, artefacts, letters from former students, and books.

Roger Lewington

October 22, 2018, our guest speaker was Roger Lewington, chairman of the Huron Tract Land Trust Con-servancy. Roger gave an interesting presentation of the HTLTC’s formation, mission and purpose. The Huron Tract Land Trust Conservancy gives people a new and local way to make a positive difference by helping protect and restore land, water, and nature in the historic Huron Tract area within Huron, Lamb-ton, Middlesex, and Perth counties. Land trusts provide individuals with a safe, reliable, long-term way to leave financial contributions and/or bequests of real property for the protection of the land, water, and species in perpetuity. At present, the HTLTC has three properties: Woodburne Farm, The Bayfield River Flats, and the Mayhew Tract.

BHS Quadracycle RentalsBHS has had a revenue sharing agreement with KryArt Studios on Main Street which rents the quads out from June until Thanksgiving week-end in October. All summer long yellow and red quadracycles can be seen cruising village streets with laughing passengers. The Quads are a big hit with young families visiting Bayfield and also for weddings and parades.

Thank-you Bill Rowat for all the years of your hard work on the maintenance of the the quadra-cycles to keep them running for the community to enjoy.

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Bob Merrimen

Bob Merrimen retired in 2000, moved to Bayfield in 2004 and lived on his sailboat while overseeing the building of his home as general contractor with his wife Dawn. Bob retired from the City of London Po-lice Service; he previously worked as a police officer with the city of Toronto; prior to that Bob was a mem-ber of the Provost Corps (Military Police) in the Regu-lar Canadian Armed Forces. He was one of the original Canine Officers in the newly formed Canine Unit of the London Police Service. It was the first Municipal Canine Unit in Canada; now every major city’s police service has a Canine Unit.Bob has been sailing for 25 years. He is a wood carver and creates stained glass windows. He is also a cabi-netmaker and has made several pieces of furniture for his home. When asked how he started this hobby Bob responded that he met someone who made grandfather clocks and was intrigued with this project and he de-cided that he ‘could do this’. This attitude seems to be a theme in his approach to life.Volunteering is another common aspect of Bob’s life. Since moving to Bayfield from London, he has vol-unteered with several organizations. Currently he as-sists the building committee of the Lakeshore United Church in Goderich, is involved with the Huron Coun-ty Museum through Dawn’s role as a volunteer and is part of a team that opens the local United Church’s Camp Menesetung for use in the summer and looks after one of the cabins during the camping season. He is a member of the Bayfield Lions’ Club; one of his projects is the large Lion’s sign outside the Lion’s Bayfield Building. Bob was one of the first volunteers to assist with the creation and building of the trails for the Bayfield Trail Association.

Volunteer Recognition -

Bob’s relationship with the Bayfield Historical Society has taken several paths. He made the replica of a Bay-field 25 sailboat that hangs from the gables of the So-ciety’s building. It was one of the first boats produced by the Bayfield Yachts Company. He helped build the cupboards in the Heritage Centre when it was remod-eled. Bob has worked on the restoration of the Helen MacLeod II. After he visited the work site where the Helen MacLeod II was being restored, Bob joined the group of volunteers who were doing this important work. He built a small model of this boat that is kept in a glass case on display in the Heritage Centre. Also, Bob made the sign for the front of the building where the restoration of the Helen MacLeod II was under-taken. He thought the sign would acknowledge the im-portance of this restoration project.

At the end of the interview, I asked Bob what motivates him to volunteer. He said that he likes to contribute to the community as a way of giving back and he has increased his number of volunteer activities since retir-ing. In addition I believe that his attitude of ‘I can do that” when offered an opportunity to make or do some-thing new has led Bob to a rich and full retirement.

Bob Merrimen

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On August 10, 1876, Alexander Graham Bell transmit-ted the world’s first one-way long distance call from Brantford to Paris, Ontario. Thirteen years later in 1899 after the installation of a telephone line, Bay-field’s telephone system was connected to Bell’s long distance network in Goderich. It started as a toll of-fice in Miss J M Martin’s home where a telephone and switchboard were installed. Miss Martin was the lo-cal manager until her death in 1902 when her sister, Miss C L E Martin took on that responsibility. Dr. W Metcalf was the first subscriber when a telephone was installed in his summer home in 1908. By May 1914 there were approximately 18 subscribers including the Albion Hotel.

Tuckersmith Municipal Telephone System purchased the telephone equipment from the Bell Company in 1911. In 1938 Tuckersmith introduced coin boxes in Bayfield in order to cope with the demand. Coin box phones were the early version of public pay phones often located inside of buildings and you would pay 5 cents for a local call. An exchange for Bayfield was established in 1949 and was managed by Mrs. Mal-colm Toms and her staff from her home in the Rutledge house. This eliminated the practice of switching calls for Bayfield through the Clinton exchange.

At this time there were approximately 20 people in Bayfield using one line. The annual rates were: $20 for individual service, $18 for 2 party service; and, $16 for 4 party service. Since telephones were rela-tively new inventions they came with directions. For example subscribers were told that there was a limit of five minutes on all calls and the operator could cut you off at the five minute mark if others wanted to use the line. They were warned not to allow metal instruments to pile on your phone because they are dangerous in case of lightening. One challenge for the subscribers

was determining whether what they heard was their ring which meant discerning whether it was one long and three short or two long and one short rings, and so. Privacy was not a feature but this lack of privacy had the advantage of the operators being able to tell the caller such things as ‘you won’t get her now, she has gone out to get mail’ or ‘they are away today in Lon-don’. Telephones needed a pair of batteries to operate and they were issued once a year to subscribers for free. However it was believed that subscribers using more that one pair of batteries annually must be listen-ing to others’ conversations and would be charged for new batteries within the year.

In October 1949 continuous service was offered and operators had to work three shifts per day. The tele-phone equipment was moved to Porter’s store that had been Edwards Cash store. The next stage of modern-ization for Bayfield was the introduction of a dial ser-vice in 1956 and a dial office building. At that point there were about 1250 telephones in the Bayfield, Clinton and Hensall area and all calls were local. The dial service meant the end of using operators to place your call.

This article describes the changes that took place for Bayfield’s telephone services over the first 50 years. I spoke with Sharon Chuter, who worked in the admin-istrative department of Tuckersmith Communications Cooperative for 35 years including 12 years as manag-er. I wanted to know what we should expect in the next 25 years. Although she was clear about not knowing what the future held she talked about the important role played by small independent companies in rural areas of Ontario that at one time numbered over 600. They offered services in areas that the larger companies did not want to serve because of the cost. In other words, it is more cost efficient to build telephone services in ur-ban areas because of the higher concentration of users. Sharon added that many of these independent munici-pal and for profit organizations not only have provided satisfactory customer service but also have introduced infrastructure changes to reflect new technology, such as, fiber optics and added mobile services to meet the changing demand. She believes that as long as these companies continue to focus on service, technologi-cal improvements and customer demand then they will survive and keep us connected.

Doug Brown(Sources of information include History, Township of Stan-ley 1836 – 1986; History, Village of Bayfield 1876 – 1985; Tuckersmith Memories 1835 – 1985; and, the souvenir edi-

Bayfield’s Early Telephone System

tion of the Bayfield Bugle, June 24, 1976)

President: Doug Brown 519-565-5187Recording Secretary: Gwen Patterson 519-565-5188Treasurer: Ruth Gibson 1-905-518-4646 Archivists: Joy Yates

The Bayfield Historical SocietyYour 2019 Board of Directors

Publications: Barbara Durand 519-236-4561Program: Pat Mihm 1-519-623-6423Membership: Deborah Curran 519-565-5009 Director: Judy Keightley 519-565-4515

Next YearJanuary 27, 2020

Annual General Meeting

“The Bayfield Historical Society is a registered charitable organization. It relies on memberships and donations to fund its programs and remain financially stable. The Society will provide official tax receipts for donations & cards will be sent for memorial contributions.”

Annual Membership Fee $20.00 Family $30.00

General Meeting/Speakers: Speaker’s Series 2019

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February 25, March 25, April 29, May 27, June 24, September 30, October 28 and November 25.

The Bayfield Historical Society lost a valued friend this year with the passing of Walter (Bud) Langley.Bud and his wife Pat moved to Bayfield when Bud retired in 2001. That same year, they joined the Bayfield Historical Society. Al-ways someone who generously gave his time and talents to com-munity efforts, Bud stepped up and became 3rd Vice President of the BHS Board. When the chair of membership, Paul Mulligan, resigned from the Board in 2003, Bud stepped into that position. He was chair of membership until 2015. For those 13 years, he and Pat faithfully carried out the duties of securing memberships, greeting attendees at the speaker evenings, and selling AGM din-ner tickets. Bud could always be counted on to show up to help at

Bud Langley

Thank you, Bud, for all you have done.

the Archives when painting or renovations needed to be done. He was a huge help with the Collector Exhibits over the many years. This photo shows Bud on his boat which happens to be a Bayfield 25, the same one as the model over the Archives door. Bud is greatly missed by his family, the commu-nity and the Historical Society.

THANK YOU TO DONORSThe board of the Bayfield Historical Society wants to thank everyone who made a donation in 2018. Donations are one of the major sources of revenue that fund the services provided by the Archives and Heritage Centre. A special thank you goes to The Virtual High School, Community Futures Huron and the Centre for Employment and Learning.

CHARITABLE DONATIONS APPRECIATED & NEW MEMBERS WELCOME