Bill Lowe emailed me while I was away in Newfoundland. He mentioned that the timber for the construction of S.S. No. 8 Pakenham, build c. 1880, was donated by his great great Uncle William Lowe. This school was about two miles from S.S. No. 1 Pakenham. There's a group of eight Cedar Hill Boys (including Bill Melanson) who get together every couple of months for breakfast along with Hugh Fulton who went to S.S. No. 1 Pakenham. Many of the stories repeated time after time have their one-room schools as the setting. They all know Eva Gordon (pp. 49, 127-129) (a teacher, and Bill Melanson's aunt); David Donaldson (pp. 47-49), who is from Cedar Hill; and Patricia Thompson Gunn (p.72), a former teacher of Bill Melanson and Bill Lowe.
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Today, Elizabeth Carroll wrote to say she wanted a copy of my book. Elizabeth has been a writer for over 60 years and is a member of the Ottawa Historical Society. She has written over 1000 stories about the Rideau Canal and Bytown for children. She is currently working on a young reader mystery set in Stratford in 1578, lead character a boy named Will Shakespeare. Email her in Vancouver at etcetera7@shaw.ca if you would like more information about her publications.
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