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1. Introduction -- 2. Pages from the book of time -- 3. The floods: 1826-1852 -- 4. The settlers -- Ibister - the first one -- Bells, Mastin, Nesbit, Robinsons, McDonalds, the Goods -- Clara Bell goes to St. John's Ladies' College -- 12% is charged for a mortgage -- 5. The voice of Rockwood: Thomas B. Robinson, writes three letters of the life in Rockwood and calls himself "The Voice of Rockwood" -- The famous snake hole. -- 6. The three brides: Eliza, Annie, and Flora McDonald marry on Nov. 4th, 1873. What happened to their lives is told in detail -- 7. Worship is organized -- Three meetings on one Sunday at Robinson's -- Methodist at Rockwood, The Presbyterians at Stony Mountain -- Mrs. D.E. French is in an accident -- The Anglican service in the penitentiary -- Build their own church -- The Freemans, the Vincents, and others assist at the building -- Roman Catholic church -- 8. Government -- J.C. Schultz, the first Federal Member; W.F. Luxton, the first M.L.A. -- Open voting as taken from a record -- 9. The penitentiary is built -- Morrison and Barclay -- 10. Lord and Lady Dufferin visit the Mountain August 15th, 1877: a Red River cart and forty oxen bring them in -- 11. Bedson: soldier, warden -- 12. Bedson and his buffalo: buys the Taylor & Alloway herd of 18 buffaloes, ten years later he has 110 -- 13. A page in between: 1900-1940 -- 14. Stony Mountain and the war -- N.W. Field Force -- First World War and the roll of honor -- Second World War -- Stony Mountain war unit -- Red Cross, Canadian Legion; and finance committee; publicity -- Their efforts -- The roll of honor -- 230 enlist: particulars of each of those enlisting -- 15. A postscript -- 16. The author. |
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