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DUFFERIN COUNTY PUBLICATIONS
Do you know of a publication that should be added? Just let me know... I would love to add family history publications information as well!
Newspapers in Dufferin County - Grand Valley Star & Vidette; Orangeville Banner; Orangeville Citizen; Orangeville Sun; Shelburne Free Press & Economist
A Century of
Service : St. Andrew's United Church, Camilla
Marshall, John Ewing - J. Marshall
A History of Dufferin County
Sawden, Steve - Orangeville Banner, 1952
an house for his kingdom - Westminster Centennial Story 1837-1979
Marshall, Bess
as a grain
of mustard seed - A history of the women's organizations in Westminster United
Church, Orangeville and its antecedent congregations
Brown, Steven J - Morrow Hill Research, 1986
East Garafraxa: A
History
Brown, Steven J. and Taylor, Krista A., 2006
Fifty Years of
Rural Life in Dufferin County
Marshall, John Ewing - J. Marshall, 1977
Into the High Country: the Story of Dufferin the Last 12,000 Years to 1974.
Leitch, Adelaide. - Corp. of the Country of Dufferin, 1975.
Mulmur: the story of a township
Mulmur Historical Committee, 1951
Orangeville - The
Heart of Dufferin
Townsend, Wayne - Natural Heritage Books, 2006
Over
the Top! The Canadian Infantry in the First World War.
Meek, John F., 1971
The Roots of Amaranth.
Kelling, Elizabeth Anne. - Boston Mills Press,
1981.
The Yellow Briar: the Story of the Irish on
the Canadian Countryside.
Slater, Patrick. - Macmillan, 1970. (various printings available)
A Century of
Service: St. Andrew's United Church, Camilla
(Soft cover book) Full information can
be found online:
http://www.ourroots.ca/e/search.asp. Enter "Mono" or "Camilla" to
view the digitized copy of the book
Fifty Years of Rural Life in Dufferin County
(Soft cover book)
Full information can be found online:
http://www.ourroots.ca/e/search.asp. Enter "Dufferin" to view the digitized
copy of the book
(Please note that this very vague index is only to be used as a resource to find the articles)
Full information can be found online:
http://www.ourroots.ca/e/search.asp. Enter "History of Dufferin County" to view the digitized copy of the book
Into the High Country: the Story of Dufferin the Last 12,000 Years to 1974.
(Hard Cover Book) History of Dufferin County's creation. This book is available in the library (which now has two copies!!!) I have a copy at home as well if anyone is looking for information.
Mulmur : the story of a township
(Soft cover book) Full information can be found online: http://www.ourroots.ca/e/search.asp. Enter "Mulmur" to view the digitized copy of the book
Over the Top! The Canadian Infantry in the First World War.
Meek, John F., 1971 - information coming soon
Information coming soon
*THE YELLOW BRIAR* a special printing (hard cover book) sponsored by the Mitchell Church Preservation Group is available for sale at the following location:
BookLore
121 First Street
Orangeville, ON L9W 3J8
(519) 942-3830 email: booklore@bellnet.ca
Cost: $24.95 (plus shipping if it needs to be mailed)
The Yellow Briar, A Story of the Irish on the Canadian Countryside by
Slater, Patrick (aka John Mitchell)
A story on the Irish in Credit River and Toronto area in the pioneer days.
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http://www.lsuc.on.ca/gazette/gazette_23.jsp
The tragic career of John Mitchell He was born in Drayton, Ontario. He wrote both his entrance and matriculation examinations on the same day, at the age of 14. He went on to Victoria College and Osgoode Hall, was admitted as a solicitor in 1912 and then practised in Toronto. For a long time, he had an office in the old Temple Building at the northwest corner of Richmond and Bay Streets. Mitchell was a good lawyer. His obituary reports that a friend once said "he could learn more law from Mitchell in ten minutes than a day spent in the library." In 1934, his book, The Yellow Briar, which he wrote under the name of Patrick Slater, was published. The book was a tender, moving, quaint and humorous story of the early Irish Catholic and Scottish Presbyterian settlers in the beautiful Mono Mills district around the forks of the Credit, northwest of Toronto. It had come straight from his heart and was an instant success. Shortly after The Yellow Briar was published, Mitchell became obsessed with the idea that he had misused trust funds in connection with his practice. He requested that he be arrested and charged with theft. If there was any misuse of money on his part, it would appear from the maze of contradiction and scanty records that it was more from his incompetence as a bookkeeper than from any attempt at theft. Although he claimed that he had used some $20,000 of clients’ money, only two people, whose claims were small, could be found to testify against him. Mitchell’s self-accusation was contained in a letter which he wrote to the Crown attorney. This letter was also included in his obituary. It read: "Sir: - For years I have been behind in my accounts. I am without friends or means of any kind. I am unable to make restitution in any way or to any extent. The longer I continue, the more helpless my position becomes. "This disgrace started because I did not keep my books and am by nature, incompetent to do so. I was badly in the hole before I became aware of it and my offence was gross carelessness. "When I realized my position, I should have stopped right there and taken the consequences. Instead, I started to cover up and became a thief. ‘Robbing Peter to pay Paul’ is a complicated affair with a cruel overhead. "It has been a hard journey and this is the end of the road. It has been a hopeless one for me. Shame made me a recluse. Living a miserable life is a mean and miserable way. It has been a horrible existence and a contemptible crime. "The only thing for me to do is confess my sins publicly and take my punishment. It is against the public interest that I remain at large. I ask, therefore, that I be taken into custody on this charge of stealing certain moneys from clients and others, particulars of which I shall supply you. I do not wish to give their names publicly without their consent. My defalcations exceed the sum of $20,000..." Ultimately, Mitchell was charged as he had requested. His friends rallied to his aid. A John Mitchell Fund was organized by a committee of prominent persons from the profession, the staff of Victoria College and from the field of arts and letters. His trial was unusual. Magistrate Jones, the presiding magistrate and the Crown attorney attempted to minimize the crime of which Mitchell had accused himself. He was, in the end, convicted and sentenced to 18 months in the reformatory. Following his conviction, he was disbarred and struck off the rolls in November, 1935. When Mitchell became eligible for parole, he resisted it, saying others needed it more badly. When he was released, he was greeted by his creditors, who threw a party for him. In the years that followed, he paid back most of the money that he said he had misused. He lived as a recluse in Streetsville for many years through the great shame he felt in himself. He died on October 19, 1951 in the Toronto General Hospital in his 71st year, after a lengthy illness. During the spring following his death, his friends and admirers formed a committee to erect a simple memorial over his grave. It contained a few lines from the last page of The Yellow Briar. Shortly afterwards, Princess Elizabeth and the Duke of Edinburgh visited Canada. Leonard Brockington delivered a speech of welcome, in which he used the same quotation on Mitchell’s memorial: "Here’s to the worn-out hearts of those who saw a nation built. And to the proud, fun loving young hearts that have it in their keeping." |
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