Day: July 28, 2023

By Rev. Bill Randall April 6, 1990 I have written about structures that were a part of the history of the Harvey area and now only remnants of them remain to remind us of our past. This week I would like to talk about a building that is going to go! The office and warehouse … Read more

By Rev. Bill Randall November 22, 1989 Want to look at other monuments? If so, there is one on Ted Embleton’s lawn at Upper York Mills. It has no fancy brass plate on it but is one of the first stones used in a grist mill there. The other is the dam built in 1865. … Read more

By Rev. Bill Randall November 29, 1989 Making a pastoral visit to the Littles in Little Settlement in 1954 wouldn’t have been a whole lot different than a visit there in 1889. The same gentle unchanged atmosphere was there. Lizzie met me at the door with her friendly greeting, and over her shoulder said to … Read more

By Rev. Bill Randall November 29, 1989 The facility known as “Park and Fly” where you can leave your automobile and take a Shuttle Bus to the Airport. There was something like that in Harvey in the late 1890’s, only I call it “Park and Pray”. Bobby Dorcas (1886 – 1964), told me of the … Read more

By Rev. Bill Randall October 25, 1989 Coburn’s Corner in Harvey, where the formaldehyde truck recently overturned, was very near the site of the first death in Harvey, probably in late summer of 1837. Alexander Hay received Lot 13 West in the “draw”, and his two young sons John and Andrew came to that lot … Read more