From The Scrapbook By Rev. Bill Randall
1990 April 6 From The Scrapbook Briggs and Little Woolen Mill Office & Warehouse Coming Down 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 […]
From The Scrapbook By Rev. Bill Randall
From The Scrap Book November 22, 1989 Dr. Bill Randall Grist Mill Stone In York Mills 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 […]
From The Scrapbook By Rev. Bill Randall
From The Scrap Book 1989, Nov. 29 Dr. Bill Randall A Pastoral Visit 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, […]
From The Scrapbook By Rev. Bill Randall
From The Scrap Book Park & Pray Nov. 29, 1989 By. Dr. Bill Randall 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 […]
From The Scrapbook By Rev. Bill Randall
From The Scrapbook 1989, Oct. 25 By Dr. Bill Randall Andrew Hay Dies 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 […]