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Title: Country life in Canada fifty years ago : personal recollections and reminiscences of a sexagenarian
Year: 1885 (1880s)
Authors: Haight, Canniff, 1825-1901
Subjects: Frontier and pioneer life
Publisher: Toronto, Hunter, Rose
Contributing Library: Mississauga - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: Ontario Council of University Libraries and Member Libraries

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ward, and David,who sat for Lennox and Addington, were natives of the township. Th(> Hagcrmans, Christopher and D , were also fourth town hoy.s, with whom my motherwent to school. The old homestead, a low stragglingold tenement, stood on the bay .shore a few yards westof the road that leads to the wharf I remember itwell. It was destroyed by fire years ago. The fatherof Sir John A. Macdonald kept a store a .short distanceto the east of the Quaker meeting-house on Hay Bay,on the third concession. It was a small clap-boardedbuilding, painted red, and was standing a few yearsago. I remember being at a nomination in the villageof Bath, on which occasion there were several speakersfrom King.ston, among them John A. Macdonald, thena young lawyer just feeling his way into political life.He made a speech, and began .something in this way : Yeomen of the county of Lennox and Addington, Iremember well when I ran about in this district a bare-footed boy, ^:c. He had the faculty then, which he
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RANDOM RKCOLLECTIOXS OF EARLY DAYS. 297 has ever since preserved, of getting hr>l(l of the affec-tions of the people. This honhommie has had much todo with his popularity and success. I recollect wellhow lustily he was cheered by the staunch old farmerson the occasion referred to. A few years later a con-test came off in the county of Prince Edward, where Tthen resided. In those days political contests werequite as keen ns now ; hut the alterations in tlic lawwhich governs these matters has been greatly changedami improved. The elections were so arranged thatpeople owning property in various counties could exer-cise their franchise. The old law, which re(iuirod votersto come to a certain place in the district to record theirvote, had l>een repeale<l; and now each voter Imd to goto the township in which he owned j)roperty, to vott*.Foreign voters were iiinrc numerous then than now,and were looked uftci- vciy sharply. On this occasionthere was a sharp battle ahead, and arrangem

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