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George Ernest Bott was born on a farm near Blackwater, Ontario in 1892. He attended Pinedale Public School and Port Perry High School before attending the University of Toronto where he studied Divinity at Victoria College. Through his study, he was ordained as a Minister of the Methodist Church in 1921. After graduation, he travelled … Read more
William Bagshaw was a British Army veteran who fought at the Battle of Waterloo in 1815. As compensation for his military service, he was granted land in Brock Township. In 1818, leaving his wife and nine children in England, Bagshaw travelled to Canada where he had been given an initial land grant of 200 acres … Read more
James (Jim) Anderson attended school in Campbellford, Ontario and after graduating from high school, attended the Ontario College of Pharmacy. After graduation he was employed at a pharmacy in Beaverton and just prior to the outbreak of the first world war, he opened his own drug store on River Street in Sunderland. With the outbreak … Read more
Born July 8, 1905, in Blackwater, at the time a hamlet of six houses and a store, Elizabeth Allin went on to earn a PhD at Cambridge in atomic physics. This after attending a one-room school in Sunderland and high school in Port Perry where she developed a love for basketball and mathematics. Eventually, as … Read more