PUT YOUR HEART ON PAPER ~ STAYING CONNECTED IN A LOOSE-ENDS WORLD *
by Henriette Anne Klauser

"It only takes a few seconds to scratch out a message of care, yet such a simple act can have a long-lasting effect.  A friend who saved a note her dad sent her told me, 'It's like a conversation I can have over and over with him. It continues to give me solace and support fifteen years after his death...  He did not say anything more than 'you're the greatest.' "

*Bantam Books, 1995

In Memory of Our Parents,  Reta and Herb Melick
Married 25 September 1943, East Seneca, Haldimand, ON

Reta L.B. Turnbull (28 September, 1921 ~ 19 September, 2002)
C. Herbert Melick (7 August, 1920 ~ 9 September, 2005)



Her Majesty's Royal Chapel

 Mohawk Chapel Brantford ~ Open Wednesday through Sunday 10:00 - 5:00 until October 28

Approach from The Grand River



2012 Addition of Accessible Entrance

 

Joseph Brant's Vault

 www.mohawkchapel.ca

Photos:  lbwalker

"Annie" Button>Melick>Lounsbury>Trimble," when spoken quickly is a familiar childhood rhyme ~ as familiar as Hickory, Dickory, Dock!  Annie Button was our Great Grandmother and when Great Grandfather died, Grandma married two more times!  Growing up we often recited dear Annie's five names.

Her tombstone is in the Melick Cemetery in Canborough, along with Great Grandfather who died twenty-four years earlier.

Perhaps part of the intrigue was the unfortunate error on Annie's tombstone.  The engraver spelt her name PUTTON instead of BUTTON.  Until he passed away in July, 2010, Annie's Grandson, Earl Melick, kept the "B" prominently hand-painted.  It falls to our generation to ensure that Annie>Button>Melick>Lounsbury>Trimble's name appears correctly on her tombstone. 

A caution for genealogists.  "Etched in stone?"  Not always! Click on photo for larger image.  Note,  handwritten "B"

Ruthven Gatehouse

Ruthven Park ~ A National Historic Site

Indiana Cemetery

www.ruthvenpark.ca

Fall Colours on the Indiana Trail

Home and Friends

Oh, there's a power to make each hour
As sweet as heaven designed it;
Nor need we roam to bring it home,
Though few there be that find it.
We seek too high for things close by
And lose what nature found us,
For life hath here no friends so dear
As home and friends around us.

We oft destroy the present joy
For future hopes and praise them
While flowers as sweet bloom at our feet,
If we'd but stoop to raise them.
For things afar still sweeter are
When youth's bright spell hath
bound us,
But soon we're taught the earth
hath naught
Like home and friends around us.

~ Author Unknown

www.bellhomestead.ca for historical information and photographs

The Bell Homestead ~

Bell Homestead National Historic Site, Brantford, ON



Brian

"So much of the practical development of the telephone has been in the United States that I think the fact that the telephone was invented in Canada should be more widely known than it is ~ at least in the United States." *

~ Alexander Graham Bell (1847 - 1922) inventor.

Brian, our tour guide today, ardently describes the scientific breakthrough that led to the invention of the telephone and points out the path to the banks of the Grand River where Alexander sat in a spot he called his "dreaming place."  (Thank you, Brian.)

Visit:  www.bellhomestead.ca for information and photographs.

* Address, "The Substance of My Latest Research," Empire Club of Canada, Toronto, 1 Nov. 1917.
~ Famous Lasting Words, Great Canadian Quotations, John Robert Colombo, Douglas & McIntyre Ltd., 2000.
Photos:  lbwalker

Photos: lbwalker