http://www.ogs.on.ca/ogsblog/?p=1319 Fri, 19 Apr 2013 14:14:56 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 http://www.ogs.on.ca/ogsblog/?p=1319&cpage=1#comment-39052 admin Fri, 29 Jun 2012 18:32:18 +0000 http://www.ogs.on.ca/ogsblog/?p=1319#comment-39052 Thanks for sharing part of your family’s history Pat,
Enjoy Canada Day

]]> http://www.ogs.on.ca/ogsblog/?p=1319&cpage=1#comment-39047 Pat Jeffs Fri, 29 Jun 2012 15:57:34 +0000 http://www.ogs.on.ca/ogsblog/?p=1319#comment-39047 On July 1 1867 some of my ancestors would have been in Aurora at that brewery they bought some time in the five years previous. A brewery, just the type of business for a man with nine sons, eldest aged 30.
When they bought the place, the beer had had a really good reputation. But now nobody wanted it. Aurora hadn’t joined the Temperance League, Money wasn’t that tight. No. It just tasted all wrong. Mebbe they didn’t have the knack of making beer. Little did they know that that there tannery that had been built up the creek from the brewery was the culprit.
A dream that went wrong. Five years later they went bust and Pa, now over 70, was running a boarding house in Bradford and washing the sheets in his new washing machien (spelling from a letter he writ to a married daughter).

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