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T 4/ llllllaltepeapt,i'gi grandfather fa "med in Cr mah ”0411mm, -E-C-eLfrfoty 77M H997 lu-Hs 0mtttttitadfrtrmpagata on farms in Haldimand, Percy and t, . Cramahe townships as their children A railway had been built within the came along. Sons George and James complex walls for wagons carrying were born in Percy Township, Wil, " suchhsavyloads as cannon balls. It was liam in Haldimand and John in Percy. reconstructed between 1868 and 1873 Daughter Agnes Janet was born in How. a/tthe mtrrow-gauge steam-powered manton, Sarah Jane in Percy Town- l railway (referred to as the Royal Arsenal ship. His youngest chiidren, Mary and f Rhilway or RAR), The tirst ofthe original Thomas, were born in Red Cloud in V w' 12 steam locomotives was delivered lust Cramahe Township. it? ' I before Edward was hired. Eventually, it They eventually wound up in Wark. t' , 2* r e ' would expand to 80narmwsauge 1000- worth on their own ZOO-acre farm He Lu motives, 2,500 wagons, 22 carriages and raised sheep and bred A rshire can " l" l _ l It17 miles of railway line in an area of the and Clydesdale “595%,,“ their tai 2 two square miles __ the most complex farmhouse was sold she understands it e I . =eer, . -. and densest railwaynetwork in Britain, went for $600,000. l H = i ‘ t " . The workers got a break in 1894, McCubhin was alsointerested in pol-' __ -' re fi _ _ is k I" l, {in '". , when the standard workweek went to itics, serving as roads superintendent " . V - r V” l, 48 hours (42 for clerical workers). At for some'years, He was also reeve of ‘ ' ‘ . _ J, 'C . leer. 5 that tune, some 20,000 people worked Percy Township at different times and, _ . , " l at the corriplex. _ in 1921 and 1926, was Warden of Dur- . ,, v. . f . " _ , "r _ , Frederick); son Albert (sterling's ham and Northumberland Counties. " . - pu' k' - f u l, C ' _ ' steal unclelbecame the third.genera- Afterhiswife’sdeathin 1916, he mar- _ " v _ ' . . l ' '.. l a» g tron ofthe family to Work at the factory, ried a Mrs. Ada Leonard of Brighton. It . [ Fr _ ", " t b 'itfi6'? l starting in 1901. _ didn't last, and he would move in with T - _ l, , tu, . "cfcd2 I The factory continued to grow. At his youngest daughter's family. His . . - V - "t. _ ., ,4 g its peak, during the First World War, health eventually failed, and he died in . , "U"r: .. r, “. ' tk? , it employed 75,000 to 80,000. By 1917, 1938 - but not without leaving behind 'F F t , "C, ' "will, 3 l 25.000 of the employees were wémen, asurprise. . . _, V _ - - . y p ~i‘ I l working four 12-hr. shifts each week. In 2013, asecorid cousin (a descend- ' -. . . Q . . JI-r:. f _ ' _ 5/v,ii,i] _ The factory eventurtllyclirserl in 1994, ent of McCubbin's daughter Agnes) _ r . c, l., b T - ‘ _ _ 1'sirs5, and is currently being developed into is contacted Makepeace with the news P, _ f J _ ' PM ." i, ty'. _ i" housing complex. . thatherDNA had been checked, as had " _ ' _ .. . l . " - . ue q T trr, in... _ Farming was the life for Bea her father Donald's. They heard from r w . ." _ c, -r- ",. "h _ fad, Makepeace's grandfather' John McCub- a member of the McKelvie family that u p, ‘- 1* c',", "In L“ c" . - ,gxgkét' bin, who was fairly young when his par- his DNA. had a McCubbin match _ and x . PF _ . j, . C. F L".. " . . i _ ents James McCubbin and Janet MCE- there was no McCubbin in his family, as J. ami " " ' " f, w”. ’:__‘-“ . 1. ,'i'p'rtf wan sent him to work for his uncle far as he knew. T w, " " a _ s.," If; 02;- 1fitP2"2s David McEwan in Cohnonell, Scotland. The McKelvie family member inves- . .. a, . C., _ "tJ,'? ,. . . , ' _ “1..., J McEwan had two other employees tigated the 1671 Scottish census and . “‘31-" ( ' a” 313;. s. . - (Ig-year-old Joseph Bell and Ll-year- determined that McCubbin must have _ ' . , ' . trike}? ", T '; old Elizabeth McKelvie). An article been thefather ofthe baby his old cow: t , , _ wr . Pe n; 34:? [ Makep eace has read claimed John orker Elizabeth McKelvie bore in 1872, . _ 1 i1; iii'f McCubbin won numerous awards for Makepeace has seen pictures ofJohn -, _ _ _ _ tp . :1“ sheep that were shownin local areas. McKelvie, Elizabeth's son, and John _ Y, ' a " eirj,fiiii; McCubbin left forICanada when his McCubbin, and agrees that John McK- _ V " 'r, "V Yttt5iir, uncle and his family sold the farm to elvie washer grandfather's first-born . . _ '. ‘- .tr. $7M: come to Canada themselves. He con- child. T . . r.» w,' .3’: {glam [ tinued to live with his uncle's familyin "ljust wish my mother was alive to s' ,, _ s", 'c, : " ""7153? P.'U M ' i Morganston thou , when the McBwens hear this news," Makepeace said. V . . ' later returned to Sgdlotland, he did not. _ ”KNEW l ' He married Mary Ann Camp'bel] in cecilia.nasmilh@sunrnedla,ca Lakeshore Genealogical Society member Bea Makepeace shares the story of her farmer-politiciangrandfather at the group's _ 1877 and, for the next few years, lived' . lwitter.cum/Nl_cnasmith recent Mystery Ancestor Night. _ ' my ._