cbe report final_hr - Haliburton County Community Cooperative Inc
cbe report final_hr - Haliburton County Community Cooperative Inc
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GLAMORGAN<br />
The potential interviewee for the township of Glamorgan is Elva Bates, a<br />
local author. The township of Glamorgan’s main village is Gooderham. This section begins<br />
with a poem by a local hunter, trapper, and businessman, titled ‘Glamorgan’:<br />
There’s a moon beaming high in the silvery sky,<br />
There’s a glitter of frost in the air;<br />
The snow-laden branches upon the dark pine<br />
Make a fairy-land wondrous fair.<br />
There are snow-covered hillsides,<br />
There are ice-covered ponds,<br />
It is a Fairy-land, sure as can be,<br />
And Man that dwells therein,<br />
Though he may not be aware,<br />
One of the Lucky is he!<br />
The cares of the world he s<strong>hr</strong>ugs from his back<br />
Of the Atom no worry has he<br />
He’s a child of the wild on whom Nature has smiled<br />
In this land of the snowshoe and ski.<br />
(Peacock 1974)<br />
Poetry then is an example of an intangible cultural resource. Poetry readings or simple<br />
sales of poetry books could be of market interest to a developing tourism economy.<br />
The areas of interest in Glamorgan are listed below with a brief history of each site:<br />
“The native presence in the Township of Glamorgan has not been researched, except for<br />
the following: 1. Muskoka and <strong>Haliburton</strong>, 1615-1875, edited by Florence Murray, p. Lvi says,<br />
“The Indians most closely associated with <strong>Haliburton</strong> were the Mississaugas, described by<br />
the government as ‘The Chippewa Nation of Indians inhabiting the back parts of the New<br />
Castle District’…On November 5, 1818, by Treaty number 20, these Indians surrendered a<br />
great tract of land, 1, 951, 000 acres in extent, which included parts of Muskoka and<br />
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