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