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• Orangeman’s Day – twelfth of July, everybody started to hunt because all the
warden’s were parade’n in town and you’d have the bush to yourself. Sometimes
parade would be in Wilberforce or Gooderham. (Pope 1985) One year the
Orangemen would have their parade in Wilberfoce and of the years it would be in
Gooderham, Essonville, or Highland Grove. Len remembers the men, some twentyfive
or thirty of them, parading along the main drag with their big orange sashes,
and he also remembers the big white horse with king Bill in it. Best of all, however,
he remembers the band and all the drums. They had swimming, canoe races, leg
races, sack races.” (Pope 1985)
Tory Hill
• There were two colonization roads when Monmouth Township was first settled.
These were Monck and Burleigh.
• One of the first settlers to Monmouth was the Ritchie Family. Samuel Ritchie
opened a store. His brother Mitchell Ritchie built a sawmill on Providence Lake.
Another sawmill owned by William Hadley on Lot 4, Concession 8 in the year 1882.
• The rail trail trailhead is past site of the Irondale, Bancroft and Ottawa Railway Co.
This is currently where the Tory Hill Farmer’s Market is held every Sunday in the
summer. County Road #5 (Baptiste Lake Road) follows the original route of the
IB&O railway.
• John Anderson started the first store in Tory Hill, drawing his goods by team from
the railway station in Haliburton.
• Quilt making was one of the more pleasant tasks and is still carried on today. Many
have been made and are treasured heirlooms.
• 1893 a blacksmiths shop and hall built by John Anderson.
• Cheese Factory existed until the 1900s and was across McCue Lake.
• The present Tory Hill Church was built in 1928. The original Methodist Church was
built in 1903-4. (Monmouth Township 1981)
• 1965 the Tory Hill School ceased to function as a public school as pupils were
transported to Wilberfoce.
• Rustic Art Studio1074 Legacy Road Tory Hill Furniture, sculpture, mixed media
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