Our Family's Journey Through Time
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| 1 |  | Lighthouse Keeper vignette. She's Edith Matilda Ansty. She married Walter Franklin Brydon from Hespeler. | |
| 2 |  | Scarborough Settler's Lament written in 1840 by Sandy Glendenning who called it ‘Awa wi Scarboro’s Muddy Creeks’. Sandy was the brother-in-law of David Brydon. David and his wife Janet Glendenning stayed with Sandy in Scarborough when they first arrived in Ontario. The poem was turned into a song by Canadian folk-singer Stan Rogers and became a standard for Canadian singers. Here it is performed by Jesse Ferguson, aka The Bard of Cornwall. Away with Canada's muddy creeks And Canada's fields of pine Your land of wheat is a goodly land, But oh, it is not mine The heathy hill, the grassy dale. The daisy spangled lea, The purling burn and craggy linn -- Auld Scotia's land give me. Oh, I would like to hear again The lark on Tinny's hill And see the wee bit gowany That blooms beside the rill. Like banished Swiss who views afar His Alps with longing e'e. I gaze upon the morning star That shines on my country. No more I'll win by Eskdale Pen Or Pentland's craggy comb. The days can ne'er come back again Of thirty years that's gone, But fancy oft at midnight hour Will steal across the sea. Yestre'en amidst a pleasant dream I saw my own country. Each scene that met my view Brought childhood's joys to mind. The blackbird sang on Tushey linn The song he sang lang syne. But like a dream time flies away And then the morning came. And I awoke in Canada, Three thousand miles from hame. Sandy Glendinning, 1840 |
