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Newspaper
Acton Free Press
Location
Acton, Ontario, Canada
Date
Aug 15, 1957
Page
15
A long list of Acton residents hosting friends and relatives from Toronto Guelph London and Oshawa. Names include Betty and Frank Bean Earl Van Norman Mrs G Ritchie and many others visiting or traveling through Acton this week. Several trips to Nova Scotia Cape Cod and other Ontario towns are noted.
A community gathering at Bramasato Fourth Line home celebrated the marriage of Mr and Mrs John Mampacy RR 5 Rockwood. About 30 guests heard Bob Hamilton read an address and saw an electric iron and ironing board gifted. John and Louie Mampacy played accordions, with lunch served by Mrs P Mampacy. Attending were W Plummer, B Hamilton, Mrs E Tosh, Mrs Demolder and Elizabeth Demolder.
Florence R Croft, in her 70th year, died after illness in Guelph last week. She was daughter of the late Mr and Mrs William Croft and sister of Effie and Lily Croft now in Guelph. Funeral held Friday at McLanaghan Wall Funeral Home Norfolk Street with Rev John Ward officiating. Pallbearers named. Funeral obit notes Rockwood ancestry.
Acadians retain old customs along Nova Scotia highways with ox carts seen near Expulsion sites. Villages blur into a continuous stretch marked only by signs as Acadians rebuild farms in Annapolis Valley after return. The Mary’s Bay area church at Church Point stands as Canada’s tallest wooden church at 190 feet. The CNE starts a week from tomorrow.
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