While you are sipping your Oolong tea, or nightly Guinness, or perhaps partaking in a strong Espresso a la Mamma’s style…I continue our tour of S.B.P.
This time, as we are working our way north up highway 10 , Skipness and Park Head.
Skipness was named by one of the first settlers in the area, Donald Reid(you will see the last name Reid pop up from time to time on my tour) after a town in Scotland by the same name, from which he and a lot of early settlers came from. Skipness is just slightly west of Park Head. Other names of interest in the early development of Skipness were,Conaway,Tupling,Davidson,MacDonald,Elliott,McBeth,Temple,George,Chambers and the person who built the first sawmill on Mud Lake, David Porter. Mud Lake is now known as Marysville Lake. It..as the other towns I mentioned,….were booming in the latter years of the 19th century, and the early 20th.It is still a beautiful piece of old Ontario, and drop by and take a look around. .there is always time when you are in S.B.P. to look!
On to Park Head, on the road to Hepworth, was , again, in Pioneer times. .a bustling little community. Park Head, has been home to a few famous people, one of which was a Provincial Member of Parliament for the province of British Columbia, Laura Emma Jamieson.Laura was born as Laura Marshall daughter of Joseph in 1888, in Park Head.She excelled at school and in 1908 went to University of Toronto and received her B.A. in philosophy in 1908.She moved to Vancouver B.C. where she married and her list of accomplishments is great, including 1921 Womens International Institute for Peace and Freedom,P.T.A.(president of the whole B.C.),Library Commission,1925 Vancouver Women’s Building,1920 Canadian delegate to League of Nations,1929 world education conference in Geneva,First Women’s co-op, author,alderwoman,director and president of a low cost housing society,Civil Liberties union,Juevnile court judge,and C.C.F.( forerunner to NDP) and a whole lot more
Its like I say..and will always say, a good background makes your future, and small town Park Head and family values seem to be abundant there.
Next stop…Hepworth.