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\nANNAN WON1S INSTITUT出TWD₃MUIR HISTORY  \nVOLUNE 3  \nBackground History of the AreaAnnan Yesterday and To-daynnan Store  \nAnnan Blacksmith Shoplattery's illnnan Hall  \nCensus_for Annan 1864Leith Inhabitants in 1865GarryowenLeith  \nLeith BlacksmithLeith Golf CourseLeith StoreScott's BrickyardLeith Grist 11lOther Leith ills  \nCooper and Dressmaker ShopsLeith DistilleryLeith llotels and TavernsBridge at Leith  \nPost Orfices and Nail ServicesLeith and Annan Telephone ServiceBeekeepers at LeithThe Rope PlantBerly Farm NovementLeith Farm ForumLeith Brass BandSports  \nCulture and Social LifeAinslie WoodWar Effort  \nFarm and Rural HistoriesBarn Raisingsinnan ResidencesLeith ResidencesSpecial Wedding Anniversaries  \nPage  \n1今10131314返25232939333435374143  \n44  \n47  \n50  \n52  \n55  \n105  \n108  \n110  \n114  \n●●  \n# Background History of the Area\n\nIn this area of Grey County it was probably bands of Algonquin Indians who werethe first rarmers in this county.Other tribes who dwelt nearby were Petun(Tobacco)Indians and the Hurons.Early accounts tell of the Indians picking huckleberries andraspberries in great quantities to dry for use in winter when they had very littleelse,To-day we still buy our blueberries,which come from the Northern Shore andNorthern Ontario and picked by present day Indians.These colourful natives of theold days were fishermen and great hunters and are remembered because of their tatt-ooed bodies,painted taces and pierced nostrils.  \nBesides planting Indian corn and other cereal grains,they were expert weavers.Because of the white man's cunning and interfering the Iroquois came into GreyCounty and massacred the two Indian tribes and the scattered survivors were absorbedinto the other tribes.Later 0juibway Indians,by their warfare and persistence,cleared the Iroquois out of this county and came to settle here themselves.Thesechildren of nature made the white travellers welcome and provided a reast of fish,venison,berries and Indian corn.  \nEarly records tell of missions and missionaries and we find at one time beforethe white man came to settle the territory there was a French trading post situatednear here Leith is now located.  \nTo clear land was a burden but Sydenham was especially difficult,as it had theheaviest growth of huge hardwood trees.After the land was cleared the stumps stillhad to be contended with.The land was cultivated between the stumps with a \"drag\"aV-shaped timber with iron pegs driven through it.The first grain crops were cut witha cradle,then the reaper came and the cut grain was bound by hand into sheaves andstooked in bunches ofa dozen to dry.Sydenham was soon recognized as a very goodf'arming area,  \nThe younger generation will find it difficult to envision the struggle ot theearly settlers in trying to clear the land and plant and harvest a crop.The firstpowered threshing machines were those that were worked by driving horses around onpoles to provide the power.The machine itself was a large wooden framework,contain-ing gear wheels something like clock-works on a large scale.The gears and cog-wheelswere so arranged that when the arms or poles were drawn around,it moved the machin-ery,when the power was t ransported to the threshing parts or \"separator as it wascalled in the barn,by long shafts called \"Tumbling Rods which were connected byjoints called \"knuckles\"。Later power for the threshing was supplied by a steam engineand many a weary lad can testify to the amount or fuel that was necessary to keep theboiler stoked up.Some of the men who threshed in the Annan area and went from farm tofarm were John Day,Neil McNeil and Peter Cameron.  \n# Page 2Background History of the Area\n\nAt this time the stooked grain had been placed in the barn for safe storaże untilother fall work was done,Then the thresher went from farm to farm and did customwork.The threshing bees were as all other chores a neighbour exchange of eustomwork,and the meals that the woman of the 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