Windsor, Nova Scotia, Canada - c. 1800
by Garth Vaughan © 2001
Birthplace
Overview
Long
Pond Story
Long
Version
Short Version
Supporting
Maps
1786
- "Plan" for King's
Windsor
- Anson Map
1871
- Church Map
1879
- Hendry Map
1880 - Roe Bros Map
1878
- Bird's Eye View
BIG
Maps
1786
- "Plan" for King's
Windsor
- Anson Map
1871
- Church Map
Aerial
View/Church
1879
- Hendry Map
1880 - Roe Bros Map
1878
- Bird's Eye View
Map
to Long Pond
Other
1842 -
TCH/King's Deed
Compilation of Maps
Tourism
Links
Chapter I
Beginning
When one reaches
a certain age, he likes on occasions to look back to the days of his youth; and
in meeting old companions of childhood to talk over affairs when they were boys.
... these little sketches will be intimate tales of old Windsor as it touches
up against us boys, and in the telling, I will use without offence the names as
we used them then.
My own first contact with Windsor, external to my home
was in going to school. Fred and Cliff Shand. My brother Mont and myself started
together ...
Chapter X
In Swimming
Long Pond was the great
swimming place; yet possibly some of the present [1930s] generation may not even
know where it is, or was. Our road was up Clifton Avenue, and the turning to the
left as if going to Mr. Burchell's. When one got about opposite Clifton House,
in the field was Long Pond. It was then a beautiful sheet of water, but I was
told by someone lately that the bottom fell out of it and the water had all run
away. It was deep over our heads in places but the choicest spot was on the Clifton
side where one could step down into the water about two feet deep, to start with
and wade out over to over one's head. That was where we learnt (sic) to swim.
Before we learnt (sic) to swim we used to “steamboat” all over the pond.
We had few discarded railroad ties up there; and the method was to the chin on
the end of the tie, holding by the hands and then churn the water with kicking
our feet. One could make quite a speed. The water got warm there earlier than
in the [Avon] River. Some of us have been in there as early as the eighth of April
one summer. We swam out to the ice that had not melted in the centre (sic). ...
Excerpts from: "I Remember"
by H. Percy Blanchard
(Windsor, Nova
Scotia)
First Published as a weekly column to the Hants Journal c. 1930.
Haliburton's Long Pond Fall 2002
How to get to Haliburton's Long Pond.
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