WAS PROBABLY OLDEST ONTARIO PRESBYTERIAN
Interesting Biography of the late George Barrie of this city
The Toronto star weekly of February 3rd contained the following interesting article concerning the late George Barrie, who passed away on , Saturday, January 27th:
Ontario Presbyterianism lost one of its oldest, if not its very oldest, representatives in the death last Saturday of Mr. George Barrie, whose farm on the Roseville. road, not far from the city of Galt, is widely known in that part of the Province. Mr. Barrie, who was 92 years old, was born in Scotland, but came to Canada and settled with his parents near Galt when he was a mere lad and he lived there ever since. At the time when Rev. Dr. John Bayne thundered out his three-hour sermons in old Knox church, then situated on the present market square of the city, George Barrie was one of the elders and he was the last of the members of the Session of Dr. Bayne's time to pass away. Dr. Bayne himself was like the voice of one crying in the wilderness, for in the early forties western Ontario was sparsely settled and the district around Galt was. a forest. Bayne was the conspicuous Canadian Presbyterian divine of his day and his spirit seems even yet to live in Knox church, Galt. Mr. Barrie continued to attend the services at this church until comparatively recent months, when age's infirmities kept him at home. He was a man of sterling integrity, quiet, unassuming, industrious and enterprising, a type of the men who settled in Dumfries and Oxford and laid the foundations of those prosperous districts. In. politics Mr. Barrie. was a staunch Liberal, and an interesting conversationalist, on both Canadian and British politics. He came to Ontario before the time of railroads and saw the Province develop almost from the time of the Mackenzie rebellion, through the union of the Provinces and Confederation to the wonderful growth and expansion of the past twenty-five years, all of which he had followed with deep interest.
When a small boy, George Barrie attended the school at the head of Main street, Galt, taught by Mr. Gouinlock. The place was then a very small village. Only two or three who attended Guoinlock school are living today, and Mr. Barrie was the oldest. Later on when this school was transferred to another part of the town the building now used as the city's chief fire hall. it was taught by Mr, Robert McLean, father of the late Mr. R, G. McLean founder of R. G . McLean, Limited, printers, of this city.
Galt Daily Reporter
Interesting Biography of the late George Barrie of this city
The Toronto star weekly of February 3rd contained the following interesting article concerning the late George Barrie, who passed away on , Saturday, January 27th:
Ontario Presbyterianism lost one of its oldest, if not its very oldest, representatives in the death last Saturday of Mr. George Barrie, whose farm on the Roseville. road, not far from the city of Galt, is widely known in that part of the Province. Mr. Barrie, who was 92 years old, was born in Scotland, but came to Canada and settled with his parents near Galt when he was a mere lad and he lived there ever since. At the time when Rev. Dr. John Bayne thundered out his three-hour sermons in old Knox church, then situated on the present market square of the city, George Barrie was one of the elders and he was the last of the members of the Session of Dr. Bayne's time to pass away. Dr. Bayne himself was like the voice of one crying in the wilderness, for in the early forties western Ontario was sparsely settled and the district around Galt was. a forest. Bayne was the conspicuous Canadian Presbyterian divine of his day and his spirit seems even yet to live in Knox church, Galt. Mr. Barrie continued to attend the services at this church until comparatively recent months, when age's infirmities kept him at home. He was a man of sterling integrity, quiet, unassuming, industrious and enterprising, a type of the men who settled in Dumfries and Oxford and laid the foundations of those prosperous districts. In. politics Mr. Barrie. was a staunch Liberal, and an interesting conversationalist, on both Canadian and British politics. He came to Ontario before the time of railroads and saw the Province develop almost from the time of the Mackenzie rebellion, through the union of the Provinces and Confederation to the wonderful growth and expansion of the past twenty-five years, all of which he had followed with deep interest.
When a small boy, George Barrie attended the school at the head of Main street, Galt, taught by Mr. Gouinlock. The place was then a very small village. Only two or three who attended Guoinlock school are living today, and Mr. Barrie was the oldest. Later on when this school was transferred to another part of the town the building now used as the city's chief fire hall. it was taught by Mr, Robert McLean, father of the late Mr. R, G. McLean founder of R. G . McLean, Limited, printers, of this city.
Galt Daily Reporter
WAS PROBABLY OLDEST ONTARIO PRESBYTERIAN
Interesting Biography of the late George Barrie of this city
The Toronto star weekly of February 3rd contained the following interesting article concerning the late George Barrie, who passed away on , Saturday, January 27th:
Ontario Presbyterianism lost one of its oldest, if not its very oldest, representatives in the death last Saturday of Mr. George Barrie, whose farm on the Roseville. road, not far from the city of Galt, is widely known in that part of the Province. Mr. Barrie, who was 92 years old, was born in Scotland, but came to Canada and settled with his parents near Galt when he was a mere lad and he lived there ever since. At the time when Rev. Dr. John Bayne thundered out his three-hour sermons in old Knox church, then situated on the present market square of the city, George Barrie was one of the elders and he was the last of the members of the Session of Dr. Bayne's time to pass away. Dr. Bayne himself was like the voice of one crying in the wilderness, for in the early forties western Ontario was sparsely settled and the district around Galt was. a forest. Bayne was the conspicuous Canadian Presbyterian divine of his day and his spirit seems even yet to live in Knox church, Galt. Mr. Barrie continued to attend the services at this church until comparatively recent months, when age's infirmities kept him at home. He was a man of sterling integrity, quiet, unassuming, industrious and enterprising, a type of the men who settled in Dumfries and Oxford and laid the foundations of those prosperous districts. In. politics Mr. Barrie. was a staunch Liberal, and an interesting conversationalist, on both Canadian and British politics. He came to Ontario before the time of railroads and saw the Province develop almost from the time of the Mackenzie rebellion, through the union of the Provinces and Confederation to the wonderful growth and expansion of the past twenty-five years, all of which he had followed with deep interest.
When a small boy, George Barrie attended the school at the head of Main street, Galt, taught by Mr. Gouinlock. The place was then a very small village. Only two or three who attended Guoinlock school are living today, and Mr. Barrie was the oldest. Later on when this school was transferred to another part of the town the building now used as the city's chief fire hall. it was taught by Mr, Robert McLean, father of the late Mr. R, G. McLean founder of R. G . McLean, Limited, printers, of this city.
Galt Daily Reporter
Interesting Biography of the late George Barrie of this city
The Toronto star weekly of February 3rd contained the following interesting article concerning the late George Barrie, who passed away on , Saturday, January 27th:
Ontario Presbyterianism lost one of its oldest, if not its very oldest, representatives in the death last Saturday of Mr. George Barrie, whose farm on the Roseville. road, not far from the city of Galt, is widely known in that part of the Province. Mr. Barrie, who was 92 years old, was born in Scotland, but came to Canada and settled with his parents near Galt when he was a mere lad and he lived there ever since. At the time when Rev. Dr. John Bayne thundered out his three-hour sermons in old Knox church, then situated on the present market square of the city, George Barrie was one of the elders and he was the last of the members of the Session of Dr. Bayne's time to pass away. Dr. Bayne himself was like the voice of one crying in the wilderness, for in the early forties western Ontario was sparsely settled and the district around Galt was. a forest. Bayne was the conspicuous Canadian Presbyterian divine of his day and his spirit seems even yet to live in Knox church, Galt. Mr. Barrie continued to attend the services at this church until comparatively recent months, when age's infirmities kept him at home. He was a man of sterling integrity, quiet, unassuming, industrious and enterprising, a type of the men who settled in Dumfries and Oxford and laid the foundations of those prosperous districts. In. politics Mr. Barrie. was a staunch Liberal, and an interesting conversationalist, on both Canadian and British politics. He came to Ontario before the time of railroads and saw the Province develop almost from the time of the Mackenzie rebellion, through the union of the Provinces and Confederation to the wonderful growth and expansion of the past twenty-five years, all of which he had followed with deep interest.
When a small boy, George Barrie attended the school at the head of Main street, Galt, taught by Mr. Gouinlock. The place was then a very small village. Only two or three who attended Guoinlock school are living today, and Mr. Barrie was the oldest. Later on when this school was transferred to another part of the town the building now used as the city's chief fire hall. it was taught by Mr, Robert McLean, father of the late Mr. R, G. McLean founder of R. G . McLean, Limited, printers, of this city.
Galt Daily Reporter
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