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.PAGE 6 TERRACE BAY NEWS SEPTEMBER 5, 1974 TERRACE BAY TOWN TOPICS WIEN LORNE'S Mrs. Stella Brown who was in Edmonton for the Klondike Days attended the Elwood Glover Luncheon Date Show being taped on Thursday, CAMERAS R FISHING "July 25th to be shown on the 26th. Appearing on the show that day was Stoppin Tom Connors and Stella was fortunate enough to get a picture of him being interview- 20 SQUTH COURT STREET ed with Elwood Glover. (next to fhe Paramount Theatre) Also attending the THUNDER BAY 'P'j; ONTARIO TELEPHONE 344-0413 luncheon was Mrs. Rhena (Muir) Gilroy the granddaughter of Alexander Muir, author CROSSWORD PUZZLE of "The Maple Leaf TODAY'S ANSWER : Forever". Stella was able to get Mrs. Gilroy's auto- 2. graph, and in talking with her she had promis- ACROSS 40. Be : ed to send Stella an account of how her grand- 1.Receipts _ peevish father had come to write "The Maple Leaf For- 3 Intijats DOWN 10. Border on 1. Flesh ever". 11. KP wound Stella also learned Mrs. Gilroy had lived 12. Worker 2. Mote or in Thunder Bay.and taught school at Isabella tressing 3. Ransack School. 13. Gangster's (3 wds.) Today, Tuesday, September 3rd, Stella did ig uy 2 Seaton 31 indeed receive such an account from Mrs. 11 Anilla i pHnjemps eB ; ; : AE bio .Doa . i ; i . 3 Gilroy and we publish it herein: wire. Elvg ule 18 Clarins! 2 Bea in " My grandfather, Alexander MUIR was born tapers 8 Duffers 3 toa But 28 Mam April 5th, 1830 in Lesmahagow, Scotland, a 16. Japanese '7. Excited 22. Biblical 29. Common 3 river i small village near Glasgow. At four years of 17. Albanian 5 5 os 2% i, AO i, age he came by sailing ship to Canada with his capital 9. Handled marauded rigging parents and brother, settling in S¢arboro near 3 Troy 11. Throb 24. 01d support Toronto, Ontario. His father John Muir a tea- | 21 a= 15, Hymorist Bomen 2 Mining find . . oy . Sprite cher, gave his sons their early education at 2 Sos --rTTZ 7a --T5T5 the village school. Later Alex attended Queens problem University at Kingston Ontario, graduating 24. llus- 10 7 i with a B.A. degree in 1851. ag ios 7 Active in sports, he excelled in curling, 26. Cat's cry 3 bowling, lacrosse and was Canadian champion 27. Blushing 6 quoit pitcher. His patriotic interest in Can- 25. Yayne or ada influenced him to write many patriotic 30. "You -- 19 songs and poems. He loved music and being a Ne, 2 staunch Presbyterian, was precentor in the 31. Commo- : early churches of his day and also wrote a num- tion 24 4 32. Egyptian ; ber of hymns. sun deity [25 26 3 On graduation he taught school in Scarboro 34. Senator and soon became principal of Leslieville pub- trom 21. mn 29 lic school, now a part of Toronto. 36. Sicilian 0 3) =2 zz One October morning in 1867, he stopped by » leans to have his usual chat with his friend Mr. 32 red Ld 35 ied Leslie the postmaster, who drew his attention 39. Enroll; = 5 to a competition which was being sponsored by White the Montreal Caledonian Society. Eo continued page 7 ..ccccocno-