Beild House Country Inn & Spa


April 1909
Local News	Pupils Not Attending School	International News
CLASSIFIEDS Wanted Quickly - In every town, live lady or gentleman with little cash to sell the dustless Ideal Vacuum Cleaner. Good profits, easy and clean ... work. Apply the particulars to Frank Frank Guelph Ont. UNDER THE SCALES On Monday April 5 J. Lightheart was given an hour to leave town. Jack is a consistent patron of the booze counter. STEAMER DIDN'T BUDGE 2000 people showed up for the launch of the steamer Harrisson on Sat. They were disappointed. "It was not through on breach of faith on the part of management that the launch did not come off as planned. They did everything in there power, but the 'tarnation critter jest sot thar" and refused to be either shoved or dragged into the water.	It is frequently stated that there are in Collingwood a number of pupils of school age who are not attending any school. Any citizen knowing of such will confer a favour by sending the information to me. All such communications will be regarded as confidential. Cecil McKenzie, Principle of Public Schools. INTERNATIONAL April 18 Joan of Arc was declared a Saint April 19 13th Boston Marathon won by Henri Renaud of New Hampshire in 2:53:36.8 April 24 Harry Hillman and Lawson Robertson ran the 100 m. 3 legged race in 11 seconds. April 27 Sultan of Turkey, Abdul Hamid II, was overthrown. He was the 34th Sultan of the Ottoman Empire and the last to rule as an autocrat. He had seven wives, many concubines and nine sons and seven daughters	April 6 First Credit Union formed in USA. April 6 Explorers Robert Peary, Mathew Henson and four Inuits become first men to reach the North Pole. The claim, disputed by skeptics, was upheld in 1989 by the Navigation Foundation. Robert E. Perry used Ellesmere Island as a base for his expedition to the North Pole. the north coast of Ellesmere Island lies just 480 miles from the Pole. He was accompanied by Mathew Henson, an African American, who spent 18 years in the Arctic with Perry.
Click to View April Recipe - Turkey Learn about some of Collingwood's history with Historian Bill Barclay Daily at 11:00AM, Bill will accompany guests on a historic walk within the downtown core of Collingwood.		April 30 Juliana, queen of the Netherlands was born. She fled during the Nazi occupation and abdicated in favour of her daughter Beatrix. She lived out part of the war in Ottawa where one of her children was born in the Ottawa Civic Hospital where the Governor general of Canada, The Earl of Athlone declared her rooms at the hospital to be temporarily declared Dutch Territory. In thanks the Government of the Netherlands still today sends tulip bulbs to Canada in thanks. The family lived in Stornoway House in Ottawa.