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The sensational shootâ€" ul q " â€" ‘f | P es es te)c © o tH is s * ¢ k. H~ x3 '::'l 'f‘{c‘ iz * 3 "4â€". PKe ing of Charles Massey of the _ s i i PV :@iaint RFE | . (aell £" a 8 Tw % x io y 413? iB EW d‘} o 4b 4 [ 3 ts Masseyâ€"Harris and Massey p > PL | i3 4 /%, e te 14 2 w .AIme <>~ M Te *WB tS Ag <" **>} @WH > Ferguson dynasty in Toronto in ce W ED ph s . Aeginees oo un / * Te ; #s 6 roat. «uts fe 1915, draws us ever back to this 2 k vcup it i iss s O Oe tnt s ty m o Te â€"â€" 20e R ':"A,.\F s 1 BA .Bs area. objseare M ces F /ss ht un i s :: l wal . The crime was committed by q B4 i N par 3 o Samuel Massey, son of Daniel and Lucina, died May 3, 1813 during the Massey‘s young housekeeper e l s1 Pniliirmiatintaes e 1 100. 5c O1.,c+ > War of 1812â€"14, buried in the Academy Hill Cemetery once known as who was eventually cleared of |~ B w e es the Massey Cemetery in Alnwick/Haldimand Township. the charges.The company that " T would eventually become an The Massey home in Newcastle. president of the National Liberal In October,1969, Vincent‘s surâ€" c international giant was little i Federation of Canada, the foreâ€" viving son, also called Hart, hired affected financially at the time, would become the Massey formed part of the backbone Gillespie in the 1962 NBC series, _ runnerofthe Liberal Party of ‘the Robert Simpson Company to but the verdict did result in Cemetery on Academy Hill at of Toronto‘s society at the time. "Dr. Kildare." Canada. But it was his appointâ€" auction the contents of his father‘s advancing the rights of women the crossroad of the present In his will a foundation was The local legend I refer to ment as Canada‘s first Canadian estate at Batterwood. He and in what had been a maleâ€"domâ€" day Massey Road. There are established and among its chariâ€" _ howeveris his brother, Vincent born Governorâ€"General and his wife Melodie would move to inated Ontario and Canadian thirtyâ€"five Masseys buried in the _ table gifts was a student centre Massey. Raymond and Vincent, Canada‘s 18th in 1952 that sethim _ Durham House in Canton. judicial system. Academy Hill Cemetery. for the University of Toronto along with sister Alice and apart and would bring local notoâ€" Melodie, before her marriage The story actually begins in While Daniel senior would. known to this day as Hart House. _ Margery were were born and riety. He maintained this regal to Hart, was one of 55,000 women Grafton, Ontario when Charles‘ _ blacksmith and repair machinâ€" _ The foundation also contributed _ raised in Toronto at 519 Jarvis post until 1959 when he retired who enlisted in the Women‘s grandfather, Daniel Massey ery, the importation of the same _ to the establishment of Massey Street. At the time of Charles to Canton at Batterwood, in the Division of the Royal Canadian (1798â€"1856) moved his family intrigued him. Hall, which remains a cultural Albert‘s murder in 1915, Vincent _ former Hope Township. Alice had. _ Air Force in Word War Two and _‘ from Vermont in 1802 to the There are differing stories landmark in the city. was a Professor of History at the _ died previously in July, 1950. trained in Toronto as a motor village in Haldimand Township as to how some of the Masseys Hart Massey died in 1896 University of Toronto. That same But before he retired he hosted. _ mechanic. Mrs. Massey who is when it was known as Grover‘s ended up in Newcastle, Ontario, _ and is buried in the Massey year he married Alice Parkin and _ Queen Elizabeth Iand Prince now 92 and her family live in Port Tavern. He built a round log however, it was Daniel‘s son Hart _ Mausoleum at Mount Pleasant would have two sons, Lionel and _ Philip at Batterwood with aservice . Hope. 4 ; home on cleared land in the Almerrin Massey who arrived Cemetery, leaving four Hart. at St. Mark‘s Anglican Church in Out of sheer will and deterâ€" beautiful rolling hills north of in 1851 and built the Newcastle sons to carry on the family In 1916 Vincent enlisted in Port Hope. Massey would go on ~ _ mination a Canadian company | Grafton; a farm that would evenâ€" _ Agricultural Works and Foundry. _ businessnamely Charles Albert, _ the First World Was, but was to establish Massey College at with its earliest beginnings in tually cover some 1200 acres Being strong Methodists, the who was murdered, Frederick never sent overseas. Instead he the University of Toronto in 1963 Northumberland grew into an near the present day St. Anne‘s Massey clan were responsible Victor, Walter Edward Hart and became a staff officer in Canada. _ where author Robertson Davies international success and along Spa Resort. for erecting the church oppoâ€" Chester Daniel. It would be and then joined the war cabinet _ would be its first master. The Rt the way the Masseys enriched all The War of 1812 saw Daniel site their homes on Mill Street. the offspring of Chester, who in Ottawa, such was the clout of _ HonVincentMassey died in 1967 _ our lives. and his two eldest sons, Samuel _ Newcastle is now part of the became legendary in different clan. In 1921 Vincent was briefly _ and after a state funeral in Oftawa Charles Beale is a former educaâ€" and Jonathan fight for their Municipality of Clarington in ways; one in our local area. President of Masseyâ€"Harris. was buried in the cemetery of his _ for, historian, freelance writer and adopted Upper Canada. Samuel _ Durham Region. Chester‘s son,Raymond He would fail in his attempt beloved St. Mark‘s in Port Hope author of Manly E. MacDonald would die in 1813, possibly as In 1855, Hart Massey moved to _ became a wellâ€"known Canadian _ to become an MP in Durham along side his wife Alice and â€" Interpreter of Old Ontario. (www. a casualty of the war and be Toronto and renamed the comâ€" actor, starring in such films during the 1925 campaign. where his son Lionel would later charlesbeale.ca/and on twitter: @ the first person buried in what pany Massey Manufacturing and _ as "East of Eden" and as Dr. In 1932 he was the first be interred. OntarioGanuck) o