From the News

Hemmingford Notes

Huntingdon Gleaner

Dated: December 9, 1915

Word has been received that Owen Roberts, adopted when very young by John Beattie, and who lived at Frontier for most of his life, but lately in Montréal, has enlisted in the Canadian Grenadier Guards.

From Burt Lang's Placenames in South-West Quebec, Frontier is: A hamlet that was located in Hemmingford Township, on Covey Hill Road, near the corner of the Jackson Sideroad. (45.021N/73.685W) It was also called Sweet Settlement and possibly the Robson Settlement.

The 1901 Census lists Owan Robarts (born May 1, 1888) as the adopted son of John Beattie. An exhaustive search of the LAC archives has not turned up any combination of names that would match this individual.

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