Ron Cairns
Honor Code SignatorySigned 13 Dec 2013 | 108 contributions | 3 thank-yous | 226 connections
Signed 13 Dec 2013 | 108 contributions | 3 thank-yous | 226 connections
Ron E. Cairns
Born 1950s.
Ancestors 
Son of Melville Cairns
and Joyce (Evans) Cairns
Brother of
[private sister (1940s - unknown)] and [private sister (1950s - unknown)]
[children unknown]
Profile last modified
| Created 12 Dec 2013
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WILLIAM CAIRNS. 251 Limavady Ireland to Jamestown, Durham, Ormstown Quebec As told by his daughter Elizabeth Cairns 1802-1890 who married 18 Mar 1829 William Cunningham 1806-1893
My father, William Cairns, belonged to county Derry, and we sailed for Canada in 1823. On landing at Montreal my father fell in with an Englishman who had a small contract on the Lachine canal, and who said he had bought a lot on the Chateauguay the summer before, and offered it for £50. My father bought it, and we drove to Lachine on our way to take possession. The captain of the steamer agreed to leave us at the Basin, but on the way something went wrong with the engine and she returned to Lachine. The freight-house was full of rough men, so we camped on the wharf, and had to stay there two days before the steamer was repaired. On reaching the Basin, Gregory Dunning agreed to cart our baggage, and we started after it on foot, grandmother, nigh a hundred years old, on top of the load, for she had insisted on accompanying father. When we got to Reeves's, we found the road to be unlit for wheels, and so stayed there all night and left next morning in two canoes, which landed us on our lot, on which was a small meadow, made by the Americans, and on the river-bank was a shanty the Englishman had started to build and which was ready for the roof. He had sown that spring some peas and turnips. We got the shanty finished and as we had brought a cow with us from Montreal and a good stock of provisions, we were not poorly off. Grandmother died 3 weeks after our arrival. David Bryson was our nearest neighbor. Robert Williams came the following year, and settlers came crowding in after that. The year of the Miramichi fire, it was so dark that we had candles burning, and even the pigs were like to die from the smoke. One woman came to our house in terror of being burned, and said she would "dook in the river gin the fire came up."
William is interned close to our family marker in Union Cemetery, Ormstown Quebec. There is no marker, as per Elmer Cairns (my grandfather)told to my Uncle Dalton Hamilton who is married to my fathers sister Rhoda Elizabeth Cairns . See Ormstown Union Cemetery Notes. http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~qcchatea/cemeteries/ormunion/ormunion.htm Ron Cairns Dec 2013
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Moved to Vancouver in 1975 then in 2005 I moved to Kitchener Ontario. I have visited Ormstown Quebec from time to time since. Recall the Ormstown Country Fair. I also like to rub shoulders with my ghosts of the past as my family settled in (Jamestown)(Durham)Ormstown in 1823. Always willing to compare notes and chat about southwestern Quebec.
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My father, William Cairns, belonged to county Derry, and we sailed for Canada in 1823. On landing at Montreal my father fell in with an Englishman who had a small contract on the Lachine canal, and who said he had bought a lot on the Chateaguaythe summer before, and offered it for £50. My father bought it, and we drove to Lachine on our way to take possession. The captain of the steamer agreed to leave us at the Basin, but on the way something went wrong with the engine and she returned to Lachine. The freight-house was full of rough men, so we camped on the wharf, and had to stay there two days before the steamer was repaired. On reaching the Basin, Gregory Dunning agreed to cart our baggage, and we started after it on foot, grandmother, nigh a hundred years old,
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