ANGUS & BROWNELL News Clipping

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With all the discussion recently on the Angus family, perhaps some list
members may enjoy the following news article:


Source: Amherst Daily News, Amherst, NS Monday, July 9, 1912 Front Page

AN AGED CITIZEN
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Pays the News Office a Friendly Call --
Reminiscences of the Past

"Robert Angus, an aged citizen, of Northport and an old
reader of the News-Sentinel, paid us a friendly visit
this morning. Mr. Angus is over 82 years of age, but is still
hale and hearty. Talking to the News this morning he said that
his first visit to Amherst was made in the year 1845 or 1846.
The Tyndale Road was not then opened and he came by way of
Amherst Head driving out here with Aaron Brownell who is still
living, at the ripe old age of eighty-seven years.
This drive to Amherst was evidently an event in Mr. Angus's life
for he recalled the fact that he and his friend of boyhood days drove
out behind a three year old grey colt. In those days there were
only three or four stores in town. There was one kept by the late
Whitehead Bent on Upper Victoria Street; One by the late James Page
near where the Amherst Foundry Company's retail store now stands and
one by the late Mr. Smith, better known as "Big" Smith, near the site
of the present Presbyterian church. Mr. Angus said that between
Embree's Pond and Amherst Corner there were not at that time a dozen
houses standing. He recalled too that the late Achison Moffatt,
father of James, A.W. and Charles Moffatt, had not at that time
entered into business but was engaged in driving a team through the
country disposing of goods.
Mr. Angus can also recall the hanging of Doyle on the Courthouse
square and said that there were a large number of people came from
Northport to attend the execution, coming in on horse back as
carriage roads were hardly passable.
We were very pleased to have this visit from Mr. Angus who is one
of the links which bind us to the past. Mr. Angus's grandfather,
the late William Brownell and his brothers, were the first settlers
at Amherst Shore and it is interesting to note that Mr. Angus is
today residing on a portion of the grant which his grandfather
received from the Crown over a century ago."
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