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 appeared in Canadian Champion, 9 Jan 1873, p. 2     FATAL ACCIDENT. - Wm. McMaster, who has long been a resident of Glenwilliams and Georgetown, while walking on the track near Limehouse on Saturdy last, was struck by the cow catcher of a freight train going East and thrown a considerable distance. He lived for about five hours after the …

 appeared in Canadian Champion, 16 Jan 1873, p. 2     DEATH OF A CENTENARIAN. - Wm. Hylliard, an old man who has lived in Streetsville by himself for many years, was visited as usual on Saturday morning by his neighbour, Mr. Edward, who finding the door locked, and hearing groans, went for another neighbor, Mr. Bond. They together broke open …

 appeared in Canadian Champion, 16 Jan 1873, p. 2     DEATH OF A PIONEER. - A dispatch from Meadowvale, dated on the 11th last, says: "It is our painful duty this morning to report the death of Mr. Jas. Pearson, one of the earliest settlers in this Province. Mr. Pearson emigrated to this country from the United States in 1800, …

 appeared in Canadian Champion, 16 Jan 1873, p. 2     DEATH OF NAPOLEON On Thursday, a few minutes after noon, passed away the spirit of that exile whose birth was, nearly 65 years ago, announced from the ancient palace of the Bourbons by repeated salvos of artillery. Surely a mournfully romantic career was his! Spending his ...

 appeared in Canadian Champion, 6 Feb 1873, p. 2     FATAL ACCIDENT. - A young man named Charles Lewis, while engaged in cutting saw logs for Mr. Benjamin Eager, of Wellington Square, was fatally injured last week by a limb of a falling tree striking him on the temple....

 appeared in Canadian Champion, 27 Feb 1873, p. 2     SAD ACCIDENT. - A very sad accident occurred near Meadowvale last Friday, by which a young man named Thomas Cook lost his life. Deceased was employed by Mr. Wm. Hornby, who, on Friday, sent him for a load of sand. It appears the deceased not coming home when expected, Mr. …

 appeared in Canadian Champion, 24 Apr 1873, p. 2     FATAL ACCIDENT. - A fatal accident occurred at Dundas, in the cotton factory there, on Saturday evening last about five o'clock, by which a young lad named Storricks was instantly killed. While fixing something in the engine house his foot slipped. In falling he caught the strap to save ...

 appeared in Canadian Champion, 10 Apr 1873, p. 2     SAW MILL ACCIDENT. - A young man by the name of Chas. Thomas, a native of England, aged about 28 years, who is said to have been a sailor, for a considerable time, came to his death as follows. - He was engaged cutting lath in Mr. Thomson's mill in …

 appeared in Canadian Champion, 17 Jul 1873, p. 2     SUICIDE. - Last Saturday morning the body of a man named Jas. Lamb was found suspended in a woodshed of Mr. R. B. Ireland, Nelson village, in whose employ deceased had been. By all appearances he had deliberately procured some plough lines and hanged himself. He had been drinking to …

 appeared in Canadian Champion, 24 Jul 1873, p. 2     BURNED TO DEATH. - About ten o'clock on Friday morning a fire broke out in a barn belonging to Dr. Ogden, Oakville, attached to his house, occupied by Robert Edmonds as a summer residence. A son of the latter, aged about five and a half years, was unfortunately burned to …

 appeared in Canadian Champion, 7 Aug 1873, p. 3     SUICIDE William Heatherington of the village of Kilbride, who has been accustomed to take occasional sprees, committed suicide on Monday afternoon, 4th inst. Although a man of a very kind and mild disposition, he becomes exceedingly cruel and abusive to his wife while under ...

 appeared in Canadian Champion, 28 Aug 1873, p. 3     FATAL ACCIDENT. - Thomas Stevenson, teamster, formerly of Glenwilliams, was killed while loading logs at Glenco mills, Esquesing, on the 20th last. He was lifting a log on the trucks when it fell on him crushing him so that he died in three hours....

 appeared in Canadian Champion, 28 Aug 1873, p. 3     DEATH OF THOMAS YOUNG. - We regret to have to chronicle this week the death of Thomas Young, Esq., merchant, Gerorgetown, which took place on the morning of Friday, 22nd inst. The deceased had been ailing for some time, but a few days before he died typhoid fever made its …

 appeared in Canadian Champion, 28 Aug 1873, p. 3     FATAL ACCIDENT. - Early Friday morning the night watchman of the Great Western Railway found the body of a man beneath the railway bridge at Oakville. It appears that he was a peddler named Joseph Patterson on his way from Hamilton to Oakville and that in attemptong to cross the …

 appeared in Canadian Champion, 21 Aug 1873, p. 3     FATAL ACCIDENT. - A son of Mr. Lutier Cheyne, Meadowvale four years old, a very pomising lad, met with a sad accident last week. It appears that he and his small brothers had been playing, and had gathered some old iron together, and in some way the little fellow fell …

 appeared in Canadian Champion, 11 Dec 1873, p. 1     IN MEMORIAM. Lovingly dedicated by J. W. Narraway to the memory of his only brother, Alfred Harold Narraway, who was lost among the breakers near Cape Hogan, Cape Breton, during the great storm on August 24th, 1878. Thou art gone to the grave, thy dear form is ...

 appeared in Canadian Champion, 13 Nov 1873, p. 2     FATAL ACCIDENT. - On Saturday a boy named Artemus Tanterdini, aged about fifteen years, and his brother accompanied another boy named Thomas Glazier who was hunting for partridges in the bush near the Aca??ay, Georgetown. Glazier's gun accidentally went off, and Tanterdine received the contents ...

 appeared in Canadian Champion, 20 Nov 1873, p. 2     Death of John Coyne, M.P.P. We regret to learn of the death of Mr. John Coyne, M.P.P., for Peel - Mr. Coyne was elected in 1867, and was a supporter of the administration of the late Sandfield Macdonald, by whom he was selected on the opening of the first Parliament …

 appeared in Canadian Champion, 26 Jun 1873, p. 2     ANOTHER FATAL ACCIDENT. - We learn that a young man named Freeman, engaged as porter at the Wellington Square Station, G.W.R., was killed last Monday night in attempting to get upon an engine attached to a freight train, which was due at the Square about ten o'clock. It is said …

 appeared in Canadian Champion, 3 Jul 1873, p. 2     SAD ACCIDENT. - A sad accident occurred to an employee of the Great Western Railway Company at Guelph on June the 27th. About 9 o'clock a timber train was coming south and when passing Super's siding about six miles north of this station, the engine ran off the track. The …