{"id":15683,"date":"2024-06-05T09:47:08","date_gmt":"2024-06-05T13:47:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dunany.ca\/?p=15683"},"modified":"2024-06-05T09:53:37","modified_gmt":"2024-06-05T13:53:37","slug":"celebrating-eleanor-hammonds-100th-birthday-and-her-legacy-a-history-of-dunany","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dunany.ca\/en\/celebrating-eleanor-hammonds-100th-birthday-and-her-legacy-a-history-of-dunany\/15683","title":{"rendered":"Celebrating Eleanor Hammond’s 100th Birthday and her Legacy: A History of Dunany."},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Eleanor Hammond, a longtime summer resident of Dunany, celebrates her 100th birthday this month.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When her daughter Judy contacted me about this wonderful event, I asked her to write a short bio of her illustrious mother and to describe how she became Dunany’s historian in chief and produced the book which was a five year effort on her part. Most of what you will read here is hers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Eleanor Hammond early years<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n

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Born in Montreal on June 30, 1924, Eleanor was the eldest child in her family. She attended Edgehill School for Girls in Windsor, Nova Scotia, where she won the Nova Scotia Lieutenant Governor\u2019s Award for the highest marks. Many years later, after her children were born, Eleanor went back to school and graduated from McGill University with her Masters in Education.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the early 1960s, Eleanor, husband Dayton, and family began spending their summers in Dunany. Eleanor first heard of the little cottage community from her dad. Originally from Edinburgh, he played at the Dunany Country Club in 1934 with the Scottish Schoolboys Club of Montreal. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Hammonds first rented George Stein\u2019s cottage on Clear Lake. Back in the early sixties, it was owned by Mrs. MacVicar who lived in the old MacVicar farmhouse on Macdougall Road. Later, the Hammonds purchased the little Cantley cottage at the end of Curran Lake but it was too difficult for daughter, Sally, to access because of her cerebral palsy, so when the Stacey cottage on Clear Lake came up for sale, Eleanor grabbed it. <\/p>\n\n\n

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How a History of Dunany was born<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Not one to sit around, when Eleanor retired from teaching in the early 1980s, she looked for a retirement project to keep her busy. That\u2019s when she became the family genealogist. Long before the internet and Ancestry<\/a>, Eleanor spent hours pouring over records in libraries and churches in Canada, the US, and the UK. It was this genealogy work along with Dayton\u2019s role as St. Paul\u2019s cemetery warden that first got Eleanor interested in the history of the Dunany community. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 1986 she began working on a book. Five years later, A History of Dunany<\/em>, was published. <\/p>\n\n\n

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So many people in Dunany helped make Eleanor’s book possible but two in particular were Dunany\u2019s former “mayor”, golf superintendent, and cottage builder, Clarence Neill, and longtime resident, Dorothy Gauley. Clarence, because of his many roles in Dunany, shared all kinds of wonderful anecdotes with my mom and Dorothy generously shared notes she and husband Tolbert had kept with a view of compiling a history. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Many cottage families of the time are also in her book, and to capture early memories, she also took trips around each of the four lakes with lake residents; Don Sutherland Sr of Boyd Lake, Hugh McCracken of Clear Lake, Madeleine Leslie of Black Lake and Phyllis Moore of Curran Lake. Most of these family names are still familiar in Dunany 34 years later. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Daughters Judy and Sally, are planning a 100th birthday party for Eleanor in Brockville. If you would like to send Eleanor a 100th birthday greeting , she would be tickled pink to hear from you. Here is her address:<\/p>\n\n\n

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Happy Birthday<\/em> Eleanor!<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

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Eleanor Hammond<\/p>\n\n\n\n

St Lawrence Lodge<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1803 County Road 2 East<\/p>\n\n\n\n

c\/o Cedar Lodge, Rm 3335<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Brockville, ON K6V 5T1<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dear Eleanor: on behalf of all the residents of Dunany, let me say how grateful we are for your exceptional contribution to our community.
We wish you all many more years of love and happiness.<\/p><\/blockquote><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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Unfortunately, the book is out of print. If you are a recent arrival, contact a long time resident and ask to borrow the book as I suspect most of them have a copy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Finally, a little pearl from the book: did you know the Clear lake was initially called lake Bouchette? <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 1829, Joseph Bouchette<\/a>, Surveyor General of Lower Canada, gave his name to what is now Clear Lake saying “Its waters are as clear as a diamond and afford abundance of of fine salmon trout”.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Amen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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