Henry Aldous

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This locality appears to have always had a weakness for theatricals, for an organization under the modest title of the "Galt Thespian Amateurs" was effected during the summer of 1843, and broke out into open performance towards the fall months. The chief Thespians were Messrs John Dodds, James Allen, John Scott, Dominick Ramore, Henry Smith, James Smith, Archibald Buchanan, Wm. Snow, Wm. Hearle, Jesse Thornton, Henry Aldous, and Washington Wood. These gentlemen took the different characters in the plays, Mr. John McAuslan acted as prompter, and the orchestra, and a capital one it was, was composed of Messrs. Glennie, Pembroke, and Wilsden, who will be remembered by those with good memories, as most excellent musicians.

The Thespians played in the old Firemen's Hall, and invariably to crowded houses. Among the plays they presented were : The Castle Spectre, with Strap, the Cobbler, as an after-piece; next came The Mountaineers, with the farce of The Devil among the Crockery, the very name of which threw the garcons of the village into a state of excited interest; and then followed The Secret Panel, The scenery was well painted. Mr. Glennie, who had accommodated the pioneer company six or seven years before, furnished a library, grove, and kitchen scene. The drop curtain was painted by one Telfer, and was an elaborate affair, consisting of a well executed picture of Edinburgh Castle, with a dragoon on a black charger in the foreground, below the towering castle walls....

Reminiscences of the Early History of Galt and the Settlement of Dumfries in the Province of Ontario, by James Young, 1880 Toronto: Hunter, Rose

Henry — Laura Ann Barraclough. Laura (daughter of Jonathan B. "John" Barraclough and Phebe Draper) was born 1828, , Ontario, Canada; died 14 Feb 1862; was buried , Trinity Anglican Cemetery, Cambridge, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet]