Charles Scott

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• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-417874

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• Occupation: Dundas, West Flamborough Twp., Wentworth Co., Ontario, Canada; foundry worker - Gartshore's Foundry
• Eby ID Number: 00032-2796.2
• Immigration: 1834, Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada
• Occupation: 1851, Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Millwright
• Residence: 1851, Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Presbyterian
• Residence: 1861, North Dumfries Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Farmer
• Residence: 1861, North Dumfries Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; United Presbyterian
• Occupation: 1871, North Dumfries Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Farmer
• Residence: 1871, North Dumfries Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; C. Presbyterian
• Occupation: 1881, North Dumfries Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Farmer
• Residence: 1881, North Dumfries Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Presbyterian Canada

Andrew — Christina Clark. Christina was born 1835, , Scotland; died 5 Aug 1918, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada; was buried , Mount View Cemetery, Cambridge, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet]

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• Name: Christina Scott
• Eby ID Number: 00032-2796.3
• Residence: 1851, Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Presbyterian
• Residence: 1861, North Dumfries Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; United Presbyterian
• Residence: 1871, North Dumfries Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; C. Presbyterian
• Residence: 1881, North Dumfries Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Presbyterian Canada

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• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-93366
• Immigration: 1834, Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada
• Immigration: 1834, , Canada

Notes:

A FEARFUL CALAMITY (fever epidemic of Galt in 1834)

Out of a clear sky, the most terrible calamity which ever befell the locality came swiftly and fatally down upon its ill-fated inhabitants.

Amusements in the nature of travelling companies were then almost unknown in the new settlements of Upper Canada, and the announcement that a menagerie of wild beasts would exhibit in Galt on the 28th July, caused universal interest far and near. For nearly twenty miles around, the coming exhibition was talked about, until it became the topic of absorbing interest.

When the day arrived, there was - considering the circumstances - a large attendance, people coming from Waterloo, Beverly, Woolwich, Blenheim, and other places more distant than could have been attracted by anything less exciting than a menagerie was in those early times. The day proved intensely warm, in fact a regular " scorcher," and from all accounts, the collection of wild animals was meagre, and the dens and their occupants extremely filthy. The odor was so marked as to detract seriously from the comfort of the audience, and the entertainment was hardly over, when rumours began to prevail, that the company had brought the much-dreaded disease of cholera with them to the village.

The report first arose from the illness of one of the showmen. He had been brought to the village a day or two before the menagerie arrived, and fears that his complaint was cholera ....

His fears, unfortunately, proved too true. That frightful plague, in its worst form, had been introduced by the menagerie, and already the seeds of death were developing in many of those who had attended the fatal entertainment.

The exhibition took place on Monday, and by Wednesday night and Thursday, the cholera was raging with almost unparalleled malignity and fatality. The harrowing scenes which occurred can never be erased from the memories of those who passed through them. The agony of the stricken, the swiftness of death, the rude board coffins and the hasty burials - in some cases within a few minutes after the last breath was drawn - turned the recently hopeful village into a very charnel-house, from which many fled in despair, whilst all but a few were paralysed with fear. ...

Mr. Strang's church was stripped of its temporary board seats, and turned into a hospital, where as many as possible of those attacked were taken. Dr. Miller was soon overdone with work, and at his solicitation, one Dr. McQuarrie came to Galt and rendered good service. Most valuable assistance was also given by Dr. John Scott, then a young man of about twenty-one years of age, who, with his father and other members of his family, had fortunately arrived from Roxboroughshire, Scotland, about ten days previously. He was a brother of Mr. Andrew Scott, of Galt, and afterwards became widely known in Berlin as a skilful practitioner and public-spirited citizen.

Dr. Scott was one of the most fearless of the little band who fought the cholera inch by inch, with their lives in their hands, until it finally disappeared....


Reminiscenses of the Early History of Galt

Charles — Margaret Douglas. Margaret was born 1790, , Roxburghshire, Scotland; died 9 Feb 1879, Blenheim Twp., Oxford Co., Ontario, Canada; was buried , Chesterfield United Cemetery, Chesterfield, Oxford Co., Ontario. [Group Sheet]

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• Name: Margaret Douglass
• Name: Margaret Scott
• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-10389
• Immigration: 1834, , Canada

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Margaret Douglass Scott - In the township of Blenheim, on Saturday, the 9^th inst., at the residence of her son-in-law, Mr. Robert Patton, near Plattsville, Margaret Douglass, relict of the late Charles Scott and mother of Mr. Andrew Scott, of Galt, and of the late Dr. John Scott, of Berlin, aged 88 years. Deceased was a native of Roxboroughshire, Scotland, and with her husband and family came to Galt in 1834, the dread year of the cholera. Dr. John Scott, her son, was then a young man of about twenty-one, perhaps barely licensed as a Doctor, and the services he rendered the panic stricken people of this little hamlet of Galt in those days, will never be forgotten by those who yet live and were witnesses of his efforts. "Strang's" church, of those days was just finished, and the temporary seats, hewed logs, were removed and the church turned into a hospital and there young Scott, with a few whose courage had not failed them, administered to those who were stricken, fighting the dread disease until its end and final disappearance. In the fall of 1834, the family removed to the section in Blenheim where the deceased continued to reside until her death. At that time it was an unbroken wilderness, and looking at it now, a perfect garden, with substantial homesteads, and every comfort of life, one fails far in realizing the courage of the early settlers in entering it, or the patience and endurance they evinced in the life they had chosen. Mr. Scott, Sr., died in 1845, and the family having become somewhat broken up, Dr. Scott having begun the practice of his profession in Berlin, and Mr. Andrew Scott, of Galt, having gone to Mr. John Gartshore's Foundry, in Dundas to learn the trade of a millwright, the other members of the family carried on the farm for a time, Mrs. Scott ultimately taking up her residence with her son-in-law, Mr. Robert Patton, with whom she resided up to the time of her death. Rev'd. Mr. Robinson, of Chesterfield, conducted the funeral services, and in the course of his remarks adverted to the features of the family life, and adding his testimony to the record left by it.

Galt Reporter - 14 Feb 1879, page 3