What do you do when you think you are not being treated fairly by the powers that be? You cheat your way into a better deal, of course! Or at least that is what some of the citizens of the fledgling town of Collingwood decided to do when they felt they were not getting fair play. Can two wrongs make a right? Join us in this episode to find out. Finally, we let you know of a series of four videos coming from the Museum just in time for Halloween ... Stories of Unsettling Lore ... from Collingwood’s past. And the haunting story Ken will share as part of that series is directly tied into our next podcast episode, so don’t miss it.  You can find all our Stories of Unsettling Lore on our Face book page in the last two weeks of October. Go to facebook.com/collingwoodmuseum ... if you dare!

Episode Picture:

W.B. Hamilton, First Mayor of Collingwood. [Collingwood Museum Collection X976.545.1]

Research:

Barbara Arp, ed., Reflections An Historical Anthology of Collingwood (Collingwood: The Corporation of the Town of Collingwood, 1983), 10-11.

Cotton, Larry. Whiskey and Wickedness, vol. 4, Town of Collingwood, Angus, Stayner, Creemore, Wasaga Beach and Clearview Township, Ontario 1830 to 1900. (Deep River: Larry D. Cotton Associates Limited, 2005), 86.