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The Secord family settled in Barton township, county of Wentworth, Ontario. The Secord family was connected by marriage with the Powell and Miles families.

The Mills was a Peterborough family which found itself on two sides of the Atlantic, separated as a result of World War II. Bartlett Thomas Mills (1870-1939) and Matilda "Tilly" Hooper Mills (1876-1975) were born in Pontypridd, southern Wales. They emigrated to Canada, settling in Peterborough around 1911. Bartlett Mills worked as a painter/decorator in Peterborough, specializing in marbelling and graining. He died suddenly in October 1939. Matilida Mills returned to Wales for a short visit just prior to the Second World War, (her children: Ethel, Vivian, Arthur, Alfred, Lillian and Gladys remained in Peterborough). Once war was declared Matilda Mills was not allowed to make a return voyage since all ships were taken for the war effort. After the War she returned to Peterborough and remained in the City for the rest of her life. Her daughter Ethel Mills (b. 1911) married Harold Lancaster, August 26, 1944. They lived on his farm in Otonabee Township. Ethel Mills Lancaster worked as deputy registrar and court clerk for the Peterborough County Court for some 41 years until she retired in 1976.

Daniel Lizars, a printer and a publisher, emigrated to Upper Canada in 1833 from Edinburgh, Scotland. He settled in Goderich and brought with him, or subsequently had sent out, a substantial library of more than 700 books, many of which are connected with the Lizars family as printers, engravers and publishers. Of the many reasons for Daniel's emigration to Canada, economics was a major factor. The library that the Lizars family created was valuable to both the family and to friends and neighbors, as its contents were loaned out frequent.

Esther Dorsky (Dorskaya) emigrated from Russia in 1926. She was unmarried and probably came to Ottawa as she had a cousin in the Evenchick family who lived here. Archie Goldfield emigrated from Elizabetgrad, Kherson, Russia in 1899 with his parents, Myer and Annie, two brothers, Ben and Charles and a sister, Pearl, and grandmother, Pearl Goldfield. Esther and Archie were married on April l, l928 by Rabbi Jacob Mirsky. Archie operated a butcher shop, initially with his father and then his brother Charles. When the business was moved from Bank Street to the By-Ward market, Charles moved into the drover side of cattle and Archie continued the butcher shop. Esther and Archie had no children, and she always worked in their shop. While Archie was a quiet man, he was both well-known and active in the Jewish community. Charles’s sons, Morley and Jack Goldfield, worked in their uncle’s store on Saturdays and holidays in the 1940's. The shop, on Murray Street near Anglesea Square, sold among other products, hot dogs and smoked meats. They always had a stand at the annual Ottawa Exhibition. Charles’s wife Eva operated the Ottawa Kosher Catering Service until her sudden death in 1957. She was the only Jewish caterer in Ottawa for much of the time she was in business.

William Proudfoot (1788-1851), and his son John J.A. Proudfoot (1821-1903) were both Presbyterian ministers in the London, Ontario area. William Proudfoot was raised in Scotland, and received his education in Arts and later Theology at the University of Edinburgh, before being licensed to preach by the Presbytery of Edinburgh in 1812. He was called to minister at Pitrodie, Scotland, and remained there until 1832. On August 27th, 1832, he was sent to Upper Canada by the United Associate Synod of the Secession Church in Scotland. Upon arriving in Canada, he settled in London, Ontario and extended his missionary labours across south-western Ontario. He also founded Divinity Hall in London, in 1844, and taught philosophy, classics and theology. J.J.A. Proudfoot (1821-1903) was born in Pitrodie, Scotland, and came to Upper Canada as a teenager with his father. He graduated from Divinity Hall in 1848 and was ordained and inducted as minister to the congregation of Downie and Blanchard, near London, Ontario. He remained in this charge until 1852, when he was called as minister to First Presbyterian Church, London, where his father had been minister before him. In 1867 he began lecturing at Knox College, Toronto, in homiletics and pastoral theology, and later in Church government. He lectured at Knox College until his retirement in 1901, and passed away in 1903.