Going South to Hamilton /Sept.1864
Wild Turkeys on the road south from Orangeville. On the walk that John Muir did in the late summer and into the Autumn of 1864, we know from letters that he sent home to Wisconsin that he was on his way down to Dundas to meet his brother Daniel. This brother had already been living in Ontario for a year since he too was avoiding the Civil War draft. What I could discern from the way that the plant specimens were collected was that Muir had done his first major saunter starting in May. He had gone west from Bradford and over a three week period apparently made it as far west as Luther Marsh which was then called Luther Woods. Muir then returned to Bradford and was there until late August. I can imagine since he was a "farm boy" that he came back to help out with the harvest at the Campbell farm. Arthur Campbell the father had died a decade earlier so Muir would have been a great asset to this struggling pioneer family. The view from the Dundas Train Station. Dundas ...