Giants of Oxford
Men and Women Who Changed Our World

by Doug M. Symons
 
Paperback, 5.5 by 8.5 inch, 104 pages
published by Oxford Historical Society,
$10.95
 
Stories of twenty-nine of the men and women from Oxford County who left their mark. Such as:
  • John Bain, born on Chapel Street, Woodstock, founded a wagon company that by 1900 produced 10,000 wagons a year, many of them ambulances for the Boer War in South Africa
  • Evelyn Ashton Fletcher, born in 1872, a year before her father became mayor of Woodstock. After studying then teaching music, she developed a new way of teaching it to children: the Fletcher Music Method, still used by some teachers up to 1979
  • Thomas Kearns: a miner who became a United States Senator
  • George Leslie Mackay trained as a priest, then went to Taiwan as a missionary, medical care-giver. Still revered a century later by the Taiwanese, he is barely known in Canada.
  • Andrew Pattulo: from 1880, owner, manager, editor of Sentinel-Review; a president of The Canadian Press; Liberal MLA for N. Oxford, et als
  • Emily H. Stowe: teacher, feminist, one of Canada's first women doctors