国庆日忘怀于Prince Edward County(5):Waupoos小镇的明珠

至目前看,笔者在准备这次Prince Edward County之行时犯了一个小小的错误,景点搜索时只关注了英文,而没有做对应的中文搜寻。无论是Prince Edward Point,还是Mariners Park Museum,其实都不是华人的热点。尽管在Prince Edward Point上我们度过了不错的时光,而Mariners Park Museum让笔者了解到安大略湖的一个秘密,超过2/3沉船竟然发生在Prince Edward Point附近。笔者还是希望有一天有机会去凭吊那些久卧水底的沉船,相信每一艘船都有一个很吸引人的故事的!

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在Mariners Park Museum外围拍了一通照片之后,小孩连车都没有下,只顾躲在车里凉快,我们就遵照GPS指点,往下一个景点Rose House Museum跑。一路上景色十分迷人,但是道路曲折异常,要是驾驶技术不太好的话,估计开得会很累。在Prince Edward County跑了一天下来,应该超过100公里,究竟是农村,感觉大部分路况都是如此。还有一点不同的是,在城市里,道路大部门都是东西向或南北向,而在这里,尽管笔者在出发前查看过地图,也打印出,但基本上搞不清东南西北,全凭GPS指点。

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又开了20来分钟,我们终于到达Rose House Museum,没有想到,这里竟然关门!笔者还真的要呼吁一声,在国庆这一天,全国历史景点应该免费向民众开放。因为民众更好地了解历史,一定会更好地建设加拿大的未来。这个公园其实很简单,估计大家可以从安省历史建筑与景点指示牌介绍可以认识到其历史,也就是说,这里是最早一批德语族群在安省定居并拓展。

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Marysburgh Settlement
Following the American Revolution, Marysburgh Township was established for the settlement of Loyalists and discharged soldiers of regular regiments. Surveyed in 1784 by the Honourable John Collins, Depute Surveyor-General, the township was named in honour of Princess Mary, a daughter of King George III. Among its earliest settlers was a small group of disbanded German mercenaries under Baron von Reitaenstein. By October 1784, this perty, numbering about 40 persons, had settled in this vicinity and begun to clear and cultivate the land. Shortly after, they erected a log chapel just west of here, and were ministered to by Lutheran missionaries. This was one of the earliest German-speaking groups so settle in Ontario.

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如此林荫马路,并不多见

在其官网上,这栋房子被认为是该镇Waupoos的明珠!Rose House建于19世纪初,至今只做了很少的变动,曾经让Rose家族在这里繁衍了好几代。早期Marysburgh的定居者大部分是保皇派(United Empire Loyalist)和在美国革命(American Revolution)为大英帝国打仗的德国(Hessian)士兵。Peter Rose也就是作为首批定居者来到了Prince Edward County。按照传统,Rose House应该是由来自社区原有Lutheran Churcha的打捞木材所建成的。Peter Rose和他的太太Christiana Bongard在这所气派的房子里养育了一个大家庭。至于,House家族的候任今天在何方,估计还需要很多研究了。

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