I hope Andy and Lou are there.

Yeah, it IS a real place. I actually grew up there - (1961 to 1977) Was a tiny village then, about 300 people - haven't been back for decades

I still live there. Have since 1988. I guess I spent my whole life in Little Britain. Still about 300 people. No one believes me when I tell them about it. That is a real old sign.

I have lived in Little Britain for the last seven years and nothing has changed except maybe the grocery store name and the gas station name. There is 400 people in the big town now!

Ya I lived there when I was born. I lived there since I was 10 yrs, then moved. Great town.

L.B. is awsome. Iwas born and raised there. Played hockey at the Arena, fished under the bridge and hung out on the stairs on the corner (was then the movie rental place). I left in 1998 and now live in Sweden.

My granparents had a farm near Little Britain that I spent all my summer's at, close to Cresswell Church. I remember going to a store called "Kacey's" in the 70's, is it still there?

No. Jim Casey sold the store in the late 90's and moved to Trenton. I still have contact with his youngest step son. The town just isn't the same.

Does anyone know Dr. David Fleming Stirling, DVM? He grew up in L.B. Recently, I learned of his untimely death and wondered if anyone would mind talking to me about it.

I attended the university of Guelph with Dave, 1984-'89; he graduated in '92. Our group spent many happy times sifting through reading week, letting off steam at frat parties where Dave was always the most fun, etc. He had a medium-to-small black pup named, "Plato." I understand he moved to Vancouver in '95, married his bride Diane, and had a daughter Ursula.

Though Little Brit is not a booming metropolis, it produced one of the finest people I have ever known. Dave scored 100% on Dr. Joe Prokipcek's "Killer Chem" class, for example, an impossible feet for anyone who knows of this 'weeder' course. He made us all laugh often, heartily, and gave us a reason to forget our troubles during the more stressful times akin to university life.

I hope he will be remembered by the 400 or so people of Little Britain forever.

James

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I am hopeful that there is someone in Little Britain who knew Dr. David Fleming Stirling, DVM. I learned of his untimely death recently and hope someone has any information. He was a good friend to me during the university of Guelph years and it is shocking to learn that he is gone.

Thank you for you attention into this unfortunate happening.

Kind regards,

James D. Jardine, B.Sc. (H.K.), D.Ac., DHMed., Applied Kinesiologist

my mom..grew up in little britain... Marie Heatlie..in the 30's.. living in toronto... still lots of visits... own corner store back then!

Nice to see someone else knows about Little Britain...............Sports Capital of the Kawarthas. I was born and raised there. 1961 to 1987. I haven't been back home in almost 17 years. It is funny how the two schools I went to were made into houses or apartments. As a teenager. Sports-a-rama weekend was the big party weekend.

We are thinking of renting a house in Little Britain......can anyone tell me what exactly the town has available? What I mean is will I be running to Lindsay to grocery shop, bank, and for kids spoorts? We have a 5 year old son that we would like in hockey, where do we go for that? And swimming lessons etc. Is there a daycare in Little Britain - we also have an 8 month old and I do plan on going back to work so we will need childcare hopefully close by.

Any info on the town would be much appreciated as we are in Alberta.

Also the house is located at Ramsey Road, East of Marquis Corner (East of where the chip truck is at Simcoe and Ramsey Rd). How far out of town is that???

Thanks so much
Angela

I was born in L.B. 27 mar 31. Lived on the main street, and we rented a house from Mr. Kennedy, next door to rhe Moores and acroos the street from Mr. Prosser and the Chidleys..The corner store and post office was owned by Mr. Gord. I knew John and Bill well, Also the Chidley boys. Doris Kennedy was the best looking girl in town. My brother Lance and some of the older boys damned the creek about a mile upstream from town, for a swimming hole. Have many good memories of the village. Will be going there for a visit in the spring of 09. Better get at it, as I'm nearly 78. Live in Comox B.C. now, but that village will always be home.

What is the name of the grocery store in Little Britain? Do they deliver? Anybody have their telephone number?

Many thanks

Angela

Hi there....My wife and I are in the New Market area but would love to move to a smaller town....have visited L.B. and we love it. Does anyone know if the town will be getting a family doctor any time soon? Is there a big waiting list to see a family doctor in the area? Many thanks for the info.

We lived in a small village called Cresswell about 15 miles or so from LB for a couple of years in the late '60's. We came from toronto I remember how shocked I was at how backward and primitive the schools were. I remember that I had to go to school in a actually functioning one-room school house called "Station" school for the kids in grades 2 and 3. There was no plumbing in the school and drinking water was brought in each morning in a large beige ceramic container from a sulphur water source which stunk like eggs. We had to use pointed-bottom paper cups to drink from. The bathrooms were merely outhouse-type places at the back in the school itself which always stunk and the desks where wrought iron and wood and screwed to the floor --straight out of the 1900's. The only modern item was electricity. The teacher was an elderly woman called Miss Graham and she used to ring us back into class after recesses with a hand bell. Garbage was burned each day in an old oil barrel in the back of the school yard. If you wanted the teacher's attention you didn't just put up your hand, the kids there had gotten into this weird habit of whipping there arms quickly in a motion similar to throwing a ball overhand. It was very, very weird! All other grades except 7 and 8 were in the 4-classroom Little Britain Public School which was so old it had separate girls and boys entrances which was strickly enforced to that day (boys were forbidden to use the girls door). Grades 7 and 8 had to go to yet another one room schoolhouse called Ramsey. When we moved back to Toronto after a couple of years, I remember our education was so backward in the two years that my sisters and I had to take extra classes to catch up to the level of the kids in the same grade in the Toronto school system. Oh god, I could write a book about that place. I remember a Red and White Food store (that was the company's name). I was told they were bought out by IGA.

My father John aged 8 camr from England with his parents and 2 brothers in 1871. I am wondering if there are any Jeffery still in the area j1671@telus.net

LB is great an amazing area, we bought a house here about 2yrs ago came from Oshawa, Its definatly a lifestyle change espically after being in teh city for over 25yrs, but well worth it. I am currently trying to open my own home daycare, we live in a little subdivision, definatly TONS of kids in the area and great schools. Would highly recommend the area, not far from linday uxbridge or other small towns and only about an hour drive to newmarket.

Nice small community great ppl and LOTS or quite, to me its like being at the cottage all the time!!

Little Britain is a great rural community and has produced some very talented people who have done extremely well in spite of "humble beginnings". It has been home to some wonderful people, including my late Mother, Isabelle Glassford, who taught school over a period of 40 years in the area. LB has always been a fierce sports town and I can remember some cliff-hanger ball games between Valentia and Little Britain.

Although the face of some stores has changed there were businesses that were fixtures for years as reflected in these ads printed in 1939 which might trigger some fond memories to those who are still connected to LB. No cell phone numbers, no e-mail contacts just "Phone 80 W" or "48 r 22".

Palmer's Poultry (Cyril Palmer); Decorator/Painter (John Griggs); Superior Stores (George A. Heatlie);
Kitson's Meat Market; Drs. Hall & Hall, Physicians & Surgeons; Red & White Stores (M. A. Goard - General Merchant) ; Electrical Contractor (A. L. Tremeer); The Canadian Bank of Commerce ( W. R. Belt Manager); Mutual Life Assurance Co. (F. S.Chidley); Master Feeds (Wilfred Kitson)

Marie Doidge (my Mom) as per above note.. her father George Heatlie owned Superior Stores...recently passed away suddenly in the beginning of April/09

we are moving to LB in Jan and I have two boys 4 and 5 and I am looking for daycare. Does anyone know of any in the area besides the one attched to Dr. George Hall PS? My boys will be on the bus route to Mariposa school. I am only looking for Thurs./Fri. daycare.

we are moving to LB in Jan and I have two boys 4 and 5 and I am looking for daycare. Does anyone know of any in the area besides the one attched to Dr. George Hall PS? My boys will be on the bus route to Mariposa school. I am only looking for Thurs./Fri. daycare.

Every time we visit Little Britain to see our aunt we're amazed at the charm and quaint lifestyle that has been kept alive despite the bustling cities not far away. Maybe we'll have to make a second trip this year!

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In about 1852 John Olde Parsons moved to Mariposa, from Bude/Stratton, Cornwall. Amazinly on google streetview I can "drive" right past a farmhouse he and Mary rented for 2 years, 1 mile southeast of Stratton. Most of his descendants moved to Michigan, but some moved to Manitoba.

We did our family tree book back in 1967 as a centennial project.

It has a picture of the gravestone on the parsons site in mariposa.

google drives right past.

as well as thru little britain.

But wouldn't know if any of the pix that you can see on your computer right now with google earth, are related.

I guess we were leavers!

today a search only turns up an edwin and a d. parsons in little britain.

Hello all I am trying fo find an old friend that I havent talked to in about 25 years, I think his family owned the IGA. His name is Matt Casey if anyone has an email for him that would be great
Thanks
Rob
rhagerman@habitatpeterborough.ca