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About Calvin Eames
DAR Ancestor #: A002195
Note by William Arthur Allen: In 1802 Calvin Eames (later spelled Emes) came from Sudbury, Massachusetts with his family to the south end of Lake Simcoe in the Severn River Watershed which drains to Georgian Bay. At the time the Anishinaabemowin name for the Severn River was Wanantgitcheang, literally the "river which flows in a big arc". Calvin had married Martha Drury in Sudbury, Massachusetts on July 9, 1783 so had been married 19 years by the time he moved his family from Massachusetts to Lake Simcoe. (See media section for marriage listing.)
On May 10, 1812 Calvin was drowned in Lake Simcoe along with his son, daughter, son-in-law and a First Nations person whose name was not recorded. The accident involving the capsized skiff was reported in the Wednesday, May 13, 1812 edition of Upper Canada Gazette.
In 2002 on the 200th anniversary of Calvin's arrival in Upper Canada I published a 31 page paper about the ancient history and archaeology of the Severn River Watershed and dedicated the publication to Calvin Emes. The paper was entitled "Wa-nant-git-che-ang: Canoe Route to Lake Huron through Southern Algonquia". It was published in Ontario Archaeology Number 73, 2002, pages 38 to 68. Ontario Archaeology is the professional journal of the Ontario Archaeological Society. More information, including a copy of the journal article, is available at http://www.ontarioarchaeology.on.ca/ . The acknowledgment of Calvin Emes is at page 59.
- Residence: 1762 - Sudbury, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States
- Reference: FamilySearch Family Tree - SmartCopy: Feb 2 2021, 23:10:58 UTC
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Calvin Eames's Timeline
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February 26, 1762
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Sudbury, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States, Sudbury, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States
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| 1785 |
1785
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Sudbury, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States
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1801
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Canada
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| 1812 |
May 10, 1812
Age 50
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drowned in Lake Simcoe, Ontario, Canada, Ontario, Canada
The March 10, 1812 death by drowning in Lake Simcoe by Calvin Emes was reported in the Upper Canada Gazette of Wednesday, March 13, 1812. The report is the earliest known publication in the Upper Canada Gazette about the Emes family since coming to Upper Canada in 1802 from Sudbury, Massachusetts. According to the Governemnt of Canada (http://gazette.gc.ca/cg-gc/book-livre/pg10-eng.html), following the establishment of the Province of Upper Canada (now Ontario) in 1791, the Upper Canada Gazette was begun at the instigation of John Graves Simcoe, the newly appointed Lieutenant-Governor. It was published for the first time on April 18, 1793, and continued until 1848 or 1849, the exact date of its demise being uncertain. Its status was semi-official in that the printers were appointed by the Government and it published official notices; however, it also contained general news items and sometimes anti-government editorials. The death of Calvin Emes was one such general news item. Following is a reprint of that report from the Wednesday, May 13, 1812 edition. "Last Sunday morning a man of the name of Ames, his son, daughter, son-in-law and an Indian upset in a skiff crossing Cook's Bay and were all unfortunately drowned. The skiff together with a small keg containing some whiskey were taken up in Lake Simcoe. Neither of the bodies have yet been found that we could hear of." The Emes family had close friendships with the Chippewa people of Snake Island in southern Lake Simcoe. Later the Snake Island band moved to Georgina Island where they now are known as Chippewas of Georgina Island First Nation. See http://georginaisland.com/ . That friendship has continued to this date of writing in 2015. |