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Show A Bit of "Old" Canada. There exists at TJnlonville, Ontario, a pioneer house 124 years old. This is probably a unique record for a Canadian Ca-nadian log house, and it is said to be the oldest log house, of similar dimensions dimen-sions in the Dominion. Some of the logs are from 30 to 36 inches in diameter. diam-eter. It Is still occupied, and it is interesting in-teresting to note, as a testimony to the comfort of the house, that its occupants, occu-pants, numbering 13, took first prize in 1912 at a political picnic as the "heaviest family attending the event." |