straw or feather ticks. Houses were banked with clay or seaweed and outside windows and storm doors were put on each fall to hold in the heat. The banking, windows, and doors were removed each spring, and the stove pipe was dismantled to receive a thorough inspection and cleaning.

Every residence had an outhouse. Depending on the size and prosperity of the family, the outhouse had either one, two, three, or four holes. The outhouse was placed close enough to the house for convenience but far enough away to avoid any odour. Lime was used as a deodorant and catalogues, Holman’s and later Eaton’s and Simp- son’s, provided both reading and wiping material. Bedrooms usually had a chamber pot placed under each bed for night time emergencies and for use during the cold winter months. The first child to use the chamber pot on a cold winter morning had the added thrill of breaking the ice! One of the morning chores, along with making the bed, dust mopping the floor, and shaking the mats, was emptying the chamber

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The community of Tryon River (now Tryon) was settled by the immigrants who arrived in 1769. These families, with names such as Holland, Gouldmp, Foy, Lea, Leard, Mautarde (Muttaxt), Pollard, Wright and Warren settled on the land cleared by the Acadian families. The Tryon River branched at Tryon, and it was not until a bridge was built to span the river at the Aboiteau that the settlers gradually moved up the river toward North West Tryon (now called North Tryon).13 first Immigrants to settle on the northwest branch of the Tryon River included those named Callbeck, Dawson, DeLaney, Ives, Leard, LeFur— gey, Lord, MacWilliams, Muirhead, Pooley, Thomson and Wood. Most