Giants of Oxford Men and Women Who Changed Our World

Stories of twenty-nine of the men and women from Oxford County who left their mark.

Stories include:

• John Bain: born on Chapel Street, Woodstock, founded a wagon company that by 1900 produced 10,000 wagons a year, many of them ambulances for the Boer War in South Africa
• Evelyn Ashton Fletcher: born in 1872, a year before her father became mayor of Woodstock. After studying then teaching music, she developed a new way of teaching it to children: the Fletcher Music Method, still used by some teachers up to 1979
• Thomas Kearns: a miner who became a United States Senator
• George Leslie Mackay: trained as a priest, then went to Taiwan as a missionary, medical care-giver. Still revered a century later by the Taiwanese, he is barely known in Canada.
• Andrew Pattulo: from 1880, owner, manager, editor of Sentinel-Review; a president of The Canadian Press; Liberal MLA for N. Oxford, et als
• Emily H. Stowe: teacher, feminist, one of Canada’s first women doctors

About the book:

• By Doug M. Symons
• Paperback
• 104 pages
  
• Published by Oxford Historical Society