On January 24, 1872, he married Cecilia Mary E. Parker at Hemmingford Quebec. She was born in December 4, 1844 at Philadelphia Pennsylvania, USA. She died April 10, 1927.

Joseph Williams was a stonemason by trade. He owned and operated lime kilns in the Stonewall quarry in the late 1870’s and well in the 1880’s. He built a bridge and the roundhouse at Selkirk and the culverts for the railroad at La Riviere. Prior to this he built the Victoria bridge on the St. Lawrence River.

Joseph and Cecilia had four children: Harriet A.E., born January 11, 1873 at Hemmingford, Quebec. Addington H.G., born April 27, 1877—who died by accident at the Williams Quarry at Lilyfield on November 1, 1902; Reginald J.C. born on July 8, 1880 and Alfred N., my father, born on April 15, 1882. Both these boys were born at East Selkirk.

Alfred married Anne Riggall on June 7, 1907 at Lilyfield with the Reverend James Lawrence, Presbyterian minister of Lilyfield officiating. Anne was the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Riggall, Sr. They had three children: Neville R., born January 12, 1908, died November 28, 1988; H.C. (Dolly), born at Williams Quarry on January 11, 1909. It was minus 60 degrees Fahrenheit the day Dolly was born—the coldest on record. A. James was born on September 8, 1916. The family was living at the Quarry at the time as Alfred was managing the operation there.

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Surveyor’s Handbook 535 notes: “A rocky or stony ridge transverses this township from the North to South. It is shown on the plan in section 27 and 34. I have no doubt of its being the same formation as the in township 12 – section 21 and 28 – and extends south to the Assiniboine River near St. James Church. Land to the west of the ridge is high and more gravelly; to the east, lower and more alluvial. Stone is quarried on the SW corner and brought to Winnipeg, Manitoba for building, it is a grayish limestone.”

A glimpse into some early government decision-making was reported by the Manitoba Free Press on January 11, 1873. “Persons settled on Stony Mountain will not be sustained in holding homesteads. The authorities hold that the Mountain, being a limestone quarry, comes under the head of mineral lands and is therefore reserved from settlement.” According to the report, that area was to be surveyed into small 5 to 20-acreage lots and sold “by public competition.” On February 1st the federal government decided to put the Stony Mountain Quarries on the public market by public sale in 10 acre lots at the upset price of $1.00 per acre. The early settlers are of 1870 – James Isbister and Neil and Duncan Livingstone – thus lost the acreage they had filed on.

On August 3, 1869, the Manitoba Free Press reported that, “it was proposed to gravel the streets of Winnipeg. Mr Nimmons of Little Stony Mountain can supply gravel. ” In 1877 the newspaper reported that Mr. Nimmons had offered to build a tramway to Winnipeg for delivery of his gravel. On January 25, 1881, again from Free Press: “Mr. Nimmons sold his farm at Little Stony Mountain, 320 acres for $56,000. It lies three miles from city limits, including 40 acres of stone quarry, 20 acres of sand and gravel. W. Brydon and Peter Robinson, purchasers.” Speculation is that the business did not survive the collapse of the Winnipeg boom in 1886 because it was then referred to as the Egan Pit. Egan was contractor of the first stretch of the Winnipeg and Hudson Bay Railroad in 1886, which was called “Sutherland’s Forty”. His family still owned the property in 1898 when the City of Winnipeg built its railway across to get to the city quarry.

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The unending topic about education made several groups become linked with the government and in this case arising concern with the rejected conservative position with their attitude towards the government. The diminish support of the Old Colonist to the government has been seen as a rebellious separation of church and state which it is unfeasible with modern democracy. Yet three points have emphasized:

(1)The Old Colonists were very clear in their conviction that government was of God and therefore to be prayed for, supported, and obeyed as far as was conscientiously possible. Their faith is not laid with the Minister or a particular party but in the government as a whole. The government has a divine duty to keep its promises and to do justice.

(2)If the government was runned in a way different from their religious convictions, these conservatives will used every legal action to right the wrong. Their options included conscientious refusal to comply and as a last resort, emigration (The Roman Catholics had th tencity to fight discrimination legislation in the courts.)

(3)The simple biblicism of the conservatives is clearly reflected in the way they deal with the goverment. Their letters to cabinet ministers are full scripture based. However, they do not reflect sanctimoniousness or surface religiosity, but rather a conviction that their readers would take the biblical inunctions as seriously as they did.

Referrence: A Second Look at the Rejected Conservatives. based on an address presented by Adolf Ens at the Westgate Mennonite Collegiate in Winnipeg, Manitoba (1973)

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Walter Schmiedehaus, the late German consul in Mexico, in his story of the Mennonites in Mexico entitled Ein Feste Burg ist unser Gott, surveys the whole long history of Mennonite migrations: from the Netherlands to Prussia, then to Russia, on to Canada, and from there to Mexico. He points out that in all these migrations we never once had a closed resettlement of the entire Mennonite population of a given area. Always only a portion of the Mennonites packed up and left. And then Schmiedehaus makes this thought-provoking.

Not the term “conservative” describes the key characteristics of those who are most ready to migrate, but rather the term “Glaubensstark”—faithful. And “uncompromising”—but that one is more readily interpreted negatively, just as the term “conservative” is.

Schmiedehaus goes on to philosophize that everything has an end, and that consequently that time will come when the last Mennonite migration will have taken place, when finally there will be more place left in this shrinking world as a place of refuge. The “conservative” Old Colonists, according to Schmiedehaus, have always been “the spearhead of the wandering pioneers of the faith.”

Physically, geographically they—the conservatives have always led the way in Mennonite migrations, sometimes by 50 years. And being physically in the vanguard of migrations has produced in these people or perhaps maintained is the more correct word, the sense of being pilgrims and wanders on the earth. The Old Colonists much more naturally continue to consider faith and conscience, rather than material considerations, as vital in deciding when and whether to move.

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I think it is not unfair criticism to say that we the “enlightened” Mennonites have tended to look down just a bit at those of our brethren whose ideas we felt we could dismiss by calling them “conservative.”– A Second Look at the Rejected Conservative

The so-called conservative travelled to Canada in 1874 while the enlightened ones in Russia were just entering the most prosperous half century. They moved to Mexico when the peace with the national school system was settled in Russia. They left Canada because of its intolerance, just when the rest of the Mennonites are coming into  Canada for a piece of liberty and to dodge the oppressed state back in Communist Russia.

The people continue to look down the conservatives when they got back from Mexico to Manitoba. Moreover, when they explore Bolivia or British Honduras as if they are trying to run from the world. Coming and going to different places across America.

To figure out the kind of attitude these conservatives have, it is somewhat helpful and essential to interpret the history of these conservatives from the inside; to see their past as they themselves tend to see it, and to see the rest of society, the world, as they tend to see it and the rest of the people around them.

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