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| | An architect of early Dunchurch - Parry Sound Beacon Star (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17) |
 | | Once the settlers achieved a sufficient degree of prosperity to afford a frame dwelling, however, country homes began to take on a distinctive character reflecting the wants of the householder combined with the training and ideas of the artisans engaged to mastermind their construction. |
 | | Meanwhile, and until John and Annie and their three sons, Robert, Harry and John (a fourth son, Willie, died in early childhood and is buried in Fairholme Cemetery near Dunchurch), all joined the turn-of-the-20th century wave of migration to the West, John continued to build houses. |
 | | When the Scots element around Dunchurch, in 1896, banded together to build a place of Presbyterian worship, it naturally fell to John Burns, one of their number, to mastermind its construction. |
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