Peterborough, Ontario, Canada, City Hallowed in Centennial Fame, Remember You and Your Famous Name

By Madame Daphne Jane Rogers Molson

Madame Daphne Jane Rogers Molson is a Canadian, membered, International Who's Who Golden Poet, awarded laureate graduate, of American multibillionaire, Howard Ely, Editor and Owner of Waternark Press. Since 1997, Howard's International Library of Poetry anthologies, America In The Millennium, The Colors of Life, The Best Poems and Poets, The International Who's Who In Poetry, Poetry.com, The Sound of Poetry tapes, discs, electronic collections, and the International Society of Poets Conventions and Symposiums have acclaimed Daphne's evocative, meaningful, wittingly woven humour, satire, war and peace pathos, peace and prayer asking, prose, and human loving, inspiring poems. Xlibris published With Love To Humanity and Madame Daphne Jane Rogers Molson in 2011 to BEA, America's yearly book exhibition, held in New York City, then to Chicago, then to Canadian and American cities television, newspaper, and radio medias. Former Presidents, Barack Obama and William Clinton thanked Daph for A New Millennium Address To Humanity. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and House of Commons MP, Maryam Monsef congratulated her poetry works. Canada Council for the Arts, Ontario Arts Council, Trillium Foundation, EC3, Chapters, Indigo, Trent University, The Poetry Institute of Canada, Canadian Authors Association, Canadian Writers Summit, Amazon, Kindle, Xlibris and others sponsor and sell Daph's books. Her famous city, Rogers and Molson relatives, friends, and their profit making of wealth, business, industry, culture, art, and Daph's are the essence of this book.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris US
• Release date: Jun 30, 2021
• ISBN: 9781664180192

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CONTENTS

Acknowledgement of Thanks

About The Author, Madame Daphne Jane Rogers Molson

Dedication

1. Peterborough, Ontario, Canada

2. Historical Facts about Peterborough, Ontario, Canada

3. An Image of the Peterborough Lift Lock, Lock 21 of Trent-Severn Waterway, Hydraulic World Wonder Hallowed in Centennial Fame

4. The Peterborough Lift Lock, Lock 21 of Trent-Severn Waterway, Hydraulic World Wonder Hallowed in Centennial Fame

5. Centennial Celebration Poem for the Famous Hydraulic World Wonder, the Peterborough Lift Lock, Lock 21 of Trent-Severn Waterway

6. Centennial Address for Trent-Severn Waterway

7. The Lock Systems of Trent-Severn Waterway, Locks 1 to 45

8. Historical Facts about the Rogers Family and Rogers Family Images

9. Biography of Daphne’s Early Home Life, Who Influenced Her to Become Anyone, to Create Poetry, Music, Art, and Be the Way She Is, a Patriot of Canada

10. Autobiography of Daphne’s Performed Piano Arts, Compositions, Other Arts Events, with Her Artist Friends between 1985 and 2020

11. Autobiography of Daphne As an Exhibiting, Drawing, Painting, Photographing Artist Member of Kawartha Artists Gallery and Studio

12. Autobiography of Daphne As a Poet, Laureate, and Author, Her International Acclaim from 1995 to 2021 by an American Billionaire, Howard Ely, Owner and Editor of Watermark Press, the International Library of Poetry and Poetry.com, Other American and Canadian Publishers’ Acclaim, and XLibris, Author Solutions Showcasings

13. Stephen P. H. Butler Leacock’s Life, Sir Henry Mill Pellatt and the Rogers Family, Remembrances of CAA-Membered Literary Giants, Robertson Davies and Margaret Atwood, the Canadian Authors Association, and Daphne’s Remembrances

14. Wishes for a Canadian and American Author’s New Millennium Dynasty

Acknowledgement of Thanks

I would like to acknowledge and thank the following for help in making this book.

Xlibris, 1666 Liberty Drive, Bloomington, Indiana, 47403, USA, and its staff members,

Sheila Legaspi, XLibris Author Services Representative

Michelle Postrano, XLibris Assistant Manager, Production

Shanette Barlow, Xlibris Submission Representative

Emman Villaran, Xlibris Manuscript Services Representative

Donna Carlson, Xlibris Submission Representative

Shannon Boris, Xlibris Submission Representative

Rae Dawson, Xlibris Advisor

Jack Desert, Xlibris Senior Marketing Director

Erin Cohen, Publishing Consultant, AuthorHouse Publishing, Bloomington, IN 47403

Robert J. Rogers, U.E., whose book Rising Above Circumstances (Sheltus & Picard 1998) provided valuable information about the history of the Rogers family to the end of the 18th century.

Howard Ely, Owner of Watermark Press

The International Who’s Who In Poetry, Los Angeles. CA, USA

Noble House Publishers Poetry Division, New York City, New York, USA

Eber and Wein Publishers, New Freedom, Pennsylvania, USA

World Poetry Movement, Park City, Utah, USA

Great Poets Across America, A Celebration of National Poetry, USA

The Poetry Institute of America, Victoria, B, C., Canada

Richard Lowery, Executive Director of Canadian Authors Association, Peterborough Branch

Justin Trudeau, the Prime Minister of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Maryam Monsef, House of Commons MP, Liberal MPP for Peterborough, Ontario, Canada

Peterborough Public Library Staff, 345 Aylmer Street, Peterborough, Ontario

Su Ditta, Executive Director of Electric City Culture Council, Peterborough, Ontario

Bill Kimball, Director of Public Energy, President of EC3, Peterborough, Ontario

Jon Lockyer, Director of Artspace Art Gallery, 378 Aylmer Street, Peterborough, Ontario

Bec Groves, Curator of Artspace Art Gallery, 378 Aylmer Street, Peterborough, Ontario

Victoria Blakeney, Associate Curator for Public Energy, Peterborough, Ontario

Laurel Paluck, Multi-Disciplinary Artist, Teacher at The Art Gallery, Peterborough, Ontario

Celeste Scopelites, Director of The Art Gallery, 250 Crescent Street, Peterborough, Ontario

Fynn Leitch, Curator of The Art Gallery, 250 Crescent Street, Peterborough, Ontario

David LaRiviere, former Director of Artspace Art Gallery, Peterborough, Ontario

Barry Parsons, Executive Director of Kawartha Artists Gallery and Studio, Peterborough

Charles and Julia Gregory, photographer and buyer of my Molson art works, Peterborough

Patricia Hughes, a singer, mother, friend, and financial aid to me in crises, Peterborough

Chris and Christine Brown, 50/50 Artspace buyers of my Molson art works, Peterborough

Patricia Fleming, PHD Social Worker, writer, my cousin and guardian, Peterborough

Robert McBride, UE, former President of the United Empire Loyalists Association of Canada

Mrs. Robert McBride, UE, President of UELAC Kawartha Branch, Peterborough, Ontario

David Guy Fordyce Rogers, my brother, and his wife, Susan, financial aid, London, England

Mr. and Mrs. Clive Frederick Rolf, my sister and her husband, Worthing, England

George Paul Molson, my son, for his computer and financial help, Peterborough, Ontario

Robert James Rogers, UE, my cousin, author of Rising Above Circumstances, Alberta

Regan Fraser, my son’s friend, for he photographed images for this book, Peterborough

Nancy Angus, Executive Secretary of Mario Lemieux Foundation, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

About The Author, Madame

Daphne Jane Rogers Molson

Daphne Jane Rogers Molson is one of three children of a former colleague of mine at Kenner Collegiate in Peterborough. Mary Rogers came from a family with a long and established history of this area. Daphne attended the local high school which had the reputation for its excellence in traditional education. I understand that Daphne was also involved in sports, particularly those involved in summertime. She regularly spent the summers at camp. Her musical training on the piano is still experienced in the requests for her to perform at several events. Daphne also writes music, as well as poetry. Her work has been published internationally. Recently she wrote an anthem for the United Empire Loyalists which was acknowledged by both the Royal Family and the Prime Minister of Canada. I first met Daphne when she had an extended stay in the hospital, following a serious fall that she had, which resulted in serious bone injuries in her leg. In spite of this, she is able to do more than I can in any 24 hour days! She spends hours at the library, Artspace, and community events. She has presented materials to City Council for the improvement of local facilities. The local lacrosse team has one of its strongest supporters in Daphne, who has a front row seat at every game. More recently she has become interested in the visual arts. She and I are members of KAGS, Kawartha Artists Gallery and Studio. This is an artist cooperative that encourages and displays the works of local non-professional artists. We are members of the outdoor painters, who actually paint outdoors when weather permits. Daphne has displayed her work at many of our gallery showings. She obviously is a very remarkable woman. One could almost say that there is a certain Renaissance flavor in her desire to be involved in so many artistic endeavors.

Barry Ward Parsons, a former Executive Director of Kawartha Artists Gallery and Studio, composed the above words for the author, Madame Daphne Jane Rogers Molson, before he died, October 30, 2019.

Dedication

For my great great uncle, Colonel Richard Birdsall Rogers, Superintendent of Trent Canal, 1893-1906, hallowed Hall of Fame engineer of the centennial celebrated hydraulic world wonder, the Peterborough Lift Lock, Lock 21 of Trent-Severn Waterway, centennial celebrated July 9, 2004.

May your loving concern uncle Richard, all who live by Trent-Severn Waterway, be kept safe from flood, be an eternal duty of Trent-Severn Waterway staff to care for all of it, and to make its yearly profit always. May millions living by it be safe their water level areas, their lakes, rivers, streams, their cities, industries, businesses, homes, hospitals, schools, churches, game act places, profits, police, flood squads, all else, and themselves, that they all have long happy lives and success.

May the Corporation of the City of Peterborough, Ontario, Canada, and all its citizens, forever enjoy your hydraulic world wonder’s one hundred years of engineered world wonder fame. May anyone from anywhere come to enjoy your eternal preserved phenomenon, and its greatness inspire anyone to engineer greatness. May great Canadians be bred in our safe city, the greatest educated imaginary literary giants, the greatest artists, the greatest athletes, the greatest educators, scientists, doctors, nurses, humanitarians, politicians, environmentalists, businessmen and businesswomen, and all of them wish to keep eternal the City of Peterborough, Ontario, Canada, its culture, history, heritage, and fame.

Your grand grand niece, Madame Daphne Jane Rogers Molson, first born daughter of David Burnet Rogers, son of Claude Henry Rogers, son of Colonel James Zaccheus Rogers, son of Colonel Robert David Rogers, son of Major David McGregor Rogers, son of James Rogers, son of James Jacob Rogers, and his wife, Mary Jean McFatridge MacPhedran of Dunbarton, New Hampshire, of the United States of America.

1

Peterborough, Ontario, Canada

City of the world’s highest hydraulic world wonder, one hundred years hallowed in fame,

Richard Birdsall Rogers, renowned Canadian Hall of Fame engineer, made great a name,

City of the famous Peterborough Lift Lock, Lock 21 of Trent-Severn Waterway,

Canada’s government paid and Richard Birdsall Rogers made to save all here from yearly floods and death day,

City established by Peter Robinson’s Irish settlers’ labour and valour,

By United Empire Loyalists allegiance to King George the Third’s British rule and power,

Who fled America’s Revolution, war battled with Indians and French, to live of war won,

On safe land where farms and food made life, homes, churches, schools, business profits, government rule, and a new kingdom,

City on land Ojibwa tribe called Nogojiwanong, place made by the rapids of Otonabee River’s end,

By Rogers Cove, Beavermead, Del Crary Parks, Little Lake and its shining waters wend,

Near Peterborough’s heritage kept at Millennium Park, its Fountain, Cafe, Hut and Dock,

Steven Chiasson Pond, Barnardo Garden, Labour Monument, Esker and her Cub, and trail made of rock,

City of Peterborough Memorial Centre, its Hall of Fame, and its game act training place,

Of trade shows, summer fairs, entertainment, festivals, and trained athletes’ grace,

Of Ontario Hockey League Peterborough Petes and Peterborough Lakers Lacrosse Mann Cup champions trained game,

Of Special Olympians made praise, adulation, and each awarded his or her name,

City of intellect, of Montessori, Primary, Secondary, Arts and Science education,

Of Trent University and Sir Sandford Fleming College Technology advanced graduation,

Of Saint John’s Church Light House where the poor are fed, of shelter for homeless men, women, and children,

Of police, fire, flood, murder protection, doctor, dentist, nurse care, and charity given,

City of Reframe International Film Festival held at Market Hall, the Venue, and Showplace,

Of Electric City Culture Council’s sponsorship of performed artists’ grace,

Of song, choir, piano, band, symphony, spoken poetry, slam, visual art, theatre, dance, writers, and multimedia artists made here,

Of a Pathway of Fame for artists’ talents, tasks, and triumphs, hallowed and enshrined with revere,

City of a famous Canadian Canoe Museum of collected heritage and Royal canoes,

Of arranged canoe training, tripping, activities, exhibitions, and members dues,

Of Duke of Edinburgh Awards given to those worthy by HRH Edward Mountbatten when he should come,

Of our Sovereign Queen Elizabeth and her flag raised by United Empire Loyalists to parade her kingdom

City with a Mayor and City Council members who well care for our city and citizens’ flesh,

Who have concern for our sewage water, hydro, streets, roads, parks, schools, churches, hospitals, businesses, and anyone kept of death,

City who honours the service and valor of its war veterans, who enshrines every name,

I honor your name, Peterborough, Ontario, Canada, all nations, anyone from anywhere, come here to enjoy you and your centennial fame.

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Historical Facts about Peterborough,

Ontario, Canada

Peterborough, Ontario, Canada, is renowned as a city hallowed in centennial fame, for it contains the world’s most famous highest hydraulic world wonder, the Peterborough Lift Lock, Lock 21 of Trent-Severn Waterway, that was engineered by my great-great-uncle, Richard Birdsall Rogers, and opened July 9, 1904. It celebrated its centennial on July 9, 2004. The City of Peterborough, Ontario, Canada, was incorporated its city the year after 1904, on July 1, 1905, on Dominion Day, and it celebrated its centennial, July 1, 2005.

Peterborough, Ontario, Canada, is situated in Central Ontario, Canada, within the Kawartha Region of the St. Lawrence Lowland ecoregion, south of the Canadian Shield, approximately 35 kilometres of Lake Ontario; 125 kilometres, or 78 miles, northeast of Toronto, Ontario; and about 270 kilometres, or 167 miles, southwest of Ottawa, Ontario. The city is sited on a series of rapids on the Otonabee River, and it completely surrounds the only lake on the Otonabee River, Little Lake. The city is built on the north, south, and west end, and built on an eastern edge by the Trent Canal, that connects it to Little Lake. The Otonabee River and Trent Canal are a part of the Trent-Severn Waterway and provide a link from Lake Ontario to Lake Huron. The canal runs through the very eastern portion of the city, near to the Peterborough Lift Lock’s famous world wonder that has hallowed the city of Peterborough in fame for over a hundred years. The Peterborough Marina is located on Little Lake, where Jackson Creek drains into the lake beside Del Crary Park, which is just east of Peterborough’s main street, George Street. The Peterborough Marina has 90 slips for docking and a list of amenities. Holiday Inn, near it, is a hotel useful for keeping tourists and visitors. It is very near to the boat slips and provides food and entertainment often that it is very pleasant to visit Peterborough. There are also many inns available for tourists to visit.

Peterborough has four bridges that join its east and west sides. They are Lansdowne Street Bridge, which crosses Little Lake’s lower bend and end, which is near Lock 19 of Trent-Severn Waterway, which also has nearness to Little Lake Cemetery. Another is Parkhill Road Bridge, which is north of Little Lake. It crosses to the east of Peterborough from the west on Parkhill Road near Water Street, just east of George Street, the main street of Peterborough. It allows people to several enjoyable parks that have play and hold several festivals and game act activities, and access to Armour Road that leads to the Peterborough Golf Club’s golf pleasures, and Trent University’s east side that holds musical and theatre events at its Wenjack Theatre. Another is Hunter Street Bridge, which crosses the Otonabee River and is just after Saint John’s Church, which is near Pepsi-Co, the former Quaker Oats building. It allows cars and bicycles and pedestrians access to the world wonder at the end of Hunter Street, the Archives on a hill north of Hunter Street, Tim Horton’s and other food services, ballet, dance, theatre, and other businesses, baseball, soccer, tennis, other playground events, and meetings at the Lions Club area. Another bridge is Nassau Mills Road Bridge, which crosses the river at Trent University and joins the university’s east and west campuses, and Peterborough northwest to northeast Lakefield, where the famous Lakefield Literary Festivals are held yearly at the private, elite Lakefield College School, which has hosted also the famous Canadian author and writer Margaret Atwood, honoured by our Queen Elizabeth II. The bridge allows access to Kawartha Lakes, Stoney Lake, and all other lakes up to Apsley and farther, cottages and resorts and towns, camping resorts and elite camps at Bancroft; there’s Ponacka, built for boys and cared for by a Trent University Professor Bruno Morawetz. It allows access also to the ice cream parlour in Lakefield that has so many delicious varieties of ice cream and any sherbert, even fat-free; Nassau Mills Road Bridge and the road should always be taken to get to the delight anyone could have in Lakefield’s Ice Cream Parlour.

These roads and bridges make hundreds of adults, adolescents, children, students, and tourists, bicycling pleasures, boating, canoeing, kayaking, rowing, swimming, and picnic and party pleasures in Trent-Severn Waterway park areas near its lock system. Pleasant eternity is kept by them, by its waterway’s pleasures and activities near them.

Peterborough is served and can be reached by Highway 115, which connects it to Toronto via Highway 401 and Highway 407. Highway 28 allows routes to numerous cottages and summer and winter resorts enjoyable to many. Beavermead Campground is able to be reached by these highways. Beavermead is located on Little Lake at the centre of Peterborough. It is on the east side of the city and can be reached by car, bicycle, the Ashburnham Street bus; by walking; or by any watercraft. It has ninety-eight campsites, forty-six rental options for kayaks, and has a supervised swimming and bathing area, multiple athletic fields, public washrooms, game act playground, and children’s play areas, with swings and slides and a climbing apparatus. It hosts Soul Beach volleyball programmes that facilitate games and audiences during summer. Many other soccer, volleyball, tennis, badminton, and other field games are played and social events held. Canoeists and kayakers come and go from Beavermead Park and its nearby Rogers Cove, which has a lovely beach to suntan on, Little Lake to swim in, with lifeguard service, safe child play areas, splash pool, washrooms, and parking space.

I can take my recorder and sit on the beaches and compose music for seagulls walking and strutting and showing their seagull wings or flying away and coming again. Rogers Cove can be walked to from Beavermead Park, and the Trent-Severn Waterway Lock 20 area would be visited while walking to and from its park and the cove. The Boy Scouts of Canada reside at Rogers Cove. People can bicycle or take a bus or walk or drive to the park areas and enjoy beautiful experiences by themselves, with friends, families, children, and pets, having picnics, suntanning, splashing, swimming, boating, playing on play apparatuses, and socializing.

Peterborough can also be reached by Peterborough Airport, located on Highway 115, south of the city. It is a recreation and business airport that has two runways, including a 1780-foot turf runway and a 7000-foot asphalt runway that services 25,000 to 30,000 flights per year.

Call-a-Cab or Capitol Taxi service can always be called to transport anyone, even invalids in wheelchairs. Bus transit service is available to and from Toronto via Oshawa as well as fast Go Train Service to Toronto and back. Bus service in the city is also available, and there are special Handi-Vans for disabled persons.

According to Wikipedia: Peterborough is largely defined by land foundations created by the receding Wisconsian glaciers 10,000 to 15,000 years ago. The south end and the downtown portions of the city sit on what was the bottom of its glacial lake. Peterborough is part of a glacial spillway created when glaciers moved from ancient Lake Algonquin, now Lake Huron, and travelled south to ancient Lake Iroquois, now Lake Ontario. The area is relatively low and flat, 627 to 656 feet above sea level, and prone to flooding. The ground elevation rises to the west, north, and east where there is a large upland area depth for landscape. The land in the north and west ends of the city rises from 758 to as much as 938 feet above sea level. Armour Hill, formed in the east of the city, is a physical obstacle that helps hold the east of the city from Trent-Severn Waterway flooding.

Amour Hill ascends and descends to the Trent Canal, where the famous Lock 21 of Trent-Severn Waterway is. The north and west and south areas of the city are connected by several bridges over Trent Canal and Otonabee River. They were built over many years to build the city, make mobility to anywhere in the city, and to keep the city from yearly river floods that would flood any farmland and its growing foods and to keep land where churches, homes, schools, businesses, or citizens’ lives and profits keep citizens safe, living, and pleasured.

Peterborough has some old history. Accoridng to Wikipedia: In the old first millennia age, about 1000, First Nation Indian groups called Woodland Nations inhabited the areas, followed by Iroquois and Mississauga Indians about 1740. The Petroglyph Provincial Park and Serpent Mounds were lived in by Algonquin people between 900 and 1400. In 1615, Samuel de Champlain, an explorer, the first European to travel the network of inland waters from Georgian Bay to the Bay of Quinte with the Huron Indians, travelled the area. He walked down from Lake Chemong, a lake north of Peterborough, then he portaged down a trail, now Chemong Road, to the Otonabee River, and stayed briefly at the present site of Bridgenorth, a town just north of Peterborough.

This same route Champlain travelled later became canalized and became the Trent-Severn Waterway.

According to Wikipedia: In 1818, Adam Scott settled on the shore of the Otonabee River. In 1819, a sawmill and gristmill soon established the area as Scott’s Plains. The mill was located at the foot of present-day King Street, Peterborough. It is adjacent to the present Ministry of Natural Resources building and Millennium Park. The site has an Ojibway name, Nogojiwanong, which means place by the end of the rapids. In 1825, Irish immigrants arrived from the city of Cork, Ireland, to Scott’s Plains because the British Parliament in 1822 approved an emigration plan to transport poor Irish Catholic families to Upper Canada. Peter Robinson, a member of the Legislative Assembly of Upper Canada, also a prominent businessman from York, Upper Canada, took on the emigration plan of 1825. Scott’s Plains was renamed Peterborough in his honour.

My relative Reverend Mark Burnham, Rector of the County and Saint John’s Anglican Church, blessed and named Peterborough as a city.

According to Wikipedia: Peter Robinson interviewed families and made them take and complete a long voyage while they were malnourished. The families had to meet specifics in order to be eligible for the voyage. The specifics required for Robinson’s settlers were they had to be Catholic, poor, and with a knowledge of farming. Males had to be less than forty-five years of age and in good health, and their families had to be unrelated. Robinson was urged to remove any paupers and undesirables. He had no wish to have any place for any persons of bad character. The 2,024 passengers came from the Atlantic Ocean to Quebec City. They travelled from Quebec City down the St. Lawrence River to Lachine, Quebec, then boarded a bateau headed west to Kingston and Cobourg, Ontario, until they reached Peterborough’s settlement. Their settling began at Scott’s Plains, now Peterborough.In 1845, Sandford Fleming, the inventor of Standard Time and designer of Canada’s first postage stamp, came to Peterborough to live with Dr. John Hutchinson and his family until 1847.

Sandford met with my great-great-uncle, Richard Birdsall Rogers, famous engineer of the Peterborough Lift Lock; and later, Sandford went on designing railways, anything else, and eventually became knighted.

According toe Wikipedia: In 1846, Peterborough had built a stone jail, a courthouse, seven churches, government offices, a fire company, a post office, several