Frederick
Foreman Dufton
By Bill Dufton, June
23, 2023
Frederick Foreman Dufton first
came to Kahshe Lake in 1918 to visit his grandmother at her cottage at the
northeast entrance to Deep Bay. He returned in 1921 and 23 to buy land from
William Fletcher and Henry Cook. Fred was a great friend of Sam Cook - Sam
naming his dog Fred, and Fred naming his dog Sam allegedly in part due to their
friendship.
The Dufton cottage was started
from a relocated house which had formerly belonged to Bill Ruttan. It
eventually became The Pines and boasted a huge rose garden that was the site of
many Houseys Rapids Cottagers Association meetings.
Bill’s memories of both The
Pines and his grandad were flavoured by a love of Kahshe by the whole family.
Grandad, in the early evening playing his insufferable Ted Weems and His
Orchestra - you had to sit still and listen because, “That’s real music,
Billy.” Many competitive games of euchre and rummy, fishing off bass and
catfish rocks (cleaning a mess of catfish for breakfast) and traveling by foot
to pick blueberries on Three Mile Lake.
Fred was a force, the coach and
general manager of the Cobourg Galloping Ghosts of the Ontario Rugby Football
Union, a great grandad and, as is evidenced here today, with his early part in
the Houses Rapids Cottagers Association, a community-minded man.
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