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Pete McGarvey recalls spending "many a happy holiday [at Nelson Banting's] and at the William Banting farm, then operated by Thompson Banting. Mrs. William Banting, the family matriarch, lived in a large home at the corner of Queen Street and the Scotch Line, a block away from my materal grandmother Drennan's home on Victoria Street. There too, Banting, Drennan and McGarvey cousins would gather and frequently Dr. Fred would drive north from Toronto to visit."Marie (Shields) Banting remembers that her "two grandparents lived next door to each other. I thought everybody's grandparents lived side by side."
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The Homestead site is significant historically as well as sentimentally... |
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