On 16 January PDHS will welcome back local historian Ron Shaw with a presentation on his recent book, "A Swarm of Bees", the epic migration to Utah, of Lanark Society Settlers, from Glasgow, Scotland via Upper Canada and the central United States.
"A Swarm of Bees" recounts a journey begun in 1820 that, over the course of 50 years, took 18 ‘Lanark Society Settler’ families from the slums of Glasgow to the Great Salt Lake Valley. These pioneer families, who first settled in what is now Lanark County, were among the earliest converts to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Their story unfolds in the context of the founding and earliest days of the Mormon Church, as they follow their new faith from eastern Ontario, through south-western Ontario, the Ohio and Missouri settlements, to Nauvoo, Illinois, the refugee camps of Council Bluffs, Iowa, and finally along the Mormon Trail to Utah.
The meeting, at Perth's Royal Canadian Legion, Home of the Hall of Remembrance, 26 Beckwith Street E., Perth, starts at 7:30pm. (Toonie Donation).
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Will there be any recording of this so that out-of-town people can see it?
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