[mso] Borders
- From: "bill" <uujg@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: <mso@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 20 Jul 2004 13:22:47 -0400
A short time ago I submitted a query about removing borders around recipes.
This isn't a recipe but it is the same thing I would like to eliminate. Any
help would be appreciated. I'm using Office 2000
Thx...bill
Alexander Keith was born on October 5, 1795, at Halkirk on the River Thurso,
six miles from the town of Thurso in Caithnesshire, Scotland. The cradle in
which he was rocked in his earliest days is still preserved in Keith's Hall,
Halifax. His Father was a highly respected farmer and chief of the clan Keith.
In his boyhood youth, he received the benefit on an excellent education.
Business Career
In 1812, at the age of seventeen, he went to Sunderland, England, then the
center of the brewing trade in Northern England, where he was placed under the
instruction of his uncle to learn the brewing and malting business. At that
time there were four large breweries and eight smaller ones in the town of
Sunderland. He seems to have also had experience in both London and Edinburgh.
Five years later he embarked for Halifax, where on his arrival he became sole
brewer and business manager for Charles Boggs, who carried on business on
Argyle Street on a property assessed to Lawrence Pender. In 1820, Mr. Keith
purchased the growing business from Mr. Boggs and continued it on his own
account.
In the Acadian Recorder, July 7, 1821, appeared the following advertisement:
"Alexander Keith begs leave to inform his friends and the public in general,
that he has commenced the brewing business in the house lately occupied by Mr.
L. Pender, Argyle Street, opposite Dalhousie College, where he intends to brew
strong ales, porter, ginger wine, table and spruce beer; and hopes by strict
attention to his business, added to his long experience in the above line both
in London and Edinburgh, and also in this town, to merit a share of the public
patronage and support."
Shortly afterwards however, the business was removed to its present site on
Lower Water Street, where a large stone building was erected occupying several
acres. The site had been previously owned by Wm. Story & Son, well-known
merchants of that period and the joint owners of a brewery operated by Lydiard
and Story near the same site. Upon this site were subsequently constructed
solid and substantial granite buildings, replacing the original building. The
vaults and cellars of the later buildings are most extensive.
In 1853, Mr. Keith's son, Donald G. Keith, was admitted to partnership and the
name "Alexander Keith & Son" adopted, which name has been retained until the
present time. Mr. Donald Keith died in 1886 without issue and his three sisters
continued the business.
One of the earliest managers of the business was Mr. George Fraser, Mayor of
Halifax from 1881 to 1883. For many years he was Secretary of the District
Grand Lodge of Nova Scotia (Scottish Constitution) of which body he was for a
term, Grand Warden. From 1869 until his death in 1889 he represented the Grande
Lodge of Scotland near the Grand Lodge of Nova Scotia. He died in Truro, in
February 28, 1889, at the age of 68.
HIS RESIDENCE
About 1835, Mr. Keith built the double house of "Keith Hall" and lived in the
north end of it until Keith Hall was completed. From this house he built an
underground passage to the great granite brewery on Water Street. It began
almost two storied underground from the Hollis Street level and ran in the
level, under the garden. This passage is still in use by the present owners, A.
Keith & Son.
KEITH HALL
In 1863, Mr. Keith began the erection of Keith Hall, built of Wallace stone. In
those days it was the custom to make a ceremony of laying the corner stone of a
new home and in the files of a Halifax paper published on that year, we fins
the announcement that, "the corner stone of a new residence if the Hon.
Alexander Keith on Hollis Street, was laid by that gentleman in the presence of
some of his friends with appropriate ceremony, after which the workmen, and
others were entertained with a repast."
Again, on the completion of the new home, Mr. Keith gave a sumptuous dinner to
all the workmen engaged in its construction.
Keith Hall was sold to the Halifax Council of the Knights of Columbus about
1912, but was resold in 1949 to A. Keith & Son Ltd. and is now used by that
company as its Head Office.
AMERICAN CIVIL WAR
Tradition says that during the Civil War in the United States (1861 - 1865),
many Halifax families were much more interested in the success of the South
than of the North. While many a young man from the city and from other parts of
the province served in the Union armies, for adventure's sake, a considerable
number were engaged in a blockade running to southern ports.
Business interests in the capital city were closely associated with the South,
perhaps because of the intimate link of the the latter with Britain due to the
similarity of upper class customs based upon many retainers and large estates.
It is a tradition that the Hon. Alexander Keith on more than one occasion
assisted southern raiders, captured off this port, to escape when they were
being landed with a guard at one of the docks along the waterfront. By sheer
impertinence, as a paper of the day called it, he stood before the guard while
the men leaped into a boat and were rowed across the harbor to escape neat
Dartmouth. The newspaper discussed the event in such general terms that it is
impossible at this latter date to piece them together, apparently taking it for
granted that the whole town knew the circumstances.
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