It is the writer’s purpose to continue the history and in another volume to deal with the people who followed those whose record is herein given, and with the steady advance the town and district has made under the industry of the pioneers’ successors. In the preface to the book, Mr Smallfield wrote: Smallfield retired from business in 1919. Unfortunately he died before completing his research, and the project remained at a standstill until Mr. His work appeared in The Mercury in 1908. Robert Campbell, a retired Presbyterian minister and a former Moderator of the Presbyterian Church. Next, the work of compiling Renfrew’s history was taken up by Rev. Smallfield planned to make these articles into a book in due course, so each week when the type of the story was taken from the newspaper columns, it was made up into book page size, and 200 sheets were printed and set aside. In 19, a series of articles appeared, based on the information gleaned from these people. He interviewed a number of the older residents, including Henry and David Airth, Robert McLaren, Iohn Smith, W.N.

Smallfield of The Mercury took up the challenge.

Thinking that this was a good way to begin a new century, Editor W.E.

He stood up at a meeting of the South Renfrew Farmers’ Institute at the end of 1899 and suggested that a history of the community should be written. The spark behind the original work was Mr. This new Story of Renfrew is, in effect, volume three. An unfinished ‘Volume Two’ was written, setup and printed by William Hamilton Smallield, son of William Elgood Smallfied. The original Story of Renfrew was published in 1919 and was entitled “Volume One.” Copies of this book are now highly prized, and fetch up to $200 a piece in antiquarian book stores.

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