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15 February 2025

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LINUS AUGUSTUS BRINK

Linus Augustus Brink was born on 9 March 1855 in St Marys, Perth, Ontario, Canada to Joshua Brink (1799-1886) and Chloe Allen (1810-1931). Linus had ten siblings, Hester Ann (1829-1832), Allen (1831-1895), Catherine (1832-1906), Nicholas (1834-1914), Edwin (1836-1838), Henry (1839-1923), Nancy (1841-1921), David Edwin "Ted" (1845-1931), Milton Joshua (1848-1913) and Charles Stanley (1851-1930).

Joshua Brink is recorded in the 1861 as farming 275 acres in St Mary’s, Perth County. About two years later Joshua and some of the family moved to Massillon, Cedar, Iowa in the United States. In 1870, Joshua was farming 160 acres and his sons, Allen, Nicholas and Ted a combined total of 280 acres. We have found no record of Linus going to the US.

By 1880, Linus was a store clerk in Teeswater, Bruce County. He married Anne Adeline McKee on 7 February 1883 in Teeswater, giving his occupation as hardware merchant. Anne was born on 9 September 1863 in Wellesley, Ontario to Samuel McKee (1913-1885) and Margaret Rosborough (1826-1896). Anne had nine siblings, Robert (1838), Jane (1843-1886), William (1843-1924), Alexander (1848-1914), Samuel James (1849-1937), Alexander (1849-1930), John (b 1853), George Walter (1854-1925) and Andrew O (1858-1903).

From about 1896 onwards, Linus was Postmaster as well as running a hardware store and acting as a grain merchant. Linus was a councillor for Teeswater in 1898 and 1899 and then Reeve from 1907-1909.

Linus and Anne had one son, George Clair (1889-1968).

Dr Clair Brink, the man responsible for the formation of the travelling chest clinics in Ontario, died in Toronto on October 29th, 1968 at the age of 79. He was the first director of the Health Department's tuberculosis prevention division.

Dr Brink was born in Teeswater; son of former postmaster L A Brink and Mrs Brink. He graduated in medicine from the University of Toronto in 1913. In 1923 he joined the Health Department as a clinician and became director of the Tuberculosis Prevention Division in 1935. He retired in 1959.

from All Our Yesterdays - A History of Culross Township 1954-1984 p403

Linus died on 7 April 1926 in Teeswater and Anne died on 25 February 1931 in York, Ontario.

The family tree can be found on Ancestry under the title Culross Brink Tree.