The Heritage Fair Essay

The town of Cudworth

Introduction

     Have you ever been to Cudworth? I have been there many times. The reason why I picked the town of cudworth is because a lot of my family live there and it is a Ukraine town and I’m half Ukraine.

Body

What?

·        Early life and main facts

The first pioneers in the late 1800’s came to this area. They are settled west of modern day cudworth. German settlers arrived in 1903 and settled nearby Leofeld. There are two main religions in cudworth and they are German and Ukraine. Cudworth became a town in 1961. The population of from 2001 is 738. The area of cudworth from 2001 is 2,21km2 (0.85 sqmi). The   town cudworth has been named after an Englishmen ralph cudworth. A grain elevator caught on fire Tuesday 2008 on September 16. Cudworth is apromixaly 85km east of Saskatoon. Cudworth has a k-12 school, and 60 local business and 3 Churches.  The three churches are St.micheal’s Roman Catholic Church and holy Eucharist Catholic Church and holy trinity Ukraine church.

So what?

Ralph Cudworth.

 Ralph cudworth was born at Aller, Somerset, he was educated at Emmanuel College, Cambridge, gaining his MA and becoming a Fellow of Emmanuel in 1639.[1] In 1645, he became master of Clare Hall and professor of Hebrew. In 1654, he transferred to Christ's College, Cambridge, and was master there until his death. His great work, entitled The True Intellectual System of the Universe, was published in 1678. He was a leading opponent of Thomas Hobbes.

He was the son of Dr Ralph Cudworth (d. 1624), rector of Aller, formerly fellow of Emmanuel College, Cambridge. His father died in 1624, and his mother then married the Rev. Dr Stoughton, who gave the boy a good home education. Cudworth was sent to his father's college, was elected fellow in 1639, and became a successful tutor. In 1642 he published A Discourse concerning the true Notion of the Lord's Supper, and a tract entitled The Union of Christ and the Church. In 1645 he was appointed master of Clare Hall and the same year was elected Regius professor of Hebrew. He was now recognized as a leader among the remarkable group known as the Cambridge Platonists. The whole party were more or less in sympathy with the Commonwealth, and Cudworth was consulted by John Thurloe, Cromwell's secretary to the council of state, in regard to university and government appointments.

In 1650 he was presented to the college living of North Cadbury, Somerset. From the diary of his friend John Worthington we learn that Cudworth was nearly compelled, through poverty, to leave the university, but in 1654 he was elected master of Christ's College, whereupon he married. In 1662 he was presented to the rectory of Ashwell, Herts. In 1665 he almost quarrelled with his fellow-Platonist, Henry More, because the latter had written an ethical work which Cudworth feared would interfere with his own long-contemplated treatise on the same subject. To avoid clashing, more brought out his book, the Enchiridion ethicum, in Latin; Cudworth's never appeared. Cudworth was installed prebendary of Gloucester in 1678. He died on the 26th of June 1688, and was buried in the chapel of Christ's. His only surviving child, Damaris, a devout and talented woman, became the second wife of Sir Francis Masham. The Lady Masham was distinguished as the friend of John Locke and exchanged letters with Gottfried Leibniz.

Now what

The population is shrinking because all the teenagers are living and moving to Saskatoon or other places. So sometimes I think Cudworth won’t even be a town in 2012. The population in 2001 was 738 and then it went to 2345 in 2005 and then 2567 in 2008 now it’s 2134 in 2011 and I hope it will still be a town in 2012.  Teenagers like to go to bigger high  schools and meet new people.

Conclusion

What if cudworth never existed? Cudworth affected Canadian heritage because if cudworth wasn’t there Saskatchewan maybe wouldn’t be the same size. If Cudworth wasn’t there who knows what would be there. If cudworth wasn’t there may be where it was located would be just all a blank field. People from cudworth such as teenagers leave cudworth because theres really nothing there to do and if there is theres really no people living there and it’s a small town and nowhere to adventure. So teenager’s when they turn 18 or something they move out and go live in Saskatoon or somewhere close. People from cities like to live in small towns such as cudworth because it is peaceful and clean. Theres a lot of nice people in cudworth. Such as old people like to live in towns because it’s so peaceful. There are a lot of young kids living there and there so nice and playful. Cudworth is a small town but people like living in small towns.