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,Historical hitby by injan W inter RICHARD GOLDRING could carry a cargo of 100 tons of coal, and was also used as a stonehooker. Stonehookers were boats which picked up stones from the bed of Lake Ontario, and this stone was sold for building purposes. It is estimated that in 35 years Richard Goldring and his brother Charles lifted 100,000 tons of stone frorn the bottom of Lake Ontario and sold it to the Toronto b'ilding market. The stone lifted by the Maple Leafs crew was used for pavements, buildings, foundations and harbor cribs at Toronto in the 1880s and 1890s. The Maple Leaf was badly damaged in the great Esplanade fire at Toronto in 1885. Captain Goldring took the ship's hulk back to Bronte to be rebuilt, and continued to sail the Maple Leaf until he sold it about 1920. Captain Goldring moved from Toronto to Whitby about 1885 and built the house pictured above. The stone for the basement, he brought on the Maple Leaf from the Bay of Quinte while on a vacation. Although Capt. Goldring has been dead for more than 30 years, the decorative anchors which he impressed in the concrete of the sidewalk in front of his house can still be seen to this day. He said that he "put his anchors down" in Port Whitby. For 16 years, Capt. Goldring took the members of the Hamilton YMCA on summer cruises to the Thousand Islands, and on two occasions he was presented with a top hat for being the first Captain into Toronto Harbor after the spring break-up of ice on Lake Ontario. i. This red brick house on Dufferin Street in Whitby is one of the last remaining with the days of elic sail- ing vessels on Lake Ontario. From 1885 to 1945 it was the home of Capt. Richard Goldring, known in his day as '"The Maple Leaf Man," because for 35 years he was captain of a lake schooner called the Maple Leaf. Capt. Goldring was the son of William Goldring, a pioneer of York Township, who was a captain of a fleet of boats on' Lake Ontario, and spent his spare time as a shoemaker. Capt. Goldring was born near the mouth of Mimico Creek, on the shore of Lake Ontario on Aug. 3 1, 1859, and in 1862 he moved to Etobicoke Creek. As a young boy he took his first voyage on his father's boat, the Betsy, and became the ship's cook when he excelled his older brother Ted in tossing flapjacks. In 1876, at the age of-17, he was put in charge of a fast scow, the Mary E. Ferguson, a boat which he saw launched near Port Credit 10 years before. About 1885 Richard Goldring became captain of thé Maple Leaf, a 59-ton two-masted schooner which had been built in 1880 at Bronte. The Maple Leaf Button, Button, Who's got the Button? Get your button free from participating merchants During - -- --- - July 19th - 24th Also, enter your name for lucky draws Whitby Downtown Business and Professional Association Although the speed limit has been reduced to 60 M.P.H., we still have dangerous drivers behind the wheels of autos. They exceed the limit. weave in and out of traffic, over-take dangerously close at excessive speed, dart across the front of other car drivers, and cause rear-end collisions. Flow many times have you experienced these situations and more yourself, then expressed a verbal or silent request, "I'f only a copy was here". Doesn't it seem asif Chicken or the Egg? Scientists have settled the dispute over which came first. the chicken or the egg. Reptiles were laying eggs thousands of years before chîckens appeared. the National Geographic So- ciety says. and the first chicken came from an egg laid by a bird that was not quite a chicken. Editor's Quote Book The thing in the world I am most a- fraid of is fear. Michael DeMontaigne WHITBY FREE PRESS, WEDNESDAY, JULY 7, 1976, PAGE 7 In 1908, Capt. Goldring rescued two boys from drown- ing in the waters off Port Whitby, and was awarded the Royal Humane Society gold medal for life saving. The Maple Leaf was a familiar sight at Port Whitby in the 1890s and the early 1900s, as was a coal yard establish- ed by Capt. Goldring. In 1911 he retired from active sailing on the Great Lakes and puichased the, Jackson grocery store at Port Whitby. Under the direction of his son Ernest and daughter Olive, the store continued in operation until it was demolished in 1967. Olive Goldring, who died in 1974, was postmistress at Port Whitby from 1922 to 1967. Capt. Goldring brought the Maple Leaf safely through the Great Gale of 1880, by taking refuge in a creek in Prince Edward County, while many other vessels were not so lucky and were sunk. The Goldring Brothers operated a fleet of several boats out of Port Whitby and made several contributions to the town. They constructed the Sunday schdol for St. John's Anglican Church in the 1890s, and Capt. Richard Goldring served two years on the Whitby Board of Mucation. Capt. Goldring married Harriet Ann Swan, and had a large family, a number of the children being born in the house at Port Whitby. Two of his daughters live there today. Capt. Goldring died at Whitby on Oct. 6, 1945 at the age of 86. He was buried at St. John's Cemetery, not far from his home. when you witness these hazardous highway situations there's rarely a cop in sight. It's almost at the point to seriously considering changing the name of Oshawa, Whitby and Toronto to Tombstone, Carson City and Kansas. It's as if we've been invaded by a gang of outlaws acting out as highway cowboys. Unlike the past five - ten years, these auto bandits are not entirely of the younger generation. No sir -- they come from al] age groups -- including women. I've known some excellent women drivers and have upheld their ability to handle automobiles, only to be criticized by other males, who have said, "They are only Sunday Drivers". But in my book, that's not true. We have more women working thana decade ago, and more wornen using the highways, and no doubt owning their own automobiles. But male or female, we are subject to grinning, contempt- uous and irresponsible antics of highway cowboys. Recently, heading out of Toronto towards Whitby, a well- known cab company driver with a slogan attached to the side of the cab, stating "Our drivers are careful", shot across the front of my car almost causing a major smash-up in heavy rush hour traffic. For reasons unknown some cab drivers appear to have an attitude that they must dominate the1 road, and weave between all other traffic, notwith- standing other conditions, and ensure that their passengers arrive at their destination no matter what risk to themselves or other road users. As far as i am concerned, this type of irresponsible driving makes thei an outlaw along with the other highway cowboys, and something must be done about it. The question is what! First, i think we have to recognize the fact that we do not have sufficient patrol cars with police to co-ntrol the situation. Sorne way, individuals who experience or see a dangerous situation must have opportunity to describe the situation, the vehicle, its colour, make, licence number, the time, location and what took place. This information would need to be corroborated by a witness. This information should then be presented to police authorities and an investigation made by contacting the owner of the auto in question, and contingent on whether there was sufficient evidence to indicate that the driver was indeed acting irresponsibly, a warning letter sent to the person in question. Now we can take this a stage further. Perhaps we can have a piece of equipmen't in automobiles which could take a picture of a car directly ahead which had committed a highway act of irresponsibility. 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