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Historical' Whitby ImIu. WHITBY INDUSTREMS Industrial d evelopment is important toevery community to generate tax -revenue for the. municipality and provide employment for its citizens. Whitby is no exception, and today there is considerable interest being taken by the town council to attract industry to our town. The latest example is the recent agreement made with five residential developers to bring much-needed industrial assessment to the tow~n. Whitby was neyer known as a manufacturing- town, as Oshawa was in its early days, but Whitby did hav e a num ber of small industries i the l9th century. Some of these industries were quite, productive and stayed for years, while others remained in Whitby for only a short time, and then moved on. It is flot generally known that Whitby at one tinie was the home of a cigar factory.' The factory, located on Brock Street, was established in August 1875 by Messrs. Simon and..Kelley, and produced more than a thousand.cigars a' day._ The company was stili going strong in 1877, bait some time shortly after, it moved to Montreajl where there Was a larger market and it flourished there for years. In 1861, Whitby had a match factory, which made those foul-smeliing suipher matches, in use before the present safety match came into being. The match factory was located off Dundas Street behind a brewery. The matches werc made by a four horse-power I Brooklin i Lrm fw44 Bylines NEWS The Ladies f Burns Presbyterian Church in Ashburn ar~ sponsoring "A.Bread Making Course" on Saturday, Januar± 13, from 9 a.mttô 4p.m. Bring a box lunch and a beverage wil be supplied. If intérested phone: Mrs. Heron 655-3740, Mr. Fisher 655-3084, Mrs. Bryant 655-4784.. This week is registration for the pre-school story hour and afternoon discussion group, nt the Brooklin Branch Library. The two programs start Tuesday, January 16 and run tilI. March 13. They will be held frorn 1 p.m. to 2 p.m. To join the pre-school story hour, children must be at least three years of age. The story hour is held in the children's library while the discussion group Will meet in the aduit section. The.afté'rnoon discussion group, will feature many different speakers. The interests of the members of the group will to a large extent govern the choice 0f the topics covered. Register now. As usual the librarv will continue to hold a Saturday morning Whitby lawyer is Q ueen ' s Counsel Whitby lawyer Terrence Joyce was appointed a Queen's Counsel (QC) by the Provincial Attorney- General's Department at the beginning of 1979. A partner in the Brock Street, South f irm of Joyce and Goodaire, he started his practice in Whitby in Jan. 1977 and took on his partner David Goodaire in April 1978. He was called to the Ontario Bar! in 1966 after graduating from Dalhousie Law School, Halifax, Nova Scotia in 1964. Prior to that he earned his Bachelor of Science and Master of Science degrees in civil engineering f rom Queenà University in King- ston. Before coming to Whitby, he worked for 10 years with Fleming, Smoke, Burgess Phillips in Toronto. A resident of Brooklin, Mr. Joyce is involved in a num- ber of community activities including the Whitby Histo- rical Society and Local Architectural Conservation Advisory Committee. steamn engine imported [rom Rochester, which was hooked up to-a wood splitting machine and a circular saw for cutting match sticks. The match sticks were then dipped in a suipherous solution and a number of young boys were hired to select and fold up bunches of matches in packages. This was before there were laws regarding child labor. The match boxes were shipped to ail parts of the province, and the Wh itby match factory was described as the principal concern of its kind in Upper Canada (Ontario). SThe company was owned by Joseph Marsh, and P.M. Clark was in charge of the engine room. The match factory operated through the 1860's, but littie is known of its history.' Another local industry, operating in 1858, was the Glasgow Soap Works, owned by a wealthy entrepreneur named James Wallace. Mr. Wallace,. during a long career in Whitby tried his hand at dlock making, sewing machine manufacturing and newspaper publishing. He was mayor of the town in 1856. At peak capacity, the company produced about three tons of soap per week, and it was said to be better than the soap purchased in the stores in town. It was also said to be cheaper than the soap imported by local merchants. L.H. Schofield, a Whitby dry goods and grocery dealer marketed the soap in town and said "Glasgow Soap is the only kind his customers will have." The Glasgow Soap Works did a thriving business for a short time' in Ontario and adjoining counties, their product being more profitable to their customers than sending to Montreal or Toronto, "1paying high prices, heavy freights and suffering all kinds of inconvenience." The editor of the Whitby Chronicle, the newspaper of thé day,, encouraged Whitbyresidents to purchase local products such as Glasgow Soap because "encouragement to one branch, of trade helps another. The soap boiler gives employment to the soap box maker, both employ their assistants, and deal with the butcher and the baker, and assist if paying rent and taxes and adding to the wealth of the town. Let no good citizen then send his money out of the town. Let no good citizen then send his money out of the town or the county to buy the goods of the foreigner whenhe can purchase the saine at homne of a better quality and at a cheaper price."t story hour for school age children from 10:30 to 11:30 a.m. Crafts and stories and lots of fun in store for those who join in. This week a sale of older mysteries, westerns and a few children's bookswill start. Here's-.a chance to enjoy aý cozy ,winter evening having a good read.* Somne of these older books must be sold to make room for more valuable neyer books. VIEWS A very special thank you to the Brooklin Branch Library for the puppet show performed on December 15 at the Ashburn Community Centre, for the annual Christmas party for the children and adults of Ashburn. You did a great. job and everyone enjoyed it. Pepsi Cola hias Whitby warehouse Pepsi-Cola canada Limited opened a new 1,858-square- metre warehouse and distri- bution depot at 1100 Burns Street last month. The warehouse enhploys about' 30 people and serves the Durharn Region as well as east and north of the region as far as Rice Lake. The warehouse was for- merly situated in Pickering on a temporary basis while the Whitby facility was being constructed. Ev.- NE INSTÂLLL e ste b udn *R~I~LI SMIllE ~Éo '554~91 Susan Smith Brown's Drop Off (before 2:00 pnm. Sat.) VdHITB FREE PRESS WEDNESIDAY, JANUARY 10, 1979, PE 7 This advice couli weîî bte used today in some cases by Canadians, if they want to -help Canada's economy and the. economy of their own communities. (Further articles on -the industrial development of 'Whitby will be nrinted in this column during the coming weeks.) Few of us -make a major purchIjjIdthu .0shopping around"l for the best lèal, but how many of us shop around for the best deal lin personal lbans? There Is a difference. Cali or drop in to our. office and Inquire about our personal boan pas AND GEY <Contactýoujr branch manager: 308 Dundaç Street West Whitby 6*9324 (Toronto LUne) fl3.7189 Momber: Canada Deposit Insurence Coiporation SHARP! 1976 COUGAR XR7 Light blue with white vinyl top, V-8 auto., P/B, P/S. Lic. KXX 357 $3995 SUPER CLEAN 1974'FORD 1/ TON PICK-UP WITH TOPPER Blue, V-8 auto., topperincluded. Lic. E13 805* $2795 LOADED! 1974 CADILLACLE3J85 SEDAN DE VILLE 4 DR. Brown, fully Ioaded. Lic. HFE 856 $3995 r SALES LIMWTED. FAST, WHITBY LINCOLN MERCUR) 1 l 120 DUNDAS STREET E I.. 668-5893 1 -M 1