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PAGE 10, WEINISDAY. AUGUST 5. 198 1, WHITBY FREE PRESS Town wasbeing promoted i 11 The need for new development to create a broader tax base is a popular rallying cry for many municipal politi- clans ini the 198's. Earlier this year, Mayor Bob Attersley launched an aggessive campaign to promote the Town of Whitby in an effort to attract more Industrial, residential and commercial growth. Well, it seems as though the town was un- dertaking the same kind of project back in 1914 just before the openîng days of the First World War. Somewhere around 1914, the town published a promotional booklet describing Whitby as the "Ibest residential town near Toronto." The bookiet was writ- ten when t.he town was really juat a village with a population of 2,500 The booklet is entitled "The Best Residential Town near Toronto" and makes an obvious effort to get families to re-locate here. It states that Whitby ia an ideal place to live, "affording first-class railway connections to the husband, pleasant society to the wife, good education and sports to the children, and health and cheap living to the whole family. " The pamphlet was recently found by a town employee who was going througb town files. It also makes several unusual dlaims - in- cluding one that the weather here 18 better than in Toronito. "The climate of Whitby 18 much superior to that of Toronto," the book states, "being both chier and cooler. " To justîfy itss daim, the book says "the east wind at Toronto has blown 150 miles down the lake and is couse- quently damp and cold, but at Whitby it has blown along the land, and while fresh is without that raw and disagreeable quality so well known at Toronto and on the lakeshore towards Oakville. " It also makes a similar dlaim for the south-west breeze. "The south-west wind is often hot and oppres- sive at Toronto because it has blown along the shore and is a land breeze; whereas at Whitby the south-west wind has blown for 50 miles across the lake from Port Dalhousie and is consequently fresh and bracing. " Despite the "op- pressive" and "disagreeable" clima- tic conditions found there, the promotion program of 1914, just like the prograni of 1981, assumes that people will want to visit Toronto for any nuniber of reasons. For these people, the booklet describes the GO Train service of the day. There are, or rather were, "half-a-dozen trains each way fromn morning till1 evening on the main liue of the Grand Trunk Railway. " There also were two trains each way on the "new lakeshore line of the Canadian Pacific Railway." A promotional bro- chure recently issued by the present Town of Whitby claims it takes 22 minutes to drive from the towu to the inter- change of the Don Valley Parkway and ighway 401. Well in 1914, the MacDonald - Cartier Freeway did not exist. However, Highway 2, then known as Kingston Road, travelled through the town giving "a direct and picturesque route" between Whitby and Toronto. The 16-page booklet includes many pictures of, promineut landmarks including the beach at Heydeushore Park, St. John's Anglican Church and the Ontario Ladies' College, now known as Trafalger Castle School. In Whitby iu 1914, ac- cording to the bookiet, the entertainment available included out- door band conccerts in the suner and "occa- sional" bails during the long winter months. It paints a picture of the town that can neyer be recaptured and it is probably a shame that one cannot visit it because that Whltby no longer exists. It is merely a Inemory - a chapter in the history books. The promotion pro- gram of 1981, like its predecessor of 67 years ago, still makes that same dlaim. Whitby is still the "best resi- dential town near Toronto." 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