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Whltby Free Press, Wednesday, July 19,199, Page 31 Lakefiront oncea posh resort By Brian Wmnter Towan tWhit1by Archivist F'rom 1900 to 1965, Whitby had a thriving sunimer resort on the shore cf Lake Ontario, that was a mecca for taurists and visitors from Toronto. Nothing remains of the original buildings, a pavillon and nuinerous summer cottages built at Heydenshore Park at the turn cf the century. Today the park ise' a public playground owned by the Town of fWhitby, but originay it was a *private summer resont operated by the Wbitby Street Railway and Park Company. The idea of a summer resort of cottages at Port Whitby was firet voioed in 1897 by Fred Howard Annes, a visionary who propoeed many projecte for the development cf Whitby when the community only had a population cf about 3,500. By 1899 the WVhitby Board cf Trade, under chair John Bail Dow, a lawyer, approacbed Town council with a request ta expropriate ]and for the proposed resort. The site under consideration was a plot of 21 acres owned by a brother and sister,. Lawrence and, Barbara Heyden of Toronto, whose father was one of the early settlers of Whitby. The Heydens agreed to lease the property for 21 years at $200 a year and take stock ini the company which was ta manage the park A joint stock company called the Whitby Street Railway and Park Company was formed, with capital stock cf $20,000. One thousand shares were ta be sold at $20 each. By May 1900 a THIS POSTOARD view of, 1913 shows Heydenshore Park, Iooking east from a small gazebo which once stood on the lakeshore. The only remains oý the cottages at the park now are a few sets of concrete steps Ieading to the beach. Whltby Archives photo charter for the company was obta ined. The directors of tbe Company were Lawrence Heyden, John Ball Dow, James Rutledge, Lyman T. Barclay, Theodore McGillivray, Andrew M. Ross, William J. H. Richardson, Hugh M. Rosa, Fred Hatch, Thomas G. Whitfield and James L. Madill. The charter gave the Company the right ta, build an electrie street railway from the Park ta downtown Whitby, but this was neyer done. But the resort, nanied Heydenshore Park after Lawrence and Barbara Heyden, went abead. Fred Hatch, owner of the buckle factory from 1903 ta 1929, was one of the leaders in the' development of the park. A friend of R.S. McLaughlin, president of the McLaughlin Carniage Company in Oshawa, he persuaded McLaughlin and bis daugbters ta build cottages at the park. Building got underway in the spring cf 1900. Hundreds of trees were planted and a landacap gardener was- hired ta lIay out the grounds. In the suxnmer of 1901, contractors Brown and Coopers of Toronto constructed a frame pavillon in the centre of the park at a coet of $1,500. The 40-square foot pavilion consisted of a covered dance floor on the second level, with ice cream booth, change rooms and a kcitchen on the first level. The pavillon, a social centre for the town every suxnmer, stood until 1936 when it was demolished. The present Heydenshore Pavillon, b uilt in 1971, ie named after this buildià Ini May 1901, Mathias W. Colins, a local shoemaker, used traction engines ta, haul a eail house from the north part of the town ta Heydenshore Park ta be bis family cottage. Many other cottages were built in 1901 and afterwards, establisbing a prmanent summer colony at the Arrangements were made by the park company for special excursion trains and steamboats ta, bring visitors fromn Toronto ta Heydenshore Park. In July 1902, the Methodist .Deiconesses of Toronto opened &ýhome, for underprivileged chUýdren at the west end of the park. Gouzp of children . from àoono slums, 100 at a time, were brought ta Whitby where they , were- housed in the Deaconesses' Fresh Air Home for a week or two weeks. The borne was still in operation in 1932, but closed shortly afterwards because of the Great Depression of the 1930s. By 1904, the park consisted of 50 acres and was described as "the most admirable site for a summer retreat and picnic ground between Toronto and Kingston." The centre of the park was open to, the public for pienics and field days. Special events were beld at Heydenshore Park on the August Civie Holiday weekend, and excursions from Toronto such as the Danforth Businessmen's Association made annual summer tripe tothe Pak. 1n1916during the First World War, the 182nd Ontario County Battalion established a militazY training camp at Heydenshore. The bucide factory and other local industries beld their employees' summer picnics there and the wealthy citizens of Toronto, Oshawa and Whitby maintained cottages. The end of Heydenshore Park as a private summer resort came in 1965 when the Whitby Public Utilities Commission purchased the pak or $38000 and demolished the cottages., thé park was later sold to the Town of Whitby and is now maintained by the' Town's parks anc receatondepartment. 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