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Whitby Free Press, 11 Jun 1980, Our Historical Heritage, p. 12

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PAGE 12, WEDNESDAY J UNE 11, 19 80, "OUR HISTORICAL HER1TAGE. , WHITBY FREE PRESS CONGRATULATIONS TO WHITBY ON THEIR from Cooper-Smith Oshcawa 1909 M 1980 E. E. G. Cooper was the founder ln 1905. H. Smiith formed the partners hi p in 1909. Success in the past 71 years has mode it possible to ex pond wlth o new 20,000 squore foot office and wholesale warehouse ln WhItby, stocking Rolston Purlna anid Shur -Gain(~ dog food. Cooper-Smnit.h WAREHOUSE OUTLET 119 Consumers Dr., Whitby, 668-1114 Built around 1808, Lynde House is acknowledged as the oldest home in the Whit- by area. It was built by Jabez Lyn- de, the first settier on the York to Kingston military road that was buit between 1808 and 1810. During Lyn- de's occupancy, the house was also used as a tavern for soldiers defending the Lake Ontario coastline in what was then known as UPPER Canada. The building has been maintained in its original state and is owned and operated by the Whitby Historical Society as the Whitby Museum. -Photo courtesy of the Henry Heritage Collection The world is our workshop, but Whitby is our home! You mnay not know our name or what we do, but we're vour neighbour, and in our owfl speciai field we're internationally fainous. Wc arc Ferrco Engineering, and since 1968 we have been designing the world's niost advanced steel rnills from our hecad- quarters Hi Whitby. Ferrco-designed milis are operating i New jersey, Texas, Michigan, Great Britain . .. and in WVhitby. The Lasco plant here is one of our most successful miûls. We are also involved in feasibility studies, modernization and expansion for steel inilis in other parts of Canada and the US, in Ireland, Scandinavia, Spain, the Mviddle and Far East, Africa and Latin America. But though our work takes us round the world, home is here in Whitby. We'rc proud to bc part of this thriving com- munity, and look forward to rnany more prosperous vears. 1400 llopkixis Street. 'IVhitby, Ontario I~668-9301 Lyn de Ho use Whitby 's oldest heri*tage butiding 05 200 1

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