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PAGE 10, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 27, 1980. WHITBY FREE PRESS Our histori cal heritage By EUGENE HENRY, Whitby's foreinost historian Goldring made a quiet contribution to Whitby It takes more than heritage houses and tree- lined streets to give a town character. I takes people with character, old, on-going families like the- Goldrings of Port Whitby to provide that vital and elusive element for the heart and core of a comniunity. This they have done, quietly and successfully sin- ce 1885 when Captain Richard Goldring first sailed into Whitby harbor to find a new home, raîse a family and become involved in the commercial life 0f the area as a sailor/merchant. He belonged to the age of sail, on the Great Lakes, fir- st as a hand on smaller boats and finally as the captain of his own small schooner, the Maple Leaf. Captain 111 DUNDAS STREET WEST WHITBY 668-1464 DIAL -N - INSPIRATrION. Dial 668-1331 and hear a three minute inspirational message by Pastor Emmo Oltmanns of the Emmanuelchurch at 401 Rosstand RoadW. in Whitby. Goldring was no stranger to Whitby because he often brought the Maple Leaf into harbor here, as lie circled Lake Ontario in the Canada/U.S. trade in grain, lumber, coal and building stone. Captain Goldring was blessed with a large family and many of them remained close to two storey red brick home on Dufferin Street near the harbor, to assist in running the two family business ventures. There was the coal operation on dock side at the harbor and a grocery store where the Texaco gas station is now located at the intersection of Brock and Victoria Streets. His sons John and Ernest, worked at the grocery store where Olive was the post- mistress for almost haîf a century. Bertha is mistress of the old home now . The store was the centre of Port Whitby life as long as it was there from 1912 to 1967 when it was torf down, unable to compete with the super market of oui' time. Goldring was one of the first stores to handie gasoline for an emerging motor age and one of the last to keep kerosine for lighting and cooking. The Goldring. family The Goldring House remained close to their churcli (St. John's Anglican) and Norman, a hondsome young man became a minister and moved away to serve others. The house on Dufferin Street has changed but little with the passage of the years, since Captain Goldring sat under the trees on his well-trimmed lawn of a Sunday afternoon visiting with his family and friends. The Goldrings are inex- tricably identified with the turn of the century days of Port Whitby-they were people with great character and good will for their- neighbors, respected by ahl. uju