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THURSDAY. JU~ 20Th. 195? TH~ CANADIAN STATESMAN. EOWMANV!LL!. ONTAR!O Second Instalment History of "Home District" HR hway 7 and Scugog Road -foid Durham Club on Tour <Continued tram ast weck) An informative ancd enter- tehning history o! pioneer life ini what was known as the "Home District" o! the early dlays in this part o! Ontario was given by Dr. L. B. Wil- liams of Bowmenviile duning the annuai pihgrimage on Sat- urday etternoon, June 1sf, o!f mrerbers o! the Durham Club of Toronto ta the Homeland o! Durham. 1 cannot digfress fer enough from No. 7 Highway ta talk about roads, ivers and bays of Lake Ontario front, or toîl gates on boats. Those great piles of excavat- ed gravel you just saw west o! Greenwood strongly suggerpt that aid Lake Ontario sneakced right up ta shore line here Li the cons o! years ago. Yonden on the south side is Kinsale school where the late Saul Je!frey o! the Durham Club first taught schooh. In Kinsale the United church Is a donation fram Mrs. R. S. Mcbaughlin o! Oshawa. Her fether, Mn. Mabray, was Reeve liera a long time. Before wc reach Bnooklin we tee on a numben o! barns the riane Heben Down in white and green, some 700 acres in eil. In my early days, roadside barns carried the "Castoria" andvt.! On the north side 140 acres in associated with the Provincial Govennment for Agicuitunal Conservation pur- poses. 5 Plouthlnt Matches Five plaughlng matches have been hehd on Heber Down farms, lest yeer, 1956, the In- tern ation ai. Mn. Down is from Devon, Englend. Witb about 100 milch cows araund there oughft t be some chance ton Devonshire cream. He wes telling me there were 90 o! bis relatives so neen they couid reach his home in 15 minutes if cailed. The land here being what it is and Whitby barbon being where if is, bas made this sec- tion o! Ontario the focal point of wlieat shipment tram tht beginning. Yonden is Brooklin with a modemn budding shopping cen- tre on the outskirts. As I have already rild this No. 12 Higix- way,îWutby ta Algonquin Pa:, is tht wheat frail of the rentury. Travelling straigbt eest, the 'raad which is the next anc for 1_15.r4~ad face lifting, will take you ta the "Guide Board" rat the Scugog Raad, which we wili see later. South o! here sait was !ound, but nothing has deveioped. This village wil came inta its awn ln the future, rather then the past. It is a sponty lacrosse centre and ai- ready hes a grand anena in tne Community Park whene tis veny etternoon Bnooklin is holding its annuel spring fair. Early Settiement Dayg In the eanly settlement days, everywhere the waterweys were the Highways. Sa the present No. 12, as an earbier portage trail, leans stnangly northeast towards Lake Scu- gag, fan the fur trade with the Indiens. The village o! South Myrtie is the product o! the Grand Trunk and North Myrtie, o! the C.P.R. I can perhaps get a lapse here ta talk about the G.T.R. Brench which originehly ran tram Whitby Harbor ta Port Penny. The rails and tics are gone. The Railway was famil- iarly known hocaliy as "Nip and Tuck" for that was it. We are now crassing the se- called Pine Ridges land and al- rrost wlthin sight is anc a! the many isoaeted liff le lakes or ponds such as you see et Pan- typool are calnmon. We are now nearing Man- chester, a baoming corner, but in the eanly years o! 1800 a wheat metropolis with five ho- tels. A lina o! wagons or sleighs, as fan as the eye could sec, was e gsual seasonal sight. The pitcrl hales a! snow, Is a stary in it- self. In themn, they were se deep, is whene the drivers fred- cd hanses. As we whiz along on this highwey, ahi nesur!aced. straightencd andi widened lest yean, we can scercely picture the so!t muck and deep snow drifts o! this pioncer ruadj trail. The fermer with a light load o! wheef, travelling since 3 ar.. ram Maiposa, reacheci Manchester before dusk and put up fan the nlghf, enroute nexf day for Whitby Harbor. A planked road aven this later section permitfed two farmers ta double the iaad tram Man- chester on. But it soon praved realhy a feilune as the sharp- shod hanses soon cut if up. We will soon pass by where this fwa-inch plank was sawed. Il. wps then cheaper than hauling gravel. Rallw*y k> Port Ferry Necessity is the mother af in- ventian, by 1871, had complet- ed the railway ta Part Penny vhich was ta be the northero. terminus. This fact was nat made dlean in the hcavy mort- gage the tawn o! Part Penny assumed ta help build the nais1 way. Soon the rails were ex- tended which didn't help and if is now not long since the tawn got the hast o! thet finaxi- ciel burden paid a!!. With the nailway, bard wheat, flour and lumber tram as far down the Kewantha Lakes as Omcmee, found its water- course wey through Lake Scu- gag ta Port Penny railhead for funther shipment averseas ta Bnitain. The Pernys bed mUAs bere-so Port Penny. The first steamboat on the lake wes built et Port Penny in 1850-"The Woodman" and I would say well named! Some of us are mare familian with thd aId "Crandella", on which they went on excursions !rom Cae- saea to variaus Kawertha Lake points. The lumben fan aur Ceeserea cottage ice-house was braught by scow fnom Port Penny and backed inta shore frontage for unloading. I love that personal littie touch a! early transporta- tion ta aur cottage. Potash Industry The village Qf Prince Albert, aven south east on the two nod road with a flourishing patash manu!acturing, fait sorny for paon littie neigbbor, Part Pen- ny, but taday I admire this main street o! Part Penny, its great width, store fronts, schoois and perks. Todey, 10 seconds affer a sensation, the news is !lashed around the world. In the days o! the Cnimean War with Na- poleon in 1854 and on for years, yau beerd the news three an more months atter events hep- pened when a shîp reeched Canada tram London. When the Russian war was on, Europe had been bled white by Napoleon's terni! ic froaps ta conquer the world. Europe. without barvests, look- cd ta Canada, ta Ontario, ta Whitby, ton whieat. Wheat prices sky-racketed- the farmer wes astounded. Neyer had ha heard o! such pnices for bis only outiet, the wheat. Perhaps the pnice would go highen-it did and he held out for highen pnices stili and up they went-wheat et $2.40 a bushel. In this country you could heer e pin drap in the tension o! unsteady wheet pni- ces. Elevators Bursting With Wheat Every grain elevator in Whit- by, Manchester and Prince Al- bert, was ciogged whf h holding wheat. A winten elevaton et Ceesanca was bursting et the saams-tba same et Bowman- ville harbon. Meny a fermer trans!ormed bis "spart bcd- raom" into a wheat granary. Then the crash! The drowsy night teiegneph operaton et Prince Albert ini the stillness o! a midnight houn as the line kept ticking away, suddenly pnicked up bis cars-- be listened. Those dots and deshes said ta hlm, "The war is avenr". A boat had reached Montreal with the news already three months aid in Europe. And now ta be brie!, as the startling news spnead, wheat,' the farmer's wbeat, was a bais been. The fermer everywhere was nuined, and so were bis creditars. Tht finest bard wbeat of the world was tfed ta the hogs or rotted. But bere we are et Lake Scu- gag. Tha Indien said Scugag meent "muddy waten" on 'sua- mcrged land", or "e shallow muddy lake", wbile ifs spelling wvas equaily diversi!ied. Yonder is Scugag Island o! rame 11,000 acres, 10 miles long and 22'~ wide. Agnicultuie un the isiend wes delayed as there wves no approacb. If I mention but ana pioncer, if wil bc a Mn. Nesbitt wbo secured e grant of 250 acres et the ex- trame nant h end. The smake from bis shanty chimney curi- cd up througb the tree-tops. His first tex-bihl was fan 50c Lot Flosting Bridge Mare settîcna reached the Is- land and after some years, a log floating bridge was bulit. When the first threshing en- gine attempted ta cross, there were hundreds of people gath- ered ta watch the adventure jf the engine bobbing up and down aven the floating loge, but Mr. Watson of Caesarea made it. Several years ago when I put on a picture prograni in Port Penny my special gueats weriý the few remaining Indians rf the Scugog Indian Reserve. Up ta a few years aga Indian wom- cn from the Reserve visited the tourist colony around Caesarea, exchanging baskets fon cash or used clothing. One of the early burnîng pal- itical issues fram the Indians, the Hudson's Bay Ca., and fur- traders generally, was what was the moat expeditiaus wa- ter-route from Lake Ontario ta Lieorgian Bay? Surveys were made including Humber Val- ley, the Don, the Rouge (Neni), Lake Simcae to, scugog and eventually Wilmott's Creek. Ta- ronto even took a peek at Lalze Scugog for passible city water- .tupply source. Talk on ahi these schemes would be interesting if we had time. Tee Derby on Lake 1 suppose I should mentirn the Lake Scugog "Ice Derby" which was the winter sport of horse-racing on the !ce at Port Penny, sponsored by the local hotels. I'm told the day wound up just like--you fancy if did. I'm also told that the winters then were so cold that a fish brought up through a hale ini the ice had on]y time ta swich its tail sideways once and was frozeni stif! before the return swish. A year aga, I wrote up the history o! the building of toc marsh road, or causeway con- necting Cartwright ta save some 16 miles ta Port Perry, which cut off a good deal o! Cartwright trade ta Bowman- ville. You all take "The States- man" so I don't need ta repeat this story. The channels, you may sce cut through the marsh, wene made for the Toronto spoit s club that are licensed fan duck shooting, muskrat farming, eýc. They have a fine club house in the marsh. For many years Caesarea na- tives have fished sunken logs out o! the marsh bottomn for thein !ire-wood supply. The Hare and the Tortolse Many people inquire whene I get ahl my local information af regional history here. One day in crassing the marsh raad I wvas favared with getting a pic- ture o! a very large o d-tiiner mud turfle. When I told him, I didn't like turtle soup he be- came much more tniendly and taîkative. In oun conversation the turtie asked me if 1 had ever heard the fairy-tale of the race o! "The Hare and the Tor- toise". I said I had and that '.slow and steady wins the race". He told me that was na fairy- tale but really happened nigat on this marsh road. He, him- self, was the tortoise and Dr. J. J. Hare, an ardent Lakce Scugog fisherman, then principal «1 Whitby Ladies' Collage, was the hare. In thein !nxendly talk the race was anranged. Here is the secret said the turtie. When Dr. Hare would get on well ahead o! me he was tempted ta pick a few lusciaus raspberries whic"h were ripe and plentiful there on the roadside at the time. Then, said the turtie, I would slip off the road into the waten where I could make better time and I suppose Dr. Hare won- dered haw I got by wvithout bis seeing me-and the tartoise won the race. And I said to myseif, ta think I believed that it was ail a fainy-tale! Near the sharp bend in thA marsh road we cut across the boundary between Reach town- ship o! Ontario county and Cartwright township o! Dur- ham county From now on yoLi are ail unden the kind protec- Have your grandpanents told you about when, according ta a local religiaus scct that !lour- ished around Harmony area, the world was caming ta an end on a certain day at midnight? To prave bis faith and knowledge a certain adherent arranged ta tread the waters o! Lake Scu- gag fromn Washburn ta Cae- sarea, even as Christ on Lake Galilee. Thousands gathered in curiosity. The very lange pair o! shoes he wore, made ouf o! waod, bowever, leaked and like my fishing sometimes in the lake, there was no luck. î-:e %vent down. He told the disgust- cd crow'd he would try aga:n and that his figuring of time Must hav-e somehow been wrong. Some onlookens wereI detenmined ta duck him. The Caeaar Cemetery Not having time ta visit Cae. sarea, we will miss the Caesar cemetery with the Caesar sim- lier five white stones, the Big Creek with its mansh marigolds row ini their golden bloom ai:.d the Lake Shore tourist cla" Li nime r a , ot Durhèqn County. Maybe from ber. o= yoI know more about the history than I do, but you are approach- ing the elaborate new Central Blackstock Sehool ,vhich I won't express my opinion about. 1 understand we are ta stop in the village ta pay our respects officially ta the two monu- ments, the World War Veterans end the Pioneers of Cartwright Township. Donnybrook, Wil- liamsburg and Blackstock have been successive village names. (better leave the reason for change af names until the elec- tion is over. Memorlal to Pioneers (While stopping at the tw.a monuments at Blackstack President A. A. Martin of the Durham Club expressed the thoughts of his fellow travel- lers when he said, "As we visit this Memorial ta the Ploneers of Cartwright it is a very in'- spiring occasion. We are en- cauraged ta think about the great sacrifices and efforts of these early settiers, and the fine foundation which they laid for the present life that the people in this area now en- joy"') As I loak upon this wor!i crazy speed-mad unending me- tor traffic my thoughts go back, but anly a few brie! years ago when 'n 1908 a clipping I made from The Statesmnan, referning ta the Durham caunty M.P.P. reads as follows: J. H. Devitt's. Bill in the House ta keep the highways free of motor cars on Tuesday, Thursday or Saturday in any week, and 9 a.m. ta 2 p.m. Sun- day, was commended by The Statesman"~. (Mr. Editar of ti- day yau are exonerated). As a buddingc school master 1 was offered the princely sa1- ary o! $215 for a schoal in Cart. wright. Youn Durham Club member, Mrs. Fred Bawen, did teach in Cartwright and I hope fared better. Just suuth of Blackstock is where the parents of the Dur- ham Club's founder, Dr. James L. Hughes, spent their declin- ing years. The number of great Cana- dian pioneer men and women associated with aur route today are legion and 1 daren't stant ta tell about them or even namc them. It takes me three full pro- grams in pictures ta tell my stary o! Scugag Road, s0 I better not attempt a smattering, but I do insist that the bus pays its respect ta my beloved Enniskillen village by a mom. ent's halt. Start of General Motors We are looking upon the site (just sauth of the church) of the beginning of what is today the General Matons of Canada. Also The Sylvester Farm Im- plement Ca., later in Lindsay, rivalled Massey-Harris of New- castle. Despite ail the philanthropic money Mr. and Mrs. Sam Mc- Laughlin have already lavish- ly spread around, he has sf111, I'm sure, an unsatisfied desire or ambition Niz., ta build here Four Distric Meet St. Pc 4E in Enniskillen, a memorial monument on the very site of the first McLaughlin Carrnage Works, a monument here to the name "McLaughlin" and what At has always stood for, woald make the past of this village live again - would challenge posterity and honor Canada. Just across the street is where Mrs. Williams and I were married and where Mr. Sain McLaughlin was born. We both got our eyes opened there. Gi! ts to Native Village The late Mr. George Mc- Laughlin, who continuously travelled from Oshawa with hîs wife to attend Durham Club meetings in Toronto, signed the cheque for part of the village schaol and playing field, you've just passed. The parsanage and Cominunity Hall were his gifts. Here further down the street in the earlier grounds of the aid Presbyterian Church, where the McLaughlin famîly's father, the late Robert McLaughlin, added gracious dignity with fus presence, you will see the mon- ument around which are clus- tered the early local pioneers' grave stones, all in the perpet- ual keeping of George Mc- Laughlin's kindness. You wil want a rest frorn my talk before reaching your destination, the Provincial Gov- ernment Training School for Boys at Bowmanville. In con- clusion, may I, ta the village and this church on the hill of my boyhood days, extend in verse my thanks and regards. "As long as men build churches an a hili, And hold within their hearts the quiet will To raise their sons in piety and worth There wi]l be freedom always on this earth." s IAIA ow long can a baby anim r VV.I . live without food? The othe UDr. ~home frrn the field a cow w¶U iu o p her newly born afThsw luiUU G ou on Monday and the foflowin, Saturday mornmng they discov Members of Tyrone, Salem, ered the second cal! in th Port Penny and Newtonvile field. Instead o! one cal! ther Women's Associations were had been twins. It appeared t guests of St. Paul's United be ini good condition and wa Church W. A. on Tuesday a!- 50 wild it was caught with dil ternoon, June il. St. Paul's ficultY. Evening W. A. also joined with Mr. and Mrs. Stanley Nich the Afternoon Auxiliary fol ols of Port Carling visited wit; this meeting when about 50 la- Mr. %nd Mrs. Carroll Nicha) dies were present. President last week. Mrs. W .Teeple of the afternoon W.A. presided and welcomed Sure, a dollar went a lot fat the guests. ther 20 years ago-.-but, wh Four ladies from Port Perry had one, then? took the devotional. Mrs. Col- nish read the Scipture and Mrs. Sam Cawken and Mrs. Jef- 2-A PC A fer sngtwo duet numbers, IL "Man of Galilee", and "Sun of LOW ROUND-TRIP My Soul". Mrs. Jackson read * A E the 23rd Psalm from which she RALEA E drew thoughts applying to the TO personal lives of ahl. EsenO E Miss Florence Gardiner i- EsenQ E E troduced the guest speaker, (FASTOF MoNrLv-Hf« Mrs. E. D. Cornish, Presidenit o! the Oshawa Presbytery w. und the MARITIMEU A., who spoke an W.A. work in the church. There are 55 associations in Oshawa Presby- tery and 6100 in Canada. Las' year these associations made .,j almost five million-dollars. Mrs . -_ Kenneth Hull moved a vote o!f thanks ta Mrs. Cornish. At the conclusion of the meeting, a social time was en- joyed with lunch being served L-q by, Group 3. Enjoy a refreshin sun-filled vacatuol "Down East" this year. Inoîem"v WESLEYVILLE holiday fares give you a 25-dal limit with stop-overs permitted. Well the election is aven for the time being but Carroll Ni- chois stili has plenty of workl ofd e ta do in getting ail the material in praper 'order and returning JUNE 17th TO SEPTEMBER 2« it ta Ottawa. There were 55 at Sunday scho'.l Conaufi ony Coadion Pucifie Ralvay ogo with ahl teachers but one pres -_______________ ent. Caral Thonndyke read thie E Scripture. As is usual thnaugh- r P out the summen many lovely flowens beauti!ied the church SEE YOUR AUTHORIZED CHEVROLET DEALER V~ 11fr MO MNEFFICIEWV ENGINES IN lTE 'AOILD it'a Elizabeth Arden DEODORANT STICK Blue Grass So fresh! So fragrant! So wonderfully sure! 5a easy Io appl e superlatrvel, safe, o pure ... Fisabeth Arde's new Deoclorant Stick is anti-allergie, contraIs perspration and deodonîzes. 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