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1 1 Section Two The Canadian Statesman, Bowmanville, April 24,1991 7 Orono Collector Fascinated by Local History by Laura J. Richards It is hard to pin her down, but one could say Helen Helen Schmid, of Orono, is an historical detective with collecting collecting tendencies. Mrs. Schmid has been gathering historical data for 25 years. One would tend to think of this as ironic, since she didn't like history when she was in school. "I didn't like most of the subjects in school except for French," said Mrs. Schmid. "I'm more of a detective trying trying to figure out how to find out things." Fitting pieces into an ever-widening puzzle is how she goes about collecting her information. . To call her a collector would not be anywhere near the truth, as she admits to being more. "I'm a pack rat, I can't help myself. But, I don't collect collect things just to have them --1 study them." Currently, she. has files in her office on the Dominion Dominion Organ and Piano Company Company and two cheese facto ries that used to be in the ' Courtice area, but that isn't the extent of her collection. She also has telephone books, autograph books, Orono postcards, greeting cards from Christmases past and St. Valentine's Day too. But even all of that doesn't cover all the bases. Currently, she is working on a 200-family genealogical study of the Clarke Township. Township. So she has a lot of information information on this project in her office. One thing you learn immediately immediately about Mrs. Schmid is the fact that she collects all the time. She may be involved in a big project project now, but she also has another on the go. Her autograph collection' is one such project. She has. more than two dozen of these multi-colored cloth- covered books in which men . and women and boys and girls have signed their names and left small verses inside. She has even traced a romance through autograph autograph books. "What many people don't know is that not only girls had them," said Mrs. Schmid, speaking about the autograph albums. "One of the books I have belonged to aman." Some of the verses written written into the albums are full of wisdom like this one written written in 1881: "Chose not your friends from outward snow; Feathers float, while pearls lie low." . Others were just plain fun like this excerpt from the 1920's written by a young man enamoured. It reads: "Our eyes have met, Our lips, not yet, But Oh, you kia, I'll get you yet!" The books were not used strictly for autographs either. either. In one book owned by Mrs. Schmid, a young woman woman had painted in water colors colors a picture of Chillon Lake in Switzerland. The young woman was from Toronto and was studying in Switzerland Switzerland in 1893. In another book was a colored drawing of forget-me-nots. "After all, that's what these albums were used as - -forget-me-nots." Autograph albums are not as popular as they once were, she said, because "yearbooks have taken the place of autograph books." She said that, upon asking one stationery store owner if he sold autograph books, she was told, "yes, hut only one or two a year." Mrs. Schmid is always on the lookout for more information information on the autograph books and more books. She is a wealth of information information and can give you a lively history lesson on Oro no and surrounding areas, when asked. For instance, what do you know about the two cheese factories that were located in Courtice? One of these was the Lake Shore/Darlington Cheese Company. "This company died at the turn of the century," she said. "It was one of two cheese factories located in the Courtice area. "A local man, John Waddell, Waddell, helped supply the cheese factory with a number number of items including fine gauze, rennet, anatto color ing, cheese boxes. "He also acted as an agent to buy cheese for a firm in Montreal to ship to England." She has bills of sale, bills, a sample of the fine gauze used to wrap cheese and a list of codes sent to Mr. Waddell from the firm in Montreal. Her collections and reams of . files cover a number of different topics within the local area. Fortunately, she doesn't try to keep the information information all to herself. She likes to share the wealth. Pjfe o y' "S? » The Region of Durham is investigating the re-location of its health services office in Bowmanville. At last week's council meeting, councillors approved approved a recommendation that staff investigate leasing office space in Bowmanville. Currently, the health services services department is located in space rented from Memorial Memorial Hospital Bowmanville. The building is the former former nurses' residence for the hospital. A report from the Medical Officer of Health, Dr. Robert Kyle, states that the building building is deteriorating. He noted that ceilings are cracked and windows don't close tightly. Air conditioning conditioning doesn't exist and the heating system is uncontrollable. uncontrollable. "Our repeated contacts with hospital staff and administrators administrators have not resolved resolved the problems, and no assurances- are being given .that these physical condi tions will be corrected. Fifteen persons work in the office, including clerical staff, public health nurses, dental assistants and public health inspectors. Dr. Kyle noted that there is space available in Bowmanville, Bowmanville, but the rental costs will be higher than the Durham Region currently is paying. The cost of the rent will be shared with the Ministry of Health and the Durham Region. ■'<- f , , .. These cards were given to a teacher called Miss Cain by some of'her students, said Orono historian and collector, Helen Schmid. O.F.A. President Makes Presentation to Premier fl m : ~' r - . _ . . r--:: .. . ■ On Wednesday, April 3rd, supported solidly by leaders of commodity groups and 100 farmers representing representing county federations from across the province, Roger George, President of the Ontario Ontario Federation of Agriculture, made a pres-, entation to Premier. Rae and his Cabinet, on behalf of the farmers of Ontario. In his opening remarks, Mr. George pointed to the number of farmers who are forced to seek off farm employment employment in order to support their farms, George said. "This is the underlying signal signal of an industry in trouble and an industry where profit profit is elusive in many sectors." sectors." He stressed the importance importance of agriculture to the Ontario economy and the need to ensure that the government government understands and supports the basic infra-, structure of our industiy and rural Ontario during a period of economic upheaval. ^Ontario agriculture is taken taken for granted by the public and we cannot allow agriculture agriculture to lose its competitive ability to feed our citizens because of government neglect," neglect," George said. He went on to acknowledge acknowledge that he was ' pleased that as a result of OFA lobbying lobbying efforts, the government government has responded with a 50 million Farm Interest Assistance Assistance Program even before before the Ontario budget was introduced. He noted that while this is a short-term relief relief program, we also have a commitment from the government government to work with us to bring in a long-term credit policy for the farmers of Ontario. Ontario. George indicated that his pleasure over this commitment commitment was partially negated when Premier Rae said, "I can't give you a commitment commitment to NISA this year." In response, the OFA emphasized emphasized that the Net Income Stabilization Account (NISA) is an integral part of the new safety net package and is vital for the horticultural horticultural sector. "We will continue continue to press for the early implementation," implementation," said George. During the presentation, Premier Rae was presented with an Open Letter signed package and to prove the by 19 Ontario farm leaders, government's stated commitemphasizing commitemphasizing the need to .ment to agriculture is more complete the safety net .than rhetoric. Autograph books were used for more than collecting autographs. Some were used as small art books. The one shown here is from the collection of Helen Schmid, of Orono. 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