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ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATED Presbyterian Church celebrated its anniversary Sunday although the congregation was established in 1835 Rev Cam of Knox Presbyterian Church was the guest minister Rev Norman McMillan was minister the church from 1935 while Leonard Self now at Westminster Presbyterian Church Toronto served the charge from 1943 to 1950 Rev Ian MacPherson right took over the charge In REGISTRAR SAYS Office is for public A land registry office is a public registry office and the public t allow itself be intimidated and kept from the office Hon Wen worth land registrar Donald Cannon said Monday Mr guest speaker at the Historical Societ meeting described the original surveying of land in Ontario or Canada as it wis known at the time and workings of land registration and the registry office the historical society meeting at St Parish Mill also v at one time a job he said he w rather not return to in view the increasingly complicated paperwork in dm BOOKS I ITD CHRISTIAN BOOKS RECORDS GIFTS George St S Brampton Phone The three original centres of population Upper Canada in the s were the thencapital on tin Lake and Kingston Mr Cannon said The Governor of Upper Canada appointed a surveyor general to conduct land vevs in the areas around Niagara on the Lake York jnd Kingston and lay out the lots There was a necessity to register the ownership of the lots n view of the fact that much land had been granted to British soldiers who were vet of the Napoleonic and many of them never came to Canada The surveyors drew a straight line as close as they could to the lake from i to the Lake and divided country into 100- a being feet in length In the average the lots win I feet wide and on feet deep Mr Cannon This measured out to chains 100 Thi meisurimeni chain from the fact that actually used a chain feet in length with a post at either end to make their measurements The chain was simply planted at one end by a post and the surveyor assistant moved out with the other post until the chain was straight A chain was made up of links each link being inches long Come to Church ST GEORGES CHURCH can Rev Gallagher June TheEuchar if Choral Euchar if GEORGETOWN ALLIANCE CHURCH Ralph Sunday June a Sunday School Morn Worship Even Service Everyone Welcome Come makeour church t IMMANUEL LUTHERAN CHURCH Road al Carole Si dR Sunday June Farewell Service Sunday School Worship Service Church of Ihe Hour HALT0N HILLS PENTECOSTAL ASSEMBLY and No Rev J Sunday June m MAPLE AVENUE BAPTIST CHURCH 177 Maple Ave Georgetown Sunday School GUEST SPEAKER REV ROLANOSMITH 11 12 Sunday School lor deal Music Director Dave Shannon Prinole Mid Week Prayer Bible Study The first areas set out were the townships Counties were formed later with the linking together of five or six town ships It was once the was completed that the necessity of keeping records of land ownership became It was also around this time thai Street was laid out from through Peel and Hilton slicing off a bit of and continuing on to presentduy Most of original roads used as military roids Mr slid King Street in Hamilton which miandcrs was an Indian trail used as a military road which explains its wandering path he said The lots were laid out by feet I between con cessions the lots were every two lots a rood allowance of one chain GO feet would be left for a road Offices in the three population centres kept track of government grants While registry offices arc now filed under lot and concession numbers the early system was lied alphabetically Mr Cannon said with all in formation filed under the owner If the owner name was Smith the in formation would be filed under but the name within the file would not be In alphabetical order and searching out the information would be very time consuming In however the government passed a law giving the registrars six months to convert their files to the lot con cession reference Mr Cannon said There are areas in the United States specifically Massachusetts Honda and New York where the land titles and deeds are still filed alphabetically by owners surname This has given rise to a in duslry called land deed In Mr Cannon said With land deed insurance instead of having a lawyer the title on the property he will arrange Insurance against the title being overturned Should someone come along with a claim against the properly the insurance company will pay the insured man for the lo Just as if if were fire Insurance A lawyer conducting a title search is required to look back years Mr said A person with a claim against a of property must make the claim within or it is forfeited can placed on a deed Mr Cannon said but they are affected by a statue of limitations The statue of limitations docs not apply however in case of a charitable donation or organization As in example Mr Cannon related the story of a Salvation Army building tonslructed by Ontario first temperance men A condition attached to the deed granting the building to the dvation Army forbade the consumption of liquor on the it came time lor the Army to move to a new building years later the only group interested in the old building was the Legion It required a special act of parliament to set aside the condition against alcohol at to the deed Mr Cannon advises those search ng out land lo find out withn half mile or less the location of the property they w ish to research before to the registry office He the office receives a number of requests each year from people who want to know where their grandfather farm was but have no in formation as to where the form is located Out of letters a year asking about that kind of search about 15 are from the United States Mr Current registry records are photographed on microfilm and the original microfilm Is stored in a vault in Copies are made from the original for use in the registry The only land not found in a registry office is Indian land Mr said provincial they re federal and lot house record w I bo found in in the department affairs he said I Theoretically it Is for private citizen In deal with his land without a lawyer Mr Cannon said but 1 don advise it since the procedure is becoming mure eompliciU I bun It once was Remember as the an to g into the registry Mr said We the civil si arc required you and I hope wo serve you Willy The concensus from those attending a workshop on battered In provide temporary sanctuary for displaced women and ihlldren The workshop sponsored by the steering committee for proposed women hostel drew 3j people to hear panelists discuss the problems faced by battered women and their children as seen in their respective professions regional police John II told the audience that a hostel would be useful lo them to provide shelter for women and children during a cooling off period following marital squabble violent and unreasonable husband mode unmanageable by alcohol drugs or anger may not be persuaded to vacate his home until he cools In that ease police suggest Ihe wife and children leave and slay with a friend or neighbor overnight If have no one to shelter hem they musl be taken a hotel in the area Mr finds this A which would provide support to these people would he feels police drill with Dm domestic complaints of this nature last year Half of them were in Burlington while Oak Milton and Hills made up other half an psychiatric worker at Joseph Hospital Burlington Library deed shows no condition on use FAREWELL SERVICE LUTHERAN PASTOR Harold Patzer will preach his farewell scrmoi congregation Immonuel Lutheran Church this Sunday June at a m After a pastorale of years Rev Palicr has a call to Ihe parish of St Lukes and Lutheran Augsburg of I her on Church Missouri Synod near Pembro Ontario The I illy will leave i Hamilton Wentworth land registrar Donald Cannon brought a gift to Historical Society when he spoke at the meeting Monday copy the deed giving the Georgetown library pro perty to the town of George town for use as a library The meeting the historical society was originally to be held at library but was later to the SI Albans Pariah Hall in the glen Mr Cannon had searched the land tide and brought a copy of deed to the meet Ing The properly was deeded to town of Georgetown by the congregational church about but there were a number of conditions attached to transfer of ownership The first condition said the properly would bo deeded to the town tor use as a Free Public Library for all time to come lo be maintained by the town of Georgetown The deed does not Include any provisions as lo what would be done the property should Georgetown no longer wish to use it for a library conditions include ihe placing of a table inside the building to inform public that the building was donated by church for use as a library and preservation of Ihe memorial stained glass window The deed also forbids gamb ling of any kind on the pre mises and asks that the in church be rung every Sunday time be wilh other ministers In Visitor succumbs to heart attack A man visiting Canada from West Germany was found dead In a bedroom of the home in which he was staying last Saturday A poet mortem established that Kurt Kuhnappel rut died of a heart attack He had been staying a home on 1 Hostel need is supported only a small percentage of her patients come to her for treatment of problems by abuse is Involved Sometimes the only lime a couple communicate is when they eel so angry violence results she says As well being afraid of husbands wives may recognize that they hid part therefore reluctant to lay charges against an abusive region social services supervisor Margaret lold the audience thai government regulations will allow them lo help a woman and her until bo ho- her ibmd accommodations ore very cos also unsatisfactory she feels Ihey offer no to help a family out problem and re establish themselves We see couples reconciling and splitting up over and over again she said because the wife is pressured into a reunion She getting any help and the change however and the problems just and Winnie codirector Hope Haven Hostel for families of alcoholics in Hamilton explained how volunteers staff hostel and support its residents as they decide on reconciliation or sepornlion on a permanent bails The hostel is funded on a per diem she said and Joan Marshall a psychologist Ihe I centre noted that she could offer no research on why family battles affect some children worse than others A number of th determine the extent of the effect however and they include how often violence occurs whether child actually sees the fight or simply hears it and uses his imagination how the parent Ihe child after the fight the child relationship with both the abused and abusing parent whether the child has a teacher or grandparent who can model a different type belli vior for him Bob a member of a law firm which specializes in family law says that while can often get an Interim order giving her exclusive possession of the marital home on a temporary basis such help is rarely available in a crisis All it lakes now to gel such an order is get a lawyer to draw up an and present it to a ju The entire process can often happen in one day but what happens when the fight occurs at night or over Ihe A to provide porary shelter until a wife gets interim order would solve many problems Mr Martin feels Martin or Marty Karl as he is also known of Inasmuch House in Hamilton warned those present that volunteers may be very useful if Ihey a hostel but they must be people who have solved their Unless they arc people who have learned to live and be loving giving caring people they wilt not stand up to the problems they encounter with residents He advised the hostel steering committee to establish a firm kind of operating policy and criteria The region Is probably the place where you find funds he said but you should have some sort of back up system like fund raising campaigns to take up the NOTICE OF ANNUAL MEETING The Annual of The Georgetown District Memorial Hospital Association will be held in the hospital cafeteria at 00 PM on June 29th Honorable life members and members are uged to attend REFRESHMENTS Mr A Morris Secretary of the Board BUSINESS I DIRECTORY ACCOUNTING WINNERS Georgetown high school students took he op spots in a county wide accounting test sponsored by Ontario I us in ess Tenders I toss IB left and Bob Turner 10 senior and Junior awards respectively Their instructors Campbell left iccounting and It Harris who teaches business subjects are both pleased with their student achievements Robert H Cranfield DC CHIROPRACTOR FOR APPOINTMENT CALL ROY H EVANS D C Chiropractor St Phone I PRINTING 1 1 CHIROPRACTORS 1 PROFESSIONAL PRINTING THE HERALD CHIROPRACTOR 1 St Georgetown PHONE Dr Hamilton OPTOMETRIST Professional Build Mounts Rood Georgetown Ontario TELEPHONE 1 CHARTERED 1 ACCOUNTANTS Goebelle Wagner Ma South Hilton Omar Dr Foley OPTOMETRIST GEORGETOWN II R E Clipsham Limited IIS I If II 1 IP See 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