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THE HERALD July 1I7S Georgetowns community Newfoundland will always be their home TAYLOR Herald writer The two areas may be se parated by about miles but Georgetown has a little piece of Newfoundland right In Us back yard It t look very different from its but the hall at Unit Armstrong Avenue is probably the heart Georgetown community of Newfoundlanders A far as the members of the Newfound land club are concerned there no such Ihlng as an ex New and when they meet at the hall club president Brian Kill says the talk usual ly tuna and tall tales from back home Moat of the Newfoundland era who ended up In George town originally came from Bell Island a small bland off the provincial capital of SI John The men were employ at the Viobana Mines the larges Iron ore mines in the world at the time but in the mines began to close down because competition from mining operations In Lloyd Bennett vice dent of the club said the mining operations on I Jell Is land produced a ton of iron ore for but Labrador could produce and the Island operation was forced to dose The layoffs began in with the plant finally closing up In Moat of the Newfoundland migrated to Ontario look ing for work They settled in Toronto Brampton George town and Gait for the most part Gait has one of the largest papulations of expatriate New with sufficient membership for two clubs Mr Bennett said the majorl of the Newfoundlanders in the area go home for a visit every two years or so NO WORK It a nice place to visit but there no work there Mr Bennett said Newfound land is home like people who from Europe coll it The Old Country Home Is where the heart re here for economic reasons The Georgetown chapter tbc Newfoundland was formed unofficially in with the first of a scries of dances held at Holy Cross auditorium around Christmas The dances were held In dllfcr locations Tor the next lew years The club received its Charter In and moved to the Riviera Club now the in in 1974 About or families up from Bell Island oiler the mines closed and we wanted some place to meet because we were all strangers club member Dick said Membership was as high as 120 families while the club was in the Riviera Club but it drop- pled off later when the club found temporarily home less again The membership is It snot necessary to be from New to belong to the club membership is open to anyone for a per family but In order to hold on office the member must be from Newfoundland descend or married to someone from Newfoundland The club found present hall early in but had to go through a lot of red tape to gel permission to go ahead be cause the area is zoned Indus trial It look months to the proposal by Iht committee of adjustment and a total of years to gel the hall lor the opening two weeks a All the work in the hall was done by club members except for the plumbing nan profit organization and many of the expenses the members incurred along way to getting the hall ready to open came out of their own The hall will be used by club as a gathering place for cards darts or other games and just silting around to talk with friends The hall has a special occasion liquor licence which they hope to to a permanent licence by this fall The hall is available for rent by any group DONATIONS The club has donated funds to different organizations in eluding the North Ha I ton for the Mentally Re larded Georgetown and Memorial Hospital and the Ontario Society for Crip pled Children The club has its own baseball team and hockey team and hopes to sponsor minor hockey ind baseball teams Mr Hill that the club members would be happy to assist at any functions organ icd by the Courtesy and helping others ore common traits among Newfoundland Mr SO LONG Staff and contributed Tor this ceramic and a decanter at a farewell gilt to Park Public School principal Lesper who leaving the school for another school In tooth Ho I Ion Herald photo PHOTO SEMINARS Mountsberg Wildlife Centre will be holding seminars on photographing wildlife this weekend with expert nature photographers talking about photography and answering questions The fee is M per car and the seminars big not both Saturday July and Sundu July road and a car coming and the driver slops and waves out you can figure he from Mr said The motto is tomorrow HI ST Ill- Mr Hill lived all his life in Get but is married a phtrL in speaks to visitors is to 1 is neighbors and no doors are locked In said It an insult to a New foundlander is he invites you tits and you refuse Mr Willi Newfoundlanders for regular vi its it easy to monitor the change it home but while lie province Mr Bennett it not fast The far ve int i Mr Hill sild Bell Island v I ich once had a of 000 now hi only and the I them working in St John or the Most people from Island were miners Mr Bennett sai 1 Most people when tht y think of Newfound think of fishermen Hut the mine on Bell were the biggest iron ore mines in the wenl w iv out under the ocean floor You got miners you g fisher men le got lofij and lien I like in the rest of Can da Mr Bennett on a lo iilk about wfountllan I it let pee pie know some Hunts not know about rumple a lot of people from the it ipe in Newfoundland is very much ke the landscape of I While join until 19 it did an import part in the Allied ir effort with a be r e f located around the slant It is the closest to Conception the spot wlurt con i firmed send Hie ships in roups for pro from boats Mr Bennett s ren all the come in he suid Pour ore freighters were sunk in irbor off Bell Island by I bo hulks si 11 r sank where they Bell Island and the four Kilters ere more story in one part of Newfoundland linn thcreisuitle restofdnada Mr Bennett ml He pointed out Newfoundland was the part of which Tie Is tl British i jomei off oil belongs he sue New To was stale her offshore It loner Some of the families which settled in area have gone ind once the husbands retire Mr Bennett said lie others with family ties in slay put A of people up I ere nut pi innlnj to bee Iheir friends were home he said But thin they I for I to week visit and they el wait to back here because ill their Is ire up They were once very much the style but jokes iron heard too often any more But lo talk to members of the club the Jokes terribly offensive Most Jokes are told Mr Hill said Some of the stones Hint come Mr Hill not a Newfound lander himself but some true- he starts to feel like one he sad Bung around all the time you get IUo their ways he When you got and everybody a lalkiig Idling stones you soon enough jou get a different Mr Bennett said Up here to a New foundlaner people from On la no sound Mr Bern mod up the p may have sum position of iii dinners best Newfound I oners have a eert ilu comradeship he said re like other ethnic groups in Canada We re Just an ethnic group of Canadians insmitiiville ont ASSORTED FLAVORS Fruit Drinks ASTRA Salmon CARAMEL CRUNCH ARROWROOT DIGESTIVE NICE GINGER CRISP SHORTCAKE RICH TEA OR BUTTER RINGS Peek Frean Biscuits 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