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Tilt HERALD June a I DOWNTOWN GEORGETOWN Taxi started in 193738 Whltmee 3 Taxi was the first one In Georgetown It began In or 1938 although neither Ray nor Prank are exactly sure of the year Walter Whltmee began with a black fourdoor Ford with a soft rubberized top and curt to let down over the win down when It rained Fare was 15 cents Nobody wanted a taxi Id those days Ray chuckles Everybody walked You get half way up hill and wonder If you make it to the Mr met all the trains hoping for passengers but his sons feel he have had more customers If he demised the streets the way taxis do He charged a quarter logo to or Glen Williams and they were his big money making runs It was a long walk Ray explains so more people arc willing to pay for a ride In a good day they guess he have earned SI 50 When Walter Whltmee and his wife arrived from England in hey had four children They lived in a stone house on the Fourth Line in Esquesing while Walter worked for Fred Brown Two or three days later he moved to Georgetown and bought out Barber s Dairy cows buildings equipment and wagons That dairy was over on the Barber form op posite the paper mill dam Frank says They ran the dairy for about years but when Georgetown passed the bylaw requiring pasteurization Mr decided to get out of the business Ray had returned to land by this I me but Frank was with his father recalls the end of their dairy We bought milk already pasteurized bottled and in the cases ready for delivery from Peel Dairy he says It was too expensive to get the equip ment ourselves so we tried buying It for a year or less I went down every day and got it and delivered It One funny thing regarding the pasteurization was that Dr McAllister let his kids have pasteurized milk Frank says He seemed to it was a fad that would pass So long as the herds had been tested for tuberculosis he thought that was good enough He used to go up to Cleaves to get his milk rather than have It pasteurized The taxi business followed the closing of the dairy even if no one Is sure of the exact date Heritage series makes community aware The resources available to communities concerned with saving their cultural heritage was discussed at the second of the Barber lecture series The Barber series present by the Esquesing Historical Society Is geared making the community aware of Its historical culture Anthony Adamson chair man of the architectural con committee of the Ontario Heritage Foundation explained that before a com munity can preserve what they have they musj accurately determine was Is historically and culturally worth saving Inordertodothls municipal council must pass a bylaw to allow the formation of a local architectural conservation ad vlsory committee Once this has been done a community can start to and designate buildings they feel have architectural or historical Importance Ha I ton Hills Is now in the planning stage of forming a said the protection and enhancement of Individual buildings entire blocks and sometimes special areas or districts are tangible ways to respect the past Buildings which could be considered for historical de signation might include those that show the work of an architect or known master builder example of a particular style First on the list of buildings to be considered once Hills has a are the Barber dynamo ruins wick Hall and the Acton town hall John McDonald president of the Historical Soc explained that before a building can be designated historical and repairs and ovations carried out it must be determined what the building will be used for when the work is done In the cose of the Acton townhall said it would be best If the police stayed In the building lo main lain a pal lie established In Halton Hills the historically and culturally Once a LACAC has been renovation of buildings will There was no insurance on passengers when Whitmecs taxi began running Nor was there any service on Sunday except for special occasions 1 ke the minister to church in chouse Taxis run on Christmas Day although they would have gone on New Year Ray says Mr tmee had compcllt ion from Palmer in those days but It was always friendly Ray took over his father a bus miss at the end of the Second World War and sold loMr Lcider in Glen Williams The service is now Glen Taxi 1600 to 1700 PEOPLE IN GEORGETOWN IN 1893 KOBES NOOK A WHOLE NEW WORLD OP GIFT IDEAS if Handcrafted Jewellery if Pottery if Hanging Planters I if Wall Hangings if Decorative Candles if Plaques if Glassware Plus much more Georgetown today contains between six teen and seventeen hundred inhabitants lis ass property is valued at its liabilities are said to be and its assets Including school buildings works town hall and fire apparatus are given at The village officers arc Daniel zle reeve George S Good clerk and treasurer Joseph Barber William Bar clay Daniel Cook and William councillors and Edwin Search chief constable of gift Ideas MAIN ST S GEORGETOWN 877 MILTON MALL MILTON 878 Pioneer Days 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