Halton Hills Newspapers

Georgetown Herald (Georgetown, ON), June 22, 1977, p. 7

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Upper Canada College here Did Upper Canada College atari in Georgetown Ac cording to a woman Jean and Margery MacKenzle knew In ihclr youth It did The early school was In a white house on the corner of Maple and Parkview Avenues and was operated by a Rev Charles Dade Rev Dades pupils erected a monument to him some time after his death It la In the cemetery beside St Georges Anglican Church Money that was left over from the tomb stone used to buy stained glass windows tor St George s Church Jean recalls that Rev Dadet daughter used to lit where the light coming through those windows fell on her when she attended services Mrs Nell Gardiner remembers Miss Dade as the organist at the Congregational Church The Dade tombstone gives Miss Dades name as Amy She died in 1924 at the age of According to the monument Rev Dade was a Fellow of Cavia College Cambridge He died May 1872 at the age of That Rev Dade started the college in Georgetown moved it to Weston then finally set It up in the present location seems unlikely However a Georgetown resident from pioneer times says he was connected with It CW Young son of the James Young so men tioned as one of Georgetowns rounders wrote letters to The Herald in 1920 In one of them he remembers Rev Dade Rev Charles Dade who hod been the first Mathematical Master at Upper Canada College Toronto lived on the road between Georgetown and Stcwarttown and also con ducted a private school for preparing university pupils The writer of these notes had the privilege of his instruction He also churches In the vicinity A Cambridge wrangler he was a ripe scholar who taught boys a great many things that were not in the text hooka and In sisted on their memorising gems of the classics which even yet are a delight to hours of school were From nine to two and on Saturdays from nine to eleven On Saturdays he used to write a dozen questions on the black board In arithmetic or or algebra and the boy who was clever enough to do them correctly and speedily could skip as soon as he completed his written answers and be rewarded with a York Shilling cents which was a good deal more money in those limes than now Mr Dade had a rare faculty of clothing with flesh the dry bones of history and making human entities of the names we read of In the classics When we were reading Caesars Com mentaries he hod us cons tract In miniature a bridge across the Rhone from the spec Heat ions of the illustrious Roman general and If we did not rebuild the wooden horse from Virgil s Aeneld and fashion a derrick with which Ulysses bored out the single eye of the Cyclops we used to talk about doing so and draw pictures of these famous in Mr Dade had a habit of writing little bits of poetry for the edification of his pupils which were often more ef fective than punishment would have been Here are a couple of specimens that I remember For a lazy boy He cats and plays and sleeps what then He eats and plays and sleeps again Mind your cases Remember boy in Its proper place Always to put your nominative And when two words are nearly alike Upon the right one be sure to strike Rev wife Helen was the daughter of an early minister Phillips She died In 1682 at the ageof Pheasants available The Region Con servation Authority will again this year have pheasants available for release to private landowners Four hundred birds have been raised for the stocking program and each landowner meeting requirements will receive pheasants Applications will come on a first come first serve basis and should be made to the Regions Milton office telephone B7M131 THE HERALD Wednesday Jane a Pane Special ALL PRICES SHOWN IN THIS AD GUARANTEED EFFECTIVE THROUGH SAT JUNE 1977 Sinclair Ave Georgetown TICKETS Argos vs Montreal Wednesday June only Tickets now on sale 2 One ticket may be purchased with each 500 purchase each 500 purchase Tickets available until closing time Tuesday June 28th Shop eariy only 3200 tickets available while supply lasts Tickets available at stores in 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