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A genuine crossroads community Corners once had it all WEEKEND EXTRA Friday iHUPRe7 HANNAH Herald among historically flue hamlets as a crossroads community merging two counties and four townships Corners located the other side of once offered lis rural residents a church a hotel a store Corners earned Its name because of the Mor den Crewson family that own property on both sides of the towntlne separating aid irm Townships accord to a long time community resident Although there arc a few houses on the Esqucsing Town side it the line now they are new to the community and only one structure existed In Township Jack came to the area with his family In Only two other area residents Doug Guthrie whose family shortly after the Airdries and Herb Brown whose family preceded the are still In the area Today the community Is approximately 110 Mr estimates Only a handful of these people Mr Outline proudly recalls time when Crewson Corners was on maps and In school atlases even though Acton wasn t mentioned quite a reversal of the present situation The reason for this fame stems from the fact the rail way had planned to put a station at Corners Mr Airdrie says but Mr Crewson sell them land for it They did have a water tower on the side of the four corners and farmers hauled wood there to supply the trains when they stopped for and fuel However without the station the Canadian National Rail way let stop disappear and settled on Acton a few miles to the cast as their atop As a result Corners remained a crossroads and Acton became a town Mr Guthrie says his familysfarmat Lot l sion 7 Township was all marked off into lots at one time and assumes this happened in the mid lBOOs when the railway went through and plans were being discuss to erect the station Mr Guthrie says used to say the barn on his farm was once a tannery or a woodworking He has found wood tailings around be building which would indicate the stones may be true is long before his the community John son bo husband of her Mini no Dear jn of Ryan olio in Rosl ng Loo Funeral Homo Ltd Queen St S Funeral It bo hold I on d at In torment Comotory SERVICES LET US TAKE YOUR CALLS Add a Utile prestige to your business TELEPHONE ANSWERING SERVICE 877 6973 and also took down the store addition The hitching posts were still In place along the road when he purchased the building in 1936 Not long after he purchased It Mr Airdrie decided to fix a piece of wall which continually cracked no ma tier what paper Ing and painting his wife did to spruce the room up When he stripped it down he discovered a horseblanket nailed to the over which plaster had been applied Under the blanket were the original bat wing doors of the hotel Crewson Corners also boasts the first oil Will to be found in Halton County Tony Senyuck dug his first oil well in a swamp on the town line a bit south of the lour corners In the early 1930s because an oily film could be seen on the swamp each summer Although he worked away on the well for probably up to five years he never got more than family tame in 1930 Among SIGNS OF SPRING- soon to flow Area schools teachers should now be booking visiting days for the Credit Valley Conservation Authority annual maple syrup educational program being held this year at the Orangcville Reservoir Conservation Area March through April excluding the school break week To book your classes contact George Roberts at the Authority office 1615 but be forewarned that the program already booked Every facet or the maple sugar and sirup mini industry Is examined and maple products will The Orangcville Reservoir meanwhile will open its natural wonders to the general public Mar and and and April and for the fifth annual Maple Syrup Festival There plenty to do and plenty to learn about not to mention plenty to eat Phone the Authority office for more information got Spring Fever CITY TVs Dinl Petty and internationally known beautician Zchava will be among the special guests at Spring Fever a fashion and beauty show being presented April at North Golf and Country Club Coorgan I The Beauty Spot and The Lingerie Boutique have also recruited Major Pete and Coun Sheldon as guest clients they loan their political visages to several demonstrations of Beauty Spot cosmetic and skin care techniques Guthrie or his youth in the hamlet are tales of playing on a loci ball team during the depression They were called the Salts and used to challenge teams from other communities to pick up games There wis no league and it was all in fun he says Mr lives at Lot I Concession Erin Township in what was originally a II room hotel Later it became a com store but Mr closed it In 1942 He took down the born which had once housed customers horses JCP PLUMBING CONTRACTING Residential Plumbing Additions Alterations For Information Call Anytime Custom Made Drapes Carpet Vinyl Floor Coverings Personal inhome service Shop at home free estimate Many Specials in stack Compare OUR WORKMANSHIP OUR SERVICE OUR PRICES CARPET CORNER Tlof lyoltho lato no I lo Graham nd Homo nil re In lives frionda or in Thinkb also lo A nlo Builor St You and ways bo bored The no enough oil to convince himself there really was oil there but he wasn drilling in quite the right location Mr Airdrie says The well provided another community story because a member of the BUton family himself in the building over the well head in the late 1930s Mr brother round him while he was out hunting The hamlet once had a Methodist church but it has never had a cemetery Mr Airdrie estimates the church was bull around 1906 as part of a circuit This la why burials all took place In Acton Eden Mills or When the church closed for lack of congregation the Orange Lodge bought the building Although the lodge name and number still hangs over the door It is no longer in A store operated on the side of the corner for a number of years along wllhagasstation Today It is a pottery shop The atone house and barn originally built by Morden Crewson in 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