age Friday June hamlets of Halton Hills Churchill was settled by Brock aide By MAGG1F HANNAH Herald Special Churchill on the Third Line of Old Esquesing Township and the Erin Township bound was named a tier its and that remains the only community building It has had in close to a century The area first settler was apparently Jacob Swackham He was born in Ivan In and came to Canada with his parents and family as United Enp During the war of 1 J he served as General Brock orderly and received a land grant for his services during the Niagara skirmishes His still owned the farm at Lot Concession Township until he retired a few years ago Mr says the first home was built on a hill he understands because In and his In til one Herald ownc holographed this young a giving Fred a nose during tour of the It Saturday Something of a diversions virtue of with Ontario Place our Wonderland great Fitly cent those days people thought the high ground didn freeze so It would be warmer up there Jacob apparently cleared IS acres of his land than a horse and planted wheat Then he had to walk to Oak to have it ground That was the family food supply Tor their first winter The holding was just off the Stage Road from Guclph to Toronto but that t mean they had neighbors for some lime after their arrival Family stories say they knew they had a neighbor when they saw a light through the bush one night It turned out to be a family who had settled near Dolly Vardcn Just west of So far as Mr Swackhamer knows Ihe community which Is also called Corner In an edition of the Canadian Independent never had a store post office hotel or industry llwosslrlcly a seat of worship for the neighboring farmers and their families A history of Churchill Com Church says It all began Feb 1B38 when Rev Hiram Denny formed a relational church In the log school house which was in what Is now the commun cemetery As Mr lands it the church services were held in the school for a time until the church was built sometime between and 1843 It wax completed in 1613 Rev Denny was a mission ary for the London Missionary Society in for a year then with the arrival of his replacement he became a circuit rider As well as hill he is known to have organ zed churches at Bel wood and Alton and held services Tor the con In the of the Hotel Although he left Churchill In 1854 his descendants still live in the area Mr rememb ers the little log which had once housed the area school as being very small with a door in the end and two windows about 12 inches square on each side of the That all there was to let In light he says It had become a hen pen on his family farm by the time he f saw it and even today he knows where logs can be found on the old farm left over from the building that are still That school was replaced by another log school up the Four th Line in Erin Township prob ably Lot z or 3 It was only a rubble foundation when he first saw It and he has no idea when cither building ceased functioning as a school Lome School in Esquesing and Woods Ide School in Erin Township would have served area children in later years he Although Churchill probably Acton that has ly been its residents shopping area since the first stores were established there ho assumes The cemetery opposite the church Is not connected to the church Mr says It is a community started in 1B27 when John Swackhamer asked his elder brother Jacob for permission to bury little daughter trees on the comer of the farm Shortly after that a smallpox hit the area and there arc rows of graves ling to the toll it took of area The modern section of the cemetery is laid out parallel to road as one might expect but in old section the graves arc on an angle so all face the cast and sunrise A marker on the north edge of the four corners shows it is 200 feet above sea level Also of note is the fact it Is edge of the Niagara Escarpment From there everything north of it flows to Lake Eric To the south everything flows into Lake Ontario Churchill church members arc also proud to say that the Upper Canada Missionary Soc Congregational was for In Iheir church in just three years after the church itself began The United Church closed Churchill in 1908 but It has remained open as a church with no tics since that time The only additional area interest comes from the Com lions monitor Ing station situated on a hill just west of the community on the township boundary The station one of four in Canada is used to monitor radio frequencies or amateur professional and other types of licenced radio stations HILLS ELKS LODGE BINGO EVERY MONDAY This Week Excellent Super Sensational Unique Fantastic Superb Words written in our guest book by customers impressed with our store and prices We feature the very best value in Canadian Solid Wood Furniture in all your favourite woods Our popular designs are reduced for a BEAT THE TAX JUNE SPECIAL Featured for Father s Day are Leather At tache and Briefcases from Canada s Premier Manufacturer at up to 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by 13 between year end and March totalling S3 114 in March for all of Canada Average residential prices rose from an average of in the last quarter of to during the first quarter of an increase of per The average increase was modi- to appear larger than it actually was by activity in volatile real estate beard areas like Vancouver where prices were in the last quarter of 1930 and for the first quarter of 1981 Valley C 174 and Main line 81 and 101 Calgary and 104 Edmonton 86 and and Toronto 76 and 79700 Hut pricci generally were not climbing at the rate in of tht Metro areas In fact in some areas average prices weakened In Ontario for Instance there were almost as many real estate board areas where prices declined as there were where average prices Average prices in some represcntnt cities for the ret were K a m loops B C 83 53j Grande Prairie Alberta 80 191 Saskatchewan Winni LEASING A CAR OR TRUCK GIVE US A TRY peg Manitoba 52 Ottawa 444 Windsor Montreal 52 Saint John Halifax 103 and 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