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The Acton Free Press Wednesday September 1970 History of Halton Author of ti Bra Camp Esquesing may increase land separation fee There Is liter hope today for people with hearing problems than ever before says the Canadian Hearing Society See your doctor If you suspect hearing loss TOE PIONEER WOMAN The lot of the pioneer woman was as arduous and most probably more heartbreaking than- that of her husband While he had more outside interests and would have the satisfaction of awing the results of his labours alowly evolving into a farmstead she had to make a home literally from scratch cooped up in a small cabin cold in winter hot In summer with no screens to shut out the hordes of mosquitoes and files that abounded then as now Coming either directly from the Old Country or driven out by the antiloyalist feeling of the United States she would be cast adrift from a sheltered borne and from her relatives girlhood friends and associations with little hope of ever seeing them again Inmost cases she would be Inexperienced in all work of pioneering and would have to learn by trial and error Meals would have to be prepared at an open fireplace with few cooking utensils apart from a frying pan and iron kettles She would have to do the family wash with primitive equipment engage in baking bread making butter spinning yarn and knitting sewing clothes for the family and making soap all this in addition to rearing a family the average size of which wsb considerably larger than Is the case today The Isolation and lack of neighbors near at hand would be a severe trial There was always the fear of those dread epidemics and contagious diseases such as smallpox tuber culosis typhoid fever all of which have bean pretty well eradicated today The child mortality was high as indicated by reading the Inscriptions in any ancient cemetery each instance being mute evidence some longforgotten tragedy It can truly be said that of tho privations and hardships of the pioneers we know little today and of these we can take It for granted that the pioneer woman bore her full share MILLS The great difficulty with regard to the grist mill was that the stones had to be imported and they were very cumbersome affairs We see by the drawing on the following page that these stones rested one on top of the other the lower one being stationary and the upper one revolving with the power sup plied from a water wheel The grain was fed from a hopper above and ground between the stones the resulting meal working out at the sides This was passed over oscillating sieves with the fine flour passing through and the husks dropping off the front edge of the sieve In the form of shorts and bran As payment the miller took a portion of the wheat or flour The usual charge was onetenth but It is said one miller felt that this wasnt enough and accordingly took out We have also seen that sawmills were among the first requisites of a settlement there being four in Trafalgar In 1817 all run by Boards would be in great demand for flooring including that of the loft in the log cabin furniture and for the eventual building of a new house Before the circular saw came Into use an upright saw with an up and down motion was used with the log advancing on a moveable carriage It was stow work one wag expressing it up today and down tomorrow In payment if cash was not available the miller retained a portion of the lumber Another mill of early times was the carding mill by which the wool was carded by machine into loose lengths of probably a In length and the thickness of a finger This would be spun at home into yarn and knit Into mitts or socks or else taken to a weaver to be woven Into FOURTEEN YEAR old Lacroque of Mackenzie Drive In Georgetown was the lucky winner of a Union fastback bike in a draw at Jacksons Bargain Centre Georgetown recently Irrational politics Consolation prize winners Included Mrs K Jensen of Acton and Mrs E Evans and Christine Robinson both of Georgetown Staff Photo Lots of questions no answers In a report to the Halton Board of Education Trustee Bruce Edwards echoed sentiments of municipal councillors Reporting on the conference held recently to explain the TorontoCentred Region he said there were a lot of questions asked and no one there to answer them Edwards told the Board that the meeting was enlightening and helped him understand some of the thinking behind the plan However he explained that politicians of any consequence were absent and there was no one able to answer questions Edwards said there were several delegates to the con ference who wondered If perhaps the plan was already finalized and It was only the democratic process of letting municipalities and boards of education nave their say He told the board of cases where development has been stalled or turned down because It comply with the report even though it wasnt legislation as yet The Trustee said there were many good questions and doubts about the plan put forward but there were no answers He said some wondered about the trunk sewer In Burlington on which the town has gone to great expense which now ap pears to be running Into the proposed parkway belt He wondered If Burlington would be left with the trunk sewer and no development to pay for It Will this Investment be lost he wondered Others wondering Milton and other municipalities are also wondering just what effect the plan If enacted would have on their towns He said there were Questions about financing the plan and administering it Edwards said he expressed concern at the conference because of the reports failure to consider educational requirements brought about by the recom mendations Edwards summed up his im pression of the report as an irrational political move He said the government took eight years to work on the report and gave the people less than six months to receive a presentation and develop a brief to the province homespun cloth This cloth be taken back to the carding mill to be washed out and stretched before being made Into clothing or blankets FENCES One can well Imagine how vitally Important It was to have good fences in the early days an well as In Inter years At first before pasture land was available the settlers livestock had to roam will to forego for themselves In the woods and along the rood allowance Each person had their own distinctive mark generally snipped out of the ear and registered with the township authorities For this reason It will readily be seen how necessary It to have adequate fences for the protection of the fields in crop Each settler raised his own hogs the mainstay of the winters meat supply and all fences had to be kept hottight an a pig was a notorious marauder If given a proper Between neighbors too it was Important to have It definitely decided whose duty It was to maintain each half of the linefence often a dispute over the fences was the greatest cause of quarrelling and feuding between property owners One of the first acts of the early town ship meetings was to appoint whose duty It was to sec that fences properly looked after and to arbitrate over any dispute or difference of opinion between neighbors The first and most convenient kind of fence to be built was probably the snake fence which took the form of split rails or straight limbs of trees arranged zigzag to en close a field When the stumps of the trees became sufficiently rotten to easily uprooted these stumps supplied readily available material for a good fence particularly In the case of the long lasting pine and In parts of the county these fences arc still serviceable otter a period of in come cases well over a cen tury A later rail fence was known the stake and rider when stakes were driven into the ground in pairs along the fence line and the rails built up bet ween the stakes tho ends of the roils overlapping those of the adjoining sections This fence had the advantage of saving land space and allowing less room for weeds to develop The wire fence which took less labor to set up didnt come into common use until well Into this century Council may con- Increasing the fee for ft land depuration from tho present of Conimlltoo of adjustment member Tom Vun ap peared week it regular meeting to that council consider Increasing the foe He suggested an increase of between WOO and per lot Mr Van pointed out the township of Ancaster recently increased Its foo for separation to and that land separation fee is WOO Use for Increased fees Councillor Ken Marshall wanted to know what tho In creased fees would be used for Mr Vnn thought tho extra revenue should go Into the capital reserve Clerk- treasurer French who also servos clerk committee of council the committee hud Eased no motion urease Commit chairman Denny Charles who had council earlier In live meeting on behalf of the and District Memorial Hospital Board was called on In clear up the situation Mr diaries also said the committee had duicussed Increase but had made no formal motion 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