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Chatting Wlfh Mary Barber Family Played Major Role in Georgetowns History Now thai you got your family bin a muscles in fine fettle from following on TV It will help make a nostalgic into Georgetown past via the Barber family all the easier and more enjoyable Having lived here oil my life I could hardly help being aware of the role the Barber family has played In the formation of Georgetown But until I began doing a bit of research I realize Just how extensive that role was And in gathering up the bits and pieces of information to fill out the story of the family early years in this aria it was not surprising to find their history Inextricably interwoven with the early history of our town Are there members of the Barber family still living here Yes indeed Col John It Barber Park Avenue he was born in Berwick Hall and his nephews Robert Market Street Keith King Street Paul Market Street and George Main St North And the imposing residences built by the Barber brothers in Georgetown earliest days are still town landmarks Berwick Hall Main Street South the two large brick homes on either side of the C N track which runs under Mountolnvlew Road and the house on the hill overlooking the founded owned ana operated paper mill in the valley the Credit River J The mill buildings ire now owned and occupied by Manufacturing Company and the housi is the property of the Mac iren family It was built by J Barber the Ureal grandfather Col John Barber we use our library arc remembering the James Barber family They deeded the church building to the town to be used as a library James Barber had been a deacon of the Church or years There is a plaque to his memory on one the library wills Allowing us to lake a rodlly Riant step in time is an excerpt from a book written and published in Toronto in 1H77 called The Irishman in Canada Nicholas writes On the I21h of 1B22 a family named ton of the father mother four sons daughter were born in Antrim sailed from Belfast for Quebec where they arrived on the loth of July The next day they went up the river in a steamer to Montreal thence to ninemilos in tarts Here look Durham boil for compassed the rapids as we seen Mr Austin and his friends do The passengers wire ordered at times to proceed on foot for miles along the bonks On such occasions they were much by the song of the crass hopper which they took for the hissing of snnkis The greater of the way was wood with a few clearings They were not accustomed bush the grasshoppers try caused more than It would have done bad the country been open Atttr eleven days they arrived at The distance is now run by rail in four hours Old Mr who wus a found at employment for the of the season of which a certain part in kind or as it was called then store pay the balance being in money was in those days a very important All produce coming down the lakes for Montreal or Quebec had to be transhipped there This consisted for the most part of flour staves and tobacco which at had first to be put on of Durham is none of the lake vessels could live In the rapids The season for mason work over and the impression being the country west ward was belter to settle in Mr determined co to where he arrived on the 12th of December Niagara was en a nourishing town From the head of ibe lake nd from York people went thither to their less Than For High Schools Public School Field Trips Price Tag Discussed first part of the 1972 education budget considered by the County Board of Education shows a tentative decrease of over com pared to the spending program The board of education began its annual budget sessions fast week giving preliminary con si deration to about 18 percent of the total budget Debenture charges one of the big ex penditurcs every year makes up about 12 percent of the 1972 budget proposal Last year the board spent out of its million budget on the part it expects to spend on this year The budget is being presented to the board of education in several segments each part reviewed twice by he finance committee before going to the board for preliminary study Before betng approved the budget as a whole will be con The first segment of this year education budget which Is ex peeled to force a increase In municipal taxes showed a decline of almost In debt and debenture payments POPULATION UP Bruce superintendent of business and finance for the Ha I Ion board says the debenture charges have increased only slightly while student population has increased by about 1 meaning a lower cost per pupil Transportation costs are ex peeled to Increase about to It The board will lake a longer look at the 000 allocated for elementary school field trips Trustee Bill said he thinks many field trips are subsidized by parents or students which trustee Fred Armltagesayshethlnkslsagood thing INEQUITABLE High school students are allotted for special field trips about more than elementary students says he thinks the difference is I asl Inequitable rmybe we rt Tlit two biggest savings in 1972 asking the parents to subsidize expected to be the lower field trips he debenture charges and a said because the fund for reduction in operating elementary school field trips charges such as replacement of returned a surplus of about damaged property Its for the birds Dont Forget Our Fine- Feathered Friends During the Cold Winter INSTALL YOUR OWN BIRD FEEDER SSL SB Always a Good Supply of Bird Feed In Stock Unftid CoOotrallvH of Ontario try to find a mason to with He offered employment to as if tht family is could work He was tarrying on an and various business a flour mill saw mill oil mill foe tannery distillery and a large few ycjrs he built the first piper mill in Upper Canada for which he received a bounty from the of five hundred dollars The oldest the young Barbers into the woollen factory and served his lime to the trade The second James learned the paper making business the third Joseph the mill wrighl business the youngest Robert I like the eldest going into the woollen factory In 1811 the father died Hut the fimily kept together and remained with Mr J Crooks renting the woollen fnclory for him Roger Williams was the founder of Rhode Island His friendship the Indians more than once averted a Heart Fund gifts have speeded The Agrarians were a group of III HMD THURSDAY FEB 17 1972 Page rtually every advance in century American writers in cardiovascular medicine in the South who favored The first woman internal Theodore Roosevelt was an recent years prolonging base revenue collector was hired in champion of spelling thousands of lives for the area reform Start using the Governments own rules to save a bundle on income tax Hut i perfectly legal way to use the Government own rules lo sue on iniomi t ix The Government lb a 1 th it in elicit If yon sue now lor retirement we 11 let you piy mueh is 500 into registered retirement pi in mil we II lit knock it oil vour So on merely lower ix iblc income by putting up 500 in our registered retirement i 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