Aldershot Tweedsmuir Histories, Volume 1 [of 2 vols.], p. 17

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Toll Gates In early years Toll Gates were located at the following places: Bay View - Valley Inn, old road and bay shore Old Hamilton Cemetery, York St., Unsworth Greenhouses Site. Campbells' Corners - (Easterbrooks Rd.) One on Waterdown Road, near Horning Road, and near the Hugh Carson home recently built. According to information from Senior residents, there was no charge for people going to church or prayer meeting. Some of the tariffs of those days were: one cent for sheep, pigs, ducks or goats; ten cents for loaded vehicles drawn by two horses or "other beasts of draught". Four cents for saddle horses with riders. Roads were kept up in East Flamboro by Statute labor as tax assessment. There was a path master; one called to mind by Wm. [William] Scheer was David Blaine, who lived at the turn by the R.C. Cemetery, (Tyrell's Place). Scheer family giving 3 1/2 days road work spreading gravel. HOTELS Anderson's on the heights. Fenton's in Valley Inn. Ryan's at Mausoleum "Bay View". Blain's at turn by Catholic Cemetery (Tyrell's). One by Unsworth on the north side of the road. Kenny's Hotel opposite Bert Scheer's, Plains Rd. Shorty Briggs' house, which was moved from the bay by LaSalle Park. Red Light Hotel at Hall's corner (Filman Road) now Condor Drive Roderick Hotel on Waterdown Road (later occupied by Thornborrow's Postcard, postmarked April 20, 1907, shows the old Royal Hamilton Yacht Club, at the Beach Canal

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