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Dally Journal - Record Centennial Edition, Friday, Sept. I, 1967 Hockey Team Of 30s Is Still Remembered Although Oakville's always ac tive hockey program has pro duced many fine teams and countless outstanding players over the years, it is doubtful if any m odem version of the 1934 Oakville H ockey Club will ever match the com petitive rec ord hung up b y that rem arkable intermediate OHA aggregation. This redoutaible squad, mas terminded to winning ways by Dr. F. M. Deans, M ac M cCleary, and Whit Hillmer, charted the phenominal showing o f 21 vic tories and one draw in 22 games as they rom ped to the Ontario title. And in the process, this star-studded crew fired 145 goals (an average of better than 6.5 markers per ga m e), while per mitting only 31 to be slipped past goalies Ran Forder and Jackie Cunningham. The 1934 club was one that had been carefully strengthened MUSEUM W AS TOWN'S FIRST POST OFFICE by wily D oc Deans and cagy Moved to park with Thom as House M ac M cCleary after the 1933 team had been knocked out of the provincial playoffs. It was an era of less im pressive man power, when three defencemen and six forwards w ere consid ered an ample quota, but what those Oaks lacked in numbers was m ore than countered in speed and ability. A form idable first string de Two buildings from Oakville's rested on timbers si foot square, doing much of the actual work fence com prised Elwin "T illie" early days have been preserved and was made of 12-inch planks herself. M oore and "B londie" Sutcliffe, and placed in a central location four inches thick and 20 feet enlisted from the fam ed Owen In its present condition it has Sound Greys. The number one where toey can be viewed by long. At one time It was faced with all the appearance of a farm a t t a c k i n g unit was made the public, through the initiative of Oakville historian Hazel C. tin, which was later covered house of the early nineteenth up of P e a r c y Allen, who with shingles. After it ceased to century, its distinctive feature snubbed many pro offers; Son Mathews. The Old Post Office and Thom be used as a post office it did being a huge stone fireplace. The ny Townsley, a slick playmakas House museums in Lakeside duty at different times as a house contains m any specimens ing centre who also hailed from Park are now a centre of at blacksmith's shop, a stable, and of early Canadian furniture and Owen Sound; and Bert Peer, a traction for many hundreds of a welder's shop. household equipment. fantastic stickhandler with a terIt had been unused and empty visitors each year, and a source Mrs. of information about early days for many years before Mathews had it rem oved to the for students. The old post office building, park and restored. which was moved to the park about 15 years ago, was Oak THOMAS HOUSE ville's first post office, and was The other museum building, built about the time a separate office for Oakville was establish Thomas House, was built in 1829 by Merrick Thomas on what he ed in October, 1835. on The little square frame struct called Murray Hill Farm , ure was built < *> a small hill Lakeshore Road West, opposite above Colborne Street (Lake St. Jude' s Cem etery. This is now shore Road) just west of Navy, part of the grounds of the Gord where it descended to the bridge on E. Perdue High School. He cam e to Canada with his over the Sixteen Mile Creek. parents in 1810, and after some years in Saltfleet Township ent ON TIMBERS ered the em ploy of Oakville's founder, William Chisholm, as The building, which was ap general manager in charge of the proached from the street by a shipyard and line of sailing ships. flight of square timber steps, In 1827 he m arried Mrs. Chisholm's sister, Esther Silverthom. Thomas took an active TIME AND CHANGE part in community affairs. He died in 1856 at the age of 50. Away back in 1867, the Mur ray Hotel was known as the Ca nadian, and was owned by John TAKEN TO PARK Williams, who later took over The Thomas House stood on fbe Oakville House. Another Wil its original site until about ten liams, whose first nam e was years ago, when Mrs. Mathews Murray, gave his own nam e to had it rem oved to the park and the old Canadian when he op set up close to the old post office. erated this publican's landmark. She had it thoroughly restored, rific scoring punch who seemed headed for pro stardom -- but whose extroverted tempera ment too often im peded his hoc key progress. Other solid squad mem bers were homebrews Larry Wilson, George Galbraith and Bub McCrae, who m ade the club at 17; Hilt Swayze, acquired from G rim sby Peach Kings; and Lloyd Ronalds, a loquacious winger who kept his voice in trim barbering by day during the puckchasing season. Doc Deans still laments the characteristic ineptitude of the OHA executive of that winter, which somehow managed to foul up plans for a playoff with the Northern Ontario winners. But this snafu failed to dampen the enthusiasm of the club execu tive, which promptly m oved the team up in Senior OHA ranks for the 1935 season. It would be pleasant to re port that D oc and his crew con tinued to cut a wide swath in senior com pany. But it was not to be. The Villans, as the team was dubbed in senior com peti tion, m ore than held their own on ice with such clubs as Ham ilton Tigers and Toronto' s Na tional Sea Fleas. But they could n't match the city squads in the m atter of finances, and the fol lowing winter the players moved on to other puck pastures and the town returned to intermed iate ranks. Other Oakville clubs have m ade strong showing during the years that have elapsed since the 1934 club had it all their own way in the old rink that has now becom e the Oakville Curling Club's home base We Are Proud To Have Played A Part In Canada's 100 Years W e can fe e l as th o u g h w e p la y e d a p a rt in C a n a d a 's f ir s t C e n te n n ia l. W e also p la n to t r y eve n h a r d e r f o r C a n a d a 's n e x t A n n iv e rs a ry if th a t c o u ld b e po ssib le. 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