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19 |Thursd ay Au gust 17, 2017 | OAKVILLE BEAVER |w w w .insidehalton.com The Oakville Chamber of Commerce is proud to announce its membership has grown to over 1,200 companies. Collectively Oakville Chamber members employ more than 40,000 people. Among the top five Chambers of Commerce or Boards of Trade in Ontario, the Oakville Chamber is one of the largest associations of any kinds in Oakville. "We are delighted to reach this milestone of 1,200 members. It shows the value the Oakville Chamber brings to Oakville businesses. We look forward to continuing to represent the growing voice of the business community" stated Caroline Hughes, Chair of the Board, Oakville Chamber of Commerce. In September of 1949, the Oakville Chamber of Commerce (then named the Oakville-Trafalgar Chamber of Commerce) was incorporated under the federal Boards of Trade Act. The Oakville Chamber made headlines in 1953 when over one hundred "Business Men Organize[d] to Promote Area." At the meeting 59 applications for membership were received! (See article below). Since those early days, the Oakville Chamber of Commerce has grown and evolved to become the voice of the Oakville business community. Through providing advocacy, corporate benefits, networking opportunities, events, business development and OAKVILLE CHAMBER HITS MEMBERSHIP MILESTONE educational forums, the Oakville Chamber works to foster a healthy, engaged, and sustainable business environment and economy in Oakville. It is not just the Oakville Chamber that has evolved over the past 68 years, but our society has evolved as well. One major change is Oakville's population; the population in 1949 was 11,952, whereas today it is over 190,000! Another noticeable change that is evident in the 1953 article is the involvement of women in business. Back in 1949, it was business men that created and supported the Oakville Chamber of Commerce. Today, we have many successful business women contributing to our economy and the Chamber. In fact, five of the past 10 Oakville Chamber Board Chairs have been women. Not only did they lead the Oakville Chamber to success, but they have been leaders in their respective industries, including finance, hospitality, marketing and advanced manufacturing. The article below was published in September of 1953 in The Oakville Record-Star, the predecessor of today's The Oakville Beaver. It mentions that the majority of Chamber Members at that time were in the commercial and industrial sectors. Today the Oakville Chamber has a diverse membership with members in the professional and financial services, digital media, life science, advanced manufacturing, hospitality, engineering, retail, real estate, arts and education. To celebrate their diverse membership, the Oakville Chamber of Commerce launched the "I'm A Member Because" community campaign. The campaign was created by members, with members, for members. It features two videos and a series Chamber Members stating the reason their Chamber membership is important. A special thankyou to Media Rez Studios for producing the video, and Fotografia Boutique for photographing the members. You can view the videos before every movie this summer at Film.Ca Cinemas, on CogecoTV, and on Intrigue Media screens throughout Oakville. You can also follow the campaign on the Oakville Chamber's social media channels. Oakville Chamber members can join the campaign by sharing why they're an Oakville Chamber member @oakvillechamber using #ImAMemberBecause. The Oakville Chamber of Commerce, and our society as a whole, has grown and evolved over the past 68 years. Let's see what milestones we will achieve by 2085. To learn more about Chamber benefits, please contact Marc Tremblay, Vice President of Membership Development at 905-845-6613 x 204 or marctremblay@oakvillechamber.com. AVERAGE N E T P A ID C IR C U L A T IO N 3 M O N TH S E N D E D SEPT. 30, 1953 TWENTY-EIGHT PAGES Oakville, Ontario, Thursday, October 22,1953 Single Copy 5 Cents. $3.00 a year in advance DISTRICT BUSINESS MEN FORM WORKING ORGANIZATION . . . plans to put a sewage disposal plant at the Sixteen Mile Creek and the Q.E. to be quietly dropped by the Township of Trafalgar. Autho rities at Queens Park are said to take a dim view otf the proposed location from a health and nuis ance standpoint although not ready to commit themselves. . . . a first piece of business to be brought before the newly acti vated Chamber of Commerce to be the question of candidates for Town and Township Councils. The best laid plans of mice and Cham bers of Commerce can go agley if they can't be implemented via a forward-looking group of munici pal legislators. . . . the Municipal Board's rea sons for denying Bronte's annex ation application to give the Town fathers and their counsel furious ly to think. The Board points out that Section 13, Chapter 243, Re vised Statutes of Ontario 1 9 50, (Continued on Page 6) Cham ber O f Com m erce A w ay To Flying Start W ith 59 M em berships Three-Score Enthusiastic Members Sign Up At Initial Meeting Of Revived Oakville-Trafalgar Organization Over one hundred Oakville and District business men turned out Monday m rn t at the Pine Room to reorganize the O akville-Traiaigar Chamber of Commerce. Fifty-six regular and three sustaining membership applications were filled out on the spot w ith many more expected to jpin the organization this week. A board of directors, representing various phases of local business, was chosen and new, perm a nent officers w ere elected. Prexy Botterell John A. Botterell, B o tte r e ll Warehouses, was named president, R. C. A. Cumberland, W. S. Davis and Sons, first vice-president, J. Spencer Fraser, Fraser Hardware, second vice-president and Norman Ritchie, Canadian Bank of Commeree, treasurer The board of directors, chosen by each of the nine commercial and industrial groups within the Chamber, consists of: Warren G. (Continued on Page 6) Mayor To Speak A t Kent Gardens Mayor James R. Black and Councillor William Anderson of Oakville will participate in a dis cussion on sewage disposal to take place at the Lome Skuee School, Kent Gardens, tonight (Thursday) starting at 8.15 pm. Bowden McLean, president of VetoBronteAnnexation Will TryAgain-Jennings The Municipal Board has rejected Bronte's request for acres of Trafalgar, b u t Reeve Alfred Jennings says the age soon will become crowded "and w e'll have to apply Asked Too Much The Board's decision states that