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Dally Journal · Record Centennial Edition, Friday, Sept. 1, 19fl7 Oakville's Vanished Village The Sixteen Hollow: No Trace Left Of Thriving Settlement Centre o f civilization in Tra falgar in the township's early days, and the largest community between Toronto and Hamilton, land communication link in the cupied by old Oakville was still owned by the Indians ,the high Sixteen Hollow, originally called se* there were in the settlement itself, but they probably num bered about a dozen. It is known colony, and because the land o c Proudfoot's Hollow. In the days when The Sixteen that Col. Chalmers occupied one, Hollow cam e into being, and for was a thriving com m unity known way attracted most o f Trafal many years after, the highway and hat Matt Baillie and the to three generations as The Six g a r's early settlere. Dorlands were householders in at the river led down the banks another two. teen Hollow. Several Loyalist families had of one side, across a bridge that When Col. William Chisholm Now it has disappeared with settled along the highway near washed out with every spring began to develop the port o f Oak out a trace, its site, where Six Sixteen Mile Creek in the first flood, and up the other. ville in 1827 there began a fairly teen Mile Creek crosses Highway decade of the nineteenth century; On the northeastern slope, near sizeable lumbering activity in 5, is now occupied by Lions' Val among them the Bucks, forbears the bottom, building foundations ley Park. Submerged com pletely In Oakville's past ,it is one of of Dr. Anson Buck of Palerm o, were laid, and mill races, dams Canada' s few vanished villages. the Mulhollands, Smiths, Howells, and sluice gates lined the banks. THIRSTY CHORES Youngs, Freemans, Biggars, Pet A bustling village sprang up, tits, Posts, Hagars and Proud- which in 1817 contained 300 of Whiskey purchased for crew s Trafalgar Township's 547 people, working on the town's harbor The Dundas Highway was built foots. as welt as its only grist mill, a by Governor Simcoe to link York sawmill, woollen mill, black instalation In 1828 cost $70 -- (Toronto) with what he planned smith' s shop store, tannery, brew a substantial sum in that era would be the new colony's capi SCOT FOUNDER ery and distillery for sim ply whetting the bosun'* tal, London, and was named a f Col. George Chalmers, a low whistle. ter Viscount Melville, Earl of land Scot, decided a village DOZEN HOUSES Dundas. should be established among j It is not known how many hou Since it was the only major these families, so he fodnded The MAIN HIGHWAY The Hollow, with barrel staves I was in a house overlooking The . form er editor o f M aclean's now creek bed and up the other. And and white oak for Oakville's ship Sixteen, owned by the Trillers, living in Halton Centennial Ma the foundations o f the bridge that builders floated down The Six that MacKenzie hid himself for nor, was an ob ject o f intense in- was built across the creek bit deep into the ruined foundations, som e hours, and it was by means I terest all across the country, teen to the lake. obliterating all traces of the o f the dam o f one o f the m ills and the subject oi editorials in settlement's old buildings. That the area was the social that he crossed the creek and newspapers from the Ottawa centre o f this part of the province And the kids who play in the made his escape, since Col. Journal to the Windsor Star. Lions' Valley Park today, and is evidenced b y the fact that a Chalmers and the militia were the motorists who drive over the young lady nam ed Sabina ApPM COMMENTS guarding the bridge. bridge, have never heard o f C ol: pelbe left her hom e two miles The prim e minister o f Canada, Chalmers or his vanished village east to m a n y a m an shortly to Tim e passed, the tim ber was William Lyon Mackenzie King, on the riverbank. becom e Lord M ayor o f London. cut away and business languish was especially interested in the The Hollow was quite a settle ed. Then the energetic Col. reference to his firebrand grand ment by the time William Lyon Chambers died, and so did the father. He called McCausland's FIRST PLAN M acKenzie's rebellion o f 1837 village. "F ro m that m om ent," an article " a most interesting piece The original Oakville town plan broke out, but active service by oldtim er told a m agazine writer o f historic reconstruction of a its men on both sides o f the con 30 years ago, "T h e Sixteen Hol community, once flourishing, prepared by surveyor J. H. Cas flict left the village bare o f all low seemed to fall apart." which has disappeared, except as tle, included 27 blocks east of the Sixteen and 20 blocks on but the women and one old man. a m em ory." the west bank. The plan was An article about the vanished The mounds of the m ill races dated 1835, but street names village in a 1938 issue of The HIDES FIREBRAND Canadian Motorist, written b y are still in the river, but High w ere the sam e as those used When the rebeEion failed, It Maurice Bruce McCausland, a w ay 5 no longer winds down one until council' s 1966 revisions. men When it comes to purchasing E v e ry b o d y lik e s b a rg a in s -- b u t th a t's n o t th e o n ly re a s o n w hy so m a n y O a k v illo A LO T OF STYLE Men's or Boys' Wear; it depends on a whole lot of things . . . m * » * v · * " ' p e o p le e n jo y s h o p p in g a t E lk 's . T h e y lik e th e w a y w o c h e c k a n d d o u b le -c h e c k q u a l ity , to m a k e s u ro o u r b a rg a in s a r e re a l b a rg a in s . T h e y lik e th e w o n d e r fu l selec tio n s th e y f in d h e ro . . . th e f r ie n d ly ser v ic e th e y g e t h e re . 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