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Original Town Hall, corner of Little Avenue and Weston Road built at a cost of $4,861.02 in 1885 In 1884, carpenters were paid 28 cents an hour and worked a 10 hour day, metal roofers, 25 cents and labourers at 14 cents per hour. Plastering was 12 cents a square yard and the best flooring, 1%4" thick, was $26.50 per thousand feet. Mr. Tyrell was sent to Montreal to arrange the purchase of the metal roofing material and turned in an expense account of $2.50 over and above the railway fare. The hall was completed in March 1885 at a cost of $4,861.02 and was called Dufferin Hall in honour of Lord Dufferin, then Governor General of Canada. Built in 1957, the "new" Town Hall, and attached to it, the Weston Fire Hall, served the village of Weston until Weston became part of the City of York and for a number years, housed several departments of the City. Recently, the property was purchased by the Ward Funeral Home. The building has been torn down and will be utilized as a parking lot by Wards. However, they have retained the old firehall to house some of there vehicles and their offices. Back in 1881, the Village of Weston was incorporated. William Tyrell was elected Reeve and the town adopted the motto "Equal Justice for All". Initially, council meetings were held in the Eagle House or the School but it was soon realized that a Town Hall was necessary. William Tyrell was asked to draw up plans and obtain estimates. A site was chosen at the corner of Main Street and Little Avenue and building began in August, 1883. HAS SUCCUMBED TO THE WRECKERS‘ BALL! westontommia. LET*® $ CELEBRATE "HOME OF THE BICYCLE" &S\NESS ~ â€"C C ‘and on behalf of the Merchants of the Weston Business |Community, will be dispensing favours to all those he/she ! comes in contact with. | Easter is traditionally the harbinger of Spring and is a time to dress in your latest finery along with your new Easter | bonnet (yes, hats are making a comeback). The stores are filled with lots of Easter bargains and the children will enjoy B‘rer Rabbit! BRASS POLE SAVED The brass pole, a traditional part of all firehalls, has been salvaged from Weston‘s old firehall and it is intended to erect it as a memorial to Weston‘s Volunteer Fire Brigades. The Weston Historical Society is looking for input on this and if you have any suggestions as to a suitable location for this memorial, contact a member of the Society. THE WESTON HISTORICAL SOCIETY‘S next meeting will be held Wednesday, May 3rd, 1995 at 8:00 pm in Westminster United Church, 69 William Street. We would be pleased to have you attend. Topping the building was the Town Bell and it became part of the fabric of civic life. The bell tolled the hours of the day at 7:00 am, 12 noon, 6:00 pm and 9:00 pm. It rang like mad when there was a fire â€" a signal to everyone to grab a bucket and run â€" and when there was a funeral, the bell was rung as the hearse passed down Main Street. Dufferin _ Hall _ remained _ the municipal heart of Weston until 1957 when it was torn down and replaced by the now defunct "new" Town Hall, built on the lot just to the North. THE EASTER BUNNY WILL BE ROAMING THE STREETS OF THE WESTON BUSINESS DISTRICT ON THE SATURDAYS BEFORE AND AFTER GOOD FRIDAY 2(E N E WS « PUBLISHED BY THE WESTON BUSINESS COMMUNITY EDITION 95 _ VOLUME 1 Saturdays April 8th and 15th Easter is a Christian festival to celebrate the resurrection of Jesus Christ. Early Christians observed Easter on the same day as Passover but is now observed by the Western Churches on the 1st Sunday after the calendar full moon falling or or next after March 21st. Passover is the Jewish celebration held on the 14th Nisan (approx. April) commemorating the ‘passing over‘ or sparing of the houses of Israelites whose door posts had been marked with blood when Egyptian rulers had decreed the death of all firstâ€"born. The celebraton of Easter is far older than Christianity. Easter derived from Eostre, the pagan goddess of spring. In pagan times, all fires were extinguished in her honour, and relighted from a speical sacred fire. The Christian church took over this custom and in old times in England, all fires and lights in the church were extinguished, the ashes and embers taken out and replaced by fresh fires and candles. These were lit from a special Paschal candle which was lit on Easter Eve in a dark church, from a flint and steel. From the relit candles, churchgoers took tapers to relight their own fires and candles. In pagan times in England, great bonfires were lit, in which a doll, representing winter, was burnt. Legend has it that in a small village in Germany, the mothers got together, boiled and coloured eggs and hid them in the surrounding woods and after church on Easter Sunday, the children were sent out to ‘hunt for these Easter eggs and not having seen coloured eggs this large before, kept asking "What kind of eggs are these?" At that point, while foraging around a bush, a startled rabbit ran off and they all decided they were "Rabbit Eggs" â€" thus was born the Easter Bunny! The Eastern Orthodox churches follow the Julian calendar and their Easter is usually several weeks later than the Western Easter. In the 4th century, Good Friday became a separate holiday to commemorate the death of Jesus Christ. 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