WHITBY FREE PRESS, Thursday, September 23rd, 1971, Page 3 THE GENUINE SPIRIT OF LOCALISM "Local ismtIlas defined in the Oxford D i c t i o nary, means "attachment to a place". ...a. 'God made the country - man makes the town. ' The inheritance of our earl iest set- lers is described in history as "a gar- den of eden". Prosperity was there before them, in the great forests of s t a n d ing t i m ber, comprising pine, beech, hardand soft mapie, white and redoak, black and white birch, along w i th basswood, ironwood, hickory, ce da r , elm, ash, cherry, tamar'ack and many other varieties as described in "Smith's-Caiada, 1851", volumes I -and 2. These historical volumes cov- ered the pioneer days of Upper Cana- d a, when the Town of York embodied ail of that territory fronting on Lake Ontario between Hamil ton on the west; Toronto through Whitby to Newcastle on the east, to the then existing Dur- ham County. WHITBY' BACK IN TRADING POST DAYS Whitby w a s incorporat e d in 1860 when it was established as the most im- portant trading centre between Toronto and Port Hope. Soon following Confed- e r a t i o n, the East boundary of York was established at the Rouge Valley, t h u s establishing the new County o f Ontario, easterly to the border of Dur- ham County, and north to the boundary of Simcoe County (Barrie). By Act of Parliament, Whitby became the County Seat of Ontario County Government. - 'Old TYMER' WE A'RE PROUD PRESENT MERCURY MONTEGO for 1972 Montego is entirely NEW for '72 Come in and see the COMPLETE MERCURY UNE for 1972. Now on display at 1120 Dundas St. E. >eaway Motors (1965) Limited )08-5893 i ~t i i lt 1 i T t I t t t t I 4 t t i t t t4I'*t'tt t t * *4 4 ORIGINAL LIGHTHOUSE AT ENTRANCE TO PORT WHITBY'S HISTORICAL HARBOUR. (1850) LAST SHIP LEAVING HARBOUR AT CLOSE OF NAVIGATION WITH CARGO TO With the great number of saw mils in operat ion, 1, 745, 000 feet of lumber was team-drawn to our excellent har- b o u r of that ear ly per iod, Ioaded on sa 1 ing ves sles bound for awaiting markets throughout the western worId. WHITBY'S ROLE AS LEADER IN LUMBER EXPORT That was in the one year of 1850 dur ing the open month of Navigation. Whitby h a d bec o m e one of the greatest ex- porters of lumber in the whole Pro- vince of Ontario. In Part (2) of this article you will learn what happened nearing th e end of o u r g r e at 1lum ber exports which came from the vast acreage of cleared Iand. An ol1 d set t ie r in the wilderness in those early years remarked: "None but the pioneers know the difficulties of a f i r st settlement. The same may be said by the pubilishers of this news- paper. So it is with the attempt to face up to the reality, that here, "times were changingI, an d for survival we must meet those changes or fade out of the business and occupational picture. W ho c a n successfully argue that .most changes witnessed locally thus far in the retailfield, should, or could have been prevented ? 1 refer here en- tirely to the great invasion of absentee owners of businesses occupying our great shopping areas with their vast continued page 4