Brian Winter's Historical SWhitby SAMUEL COCHRANE The streets of Whitby are an important source of history of the community, for the names of these streets often refer to pioneer settlers of the town. Unfortunately, however, one may drive up and down these streets any numberof times, and never know anything about the persons for whom the streets were named. One example is Cochrane Street, named after one of the few residents of Whitby who was a veteran of the War of 1812. Cochrane Street is named after Samuel Cochrane, who was W born in Vermont on June 29, 1793, and settled on the property where Fairview Lodge now stands, about 1812. Mr. Cochrane's ancestors were from the north of Ireland, and settled in the United States, but likely his loyalty to Britain during the American Revolution led to his move to Canada. Mr. Cochrane fought at the battles of Queenston Heights and Detroit during the War of 1812, and belonged to the York Militia, indicating that he had moved to Canada prior to the war. He volunteered for service once and was drafted twice. Mr. Cochrane married twice. One of his wives was Deborah Powell, born Dec. 23, 1795, in Nova Scotia and died Aug. 8, 1862 at Whitby. In the early 1850s Samuel Cochrane built a large brick house at the north west corner of Dundas and Cochrane Streets, which was demolished in 1972 when the intersection Was realigned. The home later belonged to the Ormiston family, two of the Ormistons have married daughters of Samuel Cochrane. One was Rev. William Ormiston who was a prominent preacher in New York City, who had lived in his early days in, Whitby. Samuel Cochrane died at the age of 86 on July 14, 1879, and was buried in the Society of Friends Cemetery, a Quaker HITBY FRERE PRESS. WIDNESDAY, JUNE 28, 1978, PAGE 7 burial ground, between Whitby and Ajax. One of Mr. Cochrane's sons, Samuel Cochrane Jr. was a prominent man in Whitby, serving as Ontario County Crown Attorney from 1863 to 1872. Mr. Cochrane Jr. was born Jan. 20, 1837, at Whitby and started his career as a lawyer in the County Town. He was the youngest but one of six brothers and four sisters. He had a promising career ahead of him, but at the age of 35, he died, probably of tuberculosis, on April 23, 1872. His funeral procession was nearly a mile and half in length, and he was led to his grave by the Oddfellows of Whitby of whom he was a member, AIl the stores of Whitby closed on the day of Mr. Cochrane's funeral for he was one of the most respected citizens of the town. There are no members of the Cochrane family living in Whitby today, but the name of this pioneer family is perpetuated in the name of Cochrane Street which passed through the Cochrane family's property. The Cochrane property in later years became the site of the County House of Refuge, opened in 1903, and replaced by Fairview Lodge in 1951. The old county home has been restored in recent years and is now known as Heritage Estates apartments. ~ Byines, Happy Summer! That's right as of last week, we are officially into summer. So far so good. Let's hope this summer is better than the last. The Brooklin Hortivultural Society will hold a 'Rose Show', tonight, Wednesday June 28 at 8 p.m. in the Brooklin United Church Hall. Featured tonight, will beEdna Love, speaking on Pine Cone Craftý and Contrived Flowers. Everyone is welcome-! Brooklin Women's Institute held it's final meeting for this season on Wednesday June 14 at the Community Centre. At this time 22 ladies from Fairview Lodge were their guests. Thevariety programme for the afternoon opened with a sing-song led by Mrs. Leir Arskey and Mrs. Evelyn Croxall at the piano. Readings by Mrs. Herman Harris included Comforting Cora. Mrs. R. Koster entertained with a num ber of solos açcompanying herself on the guitar. The women were taken to Tahiti, Australia, New Zealand and Fiji, through slides and commentary by Mrs. Howard Plaxton. Following this varied and entertaining programme, an early supper was served. The Women's Institute meets again on Wednesday September 20. New members will be welcomed. The Brooklin Public Library's summer activities are as follows: Every Wednesday from July 12 to August 23 there will be visits to the park, from 1:30 p.m. to 2:30 p.m. Ashburn Community Centre and from 3 p.m. to 4 p.m. Macedonian Village Park. At the library every Tuesday and Thursday afternoon from 2:30 to 3:30 p.m. stories, crafts and movies will be featured. The big treat is Friday July 14, Circus Day!!! from 2:30 - 3 p.m. at the library. There will be prizes for best costumes, acts, tricks, and more. On Tuesday July il and Thursday July 13, there will be a make-up workshop at the library. This will beach the kids how to apply the grease paint used for clowns and actors. Circus Day should be fun for all! On Friday July 21 between 1:30 p.m. and 3 p.m. for ages 5 and up, (pre registration required), there will be an informal becture - discussion on Native Indian Masks. Illustrated by slides and - or display items. The children will make their own masks based on what they learned. This is piesented, courtesy of the McMichael Canadian Collection "Experience 78". For the younger ones, a preschool puppet show will be featured on Tuesday July 25 at 1:30 -2 p.m. for those kiddies up. to 8 years. The subject of the show will be product safety in the home, courtesy of Federal Consumer and Corporate Affairs. To end up July, on Friday the 28th, a Travelling Puppet Show, will be held from 10:45 - 11:45 a.m. There will be two plays of interest to all ages. Preschoolers should be accompained by an adult. This show is courtesy of C.O.R.L. Remember the library is closed on Saturdays during the summer. Don't forget that next week I am on vacation. Just go on the way you have for getting the information to me. There will be someone here to take the information, also to pick it up at Brown's. And there will be a column as usual. Since there is little happening through the summer, and kids are out of school, I am going to have a 'new word' a week. I will pick a word from the dictionary and give the meaning, and use it in a sentence. This way we al learn a new word. This week's word is, SCUPPER -Noun - a hole or gutter along the side of a ship's deck to let water run off. Leaning over the rail the young boy saw water gushing out frorn the scupper. Common fame is Marie 655-3061 Brown's drop-off seldom to blame. (before 2 p.m. Sat.) Jaycees start D'Hillier Park work The Whitby Jaycees held a sod turning Friday to start the development of D'Hillier Park. The work is expected to begin with a general cleanup of the park, with assistance by inmates of the Whitby Jail. Plans call for the park to be provided with a number of facilities for active and passive use, including a picnic area with barbeque pits, tables and benches, a playground for children, and a footbridge to link the two sections of the 41-acre park divided by the Lynde Creek. Also planned are a vita parcours with 18 exercise stations, a one-and-a-half mile jogging track built with wood chips, washroom facil- ities and a parking lot for 30 cars. Jaycee President Rick Napadek says the total cost of the project will be about $20.000. of which the club has The Whitby Jaycees held a sod turning ceremony Friday in front Of the new sign donated by the Jaycettes to officially kick-off the start of the D'Hillier Park project. The Jaycees plan to create a passive park, and have numerous good ideas up their sleeves. Taking part in the ceremony are L to R: Petra McDougall, Jaycette President; East Ward Councillor Bob Attersley who is also chairman of recreation; Rick Napadek, Jaycee President; John Szabo, representative of LOC-PIPE, a local company voluntarily taking an active part in the project; and project chairman Dennis Low. Free Press Photo already raised $3,000. Mr. Napadek hopes to obtain assistance from Wintario, and would like to see Dartie- ipation by private citizens and companies. NOW OPEN SUNDAYS 10:00 a.m. - 6:00 p.m. e ANTIQUES e FURNITURE e SILVER gry Add bounce, curl and direction to straight hair with a permanent or eut your hair in one of the new geometric styles. LA CONTESSA BEAUTY LOUNGE <' 'SOFFIT PANEL Continously vented. Fits any soffit width. Apply directly to framing or over old soffit. MIffkF" d FREE ES Evu c sti buidin Ietr repainting costs. Lightweight. Culs with hand saw. us for SMATL iTORin SMDIMs BEAUTIFUL cuts, perms, me! I .q