Our Historical Heritage By EUGENE HENRY Whitby's foreinost historiaii WHITBY 1REE PRISS, W DNJSDAY, JANUARY 14, 1981, PA I' Whitby native . . .. Bengough best cartoonist in Victorian Canada and copies of it are sought- after, collectors items today. John Bengough's timing could not have been better. His stock-in-trade was an easy ability to capture Sir John A. MacDonald to a "T". The prime minister was re-elected in 1872 but soon after he was embroked in "Pacific Scandal". Sir John A. was charged with taking $300,000 for benefits Bengough had a best seller on his hands from the word "Go" and he did variations on that and other similiar themes for the rest of his journalistic career. As a matter of fact, Bengough sold "Grip" magazine, soon after Sir John A. MacDonald died in 1891 and his best satirical cartooning was past. Political cartoons are relative newcomers to the editorial pages of Canadian and U.S. newspapers. Technical problems held back their widespread use, until photo copy processing made it both quick and cheap to use them. Now almost every inewspaper has its own cartoonist. The Whitby Free Press uses the work of an artist/observer who draws with the pen name Ting. There is no doubt, Whit- by's John Wison Bengough was not only good, but the best of those, who served the capricious Canadian tastes for political satire in .Vic- torian times. J. W. Bendough: Self-portrait Canada's most popular and imporatnat political cartoonist of the con- federation period, came from Whitby, Ontario. He was born here in 1851 and while still a teenager worked as a compositor and part-time writer for the Whitby Gazette. Johnny Bengough as he was known by friendly Whitby' neighbours in the 1860's lived in a double house, on the east side of King Street, half a block in from Dundas. His ability to draw, his flair for cattooning and his gift for caricature were visible early in his life here in Whitby and his first effor- ts, at political cartooning were passed around the Gazette office with under- standable admiration by his fellow employees. John Bengough moved from Whitby to Toronto in 1871, to work as a reporter for the prestigious Glove and his work for that paper, gave him a broader view of political developments and live in general. He became increasingly confident of his unique skills and talents. In the spring of 1873, with the courage of the young, he started a comic journal called "Grip" and it was an immediate success in the field of satire journalism. In Central Canada. Bengouch combined his gifts as a writer with his skills as a cartoonist to produce a real winner. "Grip" remained a popular paper for more than 20 years New employment protection fordomestic employees. Effective January 1,1981. 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