Whitby Free Press, 14 Aug 1991, p. 7

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PAGE SEVEN'ý Worth the price In the. arly 1800a a young doctor served as a surgeon In, the. Britsh Ariny. lb.'island un which tii. troops wr. garrion.d boastod afuIation f tigors. "lb dotor,.notiéedsoveral iger cube nearby," writes author TejrByle, in'his latest book Memories of Ontario, PUbhed by Cannonhooke, Toronto. "Ayoemg officor socured two of the. animais. Soon, the. mtithU tise app.are.<Iand plunged toward the boat. Immedat y thie doctor took ont hie snuffbox and threw the, contents in her face. Then, seizing bis sword, h. stuck the. tigreoso-a blow that stopp. that animal wile ail in Fhprom thon on, Dr. Willam Dunlop was nicknamed the. 'Tiger.' MH would later found the. town cf Godericli. Tii. urne Tigor Dunlop in 1841 lost a byl.ction te __________________________________ éeoct a member of parliamont. Dunlo had run against James McGill Strachan, brothr toBishc Strachan of Toronto. Dunlop later won o& a roccunt, whichi uolved Ail ii.above, mid yuin tr opae f information on the town of GdrcB~esbo includos1 short histories cf 73 coumumte crs ntro BoylIe wus obvously net wrifing the. dofinitvo iiistory of anything yoar. H.esom Memsories ofOntario as "lb. Trvellers Guide to thé. Town and'Clies cf Western Ontarlo." (Boyle's sbtte.) As such'it makes per fect compaontoamotringtour cf Ontaie. 'If ayonetae suh ousny o. To that end, Boyle told me tbatthebook maysmon be av Unbe hougii'thé.Canadian Atmobie Asociation. Wh.th.r by car or armehair, the. book dome teas. on. into bits and pieces of Ontario histoey. lb. book »--more ,samples wil foilow - i. worth the. $14.95 price -tmg, and would mk an ideal gifLTh'e, ccollection of more than 100 bistarical p icturos used te illustrate ti etmy b. worti the. admson prie. alon.. This in not icture book4, howover, and tii. re]productions are Some caution: tth. dedicate histrjunkie may flnd tuis superficia. We've alr.ady adthat Boyle dosigned the. wiole tiiing as a sampler. If politicians must disclose conflicts cf -interest, journalists soud, too. Il. autiior is a friend and a fomer student of mine, hiaving graduated frointhe. Durham Collegejornalism pr ina mthe.mid-seventies. BlSIE OE F JRE I LICE. DUNDAS glETRE ABr, C. 1900 For tiios. wio âk trivia, h a a cîasesmate of Mike This unique field stone houe. was bufit in 1884 for a wealtiiy frit armner, Jéemiah Ick, b~y Kowalski a former staff writer for lb. Free Pres. ike stan. mason William Pearson cf Auhburn. It is now the. main building of the. Suninyr.s han now lef Ti.Mm .Prose t re-join a competing daily Nursing Home. itown.) WI~wf.o Memoreg ails Terry BcÈjE's third book. E fret i 1977, namoteo a large cave." Boad the mseon on Lieds e .ad.I one f he oic isie t Engand Linteanton alkuary 1967. on the widened Dundas Street oet cf Brock Street before VdF'hm enon t Street was occpièd by thie ICWak b*isple Ferguson family of.eightTi egsn ec~e a needsholons for a tavern ithe. settiement sud c&n ently they adoAted the. Vidal home for such purposes during bie '75 TZARS AGO absence. Upon bui return the lieutenant discovr.d the. from tiio ±!ursday, Auguet 10, 1916 edition of the changses ta bisproperty and ovicted them withiout' WH1TBY GAZEITEAMD CHRNICLE ceremony.m - For more, read about Sarnia. e A gala daycfprtnevents occurred at Hoeydenshore Park on the civie holiday under the, Bayle bas plans for at least two otiier bookcesimnilar te auspes of the. 182ndt Battalion. tusta ove mot comuntio hiOntrio.I aplad. u *Town councl Io .zpressâng annoyance about poople loafing on the, post office stops at the a day when more and more Canadian are buying their four corners bistoey in cros-bS-ore hjinqpo books 1k. tuis are *The shooner Rapid City was almost boacbed at CorbetWs Point, oet of Port WMhy, a.jci.Suel w wulntmm tadnghunks cf our during a equail. geogaphy for a few bits sud pièces cf history. * [ettere fini Whithy ta Port Whithy, or ta Whitby rural route,9 must. bave a tiiroe-cent

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