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f SERVING YORK SINCE 1 ERA Main Street Newmarket in Ontario wonderful British names how can you compare Zephyr with la Zouch High Street Newmarket In Suffolk Two Newmarkets strikingly similar ByANNEBRODIE Special to The Era LONDON ENGLAND As our ship approached Cornwall the view was not pre- possessing The tops of the hills had been burned black and brown by the drought and despite the wonder and awe of seeing land again its ravages were distressingly evident The sun had accompanied us across the Atlantic for eight days but began to grow fainter hourly and by the time we pulled into Southampton sun had given over to fog and rain This was remarkable for two reasons first it signified the end of the drought and relief for those thirty unbalhed and hot Britons Secondly to a foreigner all the clinches were proving true We knew we were really in England land of Aquascutum London fog and the paradoxical threat youll get a tan just standing in the English rain As it happened the rain followed me from top to bottom and left and right of the island for thenext month Landing I had a good deal of trouble adjusting to the stationary land underfoot the myth of land sickness is no myth My first memories of England are tilted and swaying as my feet did a chacha down the quayside habitually and involuntarily I was the proverbial sailor unsteadily dancing up the streets sober but completely misaligned The next shock was gelling into the wrong side of the car driving on the wrong side It was just too absurd For the first hour my companions told me I stared openmouthed speechless No wonder They probably spoke on the wrong side in this strange place Whitchurch Impossible You can imagine my utter confusion as I read the road signs It seemed we were headed for Whitchurch Whitchurch Impossible My senses railed Oh to be back in the middle of Atlantic looking out over the impartial comforthing sameness of the waves Ultimately there was nothing to do but pretend I was not affected and accept things with which I was bombarded A strange place albeit the homeland of many Canadians Surely it must bear some similarities to Canada From that point it became part of my British ex perience visiting and comparing sister towns namesakes and other connections between here and there to see if there was any essential link I was in luck Outside London there Is an utterly dissimilar to ours There are at least two Auroras here Believe it or not there are six Suttons one each near Birmingham on the Trent River the St Pauls Anglican Church on D a r c St Newmarket bears a striking resem blance to its English counterpart This photo was taken by Russell Collins about before the top of the tower was removed ill St Martins Anglican Church at site of the Anglican settlement from which Newmarket de veloped I- Yorkshire boarder near Nottingham in on the Suffolk coast and towards Scotland the magnificent SullonunderWhitestone Cliff Thornhill is in Morayshire north Scotland and Richmond became Richmond Hill A Tinier Sharon I saw a Sharon tinier than ours but its whereabouts escape me There are many and a Stroud or two Another Whitchurch exists ir Dartmoor for more picturesque than its sibling in Hampshire as it is in the loveliest of the British countries Devon A third Whilechurch nestles in the boarder lands of Buckinghamshire This small collection of namesake towns concerns only a small group immediately in the environs of Newmarket which indicates how gargantuan the job of discovering links with the rest of the province At least I came across one Newmarket a place which is in ternationally known as the British race centre More about that later The overriding similarity of names can only point ox a woeful lack of imagination in claiming and naming or an unequalled homesickness in our Canadian forefathers The British have us beat as far as imaginative excesses in placenaming go I used to think names like Zephyr Snowball and TemperanceviDe were pretty wonderful But compare with these British examples Buzzard Salterton Ashby la St Bees Head Saffron Walden on Crouch Perranzabuloe and pronounced hafesbraw and join me in lamenting our We must not bypass those extremely whimsical streets of London such as Man in the Moon Yard Haunch of Venison Street Worlds End Rotten Row Goodge Street Crutched Friars Tooting Bee Seven Sisters arent we embarrassed by Oak Street Maple Street Avenue Road Prospect Avenue and Main Street Its just not good enough Is it Drive Drive Millard Avenue on a Davis Drive simply do not spark ones imagination except in a strictly personal parochial sense No Imagination But dear old Newmarket still has the power to delight It Is time to sing its praises unconnected to the fact that I have a huge weak spot in my heart for It I shall compare it to its older sister in Norfolk Like our Newmarket this is in a rural patch of land in fact in an utterly charming spacious and lovely setting Both Newmarkets are last resorts alternatives to London and the Toronto conglomerate Norfolk like much land surrounding us retains Its old fashioned flavor relatively untarnished stately homes and gorgeous gardens abound in Norfolk even in this day of the rubber pound The Norfolk Broads could be compared to the flat vast land to the north of us except that the Bra ads event give way to red cliff a which drop into the sea The landsc ape and vegetal ion similarity the variety of firs interspersed with scrub and full deciduous forests Astounding because the rest of England is so very different in every respect essential link perhaps we dont see great imp par tridges running about so abundantly but the sentiment is there so to speak Great Migration And as has been happening in rural areas in and around Newmarket Ontario a great migration of young people and city expatriates is occurring growing in number and significance folk are anxious to begin again in an alternate selfsufficient new age life Crafts art and natural products are attracting a new breed of people into the area heralding the new way of life The same thing la happening in Norfolk on a greater scale than any in England in the same way that King City Newmarket and environs are experiencing develop These areas have their freshness and pastors openness In common their potential A tale of the founding of two towns Newmarkets 4000 miles apart NEWMARKET Legend says Newmarket England owes Us foundation to an outbreak of at which resulted In the transfer of the market held there to higher ground two miles southeast or that SI healing well at became less attractive as the fame of nearby grew and that pilgrims to lodged at the New Market town was an ancient settlement of the British famous horse breeders In their day and later stronghold of the Anglican South Folk who occupied their territory m Newmarket Is first mentioned In a charter of Henry III dated granting Richard Argen tine lord of the Manor permission to hold a fair there new village rapidly outgrew During the Tudor period mailing was the main occupation of the Inhabitants but It Is now best known as a horse racing and breeding centre In a fire swept through the town and the oldest houses today date from the rebuilding with the exception of the house in Palace St which Is said to have belonged to Nell Gwynne mistress of Charles Ontarios Newmarket harks back to the fur trade and the hectic years following the American Revolution when many families fled the new republic to the south for political business or religious reasons Among the latter were Quakers from Vermont and Pennsylvania who settled atong Yonge St cleared land and established a prosperous farming economy Businessmen soon arrived Including a New Yorker named Reman was connected by marriage to the colonys ruling circle and Family Compact and he soon built a milling brewing distilling and merchandising mini empire on Holland River Trappers who had once carried their catches all way to Toronto began trading here and a New Market town was established The little town soon grew up the hill from the mill pond and by 1850 five hundred people lived here During and several fires swept away whole Main SI blocks and although some homes In the community date back to the early years of the century no known business buildings predate the midcentury mark Aurora Peek Aurora Council is one up on smokers Aurora Counciftook reins of leadership of society last week by banning smoking in council chambers Further it Is studying possible legislation to control smoking in other public areas The idea is of course to put the squeeze on smokers and banish them to the back rooms Long forced to endure the effects of second hand smoke blocking the sensation of smell burning eyes odors lingering in hair and on clothing nonsmokers have revolted For 12 years Councillor Pete Miller has tried to get support for a move to ban smoking In council chambers Finally this year the ratio of smokers to nonsmokers changed and the resolution passed with only a single objection For more than a decade Ann Landers has urged people to speak out against the plague forced on them in public areas as well as in their own homes Two years ago the York Region public school board supported a resolution of Georglna Town ship trustee Keith Margrave against smoking In the board room Planes trains and buses set aside several years ago separate areas for nonsmokers Finally this year the provincial government jumped on the bandwagon with recom mendations for voluntary bans in public areas and separate areas for smokers in restaurants While the trend undoubtedly annoys many smokers who have grown accustomed to pulling out a weed whenever the spirit moves them about every 22 minutes for the average smoker most feel the move is long overdue Not even the most addicted smokers feel their habit Is healthy and most exhibit some sensitivity for the plight of nonsmokers In their presence Following hardhitting advertising cam paigns against smoking Aurora Council faced little opposition In rejecting the cigarette But what council exhibited last week as it banned smoking was a blatant lack of com passion for people hopelessly caught in the cigarette trap Showing some warmth for smokers would not have minimized the effect of the council action It was with unnecessary righteous in dignation that council tackled the issue as if a human approach would have minimized the council action V The whole Intent of the resolution is to get people to practice their habit somewhere else said Councillor Kel Tonner Council should not go on record as providing an opportunity for people to indulge In their filthy habit he continued noting people who want to smoke should be responsible for making their own arrangements However smoking will be allowed in hallways Councillor Ron Simmons complained that the new majority of nonsmokers it taking away rights of other members of society Bui that is not really the Issue here Where Is the compassion here for the millions of smokers st of whom are trying to quit Smoking is not something that ignorant people are doing to society but rather a false i Norfolk at a glance is similar to our part of On tario Both contain Newmarkets as their political centres recreation centres arts and crafts centres Both are towns of moderate size both are experiencing rural revival In land mat Is physically and metaphorically similar Our neighborhood knows of years recorded history at best where Norfolk contains the sites of three Viking ship burials and the ruins of a Roman city at Colchester Despite the historical differences of the two areas they seem to be at the same stage of development Both are essentially small town areas unhurried and pleasant For now next few years will make all the difference to our Newmarket Ob viously we are fated to be swallowed Into the relent less sprawl of Toronto and that quickly We should take example from Newmarket Norfolk an old town which has defied the ravages of time and growing population Its character remains intact with its charm and aristocratic horsey personality Retain Character It will in all likelihood remain so even when the population Is Increasing like mad Its natives work diligently anxious to maintain the she and essence of the town We should look at our Newmarket and determine whether or not it can withstand the pressures of the dry by working to retain its character Newmarket Ontario and Newmarket Norfolk both comfortable centres in rural settings both for the present unique Perhaps this is the true link Miss Broile whose home Is la Newmarket tarlo Is a of Toronto stoats currently on an extended European tear promise that society has made to millions of people Over the years cigarettes have been depicted In advertising as being synonymous with now generation Laughing beautiful people well clothed driving exotic automobiles are shown enjoying one brand or another Smokers were lured into their habit by the same technique that encourages people to buy particular brand of car or jeans or perfume It was later when the false promises turned to ash and smokers were left fighting a habit which they knew could destroy them Rarely do you find a smoker who wants to smoke Although they enjoy their habit most intend to quit next week next month on their birthday or during a vacation Eventually some make it others dont My Carol Corfojr f