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Events offer g lim pse into Whîtby'9s past Lots of activities are planned for children at this year's Heritage Day on Saturday, Sept. 10 in downtown Whitby. The festivities, arranged by the WMhy Local Architectural Conservation Advisory Com- mittee (LACAC), educate people, young and old, about the history of Whitby. The day's events run ftom 10 a.m te 4 p.m. Max T. Oz will perform his traditional street magic. The Whitby Brasa Band, Whitby Courthouse Throatro and County Town Singera will perform. Also entertaining audiences will ho a new children's singing group, 'Away We Go With Annie and Mo!? They are led by Anne Drewery. Town archivist Bilan Winter's historie walking tour of Bryon Street is at 3 pa. Many of this. year's festivities will occur on Byron Street North, as the day's thome is « A Saturday Stroil on Bryon Street.' An antique toy collection wiIl also be courtesy of the Sydenham Museum. and dol on display, Oshawa Ail Saints' Anglican Church, one of Whitby's nost historic buildings, will be open to the public 'BnietBa b y'remenibered ON HERITAGE DAY this Saturday, Wade Szilagyi wiII showcase some of the artifacts he's discovered over the à years with his metal detector. cà Treasure hunter "touches the pasi" Artifacte dating back more than 150 years, which were found in Whitby with a metal detector, will ho displayed on Whitby's Heie Day, Sept. 10. Wade Szilgyi, a Whitby resident who has been searching for hidden treasures with his rnetal detector for eight years, will show off the resuits of hin searches, on Bryon Street, between Elm and Mary streets, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Among the artifacts on display will be coins dating back to 1840, war medals, clay pipes, old botties and many other treasures found in Whitby. Szilagyi says he has always been interested in history and with his motal detector he can actually 'touch the past" of Whitby. Concerned about the destruction of old homes and historie i sites, Szilagyri has searched these locations te find artifacts % before development obliterates them. Trafalgar to have dispa ITrafalgar Castie Sehool, which celebrates its l2Oth anmiversary 4 this year, will have a special display on Whitby's Heritage Day, Sept. 10. From 10 a.m. te 4 p.m. the display will bein the Canadian h Imperial Bank of Commerce at _Brock and Dundas streets. Aniong the items on display will be a suit of armour, a school uniform, old photographs of the achool, souvenirs and brochures. One of the oldeet institutions in Whitby, Trafalgar Castie Sehool was officially opened on Sept. 3, 1874, by Lord Dufferin, the Governor-General of Canada. From 1874 te, 1979 it was known as the Ontario Ladiesd College. It takes its present name from the original building, Trafalgar Castie, which was built in 1859-62 as the residence of Sheilf Nelson Gilbert Reynolds. Students from alI over the world as well as local girls attend this private sehool. Trafalgar Castie Sehool is a unique architectural treasure, built 50 years before Toronte's Casa Loma. An event of 70 years ago which mnade Whitby world-famous for the first timne, will be commemnorated on the town's Heritage Day, Sept. 10. A cake-cutting ceremnony will be held on Byron Street near Mary street at noon te honour James Edward 'Teddy' Rowe, a Whitby boy who was proclaimed the 'Bonniest Baby in the British Empire' in JuIy 1924. Margaret Scott, Teddy'e Rowe's sister, and her son Glenn Scott will eut the ceremnonial cake and Brian Winter, Town of Whitby archiviet, will tell Teddy Rowe's stoay. Teddy Rowe, son of Thomnas L. Rowe, a garage owner in Whitby, was chosen as the 'Bonniest Baby' in the British Empire in bis class of fine months to two years, in a contest which was held in association with the British Empire Exhibition at Wembley, London, England in 1924. Teddy -Rowe received a cash prize of $500 for winning over 60,000 other babies from Canada, Britain, Australia, New Zealand and other countries in the Empire, now the British Commonwealth. He was born at the Victorian Order of Nurses' home in Whitby on April 6, 1922, and was aged 2 at the time photographs of hlm taken by Campbell's Studio in Oshawa ýwere submnitted to the Empire-wide contest. The babies were judged on the basis of photographs and health records. Teddy Rowe had no ilînesses in his young life up to that time. The Ontario judges, which included Group of Seven artist Arthur Lismer, gave Teddy Rowe second place in bis class, but the Wembley Exhibition judges placed him first. The Teddy llowe story, however, has a tragic ending. At age six ho contracted scarlet foyer which weakened bis heart. At age eight, after catching the flu, Teddy Rowe's heart gave out and he died on May 1, 1930 in Toronto. Hie parents had lefb Whitby in 1926 and spent the rest of their lives in Toronto. The Town of Whitby Local Architectural 'Conservation Advisory Committee (LACAC), which sponsors the town's *Hentag Day te promote local history, decided carlier this year te mark the 7th anniversary of Teddy Rowe's achievement with a epecial commemorative ceremony. Margaret Scott, Teddy'e only other sibling, who lives in Weston, will take part in the ceremony. The LACAC considers Teddy Rowe's contest win as significant in Whitby'e history as it was the firat time' the town gained world recognition. The only other tirnes this happened were when the Whitby Dunlops won the world hockey championship against the Soviet Union in 1968, and when Whitby's An. Ottenbrite won gold, silvor and bronze modale in swimrning at the 1984 Summer Olympies in Los Angeles.«* A display of photographe and pross cippinge of Teddy Rowe will be set up on Byron Street by the Town of Whitby Archives. TEDDY ROWE 'Bonniest Baby in the British Empire' in 1924. Whitby Archives photo