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racy sun :1. While :a,:-rlod In :1 period. I to can-5 her wish- REM?!`- mude by order. or B3,:-rlo. an. Editor Manacor. (S-ault Daily Star) .1 _ ___ _ _.- 51.- `A irhe results achieved by The Imperial Life `Assurance Company of Canada in 1927 as in- dicated by the gures given below will be very gratifying to Policyholders and others interested in the Company s progress: 1917 1922 Assurances in Force` . . . . . 63,362,339 140,025,954 Assurances Issued . . . . . . .,13,087,584 24,825,819 Total Assets . . . . . . . . . . 14,283,845 24,928,718 Policy and Annuity Reserves 11,019,495 20,897,214 Premium and Interest Income 3,134,953 6,122, 338 Payments to Policyholders . 1,030,392 2,049,324 BOARD` OF DIRECTORS President The Bank of Nova Scotia . Pruidmt F. N. Burt Co., Limited Pmidmr Wm. A. R0 crs, Limited Prm'. mt American Sh cs Book Company I/in- Dnrhlpnr Fin: nah-v Cnmrnnv ITCJIJOGWI l1lllCl{lH3l-I CHIC! 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Write now, without Obllga. tion. for FREE enlarged puzzle chart; and rules to Dept. 56 , Goblin Magazine, 170 Bay Street. Toronto 2. Out. 2 rau- NG (all M Iul'| IV I tants an HVA hono 1181" D, 198.4 ate terms. yfleld t. moon on Turn in gig Xi TORE ntario and ~veyor Phone 08! \JoIvl km Engineor n A boll-0 Elency Dapt. . 131$" Won`; 49` [.L_a.v.vL=- Furnaou Lr m sw- : `Unltod adv`no.o an ahouid ,ddreII It N8-- WC Vbaoriborl subscrip- they 15!! n THUS imel-rr ` Phono-81I is: co] nutcr- mall-Ah . Phone 860 .T\YTI" II! II ge, Toronto A RONIOOI % Small 0!. Iguassu xRDS NARDI Englnufl WHO- ia, B.A.Bo. O.A.A. ITECT R W iandn [Thla Ia the fir-atinatallntant of an intaraitlng and intimate word ietuu-at of an-ia ea It ap- pear {lit and aha yaare ago. an dapetad by J. . lan- natt. in an addraaa before the woman : Canadian Club re- cently. Oid-time:-a atiil raaldant here and hundreda who have Ion alnee left their native town wii find it paI-tleu|arIy`|ntar- eating. other Inatallrnanta will follow in aueeaaaiva lawn of The Examinan-Ed|ter.]A A word picture` of Barrie, in it ap- peared titty and sixty years ago. was given by J. I-I. Bennett before the Women : Canadian ub recent- ly. `Mr. Bennett covere the entire area. or Barrie from Kempenfeidt Hill West to Baytield St., and The Examiner is presenting it in in- stallments. the first of which will cover that area. west `as tar as `Mui- oaster St. _ M. annnff nnened his address st. 4 -Mr. Bennett opened his with a little early history of the town. Along previous` to 1800,, he said. there was practically. no set- tlement in this part or the country and no inhabitants save` rlndians. Voyageurs, missionaries and fur traders from Quebec. "who came -in by the lakes and the trail started from Marks St.. going out by way at Willow Creek, the Nottawasaga. River and Georgian Bay. Barrie was rst settled in 1827. Andrew Bor- land, David Edgar, Captain Oliver. Alex. Walker, Richard Carney. John Blngham. Sidney Sanford and John Mewatt were among the first set- tlers. . nrhnn 6`hA rnihvnov had rnnnhnd `When the railway had reached. as far as Holland Landing, the| You'll be delighted at the improvement a. h a r d - wood oor will make _in the appearance of a r6'6m that's begun to look shabby. And better still . . . . it costs so little! Let us measure it, show ` you samples, and give you an estimate. . Bell Planing Mill Co. Ltd. BARRIE Thunday. Fobrhnry 9.` 1028. MY so YEARS IN BARRIE Permanent Beauty at - % _ '1`:-{ing cost! star of n Church. nservatory t Toronto. Phone 688 `Where Must be Somebody Else? A % Where the cot-cot-cotton .9s_W-. nu ,. n1_,,._ ,,l.|_ no A ._A n.__ - rI....._.I_; -_.l 4 u-Eysryhod V I. % Ginolgves My ggksrots with Vocal Chm-uses. 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There was a. military s element who had a. station at Pene- tang. to which place it had been re- moved trom Nottawasasa. The road nvnn I-`nine-' hunt tn Dnnatanz and EEORS * and alter.- moved :1-om Nottawalaxa. was ruuu was being built to Penetang and, Inasmuch as Kempenteldt. or Fish- erman's `Point, was. already the road terminal and a shipping point, they naturally telt that Kempen- feldt should be the townsite. Others `- wanted it at Tollendal, where Messrs- Lally. `Mann and `Meld-rum -had interests. Already at Tollendal there was a hotel, a brewery and a distillery. also a sawmill.-Another family who lived there was the Sibbalds. '1"hos. Sibbald now re- sides in Barrie and others who._lat- gr; settled in the Township of Innis- 8!`! Iii. If ll ' V There `being a government store- house at Barrie. supplies going by the tWi11ow Creek route to Not- tawasagg. man-y claimed that.IBar- rie. at the head or the !bay, was the best site for: the town_and in the end their views prevailed. ,, __A-..A. -4. 5.1.- E.-um} Ann` ll. GHQ LIIUHC VIU WE Let us startat the East and of the town." said Mr. Bennett, "and `)5 G V Il4ll\J\Cl i proceed geographically, as it were. ' and perhaps you will be able _to 4 follow me much better than if I `A were to turn!) from one place to 1 another. `We shall come in from -Oro f along the Shanty Bay road. The ` first place we see on the right was. . owned by a mannamed `W. C.` Mc- ` Vitty, first clerk of the peace. af- terwards occupied by a man nam- t ed Walton. who had a very fine ower garden. There were other houses along there occupied by Geo. Ball, `Messrs. Atkinson, Mann. Mel- drum and a family called Fullerton who lived on the south side just at the hill. A'tailor located there at that time was named 'McDonald I and it is recorded that Thrift Mel- ` drum built the first wharf. -Down to the left of the `hill where Canon Cody's place now is located, was the place of James omers and on the right that of `Martin John- son. A man named James Johnson conducted a brick kiln at Fisher- man's Point in those days. Martin" Johnson afterwards carried on the same business. uxvnm n: nnwm 1m #11:: fnmmm same DUSIIIEBB. Now we come to the famous Green IBush. H `I, to the east of where Harry H. ' now has his gasoline station. This was a. fam- ous hostelry inits day. It was first occupied by a-man called I-Iublbard and afterwards by a Mr. Fuljames, a somewhat pugilistically inclined family; the son was quite a prize- righterv and . much interest was thereby caused around Barrie in the sport. When the lumberjacks came into town. ready to clean up the place, these Fuljames had a nice time showing how easy it was to get rid of them. nn Mm nnuth side otmosite the wow aavau-5 uuvny nuvvv Following along there `were a number of smaller houses, `Wm. Baxter. a. plasterer and character, lived there. unt_1l you come to where 1Mr. Pugh built a. `house oc- cupied by `Mr. I-Iolt. a broker. and now you see the house where. Mrs. Hunter lived. then the home of Mr. Gore. the first Grammar School` ,teacher, after-w_a_rds occopled by get 1'10. 0): tnem. On the south side opposite the hotel was 9. house occupied by a family named Brown, some of whom are lvin-g there now. nu-n_I1-_-l..... _I-__ Linn-..` -manna A _ The Nancy- committee -met on January 26` at the County -Building and as a result of. a re- port made to County -Council,` that ody next `day appointed a care- taker, Henry Freeman, .to keep a fatherly eye on the historic bat- tleship and its environs, during ` the `next three months. The crea- . tion` of a park on the island at , which the Nancy now rests on `cement piers in a steel house, was `_ also reported on by the committee among -other things. 0. H. J. L Sn er a member of the commit- . tee pwh ' raise the Nancy and was mainly ' responsible in seeing` it through, ; was not present. He leaves short- , ly, with Mrs. Isnider, on a Med- iterranean trip. f'|1-..1: Gvnv-uulvn -mannllnrl o inaugurated the plan to- US G AND Pafk, Glass. Case for Relics, Footbridge to `Island T j ` Planned ` trip. . Clerk Simpson recalled` that council first considered the raising of the Nancy in November 1926, when it was agreed that if the pro- vince would undertake raising the hulk the county would maintain | it. IIMI it.. The province, he said, had built the piers, housed the boat and so far not one cent of the $200 orig- inally granted by council had been snent; Committee members had all paid their own expenses. "l`1nn N| a~nnw mad: 'h1f.n1`V in the all paxa men` own ex enacts. The Nancy made hxstory in the war of 1812, Mr. Simpson said, and but for her Canada might not today be a member of the British Commonwealth of Nations. A --1---- Anna -`nu -|nn1:n A; Uommonweaitn OI mauons. A glass case for relics. gifts of which are to be invited, the build- ing of a collapsible footbridge from the mainland to the island. in addition to an ambitious park scheme,` are also planned. The Nancy is also to be painted and parts restored to keep her from deterioratimt.` The committee will meet at Wasaga early. in the spring. ' '|"ln-ma nrnnnnf. at the commit- spring. Those nresent at the commit- -tee meeting` were: ;D. ' Williams (acting chairman), M. B._.Byrnes. G. W. Glover, D. H. Coleman, J. E. Jamieson, Warden Lambert. C. C. Begn.-s. W. A. Tom. C. E. Wright. M.P.P.. J. F. Hambly, 'f-..-..`L G..-'Iau~u IIVIII T T Qy1v\gny1 E1. VVTIEHD. L`Vl..1'.1'.. II. 1.`. J.laIx|uag, `Joseph Spicher and J. `T. Simpson.| -_ Sheriff Smith and today by the De- puty Sheriff. Another teacher of the first Gramm\ar School in T Barrie lived in a house on the south side, which is now occupied by Mrs. Red- ditt. students who attended the school bore names which later held high place in the `making of Cana- dian history, the Falconbridgee. Boultbees. Morgans. Oslers and oth- tuna Miss_Joy built the present Ord home and next was the place that Mr. Dickinson built: it was burned and rebuilt by Mr. Dickinson and now occupied by a gentleman from New Orleans. Mr. Rees. Farther a- long the road there were a couple of houses, one at the corner 0: St. Vincent Street occupied by James Windsor. whose boat often came in . loaded with the `finest salmon trout. And as you walked along Blake Street, there was Boulderfell built by Judge Gowan. A favorite camp- ing ground for the `Indians from Rama was where St. Vincent's Park now is, and lots of fun the boys had hanging around and watching the Indians 7 and trading their little treasures with them. Now if you went back over the hills, there was the `house that'Allan Lloyd, Division Court Clerk, alived in, now "Miss .Brock s. Mr. Calderwood lives in the house which was built by Mrs. -CLor- ing, and -those of W. D. Ardagh, first reeve and Henry -Creswicke, county surveyor. Going further back -into the country you reached Shannon's fields, where you turn to go down to Little Lake. some of the houses in that locality were Jim. Barry's at the head of Codrington St.,' Mr. I-Iowcroft`s, James Mc.'Bride's. Mr. Griffith's. an artistic mechanic and` -Michael Quinlan's. Other landmarks . were the Presbyterian cemetery and Dr. Pass brick house. Then you saw a big farm owned by Allan Gunn, a lumberman, which farm is now owned by the Dyment s. uwalking i further on, you came to what is now ` known as Penetang St., but was called Carron Row many years ago, and there was quite anice little Irish settlement in that district. Many good times were enjoyed, which were helped along by old John `Maloney. John I-Iettron, Mick. Hayes, James Evendon and others, real types of Irihmen. . 1'! '\mn Iran?-nn from there. that erg. cm real types 0: Lrinmeu. `If ou kepton from there, that woul `bring us down to Mulcaster St.-James Kerr. -lumberman, lived there. The Jail has -been there ever since I can remember, ,a man by the name of Hayter was the first. jailer: then Alex. Lang. The Roman Catholic Church was a small frame building which stood up near where the present school is. The par- ish priest was Father North- graves, a very estimable man, and he was succeeded by Bishop ~0 Con- ` nor. - `The Registry `Office (-George Lount, registrar) was on the corner of the county lot and Mr. Dougall had a furniture factory opposite the Registry Office. The old court house was up on the hill and it was a very different building to what it is at present. Dr. C-ruickshanks liv- ed between the Registry Office and County Building. To the `east of the Court House was Trinity church . where the `Rev. 8. B. A-rdagh was the first rector. He was assisted by a man named Lesl-ie. the sexton, who looked -after the equipment- generally; a ` very pompous little gentleman, very efficient he was. but he did liketo assert hi own im- portance. as much as he could."I-Iis daughters kept a private school. ` . Van fnnurnd hank and thera was daughters Kept u pravumv auuuus. You followed back and there was nothing much `else around there. but as you came along Collier .St., there was the Market building. which was a .very different building `in those days.--On Mulcaeter St. next to where James Dougall lived, was 9. house built probably eighty years ago. and one on the oppositi side built by Mr. Henry Dougall, 3 else `probably `as old. , . . -RAtrnnln.2 our stens alomz the pronamy as 010. , Retracin-g our steps along south side of Blake st., -we come to the residence of Judge Gowan, now known as Ovenden College. Follow-~ ing along Charlotte BL. 41 Mrs. Lloy lived on theaaorth side. then White- breads. Nellie. Wilson and Copeland kept store on the corner. On the south` side of Charlotte. St. was Geo. Burton's residence, Sanford : and Thomas Candles. 4:. lumberznzt and Will-ism -Caldwell on the llfs i {Danae clan; `Juan; A few -days ago the editor fl Woods and Waters discovered. a} newone. Not a. new kink tor the fishing fraternity nor even 9. new lake or stream, but a. new rtly ang- ler -in the person of E. WV. Shrub- sole, who came to the Sault recent-. ly to lead the Orpheum Theatre or- chestra. M-r. Shrubsole not only ties his own -ies, makes his own lead- ers and other equipment, but makes; his own rods as well. so that he will be quite an acquisition -to the grow- -ing crop of fishing bugs -in the city. ----....I --.o.-ml-`nan non Ifhg p{1-np} E. Mil.-STHRUB8OLE'8 OUT-FIT INTERESTS 800 ANGLER8 `H15 GNU}! UL `blunug um-an can u--V '--_,.I useveral evening-s ago the editor; had the pleasure or whipping a. cou- . pie or the rods made by this angle:-5 and found them the work of an ex-: pert. '1`-he rods. both y and bait weapons, were nicely balanced and artistically wound, and, it was plea-E aant to see. were both quite light,` showing that Mr. S-hrubsole favors light tackle now comin in-to gener- .1 mm nmonk conser tionists and. light tackle now comm uuu senat- a.l use among conser and others interested in fish protection. In Mr. Shrubaolds collection of ar- tistically tied flies were quite a number of bazibless hooks, and the files themselves were more or the dry fly variety-th9.t is tied with Thence along Collier "St. on the north side was Dennis McKerna.n. - who kept a.-general store, Richard White!bread.' Povey. a blacksmith and Mr. 'La.liy's residence, said to be the first brick house -in `Barrie, where_Geo..-McLean now lives. Then came James Somers. who lived on the corner, the first 'Methodist church. later used as a `Sunday School and a public day school for girls. `Miss 'McDnoald and `Miss Laird (afterwards Mrs. Black and Mrs. Bosanko) were the teachers. Back 0: the Methodist chu-rch Alex`. Graham carried on. a contracting and undertaking business on VWors- iey st. On the north side of Collier coming west,'e. `Mr. Atkinson lived. Michael Shea had to. `carriage shop and Patrick McBride. a grocer, was located on thecorner at the Market Square. ; [To -be continued] 1`-I-II BARBIE ixgmmzn `lic Ora.- presslon