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WESTON ROAD AND THE OLD PLANK ROAD The Merchants of the Weston Business Comm- unity welcome you to a celebration of Easter. On the Saturday before and the Saturday after Good Friday, our Goodwill Ambassador in the guise of the Easter Bunny will be patrolling the business section of Weston dispensing favours to all those he comes in contact with. Bring out the children and have a FUN FAMILY DAY! As you walk along Weston Road, the main street of Weston, this Easter season, little do you realize that you are following the route of the historic Toronto Carrying Place trail! 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'risfj9rrf/4 , "?Vy:sr,s's *1»:.:< TWY2s EtWr'iti'i't2, _ ft.“ \v’hw 5 C 'rs-ST ' s"Cir'/ I - 'yr,aijC;stf, $°§¥£w’ 'iiiiaEliiaalMi-ll -. _ Cairn commemorating The Toronto Carrying Place on the southeast corner of C iouston Avenue and Weston Road. Former Fire Captain, Norman Atkins is examining the newly restored plaque with Leslie Groser who did much ofthe work in restor- ing the plaque to its original condition. PUBLISHED BY THE WESTON BUSINESS COMMUNITY EDITION 94 VOLUME 1 considerable amounts of local trade - dried foods, furs, fish nets, and so on, were transpsorted over the Toronto Carrying Place. In 1787, it was decided to survey the area and the roads were laid out in the familiar grid pattern we know today, but until these roads were cut through the forest, the early settlers followed the trails established and used by the First Nations, explor- ers, priests and fur traders beside the river and through the heart of today's Weston. Around 1811, aportion of the trail was widened and opened as a road. It was mud in spring and fall, hard ruts in the summer but smooth in the winter when sleighs were used. In 1841, the Weston Plank Road Company was formed and a road of heavy wood planks was built from about Wilson Avenue to Old Weston Road and Davenport Road. Tolls were collected to use the road. The headquarters of the The colour is green - soon it will be everywhere - for one day in particular. March 17th is St. Patrick's Day! Anybody who is Irish or pretends to be Irish will wear green to honour the patron saint of Ireland.Who was St. Patrick? St. Patrick lived around 400 A.D. and was a bishop and a missionary. He was born in Roman "Britain" and, at age 16, was captured and sold into slavery in Ireland. After six years, he escaped to Gaul, studied religion, in 432, he was ordained a bishop and was posted to Ireland where through active preaching, made important converts to Christianity among the royal families and was res- ponsible for the beginnings of the Catholic church in Ireland. His name is found all over Ireland today in MARCH 17th HONOURS THE PATRON SAINT OF IRELAND & ST. PATRICK REIGNS (rounuutul an Page 5) If you are in Weston on Saturday, March 12 or on St.Patrick's Day, Thursday March 17, watch for our Goodwill Ambassador who will be St. Patrick for those days - he'll have a shamrock for you! Valentine's has its red heart, Christmas a red bow and green wreath and for centuries, the shamrock has been an emblem of St. Patrick as well as of Ireland. The shamrock is a small three- leuved plant known as a trefoil, it looks somewhat like our clover, spings where Bishop Patrick is said to have baptized people. Many boys bear the name Patrick and Fitzpatrick and Kirkpatrick are common family names - and of course, there is St. Patrick's Cathedral in Dublin and one in New York that is world famous. Amongst his many accomplishments, legend has it that he ordered all the snakes out of Ireland and it is a fact that today, there are no serpents in the country. St. Patrick is loved not only by the Irish but by many others who have come to know him through stories and poems and the celebr- ation of St. Patrick's Day. One of the more famous celebrations is New York's St. Patrick's Day Parade - over four miles long and marches down Fifth Avenue every March 17th. " PATRIQK \LLSITS WESTON " MMthl,ri_:i,:f's2ilt"itm MARCH 17 <6.> HOME OF THE BICYCLE