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The Oshawa Daily Times [= The Oshawa Daily Retormer OSHAWA, ONTARIO, SATURDAY, AUGUST 11, 1928 NEW ERA FORESEEN IN GREAT AIRPORT PROJECT . L Prophetic Utterances by Leading Public Men--A Scheme Which Contains the Elements of Commercial De. velopment on a Phenomenal Scale. By F, HOWARD ANNES T a possibility of Oshawa's development as an Poll Lg is an anticipated en- e of far-reaching im. portance, President Burton, of the Toronto oard of Trade, addressing the first ess meeting of the Oshawa hamber of Commerce, made the fol- ng observation: "General Motors' manufacture of aircraft at Oshawa will open a new era of prosperity and create a great- er growth for the Motor City than you have experienced in the evolu- tion of the automobile in ustry." Addveasing the Whitby Board, Mr, George W, McLaughlin, President of the Oshawa Chamber of Commerce, made this assertion: "The boundary line between Osh- awa and Whitby is now only an im» aginary one and will be wholly ob- literated." Greater Oshawa can have no more inspiring vision of its future than the prophetic speeches of these two +, i men, The cue to Mr, + McLaughlin's possibly enigmatic ref- erences to Whitby i nd Oshawa grow- ing together was furnished in his closing sentences when he expressed anxiety for the realization of the Camp Borden projec. locally and stressed the need for a wider high- way eastward from Toronto. Both speakers are fully seized of the sit- uation with respect to aviation and the solution of the problems of pro- viding airport service for Oshawa and Toronto. Mr, Burton even includes in his elaborate report recently pass« ed on to the civic authorities of To- ronto the argument of the author of this article in behalf of Whitby's wonderful resources in relation to an adequate airport for the Queen City, Only lately it has been found that an area equal in extent of practical availability to the twelve hundred acres indicated as the airport site on the accompanying sketch-map, paral- lels it to the north, between the Kingston Road and Canadian Pacific main line and the Canadian National, which is the northern boundary of the Camp Borden location, The west- ern boundary of Whitby Bay and harbor -is the Ontario Hospital, with its six hundred and forty acres, of which over six hundred afford ex- cellent emergency landings, The elim- ination of danger in 'the matter of forced landings is one of the most important elements excellence found in this location for Camp Bor- den, We are informed that the deputa- tion, including Oshawa's representa- tives, that recently pleased to the Hon, Col. Ralston, Minister of De- fence, at Ottawa, the advantages pos- sessed by this wonderfully equipped location, were frankly told by the minister that it was superior in mer- it to every other proposed location that had been brought to the Gov- ernment's attention, It now peas probable that the selection of this lo- cation for Camp Borden will shortly . be determined. Blue Water Highway The lakeshore boulevard from To- ronto to Whitby and Oshawa will be one of the most beautiful imaginable because of its traversing the Scar. boro Heights with their four hundred foot outlook over the blue waters of Lake Ontario for nearly half the distance between the city and Whit- by. At Frenchman's Bay the route is offered free by the owner of the de- velopment now in progress there, so that for a mile and a third the road- way will be along the beach and not involve the lengthened detour around the Bay. From Frenchman's Bay to the town line between Pickering and Whitby townships the Range Line, a mile and a quarter south of the Base Line, or two and a half miles south OnTamio of the Kingston Road, undoubtedly will be chosen, thence easterly again along the shore to the Ontario Hos- pital grounds, which: may be crossed y keeping to the beach around the bluff, that is, its most southerly pre- jection into the lake. The oné hund- red and twenty foot parkway from in front 'of the administration build- ing of the hospital to Victoria Street, or, as it is best known, the Base Line, follows a diagonal 10ute alon the west shore of the harbor i bay, to the foot of Henry Street, The Base Line widened to one hun- dred and twenty feet from Henry Street eastwards may end the men- ace of the level crossing of the Can- adian National Railway main line by keeping along the south side of the railway, still constituting the north- erly boundary of the flight field, un- til Corbett's Point is reached. From there to Oshawa-on-the-Lake the route would adhere as closely as pos- sible to the lake shore, Ultimately, this initial unit from Toronto to Osh- awa of a blue water highway front- ing Lake Ontario and the St. Law- rence River to the Quebec boundary, will prove an enormously valuable asset in attracting American tourists sof not less than half a mile to an unlimited get-away over the of Whitby Bay and of the ke. This is assured by - a shallow cut between the Bay | Ca . lake in the south-west sector i the Bay. Provision for a similar width of parkway,~one hundred and twenty -feet,--from Victoria Street where the lake shore parkway from hospital lake front runs into it at Henry Street over the bridge car- rying the latter street over the Can- adian National tracks, just west of Whitby Junction station, will give di- rect access to the north-west sector of the proposed airport direct from the Kingston Road in the region of the 'Welcome to the County Town® sign, atop th. hill ¢5 you reach Whit- by from Toronto. t Side lssues The need of more highway accom- modation eastwards from Toronto, now already urgent, will be greatly accentuated by the establishment of Camp Borden on the lake front at Whitby. The proposed lake shore boulevard will reduce the distance between. Toronto and Whitby to scarcely more than twenty-six miles, This may be traversed in less than thirty minutes by every automobile now made in this countfy. The only requisite of the boulevard will be that it is wide enough to take care of the traffic which, upon its comple- tion, will seek relief from present ted conditions. Only a road of as well as giving much ded relief to the present overburdened single highway fronting the Province from Toronto to Montreal. The plan re- produced herewith shows these de- tails as well as the proposed re- routing of Brock Street by moving it to the main land on the east side of the marshes and by dredging to six or seven feet depth, providing CC this character can lead to the lifting of the speed restriction and enable cars to utilize the speed that is their most expensive provision, Fleet Street, with its sixty-feet pavement, indicates the kind of highway now needed eastwards from Toronto. One hundred feet is not too wide for such a highway, looking into the future requirements of the two rapidly- growing cities of Toronto and Osh- awa, Another discovery in gelation to the mp Borden re-establishment at Whitby is the good fortune of pro- viding--at an enormous saving over new construction--living accommoda- tion for the staff officers, cadets and attend in a ber of large resi- dential properties now in the market in the upper part of the town. More than enough can be saved in this way to meet the cost of the thousand acres of farm lands in addition to the two hundred acres of Whitby Bay and harbor which the Govern- ment already owns. The railway line between the upper part of the town and the main line of the Canadian National and the extension to the harbor, built by the town at an esti- mated cost of over a hundred and fif- ty thousand dollars, will now come into use as a street railway to carry cadets and others back and forth to the flight field. Site for Canadian Pacific The second site for an airport, seen in travelling along the Kingston Road westerly, immediately after passing through the Canadian Pacific subway, affords runways of equal length to the more than two miles of such essentials found in the Camp Borden location along the lake shore. This may prove to be a perfectly ad- mirable flight field for the Canadian Pacific, whose charter rights in avia- tion can thus be worked out in serv- ing Toronto and Oshawa as well as this central region of Ontario gener- ally. Otherwise, if Camp Borden is not available for civil aviation, it will be a magnificent solution for a muni- cipal airport for these communities of Oshawa and Whitby Continued on Page 54 " » Aingston via Heory \Drirgonal Rood Extension oF Corky gp | WHITBY SEWARS. DISPOSAL PLANT VICTORIA \ \ a rd - -------te a. MAITLAND - EAL ' A TNT K BROEX S7 To 5b Li WHITBY WETERW. 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