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Oakville Beaver | Thursday, January 19, 2023 | 12 insidehalton.com REGION NOTICE OF ROA SURE UPDATE Dundas Rd. 5) Appleby Line (Reg. Rd. 20) to Tremaine Road (Reg. Rd. 22), in the City of Burlington RTT SEE (REGRD. gg RO25 ae th Be abl TTT ° 5 = FE fi ~| : a Project number: To support improvements to the Tansley Bridge, phase two of the temporary weeknight closures of Dundas Street from Sutton Drive to Tremaine Road will be starting on January 23, 2023. Closures will take place Monday to Friday (including Friday night) from 9 p.m. to 5 a.m. and are anticipated to end by February 18, 2023. Transit users can expect delays and longer than usual travel times ‘through the affected area. Please visit jit.ca and ca for more information. Access for local residents and emergency vehicles will be maintained at all times. For more information about Regional improvement projects: ye i Building + visit halton.ca; + sign up to receive email notice and updates; or h Halton + email accesshalton@halton.ca or call 311. Taking care of your mental health and well-being January 25 is Bell Let's Talk day, dedicated to ending the stigma surrounding mental health and moving the conversation forward. Support is available to those struggling with mental health issues or living with mental illness. Remember, if you need help, please reach out to a loved one or health professional. Please also continue to check in on friends and family. There are many resources available in Halton, including links to local organizations, tips and more. For more regio Cate information, visit the Mental Health webpage on halton. Meetings at Halton Region Regional Council meetings are taking place through web conferencing until further notice. Videos will be posted to halton.ci Please contact ble, if you have any accessibility needs at Halton Region events or meeting COMMUNITY STROLLING THROUGH HISTORY INSPIRES COUPLE'S NEW BOOK What began as casual strolls through coviD. 19 lockdowns be- ‘ame another fascinating dive into Oakville's history for husband and wife Terry Murphy and Michael John- m. The couple, who have contributed numerous ar- ticles to historical publica- released a col ti} book, "To Treasure These Things Hearts," stories from the lives of early Oakville set- tlers who are buried in the Lyons Lane cemetery. Through various archi- val records, the couple ex- plored the joys, sorrows, triumphs and hardships of more than 200 families spanning the years 1830 to 1965 and transformed their i a id cultural history of the town. "We found the most amazing stories," said Mur- phy, the book's author who has written two other his- torical books. St. 's shows that though Oakville was small, it attracted people of di- verse backgrounds and tal- ents whose co-operation to- gether created a place to ive," the book's back cover reads. the death ote an Italian im- migrant while working on the Sixteen Mile Creek rail- way bridge as his Wife a and two young children arriving in New York ver. bor to build their new lives together. "She expected to see him in New York and then he wasn't there, so it wasn't until she got to Oakville that she found out that he died." The Oakville communi- ty at the time managed to raise $14,000 for the family, an amount that in 1957 Michael Johnson photo The front cover of anew social and cultural history of Oakville book by authors Terry Murphy and Michael Johnsol would have bought you a house and a car, said John- son, historian and photog- rapher, who most recently -cural ied nirs of Pe: bition at the Oakville Mu- seum and supplied the pho- tos for the book. The individuals they divi with wa dinacy cic said Murphy. “They had so much that we can relate to. There was a huge ‘buy local’ (cam- paign) in the'30s during the Depression, merchants trying to help one another and the community to help the merchants; how they got through the pan- demic of the Spanish flu and multi-generational homes; how they solved and international levels, she said. “Oakville had quite an international reputation in sports and music in impor- tant ways, and so that was really interesting to discov- she said. arch they con- ducted was addicting and presented cause for reflec- tion, said Murphy. think so spoiled todays sometimes and we think we have it hard, but then when you go back and look at stories of families that lost half their children to tuberculosis in the early 1870s, but they survived. They must have been deeply sorrowful, but they kept going. That was inspiring. Looking at how they tried to help or one an- other; making si they shopped at both er grocery stores and both bakeries." The pioneers saw work- ing together as more ad- vantageous and "this com- mon mission allowed the community to build the small town of Oakville into a neighbourhood to be treast Their findings also un- derlined for the couple how important it is to record history. : occurred to us is how much gets lost. It made us really think about the importance for every- one to not let those stories get lost. Every family has stories and later we might want to know what they: are and tt the poopie are gone.” ‘page soft cover child care. All these things ook is a areclcbeatio ion of the that we are dealing with." lives" they discovered be- One ofthe mostinterest- hind the gravestones of St. ing facts to be discovered Mary's, which "has become was Oakville's place in his- avery different place for us tory at both the national now." 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