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« main theatre is a large conven-| May 15 was the target date| But by the time the Queen of-jup $2,800,000 and the p complex is Memorial Hall, di- tion area that will seat 400 per-|for completion of the Memoriai/ficially opens the Memorial injgot together to con ! THE OSHAWA TIMES, Seturday, 16, 1964 26 ra rectly facing the windows be- CONFEDERATION FATHERS MEMORIAL Shrine Nearing Completion _ .By JACK PICKETTS CHARLOTTETOWN (CP) -- It's a multidevel memorial that seems to wrap its arms around the worn brown building where Canada was born a ago, The Fathers of Confederation Memorial doesn't overshadow the Prince Edward Island leg- islative building, where the bearded gentlemen first began twtning @ream of a sea-to- sea nation into reality in Sep- tember, 1864. It does comple- ment it, On a pleasant autumn morn- ing 100 years ago 15 Maritim- ers sat around a big oak table Toronto Greets New Fireboat TORONTO (CP) -- The Wil- liam Lyon Mackenzie, the Tor- onto fire department's new $605,000 fireboat, received a tugboat welcome Friday when she sailed into Toronto harbor. The fireboat, named after. the city's first mayor, fired a wa- tery salute from her five four- inch monitors. Built by Rassell Brothers Limited in Owen, Sound, the Mackenzie locked through the Welland Canal Thursday night on her way to Toronto. As she neared the city Fri- day, a flotilla of tugs and har- bor police launches went out to meet her. CUT TARIFFS marks annually (about $61,000,- 600) next July 7, speeding up a previously scheduled for the next two years. jpreparing to discuss the pros and cons of uniting the three Maritime provinces into a sin- gle political unit, The granite front steps were unworn then. The long wind of their chamber looked over Market Square where the even- ing lovers 'strolled alongtree- lined paths. Off to the right lay Charlottetown Harbor bustling |with schooners. | Into the harbor that morning sailed the Canadian government steamer Queen Victoria bearing yet another delegation--this one unofficial--to sit in on the un- ion meetings. SELF-INVITED The Upper and Lower Canada representatives, who. literally) invited themselves to the meet- ing, put wp such a good case| for British North America un- ion that the Maritime delegates never did get around td discuss-! ing their own amalgamation. Today, on the smali market) square in the city's centre, the first memorial to these first Ca- nadians is nearing completion) in an architectural style that probably would have set -their long beards wagging. They met in a classic build- ing of sandstone with Ionic por- ticos front and rear and long jnarrow windows outlined in |heavy crimson drapery. Their memorial is faced with} sandstone from the same Nova) Scotia quarries, But the wails| end abruptly to form great) open corners that are the only) A. E. JOHNSON 0.D. OPTOMETRIST 14Y2 King St. East | 723-2721 } windows. There js no hint of the Tonic period. Yet there is no conflict. The adjoining Memorial appears an extension of the legislative chamber. And this despite the grey newness of the Memorial Tobacco Sells At 26.80 Cents TILLSONBURG, Ont. (CP)-- An average price of 26.80 cents a pound was realized on 922,158 pounds of tobacco. auctioned Friday at Ontario Flue-Cured Tobacco Growers Market- ing Board exchanges. fo far, 175,462,097 pounds of the 1963 crop have sold at an average price of 47.34 cents a pound, | a jsandstone and the reddish jweathering of the legislative |building's sandstone. |PARTLY UNDERGROUND | The Memorial seems to be five buildings, an impression left by the soaring effect of two storeys, built in separate pavil- ions on top of two storeys that are almost entirely under- ground. } Dr. Frank MacKinnon, the Prince of Wales College princi-| pal whose efforts are in a large part responsible for the Mem- orial, explains the underground section was necessary to keép the Memorial from overshadow-| ing the legislative chamber and! hind which the Fathers of Con- federation met. Here, a few steps beyond the legislative chamber, is the main entrance to the memorial with its art gal- lery, museum, library and thea- tre Largely open under a con- crete roof. made of small in- verted concrete boxes that give it a honeycomb appearance, the stepped stone wails of the hall are engraved with quotations from the speeches of the Fath- ers. Behind the hall is a theatre with 1,076 seats which can be reduced to 950 by using mov- able side wali panels. sons and has sliding panels that) will divide-into four smaller sa-| lons. | On the right side of Memorial Hall is an art gallery with a central floor and stairways that) seem to float in space. Here,) too, is the museum. Off the concourse area be- tween the theatre and gallery is a restaurant seating 60 per- sons, Its kitchens can serve 400. Under the galleny is a smaller 300-seat theatre and lecture hall. On the left side of Memorial |Hali is the library, connected by an underground passageway to the legislative chambers. 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