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MA THE OSHAWA Tr', Satutsy, Angust 27, TOSS HHH " LOCOMOTIVES EARLY ATTRACTIONS "tinea Hi ned gHHHAVAAAT HAA de dod ¢l4 ett an aH MOM He SNE det A Od \ MOVING SCENES IN WARTIME Depoi Derided For 60 Of Its 110 Years dnere ua owe A a building iediolas when they come to pull this ond one down. _-Even though. it does happen. to be older than the old To- ronto city hall. - Most likely, spectators will line up te watch as the wreck- er's anvil slices throuth this building's rotting walls. Give: or take a few minor changes the Oshawa CNR is standing just as it was _ built 110 years ago. It was never much to write home about even in 1856. The CNR recently announced plans to replace the existing antiquated rail facilities with an expanded up-to-date depot. People have been "bugging"' the company for years -- about 60 to be exact -- to get rid of that old building. "CNR station facilities have not kept pace with Oshawa's industrial progress," Col. Frank Chappell wrote in 1948, "Tt fs an archaic dump. in our own. backyard," he: wrote. "Can you recall conditions as they were 40 years ago? Do -you see any change? Con- ditions for train travellers are actually -worse than they were in those far-off days,"' "The digy red-brick station eontinues to squat unadaptably in the middle of ths -unpaved, unsuitable, ill-kept approaches." The Oshawa Grand Trunk Railway station -- as it was then called -- opened in 1856 and by the end of that year the track extended from To- ronto to Montreal, In those days locomotives us- ed to burn wood and run on wide - gauge track. In 1871 the first coal - burning locomotive was introduced and in the 1880s the present - day track was laid, Tom Stapleton of Cedardale now deceased, rode in the first Toronto to Oshawa passenger train in 1856: He deseribes the railway as i. was tic, "The brakeman had a real job at braking and the train quite frequently overshot the station by half a mile and: had to be backed in," he is quoted as saying in a news story 40 years ago. (in. the. early days locomo- tives weren't equipped with air brakes, just hand brakes). "Farmers used to drive mil- es into town to see a locomo- tive after the trains commen- ced running through here from Toronto. "Passenger coaches. were scarcely as big as the street- cars, with a big stove in the centre and open platforms,"' he is quoted as saying. In Mr. Stapleton's day Osh- awa was served by four pas- senger trains a day. Today things are hardly any differ- ent; in 1966 that. figure has in- creased to eight. ed CNR station has witnes-. As wien "members of the Ontario Regiment marched off to France in 1914, The occasion is recalled in a contemporary news item: . "The 34th left Oshawa on the GTR for Quebec and in spite of the pouring rain storm were accompanied to the depot by five bands and a great con- cert of people. They went by special train of 10 cars. "The bands -played God be with you till we meet again, as the train pulled out and many handkerchiefs were in evidence. A number of wo- men whose husbands were leaving fainted and were car- ried into. the depot. It was a happier spectacle when the survivors returned four years later: "As their train steamed 'into the GTR station . , . the bands played Home Sweet Home, hats went un in the air and thous- ands of throats voiced the sen- timents of their hearts in rousing cheers," the local news- paper reported. Sixty - six - year - eM Wen ty 2 Miners, 264 Grooms Ave., Osh- | awa, a retired CN railwayman, was there in 1914 and saw the Ontario Regiment board _ the troop. trains, His first job at the 'rail. way was-collecting passengers' baggage from the hotels down- town-and taking it to the sta- tion on a horse-drawn wagon. At that time the Oshawa Railway streetcars used to run right into the station to meet incoming trains. This continued until replaced by buses in the 1930s. Mr, Miners remembers there were "big passenger lists'? when he first started. In 1915 16 trains a day stopped at Oshawa. Amveivevv ita neti ne eS Ett dt EGER ef te Le Ee HR pe Roy Rogers. Dale Invited To Oshawa Folk Festival The King ana Queen of cow- boys -- Roy Rogers and Dale Evans -- may be the guests of honor at the 1967 Oshawa _ Folk Festival. BARBARA SPENCER SHOWS BOOK RAN RESTAURANT Announces .. « NEW DELIVERY SERVICE For Your Choice Of Chinese And Canadian Foods Delivered Hot To Your Door Call... 725-0075 or 14¥ KING ST. E. OSHAWA Robert Spencer, 1044 ° King St. E., a personal friend of Roy and Dale, has been asked by Jan Drygala, festival presi- dent and general manager to conduct negotiations. in an at- tempt to have the Rogers' visit the city. The Spencer family first met the Rogers family at the Can- adian Nationa! Exhibition when they appeared there several years ago. They~have been friends ever since. On Mr. Rogers' invitation, Mr, Spencer, had dinner with Roy and Dale at their Apple Valley Inn, in Apple Valley, California, earlier this year. Mr. Spencer says that. the Rogers' family is seriously con- sidering the invitation to the Folk Festival 'in. 1967. Mr. Spencer and his family have received an autographed copy of Dale's latest book, 'Time Out For Ladies,' and a personal tape recording made in the Rogers' home. In this recording, Dale says a special hellow to the citizens of Oshawa and hopes that she will be seeing them soon. She also extends encourage- ment to retarded children in the area. Most. of the proceeds from the seven books that Dale has written, have gone towzard helping retarded children. In 1984. Dale Evans was named the woman of the year, from" International | Orphans Inc., and Church Woman of the year, by Religious Heritage of America, Roy was named by the Round: Table International as an honorary knight for life and Dale as a Lady Camelot. This. citation, bestowed only 18 times in 30 years,.and never before to show -business -per- sonalities, recognized them for their distinguished service to humanity and to their country. Trivial Incident In History; Major Nations Trembled By R. J. ANDERSON Sanzaian. Press. Staff Writer On Dec. 24, 1941, Free French forces liberated, with- out a shot, the French Gulf of St. Lawrence islands of Ste. Pierre-Miguelon. A trivial event, it deserved to be only an obscure footnote in the history of the Second World War. Yet nations trembled President Roosevelt and Prime Minister Churchill had to set aside pressing _prob- lems of world strategy to deal with the matter. State Secre- tary Cordell Hull of the United States was a major casualty. Prime Minister .Mackenzie King was pained. Gen. Charles de Gaulle's ruptured relations with Washington never have been restored completely. In The St. Pierre and Mi- quelon Affaire of 1941 (Uni- versity of Toronto Press), Douglas G. Anglin pieces to- gether the strange and _ tan- gled story of an invasion that would have been comic opera had not the consequences been so serious in world at war. 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