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1847 tors of Canada Lim- by members of the nily, the beautiful hall in Newcastle a memorial to the Massey whose first in the manufacture gan in the village, significant that the it Massey, a former eneral. of Canada, | his home on an irham County, north De, aster for many years, was tary of the company which capitalized at $22,000. Mr. combe was collector of cus- at the harbor. The erection of a replica of the log cabin built by Roger Conant, the first settler in the area, will be the centennial pro- ject of Darlington Township residents. The project is a tri- bute to the pioneers of the dis- trict. The cabin, which will be used as a museum, is to be erected in the Darlington Provincial Park near the site of where Mr. Conant, who came from Vermont, built his abode when he settled in Canada. Members of the Women's Institutes in the township have undertaken the task of gathering items for Members of the township council are: Harold C. Muir, reeve; Carl Down, deputy reeve and Councillors Richard . Gibbs, R. Ben Brown and Rus- sell Dow. Civie officials are: W. E, Rundle, clerk - administrator; Miss Mary L. Niddery, deputy clerk and welfare administra- tor; P. D. Ritchie, treasurer; R. M. Short, road superinten- dent; A. W. Jennings, assessor and Charles Warren, building inspector. Members of the planning board are: Roy McGill, H, Muir, C. Down, B. Brown, Lloyd Ayre, W.. H. Brown, F. CABIN CENTENNIAL PROJECT committee of adjustment is composed of: R. DeCoe, S. E, White, W. Pascoe, Mrs. Ron Clemens and Harold Watson. The members of the industrial committee are: Harold Balson, Robert Stevens, W. Henry, Harry Gay, W. Parrinder and D. G. Kemp. The personnel of the Darling- ton Public School Board are: Sydney Worden, Francis Werry, Bruce Tink, Herbert Mackie, Harry Oyler and M. J. Hobbs, secretary. Sei The township, which was_in- corporated in 1853, has an area of 58,500 acres, a population of 10,300 and taxable assessment THE OSHAWA TIMES, Seturday, June 24, 1967 11D ¢ "HO 4 HAROLD C. MUIR _for travellers ... for over 1967 UCKS JIPMENT x 10! : Ltd. OSHAWA display in the museum. BOWMANVILLE (Staff) -- 10 years ago application was made by the then Village of Bowmanville to attain the sta- tus of town. Its population was over 3,000. In this Centennial year Bow- manville has grown to 8,252 souls and continues to grow slowly. It's interesting that between ithe years of 1852 and 1857 the Evillage of Bowmanville in- reased its population by 200 per cent. During the last cen- tury the town has managed only to double its inhabitants. The village of Bowmanville was incorporated on January , 1853 and its first council included J. Burk, T. W. Hunt, . McFeeters, T. C. Sutton and David Fisher as Reeve. J. B. [Fairbairn was appointed as the irst clerk. 'onduct in the village, the sec- pnd was to prevent horses, "oxen, cattle and swine from unning at large on the illage's mud roads. Discord reigned during the and on promptly appointed John Burk as Reeve only to discover later in the meeting that Mr, Burk had sent his letter of resigna- 'tion to Council. Later Thomas Hunt was elected Reeve. "In April of 1854 the Vil- lage Council decided to sell the 'old town hall to the school trus- steps towards} a and took "the 'construction of a market building and the town hall, The Town Hall. and Market Build- ing was constructed in 1855 at a cost of $18,000. The building was L, shaped, the base of the L included three stores on King St. from which the young municipality derived some rev- enue. A_ considerable area Hutton and Harry eM LEENA Oyler. The totalling $8,024,000. Darlington Reeve } De ee Pioneer Days In Municipal Hectic In Bowmanville As Village BOWMANVILLE The town of Bowmanville eight miles east of Oshawa to- day has a population of 8,252. Based on 23 per cent actual value the assessment of the was $9,417,996. _ Today the town has industries, the largest of which is the Goodyear tire plant and two new industries are expect- ed to settle in the town in the near future. Bowmanville boasts 12.4 acres of municipal parks and in the town which has a total area of 3,520 acres. operations and fills out the transportation system including the CPR and CNR mainline crossing of the town and .64 niles of provincial highways, 3.6 miles of County roads and The town's centennial project Ping the Bowmanville Memo- rial Park and the Lord Elgin Park in the town. CIVIC OFFICIALS Members of the town council are: Mayor Ivan Hobbs, Reeve S. Little,. Deputy Reeve W. Fice and Councillors J. Bourke, K. Nicks, E. Rundle, Mrs. A. Darch Oke, G. Hughes and M. Prout. Other civic officials are: R. Byron, clerk-treasurer; C. 9. Oke, assessor; T. K. Stewart, board of works superintendent; R. Hetherington, building in- spector; T. Lyle, fire chief; B. Kitney, police chief; B. Fan- ing, recreation director; R. J. Welsh, welfare administrator and G. T. VanBridger, mana- along 'Temperance St. was comprised of "Stalls" and was known as Market Square. FIRE FIGHTING In 1863 when the Bowman- ville Fire Company was al- ready nine years old drastic measures were taken to pre- serve the fire fighting equip- ment in the young town. The clerk was instructed to notify all persons having lad- ger of the public utilities com- mission. Members of the arena com- mission are: E. Rundle, M. Brown, K. Hooper, D. Gilhooly, §. Little, A. Hooper and A. Mavin. The cemetery board members are: A. Sturrock, Rev. H. Turner, P. Bathgate, Mrs. A. Oke, J. Bourke and Mayor Hobbs, ex-officio. The committee of adjustment town for the 1967 taxation year | eight © 74.5 acres of private parklands ~ The Bowmanville Harbor is ¢ - |presently undergoing dredging 29.81 miles of municipal roads. _ is the renovating and re-equip-! EMPHASIS ON PARKS FOR CENTENNIAL MAYOR IVAN HOBBS lis made up of T. Rehder, B. Vanstone and W. Pascoe; while the town appointees to the Dur- |ham District High School Board jare L. A. Parker, A. Strike and A. E. McGregor. | Mayor Hobbs and A. J. Cole are members of the joint plan- ning board; while G. Vice, G. Tighe and J. Webster are the representatives on the library board. Glenholme Hughes is the town representative on the me- morial hospital board. The museum board is com- posed of A. M. Thompson, F. Dilling, R. Gilbert, Mrs. Lunney, Mrs, M. Wiseman, K. Nicks and 'E. Rundle. Members of the planning board are: Wil- liam Lycett, J. A. Cole, L. _ manville decided that the town'men dropped their work and should have a crest and, find-/hurried home for fire jing an illustration of the Bow- »|man Arms, quickly appropri-|came back with pitchforks and + |ated it as the town crest. _\the Arms selected were not of|their homes. + |but of Bowman of Hethleton in tre of town defence strategy ©/crest was never changed. -|COAL DISCOVERED by the »|meeting was held in the office|cross Barber's Creek. Affairs | Ward Peter Coleman, Johnjat Hall's Marsh and were. Milne and Alsay Fox. James|already marching on the town. McFeeters was chosen as|So tells Malcolm McTavish an Mayor and Peter Coleman as'early Bowmanville educator. Reeve. | The story goes that the tid- i : ings were brought by a man THE BOWMAN CREST on a galloping white horse. One of the fathers of Bow-| There was great excitement, p arms jand if they had -none_ they) scythes, anything that would) Later it was discovered that|drive the Fenians away from the Scottish Bowmans at all On reassembling in the cen- Dorsetshire, England. The town|Was discussed and the prevail- jing opinion was that the enemy | was not likely to enter the town! western bridge but special, would probably endeavor to In May of 1858 a of the Bowmanville Mayor and) ------ "yore resolved that; "in view) @ of the fact that coal has been T ll F ] found in the shaft sunk by ru aml y feucge red in this Corpora- 'a ion the Mayor be requested to E | P oo" the Provincial Geolo- ar y loneers, ist to investi j inne Oe sect Hea | ship we) The Bates farm was located|Trylls, John Trull, the head of! on Kingston Rd. at the western | the family migrated from New| boundary of Bowmanville. {York State in 1794 and estab-| Council at a meeting in June, |lished himself east of Oshawa! 1858, set aside the sum of $500'\when 48 years of age. for the further development of; In those days a flint was the important discovery. Anjused to start fires and cook- amendment that no action be|ing pots were suspended from | taken by Council in reference|stakes over open fires. Food| to the granting of an appropri-|was obtained by fishing in the ation towards exploring thejlake and game from the sur- alleged coal bed until after the|rounding forests. meeting of the joint committee) John Casey Trull, who was which was to meet the next|born Sept. 2, 1795, was the first| Saturday, member of the family born on) The only money the commit-|Canadian soil. Later he became | tee in charge of the coal mine|a captain in her Majesty's Ser-' spent was an account for|Vice and lived to be 84 years! $36 "for overseeing coal mine."'|Of age. He was the father of After that it appears embar-|Jesse Trull, a well known res-| R./rassment set in for there is nolident of the area for many| further mention of the coal/years. | mine, actually, investigation) Perhaps one of the best known showed that. some coal had|members of the clan was Grand- been dumped in the shaft after|mother Trull, a woman of strong Mason, L. Smith, A, Osborne, J. Darch and Mayor Hobbs, ex- officio. The recreation commission members are: D. Gilhooly, J. Coyle, J, Devitt, E. Fairey, M. Lucas, S. McTavish, J. Bourke and K. Nicks; while the members of the industrial commission are: J. Bourke, G. Hughes, E. Rundle, J. Bell, G. MacNeill and Mayor Hobbs, ex- officio. ders or other implements be- longing to the Hook and Ladder Company that they return them at once and that in the future ne one could borrow the ladders and equipment without first getting an order from the Mayor. pe Ren Mutual aid in firefighting began early in the young com- munity and in 1866 the Osh- awa Fire Company travelled through the night to assist Bowmanville firefighters in ex- tinguishing a fire now known Another report states that although the fire engine was put on a truck in Oshawa fire- men noticed that the flames were waning and did not at- tend. Apparently a messenger sent by the Mayor of Bowman- ville did not know the location of the Oshawa fire bell and the Oshawa department was un- aware of the fire untill 3 a.m. after the fire had been raging as the Fire Disaster of °68. stroyed two of the finest blocks in Bowmanville. VILLAGE TO TOWN Bowmanville after being a village for five years was in- corporated as a town on Janu- ary 1, 1858. In the first town council the West Ward elected J. B. Fair- biarn, G. McDougall and D. Fisher, the North Ward James McFeeters, Ira Van Camp and for four hours and had de- George Haines and the South it was excavated. character who left her mark. One of the family heirlooms, THE FENIAN RAID passed down from generation to In 1866 when Fenians raided/Seneration, was a small iron the Ontario borders word honke hick ato hose reached Bowmanville that alicinal requirements of the set- party of Fenians had' Janded|tlers. I ... the Hotel Lancaster The Story on the Founding of the Hotel Lancaster... Earliest records show that in 1828 the Crown made land grants of some 200 acres in the area of Skea's Corners. Somewhere around 1855 Rich- ard Woon obtained some of this land and on it he built the Commercial Hotel. This was a small Hotel, more like an oversized house, but adequate for the needs at that time. Later it passed on to John Cornelius Woon and in 1898 it was willed at his death to his nephew, John Beverley Cum- mins, John Cummins sold it to Mr. Van Buren Woodruff who in turn leased it in 1900 to John Smith. Shortly after the turn of the Century the Cooper family in Oshawa came into possession of the Hotel and operated it until 1923. From 1923 to 1936 it was owned and operated by the McTag- gart family, Mr. and Mrs. McTaggart Sr. and their daughter Gertrude. In 1936 the Lancaster fam- ily, present owners of the Hotel purchased it from the McTaggarts. During their 30 years of ownership, they have made three (3) major build- ing changes and additions and purchased addi- tional property for parking facilities. It was after the second of these changes, and in their 21st year of ownership in 1957, that they changed the name from the Commercial Hotel to it's present Yr name Hotel Lancaster. Until a few years back there were several reg- ular guests. who had been travellers and regular patrons of the Hotel since the turn of the Century who would recount how the trunks of samples were picked up by' horse and wagon at the rail- way station and brought up to the Hotel for dis- play in the sample rooms used in those days for this purpose. They could relate the phases which the Licensing had gone through during these years, originating with the open bar, followed by prohibition in 1916, then the permitting of beer only to be served in Hotels in 1934. Now the Licensing has run fuil cycle and there is a com- plete service of beers, liquors and wines in modern cocktail lounges and in the dining room. The Lancaster family has spent a lifetime in the Hotel business in England, Montreal, Toronto and Oshawa. At the end of the Second World War, Charles Lancaster's sons, Charles Junior and Reg Lancaster returned from the Canadian Army and took over the operation of the Hotel for the fam- ily. In 1964 Reg Lancaster passed away and his brother-in-law Ralph Knox, joined the Hotel to continue the family operation with Charles Junior. Charles Lancaster Senior is now 86 years of age. Whilst he takes no active interest in the operation of the Hotel, he still takes 4 keen inter- est and likes to visit with his friends and associates of many years standing in the Hotel. HOTEL LANCASTER 29 KING ST. WEST OSHAWA Holland Lumber Ltd. are specialists in catering to the Do- It-Yourself builder or remodeller. They will gladly advise ¥ you with your planning, assist you in your selection of Crandells From New York We may not be quite os old as The company is the world's rome Quebee, y. leny product ets, Pioneered In Reach Region Centrally located in the coun- ty, Reach Township is about 13 miles from north to south and nine miles from east to west. It contains 62,349 acres and has a population in excess of 2,800. The area is, in the main, rural in nature with many of its residents working in Oshawa and other neighbor- ing communities. he Crandelis, who came from New' York State to Prince Edward County in 1812, were the first white settlers. They settled on the south side of the road from Manchester to Prince Albert in 1821. The first white child born in the town- ship was the daughter of Reu- ben Crandell. The next settlement was commenced by John Ray on Lot 11 of Concession 2 in 1823. In the same year William Wade settled near Manchester. In the following year Abner Heard and Reuben Dayton set- tled on the site of Prince Albert which for many years was known as Dayton's Cor- ners. John Ensign settled in the Epsom area in 1828 and in 1831 a Scotch settlement was started between Manchester and Utica. In. 1833 and 1834 the Cragg, Baird, Patterson, Wells and Adams families, among others took up land in the Greenbank area. About 1836 the Coates settlement was started near the A plank road, between . Scu- gog to Whitby was started in 1846. It passed through what is now Port Perry and Prince Albert where the Crandells had rough-hewn a road when they settled, but certain a Bi fused to giye up their land. For that resson--the read went by way of Manchester. It was 10 years before the plans were all laid. The road was built by the government which later sold to private interests and it became a toll road. In 1852 another road was started to Oshawa. it is said workmen received 50 cents a day. There were five toll gates between Manchester and Whitby. The first school for white children was built just west of Prince Albert ,in 1829. A sec- ond school was built in Conces- sion 4 in 1835. A school was opened at Cedar Creek in 1841 and by 1859 the township had 16 schools. The first preaching of the gospel was commenced in 1827 by a Baptist and in 1832, a Pres- byterian minister visited the settlers. Religious meetings were held in homes until 1848 when the Methodists built the first church on Concession 11. The same year the -Presbyter- ians built on Concession 12 and later at Utica. John Christie, who walked from Epsom to the Kirk on Starr's Hill, east of Whitby, wrote to his friend, the Mar- quis of Breadalbane in Scot- land, telling of the need for churches in Canada, The earl sent a subscription of 20 pounds, which along with contributions of lumber, shingles and timber, Canada, but in the three years that we have been in business in Oshawa we have had the privilege of serving many customers and friends. Our pledge for the years to come is to continue to serve them with the materials best suited to fit your needs. LUMBER PLYWOODS CEILING TILE built the Breadalbane church in 1848. 5 A system of mail delivery was started in the county about 1837 which carried the mail from the lake front to Thorah Township. The mail arrived every two weeks and was car- ried by a man on foot or horse- ck. In 1840 a post office was opened in Prince Albert and in 1852 others were established at Port Perry, Epsom and Man- chester. 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