Ontario Community Newspapers

Acton Free Press (Acton, ON), February 4, 1960, p. 17

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m ll- district stalemate resolved new high school built in 1954 a decade ago a bone of con tinlion among members of the j nuilh hallon high school div iriel board was a site for a ten tiulhigh school lo serve the towns of- fcorgilowri mil ion ai d at ton is well is nasmkawiv and 1 squesing iiuwnships aif i was prepared ii gn ml a new building il lotjlid wilbi a milk ji spevsidi fnoiitovv liked the idea ol a school mtua ed in ffcoryii own milturi pn fcrnd i silc id lh mwin t m thi i wnslnps musi m i im 1 lou building emenllal each tnuriuipallly fated building program of cripdni fht iiqorjinmn school wis iriuinl arid loo small mitt n needed in ixtmsior n rc u a burgeoning population acloiis problem was most aiuit au tx aid skived an ullirnalui august 1m it the mjkxji was id buill whin thi atlon building least ixpucd adon would m ikt application for sluderils o illind thi gut inn colligate on noimihir 7 iisq on i n toidid vote liuslns broun beaumont sihink oon md dill- lav tid schoot is 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u ki probkm riared its hud- iskr hi i silio1 board i mail biiiltl a mhoil in vi n md d nxjins u ii plans mil 11 lid mi ill w 1 1 is apu i aitiln move ahead h 111 1 baiiult and kudti nit kd as aiihii is 1 pi nod of adjust i ailoii issued jiikiiiuhs lor stabilized 210000 lot tin pioposid sihool id on tin g h nds ap in il lot a thru 100m addition iis grinttd b ihi xpaitmini f fdui 111011 on sommbii 18 1 uitk bil n doiii r dun p mimsiir ol i dm ill n oltn ilk urn hid lh- h mdti rm mw ihool marley canadian 25 years in acton manufacturers cf radio towers steel structures forest ranger towers aad cabins industrial commercial and residential water cooling towers i steel and wood fabricators acton ontario newest majot industrial firm in acton is the h k company canada ltd their 88 000 square foot building w completed in july 1958 and serves as head office for portei s disston division refractories division and thermoid divisio i t of the manufacturing area is s disston saws production flow was the company moved tere from is being installed which will parttime hand cranked far try from bell switchboards acton first became acquainted with telephone dxchangt service 76 mars ago when gay blades in high stilf collarjs strolled along mill strut humming one of the popular ballads lof the dav al dvn keep a smile for mother and apair of red silk stockings was thi lerventl desirt ot man a maiden in oimber 1884 a small gil llland stihboard and a crank tpi blake telephone ucre in ihe drug store of j e street and mr migavin on mil migavin became actons first bill ttk phone o manager directors for iich is canfulh companv s hist in montreal is first tele in a pocket siz januarv 1885 w preserved tn the onial collection a list of this to phom subscribers first subscribers representing business establis ent here over ha the were alton bankin and whlkv fret press h ed mill st me gavin j e si nilsun mcra if sto sis residents and iments promin f a centurv ago i co cor mill p moon esq druggist mill and atu gm jlill and willow gk sloriv h ind s m mut t u irs bown avi brain child ol alexander gra h ill bel the telephone since lt iniiption in 1674 was vnwid unh sp and skeptnisni in th si i rl tirs to the general i publk the idea of iransnu niife human spmh o ii a disiaiiee b electrnhv was astounding and lonumporara mwsp iptis proclaimed bills in v i n t ion me re pipp a lu wh se p pulantv would brown had jurisdiction over the exchange office the telephone office remained open from 8 am to 8 pm dur ing the week from 2 to 4 p m on sundav and an hour in the morn ing and afternoon on holidays a far cr from the 24hour service of toda a connecting agreement- tabs made in 1911 with the consohdat ed telephone companv formerly known as the caledon telephone companv their 300 subscribers in the counties of peel welling ton duffenn and simcoe con nected with the long distance network of the bell telephone companv at ac ton caledon guelph rockwood and orange ville in 1919 this companv was pur chased bv the township of cal edon and erin and the name was changed to the caledon municip al telephone svstem long distance this communitv was firsf gn en connection on the long dist anee network or tht bell com panv m 1884 when a line was constructed from toronto to guelph through acton weston brampton and georgetown a significant milestone occur red in 1918 in the historv of the telephone at acton whep the 100th telephone was installed it required 35 more vears before the 1 000th set was installed but from that lime the number stead ilv increased with a slight falli during the depression vears with the formation of the transcanada telephone svstem j that involved the combined ef j fort on the part of sjeven major telephone companies across the dominion and was inaugurated by lord bessborough then go ernorgeneral of canada in 1932 acton telephone users were able to talk across canada entirely oni canadian lines exchange converted in 1949 the acton exchange uas concerted to common bat ten operatiotl and newer and more compact telephones were introduced eljmfrtating the nee essttv of turning the crank to signal the operator g in at 13 i bank of nova scotia here past just four managers since in the vear 1960 anniversary of the bank of nov seolia in aeton true it was the metropolitan bank which opened a branch hen on julv 1910 but this bulk was amalgamated with the bs in 1914 sinci that time the branch ha had loui man ivurs a l wvanii trust companv bahamasi limi from 19b to 1917 w k grahamud and the bank of nova scoti wh must hai seemed jlo manv trust companv ol new york oldir acton people a trii honu facilitate gold transfer townei since he held thc position dunne thi same toth to announn i plan known cheque credit dunne ihe pat two the bank has made panics services availa customers through dit hon of the bank ot noa scotia scotia plan ars also st com to its forma illv dimtnis created iedlam uiv lomtrunitus ihroitch ut oniuio and quebec when th telephone imrudiuid lis u ilh in i busmcis establishment such is i drug of fc11111 d stoic kill im is created whm i in local telephone man i hulled the lrink loi the hist tun ustonurs hcd outside to suoih ant pailtv the horses in tnticipati jn ol the coniiaption t xplodinj htwiver telephones it acton slowlv j imed in numb i di n mccavin succeeded j e mcgav in jin nit isss arid 10 additional businessmen subscribed foi ser vise included in the denmber 18ss list uil were beaixlmore and co be irtlmon w d brown janus l impbell house grand tiunk railwav town dr w h m ion and migavin moon james moon hi p and the to ronto lime co larger switchboard shortlv after the turn of the centun a larger suitihboard was installed to handle the increased number of subscribers and a t v ears until hts iciiiement 1 bank introduced in 194 a w havdon dtcembtr gold certificate to facilitate the 194 to april 9s2 and ihe present purchase of and tiadt in gold manager w a woodburn i doubled staff ten cars ago there wtn four mimbtis of wholn one mrs i anne deveau nee dunn l is still in tht sen ice since then the number has increased to eight ihe i ills additions being miss denim ridle and david hunter in 19s2 set vice to customers w is speeded up bv the introduc lion ot machine posting pri viouslv this work was dont manualh and the new munro pustini machine meant that a much create volume ol could be handled in a s time unique services dunne the past decade the bank as a whole has inaugurated seven unique new senice in 9 it introduced its personal seeuntv program the first life insured sa mgs program to be made available b am bank in canada in 1938 scotia plan a new instalment personal loan pro- 1 gram the following ear the bns became the first canadian bank i period the

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