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1 fuel oil call ii murt allison ii tr 7 3291 2203 4276 agent for elias rogers co ltd insurance travel real estate walter t evans co triangle 72512 mill street serving your community for over 30 years 52 plumbing and heating licensed plumbers certified lennox dealers ted tom hicken and clapham tringl 7 3170 trungu 73737 hamilton construction 160 guelph street tr 73480 homes oaraocs concrete work industrial requirements renovations building supplies every building need chatting wednesday evening february 1 1956 the georgetown herald 4 between thinking about the revival of outdoor skating rinks and reading ciwen clarke s book of history on halton county 1 m inclined to be historically minded these days from time to time it has been mentioned that the ongi nil minutes of esquesing council would be interesting to sec rind write about fao i finally betook myself to the lsquesinf township council cham bcr in the stewarttown community hall where township clerk k c lind bay wis kind enough to allow mi to sludj the lieasured book 0 the book itself dating back to 1821 is in amazingly good condition true the pup er is ellowing a little but the ink of the longhand notes is still completely kgihk in lit old fashioned slanting pinmanship iitd tht pipr fcius no silii f disintegrating tht notes written by the first township clerk james fraser rtveal that in the vear 1821 stewarttown wis larger than ceorelown a little later on i ean tii you some surpns ing statistics about stewarttown as written in the historical atlas of hal tin in 1877 for the moment how ever i ii tell you a little more about these old minutes of esquesing 0 at the time the first entries were made m the minute book the total population of esqucs ing was 424 that figure included ac ton and georgetown as well as stew arttown the total figure was com posed of 144 males oier the aft of is years and 00 under 16 years of age and 10j females past their 16lh ear and 88 females under 16 jears just by way of comparison jou milht like to know that todaj the population of esquesing township alone that is not including georgettwn and acton is 4847 and the whole population of fsqutsing tot ds something over the 12 000 mirk incident ill too i not iced th it in 1822 the population of ei in stood il 4j 1 ik s stt in of governing tht tow n ship wis muth different from toda when tht first notes wer written the township was divided into diws tons f a sqq nnk or milt jnd a half one man tailed a pathmaster was in charge of eich in order to keep up the roads tver farmer had to do so much actual work in proportion to his assessment to get a comprehensive picture of how the county and tht province were governed at that time you have to go back to 1788 when what is now the province of on tano was made into its first municipal organization by i ord dorchester his proclamation divided the province in to four districts namely luxen burgh meklcnburgh nassau and hesse the provincial act of 1792 contm ued these four divisions but called them fastern midland home and western fach district was to have a gaol and court house halton form ed a part of the home district and of course these districts were subse quently subdivided several times ag the original minutes of the town ship just- got up to the year 1849 when the municipal act setting up our prts ent form of municipal government was passed until thin the township was governed by the justices in ses sion at the district court house a some of the names of men holding the first municipal of ficcs in the township are still familiar to us today the assessors were joseph standlsh and thomas harbour thomas fyfe was tax collec tor and charles kennedy and john stewart wore the town wardens the six pathmastcrs were john mctavish donald mckmnon james hume christopher cook william micktcjohn and christian barnes vjlentinc cake not anywhere mar as atp n it loofca because the cherry creme fining and rosuof re one recipe made with evaporated milk i ihiseocmomlt form of puraniltt saves peonies while it enriches your cooking desserts taste are richer gravies turn out smooth as velvet evaporated moe is useful dozens of ways keep u handy and be a better cook daifty foods sirvici iuriau daiitv parmbrs of canada 409 huron street toronto simplicity dryer regular 239 95 just a few models left wigos special price 95 simplicity washer with pump originally priced at 169 50 wigos price never before an offer like this full console on swivel base originally 279 95 wigos price to clear out 21 219 tradeins completely overhauled with 1 month free service 15 to choose from are going at crazy prices at television radio sales l service t v specialists georgetown remember tv a specialty not a sideline in addition to these officials there were always two or three pound keepers appointed yearly to look after strayed animals as well as several fence viewers apparently he stra ing of cattle and other farm animals was a major problem in those days but they had their own ways of meet ing the difficulty according to the re cords in the minute book lvcry far mer had his animals earmarked lit crally that is and all these ear mirks were registered in the town ship records some of the car marks were quite original for instance samuel kennedy of esquesing ear marked his hogs and horned cat tie with a half penny in the right car and two slits in the left car other fir marked identifications listed in the year 1828 were a half crop off right side of right ear a tip cut off n ht ear left ear cropped and one slit in same a swallow fork and a halfpenny in the left nr left ear off and a slit in right ear but i be hove that in spite of their best pre cautions cattle and horse rustlers plagued the farmers of those early days all money listed in the minutes is in pounds shillings and pence in 1838 the township of fsquesing spent 03 pounds on the up keep of roads by 1828 the population of the township had increased t 1066 there were 4211 acres nf cul tivated land and 24 457 acres of un cultivated land mr lindsaj our pre sent townsip clerk said he didn t know where the rest of the township was because there are actually a total of 70 000 seres in the township p-ob- abh the clerk had just made an error in entering there were three mer chants shops 3 grist mills and six sawmills at that time there were 9 framed houses here and 6 built of squared timbers by squared tim bcrs they meant that the logs were squared with a broad ae instead of flattened only on the top and bot torn the number of ordinary log houses was not listed the animal kingdom in esquesing in 1828 consisted of 49 horses 294 oxen 399 cows and 207 cattle under four jears and over two a takes a little stretching of the imagination to realize that is the picture of our thriving populous township is it was 130 odd ears ago doesn t if makes us real ize too how precious those early re cords arc pittsburgh paints exterior and interior ernies radio mill st tr 72701 avro scotch block wi early donors to hospital the first permanent gift received bv milton district hospital from an industrial group was a cheque for 2 000 from avro aircraft employees welfare fund this week in the let in acknowledging the cheque the chairman of the fund duncan mccal lum requested on behalf of his com mittec that 1 500 of this grant be us ed to provide a double room and fur niture while the balance of 500 be earmarked lo buj an oxygen tent in acknowledging the cheque the honorarj campaign cochairman of the new hospital roger ptolemj cxpres sod the thanks of the hospital board and assured the chairman of the fund that the gifts would be permanently marked with suitable plaques he as ked that the board s thanks be com municatcd to the emploee of avro other clubs and firms have already indicated their intention of making similar presentations to the milton district hospital the scotch block women s institute it mitlon has dona ted 500 to furnish a single room in the new hospital the first gift to come 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