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WowsAfiv wrest acvw mu Jfr he lufu fun nfl Kri wan cwn Cookstowns Torn Paterson remembers 011 street lamps By BRIAN BAKER COOKSlOWN Few people have seen more changes in lifetime than lom Paterson of Cookstown who celebrated his 90th birthday Jan 12 with con gratulations from Pierre lrud can William Davis and Edgar Currie Warden of Simcoe Coun Although Mr Paterson speaks with it good Scottish accent he as born at Gravenhurst the son of Scottish parents John and Helen inee Martini Pater sun To reach their new 400 acre property at the end of Aluldrew His earliest recollections are of attending little 103 school house in the neighborhood He described it as being warm as toast in winter with two rows of seats up each side of hefty box stove The walls were well chink ed and the roof was covered with cedar shingles it was one of the last log school houses In Muskoka dating back to Mom eer times Even at that time it was like frontier country says Mr Paterson One evening after school the teacher Ed Norris from the Bruce Peninsula and Lake they had to build boat great hunter went out and and move their household ef shot three bears not half feels and supplies in by water mile from the school lHF BARR EXAMINER MONDAY MARCH 975 Oro resident intends to run for council seat fit SlAllUN David Bull owner of Big Cedar Mobile Home Park intends to rim for seat on Oro township council December Bull said his decision was prompted in part by the cur rent councils handling of the ttntario governments Sunday closmg legislation This issue kind of pushed inc into making decision ald ili Bull am concerned that rnere are some members or coun ml who reallyareni tha h95l people for the Job PLBLIC REACTION Council recently held public meeting to get reaction on proposed bylaw to exempt cer tain businesses along Highway ll from Sunday c10siiig One of the firms seeking ex emption is Fudas Food Co Ltd large supermarket ncar ro Siatitm Municipalities are allowed un der the Retail Business Holidays trt to exempt bUsinesses that are essential to the maintenan co and deielopnicnt of tourist Iniltistry Three of councils firs memb ers say they faior exemption for lurlas Fi li Bull said liidas does not qualify as tourist opera ion Just because it i= situat ed on tourist traffic way does Province nt make it tourist business he sa1d He added that his primary con cern is not with the possible ex emption f0r Fiidas but how coun cil is dealing with the legisla iion Is this bylaw necessary Who has applied for exemp tions They are passing by law they dont even need right now he said it couiictl wants liudas open on Sunday they attack the leg islation not bend it With by law If they dont like the law get it changed dont bend it Mr Bull said council should not have gone to the public in ask if Fudas should be exemp ted llc sald council should hate tlcused the eligibility ol cer tain firms to be exempted bc cause of their tourist busziicss status As businessman uni has work3d in the Oro iownship area for 13 years the 45yearold Mr Bull lccls qualified to sit on council feel htiH the time to devote to council meetings and has the ability he said hate been interested enough to go and sit at council meetings just to see what is gomg on Mr Bull has hail dealings yith council 0er his mobile home park He plans to expand his b2unit park by 100 units spurns Innisfils gripe blROLJU Ontario lreasul vi Darcy MeKeough has brush erl otf lotto from lililtlll NJLLIlCll protesting procedure at meetings of the SimcoeGcorgian rca last lorcc Srncc haie not been lli0l Ml in the actual operations of the task Eorcc it is no possible for lT€ to comment on procedure nlencd at the meetines Mr vlclicough paid in letter to uticil it is my suggestion that such illtal iiiattes ioul be dealt Hlll by the political committee HHUNDARY Lle lnfil council had lutlfld rottinain after the political crmmittee in January rescind ed motion and reinserted in the tl force epot defini tm of the Barri Urban Study ica lonisfil lteeie Bill Gibbins said at that time the committee had given the city of Barrie ammunition in its fight to annex land from his township oul1 of Barrie The committee made up of brads of councils om munici palities including Barrie Dril innistil and Simcoe Countv reinserted the Barrie sudy area after chairman Dicl Beck ctt former Biantford fPl and minisva official said empha tically that it should he includ ed in the report The iOpOll was commissioned cost of $250000 by the treasurer with the aim of our lining Simcoe Countys growth limits to the year 2011 Plannine consutazits said and the committee agreed that the county could triple in population to 3t0000 in that time with Barrie lIBHig 123000 people rillia 30000 and Midland 30 mo 0n rccciiing the letter lnnis til council members made no comment but referred it to plannine committee for discus sion Council recently endorsed new official plan which is now in the hands of the minister of housino lr Mchcough said copies of he final report will be released shortly Yeti may be assured he said that all interested part ielt in the SimcoeGeorgian area will have time to react to this report prior to the eoycrnmcnl making final decision on the report Strouds first chartered bank will have bquipesnt opening SIROLD Ihis hamlet in lniiistil township will hare its his chartered bank on teclncs lay lhe opening ceremony for the new TorontoDominion Bank branch in the Strand plaza is to start at 230 pm The bank will be open for business Thursday at to am Spokesman Nancy Miller said highlight of the ceremony will be the bagpipc play by Alliston LWinch nnnagcr John Dunga cll Innistil lioeic iftill ibbin also expected to attend lhe ban will make presen tation to the township piece of Eskimo sculpture to be dis played in the library of the new StroudInnisfil lie The manager of the new branch will be Gerry Blow who worked for the bank in rillia The branch will occupy the former location of the lnnisfil liarmers Credit Union which recently moved to new build ing in Stroud SKATING CARNIVAL CREEMORE The local fil nre skating club will present its annual carnival tonight at the reemnte arena The them If Around the World PAPERS AND BOTTLES BRENIWOOD Scouts and Cubs Will collect used paper and bottles in fundraising drive Recreation Cen on Saturday March in New Lowell and Brenlwwd We didnt think much about it at the time because it was just part of the countryside but about dusk we would hear the wolves begin to howl and oOlllC times they would chase the deer There were all kinds of deer too As remember it fishing was no good in that area New fish are planted in those lakes The virgin pine that had ori ginally grown on the property had been cut off long before the arrival of the Patersons and just before the tamarack had likewise all been logged off This left big stands of hemlock hard maple and beech Mr Paterson and the eldest of his four brothers removed the hemlock bark which was in de mand for tannery purposes and shipped the logs out as lum her while they cut the hardwood up as cordwood it sold in Ten onto for firewood and firing brick kilns he believes With team of horses they could load two cars of logs illiV This was lllaltgt lttiil1 iu the bonding of he main inc oi the Canadian National ltalluav through their property in lutlti trews oi Italians housed unw den huts cleared the buh from the rightotway ind blasted roadblock through the rocky ridges siding and station for int toatlboss were located in the middle of the Paterson property POISONOLS SNAKES ltuttlcsnakcs by the score moi oil in along the railway tracks from the Seiern River some of them up to yard long So many of these poisonous snakes mov cd in that it was no longer sale for children to run around intre footed as was common iii those duya One day his Spaniel do round rattlesnake and tried to catch it Each time the dog dived in the coiled rattle struck out and hi the do in the nose and jaws lr Paterson kzlied the snake but the next morning the dogs neck was mollen to the we of its head and had in be l0ll0 ed railnny boss was bitten on the wrist but was saved by an antivenom shot administer cd by the doctor in Bola Wild honey could be in hollow trees Mouthwatering iild strawber tics and raspberries could lie picked by the pail and blue cranberry swamps were found on their property One year Mr Paterson 12s brother and tincle in one day picked ercn grain sacks full of cranberrcs which llli stitrtl in an unused room and their mother used all winter to make 11111 INTI lOOKSTU WN ln l9l3 he his mother 25 ler and brother turned down to farm on the luth inc of found limit ltdllslllp mining ino Cookstown in 1927 While the rest of the tamziv came by train he came down litllg team and legh iltiut iraicnhurst to llawktono the lirt day and into llllgttl thr ilCl at that time ookstoiin in rurnmerctally btllel than now remarks Mr latershi There were all kinds of stores and business establishments liere were two llaclmitit hops owned by Tom Webb and by Charlie Clutc lark fiigslei Jack Brolirv was the butcher the baker There was lallnl hernias maker shoemaker There ya cheese factory and sliorilI saw mill at alter creamcry and the railan With tun six trains day stopping the station man named Finlow oper ated flour mill horde the railway lt was driicn by by steam boiler Later IL was used lllnl alt feed mill and farmers brought grain in from all over in wag ons and slciglis to be ground tor livestock feed Many frame barns still had not been put tip on stone biicl or concrete foundations includ ing the Pateisons barn It big occasslon when they had their two barns set together Ill Ell put end to end and ran Jack Donald of Cookstown un dertook the job The men used horse driv en gear machine to winch the one barn on rollers to the end of the 0Ll8l and then slide ll sideways to about the end of the other barn Then it was jack ed tip into cribs The walls were poured on plank depth per day and held stones were packed into the wet concrete for btnk Sixty men came to help FROM THE RAFTERS Barn dances were sllll popu lar and they were gay eients to 80 people might attend big barn dance on lanterns would be swung from the rafters generous supply of refreshments would be available couple of local fiddlers or visiting troupe would supply the lively music and round dance caller was assigned Dancing would continue until midnight after which time It war not respectable to ilancc tt ltrsl cars were not irctt tn Cookstown lhe tirsl one lt Paterson recalls was that of Doc tor William Scott ho had his1 oftice where Dr Maeliatland now operates his Coolesth Me dical Group Dr Scott was physician and stirmm iii demand throughout the country from rillia to angeville So bad was the road that is now Highway 89 that in the spring the flat area between the Nottawasaga and Sharps llill became huge miidhole oblig ing Dr Scott to keep one car on the Cookstoivn side and an other on the Alliston side so he could pick his why acros the swamp on foot and have car on the oilicr side in mak ing his trip to Stevenson Mc morial Hospital Duncan Banting believed to have been the cousin of the late Sir Frederick Banting discor erer of insulin was the Cooks town veterinarian THICK AS ARS Horses and wagons buggies democrats sleighs cutters and carts were seen as thick as cars today on the early Cookstown Streets lie remembers hitching his se or team up to the iron any ed hitching posts that used to line the streets in front ol bii ltCs streets People also used in park their horses in the large driig shed behind the lllCli iiciv Methodist UilllCCl Church Plank lionrtlwnlks tour or lltf wide lined the streets of Cooks town which ust to be deeply riitted dusty or inches deep in mud according to the season Before the coming of hydro lr laterwn noted glass cii closed coal oil lumps on poles of medium height were used tor street lighting in tookstown lizich cicning it man employed as lnmnliglitcr went round iztii gtlD to llll and light the liiiiiplt Each morning he went back around to put the lamps out No matter how the wind blew ll never seemed to extinguish the lights Until World War wo many Cookstown residents kept cow or two few hens pig or so and horse in little barns behind their homes It was quite usual to see cows and oth er livestock wandering around the streets and to be awakened in the morning by the crowing of roosters Mr Paterson kept Jersey cow until 1937 Of course he observed when we first came down if you didnt have horse ahd you wanted to go out of town you had to walk go by train or as many did get the loan of neighbors horse and buggy or cutter trip into Barrie was ma jor outing When his parents came out from Lanark County Scotland they brotclit only the works of the old family grandfathers clock now mer 300 years old His father was jomer and like many of inc pioneers built another cabinet out here and made lead weights for the driv ini mechanism tccciiili lic tlll this clock to nephew in Saskatchewan The last lttitn ti men he SdW tim llllll oi lll uncle uerl to haul logs in lllc bush in lu kolt thick and Bright they we re ILtlll and very strong Slow liu just in hiddable hoc he recalls its think riigo HEM General Motors knoius test drive is exciting lhals why its odd that test drive is usually the last thing most people do before buying car or light duty truck in test drive youre the expertno ones opinion is more important than your own Thatsrwhy its often the final test We want you to make it your first test Come into participating General Motors dealers between February 23rd and April 6th and well iive you valuable Book of Bonus Bucks that could be worth over $l00in goods and services You might say were putting little fun into lest driving And thats little more excitement for you Come Test Drive with us Chevrolet Pontiac Oldsmobile Buick and GMC dealers a7vrxr va pintoy zd 4u Vu 228le lb 7TH IAlliltSON no of inic Hilario and the 10 town in thc aliiilQ git let by YOllalmtn llUlKllv dLgtiil1S llillj of Simcoc lle rememlt Brion Zakrr illito by itnk plaques sent to him from lr or the early days in Cooks mi imc Miniici Irudcau 111 Pro LNIIARMN age on Sunday at ll hllNESthi ltey Phillip Alinesin communiti ccnirc Spon Lxllfvi A51 Am Robinson oi Mississauga will Ol of the talk is Unitarian lcl IllONt zttulll spcnk on religion as pilgrim lowship if Barrie and District visit and services on money saving weekends even on trips Seal bollsoo idea you son in with