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ff e 2 uatanui susdud that browns store remembered by marian warne mary harper stiver evelyn hurrell rainey and i worked for several years together art brown was started in the business world by his mother when she sup plied him with a large glass jar of penny candy and from the profit he and his brother john refilled the jar and sold some more john told me once about the boys telling him if he didnt give them some candy they would beat him up mr brown branched out over the years after his mothers death into groceries dry goods fruit work clothes boots and shoes rubber boots school books etc he also had a chick hatchery started in the store and later moved to his property on hwy 7 just west of the bypass this area was known as the fox farm where he raised silver fox mink and where he had bee hives fred puckering was in charge of the farm and also did the heavy lifting of 100lb bags of sugar etc and canned goods i noticed tripe for sale in a store and in tins at a high price but to us at browns tripe was smelly meat in a wooden box used for fox and mink food fred as a boy of nine told me about watching the men with the pile driver working to put in the foundation for the bridge the old one when they ran into quick sand during the depression each of us took one day a week without pay and this meant that i would be kept on or i would be let off in those days sugar brown and white came in 100pound bags and we put them in fivepound paper bags for the brown and 10- pound for the white we also packaged raisins cur rants prunes etc in paper bags there were no packaged goods as we have them today we also had to sweep and keep oiled the wooden floor wash windows and put in new displays keep bins of oranges etc filled and the shelves filled customers were waited on and sometimes we walked miles as the store was long the cellar was also stocked with canned goods and cheese and the dry goods were upstairs we also sold wallpaper and paint each week flyers with spe cials were mailed out we also kept the furnace stoked we work ed 12 or more hours a day and six days a week and took turns work ing on the mornings of holidays even christmas day some exciting things did hap pen one day the bank next door was robbed just before closing time the bandits were picked up in orangeville in a restaurant with packets of money sticking out of their pockets one day we had word that a band of gypsies had been let out at the four corners and to watch out for them they didnt bother us i dont remember that they even came into the store several times we gave out big meat sandwiches to the chaps who walked the rail road the night the grist mill mr harveys burned i was in the store alone there were no customers as all the folk were up at the fire in 1935 i left browns and went across the street to work for j w perkin as bookkeeper for the hardware store and the growing gas and oil business marian warne right stands with mary harper stiver left and evelyn hurrell rainey outside browns store in union ville this photo was taken by abner summerfeldt and shows the hitching posts which were still in use history in the making the unionville historical society has recently announced that it has undertaken to publish v story of the community the selected author is larry rainey a native of unionville whose career and credits en compass extensive work in the fields of research writing and teaching history a graduate of york and queens universities he has re searched and written local his tories for the ontario govern ment and has taught high school history geography english law and sociology for the past nine years the historical society antici pates a publishing and release date for this concise historical volume in late 1986 funding will be derived from spon sorship by various community organizations for further information please contact the society or conrad beaubien at 416 477- 3258 former chairmen honored the 1986 unionville village fes tival committee would like to ex tend its appreciation and best wishes to the former festival chair men and their dedicated committee members for their help in preserv ing unionvilles unique heritage community beginning in 1970 these people worked to save main street against the intrusion of fourlane highways and traffic lights their dream has come true for all of us with the completion of the un ionville bypass and the recent re newal of main street their vision created unionvilles two day celebration of community spirit their contribution remains for new generations of neighbors to cherish most of these chairmen and their families will be visiting unionville as guests of festival june 7 and 8 as you meet them please say hello and tell them how much you enjoy main street and your favorite fes tival event the former chairmen are as fol lows stan neal 197073 stuart munro 197374 bob mccullough 197576 peter anderson 197778 fred cox 197980 glenn crosby 198182 paul heney 198384 unionville festival still robust in 17th year by george shepherd 1986 unionville festival chairman the song probably says it best the dream never dies just the dreamer well the festival dream has never died but the festival peo ple have come and gone some have stayed longer than others but everyone has made their mark in some manner when people talk about present and past festivals they are often re ferred to by whom even happened to be chairman at the time there are seven past chairmen of the festival all of whom we hope will be at this years festival to be honored for their contribution and the completion of main street recently i had the opportunity to meet with five of these gentlemen to a man they all talked about the good people on their committees who made their years successful from a handful of concerned peo ple in the beginning their vision was far ahead of what most could see and their dreams slowly spread i was not aware that the festival almost ended after seven years the same handful of people in volved had become tired and were having difficulty getting up for yet another festival thats when some new people came along and rekindled the flame and the dream had been pas sed on so the tradition goes on today wonderful new people wanting to be involved in a great community i personally have been involved for the past seven festivals and all i can tell you is that the people i have met through the festival are the best as for the people of this years festival i am sure that lama little biased but i think that they are one generous sponsors the 1986 unionville village festival committee extends special thanks to these sponsors who have generously supported festival events this year tridel bramalea monarch chesebroughponds magna international ford electronics allstate heritage pools blacks cameras unionvillemarkham auto dealers fred schacffer associates miller paving bell canada cocacola sunkist fruit market knob hill farms of the finest festival groups ever i would like to thank them all for their part in this years festival they have worked countless hours to fulfill this huge committment and i am proud to have worked with each and every one of them if you feel the same way i do ab out these fine people they will all be there on festival weekend wearing bright yellow tshirts with festiv al committee on the back please feel free to thank them yourself its the only pay they get or want there is one more group of people that must be recognized for their contribution to the festival they have endured through many meet ings hundreds of phone calls have heard about all the plans and the ideas and through it all remained supportive of course i am talking about the chairmans wives what a wonder ful group of ladies they are in every way my own personal thankyou to my wonderful wife frances for her con tinued help and support you helped make it all happen i could not have done it without you there in closing i would like to assure all that care to listen that the festiv al dream will never die because the people of unionville old and new wont let it from the editor by conrad beaubien another year has so quickly elapsed june arrives and in the tradition of the past seven years the unionville standard times is published to com- morate festival day what has evolved within our community over the past years has been mirrored in this unionvilles own annual historical journal from its earliest formation as the berczy settlement the communitys spirit has been nurtured on hope the promise evolved into a flourishing farming community and for decades became the commercial and social centre for a determined illustrious people building on a new opportunity the winds of time changed and undergoing a transition the prosperty of unionville village declined by the mid 1950s the age of quick and easy soon threatened the very core of the village with the demolition of its buildings to facilitate regional road planning once again the pioneers met the challenge much like their forebearers these pioneers of the 20 century were as easily spirited when it came to challenge the challenge was met success the reward and today the annual village festival we enjoy is a legacy to those pioneers of the 20th century and a celebration of those who came before them the more things change the more they remain the same unionville still nurtures on that hope of the berczy settlers and the fires of community spirit continue to burn the message must remain clear to an ever growing population however that social interaction common achievement and unrelentless effort is the necessary fuel that will allow these fires to continue to warm the hearth the standard times published as the official publication of un unionville village festival corporation the times is now in lis seventh annual edition the times presents information relative to oar festival weekend while at the same time giving a wide variety of short stories anecdotes and pictorial glimpses of oar town historical content is contributed by residents students book anthers giving the times cross section of community and historically related materia published in association with the economist and son the unionville standard times is able through the efforts of many including its valued advertising supporters to contribute financially to the unjonvfue village festival corporation this contribution in turn if distributed to community projects we look forward to a continuing and growing editorial input from the community at large as well aa the all important support of our advertisers in the times we wih to thank out friend at the economist and son especially brace annan don bernard and pat pappas for their efforts also thanks to ruthann vernon nancy hoskfn greg coalca francis king and sjoerd wlttevcen special thanks to tony murphy for the use of hi historical photos managing editor conrad bcanblen associate editor jane beaubien contributors to the times sasan ousfla val taylor tom crcenhough tarry rainey theo rothc and marion warne comments to the time may be sent to the editor unionville standard times 8081 kennedy fid unionville ontario mr 2e