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By Appointment Barrister Solicitor Notary Public Etc PHONE 151 Wellington SL STIVER LYONS YALE Solicitors Notaries N Mathews Stiver B E Lyons BA Joseph Vale Over PHONE NEWMARKET OFFICE A MILLS Solicitor Notary MAIN ST Phone MISCELLANEOUS A SONS Seal St Toronto LOCAL REPRESENTATIVE RUSSELL GUDE 2 Aurora Phone King On St North End Oak Ridges Contractor For BULLDOZING GRADING CELLAR EXCAVATIONS and Hauling Gravel Sand and Phone 219w Aurora SAND and LTD for government approved crashed stone of various sizes crushed gravel sand concrete gravel and pit ran Delivered or at bin ETHEL This is the twentythird instalment of a continuing Story of Sharon from its founding to the present The story was after almost ttvo years of research and witt we believe be a major contribution to know ledge of the past The remaining instalments will follow weekly flow The Anchor Came To The Landing VIOLET ROBINSON MacNAUGHTON Conveyancing Insurance St Phone Newmarket kii solicitor etc MAIN ST PHONE 804 NEWMARKET Plant phone Office phones and ELECTRICAL CONTRACTOR House and Farm Wiring BAIN General Repairs Oil Burners Space All Electrical Household Appliances Phone Box Ontario St Newmarket i if- DENTAL DR NOBLE Over MUNICIPAL OFFICE Office Residence mm i E VanderVoort DENTIST SL Newmarket Phone STEWART Radio Service RADIO PARTS TUBES BAnERIES ETC 113 Main St Phone 355 A STOUFFER Raglan St Expert Piano Toner and Repairer Pianos Bought Sold and Rented PHONE 270 MEDICAL S J BOYD Indian Road r m TORONTO ME 9559 DR and Surgeon Phone iltatlon by Appointment residence corner of Raglan and Tecuinseh Sis AS mod ABET ARKINSTALL Office Prospect St Consultation by Appointment TELEPHONE Office Residence J James J Wall PLUMBING HEATING CONTRACTOR Dealer for Water Pressure Systems Oil Burners Cement Septic Tanks Constructed fa OAK RIDGES Phone King 111 Phone Aurora EVANS FUELS v WILSON Telephone illation by Appointment 7 t DO rCii 3 ix CHIROPRACTIC Coal Coke Wood and Stoker Coal Phone 5 Orders taken for Gravel Sand and Crushed Stone and General Hauling JOHN DALY Expert Watch and Clock Repair St Phone Newmarket ALL WORK GUARANTEED which would be very advanta geous to the people of the town ship Again it was moved by Abraham Doan and seconded by Murdoch that it be resolved that this meeting has confidence in Hugh D- and that it is expedient to peti tion the department for a post office and that the management be entrusted to him Much was to take place within the next 10 years before they succeeded in obtaining their post office Post Masters From post office records Mr Gibson states that the date of the establishment of the Sharon Post Office was Feb The names of the post masters and years of service are J 2 to 1866 John T Stokes 1 to 11 John Ka- vanagh 1 2 1885 to H Kenyon to 1906 Thomas Watson 1906 to 1 Arthur Hall to 3 Percy Brown ing to 1 Elmer Fry to April Mrs Edith Laura Vernon 1943 J When John Stokes resigned as post master a new comer might have considered an elec tion to be in the offing by the speculation and excitement which mounted with the days in the guessing as to whom would be chosen to fill the vacancy The Newmarket Era of April published the annual report of the Postmaster General Quoting the salaries paid the various postmasters the editor remarked The wonder is that we have not better post offices Sharon Postmaster was paid pounds shillings and pence In March the Postmaster General issued orders to all post masters that there must be no more keeping offices open on Sunday In April of the commissions and salaries paid to postmasters were published Sharon postmaster received with from 2 to 10 allowed for stationery Signed by Hon Sydney Smith Again in Sharon Postmaster was paid 7350 plus a commission on money orders of 287 and an allowance toward rent and fuel of Postmaster General Following the Confederation of all the provinces in 18G7 the Dominion government took over all of the post offices and placed them in the charge of a newly appointed Postmaster General The Regional Director of Pos tal Service Mr A Gibson has very kindly undertaken an ex tensive research of the Post Of fice Department to obtain the early history of the SJiaron Post Office Previous to Confedera tion the records are incomplete and the information sketchy Before a post office was estab lished at Sharon the people of the community were served by the carrier who travelled the route from Georgina to Beaver- ton but there is no information as to his or their names nor the means of transportation It is more than likely he travelled on horseback Or it may have been that in the very early days it was carried by Indian runners as it was in the district around Barrie This last statement is purely speculation There is also a record of the mail contractor who served that route in His name was Joseph Sheppard and he was appointed in April of that year He made three trips a week on horseback or with a wagon in the summertime and in winter used a cutter or sleigh He was allowed five hours for the trip and received for his services pounds a year As that was be fore Confederation the English currency was still in use The Newmarket Era of May contained notice that ano ther line of stages began running daily Sundays excepted between Hiram Moores Inn North and Newmarket The stages were promised to arrive in time for passengers to take the morning trains north and south and return on arrival of cars from Toronto Ephraim Traviss Proprietor Early Effort Still extant is an account of an early effort by the Sharon people to obtain a post office In July landholders and other inhabitants of the township of East requested the town clerk John to call by public notice a general town meeting It was held in the school house at Hope Sharon at oclock in the forenoon The real purpose of this meeting was camouflaged it was one of the meetings preceding the Rebel lion and was so largely attended that it was adjourned to the grounds of the Chapel of the Children of Peace The clerk presided and William acted at secretary The report in part of this meeting is contained in the Col onial Advocate of Aug The address to His Majesty was agreed upon and read by the sec- the number of post of- By W Williams in Midland Free Press Herald It was commodore Sir James Yeo who issued the order to build a wooden frigate at and his letter to Sir George Prevost dated Nov 26 read in part is my intention to build a 44gun frigate to carry 20 long 24pounders and 32pounder cannon- The and are now taking overboard the guns shot anchors cables sails ironwork and the ship weights They will proceed to York and Collier whom I mean to employ on this service will have his officers and crew to assist whenever required I believe two schooners have already gone around to Bay from to cut down timber and clear the ground The British government in tended this frigate to form part of its program to regain the supremacy of the upper Great Lakes that had been lost in the naval battle on Lake Erie on Sept 10 at Commodore Sir James was appointed to succeed Com modore Barclay who had been killed in the battle of Put-in- Bay Late in the British gained command of Lake Ontario by launching at Kingston the larg est wooden warship ever built on fresh water St Lawr ence with three decks of guns larger than Victory the flagship of Lord Nelson at Tra falgar This vessel made one round trip to Fort York before peace was made by the Treaty of Ghent signed in that Belgian city on December 24 The anchor that is now at Holland Landing was unloaded by either the Niagara or the Nitley at Fork York early in December It was loaded on a strong cart and pulled by oxen up Yonge Street as far as Holland Landing Owing to ice forming on the Holland River and Lake Sim- it was impossible to use a schooner to carry it to the foot of Kempenfeldt Bay where the NineMile Portage began It was intended to carry it in an oxcart over the portage and place it in a boat to carry it down the River to the schooner waiting at its mouth which would in turn transport it around the Tiny Township peninsula to Pene Bay The guns for the frigate as well as the shot cables sails ironwork and re mained at Fort York as it was intended to forward them when navigation opened in the spring of This remark also applies to the twoton anchor Peace came and relieved all necessity of haste Although the Treaty of Ghent was signed on Dec 1814 it was not ratified at Washington until Feb 17 1815 Nevertheless Great Britain in tended to build the frig ate In the summer of Wil liam Wilson the first shipwright at the garrison built the Old Red Store for naval supplies and then laid the keel for the 44gun frigate It would have been by far the largest warship to be built at the Naval Establishment and his hopes were high How proud he would have been to see her under a full press of sail on Bay He was doomed to disappoint ment The Agree ment was signed in the closing days of and work on the 44gun frigate immediately ceas ed for it was far in excess of the limitations The twoton anchor remained on the dock at Holland Landing awaiting for the boat that never arrived As a matter of fact it proved to be so much in the way that in it was moved to its pres ent site in the rural park where it is well worth the few minutes required for a visit It weighs exactly 4004 pounds retary Resolutions and other proceedings read Jurors ap pointed were Silas Fletcher John John Lewis John Samuel Hughes John Fletcher and Lewis Powell The applica tion for a post office was discus sed Abraham seconded by Murdoch Jr moved that it be resolved that a post office be located at Hope on the travelled post route to INSURANCE FIRE BURGLARY AUTO AND LIFE Bill S Main NEWMARKET Phone INSURANCE and REAL ESTATE Listings Invited Clients Waiting AUBREY STEWART BE SURE INSURE JOHN ST BRADFORD Phone 147 Your Local Representative MILLER 39 GORHAM ST NEWMARKET i i r lii I -t- VARIETY OF DESIGNS MONUMENTS inch that we an We Im make memorial to rdcr of find excellent All mi Clinic Bid Hours 1 PIANO TUNER AND TECHNICIAN Mason wA Used Pianos Sold GRACE ST NEWMARKET Phone Estimates Free McCOMKEY SONS Brick and Block Laying CHIMNEYS TOEPLACR8 BUILT REPAIRED Phone was increased and the rates of postage reduced to one third With this the first Canadian postage stamp was introduced and not surprisingly this latter was not looked upon with favor for previously letters had been paid on delivery In the post card came into use The first cards were much smaller than present day cards The face of this card was bordered by a blue pattern and a picture of Queen Victoria adorned the right hand upper corner At the bot tom was the inscription British American bank note Montreal and Ottawa In a daily line of stages was inaugurated between and Sutton to pass through Sharon and Mr Thomas Brown was the proprietor Another line of stages was instituted between Newmarket and Sutton in this also to pass through Sharon but the name of this proprietor has not been found The daily travel of these stage drivers was hard It was a long trip from Newmarket to meet the Sutton driver over roads that in the winter were hazardous from heavily drifted snows and in the spring and fall these same roads were wellnigh impassable from mud which reached to the wheel hubs If the stage could not get through the mail was transferred to horse back and it is of out standing credit to those men that the mail rarely missed being taken through Stage Coach The names of only three of these mail carriers since Con federation have been located The first was Charlie He was succeeded by George Stone who served during the George Stone is remem bered by the sleek condition of his horses He owned three hors es which gave each horse one day of rest in three and always with the stage went a fat white collie dog George Stone was followed by Richard Morton The stage which daily except Sunday tra velled along town line and Queen Street was described as a democrat a twoseated light wagon No protection was pro vided for the traveller in bad weather but an ancient skin known as buffalo robe did re pel some of the bleak winds The fare from Newmarket to Sharon was 20c but many a child was picked up and given a lift Usually the ste arrived at tho Sharon post office about oclock and returned approxi mately at four The coming of the stage was a matter of inter est to each and all along the third concession Its arrival at Sharon with its Globes its Mails its Worlds and its Newmarket Eras to which nearly every family subscribed with the letters and seed catalogues was on event eagerly awaited Mrs the warmhearted wife of the post master understood the arduous journey ahead of the stage driver and generously pro vided something nourishing to sustain him on his stormy trip Sir The year marked another epoch in the Canadian postal system Mr William Mil lock in 1896 became Postmaster General He at set out to transform the annual deficit of the Post Office department into a profit The department was expanded and the postal note system estab lished and two years later he conferred upon the Canadian people and the British Empire accomplished blessing of penny postage For this he was knighted His grandson Col P also was Postmaster General from July to An early post office of Sharon stands in the garden of Mrs Ber tha Phillips who now uses it as a garage This is the building in which her grandfather John T Stokes officiated as Postmas ter When John Kavanagh un dertook the office it was across the road in the little store kept by Mrs Kavanagh and himself This building as store and post office and a landmark of Sharon has disappeared it has been remodelled into a dwelling house Then upon the retirement of John Kavanagh the govern ments postal business was car ried on by Mr it was in his own store further along street where It is still located In review of the centurys pro and the perfection to which the Canadian postal system has been brought credit that Is un- is due the postmasters of the rural post offices and their assistants the drivers of the old stages for their unfailing depen dability and regularity in handl ing and despatching the Royal Mails Nowhere is this more ap plicable than at Sharon Through all the changes of time and the accomplished wonder of estab lishment of postal service to farthestflung outpost it must be conceded that oblivion be the repository of dogmatic criticism of mistakes and short coming which belonged to the times as well as to the individual Every freight train in Canada is a rolling lesson in geography of- this Dominion and the con tinent and its production and dis tribution a train made up of cars of many railroads carrying all types of products A fourleaf clover is consider ed lucky because its four leaves Doe eyes looked into Irish eyes and Patrolman Flaherty put away his revolver I had been ordered to shoot Stumpy a pet deer because her leg was broken Instead he called a vet who set leg using aluminum splints Aluminum saves human lives too in many ways for instance at sea with alumi num lifeboats from fire with aluminum ladders It saves the lives of forest trees with port able aluminum pumps and the lives of crops with movable Irrigating systems A vcrsa tile metal aluminum Alumi num Company of Canada Ltd- now serves rural customers- more than double the served at the end of the electricity and a better way of living to an additional 157285 Ontario farm hamlet and village customers J At the end of the war there were 21569 miles of rural lines bringing electricity to the rural areas of Ontario By September 195 1 the miles of line had increased to During this period the horse- power demand in the rural areas showed a remark able increase The demand at wars end was 132551 horsepower By 1950 it had more than doubled to a total of horsepower On the farm Hydro power is a lowcost hired man helping to produce more at a reduced cost In the home it makes possible the use of modern elec trical appliances which lighten work save time and make life easier for all Yes the coming of Hydro to the farm provides a better way of life for thousands of people in the rural areas the Province iii iT Let Us All Remember Hydro Offltf We Use It J m r iV USE EM AND EXPRESS t 1 Dont you read i the papers XT i I stf i om r i 1r m It I r A mm fe i Mr mi r r i Jfc wa ffs Remember the story retired couple who lose their life savings the other day and the one about the young man whose hopes went up Jo fla roes because his bonds were locked in his i- m K- J r Almost every week story like that -is- iv Ti- rfJSvjS j fl