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I Aarors Keswick Out Wet October I THE ERA Serving Count Since 1852 DAVID R HASKELL TERRY CARTER JOHN Development nearly at a stalemate There has been a marked increase in big lard development proposals in Newmarket over ihe past year Tbe Schiekedanz development on the east side of St is one a commercialresidential development on west side of Yonge is and a shopping complex at Davis Dr and the Sutton is still another Should all the proposals now under be built Newmarkets population will be the 25000 limit imposed by the TorontoCentred Region Plan within five years If the Plans limitations are enforced New markets will be stalled and even recreational facilities mainly in the area of rinks and to be adequate for the foreseeable A second rink will be built north of Davis Dr and a swimming pool will be built in the Schiekedanz development An arena at Sharon is already operating along with the old Newmarkefs industrial development instead of increasing is actually decreasing Therefore something must be done to encourage industrial It appears a stalemate will soon be reached Newmarket on one hand must increase its indus trial balance and on the other hand is being prohibited from doing so by a population the TorontoCentred Region Plan But if this is done there would not be enough However this is not necessarily so There is no reason why another large sewage treatment plant cant be constructed the design of which does not have to follow those presently in use in this area This new plant could be shared by both New market and Aurora and then both towns could expand into two larger more economically stable Tax rate no big increases after all as its source predicted the province would and decreases in is Newmarket and Aurora where arts of former low- tax rural municipalities to taxpaying towns The story sparked by fears of former h residents annexed to In April ere such resident who paid calculated that if the town stuck to its 30- rate this year he would pay S450 or almost double his taxes No fear said chief Steele He predict- accused The Era of creating misund erstanding and said the article was not factual But he who laughs last Last week Newmarket finally tabled its budget and the tax rate differences between old areas and annexed areas were kept well below Mr Steeles threemill predicli he content with less than Old Ontario i THE Readers ERA Thanks for help campaign This is reserved for the opinions and drawings of The Eras read- Please feel free to send yours a- long Alt we ask is that you include your name and address help and when they can they will thank you NEWSROOM NOTES The Pine Fort mystery on the upper Holland selfrespecting fur trader had a fur trading post and it was je withiri a stockade and called Fort Whoop- a or something like that was a fur trading centre in the days hut alt local historians seem to re member is the big elm which once stood the middle of Timothy St between Market Church St Here legend says fur trad- William Roe to parley with his Indian Not much as fur trading posts tend to go ind anyway it s gone rum without a trace Even vpg in Timothy St where traffic went inund each side of the tree has been obliterated the interests of wider cars So I was iteV when I came reference in a hook called Pioneer Travel in Canada to Pine Fort landing ha the Holland River I decided to investigate Newmarket a minor fur trading centre for a few short years had its own fort after all Sure enough other books referred to The Fort but details were scarce The History ntions that the died for land at in and 22 pages later says The North had a fort also a stockade and a Jtldiriwf Hollands to the landing place the more easily they mild catch the trade Conclusion the fort was of squared stood where the north end of old St join ed the Holland River at the point where the river ceased to be navigable for southbound canoes and the fort was staffed by the fur traders the early years of the 19th century according to the History of Newmarket fur trad ing in the community was controlled by one fam ily Reman and his stepsons Peter and John Beverly Robinson The Reman ons had strong connections with both the Fam ily Compact and the North West Co That fact proved to be an important clue A few other clues turned up An 1878 Atlas of York County said Governor John Graves had St opened to Lot III East bury in 179R and it mentioned Pine Fort Land ing at the end of Yonge SI That pinned the loca tion down even closer This same book also said the first steamboat on Lake was built and launched at the upper landing where the fort had stood It was tailed Itic I el after one of its major route was used r Armed with all this informal from in 1878 map showing ended on Lot IH Dave Haskell a Saturday in the Pubs Tub to go up the Holland River in search of the Upper Landing and its fort The banks are still swampy and treelined as they must have been years ago and when stepped ashore the present occupant said yes there were signs down near the water of early build- in early dock perhaps Hie one used Mrs Rolling BILL SUGAR AND SPICE An anniversary to remember squared timbers with holes and some old square nails in them wc all had to agree the evidence is inconclusive Rut Jim inadvertently added to the Pine Fort mystery He said he recently tried to drill a hole through his kitchen wall His bit went through nine inches of solid and still didnt find the other side Maybe its more than a the year The Pine Fort ceased to be the fur traders Peter Itolj a powerful fur trading the same material used years earlier to build the fort Just maybe Robinsons Inn started life as The He wis respected and a helpful friend to Newmarket hut here is no opportunity to both honor those de par led Roe arc buried in the tint on Id a round touches a could welt take to gates a d flowering Though the property of tin- Church am used gcncrilly In citizens of whatever tors demonstrate what faiths until liter when could be done here It is in undertaking that Therefore should interest every most of the earls liicn young and old and It was a quiet anil tor its disgraceful BILL GAMBLE Moralists decry lotteries nan who runs the income who allegedly would faint at the sight of in Illicit penny the sons of liingoimiri mothers will all be on the warpath And all this stakes has been in the and because ever enjoyed tailed about noon and asked to go out for a little fish little tricky partner Captain Halt and I thought maybe to go fishing Go ahead make a dash for the hack id a basket full of worms and down to the He has a fine boat Cabin inboard motor runs like a ami sea worthy as the frightened old maid could wish It was a beautiful sunny September day and ho had sailed fresh water and salt for about Finally we had our limit The Captain turned the key Total silence Dead battery I wish I had a movie of the van the Captains face There c track with it though almost unbearable id We got home pm and I thought I my wife would ltc out of her mind Willi worry do Site wasnt She was just out visiting friends and craftily brought a big and fiddling around filling and lighting his pipe they wanted to the hoi the whole lot It was a grand day hut York Ifrs for Halt Heights fig tut- horn ruling fount By White Irish Hospital Sweep- news again this past week have been giving dollar by dollar accounts of cash winnings coming into Canada and the millions that leave ru- In I I iTr ami localise tin common mm who secretly dreams of freeing from the curse of debt will once again be shouting from the rooftops about how much more our Canadian hospitals need improving and how an Ontario Hospital Sweepstakes would just about turn the trick Rut the cries and pleas will fall upon the deaf ears of an virtuous government which hi principle It will admit has nothing against gambling as long as do not do It In the or step on pious corns After all where is the government which does dissipate a few million dollars a year on some gamble or other Nor must we overlook llmsi hundreds of thousands whose interests In Die stock exchange is anything but that of sober And who is to condemn the hundreds upon hundreds of small lotteries promoted each year for cultural charitable sporting and religious purposes The Roman I Church is a spirit frontrunner in the S1AKFS knows the arguments against lot teries What can be said in their favor One Royal Commission faced with this novel proposi tion decided that gambling on lotteries was not without certain positive qualities For instance many of its forms involve some mental activity and it has a social value as a general topic of conversation Bui the Inhibiting aspect they try Yet despite Its auditory affliction the Gov ernment tacitly intimates Its awareness of the possible merits of lotteries and Is almost bread for stomachs or shoes for bare feet or even find its way Into the church collection platter And some of it may even be used for Candldates In the coming election could do