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1g ition roblem because of cy to tangle. ations are one prob- e is another. To bal- om, 22 tons of con- sed as a_ counter- urther 60 tons pro- id base for each ped cranes at Pick- ye worth almost $1 n all four are in- the saving in con- sts will amount to dollars at this pro- housands more on come. ricks and revolving common sights on 'onstruction job, but mobile crane used 320-foot tall Hydro tower near Sarnia them all for sheer crane was so un a second was called » hoist its 140-foot > air. 1ed gton s inducted a min- 5 and built a new 879. The Anglican e into being in 1870 | was built in 1875. later a town hall, , fire engine and was erected, from the village the defence against . A drill hall was ining purposes and nized to accompany ers. Shortly after is voted to give a },000 to a company » construct a rail- n Toronto and Co- aby sod for which i f the Ontario Coun- n 1888 incorporated as a village. Elec- held in the follow- with John Sharpe eeve. a on bers ] in- nber / al- this iting s of ae, 25 ly GRANT CHRISTIE 1934 -- Reach Twp. 4 JOHN M. LOW 1936 -- Uxbridge Town renee' bers se W. MERLIN LETCHER WILLIAM REESOR 1937 -- Port Perry 1943 -- Pickering Twp. RAE M. FERGUSON 1950 -- Uxbridge Town FERGUSON MUNRO 1951 -- Brock THESE MEN SERVED AS WARDENS OF ONTARIO COUNTY OVER THE YEARS = _™ °**A Tt trvtn tee 0" 9 MER 2 ee D. B. McINTYRE 1952 -- Whithy Town CYRIL MORLEY 1958 -- Pickering Village W. H. GOULD 1966 -- Uxbridge Healy Warden For Centennial - Charles Healy of Orillia has the distinction of serving as! Centennial Year warden of On:| tario County. | The 1967 County council mem- bers includes: | The 1967 County Council under Warden Charles Healy" includes the following members: Ajax; | Reeve Henry Polak, deputy reeve Mrs. Mary Reid, Ux-! bridge; Reeve Wilfred H. Gould, deputy reeve Douglas I. Hall, Whitby: Reeve George Brooks, deputy reeve Robert Attersley. FIRST WARDEN Joseph Gould, of Ux- bridge, who was elected as © the first provisional warden of Ontario County in 1852 when the county separated, from the United Counties of York, Peel and Ontario. An assiduous worker in the interests of the county, he was one of the men who laid the foundation of the present administration. Representing villages on County Council are; Beaverton, Reeve William J. Gillespie, Can- nington, Reeve Delson Shier, Pickering, Reeve Ross Murison, Port Perry, Reeve J. J. Gibson, deputy Reeve Bruce F. Beare. Township representatives in- clude; Brock, Reeve John L. Dancey, deputy reeve, John W. Doble, East Whitby Reeve John Howden, deputy reeve Ross E. Lee, Mara Reeve Charles Healy, deputy reeve Basil Har- rington, Pickering Reeve Clif- ford W. Laycox, deputy Reeve Mrs. Jean McPherson, Rama Reeve Hector MacKinnon, dep- uty reeve Abner Powell. And; Reach township Reeve Edward Oyler, deputy reeve Laurence Doble, Scott Reeve Chesley Oldham, deputy reeve Robert Timbers, Scugog- Reeve Victor Aldred, deputy Reeve Joseph Dowson, Thorah Reeve Harvey Westcott, deputy reeve Alex Gray, Uxbridge Reeve Al- vin Redshaw, deputy reeve Rob- ert L. Nesbitt, and Whitby Township Reeve Heber Down with deputy reeve Gordon Hanna. Officials of Ontario County in- clude; Clerk treasurer William G. Manning, Assessment Com- missioner Gordon D. Hepditch, Engineer William A. Tweleve- trees, Auditors Deloitte, Plen- der, Haskins and Sells, Con- struction Safety Inspector H. S. Carter. Other officials are; County jail governor J. Rea, Fairview Lodge. superintendent. Mrs. Muriel Coates, Fairview Lodge Physician Dr. W. W. Baldwin, Lakeview Manor Superintendent Everett Quantrill and Weed in- spectors M. A, Colville and Rob- ert Medd. Trapper Came To Trade Site In 1794 On Pickering The Village of Pickering, which was incorporated March 1, 1953, welcomed its first white settler in 1794 when a trapper and trader, William Peak, came from Port Hope to trade with the Indians and located in the immediate area which is now the village. In 1810 a survey party head- ws by Asa Danforth surveyed what is now the Kingston Road as a military road between Kingston. and Ancaster. This was done by authority of the Governor-in-Chief at Quebec, during the reign of George III. Timothy Rogers came to the area from Vermont in '1810 with a group of Quakers. He was the original United Em- pire Loyalist. At the same time Quakers of Irish stock emi- grated directly from Ireland. In recognition of his serv- ices a grant of 100 acres of land was made to Mr. Rogers in 1830, He in turn gave a church site directly south of the present masonic temple. The church was later torn down and re-located on the site of the present masonic tem- ple. It was destroyed by fire in the early 1900's. The village was originally called Canton, but took its pres-| ent name in 1856. The first! grist; mill in the area is be- 'lieved to have been built by $ J. B. Hoover near where the,and has since been relocated | present CNR station stands. | jpounds, three shillings and six Biexcepting such as_ will we The chairman of the spe- cial committee of the 1967 Ontario County Council are seen here. Seated, from left, are Reeve J. J. Gibson of Port Perry, entertainment and special events; Warden Charles Healy, reeve of Mara Township and Mary Reid, deputy reeve of Ajax, labor relations. Standing, from left, are Reeve John Dancey of Brock Township, Children's Aid Society; COUNTY WARDEN AND CHAIRMEN FOR '67 chairman of the warden's advisory committee: Deputy Reeve Douglas Hall of Ux- | IN AJAX AND PICKERING 4 ) |play lic. ' Reeve Robert Nesbitt of Ux- bridge Township, Emer- - bridge Township, ARDA gency Measures Organiza- Committee; Reeve George tion and Reeve Edward Ov - Brooks of: Whitby, vice- vler of Reach Township, agriculture and reforesta- tion. Oshawa Times Photo, Sunday the large attrac-!town, tion was an interdenominational| service at the town's shopping) Canada's centre followed by a town picnic/conclude with a giant sports|an open house and the West at the Lakeside Park. During the weekend festivities) held at the Ajax High school|township with a fountain at the the Ajax Little Art Gallery dis-! grounds. Centennial Celebrations Picnics, Pageants, Parades The Ajax Centennial celebra-|played a |tions were held on the Victoria/showing the Day weekend while most of the} buildings, a pet show Saturday library on Church St. opened on celebrations in lage and Township are being|children and the evening dance Morley. The library will serve saved for the July 1 birthday. | Thousands of residents and/hundreds of Ajaxians. §* |visitors observed the Canadian Centennial during the success- ful weekend. On Saturday the old town hall/the last century on ; |was turned into a nuseum dis-| and Sunday. area and hundreds of On |spectators viewed the various;parade including lexhibits depicting the history of|marchers majorettes and floats departing from Bay Ridges at series of paintings; The main Pickering Village town's wartime Centennial project was a Public ° Pickering Vil-jafternoon delighted the town's May 31 by former Reeve Cyril at the plaza was attended by the town after 76 years of book service without a permanent Nurses at the Ajax and Pick- building ering General Hospital dis-. The village will join Picker- played nursing costumes from ing Township for the main Saturday celebrations on July 1. A parade including bands, the village's grandjown: "'Bluenotes,"' drill teams bands,|and floats will visit the village | Victoria Day a |the town. The Ajax and Picker-|toured the town and a $1,000 10 a.m. : ling General Hospital was also display of fireworks was set off lopen for thapction by the pub-/at dusk on the lakeshore with} ARTS AND CRAFTS Saturday town's ladies served tea at the fighters. old town hall and many people' The Ajax took advantage of the occasion eternal flame on the Ajax me-|Show, and ecumenical service to get their first glimpse of morial Saturday night and the Will be conducted on July 1. their new green municipal com- firefighters' 1adies auxiliary -- In the village there will be an exhibit of arts and crafts along the with a fireworks display, a stage afternoon the'the aid of. the town's fire-| Kinsmen lit On May 31 and June 1 a his- {donated a rescue truck to the toric pageant was staged at the Pickering District high school On June 24 celebrations of/and on June 10 the Pickering 100th birthday will)Township Municipal Office held day complete with parade to be, Rouge Lions Club presented the | building. Trail Blazers From Britain Developed Brock Township Brock Township, namedjJoel Wixon, seconded by Wil- after General Isaac Brock who|liam Matterson, that a fine of gave his life on Queenston |not less than 10 'shillings be) Heights, was surveyed in 1817./imposed upon any person al- It was settled by emigrants|lowing Canadian Thistle to go from the British Isles whojto seed upon his or her prem-| blazed new trails and cut out/ises. and built new settlements in| John Hall 'Thompson served! the virgin forest. The genius|as reeve from 1854 to 1865 and and will of English, Scotch,/1g71 and 1872 and served five Irish and Welsh settlers, who times as warden of the county. endured great hardships, built/Other early reeves were Mal- the township into 'a rich farm-|colm Gillespie, George Shier, | ing area with flour, wool and| Robert Cunningham, James | sawmills where water waS|Glendinning, William -- Baird, available. Records show the/James Vrooman and James population in 1854 was 3,500/Umphrey. and the total tax roll was 547 The township tecords show the total assessment was shi 2,005,245 and the population Records of township meet- $2 ings go back to 1833 when, at a|¥@S 3528 in 1900. pence. meeting called by two of His| Council meetings were held) Majesty's justices of the peace,|in taverns until 1870 when 7 for the election . of township|township hall was built at Sun-| officers, some of the rulings|derland, a village which had made were "Breachy cattle not Sprung up with the building of allowed to run at large'; |the railway through the town-| "Hogs to be free commoners|Ship in 1868. The present town- go|ship hall was built in 1906 and} through a_ six-inch hole"; |equipped with council cham- "Rams not allowed to run on bers, clerk's office and Jarge commons." jauditorium, A market hall, CLIFFORD LAYCOX Pickering Village Reeve Originally the village was a Quaker settlement and in 1857! the Quakers, or Society of Friends, built "Pickering Col- | lege" on the high ground to the north of the village. The | college burned Dec. 31, 1905,! in Newmarket. Amalgamation Chief Item} On Agenda For Township The opening of two recrea- tion areas -- Brooklin and Willow Parks -- are two of the centennial projects in Whitby Township this year. However, the main item of business oc- cupying the minds of members of council and civic officials ie the proposed amalgamation of the township and the Town of Whitby. Members of council are: Reeve W. Heber Down, Depu- ty Reeve Gordon Hanna and ; Councillors J. P. Brady, Neil Grandy and G. Schroor. The fire chiefs are: Area (4 No. 1, Acting Chief Ken Greer; Area No, 2, Chief Harold Bryan. Chairmen of the standing com: mittees of council are: finance and welfare, G. Hanna; roads, W. H. Down; fire and property, N. Grandy; special purposes, G. Schroor; parks and arena, J. P. Brady; cemetery, W. H. SEE-CHIEF ITEM Continued On 6-D W, HEBER DOWN _ originated at a public meeting 'in 1836 when it was moved by| The first motion jon record SEE -- BROCK Continued On D-6 WARD'S | SERVING war OSHAWA 1867 ay FOR 48 YEARS | DRESS & CELEBRATE CANADA'S BIRTHDAY with Canadian Maple Leaf... Provincial +» » Centennial Flags. Many sizes available in Nylon and Wool. WARD'S DRY GOODS LIMITED SINCE 1919 Simcoe at Athol Oshawa Reeve I McLAUGHLIN PUBLIC LIBRARY CELEBRATES 867 CANADA-CONFEDERATION 1967 CENTENNIAL EXPLORE... 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