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6A THE OSHAWA TIMES, Twesdey, June 27, 1967 Renfrew Prosperous Town It Has Lumber History Renfrew, on the Bonnechere River -- bonne for the good stream it was and the good fishing, and chere for the val- ley's forest wealth -- was ever a prosperous, happy town. In the 1850's fortunes were made cutting timber. Loggers stopped at Renfrew on their way up- stream and, with their pockets full of wages, on the way down severely wounding Renfrew's light alloys, magnesium and aircraft engineering industries? The intrepid community at once planned its industrial po- tential in a manner calculated to attract new industries, espe- cially medium engineering. In- terest has already been aroused as far away as Brazil. There's a good labor market of its size im that ft has two fine_hotels each serving excel- lent meals. Like Renfrew, Pembroke was a roaring mid- 19th century Jogging town. Then the Ottawa River was literally islands" of square and waney timbers each carrying one or| A thrilling sight, spring an@ more shanties to house and/|fall, is to watch thousands feed the rafting crews. On-| Migrating Canada geese come tario's Pembroke forest district | Winging in daily to rest on the is still important -- the town,|Government fish hatchery and therefore, is headquarters of ajon Muskrat Lake at nearby district forester. | Cobden. : \ BEGoodrich / HOME & AUTO CENTRE Miki Loca MIKIS PARK on | heart of tl lands, is su! the most be ery in Onta1 The 99-ac 11,.12 mile River. It is neal Road, a sel drive, whic coach route many years from where they had cut and/,; 4 ' ' trimmed the great pines. They . meatier -_ sont, - _ PR tad ; rafted the huge square or housing for workers. Sixty low eck ca i waney timbers to the Ottawa /|rental homes, built within the sind el and down the St. Lawrence. | past two years, are administer- tilities From Quebec bluff-bowed wind- | og by the town council; and ' wi os jammers carried the fine ship- | ,. Fi ' ai » +. | fifty-four local Rotarians earn- ed the park building wood to the King's S : : 7.036 Navy Yards on Scotland's|ed international headlines for see campe River Clyde. Renfrew recently when they ARROWH! But long before the Scottish, | formed a limited dividend com- PARK is lo Swedish, French-Canadian and | pany and put up a $7,500 down Lake, just Irish lumberjacks came to Ren- | il frew, Samuel de Champlain| Payment on fourteen new miles north scouted the rivers leading west | houses -- attractive one-storey Fe dcr from the Ottawa in search of homes with living room, bed- est of beec the short route to China 80} yo9m, bath and kitchen -- now and balsam; much desired by the King of y th) t from 100 : Prante. rented at $37 monthly to ye No better proof of Cham- | couples over the age of 65 who There is a plain's presence in the area is | "ceive low incomes. aca tt of record than the finding of }WELL KNOWN ' : fishing. the explorer's astrolabe, lost | ee a ie This relati : , , pride to the "'finest commun ark had | near today's Cobden in 1613. A) creation centre in the Ottawa Lp campe quarter millenium later, four-| yajley", a $200,000 edifice given y teen-year-old George Lee was| the town by the mayor's moth- OASTL yanking stumps with a team of| more than 80,000 persons of all PARK is lo oxen. Beneath a large root he | ages participated in art classes, shore of Oa: ' | dancing, rifle practice and 69.. five mil found the long lost instrument. | other enjoyable activities in the Gouna. About nine years prior to} centre. Other recreational ac- The 42-act Lee's historic find Renfrew' be- | tivities in and around Renfrew Pog eto came a town. Commencing|include bowling, golf, tennis Boyne Rive! me t 11, 1958, 'theref |and, within a few miles, ex- lave wai. Nee » therefore, 8) ceedingly good hunting and way. for the week of fun, frolic and several | fishing. Georgian Ba "The Point, necessarily serious services will At nearby Eganville, at the fittingly | commemorate -- the | Fourth Chute of the Bonnechere town's corporate birth. River, one of the Rens met But don't arrive to share Ren- ; tel aT. diawacmare Cave: frew's centennial in formal at-| attracts thousands of visitors tire or with shaven face. The} annually. On conducted tours town fathers emphasize that | through the electrically illumi- Renfrew wants men wearing | nated caverns fish can be seen flowing beards and frontier at-/ in the underground pools and in tire, and women in ginghams, | the rock formations are many ae rustling petticoats and 19th cen- | sea fossils of sea creatures that ~_tury gowns, to attest their pride |}jyed 400 million years ago. in the old Scots pioneer village, | Seven acres of scenic parkland its history and traditions, and|jn a setting of rolling, wooded their belief in the 100-year-old | pills, shining lakes and spark- slogan: "Let Frenfrew Flour-|jing streams, provide picnic ish!"" and recreational facilities for And Renfrew has flourished-- | young and old. notably! 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