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ges were common iii whitchurch by john montgomery whitchurch usually when one thinks of the pioneer settlements in the area now known as whitchurchstouffville names like stouffer brillinger steckley lemon and a host of others come to mind but actually these families were relative latecomers it is estimated that more than 400 years before the first european settlers ever set foot in the area- it provided a home for a large indian population there were at least two large indian villages probably algonquin in the former township of whitchurch the best known site is on the east side of the 6th cone road and just south of the van- dorf sideroad in lots 14 and 15 this property is now owned by alf ronheberger the second site is just east of highway 48 on lot 9 this site as well as the first men tioned is under agricultural use it is on mayor gordon ratcliffs farm and is located just north of the road leading in to the town reservoir it seems the early pioneers had little respect for the indian dead as much of the sites were excavated by curiosity seekers the site near the vandorf rd has been examined by experts though in 1918 the royal archeological society conducted a dig there and submitted a report a quote from a 1944 edition of the tribune said the early settlers examined it and spoke of it with superstitious awe looking upon it as the abode of a wonderous people it was then covered with bush yet still showing the extensive clay elevations used for their palisades the village was described as a hill fort and is located on the highest piece of land in the area on about seven and a half acres at the time of the 1918 report the sites of about a dozen bark houses could still be discerned darkened soil intermixed with broken pottery and other artifacts clearly indicated their location the village was apparently enclosed by a trench and mound now completely obliterated which extended across the side of the hill according to the whitchurch township centennial book the burying ground was situated outside the trench on the northside two thousand interments having taken place in the immediate spot the burials were made singly and not in accordance with the usual custom of the hurons of exposing their corpses until the flesh is eaten by birds or breasts of prey and then interring the bones promiscuously in a pit the position of the remains unearthed showed that the bodies had been laid down on the side with the knees drawn up towards the chin large numbers of these ghastly relics of mortality were dug up by the early settlers on the other side of the concession road to the west it is believed another large burying ground exists this is supposed to be in the vicinity of the kettle lake the whitchurchstouffville museum is in possession of parts of an indian skeleton that was unearthed in 1937 in lot 15 of the 5th cone it is not known who unearthed this skeleton or under what circumstances in bygone years children collected ar tifacts from the site by merely walking through the field after it had been plowed this past summer an anthropolgy student from trent university spent some time collecting there gordon dibb a keswick resident told the tribune he picked up quite a number of articles which he intends on donating to the museum when he is through evaluating them according to mr dibb the site was first noticed by farmers in the late 1850s- the university of toronto conducted a summer field school there in 1957 but mr dibb said the site has never been systematically investigated there has been some speculation the village might have actually been inhabited by iroquois rather than algonquins as most people believe he said the site is located along a former manager roherts guides clippers to victory loss stouffville with coach don mcbeth stranded in jamaica manager ken roberts took the helm of the clipper ship and guided he team to a win and loss last week cobourgbeat the ken may real estate crew 74 dec 29 but the clippers rebounded to defeat port hope 85 on saturday the cobourg contest started like a barnburner with both teams scoring twice during the first period goals by ker- naghan and oliver were offset by an unassisted tally by chris clarridge and a goal by kevin barrick from ted assinck and mike wightman things changed in period two as cobourg scored five unanswered goals only two markers by ted assinck saved face for the clippers assinck has been on a scoring rampage of late along with team mates barrick and andy leitch the barrick assinck wightman line have developed into one of the leagues finest saturdays contest i was a crowdpleasef for the large crowd on hand at the 85 win dave mumford scored twice for the clippers with singles going to andy leitch mike splonnick kevin barrick chris clarridge brad hunt arid peter fitzpatrick fitzpatrick also collected assists contributingvto the clipper success have been clarridge and splonnick on defense as well as goaltenders rick marshman and jack holder the clippers play in lindsay tomorrow night and here saturday 8 pm in the game for the third place port perry will be the visitors and currently lead by one point stouffville plays bowmanville here oft tuesday at 8 pm indian trail that went right along the holland river and was probably inhabited between 1450 and 1600 which puts it in the prehistoric class there is a large circular depression on the flat ground at the top of the hill which mr dibb is interested in unearthing he feels this would likely be either a midden dump or an ossuary which is a common grave mr dibbs has found no human bones but he has discovered traces of bear deer and beaver he has picked up dicelike gaming discs flint arrowheads broken pots and pieces of clay pipes although the site has been ravaged he feels it still would be quite valuable as far as settlement data he said the site may have been abandoned because of intrusions from other tribes or because the fertility of the land had petered out the tribe apparently depended on corn as well as hunting for their staples the 8th cone village has never been in vestigated by archeologists but it was ap parently a rich find for souvenir hunters according to the whitchurch historical pamphlet the most grisly find was a circular portion of a human skull well worn hut in excellent preservation it was perforated with seven holes and had evidently been held as a trophy among the artifacts removed were clay and stone pipes animal teeth polished and with holes bored through them bone needles and articles made from the shoulder blades of deer these had six prongs about three inches in length according to the historical sketch no graves have been discovered at the village but a quarter of a mile or so distant a pit containing many hundred indian skeletons was found this was opened about 1848 and large numbers of skulls and other remains removed mayor ratcliff told the tribune that during the 1930s commercial sand and gravel was doing some excavation just west of the village and several skeletons were unearthed the mayor said that when these were discovered the ground was not disturbed vl anymore i- i- js jspfthe rich trove of artifacts taken very little remains today only a few of the residents of the community are even aware of the locations of the villages for a short period sometime between 191218 there was again an indian settlement in the area lambert stouffer a 71 year old lifelong resident of the community remembers the encampment he said that an indian family by the name of bigcanoe moved down from lake simcoe and lived north of stouffville in what is now the flood control area tney subsisted by selling baskets manufactured from strips of ash wood but only stayed for a few years before returning to lake simcoe these bones were unearthed in 1937 and now reside at the whitchurchstouffville museum early pioneers and later farmers disinterred many indian remains but to our knowledge these are the only ones that have been preserved and are still in the neigh- borhood ted wilcox milliken mills erased from regional report four york region the name milliken mills will be deleted from a planning and engineering report to be submitted by york region to the provincial government asking that the capacity of the big pipe servicing scheme be increased to ac commodate the development the regional staff in a report stated that the proposed southcentral york servicing scheme known as the big pipe isbeihg designed to service a population of 416000 however addition of proposed ontario housing action program developments would boost the projected regional population by 70000 three major areas are designated in the regional submission to the province as the report was presented dec 30 the three major proposals would be milliken mills kennedy rd north of sleeles thornhillvaughan and pine valley adjacent to woodbridge if developed the three proposals could add 70000 people to the regional total bringing the number of people on the servicing scheme to i48g002 ij regidriapsfafr want the big pipe to be designed to accept the added population markham mayor tony roman stated that were not disagreeing with what you are trying to do here he merely stated that the name milliken mills not be used in the regional sub mission nor should the name be marked on an accompanying sketch map he wanted the designation to be markham ohap planning com missioner murray pound explained that the intent was not to recommend the population be in creased to 486000 but to allow for such a figure in construction of the big pipe- w h ilchuxch stouffville mayor gordon ratcliff questioned whether increased numbers in the servicing scheme might not limit growth in the areas not serviced by the big pipe mr pound assured the mayor that the proposal would not affect areas such as stouffville councillor bob adams felt that if we allow 80000 people under ohap the region will never recover newmarket mayor bob forhan said that he was against the milliken mills proposal and that it had never been brought before regional council or any of its committees i dont see why we have to insist on using the name he said mayor roman said that the use of general nomesand less specific mapping would iiot affect ithe engineering aspect of thesubmission finally it was agreed lo designate milliken mills as the kennedyrd area and pine valley as woodbridge area the map was to be redrawn with the areas rounded and more symbolic t4sf3sm new ski resort in uxbridge area former pm writes of erly greenwood 4ays skating finals jan 14 stouffville 1 jan 14 is the day peter mellon of tindale road lakes part in the junior mens figure skating finals at london ontario peter 16 is a member of the stouffville figure skating club in closing league games juveniles take a pair stouffville the stouffville juveniles have been closing their hockey season with some excitement whipping newcastle 43 on dec 23 and demolishing pickering village 92 on dec 30 allstar girls team 3 loses in exhibition two goals and an assist went to dave mumford in the newcastle contest as blair emmcrson collected a goal and two assists ken smith ac- counted for the other tally with single assists going to dave middleton cam mckay and bill meakes midget players nazio nicastro steve price and danny wagg were in the juvenile roster against pickering as bill meakes led the squad to victory on four goals two assists price netted two goals nicastro one and ken smith and dave mumford a goal and assist each two assists were earned by both blair emmerson and dave middleton with one going to wally schell markham former markham residents mr and mrs ralph spademan have opened a cross country ski area near uxbridge the area offers eight kilometers of wooden trails to accommodate both novice and expert skiers the trails called the spademan tree farm are located north of the durham county road 21 on the w uxbridges sixth concession anyone wishing further information may contact 6493044 there are no rentals available greenwood the early recollections of john g deifenbaker about- the village of greenwood are included in the first volume of the former prime ministers memoirs one canada recently published by macmillian of canada here are some exerpts father in 1897 got a school in greenwood a most beautiful part of ontario there i have- more in the way of recollections times were hard but not desperate a look at the minutes of the school trustee meetings indicates that the very small salary paid to father was often long overdue firewood being supplied on occasion as part of the salary sometimes credit for the purchase of groceries would be provided at the local store by resolution of the school board there were however many things to sustain us in the more difficult period of our life in our home in green wood as in all our sub sequent homes bible reading and family prayer were daily and rewarding experiences no meal was ever begun until grace had been said on sundays wo- went to church and sunday school in uxbridge our place in stouffville an allstar girls hockey team from stouffville was defeated 52 in an en counter with sharon all- stars last week scoring a hat trick for sharon was a clarke with singles by l winn and d aikman stouffviile goals were by dianne ermen from kathy mcbeth and julie parish from jolynn ayotte of the seven penalties earned in the game stouffville had four three players short bantams victorious in spss basketball tripleheader stouffville vf a tripleieader basketball evening against huron heights secondary school of aurora takes place tomorrow at sdss the midget boys team plays at 6 pm with junior and senior games following at about 715 and 830 pm vv -v- v coach jim rehill predicts the games will be close we cant afford to lose any he added i j- t- stouffville being three men hort seemed a- definite ad vantage to the bantam a hockey club last week as they defeated two teams they had never beaten before the local lads produced a solid team effort in downing port perry 43 here on friday as ted waite gary carr kelly burrows and dave raymer tallied richard bartley played a sound game in goal once more short players at uxbridge on sunday stouffville came out on top by a43 score again team work and hardchecking was evident in each team membcr jbrentnichols dave raymer bruce rugella and kelly burrows scored with bartley again in goal final games for peewees stouffville with just three league contests remaining the birketthassard peewees lead their lakeshoreb league rivals with a 101 record iji leading the team are goaltenders mike rehill and kevin berry and in j scoring department robert gierkinkt- the peewees play tonight at the arena against uxbridge starting 7 pm f a large number of enthusiastic young people took part in the whitchurchstouffville minor hockey association skateathon recently while the amount of moneycollected has not been announced a number of skaters finished the greenwood had a tremendous growth of lilacs and was most at tractive every spring i remember also that there was a hill by our house it must have been a quarter of a mile long with a very sharp gradient in winter older boys went down it on doubledecked sleds i thought i could do this too down i went all at once there loomed in fronf of me a team of horses pulling a milk cart p passed between their front and hiad legs scraping the top of my head on the cart tongue had i raised my head i could have been decapitated another recollection is that we children were very frightened of a most distinguished man the greatest criminal lawyer of his lime tc robioette he came out on sundays to visit his girl friend miss green whose father ran the store at the foot of the hill wowere frightened of him because we had heard that he dcfendev men who had killed jp others we thoughtb must be very wicked to this when many yeis later i was honored by being called to the tor of upper canada his son the distinguished counsel jj robiriette qc was treasurer of the upper canada law society i might addlhat i have raised strong ob- jeetiontothegovemment j t f canada taking over the fine agriculturalbnd and magnificent old homes of gruelling 24 hours the oldest skater earl crowder the greenwood area for a completed 17 hours and likely earned the most money of all ncwairporttbeface the skater y vws fon bernard to remain unsiled v f h iu