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su tribune march 22 1989 c3 old postcards delight this collector stouffville resident bill brown collecting old postcards when he imagination one of gormleysta- first got hooked on his bobby of received two which caught his tion from his motherinlaw the photo kate gildehdale stouffville resident bill brown shows off one of with old train stations and historical scenes of york several thousand old post cards he has collected region communities over the past six years he especially likes cards farmers declining statscan reports other of the mennonite church in markham from his mother the collection just ac cumulated from there he grins i cleaned both our mothers out of post cards and then started looking around for more to add to what i had that was about six years ago since then hes travelled to flea markets and auctions across the region and is a frequent visitor at harbourfront his special in terest is york county and railway stations when i go to harbourfront i take a list of the railroad stations i already have because i dont want duplicates his whole col lection he estimates comprises a couple of thousand im in terested in collecting as many as possible so far hes never advertised relying on word of mouth to learn about new sources of supply seniors will often keep old postcards he says but when he visited parkview home in the hopes of adding to his collection he found many of them had burn ed their cards when they moved in because they didnt have anywhere to store them its getting really hard to find them now when bill goes to auctions and bids for whole albums hell often find the owners have removed all the street scenes leaving him with greeting cards and christmas cards he doesnt want he does collect greeting cards which specify theyre from the area one in his collection shows a young couple with the words we will be lovers all the time printed on top with in ringwood stamped underneath other more professional look ing efforts offer greetings from stouffville or gormley with the names of the towns printed in or nate gold lettering all his cards date from around the turn of the century and among his extensive collection he has postcards featuring all the churches in stouffville a large selection of scenes from musselmans lake also called muzzelmans lake on one card and pictures of a camp at shadow lake which was owned by eatons and used by its employees postcards of stouffville junc tion show a handsome brick building which has since been demolished with well maintain ed railroad tracks alongside bill also has views of good wood and uxbridge stations hes very grateful to his mother-in- law for giving him her postcard of gormley station ive never seen another one since he estimates he has about 450 cards featuring railway stations now you see why i have to take a list with me when im looking for more two of his cards feature a store in mongolia which burned down in 1922 and another shows the old hotel which once stood at ringwood he has various views of stouff- villes main street including some of the mansion house in its hayday he also has cards show ing the orangemans parade of 1909 his hobby he notes has taught him a lot about the history of the area and he has several pictures of the international motors building where walter atkinson first started the stouffville sales barn hes also got to know quite a few people in his efforts to add to his collection a lifelong resident of markham bill recently moved to a beautiful new home in stouff ville with his wife edna postcards are not his only in terest the browns also have ex tensive collections of china created for local communities such as markham and uxbridge some of which were crafted in germany they have a keen interest in antiques and among other treasures bill has picked up are a copper plunger with a wooden handle which was used for washing clothes a wooden shovel and a yoke for carrying milk buckets all of which decorate the area around the sitting room fireplace bill also owns three an tique cars with a keen eye for the unusual and an enthusiastic interest in area history its unlikely bill brown will ever lose his passion for collecting the total number of persons in allfarm operator households declined by 13 percent between 1981 and 1986 statistics canada announced recently this decline can be explained by the decrease in the number of farms eight percent and the drop in the average size of farm households from 36 persons in 1981 to 34 in 1986 the average farm family in come also decreased from 37343 in 1980 to 35382 in 1985 this drop was greater than for the total ppoulation where average total family income went down from 39 107- in 1980 to 38652 in 1985 the number of spouses con tributing to family farm income increased six percent from 1980 to 1985 furthermore when farm operator spouses are self- employed or paid workers their contributions to the total family income is significant three out of five spouses contributed 25 per 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