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LEGAL ACCOUNTANT Barristers Solicitor and Comer Office Block d Aurora Joseph O Dale la Office 150 St Evening By Appointment Barrister Solicitor Public Etc raojntui St MATHEWS LYONS ft VALE Barristers Solicitor Notaries Mathews Stiver B LYONS JOSEPH VAUB OFFICE ST k comm m a 1234 NcMBriwf MISCELLANEOUS The Sttry thirtyfirst instalment of a continuing Story of Sharon from its founding to the present The story was written after almost two years of research and will we believe be a major contribution to know ledge of the The remaining instalments will foOow weekly J A SONS St LOCAL Aurora St North Oak Ridge A MILLS MAIN ST Conveyancing Insurance VASTER ETC MAIN ST- NEWMARKET Contractor For BULLDOZING GRADING CELLAR EXCAVATIONS VS7 Delivered or at bra- Plant phone Office phones and CONTRACTUS House and Farm Wiring General Repairs Spue Heater All Electrical DENTAL DR NOBLE DENTIST OFFICE Office Residence Dr E VanderVoort St Newmarket Phone Box St Newmarket STEWART Service PARTS TUBES etc Main St A Raglan St Pianos Bought Sold and Rented MEDICAL S J BOYD Physician and Surgeon Phone At residence comer of Raglan sad i St Dealer for The white settlers began In Upper Canada and es tablished themselves in the town ship of East to find that in the district around and above Sharon they had been preceded by a race of swarthy color the Indian For centuries the forefathers of these people had roamed this North Ameri can wilderness had hunted and had kept their stealthy bivouac they had fought their battles and had smoked their pipes of peace Now change was catching up with their way of life The lands of East form a link in the ancient trail from Lake Ontario to the Upper Lakes and the Indian history of this area must be written around the usage of this ancient high way This was no ordinary trail it was a main thorough fare a trunk line of communica tions with distant regions defi nitely determined by the con tours of the country traversed The Carrying Place possessed a permanence very different from casual paths through the forest It was as old as human life in America Huron Indians When the white man arrived the were in possession gradually the Iroquois obtained control then after the return of in the Chippe- from the north began to en croach and it was to these Chip- that the early English set tlers made their overtures Treaty of October 1818 completed the surrender of the territory from Lake Ontario to Georgian Bay and was the most extensive of all Four chiefs of the Chip pewa nation took part in the negotiations viz Musquafcie or or Swamp or Male Devil At that time these Indians were known as the Chippewa Tribe of Lakes Huron and Sim- Their chiefs were John Yeilowhead and Snake and their total population was approximately 500 They occu pied the various lands in the vicinity of Lake Hol land River and the unsettled lands in the rear of what was termed the Home District Tribal Suffering Prior to these tribes were much demoralized from living near white settlements They had acquired constant habits of drinking liquors they were totally illiterate and they knew very little about religion Their hunting grounds were RIDGES Phone King lit Phone Aurora JOHN lift aUKSOBS 121 Office OSTEOPATHY WILSON Telephone Consultation by Appointment I JOHNSTON PHYSICIAN Water pat Sat til office New King CHIROPRACTIC Coal Coke Wood and Stoker Coal Orders taken for Gravel Sand and Crushed Stone and General Hauling DALY Expert Wateh and Clock Repair SI Gorham St or ALL WORK GUARANTEED Fire Automobile and Casualty Eagle St Newmarket llMw Ad INSURANCE FOUR AUTO and life Bill MAIN ST NEWMARKET PHONE INSURANCE DOCTOR OF CHIROPRACTIC a OPTOMETRIST REAL ESTATE faiTRcd AUBREY STEWART BE SURE INSURE JOHN ST BRADFORD W MILLER If GORHAM ST NEWMARKET MONUMENTS THE VARIETY OF DESIGNS A- PIANO TUNER AND TECHNICIAN Dealer Far New Si Over PHONE A Newmarket Clinic BW Hour mm tott to MM to erier tsmtfOm team Had and and Soli GRACE SY NEWMARKET W Mrf SON MAIN ST NEWMARKET mending and ALTERATIONS McCONKEV Mck SONS SiHm the government pres ents had been spent for whiskey and in debt to all traders and unable to obtain more credit they were in a state bordering on starvation Their sufferings and misery were strongly mark ed by emaciation and disease In a despatch from Sir J Kempt to Sir George Murray May is found the fol lowing reference to the Indians who frequented the vicinity of His Lordship is of the opinion that the establish ment of active and zealous mis sionaries for the Indians at the Bay of Quinte and for those who frequent the vicinity of near Simcoe which his Lordship has not the means of providing would be attended by very beneficial effects In the same document it is recommended that the Indians be collected in considerable num ber and settled in villages with a due portion of land for their cultivation and support Indian Reserve to the year therefore Lieut Governor Sir John Col- bourne collected them all on to a tract of land comprising acres on the northwest shore of Lake which was known as the Coldwater and Narrows Reserve this tract extending along the public road from Cold- water to Lake Simcoe for a dis tance of miles In the year however these Indians known as the Chippewa Tribe of Lake and Lake gave a sur render No of this reserve for purposes of sale a year or two later these Indians were moved to other reserves and in the year they were estab lished as follows Chief John and his band numbering at Prince Wil liam Henry Island Chief lowhead and his band number ing at Rama Chief Snake and his band number ing at Snake Island one of the Islands in Lake which were allotted to him Island A gradual movement of the Snake Island Indians to Island occurred at a later date and in the year half of the Snake Island band had moved to Island this continued until at the present time the entire band is located at Island It is a matter of Interest that the lands of East apparently were not ceded until the Treaty made in between His Majesty the King and the Chippewa In dians of Christian Island Island and Rama From the foregoing it appears that prior to the Chippewa tribes had wandered indiscrim inately about the Lake region It is possible that the Treaty of 1818 might have had the effect of causing them to concentrate more on the east side of the Holland River since they had ceded the land west of the river certainly their pay ments were received at Holland Landing until so that one can imagine that there was an annual concentration of the tribesmen in the Gwillimbury region during those years After upon examination of the census for 1841 and of East Gwillimbury Township no Indians are listed Improved Since when they had been settled on these islands their condition has been greatly changed Each Indian with a family was given n little farm to cultivate They had barns and a school house in which their children were instructed by a respectable teacher also a resident missionary of the Me thodist persuasion Drunkenness was abolished With their land under cultivation they were im proving in habits of industry and agricultural skill and the mis sionary spoke very highly of their moral character Mrs Moodie speaking of the Indians said never was a people more sensible of kindness or more grateful for any little act of benevolence exercised toward them A converted Chippewa chief in a letter to Lord writes pathetically We were once a very numerous people and owned all the land of Upper Can ada We Jived by fishing and hunting but the white men who came to trade with us taught our fathers to drink the firewater which made our people poor and sick and has killed many tribes until we have become a very small people John Sunday an Indian con vert who taught himself to read and write after he was years of age and became a zealous and able preacher writes I was very sorry that I saw the Lake and Coldwater Indians wandering about from one Island to another as the white men have dispossessed them of their lands These letters were writ ten by Peter Jones and John Sunday and were addressed to Sir Augustus that great friend of the North American In News The happy memories of Christ mas and New Year gatherings are in the past fur another year Because of sickness in the dif ferent members homes of the Willing Workers the January meeting at the home of Bars was cancelled for the month Mr and Mrs Norman Waltho and two boys spent New Years day with friends at Mr and Mrs A enter tained at a New Years Eve party Mr and Mrs Elgin Evans of Sharon Miss of Newmarket Mr and Mrs I Harper Mrs and Mr MadilL and Mrs Verne Sheridan and four children had New Years dinner with Mr and Mrs Sheridan Pine Orchard Mr and Mrs Harper Mr and Mrs A- Colville were New Years dinner guests of Mrs Wood and Mrs Lloyd Pine Mr and Mrs Sheridan and Mary spent New Years at the home of Mr Harrison Aurora Mrs A Forbes and Donna of Oshawa returned home on Wed nesday after spending the holi days with her mother Mrs Chas Toole We wish Elgin Toole who is ill with scarlet fever a speedy recovery Also the same to Mr Frank Williams who is still in Western Hospital Toronto Our sympathy is extended to Mrs Earl Miller in the sudden passing of her mother Mrs Wil cox formerly of Aurora Mrs McCIure returned home on Sunday after a weeks visit at the home of Orley near Port Perry Mr spent part of the holiday week with Mr and Mrs A Richardson and family near Aurora The school section held their annual meeting on De cember 26 at pm Trustees are Earl Toole Douglas and retiring member is Frank Williams Newmarket Indians In Playters History of Metho dism it is related that in Peter Jones John Sunday and Moses started on a journey to the Indians of Lake and on Sunday July they visited Newmarket These Indians at Newmarket numbered about and were camped near the vil lage No drunkenness was seen in the camp and prayer was heard each morning There is also an account of a Quarterly Meeting in and a camp meeting was held on Yonge Street The ground com prised about two acres it was filled with broad tents and about 300 Indians were present In July a very import ant missionary meeting was held at Newmarket which was at tended by Indians of the Lake Simcoe camp- Peter Jones the famous Indian preacher address ed them and aroused a great deal of interest and emotion among them From the earliest memories of Sharon references have been made to the Indians who fre quented the district They were friendly and the settlers were friendly with them These In dians hunted and fished they made offerings in return for kindness Their native crafts were exchanged for what ever the settler had to dispose and on more than a few occa sions when the harvests failed the help received from these primitive inhabitants of the land went far to alleviate the dis tress Some of these Indian families camped on the fourth conces sion of East Gwillimbury near the Rogers property and there they carried on their trade of basketmaking the cabin of a settler they entered without ceremony and in friendly salutation uttered a gutteral sound and seating themselves on the floor of the cabin they remained for sometime in silent immobility and finally left as quietly as they had entered Sharon Aid If at the settlers cabin that for which they asked was not offered they helped themselves but it was always repaid They appealed to the white man in their troubles and asked aid in their sickness In the very early days the door of the cabin of the white man was never fas tened it was of common oc currence for the family to waken to find half a dozen Indians sleeping on the floor To his shame the white man took ad vantage of these natives and through their ignorance he ex ploited them To the credit of the Sharon settlers the Indians met with friendly help William had charged his followers that on no account might land be taken from the Indian except by legiti mate purchase A story still is told that at settlers cabin the Indian squaws called regu larly The Indian mother was strongly attracted to the young daughter of the house and of generously of her wares in exchange In early days the form owned now by Walter Haines had been occupied by Griffin a Quaker In turn Samuel Haines another Quaker became the Here the Indiana had met with friendly kindness and in appreciation at one of their frequent visits thoy gave an exhibition of Indian dancing Some more than years ago a family of Indians from gina Island camped In the How ard woods beside the east branch of the Holland River A garden was cultivated a fence had been erected around the little camp and they worked Industrially at their trade of bosket making The name of this Indian family was Charles and long afterward the forlorn remnants of this camp might have been seen The Editor In this readers opinion the following few lines from your trenchant editorial Helping Each Other merit a spot in the editorial columns of your big city contemporaries though Im thinking that it is unlikely they will show up there Townsfolk can return a good turn however by making an ef fort to understand some of the problems the farmer must con tend with The price of farm products for example has be come something of a political football and the resultant charge and countercharge has left many consumers with the firm belief that the farmer is somehow making a good thing out of his sales Nothing could be further from the truth as the steady exodus from farm to city testi fies To my thinking the accent on food and farm products and the rather unfavorable publicity accorded same by Canadians stems largely from firstly the fact that about a third of an urban citizens income is normally spent on food and secondly the fact that apparent ly it has been nobodys business to remind city folk continually that when they spend an urban dollar on the foodneeds of their families or themselves between and actually accrue to the primary producers down on the farms And while Ive my pen in hand may I just add that I concur in your recently expressed criticism of the decidedly curious idea in voked by the authorities in deal ing with the recent vote of the hog producers under which all producers failing to vote auto matically were considered to have voted No To me this assump tion is alike unsound and un democratic I could use simpler and more forceful terms but will not It is sincerely to be hoped that the change you call for is made and that the farmers will rally to another vote and leave no doubt in the official mind on the second effort DEMOCRAT OF THE Moonglow Club Orchestra Every Friday Night at HE ADMISSION CENTS Cement Blocks and iff plain at ORCHARD CEMWT BLOCK CO r t HI ft tj- 4 Weal Estate General Insurance Fire queen 8t Phone In the early days of French Canada each colonist was re sponsible for maintaining the road before his farm in good shape The first turnpike a toll road was established in Canada in The closer a man the more distant his pals The WOMENS INSTITUTE Branch is sponsoring a Child Health Centre for Infants and Preschool Children at KESWICK United Church Thursday of each month from to To H Keep i AH Are Welcome A Community Service in cooperation with the YORK COUNTY HEALTH WIT First date for the centre 24th January The Newmarket Era and Express serving Newmarket Aurora and the rural districts of North York on sale from any off the following dealers NEWMARKET ATKINSONS DRUG STORE BESTS DRUG STORE CAMPBELLS STATIONERY CHANDLERS GROCERY TOBACCO SHOP HOLMES CORNER CUPBOARD CONFECTIONERY KING GEORGE HOTEL MYERS CONFECTIONERY AURORA HESS DRUG STORE MORNINGS DRUG STORE WHITELAWS STATIONERY WILLIS DRUG STORE HOME DELIVERY CALL GRILL HUDSONS OAK RIDGES MARSHALLS GARAGE SCHOMBERG COOKS DRUG STORE KING CITY ARMSTRONGS GROCERY KING CITY GRILL GROCERY Concession OREILLYS concession BRUNTS GROCERY THE NEWMARKET ERA and EXPRESS Phone 780 NEWMARKET