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fe CORNER Solicitor tod Comer It Office Block Am and Wellington Street Aurora t i Joseph Dales fcrrMer- Office and Residence Main SI Evenings By Appointment Barrister Solicitor Notary Public Etc at- MATHEWS STIVER LYONS AND VALE Barristers Solicitors Notaries m MATHEWS QC h M- Stiver JOSEPH VALE QC Si Bay Toronto A a MILLS Barrister Solicitor and Notary MAIN ST Phone VIOLET ROBINSON Conveyancing Insurance St Phpae A HAWKINS Contractor For BULLDOZING CELLAR EXCAVATIONS and and Phone Aurora d GRAVEL LTD for government approved embed stood of stew crashed gravel sand concrete and pit ran Delivered or at bleu Plant phone Office phones and ELECTRICAL CONTRACTOR House and Farm Wiring DO0OBAIN General Repairs Oil Earners Space Heater All Electrical Household Appliances phone Box Ontario St- Newmarket James J Wall PLUMBING HEATING Contractor Dealer for Fairbanks Morse Pressure Systems Oil Burners Sheet Metal and Air Conditioning OAK RIDGES PHONE KINO 111 PHONE AURORA Newmarket JAMB OnOM SOLICITOR ETC 35 MAIN ST NEWMARKET DENTAL DR W 0 NOBLE DENTIST Over MUNICIPAL OFFICE Office Residence E VanderVoort DENTIST Main St- Newmarket Phone EVANS FUELS NEWMARKET Coal Coke Wood and Stoker Coal Phone 5 Orders taken for Gravel Sand and Crushed Stone and General Hauling Of By Mm- Lloyd Kay The following history in two parts is taken from a paper by Mrs Kay which was read before Womens Institute MEDICAL DR PEE Physician and Surgeon Phone Consultation by Appointment At residence corner of Raglan and OSTEOPATHY WILSON Osteopathic and Arthritis Clinic WILSON BUILDING BARBIE Telephone Consultation by Appointment CHIROPRACTIC J DOCTOR Of CHIROPRACTIC Newmarket Telephone OPTOMETRICAL KJ THE VARIETY OF DESIGNS- in oar collection MONUMENTS such that we can meet almost any require ment both as to kind and cost We also make memorials to order of every description Youll find our work excellent always and bur service prompt and reasonably priced G and SON MAIN ST NEWMARKET mi Main St Over PHONE IT A Optometrist Newmarket Clinic Office Hours Wednesday Closed Evenings by Appointment Newmarket ACCOUNTANT J INSURANCE JOHN E C Confederation Life Association Representative Fire Automobile and Casualty Eagle St XL Newmarket Phones Newmarket i BURGLARY AUTO AND LIFE In the following account shall relate the history of Bel- haven according to the infor mation I have If anyone is able to add anything to this history I at Box Bel- haven and would appreciate any further material This history concerns chiefly and the immediate vi cinity but it is almost impossible to give this account without also giving a brief survey of the township as a whole The set tling of North be gan around when the first land was given to J and by 1821 the population was Sixty years later it had in creased to because of im migration from the Old Country by the United Empire Loyalists and by births with a total of land owners Until North Gwillimbury and were united under one council with representatives from both townships The first council elected to our own town ship were wardens Joel Draper and David Mann assessor Silas Ernes collector John Prosser clerk These names are familiar to us as many of their descendants still reside here In the municipal council was altered to include reeve and councillors The first meet ing was held in Keswick school with the following men holding office Isaac Bennett first reeve John John Morton and David Sprague councillors and Sheppard clerk Meetings were held in Keswick until 1868 when they were moved to and have been held there ever since Council In a new council came into power the names of the members are still wellknown throughout the community Reeve depu tyreeve David coun cillors Stephen Winch Joe Davidson and John clerk Henry treasurer Elijah and assessor Ellis Shep Over half the above elected resided in or near At one time Roches Point considered the capital of Ontario was called Keswick and Kes wick was called Dug Hill How ever when the post office was moved to its present location the name went with it Early Settlers But now to get back to our own history Just below the hill where Percy Woods resides a man by the name of Nathan Gager lived and he always wore a plug hat Because of this fact and the fact that the village was on a hill it was known as Mount Some time later the Williams came to Canada from Ireland The country was so wild then that they blazed a trail from To ronto up Street to the farm now occupied by Winch These pioneers were the greatgrandparents of the Winch family and the farm has been in their family ever since Not liking the name Plug Mount they named it after a little Irish town meaning beautiful haven of rest As ve all know is now composed chiefly of dwell ing houses a store a hall a church and a garage At one time it was a village of many industries At the north end of the town where Norman Kay lives was a chopping mill run by a steam engine and operated by Mr Reed Later Irwin Ham ilton bought it and remodelled it into the present dwelling He in turn sold to Perry Mor ton who was wellknown in this district The first blacksmith in was Myron Silver who had his shop oh the lot where lives Later this was sold to Jesse Council who sold buggies Mr Stogdill help ed him in the blacksmith shop remodelled the house by raising and adding a ntyre MAIN ST NEWMARKET PHONE A COHLIH St Accountant PIANO TUNER AND TECHNICIAN Dealer For New Mason and Piano Organs Used Bought and Sold GRACE ST NEWMARKET Phone J Estimates Free A HEARD Painter and Decorator and Phono Aurora SLEIGHS fc i y RADIO i APPLIANCE 218 MAIN ST NEWMARKET PHONE W storey to it The house where Lloyd Kay so wellknown for his part in church work Of this I will write later He was a wheel wright and did woodwork such as making sleighs fixing wagons and so forth His daughter mar- Mr Clancy who built the house now occupied by Norman King When he built he mort gaged the house for 600 and that was never paid off until Mr King bought the property about eight years ago Mr Glancy did blacksmith work for years Mr Thomas Stogdill was the next occupant and also did for years He was famous throughout the commun ity for the peppermints he car ried in his pockets and for his whistle as he walked up street Mrs Stogdill was everybodys nurse So much had she done for the Stephen Winch family that they gave her the home now occupied by Norman King rent free as long as she lived About 27 years ago a garage was built by Stanley Latham where the blacksmith shop stood Local Landmarks At one time the house now occupied by Mr Wilkinson was a store In Neil Morton purchased it from Dan Prosser who then turned to preaching and became one of the leading ministers in the Ontario Chris tian church Neil Morton in turn sold to John who converted the store into a dwell ing The north store where Nelson lives was first operated by Mr Sourbx then Mr Gilpin Here Herb Winch had a little girl burned to death when her dress caught fire George who also was a blacksmith lived where Emery now does In Neil Morton purchas ed an acre of land from Stephen Winch and built a store and dwelling for This clear ly indicates the greatlyincreased cost in the price of building since then Later his son How ard carried on his fathers busi ness and in turn sold to Nor man who now lives at Baldwin New Township Hall The building in which Ira Woods lives was the old hotel shed and above was the hall in which council meetings political meetings dances and so forth were held until the place was condemned as unfit for public meetings Then in the fine township hall was built and of this all are justly proud Just south of the shod stood the hotel It was built by Mr Welly also kept the hotel there Then in the building was destroy ed by fire but soon rebuilt Dur ing the time Ken Humphreys was keeping the hotel local op tion was declared and he lost his license for open bar He in turn sold to Writ Smith who occupied it until recent years About years ago it was con verted into a store by Charles but in during Mr Underbills time it was again destroyed by fire Frank has hanging in his home one of the mirrors from the first hotel The Sunday School The building which held the greatest memories for the au thor no longer stands It was the little red Sunday school which was torn down ami built into a dwelling house in Jack sons Point about The Sunday school was estab lished in in the hall over the hotel shed Washington Winch and Albert Da foe were instrumental in getting It school started As the hall had been used for dances council meetings and public meetings Neil Morton the storekeeper swept that building each Saturday and started fires when necessary Mr Winch was the first super intendent of this school and Mr an able assistant The Sunday school teachers who helped with organization were Mrs Walker Prosser Mrs Neil Morton Mr Stephen Winch Mrs Jcsse Council and Misses Maude and Evelyn Morton and each contributing much to make the school a success The hall was later built in as an undenominational school and also used for Chris tian Endeavour in the evening The land was given free by Mr Stephen Winch and the work carried on successfully by that same group of workers JACK SMTTH WRITES Ottawa Letter A weekly letter from the member of parliament for York North Peace is costly in this coldwar world National Security and Social Security are the two objectives J- considerable measure responsible for the large figures in Canadas budget presented here Tuesday evening A year ago Finance Minister Douglas Abbott held no hope of being able to reduce in the high tax rates which as a result of the darkening interna scene he was then imposing He indicated in that Canadians would be fortunate if the taxation line could be held and Express Thursday April Last week he concluded his budget speech with the remark that as things turned out we have been able to do a little bet ter than we expected We have wheat to Greece of These figures speak for them selves as evidence that Canada has done and is doing its full share in rebuilding introduced any increase in and assisting the postwar tax rates and we have been able free world to make some downward adjust ments On the whole the budget had few surprises It represents the levelling off and the slight reces sion of the taxation upward trend which began to be felt after Korea Canadians see in this budget a faint gleam of brighter days to come Householders have welcomed the reduction in excise taxes on washing machines stoves and re frigerators The sales tax has been abolished in wire used in balers which will mean a saving to farmers The finance minister intimated that the present credit restric tions are under review and some relaxing of regulations seems likely before very long The finance ministers review of general conditions throughout Canada showed the country to be in a state of unexampled pros perity It estimated the gross national product that is the market value of all the goods and services produced in Canada dur ing the year at 21241000000 World Assistance My mail recently has contain ed suggestions that probably Canada should do more by way of extending economic aid to less fortunate countries of the world I think it is well for us to pause and take stock of what we have done and it amounts to a surpris ingly large total The amounts Canada has pro vided in various forms of econ omic aid since the war that is from the fiscal year up to and including the year total million This in cludes 1753 million in the form of credits to Europe Post war military relief amounts to 95 million By way of contributions to United Nations relief and re habilitation agencies and assis tance programs it amounts to 203 million In connection with the Colombo Plan the figure is 25300000 and to NATO up to the present time by way of mutu al aid and other contributions the figure 324800001 There Redistribution Every ten years following the national census there is in Can ada a redistribution of parlia mentary seats A committee of the house is now planning such a redistribution Census figures show North York to be the fourth largest constituency in Canada with a population of This is more than double the figure of York East is the largest with 159652 and York West has In the rearrangements of seats York County which now has four ridings will probably have six and maybe seven There will be a Centre York SouthEast York and perhaps a SouthWest York AH A Put to work for you See your nearest B of M manager about a Farm Improvement Loan today Bank of Montreal AOttt working with very of use BitjwjniKE turking rijj ARTICLES YOU NO LONGER NEED INTO CASH OBITUARY Mr Melville Bain Mr Melville Bain passed away suddenly at his home in Scott Township on Monday April He had been in rather poor health for some time but was around as usual Born July he was the eldest son of the late Mr and Mrs Edward Bain and was the third generation on the farm on which ho lived His grandfather Samuel Bain was the first set tler on the farm many years ago He is survived by four sisters Martha at home Mrs David son Zella of Sandford Mrs Lillian of Hart- man Florence of Newmarket and one brother on the home farm A sister Mrs Dunn Alice of Alonsa Man predeceased him The funeral service was con ducted by Rev Shapter at the chapel in Mount Albert on Thursday Apr Pallbearers were Clarence Pickering Bert Alfred Gibson Fred Walker Newton Thompson Ross Harrison Ralph Smith and Floyd Interment was in Mount Al- too an emergency gift of cemetery may never meet her But you have talked to her heard that friendly voico with a smile The Bell operator has through the years become a symbol of courtesy and competence She is one of the thousands of telephone people everywhere responsible for providing yon with the best possible telephone service With her they share a common pride in the Bell tradition of treating customers the way they like to be treated BELL TELEPHONE COMPANY OF CANADA Expert Watch and Clock Repair 31 St or Phone Newmarket ALL WORK GUARANTEED CAR OWNERS Insure your car today the CoOp Way Sponsored by your Fed of Agriculture JOHNSYTEMA Newmarket Phone Growing In she and strength the Canadian Army Active needs more Infantry Soldiers The Infantry recruit is a in our defence plans For as he finishes he will take his place in the front lines of our freedom at home and overseas But it takes time to produce these highly trained soldiers And to maintain our security to discourage aggression we must be able to meet any eventuality That is why we must have more young men for Infantry training now If you are interested in Canadas future now is the time to do something about it Serve with the most important in the Army the Infantry There arc outstanding career opportunities for young men in the Canadian Army Active Force You are eligible if yon are 1 7 to W tradesmen to and ready to serve anywhere Royal Conservatory of Music of Toronto MIDSUMMER 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