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The Newmarket Era and Express Thursday Pickering College Nearly fifty years ago the pillars of Pickering College became a familiar part of Newmarkets panorama Yet an even older kinship is shared with the town for we have the same common forebears the Society of Friends Early in the eighteen hundreds Timothy Rog ers established a Quaker settlement in these parts and in the idea a Quaker boarding school first took form After our founding in near Picton the College was later moved to the village of Pickering and then in made its home In Newmarket Since that date students from alt over Canada and the United States from South America Europe and Asia have come Newmarket for study and training The role of Pickering College in the future as in the past will be that of guiding young men towards lives of greater fulfilment Christian ideals and principles must therefore be the basis of our philosophy of education just as they must also form the background of our community In such a setting we at Pickering hope to con tinue our share in Newmarkets contribution to Canadian educat ion LABOR OF LOVE I Surrounded by files and figures Sgt Bernle A Brennan of and cones with a problem that for him and all members of the Canadian army Is a labor of love The recent pay raise for the army has created many hours of work for the pay corps Every soldiers and pay documents must be altered to reflect the Increase The pay staffs across Canada are spending long hours preparing for the forthcoming big payday CJRH SERVING York Uncle Stan HOWDY NEIGHBORS TIME FOR ANOTHER BIG TIME Buckskin Bandwagon DAILY 1245 130 SATURDAY 12 NOON Quakers Settled This District 1808 Meeting House Still Stands On Yonge St Reprinted from the Era and Ex press May An historical background to annual spring meeting of the St Friends is presented here by Ethel By Ethel The beginning of the century witnessed important and signifi cant changes in Upper Canada one event being the purchase of land from the Miss- issauga Indians This immediately opened a way from influx of im migration a large percentage of this being numerous Quaker fam ilies from the republic to the south These people had suffered ost racism and confiscation of prop erty because of their attitude to the war and following the leader ship of Timothy Rogers a Friend from Vermont who had felt a vit al concern to help these distress ed people they made the long trek from Pennsylvania and New Jersey via Niagara faced the ob stacles of a densely wooded coun try of a torturous Indian trail St Rogers petition was received by the Executive Committee ril and farms of 200 acres each were granted him It was to these farms between the present towns of Aurora and Hol land Landing that these Quakers came Meeting House Their first concern was shelter and food and then in 180810 a meeting house was erected just south of the present Industrial Home but from early minutes it would seem a previous building had existed This meeting house was the first building for worship north of YorkToronto Today it stands as an historic symbol of a long history of faith and cour age and duty consistent with their conscience The beginnings of the import ant contributions these Quakers brought to Upper Canada were traceable to the spiritual gigantic struggle of pioneer ANNOUNCE PROMOTION headquarters has an nounced the promotion of Wil liam 28 of Newmarket from the rank of flying officer to flight lieutenant Kwing joined the in May while a student at Queens university and on gradu ating with a degree in economics in was assigned to supply duties at Trenton Later that year he was selected to attend supply officers course at Station Aylmer after which he was moved to Station North Ray as a supply of ficer In August he was transferred to the directorate of management engineering at Air Force Headquarter ion following the reformation and then about the middle of the century they became better known and were organized under Christian discipline and no thre ats persecution nor suffering de terred them from maintaining their testimony of public wor ship With the blood of many of the Quakers was purchased the liberty of conscience for future generations It was around the religious thinking of George Fox that the society was finally formulated and was contemporary with Ham pden in the struggle for civil lib erty and Cromwell who said of Fox who had found himself in jail for refusal to accept a mili tary honor that at last a peo ple had arisen that could not be won over with gifts or honors of fice or place William Penn Of the Quakers in Eng land at that time fully onethird of them were in jail for their re fusal to fight Providentially out from the mist of years a way for new life free from persecution appeared The British government owed Admiral Sir William Penn His son William had long been convinced by Quaker teaching To settle this debt the govern ment in offered to son Will iam a vast territory across the water Pennsylvania and in this new world began his famous social experiment and was the instrument used to help many Quaker families to begin life Here they found peace and developed the colony to a state of prosperity A century later trouble again clouded their the Revol utionary War broke out and con sequently another emigration of Quakers began this time to Can ada notably St a land flowing with milk and honey as an early Friend described it These Quaker settlers around the modest meeting house were well qualified to face life for but a few years previous their forefathers had encounter ed similar conditions in Pennsyl vania Of very good families they came to Canada with high ideals- obedience their conscience the Inner light and their tra ditional attitude toward war which frequently brought them in conflict with the authorities Their sobriety and thrift and honesty soon brought to them a high esteem from their contem poraries and they have left a per manent uplifting influence throu- the whole community Humanitarian Movements Volumes have been written of the tremendous humanitarian movements this very small group of people have inspired Their numbers arc relatively few but steadfastly they have followed the gleam of truth until the civilized world is accepting as its common heritage the dignity of the bro therhood of men and that war and degradation are incompatible with Blessed are the Peace Mak ers But again war has ravaged the world and wherever brother lives need mending wherever hunger and disease and despair rear their spectral skeletons the Quaker of the century is to be found ministering alike to friend and foe From China through India to the islands of the Mediterranean Sea across Italy France Austria Gcrmanyto England descendants of these early Friends are there carrying still an ancient torch of illuminating Christian sympathy a gesture that is consistent ex ample of that pacifism that has been their testimony in peace and war and is becoming an increas ingly important factor in binding the wounds of a confused world And so the ancient meetinc house stands as one more link with the vital of the settle- of this great dominion and if the sturdy walls could speak it would he to tell a vivid tale of a dramatic past The Rogers Family The first member of the Rogers families to arrive in this district was Timothy a member and leader of the Society of Friends Timothy Rogers a man imbued with a pioneering instinct came here early in the summer of while travelling Ontario looking for a suitable place of settlement for families of members of the Society of Friends who had found life in the new nation of the United Stales of America intolerable and fell that true freedom was more apt to he found back under the British flag Passages taken from his journal how that while camping on a knoll just west of the joining of the two branches of the Holland River he decided that the locality would be the centre of the new settlement and that although this was his third such settlement this time he would try to persuade all the members of his family to come here to settle with the others he would organize and lead He then proceeded to the town York and made arrangements with the proper authorities for grants of land for families lie then went across the line to the United States to gather the people he was to lead here MM Our Coal To Japan Western Canadas hard- pressed coal industry will find it easier to sell in Japan says an Ottawa report in The Financial Post The reason An increase in the maximum federal subvention for transport costs to the west coast Prime Minister has announced the new limit will he per net ton up from The increase has enabled Can- more Coal Mines of Albertas Cascade region to sell an anthra cite- type coal to Tokyo Gas The Rogers families were then centred in Vermont Some stalled out in others came in 18023 and the local registry office shows records of deeds granted in King and Fast townships to families of his two brothers and their married children Timothy Rogers himself obtained by grant and purchase title to lots and 05 in the township of Whitchurch was purchased by Beam an These lots comprised the block bound ed by St on the west Davis Drive on the north second St on the east and the Arm it age side road on the south as we call them today Timothy Rogers did not retain possession of all these lands the records show that he almost immediately transferred them by deed poll to various skilled tradesmen necessary to the success of such a settlement For instance parts of lot went to Millard a wood worker and lot went to Joseph Hill an exper ienced builder and tanner Timothy Rogers as soon as the settlement was completed the district to assist in the starting of a similar venture in what is now the Picketing area However the Rogers families remained and their numerous descendants think of Newmarket as the centre of their home district I 10000 IN PRIZES CANADIAN LEGION SOAP BOX DERBY Saturday August 17 630 pm Open to Newmarket boys and girls and under GET YOUR ENTRY IN NOW Deadline for entries Aug 11 Forward entries to Jack Duncan Tw 52645 The Cane Family Canadian mm Boor of by inch ERA and EXPRESS CLASSIFIEDS BRING BEST RESULTS I Cane came was a young man to Canada from Albany New York when lie settled at Quccnsvillc later moving to Cane Mills which was about two and a half miles east of Queens- ville Here he built a sawmill which operated for some years He married Catherine Belfry and in they moved to Newmarket and built a sawmill and factory The Canes had children and they lived on the hind where the hospital now stands The arm acres to the east is now built up with attractive homes a great interest in town affairs and social life William Cane The family always has and a leading interest in was the first mayor of and held the position of Warden of York County Henry Cane his son was mayor reeve and a councillor for 27 years K Cane a son was a mayor tor two years and on the council for throe years Howard Cane a grand son served as mayor for three years and on the council for eight years The Cane factory was a large employer of labor having from to employees They were the largest manufacturers of A J The clothes pins and skewers made by them went all over the I world Here also they manufactured the first lead pencils in Can ada It is interesting to note that the first Santa Glaus parade of the Co started here The Cane Company built a log house for the Eaton Co and with Santa ClaUs seated on the Chimney of the house it was quite a beautiful sight as they went down to the Eaton store The company had two serious tires with very heavy losses They alto lost a large consignment of logs cut from their French limits and during a storm on the Georgian Bay the booms of logs broke and were never recovered With the changing ideas the depression and the changing market for woodenware and its many losses the company came to an end in Henry Cane UBS very active bringing to Newmarket the Office Specialty Co Mr Cane with the town solicitor Mr J Robertson spent days in the USA urging the Office Specialty to come to Newmarket Mr Cane was also active in getting Davis Leather Co to locate here He Was responsible for the water and light and the fire system of the town The Cane family has been Liberal in their political views and active in church and social life and has always been interested in the life and of ADVERTISERS BONUS CENTENNIAL CIRCULATION 5000 EXTRA COPIES OF THE ERA AND EXPRESS AUGUST ISSUE if SPECIAL HISTORICAL SECTION WITH REGULAR SECTION FEATURING OLD PHOTOS AND STORIES Regular Advertising Rates For You CALL TW 52331 FOR SPACE NOW