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If you want to find the local train station Dave Savage is the man to ask What started out as a job has turned into a passion for a Cobourg man. And he wants to share it with others. Davc Savage has just published a book detailing the location of train stations throughout Ontario. “These stations really played an important part in our history," says Mr, Savage, who moved to Cobourg four years ago from Toronto. “I fell in love with this place (Cobourg) 18 years ago when 1 would visit for the summers." For the past two years, Mr. Savage has published a magazine quarterly called the Canadian Sta- tion News. It includes features on railway stations, so the book was a natural progression. “1 probably get about seven calls a week for information on how to find train stations in the province," said Mr. Savage. He recently received a call from a man looking for a train station in Fenelon Falls because the man’s parents had arrived in the town on the train. When the Couple died their coffins were taken out of the town on the train. “Train stations can play an important part in a family’s histo- ryr Some people even got married in stations," said Mr. Savage. who first became interested in train star lions when he worked as a trans- portation planner. He would Work with local hisâ€" torical societies and began giving tnurs of train stations. “When I stopped the tours people began calling me with questions.” The book. volume one of a ' 4 Seamus.» .(L .,t 7.4.: rad/2m yeah? warm, Amt-145', w W Inf, n1, Buck/it’sl-L “1121i. 4:; L fixer/1.44,) ,1. .u “7- {tml/ drain; iaAL My 5' 4, m r‘i'i; a planned two-vulurnc set, details numerous train stations and where they can be found, Each station features exact directions from a main road in each town. Mr. Savage note: the Port Hope station, built in 1856, is the oldest operating station in Canada. The stations in both Port Hope and Cobourg are protectcd under the Railway Station Protection Act its heritage stations. Mr. Savage said volume two of his work should be available this summer. Locally the books can be purchased at the Cobourg Book Store or Furhy House Books in Port Hope. You can also write to the Canadian Station News, P.0. Box 171. Cobourg, to order a copy. The book sells tor 5 l'jt‘JS g‘W-ls,tqq5 Dave Savage, author of Railway Stations of Ontario, at the Port Hope Railway Station. THEVMALLORY HOUSE CIRCA 10 Pioneer hon By PAUL IRWIN ua'L I???“ Examiner Stall Writer 5 Pioneer Susanna Moodi 5 life and hardships in Douro Towtr ship inspired her famous hook Roughing it in the Bush 7 a cutie nection to the township which is being recognized Saturday. A plaque in her honor is being officially unveiled at. 1 pm. on the Douro farm where she made her home. The property is about 1 ti kllO' metres north of Lakotield. with the plaque lit-tween Highway '28 and Lake Katchr-wannnka at the northwest corner of Stetiner Road and Susanna Moodie Drive. "Thul.'s when) she worde for six yea ind raised her chiltliun," said Ai 1 Young, a mnmlter- til' the Douro lltstt‘rrl' cal Cornrriittee. "She‘s one of the grandmothers of ('anridinn literature 7 tilting with her aisle) L‘t‘tll‘i‘ar’lni-l Parr Tr-uill ' There‘s a plot] on hrinttrlllg Mtltidlt‘ in Lakefiwldr t'ret'ti-tl Ill 1966 Bill. :iltt' newr had it permu- nt‘nt immu ll‘it'rcr Young points lived and A remarkable survivor at the early tEOD'S. the Mallory iiduse is essentially a post and beam “Wilderness Georgian' style harried structure 0! ' nearly 2.700 sq. It. set on a rubble stone masonry lUltfanlIDn and located Orr 13 acres lusl east Ol Cobaurg Dominating the house is the massive central chimney stack and 5 mi fireplaces at medieval England origins and common it: seventeenth century New England Sadly. this designated historical rESIdence has ‘1 been neglected in recent years and requires a new owner at visit)" ar‘d means to restore it to its lorrrler magnilicence. Background history and architectural reports are available try contacting .ohri Claws" or Judy GIDEYSOG" at Choice ol Servrce Preflller Realty Ltd 311“ watt” W til/b 77â€"0-L‘t/L, 1.141 rL'AL'rLL’; 7L My . .1 drleL' ihcérnww 4}th (90512734930 / 5? I out, and the historical committee figured a plaque should also be on the farm. Moodic lived in Douro from 1834 to l§40 when she moved to BVEllEVlllE. “'l'hcy Just couldn't hack life in the bush." said Young, 80, whose great. great grandfathers Francis Yoiing‘ settled Young's Point in 1825. In Roughing it in the Bush, Moridie tells of the Young t'amtly taking tho Moodies on their first trip to Stoney Lake in two bll‘Cll' bark canoes made by Indians. Moodie’s home was near the Utonahee River. het‘nre rapids were replaced by a canal The plaque has hm put up by the historical committee and the Ontario llol‘itdgu Fuundatimi. it explains the Meodie tamily, alter "great hardship trying tinslit‘c ult_\' tn tame the mldertie moved to Belleville. That's “ht-re Moodic did much .Aii‘ rm wn‘img including Rough» mg it in the Bush. She also con- ti-it. til-d 1.. [lib Vii‘liit’la Magd. th‘lt‘ ,zi Bellriillc tind the LllCP Ltt'} Litirlaml trihlmitrrml Mitotite was horn in England in Ored with Aileen Young stands beside a plaque in Douro Townshi ma | author Susanna Moodle‘s connection to the township p rk "9 “on”, 1803, came to Canada in “482 Lind died in Toronto in 1385. Catharine Parr Truill ll\‘Pd and wrote on the farm ridjmninp the one in Douro htlr Ihter llVOd on. 'I'ruill's \iork includes The" Backwoods ot'l'anudd written in I 1836 and a major botdiittul work i in MRS Studios ntl’tam lit? in (humid. _â€"_â€"__‘â€"