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PUBLISHED ON THE OCCASION
OF THE ISBTH ANNIVERSARY
TOWNSHIP OF PICKERING
IUIY Pte, Ni"Il Huotl,,d a SYiyOm
THE
PICKERING
STORY
By WILLIAM A. MCKAY
Published by The Toi of Piukniry Hietoeeal Srcidy
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This is a book about Pickering Tuwmbip. It hug bin pm -
pared m a million! volume upon the occasion of the one hundred
and fiffiuh amtivetssry N the establishment of mmool ml form.
cit In Plckerhte. Because it is about lhu purple of the mwmhip
in attempt has been made to bring life to the written material by
the inclusion of¢large number of fluctuations, haiarieq formula,
and other contemporary materials haw been w iib the
emtiw when h was felt they would give an air rdohousewifery
W the story. Same longer excerph together with the terms figures
for 1850 have Men included as appendices.
There an u oum4r of family histories at the back of the book.
Only the early piweers am to be found hem bemuse with the
Inrush of people after 1837 it would haw mluirM a much larger
book than this for Ne Inelastic flow, if later families had been
fates Some early all or, ionto tidy briefly, some
taken directly from W_ R_ lost "Past Years m Purkerme,
me not mendaned at all bemuse they moved out of the town-
ship at an early data and left no timid, or b comes, the form!,
bed out a assembler or tons was
I haw tried to inputs, the Murray of the unit to the history
of the Province of Ontario, to the history of Cunwmr: and to take
0 sincesome rf arms smside the country at Influenced the
of it, development.
co11 MInt wms NPulm Interest in the CLmil past has token
the form of collecting old Bottom and other mlin of an IF
that is mewFewseem to mallw that the fomimm of the plmeers
is not at as maturing as their thus want and it is Loped that
soner who read this brief moment of early life inrea of
Canada may be enmumgetl b look further and read some of the
fascinating IwsW of history of other cartels of the country.
Filly )an W W. W Word porawd -PA YT m Pilch.
intfor We centenary celebration of IR I'Modup. In x M1e .aW
that M1e uvhed Inner owulmin, xM1mr Tom, M1W Vale M1+vl in
..ndup area It RRkmIk n IM ta.l — III m xrr did In
Im. 1 Mae F^n him. It all umkrulen It the ropi of Ow
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Color i'Hot nry of Cher xxI". TO r, Brown "Early Ihyn in
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
Chapter
1
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Prehistory _. _... _... _........... _..
I
H
Fur Trade and Exploration .....
_.
111
The English Take Canada __.._ _._____
14
IV
The English Plan Upper Canada _ _
_ 17
V
Pickering Township Emerges _....._........
20
VI
Early Settlers _ __...
_.. 27
VII
The Quickening Pam _..__...._.__.._...
42
Vill
Early Schools and Churches ........
48
IS
Pickering and the Rebellion of 1837 ........
67
X
Mllk and Ships - __— — -- _1 11
81
%I
Agriculture and Policies in the leartics _..
96
XII
Prmpemue Times .......... ____.
105
X111
Ontario County _______... __..__._______
112
XN
Or, the Hump --- ---- --- —
128
XV
Twentieth Century Pickering
142
XVI
Pickering Today -.... -.... __....
155
Appendix
I
The Iaumol of Timothy Rogers __
174
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Tire Jamal of Wing Rogers ___.___.. ___
183
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Census of 1850 _.__...... _............
196
Tv
Family HistoricF
197
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Roll of Honor _...
230
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CHAPTER I
PAEHMO-ORY
In pre the nal umc this aroa was a basad platy, Liked toward
the Centre of tle maddest. It win Conrad by the triWlafsx of a
gnat river which owed wesmaM Nmugh what u how the bed
of risks Ontario. to join a river system emptying iron the Gulf
d Mex
Om limes glacial ire Conrad has, probe, and each time he
ice herded it left a deposit of nibble, clay. avvd add Walden
Outing the glacial rated, two woman lobes of is "Copied this
proton Of Ontario. One load had isCentro n Ne present lmke
Ontario main, the Cher lav north of what is armed the Oak
Ridges. The latter, an extcmivc belt of sandy and 6asagv hills
which stretches from near Orangeville to Rice Use. is an
tedobate m e
which was formed by the ae ntuhtioo of
material betweenmoraine
i" loon. As the Into$ Of meadvanced to
want each other, racy pushed formed a great maw of laoss
rubble, and as worming began We .brooms which flowed hewn
from Ire melting ice carried navy (tads M land and genal to
deposit them in me home fee area.
Here w ashy, the Oak Ridges Momine, which is
.till pleinty maids from almost any gran Of pickling Towniltip,
aid want we know as the Uxbridge SaNM1Jh. Sou@ a this
ridge the Robot of the glacier, hid rexuhed in the formation of
a poor mmp"y Of ice -ground rock ru ...passed with coarser
hurricane Of mark of warem, shows. As the mmhem lobe of on
riumal a shallow thin was formed bounce the ordered share
dge and the melting i¢. For ages the load] was under water, •a
Nat Ne crushed rock was covered with testament laid down on
de, woman Of the lake.
ODnlinu d ammetion fount the are lying adlwm t th, St.
Iawrcamc in the vicinity ot de Tammmd WutlF The present
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boom of Sake Ontario was ice free, but managed by a much Larger
lice which garlogists have called Lake Lummic This lako caisred
for u long time anal land a well defined shoreline which may mill
be traced today as it ran foam the pram patriarchal gives to
a point about two mays south of (hectometer Sandy reschm and
onshore bun lay along the Ammline, while lumber out a deep
deposit of clay was laid known.
As due ice Is Ne eL Lawrence valley arapPomed, It w
u a dam were removed, and Lake Personal avoided to mmtnc
present Lake Ontario. At the same time, streams hawing down
tram the ooMefo mights of land began to cm out the valleys
n which we no them flowing today.
A visible ¢minder of the ice age is the criminal a small
oral hill drums up our of Ne surrounding plain by the wommuln-
on of rubble under wine cocked glacier. Pickering College was
built on one M these pre historic relics, the summer surgery at
Rosebvvk built amuvd another, while a down mom go sonamed
throughout the present larva p down to the very edge of the
lake at the end A the Rank Road. Prom the ridge of sandy high
laotl in the vm an of the Township tMre is a drop toward the
south to what is called the rolling plain. This plate which lies just
m the south of Claremont is deeply dissected by valleys with shop
sloping sitles. Farther south the land becomes finder in what hos
been called the shallow Clay platin. This is sommoted from the
dap clay plain of the lakeshore by a sandy area with numbers
and scrubbytrees along now was mce the short of Lake un is.
Here again the dreams now in deep valleys whose sides art man
heavily worded This is where greveln caned today.
Long after he anchor receded and lake Ontario became cm-
nned within its patient houses mon came into the area. Who
they wme
ere, or where they cafrom we tlo not know. Possibly no
Dii of the airport inhabitants will ever be found But of later
people we have wine fmgmenmry cadence. Arrow and spam'
pounds, scone knives and hes disrovertd by Mr. Hugh Squires on
his facts near the month of Dulhns Creek hove been metal by
the Royal Ontario Mmeake as being of the Laurentian perictl.
This would mean that mea were well established in a village set
n tlh Lich sandy ridge a MY mike from Lake Ontario four
thousand years age near where Lattice Creek comment ora taro
a slow. lary marshy ensure.
The earliest village that has been identified 'as ouch lies fear
miles farther up the same cream. In 1959 areheologin, farm rho
Royal Ontario Museum began excavating this site which has
proverdto be one m the most interesting such mInterval dlaoc i
mode In Cmaw. Under the direction of Mh Will,, Unit n
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whole village has been awarded. Again :he inhabitants ¢feted
candy ridge on what bad perform, ban a beach of ancient last
moat s. They on only a same, Nmw foot the mcam. Wi
font any antl Mom by, m their „ilium as, rcm
ough
me suam that it comem o
could M ad carry them dean the lake
a Mao the area hest. where they could catch the flab that made up
rge pan of their mar.
As a further promotion against honlle mothers, they built a
pofiwde annual the entire village by driving pons into the ground
o forst: a large irregular oval. They took cam too to have a
tall sp:'ing cars are side of their promise forth&ations. Inside
No Iml'na n they built houses, each of which was occupied by
cral familia. new were again oval shaped Imidioge made
by sinking long poles loon fee ground and then bantling the tops
together until duty me4 and rowring the whole 'truchurc, pmb-
nbly u'iN slabs of bark. batch Wow had a number of heanM1s or
Ort plata had sloe lave prowled! us with court Wal do ot-
lagan lima an mm and fid. and on game and birds wham they
mum get ahem.
Mr. Walker baryon, i concluded tom tie fact that skelnom
have May nmenhed with nmmv points still maturing farm the
bodies, that We security precautions which then people took
were not &wry as they seem to have been engaged in at
Inner one bull: with their enemies — whoever they may hove
been, n
In whifficin to -We yuan lies of broken pot, spear and arrow,
heads and tools Wal haw Men found nrchuulmveisu front the
Royal Oatario Monsoon haw also tamarind chat clay counter,
nod maNks which most have Men used in game.& This seems to
show that lie bad its lighter morrows. Rua copper from at
cannaments how Men command also. which perhaps may mean
thatthatalltheir dealing with their fellow m a Wsis
m hostility as Nis copper, of the type called float or dairy copper.
is found Innately, 1c Northern (Mme.
No doubt further inastigetion will reveal many other ancient
Agent, as bio of pommy. arrowheads, knives and sompea have
Men picked up in many flown and it
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to sup -
Me that epresenceof n sandy height sroverlmmng Dallas
Crack, Ounbttn Crack, petticoat Crack or We River Rouge,
would be ser trvnam, for primitive sellkman to mment i
•Omw Nivor, — Vnl. l.11. N,r. I. Main# 19wt
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CHAPTER H
FUR TRADE AND EXPLORATION
Cham Plain o map which he proJi2d in I632, slew, a
river which may have been modern m the Ruder, But do,
strength of the ImWois in the arm mmedimdy nunM1 set LAC
Ontndo nnJe h almost Impmshlo for u Pmnddi to persuade
the counhv.
By 1656 the Imgw:is hm! driven the ensemble remnant of the
Hurons northward amity the sedum shot, of Georgina Bay uno
for twenty years were an :dm untlispmcd pas of the
Lake Ontario myon. They moJ as traders and middle earn IIm
the Dutch and fordish of the IluJmn Rive, Valley ',ad the
Swede from New ivory. During the time then they held sway
ever the north sham of Lakc Omariq safe estahfishod a few
permanent vllingm uo this side of the lake. Became Nr, w
ainly interested m collarbone Inns fee the interior, shed, vllingm
situated whom ri emptied into Lake Ontario or where
wer
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Iradlfront the more, found is way town to IM1e wider '& edge.
Only two llei nlLmm nm marked on Setters map (about
16]9), OamtmkwTBon nes[ Fmnchman's Bay and Kwtd An the
Buy of Quints Chromium, is mmkcd on later Pope on the predid
0 of airports. Krone, nn Rice Luke. Ganaaske on the present
m of Port Hope, and Takamatsu an the momh of the Hodder are
mentioned 6 In
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was t lk in the advance of she Iroquois was to great that there
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tene In the a vice of Coning Its colony elleal e charter Louts fthe
ncd an mu ad viaehr,h Ba erased ad ego of the
Hundred intresred to the trade,.outdomain,
Naw FraBest and ,Cana a. and
and restored named
mGo domain, all New France, Canada. W Ar. and
Acadia. He named a Guvcmor nnJ Suvcmien Council of Ove to
gwxnr the mamry. The trading monopoly In then penned to the
West bodies Campeny.
In keeping with Wei now policy. Lt. Gen. M. do Trac moved
in Catrada in 1665 with the Cafivormar Urines Retuned. He bunt
forks witch lob We Diagnosis invasim mute &ran Ne Richeliev
and by carrying the attack vita de frryuais nsAory, he forted
the enemy to sue fm knew_ Established in I667, this uneasy once
I ... hall for offering vans.
After be esmMuhment of precr the colony made rapid
psoFeu for a few y and "aeration a to country to the
weat of Motion was possible. The Imm ds ed had their tiny.
Near the French were taming back determined to menporm the
far Bnde.
One of the Ont French madeas on Lake Ontario was Pend, who
evldontly knew the coumry welm, as he acmmpmbel the "Inal tlon
in 1669 when kolfi t any out fmm Mononl to Lake Superior w
earch for a copper anifive which was benewd to nen them. At
the Vilinge of Gananckwyagan which lay hot ..I of rim mond,
of the Rouge RWer, thev struck off access eounln Io Lie lio,on-
On tin Battier-Gallnee map, mm of tin earls 11
apposite the a Gan nkayagar. It . 110sf o,
M. Perry (ix) and M16 pry camped in campententes Lake Horns —
wen 1 tram xm me passa e I nit ®,x it; however it i..aid
dw rend is wry rim and it is hem the remained" of Si Salpic;
wiN establish temuFa."'
To the mind of the srvenut mintury Preach adminmraor
the ehelbng d warning the fur node was some important ,Inn
that of prmnodng We church. But to dw Inhuman no aboacl,
e tin got 9 it meant bringm. Clumnanity to tin Indians.
Honda tiro losing session in the Georgian Any Was had been
generated in the Immune win twenty )tere mtlier. As the fur
traders unit explomus came back, so did the intensities. The
tinder sc den rt aimed long in any Village, but tln mandatory,
Incomes of his and hiS With, took UP his rtYtlence hived
suRcnd and often Wormed among big people.
Francois de Selig i c de Fenlon, the first missionary in mein is
mPicketing Township, did got perish here, ben Ns experiences
during The your that he workW among de. Indians long the lake
short cauM him 4ldmg suffering Won in n,c minion de Fen.
eon. Rcrigord, bounce, in 1"]I he was uw sin of Court pea We
aiynx. Fmrcaie wen edtuaW in the nunnery of ST. fulpisw at
Paris of weeh his mink, to Margins a Fmebn. was a boomer.
In a time of gem whanan sat it was natural that his life
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Cudn in Joao Id61 rva, ordained in Ne Order of St.
Sulfide :ma prepared himself to undmake the task of brio@ng
Christianity to Ire Indians.
Froname had been of the opinion that the Jesur momentum,
had not worked hard awash aro the missile foto alines
ru:
and FcM1m an
wbuu Ne Indian hal Quint ua rebound
and asked the ta- aright be se work among
the Slpo: ushoed for the task The war
fila to Furadlorn and names: by phrase Laval, who wastenm U.
lows To ou I'll beloved in the Isr0. Fmnmie is sm,pr:ac:
We sive you rawer and authority to later for the newsroom of
this people, ro comer sdomycls, on it wW aonmwy m do up
that you shall deco: proper for the conaoul :nem of the four road
the increase or the new Chrialan body, murmur rota to be am
tell 1, aur beloved Claude Trouva'•
On sumer 2 1668, Innelon and Tmuve xl or hour Mont"
all mnomi; at QInae on Ottober 29. Trouve wrote of the tllf-
realty of the dolman and of his bleeding feet, but added, No
one could be leaders! in a more Liendly Way than we were by
these FaaaI dully.. did what be could, odea to an old woman
who put ,It on the earn"— an return which with a ow pumpkins
seems to bow own the only crop 9111 by (lie Immi
gn.
The lw: Intolerantly settled into a doth nod asked the in,
Crimensltoulde
be, m them for main warm At Iran Wefudian,
auylcbur that halibut c,used deand beet... the mushoura
and Ireful to bapti'i< all ding children. But modally data
fears ,can boom me and the work went ahead with visor.
In 1669, rotation nnvelled to Mortal algae and remord with
mOihm adnimary, SUrfe, The note yea n number or armed,
from the %these of numaCviwyu6on paddld down the Take to
Ouhm to ask has u rlnmry humin vl t rhos. The nd
nary dmhrfe reanedat the Onime roomn and Feneloo went
wide (Ile i
e otas to their vlllag Jp shote of
near me shof
reundttnuns Inner he spent what do, ,to of the won't winters un
lord, method had destroy intended to mifsh his miallarnassion
uhootom mark
I�wffered but the ", ers,who M1atl inter Into
thud ur darty IM1mt now to elm nTo a woe n has m k, Fa Inm
the surrounding hong forcstn w M1nnr To entry on his work, Fenelw
has ra ua whin a din
Gradually re destroyed w 'r by the delude d and the f No n
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trait tmev a rl osetharound
me hale and, and the frost Jene-
nmwl ro deeply alma nits =muntl vsdf remained lmun wN Jorma
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Mesmvhile, Fenlon continued his ministrations to the smashup
IMians around Frenchman Bay- Food bwame to watch that he
as thankful for a squirrel or a chimmier that came his way and
metimes was reduced to gnawing the fmtgi which grew at the
coca of the pine owes. In the spring he rei mmst his stops in
pointe, discouraged and in broken health. During 1670, he mm
on to Montreal mod there he is regained to have told Bishop Laval,
that it might be for Sire bear if everyone word forget his work
From Quebec Fenlon look ship for Franc, carrying with him
• map of the nonh sham of Lake Ontano and Lake Huron, and
a leder from lo¢Mant Talon to Calben. "Another missionary",
Talon wrote, "alai from the Seminary of St Sulpim has peau
crated farther than he, in order to find out for me about a river
for which I was looking in order to establish communication be
can Luke Ontario and Lake Huron where they say there is
copper mine. This missionary made a map of his journey, a ropy
of which is in the heads of the said Abbe Fenelon."'
In France the mieasnary waa nbk to discuss his problems with
Fromeme, whom he met at the home of his uncle. It is not sur-
prising to lind that they were in agreement that previous methods
of ammmng the mdlam had not been mayssful, high men had
bad fico hand experirnm of the diRuvlty of trying to weak among
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Mesmvhile, Fenlon continued his ministrations to the smashup
IMians around Frenchman Bay- Food bwame to watch that he
as thankful for a squirrel or a chimmier that came his way and
metimes was reduced to gnawing the fmtgi which grew at the
coca of the pine owes. In the spring he rei mmst his stops in
pointe, discouraged and in broken health. During 1670, he mm
on to Montreal mod there he is regained to have told Bishop Laval,
that it might be for Sire bear if everyone word forget his work
From Quebec Fenlon look ship for Franc, carrying with him
• map of the nonh sham of Lake Ontano and Lake Huron, and
a leder from lo¢Mant Talon to Calben. "Another missionary",
Talon wrote, "alai from the Seminary of St Sulpim has peau
crated farther than he, in order to find out for me about a river
for which I was looking in order to establish communication be
can Luke Ontario and Lake Huron where they say there is
copper mine. This missionary made a map of his journey, a ropy
of which is in the heads of the said Abbe Fenelon."'
In France the mieasnary waa nbk to discuss his problems with
Fromeme, whom he met at the home of his uncle. It is not sur-
prising to lind that they were in agreement that previous methods
of ammmng the mdlam had not been mayssful, high men had
bad fico hand experirnm of the diRuvlty of trying to weak among
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primitive native village, bnndreda of miles from We council
European and began W consider new ways of accomplishing their
objectives.
Lau s%IV, was beginning to sec Now Fiance as a Slowly to
a great Someone empire and gave full support to Foraces's plan
to establish a school at Montreal to which Indian saJtlfen might
me to be educated He hoped to make a French ration of me
Indian terl So, when Frontenac berntm Governor of Carole
in 1672, he gave F i three Js w the St Lost neat'
Montreal where W might begin his experiment in education. In
1676 the new murder, school was established and Fenelon was
named Care do Sam de Mile de Montreal_ In Chine, Points
Glare, St Anne. But feenclon's dream am short 4vW. He quar-
mind wish promotion over Perm( the fur trading gavemor of
the shed of Montreal, was brought to court and recalled to
@an
reaches never removed to Canada, but lived on in Frena until
1679. Its sojourn In the wlWemess and the fru9m(bn which he
felt at not loing able to carry his missiae to a sawessrul eonelu-
,men brought on his deem at the age of mirly-eight At the Sul-
pician mssionat Quince, mistioaanes controlled their nvok trying
So bring eivii radon as they knew it to fie Indian,. They sought
W prevent the Iroquois from timing five babies in the gtavn of
their dead mothers, bat they failed or their attempts to S offer
women to take can of We tiny orphans and smooth the mission-
s themselves tried to keep these children alive, they waste not
,,it,, mcooful and eoWd oudy capable them rod may for those
The warialy or rather from arum of Lnke Gmmio, who plied
me l home with min, added to mdr Sodium, and it k not bkely
@m any mom firm a very sporadic attempt wu ono& to keep
the mission it Farmhouses Hay alive.
Meanwhile Indians of the goes were posited m meet some of
Candia most famed explorers. In 1673, Brommae invited the
Chiefs a Ganatsekwera8an to Fort Frogman, now Yost for
onfnmmm Joint, La Salle In his "Warden throe", Games
and Doubt de Casson as well as Governor tla Crusades, all
came along the court shore of Lake (Abuse. Dobler de Casson
impressed the Indians by the fan that be sold hold a man in
either and, znnM on the palms of his hands, either both at once
e at a time, so mat be demonstrated not only great call
ability but almost super bumm attention.
Count Dramatic stopped at Gennsdogyagoa be 1687 as he
brought his flotilla bock fzmn Summit the Ingim z villages an the
food shore of the lake. Here he enjoyed a feast of two hundred
den and di pmbmly the largest may ever held in Ei can-
ing. Oa July 5, 1687 he wrote, 'The minor of wind and coca
pmwnted ,s lanrian in the morning, but at mom No weather
cleared up had no advanced mover, or eight leogmes mall arrived
at a risen, Gmwok,yamar, to wimh 1 had sent forward our
ehnfirm Indvi firm below. We found them with two hundred
I mi had killed. ,Paid share of which they gave an our army,
Thaloui P11I by rldm fortunate clisi
Fort porosity at the lower end of into Omario was built In
attemptan m
crawl the English and Dutch under; who, real
their tropical, allies, rias up from the momh and east. As a result
of this development Fnglish traders began to come round the
Western and of the lake to meet homes coming down from the
Goormi n Day mai by way of due Holland anti Harder rivers.
With Ne westward mvm of the fm trade, the old homily:
from the village el Gmaauekwirmon became less and less lathier
nor and, at a mlmivsly icily date, the village itself seems to
have been abandoned
Jost when the French woman W have overcome me reforms
problem, their pi as reamtcrm of North America war threat.
tried by others even more serious. New York fell to the English
11664. Sk years later Ne Hudwn's Bay Company was founded.
So that when Firestone arrived in Canaria in I67; he had to face
not only Indians, but a comentration of English for tandem on
either side rf flat French route to the morior. The French
monopoly of wade in the Lose Ontario mgion was very Joan
lived, it indeed it over existed.
brin ou. OR Cir. in 16
CHAPTER III
THE ENGLISH TAKE CANADA
Came XIV may have had dreams of a Gear French mear"
empire, but for him Europe was of more Immediate interest Al-
though
4though he was itblmmcnlnl in having 2,00a new settlers came in
New France in the yxurs 1665 -1672, he changed his polity after
that time Narrow he felt that Frenchman could be bell,, ,it-
phoyed in fighting the Dutch against Whom be marched in in,
same year that Panamanian became Grissom of New Franco.
Frame had a pognigno n many lima lager than Englund, her
people wine ardent "flows, skillful traders end good mamgerc.
but the Fremh monarchs ended their substance in lure minable
were n the Cont ant The people, the money and the labor which
might have me& New France a reality instead of a dream were
destroyed in new which yielded twither glory nor profit.
When in 1684 war came again to the North American momes,
the end might almost have been !oxen. Ten thousand Acadian,
and Canadians fought agair two hnndram thousand dridini
Americans. The forces of New France, made on of hardened old
solder's and men skilled in the ways of the forest — together with
their Indian attics—mimed, for a time, W haw the English on the
n_ As Ne at dmggea on superior numbers began of tat. By
1669, England and Frame were at war in Europe as wall es in
Ne Colonies and the effect was Nat of divining the strength of
France from the defence of her North American outpost Fiera
raids, barman. scalpings and torture marked the course of the
war in North America until peace came again in 1701. But it
win or essy peace, bmkrn slid by Indian raids, binning farms,
by voyages of prouteerc paying on coastal villages, The Iroquois
had minimum Peace terns iu 1701. but the whirc protagonists
whin soon at war again.
1'he '1'm y of Utrecht which ended the at of the Starfish
Succession in ME as Access and The Hudson Ray Ic
o the English, having the Frewh the long wu,d r if the St
ki,sumc stun dice chain of Ion, rcmhing into the Minisaippi
valley 9y face,, of thea rnmar
are,,,, favor the Fr hoped to
the westward advanc of theEngh1h std pro (he" for hear
Can their u dr' ,,IT task, then every postale m:ntn likes in
be used to keep the mu¢ open.
Try Verendryc, one of those who pressed funhen west told the
la&am of sit Charles In 1734:
When yon dell win, them (the Lanka)) you levo to d, pus
if they can your enwniea: they give sett no each; they do not
,]low you mane their rem you cannot nwwe the merchandise
yount, but t obliged to take what Choy 1popv u Moaeh u
window good orbad; they refect some of goat siig5 w ell be-
e dead la o you atter you barn had a table
orrying then their pot, It is true that Ofta twlmvm real
things a little dearer — but they take a1I you M1ave, they target
mthings you fur no risk, end yen M1ave not IM1e trouble of eerty
n¢ your a ng long discern', ".•
erne English Cawgndcd the nomonrdnn which in, Fam4
offered to their traders for .Anthony at weres Tice French
talk severe Und'any hnyvtgn to factualism they htrve tire [ad
adstage of no in every shape". The FrrnoM1 may have sad lit
vantages. iotlodmg the it of Indian and forest
lore wham they had aucumnMw hutheir handiest years of ending
:and emplomtion. but they did not have the advantage of numbers.
Onthe ace of the Rvry Year's war, which saw the final struggle
reform the French and English in Camttlµ the French colony
onalsoed only Snap). wlnlo in the English colonies to the north
the population money fest one and a half million.
the twee of the campaign which ended with the Iodine of
French dowelin The SL Lawnvlcc valley in 1763 was, Us we
know. the acquisition by England of aony, s1
amiamirctigilawm, w and cartoon and one col
tied hask, ili Ione
of
mity whh the New England selective to the south
In the Inlee pntsrw region, the only amnov of FmncM1 talc
sees to have bn a hear of ashes at'ILronlu which land Mon
Forkb... betaiale. Fret Frnn¢nae an the lower end of the Lake and
Yon Niagara, now iu the hands of Sit William Johnston at the
other end. "I lac far, Prwsh wherein, /staidly, and Ont
ow/rc
stairs7 had been need in supply the posts scall to Lave diFltprented
in
in 1]E0.
D. G. Cr..of,. Donnas, or Clio banks. Year 116.
The French bearmv was over. In the one hundred ya'.vs e
Feneh minor bad fila pemmuamd the Lae Ontario region,
m, bo¢uux and small Ships hal plied the water, or the great
fake. Curvier do boil had followed the brain trails, orders and
governor had vuih d Its villages bre thea was hole to nark
Weir passage Premahmuta ely, mnnlW umbaps for the now .Iare
penchant — or Perhaps for some amounted trader of later date.
Petticoat —onpmully Petite Core Crack —a name derived prob-
ably front the last that the east bwh If We milk Ls quite Iigh,
while the well bank is almaq Mt near month Thus, to the
French was We inlet with the "IiNo rido A plaque burning We
e, Prune Our. was found on Mr. W. IL estimates property
mmry years ego. Tire Rouge Ricer was probably m round became
of the larch ruddy band ban" Sharon which b flows aaitenters
Luke Ontatlo.➢WNn Crack, SO minty from the Irisin trade t' who
is repnled to hove Ivan murdered near fhs present village of Pick-
ering Rod after the French r¢Lm4 a, called Alviare an Saturn
by the French. For remndes tire tiler and We rivers nnnteing
into the 9t Lawrence system filmed whh Ooh, salmon being
among the most common typk Wlun sentom Regan away
changes were introduced in dw years Run, 180010 1900 Non In
all the formula since the Ice bad finally retreated from the land -
error now among these chmucs was the disappearance of We
mannan from Lake Ontario.
CHAPTHR IV
THE ENGLISH PLAN
OPPER CANADA
When Britoil settled her ,Baia in the $L Lawarce by the
eoty of Paris 1763, fie did not marriage a rapid movement of
alers into the upper lakes region. Indeed she carried forward
e French policy of placing severe restrictions even upon the far
Wers, although like the French, she found itdifficultifnotinl-
,ssible to halt the illegal tmtlng that went on up and down the
there an several more
he north side of Lake
quarter, width, if not
In nm, lean tlanavenmte Rousseau. was memon to trade at
'lunula and from thence to any markets or pmts which he
shmld Find advantageous for the sale of his merchandise —".
His patty was to consist of one canoe with sir men Jumada himself.
and his merchandise, valued at 000, included a quantity of am,
wine, J rimes, 300 lbs. gunpowder, 16W Its, shm and b',dl. lie
posted a hand of £600. He had headquarters at the Humber bra
could Imtlu at any M We uvea of ba Timm that he minor pas
including, Damns Gxk, Frenchm ing Ray, me Wmge and High-
land Creek.
N 1774, Britain se Out hot hope, and plans (of her naw
colony in the Weber Acand with it she altered lire relationship
which had been esmblisb,d in the previous len pan between the
new colony end leu minter somhen relative; and made some
clmh belweant Nom almost incntable. par many years(lie English
colonies in North Ammica had been vinualft self governing and
ectionermly mneift" aboutthelf fight$, while New Fran 6d a
lodb3madwi, of the Ca..save ArtNre 1690. Sou fri P, 31, Q. 5-1,
illusion to Cahbn.
long uadltion of authoritanao government alae Formula of the Sa
Iawrcnm valley reprettnted the mediaeval, mml. Catholic way
of life while their southern neighbors war, the osercc of English
Ptolestmtisna
and lived in an agricultural and commercial society
n which the mistamlis and ,.unary sag mems counted for far ess
then in New France
The makeshift government of Quebec which had gone on for
en years was ended suddenly in 1774 by Ne Change; Act. In the
eyes a the southern colonies it was mool almg With the Sugar
An and the Sump Act as ane of Nm Imalmable Acts. It restated
to Canada all the Territory down to the Ohio and out to the
Mksinippi. It appointed a grateful, and m ncil with limited
authonry. It opened the offices of government to Roman Catholkv
ignored the tithe, reloined Frcxh Civil Law ;and admitted the use
of the Pmoch languages The English whom,.w all themeaa-
aimW directly toward destroying tin Saw
w institution
which they enjoyed.
Scan Canada was at war ager, and Ne enemy was the same.
Far a century, as guilt subjects, the Ameneun coloo4u had
eyed Quebec. Now In the winter of 1775-76, the Americans M
import Qwbe, dry bot rare Prat Smog rnoogh to take a But
the fact that the Nagana mimics were not joined by the French
handsome w,evidence of which way they would throw their
allegiance in the foOl Oming stmgam of the Mirkan Armament
Colonies. The war for American independence had begun and the
Canadians had made a choice
In such a struggle each ale is fomN to take a stand warrar though his patriotism may be — and by 1783, BRMKI
Loyalists from the Atlantic Colonies pcumd into Nova Ratio,
the first flood of a stream of immigmlwn which was ma o-mffam
the old French Nr nothing empire inn a settled warnings. The
emly loyalist groups Which metered the Morgan Pressures, were
layi milamr, governmental and commercial families firm the
irraboaztl cities of Bailout New York bad me smaller cost along
may coast, Those who began no make their way into the region
farther west wmm of two groups Otic moved up the Hudson
Valley by Coke CMmrmora and down me Riimliea our Sorel where
they stayed during Ne wearer of 1733-94. Another group came
round by way of Niagara.
Many of Wase wwtenmg at Sore" were from me earn= or Sir
William Johnston, who died in 1774, or farmers firm New York
State, mgether with consomms
of We Royal Regiment of New
York_In me spring of 1784 May set out to atab6sb new homes
for themselves along the nonh share of the Sr. Iwwrcme managed
fake Origin, between We last French settlements and IN Ray
of Quinte. These were the founders of Gbngary and Stormont
and of the old city of Kingston.
Those who meted Canada by way of Niagara, fanned oat
arm" the Pleasure penimula and along the shot¢ of Luke Erie
and Lake Onlnrio toward what is now Hamilton. Some of them
were calitaty and goverment people, but a greeter part of the
group was made up of farmers and villagers who had palled on
n the front rank of American colonial "armors and who now
adapld themselves with ease to their new surroundings.
Tire Treaty of Paris, 1783, ensured the osmba,ament of the
independent republic which was to become the Holed gm¢s of
America. The Loyalist migrations n of that public were to
forty Birds to move beyond the Connre
ote All, such had been
designed only with the Old French e,itlement in mind, and begin
to take into consideration the 35,000 new totters who streamed
ars mho homer.
The Loyalist settlements at Many^ and Quina were still
operated by vast Indian tc as 1787 the Governor
Genaeal, Lam Tami req wrote to 1011, LaMar, Deputy Sur-
sayerGeneralas follows:
It noun thought expellent m]oln the settlements of the Loyalists
m Megan, to Nene west of Gmmgw,' Sir John Johnston
I'l
o
bttom dittoed to take sort steps with the Indians concomed,
ay be to xary 1, nablish a Gee and amkable right for
cme
nvammcar To the ifterjaum lands not yot onmhssed on the
north ofLake Ontario, for that purpose, as well as to such pans
of the roomy as may be maccomy on birth sides of the com-
mumeanon Gam Toronto to Lake Florae" * '
Carlos ArcM1rva Rerun. INSi P. 379.
CHAPTER V
PICKERING TOWNSHIP EMERGES
It was easy enough to hand out piccolo of land to loyal sub-
jecu but it was qui¢ another thing to meet the demands for
afymize! government, for mods and for services which mann occur.
But It was a finoonal consideration which brought matters to a
bend. Revere had been obtained by means
of the QueMc
assume Act 1774, which never producedcnougb to meet the
needs of the colonial government. What was model was an As
tenably whnmby We people abi ties themselves, but bassoon of
the differences between the French and the new xnlers; and dre
meloodes of travel, it war decided to have n Mo
one but
wnbboa. So Be country was divided into upper and Lowar
Canada In 1991 by owlerin-wunul, and each pan wan given a
legislative council and a legislative assembly.
Tiara was We year in which Augustus focus received his arae
to survey the had betwmn the Trent and the Els imke into a
urn recombine. cfrecombine.e. Tho township of Toronto was already UW
out on pupec Eau of this were to be townships of Dublin, plus
grew unit Ef inbnrgh. Jones ran the boundaries of thea in 1991
and although he meonom Perot Said, at Part Hope, he says
another of meeting Duren at DU Crock. So itis likely tem the
gminl Irishman had already Perished before lona and his star
vayo s marked BuRms Crook' on their maps.
The Act of 1791 whkh created llppe, and Lower Canada
delayed land grants in the namly surveyed townships until the
eco Provincial Gevemmems mems established. For many matters
presently mtmaud to the Gevemm Gemml were to Be delegated
W the new Ucmennnt Governor, Col. foto Gmvcs Susan, who
artived in 1792.
The plat or idealuPon which she gavemment of d¢ new Prov -
home was broad, was the reprodtNon, as fa as Possible, of the
Great initial Upper Geotchin
the wi d men anumpk of
felt mnititmioa4 e
the consWuhm wMCM1 he bad
van Salomon would W bard m
mew. a atroae bolb"r in Ne
linointrad
going main
county lieu
nttmlian of
planned n
old live m
It did nm
home, comm
vxJ well for his council and his civil servants. In packaging
Township alone, of the 74,660 acres which the township contains,
18,800 were in II¢ hands of rive people; 0x 0f them the newly
appointed Surveyor-Gevefal, two others, members of his family.
In ortlm AT obtain it Want of land, certain conditions Md to be
L A pence w ling lead would Jim Audit ion the Gwnr,
na
men U he were approved, an INnr in nnwcd world be sa
the snvm
eyor-Genal, who land mco, en Ina location Seat
and enln The name of the Teniae an A, plan of The IOwnship.
Settlers were allowed 2W anas npnn payment of n lee ingetisn
200 acres without payment_ Military men might obmio ganb M
is much as S." acus, depending on conk, but it usual
to allow them an be in one large break. Much of PiQering Town-
ship was takev up by military and "additional man&'— mainly
o absentee holders An that them was little land left for genuine
seNefs who were prepared m establish homes in the calegrobitol
Once The mW¢hed his ticket and had performed his sentiment
duties on his Int, be might have his grant confirmed — which
rant mat he Was safe Imo fadcmm fw n pMm and
mold sell, he4ueath an otherwise, assign Id, sights To Lava a
Chir lido he bad gill To Bo IhmagF the process of patenting his
land and coming up any oamandmis be
Lged Willa sm bad of boot
Major IoM Smith, father a the Surveyor-Gewul and Cone -
compound atFort Niagua, held 6,400 acres it Placating Township,
5,000 of them in one block, extending far two and one half miles
along the lake shore. His son held an art oiniug 1,100 acres, so
that when Major Smith died in 1795, the can add a black ex -
sending farmthe lake to MyoM the door commucion and broken
only by the clergy reserve lou.
A map of^ is m the Township before 1800, shows that it
met almost impossible for a settled to Obtain a crown gran
swung land on, almost 01 held in me name (f relake.
dens of York
or Niagara. 'rave were o few who had leased land from (]lose
accurate owners but because settlement duties were not stncdy
stomach, so that a man must build and clear or forfdt his land,
there was little in o the holder to have anyone on It,
property. And as forthosewho wanted to feat, they could mage
condiction and gm a location ticket for another township without
ttomuch delay in the early days, so them was no parent for them
lease. Thus the land along the Inceshore, except where the
survey crews of Augustus lav 9 ar Formal S¢ynan had fun Nair
survey lines, was just as the Indians and man it hundreds of
years bHore
Dome forems rising to Reveres fire the hkefront W the Oak
hours mormin, were imported by the multitude of little streams
and creeks which joined to form Debts Creek, Pointed O ck
and the Rooke River. A traveller some years later wmm of this
form[,
"f delight to dwell on the beauty of those ro r gmvcs of
maple and beech hers, though wards arc totally inadequate to
give a cortin idea of their lightness and eleyanw, at the reseal,
fairy-like look of their delicate yellow and red limed leaves. We
were at first divided in our opinion vwhich was lie most
beautiful — the mixed prism of upper, birch and crime Imes, or
the sugar-Im5b by itself, or the leaves composed critics of beach.
Ultimately we decided in farm Of the batch groves; their purity,
lightness, gromfulnews. and airy look, the ultimate yellow and buff
of the upper boughs — the quivcdng golden moves, seen far away
within the reams of the group, giving shuttle but no yJoom — are
not surpassed by coy of heunmaus canoe Nei hat gems. Fee as
the ago ran much among the stems,a golden light is su0aced lroN
over the ground and ova eeU delicately act and shaped brnncq
the shade, if it can be so called, being only of mmewhnt lens bril-
liant a hue than where the sun mortars without impediment"
• W. H. G. N voice. wulem Roundworms 1853
I'ncFrLhvp slew YicAn{rg raise, —i9wV
Thh vers Ibu alight which ma: the eye 'Itrah"l, be If, Parkes
MuS III vYno vert o fhe ""it]' nil plants Oci in
1799. He is said to have planted wmc potwoas sad roan, but fur
trading was probably his m ucmipetiun. Peak had almost
m.i From Hi Tors iP to Pastrami as he was not without
exprri. n Pion
While killers coup and somtllutue did ere, the township by
beat. oars w .... if their oar a to by anything but
tenderedwat
d tpo, of homunty am am
off front sotice of seppf s
and, what Is error, our f mareof the tax convent'. The Ilm
road wore little mans than blazed halls, nlNouSh Slmmc had e
plan for a mad Dundas Street, which would an from the Thames
River m Klognon. 'ITe Iia ma
of Ibis ad w s abroad 1
1793. In 1795, D. W. Smith'til the Surveyor Grneml, gave Asphalt,
Jones imltuctions from Shares, to — "—Girt a horse path
from York to Nur of Quhte, as a SroundwoR Im the cominua
two of Duni Street, you will soared open into work an
s
as you have completed the survey eastward of the River an,
(Rcii
In native Nis road yon will hater Iran cml mpaN m 1110 simm
done for its crossing the real which His Emellenry corrosion
wll be about two concessions distant firm the lake, in the,event
canards— reading off and on that mnoisorm line as a hoax or
droomm avoiding to the nature of the measured creeks et
to make the whole asaright line as rile curve
of the lake
will admit — and should you find any countiesto this of
in your progress, you must 4 guided by euring cirtumaaws
on the spot, having art regard to the Principal view, namely
of continuing Dondaz Street toward, Lower flood, by the short-
as[ and at the same, time most eligible mumu"'
This work was not began at once but Sohn Stegman began the
survey of a 33 itroad allowance early in May 1799, and finished
form the present junction of King and Queen Streeu in Toronto
to Helium Creek by Jane 10, 1799.
"tIm remove from this lawn to DuRms Rak bas been came-
only chained and mile pons ereaM, and the tamer part of the
said mad is on a pine ridge and a favorable situation for a him-
way enar ing a lee hills which were impmmbk he avoid"
Asa Donfald, an American contractor undvtoot to build she
cod 33 tact wide for twenty &time an neem, asking four acres to
Ne mile. He was to tale cam sixteen feet and a half
whom the 33 Imt smooth and cut nen m the ground, and as
near the antra of the mal a the ground will markt and the
bridges and ca ways shall be made in Inch way and manner,
as sbW be Allowed sufficient, irking real b place Ne bunmenn
and string pietts m proper height to prevent the high under (mm
taking the covering of."
Dal eager building the road in Augua and was reported
to have resulted Part Hole by November 22, It wu agreed that
be should be paid as follows "when tun miles have been inspemed,
recalls, payment for five. When twenty miles are completed, m
ve paymem for lea and whams twtl shall be finished for Soni,,
Creek, (Port Hopc), receive Payment for half Chet dicani
So William Chewed was cent to inspect the rend and the work
time and sent in his repos. He found some cause for complaint
and said
'The 111I on Ne sent side of dal Five pian (Rouge Rrver)
whieb is the]most direult to pass onthe whole of He mm uni-
cadon, the commuter bas tanto as much Pain s Iny in his
Power to make girl, but with ap that he fes close, cam do, it
BO.g.P. Clan ll Pryor, 1956, woman 69, Lt.
is lots race, t saw a lorded ox sIM go down with ease, but
that was from 16 to 18 dames of new on the ground To go tip
this IF in my attend carriages most un Wad, and when the mid
hill is rowed with a Our of ice, I doubt mum whether deep, or
ropse, to c,mmages held tither go up or down, yet I OM induced
so think that drain games me m of a red, o wheel
topped by a drain might an,,c,, bar to be balanced or lowered
by a tackle wmid ba macn bdmr. 1 tbamfore conclude it to he
a good wed r Rend, a a landed sled dran by m may tr ad
farm 16 to 1] edam put day, that Iled wlm down firm 3to
40 miles per day, that is no say from (lie break of tlay, to the
parting thereof.
—Bac wiW regency to a summer mad for wheel nrtiages going
post — In my humble opinion nothing can effect that but goad
settlement thereon to keep the road in consent repair, by crating
out the fallen logs, lumber, and bmsb which will how up at ewy,
sl
ump arm in every part of the romm. 3ut there new only four
settlers on the road in 63 endo.
Danforth had difficulty in cold¢dng hissney a originally
abeut the nmd Rept warning w. A ro of three was set up
so toted on the condition of the road, and reported in Brothr
1802 that Barbuda had and mlened Gs contact and that it
would cost Pn,ICD W repair the toad.
"Tithe oast and of the bridge over de River Net or Rouge, the
suing pia2s having failed, will mi be impeasnble'
'The appear fill M the afd¢mid bridge, the upper part of the
Wgwork famous Men bumf by the late nm in the wcWq wall in a
short time be impassable."
"The mmmunwaina u in many plums from the IBth'mle post to
lis Tom is armed ... m ... b1c being motorcar with brushwwd
and brambles, and ,any tmrs which hmu rattan once it was first
opened eacupt whom it it whil
Three uNers ucre mentioned in the first thirty miles cast of
Tork,— Palmer at the loth mile post, ]ones at the 12th and
Munger mar the 23rd11 The land through which DaNOM's
triad ran was not settled because it had been handed out to non
residents in large blocks. But there were centers fender noM.•'•
hii" mm" vat of Denim Crtek
• Nwadflair Waodmff vac on lot Il in 1803.
• or Ila of aatlen m pvee Q]).
iL;Ib "!, /item
It am hardly n m un ul .naw2 uurdm out for a cabin and
Nene nonny the 'di mar" nand Nrn mother and m-
other ca tbi a whole worry llfnia, It was
not a
of sae at bar of screwball herder, wild and fish
s
%Gale the fust miner platoons were protected as well as pmaalhll'
from the ami of di rabbits, parents and all the other
mof cultivated gory Th, dol books of the pioreers
all that stood ham on them and dateat Bat Marinelli, the
forest yielhd if the ashlers did net a m,li Ne grapple.
Tty
2 4.. i(^
CHAPTER VI
EARLY .51-17URS
Will Rogers, who was brought op in Pickering, wrote a de
-
compact of his early pioneer great in 1866.
'In in, fire if... the pinnas fall oNmee to m:dw n yoke of
n
sled on act, with o n hand as am he mad vs he gox
A, no of log, bar,,, and though brooks crack, & xwvmps &
aver hills & dale, avid with mum danger & difficulty he al
t the mum desired'spug men be goxx to cutting dawn the trees
make the only, or log house, anti before he is half ready,
perhaps m raise his building. a few hardy sons of industry of tot]
mwith a shout that will make the forest ring, & rose the
rustic log buildings kind now before it is half finished his wife &
chddrrn have to t this ne shod,, ao the oak of
years seek or glove their deems is many w ri pis one urogram
after l bad moved into the forest wild mw to my early dweliog
and c large it,, that IanN .... the I'mare. & one army tem -
railcar A
emradar,, windy night_that sm, kept no wake Sir in reach din
who, tits black a gale took Nat us well as all of this forest AIMIL
ms', the trees bowed a, a they court full, & indeed many did, but
at on rung over & w oar helpless ]leads unto daylight
came;
tndpodmp l was vergdedder to see daylight ler then
lmon pit any axe and laid it bellowing on the ground hue Ira
me tell Nee an dear friendly ,lade,, that tree, often do fall on
the a.w butting, & so m
es do much daage W
to o per,
utile,. & edpple people and take life. And ngam when pleasant
spring has contc,. the poor man's how, haw to h, tamed out in
the wands to seek their own living or came & commovly he w111
get then aril the If ,warned, but i nitres had m hand a
Fee to q o put the ,sive &the, brag boa e
mod bushes leaves &
all for then but with tiro o lea s. & n little milk r
roma to ane once good eWvee But perhaps by the time into-
summer had come the lows would grow cumlen & lay out &
after the poor man had hunted & worried many days, until he
was dismuragcd, he would let then' go, & they would mon dry
up & do him no more gold that year.& he would be obliged to
V out to work for a True butter brand & mm & also lie would
work for geceries is stare pony We cut And before l got yoke
of oxen, I had to excMnge work, that is give three days work for
men & one for oxen &in those days l don, all my chopping alone,
but m logging I had to give four day, for every une that 1 got
back again &than after that l did get oxen. They would sm'y of
like Ne rows & a m might look pvadventom a weak & not
fired Nem when be most needed Nw.
Our mills, clause, would be a great distance from us,a flood
deal of the milling war performed by a bay or a Rile girl, taking
a horse with a bushel or two on We back &some strong men, if
it was known, to carry mem little grist on their shoulder to the
mill others drew s few bushels on a sled or a nmluhW slwk with
a yoke of oxen in the summer on the bare fit or, via
• Tlrt lvumJ of w4¢ Roprt Sw structure it
'The Penna, people coming Into Canada" write, Joseph
Could, "hd hen in LM1e habit of pushing their land wish a
mattock. This implement bad an axe aha a hoe at one end. They
world cut the underbrush down and pee it in small Items; then
they would cut down the oak and other Jorge does. They nest
L the buries of line mass es into logs; may the Into Ind ehopryd
them up fine and piled them up In separate harp; Nut they on
fire to due brush and Fumed up LIn heaps. In this way it would
mine a fund hand from eight to ten days to chop an acre. Then it
Would Lake five men and a yoke of oxcart a day to dear up from
one half he un acre, trump .and iL x'ould Lake a man a day or two
to pack up the shanks of word ,ad do the burning of the logs."
Etna in, ser rated cleared land orae auto a perks of stump
and hnerlacing mon long after We tons attack on Ws forest had
M1sn made. Louis Hnnon, writing about French Canada, One us
~common aasapdnn or the analysis to , Make lana".
'fire father end Da Be trek thew them face to face on either
Hien of the, tad their axes, Mleal of birch, began to swing in
rytbm. At first each hewed a deep notch, dropping steadily at the
mite spat for some aetomL, than the ase rase swJfly and me
obliquely on a trunk a PoIX higher up; at every Broke a great
chip flew, thick as the hand. splitting away with the grain. When
e¢ cuts were nearly meeting, one stopped :rad the other slowed
down, leaving his ase in the wmtl for a moment at every blow;
the men Brip, by so rade still holding the tree
yielded at last, it began some
lorn rod LM1e two axemen stepped bank
n force and watched it fall, shouting at Use tame instant a warning
of danger.
It was then Ne tarn of Edwina. Legme and &ams; when the
was not Insider each trek an end, clasping their urorg
hands m ds beneath the trunk, and then raised themselves — backs
to ping arm trucking ander the traps — and careful it to
the hearcst heap with short memory steps, getting over the fallen
mrs with Bumbling effort. When the Borden aeemwl over kavy
Tif Pe came forward leading Charles Hugwe dragging a mg
bar with n strong chain; this was Pmmd around the trunk and
hwanW, the horse bent his back, and with the muscles of his
Fiodquarters stmd'mg out, hauled away the tae which Brayed
along the stumps and croshcd the young alders to me ground —
The place where they had worked in the morning was still
fall of stumps and members wish alders, They set themselves w
sting and uprooting the all gathering a sheaf of di:mdms in
the hand and separate them with the axe, a, accuracy coupon the
ash away about be roots and scaring up the whale bush to-
ers
earlier. The Akdislwma. there remained the sumtps.
Flm. ane ele,'onun al bs hm...e
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Mrs. Sylvamrt Shanard Ames SGwmrd,Un/I+E£rn0/m Lowlfts
Baan and Elksl quacked the smaller otos with no napes
bW their ova and swm wooden pusss, They first cut the roan
spteadin6 on tae ....face, then drove a lover well Immo, and
Mem against the bar. tbmw all their weight upon it WM1en their
efforts could not break the hundred des binding the Ile, to ma
mil, Barbara continued to bear heavily that he mipbt ra a the
sump a little, and while he humans and remained ,or the stain,
postal nerved awry Nrioml) level with the goon, sevedny one
by alit the remaining mars.
A little Nara away the other mm bandied the stumping
machine with Ne aid of Chad,, Luna The pyramidalxaRold-
ing was put in pine above II ],,go mwmp and turned. the drainm
which wan then attached to the not passed moa policy, and
the horse at the other end senior away quickly, flinging hintmlf
against the tram and showering e',ntb wild ho hours. A short
and desW Jtc charge. a mad leap often arrested after a Pew feet
as by the mLe ora giant list tbm the heavy aml blades would
wing up anew, gleaming in the sun. end NII with a dull stand
upon the smbMm woo, while the horse took breath fm a
coling with excited eye me word that would launch
him rommid again, And afterward then w Still the labor or
hauling or Tolling the big stumps to she pleaa fresh cited of
back of Still sewed hands with swolkn veins, and slifferium ams
that roamed grotesquely striving with the heavy trunk and the
nage mined mots.,••
But hoses arts stump pullers ww not m be had w the fret
days or settlement.
-IIds Heron, Mule mussfulvn The WxMllvn Cc
The forest was the enemy. It prevented the sowin8 of crops
and it remained the enemies of flemag cl But there were ways of
dealing with its inhabitants.
"Mrs. Monger of BatRns Crack, in the Township of Plinio,
23 mile, from York, hearing her neighbor, Mrs. WOMmQ, holler
vt for help, immcdialtly tone down her husband's an and tun
to her .he, she wed there site 1115 informed that
v larvw at had take, oil a p into the bash_ Ha m
bang shown her it... ho mediately marked and found the
destroyer in the act of devouring the arms; upon which she rested
her gm on a stump and shot Brain through the head On weigh-
ing the tear it Vacant to be the largest that M1atl been killed in the
Township" (York Gaining 1805)
The WoodruPo lived at Lot 16 next to Mungers and Salmon
Fuller is believed to hove lived on Let 15 Contusion 1, a cagy
rnsrvc lot which he M1atl leased in 1802.
Before the present we of municipal government w
doted in 1050 "Town memin8.s" wear held The tum Town do s
not imply range settlement in the fie, Town meeting m Ibis area.
combining Whitby and Pickering Townships was held on June 4,
1 R03 uta time when there now very few simmers is either mwn-
mlp.
The m cling was herd at Bamner Mongers at Lot 16, Con
session -
If, which he lead for a few years befogs m nn8 north
to due windy of Salem. At that m tmg the following ollil
were appointed for Ne combined metastatic,
Gbeneaer Ranwm Town Care
John Major Antarctic
Eleaeis Integrated
AnthonyRummerfieltl Town WnMcns
Adam Stephens
David Stephens Calmo,
Samuel Merger
Matthew Devi
Jahn McGehen Pmhmnsmrs
William Vrek
David Crawford
David Woyd Feria Viewers
Abraham Townsend
Silas Marvin Paratrooper
[11noAofN, Tm'em. ISOV inch ..hwd)
'ma mor wee ,mcowd wab local problems — me height
of fences, the problem of dommde aamals running at large: and
as
every town locums since. the Problem of usem
For the yem 1802, the amount mmincd to Mr. William Allan,
listener of the Home Uisnitt was five pounds, nineteen shillings
Andii ting m note that this was PaYflarin In full aeemd-
ing to the assessment loll. Thom were no ddlnquenm.
The first Town meeting for Picketing alone was held in March
1911. At this meeting dm officers for the Town, as it win oIIcQ
wells re Thmmm Hubbard Town Gere
David Cows ford Assuming
John Haight
Abraham TownseM Collector
Publish Woodruff
Thomas Matthews Patbmanms
John tuwrenm
Armenian Townsend
laseph Wuon Poureakrepen
TitmWY Rogers
John RichaN Town WaMms
James Powell
N 1812 Nicbolae Brown was made reaessor and lames Lamson,
palhmualer.
The same offers mo m daring 1813, and 1814 when no Imran
meeting was held became of the war.
As far az can he learned form record of m ting and the
reef of sub and lease of land, the followln5 autlmor were also in
the township when the first lawn meeting ,is held in 1811.
Crown Leese A. IJavidwn Lot Broken Front 1809
Crown Leax Wre.Hoveard Lot 11 Broken Front 1800
Crown Lease Wm. Peake Lot 15 Broken Front 1806
Crown Lune, An Sunday Lot 31
R.2 Broken Front 1804
Croat Leaae Lend Hamhome LOt34
R.3 6roken Front 1910
Crown Lena Wm. Smith on Laf34
R.2 Broken Front 1811
Crown Lease Wm. Smith Sr. Lot 34
R.1 Broken From 1811
Crown lease Chase Waf Lot Countermen 1802
Crown Lease SaNmn Fuller Lot 15 Concession 1 1802
Crown leas Aaron Senator Lot Con¢anion 11 1802
Crown lease Hawkins WoWmO Lot 12 Concretion 11 1810
Crown Leone Sam. Worse Lot 16 Concussion 11 1802
Crown Lams Larval Chwfmrd Lot 16 COnwAsbn IV 1807
Crown Grant Joe. Ryckert Lot 16 COnseion V 1797
Cmwa Grant O_ Crawford Lot 17 Concession V 1807
Crown Gmnl le. Major Lot 18 Competition V 1801
Crown Gmnl Thin Matthews 4/ Lot
17&
Lot IS Confession VI 1799
Crown Gant Caleb Polmer Lot23 ConcessionW 1805
Crown Grant Jmob Waldenherger Lot 16 Concession IX 1803
Caleb and Henry Powell, Nicholas Brown and James Lamom
whalso in the township in Irl 1, Thom may have been others
ose names am nm mewled in any statement Of rate. bac ar
grant or at any town meeting.
As Jim been mentioned there were some raiders who obtained
their li by virtue of military sc entitled be-
es of Loyalist claims and a how, of whom Wm. Peak same
to be an example, who had rename been in Upper Canada for a
few years and who moved into IM1c new territory the it was upward
up.
Safe,, an de, American +We of the border moved woatwmd
very quickly Vtv the Treaty of Penis (1783) which brought the
Revolutionary was toend \'Lincoln armsettled enough to
become a share in 179E hhe were year a, tile Cnmtiun,mmil Act
which assume the new Pse my 11 Govemments for Canada.
Kemncky became a state N the following coal By this time the
Americans wam crossing Lite Mississippi in their hundreds and
fuming Om inb the Spanish bold termones.
It was mat nml therefore that come of the same corium for
w land sMwd be felt nonb of tic border. Upper aaada w
much neater than the regions of Kentucky and Turn... and the
country was practically free of say Indlav menace. The Loyalist
migrations which followed the defeat of the British form waw
on dwarfed by the inflow of Alumina settlers looking for cheap
or at End These people cache encouraged by the government,
as c of SiamrcS ambitions costs to populate his new province.
They waw welcomed too by the holders of large tract, of land as
they presented potential castomers for throe who did not wish to
become powering themselves
The number of Loyalire entering Refusing Township directly
firm the Named States was landlady small. Most of Be Loyahas
hod newly groats in the Masala and Clarke Township areas, but
n few families w m germed land in Pickering.
One of them, Carmum Thomas Matthews seas gill, 350 acres.
Lot 18 and IT Lot 17, Concession VI an 1799_ Matthew, mtled
veil am kind and wids Los sons David and Pas carved a farm out
of the larval. In 1811 Thomas Ma bexs is mentioned s
township parting r. In this capacity he am. spwsible for a
section of the mad, nu doubt the Brock Read, w this new rwotl.
following the high ground from IGnp9on rood north along the
oltl Indian tail, was opened about 1808, and bordert l MaMaws
(arm on the west. It was improved under the Provincial Act of
1810 and maintained by stature labor.
The Brock Road always considered as the center fine of the
Township ran from Dundas Strut (Kingston Ad) to the northern
settlements sent Uxbridge and joined the road through SmuQvillc
surrounding with Yeage prof near Nnrmarkel.
Officer emly Loyabsc solders of the reasserts were Townsend at
Cut m Concession Ix, Majora Lot 18, Concession V.
The Sharrards were later Loyalist settkrs who had gone from
the United Seta to Nava Scott, and then came to Pekering.
Most or the pioneering was done by groups of senlern brought
O the township to organized parties. An excellent cal lc of this
type of pioneering is to be found in Ne aeon of Timothy Rogers
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Rogers was barn in Correlations in 1756. His morning wass
very forma my as may lm seen from the entries in his Forms.
but his blemeas sense coil good At ninelrcn he married Saab
Wile, daughter of Baptist and arm, He marriage hwme, as he
says "much ingeriged about religion nod although M1b"ayouaint-
Quawith that beepil was very small" he began to be called a
ker.
He and his wife moved to Dwby. Vermont in 1777. Vermont
az then new territory just being opened tip.A few years later IN
sold his fn= vad rented land at 5antoga; but Ne purchaser was
unable to pay for the Danby fnmm and Rogers went bock to
Danby in 1780,
White mere he had a turn of mind tbm weed me to tbwke of
gang in eer
ntry where I cold Sit land che'.
And ted more he rough[ about it, the more he became rcwlved
to an iL So he thought he would go seven or eight handed miles
to the southwest But instead he even about 70 ankles norm of
Denby m lake Champlain — about 40 miles beyond the limit of
mWement.
About 1783, he left Vermont :mal an nm lot New York Stam
to buy land. His friends in New York State persuaded him to
look at,, hods for them and he was
cres
n charge of 35,Wo ahis Jordan From this busmen be
pars¢me to have made n good
prfit as he Pvid $5.000 for a mill in 1786.
The following ten years low Timothy Rogers tiding thmah,
the forests of Pennsylvania antl New York State, evw him in the
southern townships of Quebec; on the St, Jahn River and in the
would of Nova Scotia,a rcnlas man who never nems!to be az
Noce.
Tmmby, following me Quaker radio oval t0air
for Ne spirit m guide him and ua Le myv�'f was normal m hew
islanders of my not morling to the xand and 1 bad many
atilt and hummed days and nights. Ruv as 1 xs on the
Lord their ansa very reason feeling carred :nmadtinand i gave
a0 nP to his will thinking 1 would do anything that Lc learned
and it worked If 1 would make redy rind go im Aimely to the
westward ma Lord would make way for me to will 'm the wild.
ornow
coheir other wait mold
Rogers made to Hold Canada, talked with Qovemor Human
Chief Justice Halloy, and the surveyor wall Imml mm the Ilan
and aimed to bring forty families inn to' new learned Fos Ihia
purpose he got grant of forty mans of 200 acres ata cost of 30
dollars each. In May Ig01 he mm'W as [only to Upper Cauda,
em
yr Newmarket By 1807 luta had hdhllod his a nowt with the
`
The around MTlmndry Rogers, No appendlal
government to bring in seti and he moved w Pinkamog where
Ile bought thatacral from D. W. Smith fur MOO per acre Port
,If It hemg In 1, 13 Ind 10 in the fiat lend second concessions.
Duch Gell: flowed though this ppw
romty old the cbook of
do, nrtam Timothy Rogers built the fild grill mill and sawmill
o limlorinp T^..shincm ethmiles up fm rothe Ukeshore of
that a four c,old came up and land It hers "bill dor
the bid hopes that refueling would be than contmlar glitch
encouragedng, In Canada and encouraged Inb, m c cwmhtmmosettle in
the habanp and at Uxbridge. To shut a yearly meeting of
dn. Salary of FsinWy be gave the,' part of fit, foods for a
,carefully and m c had He brought Channels. Iiaip ltl4
Nwwnwrs Pointers, Powells and othersto Pink emtg
Whce Timahy budgets first canne to Pilfering, hundreds of
thousands of Salman could be caught Ia Dulfins Creok and the
othrlittle awards that flowed into Lake (intent_ But the tell
dams, of which lie built the first, prevented the fish going up she
rome o slower, and by the end of his life, the had pnuYlcelly
disappeared from be region.
Timothy Roger lived in Pickering Township buil his tleatb
and his family remained ss pinus of the Quaker melanins
in the township_
Another type of early pioneer that came into the toansbip at
the turn of the sentory was the business man, representW by the
mrokeeper. For whit, choir and stores
ere later in appearing,
staging posts and inns for [trader,, room opened up almost as
au assrs
as the roads were possible on hoeback.
Samuel Munger kept a means near Fisher Creek about 1805.
Hotel WOWruR was another innkeeper, and his daughter
Melinda, married Jordan Past, a York clockmaker and land
n 1796. Jordon Pmt traded 15 acres of life land at the
comer of Yon a and Melinda Street, which was named for his
wife, and Irak up 500 acro in Scarborough. His comer, George
Washington Post came to Pickering Township and lial at Ins
6 Corrasion h whim the Nrge building that he that as on
Inn can All be seen on the south side of Kingston Road.
Pressure to tighten up entlemem regulmoan was applied by
Peter Huston, noting Lieu. Ensures after Som serum to
England. He Insisted that fees shanld be paid and settlement
duties cniricd out, His milky was claimed and followed out by
Lieut, Has. Hunter, who suceUded him. Because of dose sum,
vision and the uncertain Position of the United States in ieL titin
to be war which engaged Under and France almost continuously
from 1793 to blb, Ambition looks probably did not come 10
Upper Common in as bass numbers as ley might have, m view
of be fact that it was easy to reach from New York or varia. Thus by 1608 Mete seem only 180 people In Pickering
township, 40 men, 35 women, 51 boys under 16 and 54 girls
under 16. TNs was 40 more than Scarborough but 13 leas Nan
NTitby and 931 lose Nan Markbum. This was the your that
epidemics of typhus and measles swept through Upper Canada
and carred off many of the center.
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CHAPTER VII
THE QVICXENINC PACE
no War of 1812-16 had little military effect un Picketing It
as fought mostly in far away places — Oucbn —Detroit —
xcept for the striptease at Your. Quakers and Mennonites
were emp¢d from military cartoon but had to pay for substitutes.
There were few township mcn the milli although Andrew
HablL is national nal as orewho hewed.
The war raivtl prism in Cmtadu and provided many customers
for the ins of Post and Woodruff as mldime moved along the
Xivgiim mad Them mo no do doubt that it also had a good
effect on the Kingston road Itself as what it appears to ham
needed in i6 early clays v traffic to keep down Else
endermush, and the amry provided it
As m an wad aliens were suspects, and mese who mem not
prom themselves brat British Whece man considered alien and
declared inapble of owning land. 'pHs worked a hardship an
many recent American immigrants who had come raking cheap
land and were not much cn Bed with national loyalties. But
the fan that IM inhabitant n ml,d to defend Canada provided
the American government with an Indication of Nc loyal&s of the
new wafers in the province. On the Plant hand there most not
which
a have been war.
Prhapll sNnu grnerafN by the skirtisk fshes
orth
Amar made up the em. %cream Wis Is becauseinBluish. men
Americo re were men w only 4.merge
Canaromps, an militia m
Tema thea were most 5,00Dof
file
flu nit.H evert e w it az IM1e
manors Also dm nceatof me her Rogers and me war did elveso
man rlimmhy Meeting feth and h& friends wed
mednb gCity 1, Yearly !ino of me Satiety of Friends in
Neu' York City In 1815 mvtl IP obtain n travel permit from Llw
ELI my.
Haiquancrs, York, ISin March 18 13
Permit the underwoned persons of tle Society of
Quaccn to pass over from Kingston info [he United
States as it nppars they have been appointed to attend
their yearly meeting in the city of New York—Philip
Darling Jonathan Bowman, Cornelius Blond, Timothy
Rogers
By command of His Honor Major Geoetal Shalle.
Nathan Cieine Col.
To Col. Pearson, P.A.D.C.
for oMfi rcommaudin_n
Kingston.
When me mf creed and the Treaty of GhW became eR dive
cindi ing ToonJup red endakd a now plmry in Its development.
Granted there moor, 9,11 large ammo of land hold by n owaves, but
them were Jow a couple ofI.... Not mads and now settlors who
Bogan tomine a the dowmMo mould ad Ivot get us Their hold.
ing venture tooNmmh dillicTJry. HweI a renewed samse of
division betwxn the United Star,, ad Cmada'begun by the
Amodcam war of Iodere,ideme, and wwmeul oory try the tradition
that the Canadimms hand drawn the Yankees oft British soil in the
rewTt WRI
This nmd-Aaericankm xvs a strong weapon in the hands of
the large landholders and Firmly Compact men whenever it ap
peared dant Gnmd was Evening too demaunic; and they did
not haimte to um it.
Fall
s
tw oil
FrvnkM Clmpname 1871-1954 fells T,I Con. 1, 1792-1879
Probably the greatest e&u of fix deseem of pease upon the
western hemisphere after Iwcnty-five years of war in Europe and
America was the suival of writers from the British rales. Thomas
Reaem Lot 9 & 10, Can 1 Intl facing Riehar n Lot 3, B.F.
who nine in 1820 were Ilam ImLnq asvre Alex Dunlop,
IM 10, Con. IV, Wm. Hobbs. and OfiwrJohnston Lot 16,
Coo. VL Georg, Barclay came !rola Scotland in 1816. Who,
Sleigh, n yeacher. fmm England in 1820 to Lot 28, Con. V. ]m.
Wetter Ind 2, Con. ll, and Asher Wilson Lot 21, Cur. V.
from Use bell Slates. Others who toot or lead afar Ne war
of 1812-10 were We. MCCanslanl Lot 7, B.F., Caleb club
Homy Powell Lot 6, BF., Vinal.rr. Lens 10 & 11, Con. Is`.
Torino. Betts, Bal¢, Coatings, Stiekneys. gaRennrs Lou 3 & J,
Can III, L Chapman Lot 11, Con. III, A. Brmvn Lula 12 It 13,
Con. III (Bmwas Comers) and lobo Tool Lot 19 Qac. L No
doubt then were w others wham munch have dissociation,
wow, wall the earlierrmxidema made up the octal papulation of
675 which was remmed by the clerk of the pcam in 1823. A5
the numbers grew it became easier to sell land and the price for
partially improved land rose o about 10-15 shillings per note.
This was unable the 1805 pace and resulted m a number of sales.
When shiers had brought tine population up t0 830, as it wax
n 1825, there was mom mdu¢mmat for uupme", millwaghts
and other tradesmen to enter the township. With the a and a
more skilled wmkms it am bout to hoe butler hougOand
furnishings than the crude log hula which had bean the now
shelter for many solder. A lag house Caere be built for argot
f10. ($90) and at it One; rough by motern standards, it oto
vidd shelter from the dembents and could he made snug by proper
Chinking and warm by the endleu supply of head wh'¢h was just
outside the door.
Most early leg houses had one large room downstairs win a
fimplam at the end Sometimes a couple of small Indiana, were
partitioned oft at the upgrade end. Upstairs, wh¢h was ¢ached
by a steep zet of steps or a ladder, wonto be a lime attic room
which use probably lighml by it window or pmher too in the
gable ends. It wag used as a kind of work room and dormitory
Coy the younger members of Ne family. Furalm, w ..ally
made by a carpenter, or by the hand of the family, or brought
nCss the take from the Sates.
By 1825 Ne worst M1adatipx were past, no one bad to carry
his grain to York or Whitby to have It gmmd Buts was still a
time when a fold w stump studded showing,when potash
surer w
was s sh crop thawheat and when men human oak,
Gg.y sssag G.......a, sersaE -en.
John Tow, ,,,qu, Ixn
aah, mapka walnut and pi^c Toga to get rid of Nen[. It nor a
time when vegetableswere warm, in winter and fruit non existent,
but when fresh meet reb be had for the price of one shot.
Because bones w and expensive and words almost
impassable,men in dry xmta", ships and boats continued to be
or important means of tmnspo etion, a indeed they continued
to be until the r^Jweys nnu thrtugb in the letter hal[ of the
rnmry.
Excellent rharbor.
Shipp :n MN the Bes and Frenchmen l gay
aide for far shipping, while Wlfins' peek w navigable far
mull ships it far up ea ow Kingston Roamwas In I825 throw ween
Nree t mills in the d onehip, an n Ne Ro^ge Rivet
below the old bridgeeRoad. and ove, otiher wa BogeK mill, he Op on
Caok a[ Kiogv[Th bun Theane oNer ansa probably ba barley
y whit up on
began oCiting.
come
The abundance ce of fins class lumber viiich Soo
begun to m e from Nnsa mills resulted in the shipduiltling
Industry [a1820 it developed at Hadley
mouth of the Poupe_
In 1820 a Cohen She is
said
t u ave gain shwncr sThe
on t of aka a dere. She is said a M1Oe hide the fastest wirer
n de lake and w aide between Oswego N.Y, and York,
cutting been two he fwi ter of l the time of 1¢r Americ:ui t fly
hall ors. During the "Inter of 1n Rewarder,
aw Joseprder, m, ,bit, do
hull of the "waseda' Ne Cupnln Reba g in the
w w be e
announce Md w owed to York for fitting In Iho npiinp�of 1976
Theor,
Quick hha, wi of Plagiarism' an
was . Thew in 3e34 , SPIT...
Quick who and
to tar on e a .eke. pons anlpe wca to tar
pvsongon ave to carry dv mhe; (potwM1), 0emn, and Inmhr
Ea, 6ai
Enna lhdenng, IA'_
Lhl, miss an, bullish, o1111.
m Orwµu w York, returning with cu_ a of hour, mit, little
and .mneri crews.
Thac were
no factories or shops in the tv Ind such
minimal, as the farmer mal he either ,out him»II' — m the
lag drag ar the barrow. or brought with him as he did his 'ax
bad plough. It is hard to margins the 'maturity which a man may
d lope when Ito has b make or Had almost some mode whl'l,
he times For his soma. Strangely shaped moll feature plough
frames. odd brands, oe yokes or cow pokes. His wife most hour,
been come m versatile as she did ha me seeing, spinning
,visiting, chase making, baking, preserving and .sewing. In ab
iiton to Al this she was called upon to be doctor, midwife,
teach,, bad often undertaker In the course of a lifetime,
F.'Iiea:I Smt, L. L B... sun ai h his family
CHAPTER VIII
EARLY SCHOOLS AND CHURCHES
In 1791, anyone so wild As to propose a tax on property, for
the support of education would ban ban laughed at, or if taken
machinery, would Lave been called a dangerous radical, Even sixty
years later the term "Communist" was applied by the Rev. John
Root of l'oroneo to advocates of free schools. Education war
nnkard a matter for the individual parent or for churclws as
associations of individuals of like mind.
In 1791 half a million army cars act aside for the happen of
education in Lipper Canada. But it was folthe support of Barrel
Qmmmnr Schools nntl may be saturated to base been more with
ring a ruling class than for any purposes of period
cdocui1the respired school act, 1807, provided for one such
school In each of eight districts.
The first carriers had to depend spatial entirely upon their own
eyurws m eduen¢ Joie e�ldmo occur n they were lull
pped to do this, having been well educated in the United
Sores or across Ne Atlantic But in many Cases they had little to
offer, apalnlly it they twimbeel m a family which had pool n
generation
ur two on me Frontier..
In 1816 an act of the Provincial Isoclinic was passed enab-
thing common schools. For the Home Dismal, which included
fany.one rownship, and stretched from Burlinpon to Port polar.
m of Chad sees allocated. This money was to be hard for
salaries and books. Nothing Ask allowed for buddng. The ac
defended upon the total citimns to build a school, furnish twenty
or mre xholams, elect three mem, who would had a Leader and
agree tr
10 pay pan of Nat taaduci a salary Mom they could sham
n the gram. They were not to across as a lather anyone who
mal hand subject or mturathed Fund who had
taken Naaoath of speculates.
0
The had wells in gaining Wen of log cu with
plants flown and reasons ores around the walls. Uses a box
allow n the assume of IM1e nes M1aned the buiWin6 and pupils
often contributed Omvood to help pay for Has Iwtion.
Farthest schools reco[ds in tl¢ ownership were on the Hubba[d
property at the corner of Ne him wnmsion and the Brack Road,
n the Wixon property est the comer of the ninth and the
Brack Road, one just ants of die Rittguon Road on the Brock
Road, a Quaker school just east of Oullina Clock, a Mennonite
school at Altana and a Onion School on Ne Rckming4narbomugh
Morelia. This school was kept by a big Scotsmu caned Ferguson.
home he taught in Ilio ideal which stood at the corner of FniRon
Road and Concessions II, opposite Erskit¢ Church. He sums to
ban ban remembered less by what he aught Nan by the fre-
recent with which ha applied the scows".
Early school under, had their problems mo as entries in the
Claremont s me mmrds occur "Nat A We rachis has not of
late conducted himself entirely to dial satiefMion of the tr
they will not ago the agreement unless Me Shamir will engage on
his Hart W be more mbu and Monday As his whool dudes than
formerly. and will be more cautions in using imempainte language
o the chiMmn'. Alittle later finding Nat he is addicted to the
"habitual Practise of Mai the to mornings, n and
night May decided to "quit ]Ian fats ur':mHis msount suf-
fered from the mine failing and he tar won took his departure
In fact, school ras show that Ne teacher in most schools
d a very almost time, that in tts be any aawas a man of
littltee Modifications educationally or n any War reaam.
'Chem were, ficwenq may forms and devoted colons liim
and time of Nuc were eligible young Indies, new girls hod to
cope with half grown boys who worked in the fields in He rem-
and peamred the teacher thins the Ions .wester and it u
little wonder that many of Nem were glad to mora on Mare they
had finished not me leaned war. one of early teaches in the
unship was Miss Ellen Tray who eastm Pickering from
England in 18]3. Sbe (Ought shool in this township and in Ux-
bridge for several yens before Bar manage to William Michell,
fim rceve of Ne townehip.
The Tracy, came to Cnnodn aboard the calls Was "EeNet'.
Another passenger aboard the ship teras W. H. Michell, who was
so ass" by Ne running Ellen that he wrote the following
poem in honor of her seventieth birthday:
Hail, lovely dower of thy sex,
Compammm of tat' was
1 wish tha many glad rauma
Of happy 6rs¢ of May.
Pardon till stranger who presumes
To write this bumble along,
for you have known Nm little yet
And xill not know him long.
Butuwithin the opening rens'
New chances each day appear.
So mar your share or happlows
Imartme from year to year.
Ealren Ist of May, 1832
William Henry Michell
Her Contract:
••Article of Agrt[menl made and concluded this 3rd day of lune,
1835 between Miss Ellen Tracy, SeM1wl Mlsttns, of the one part,
and the untlmsis of life offer pan, now the conditions of this
agreement, in Won the said Ellen Tracy agrees to teach school in
Forrythe School on Lot 6. Concession 2., of Uxbridge, for the
[m of months for 6 shillings New York Car Why for quarter,
and boot wit], the scholars of such as wish to base her board
with them. Those that wish to pay for added, she will board her
-
seltforfive shillings, for which she will teach ratling, writing and
il and keep such order in her school as she hopes Will sans-
fy her employers. The pay wit Be neither the first day ofFeb
-
sty 1836.
Subxriber'a names lamb 1
James Fossylh 2 - Alcoa M. Ganger 1
Susan MoorcU mPhilip WiJcun 1
ThomasDraid
Andrew Body 1 John
1
Dead H F[ml 1 IOM1n Cnxlor 2
Davi Hour I
thavJames
Methodmber tun. I
Joseph
Method 1
Iodea To mom 2 e
no warms[ wlaret Miss Tracy 'sv GQ and the Grnamnr
Schooled Yolk, t b the
ria kept Macer, kev_Geo. and Sr Yale, and
have Gaud in pan lu IM1e uva of dftlmy and ..a nue must
the mused the K Sten n,in deal of runto
dal es as given
as
the Revpart
GQUK
Pi. ening Tiw ship. n m his mlary was gian a
gam early in Pickering gs Township.
The early seed. Altbodings were as, used on Sedd::hurch the
warship of Upper
AltM1ough fere flown, nahecol chnrtl,as
ed
notM1, in Upper ng emp, Lbs uonBr plw for t ins. b included
tacit
not n strong emphasis upon British innnneon.c but o tact
are, mass lollessur ue clam If me raasdbms aullay rarer an the
numal If childwu vranmop silent.
Mira Elfin TmeS,
SNmof Minrca 1832
mnpMn that the Church of England world be the domimaot
cli
It war meumed Nat Loyalist centers would be Anglican,, but
few of Nem were. And although land was art mitle for the sup
Pon of the pro¢sm[ chal the clergy "w"c' smo haeme a
drum of dissension milanic the few chrmannlma, whim were
recognized u Protestant by the Germinated.
Many of the clergy who came from Eegland and Saarland an
ser to the new piece, preferred urban to mal pioneer life
and may he said to M1me ahardaned the Oeld m what they coo-
siderod to be arcade, group, The so-called sects were net long
in taking up the Gmllengo. They ignored government fai and
began holding and has in pine mu arras. At first toes tservicies
i
re ognoiwa aro hadmak by the worths themselves, won itinerant
the prcmhep was
to mala batch
wry ,omen the country and the
Ostep bl build a cM1meM1 or a minting Muse and m have
f resident se dome.
n e caexclamation,rmethfirst
ist re had u such.
minister, rte
met in Thim, who formed Nc fiad treatment In Nc lownsaker% r
in Thootf Flesh,
bauu ad themselves, ese pan oa
No Yeairs of treed, er Ney ,:Pledriling were , part rk
repthe Yoage at the Today,
and were according rk Rn 181 remark
Them
represmletl n[ the yearly meeting in New York in IBI3. There
William Dm2aq 7786-IY69
Foumd,, uIDunbanun
was no ritual car formal rvice in their church but their
strong feeling seof dependence open God and IM1dr civilized woman
helped to coummhalance the rough illiteracy of much backav Hs
life. From the United gores they brought a long tradition of
durable,honedy and cavil speech and may be said, wherever they
settled, to have provided a peaceful, pleasant island in the midst
of a community which don made its cider ter strong.
The Merhodul; where fon circuit rider tended at Use pay
n the Quinte district N 1191, wow am long in Penetrating into
all the pioneer ties. Dutiesbeck smash
wall ng
om
n who the Re, lemuJ,ck, u Simdondent of h
e
Mission meaMethodist, fid zero Gnarls Gm
[re of New York Som racer hem 1Purofthe VVIlllcII
MCNWiat ret Illy, 1830 As early 1016 Lill Mmmdih
Church is reported to base had npl n One tilefamous circuit riders to poll
o an Sgie ],)I Town ne Job
mile east of the four
col
1n :m V1111g, z er
RyersreYPick,,,-
h 1 Mark], card 1111,sambtothe Brock Bond and down to Ou(finC.k and t
WGlbg
Use support
ithe low the ill -st AMm pup pIW_N
ong and
to the Methodist AcademyU... ety To
far
Coal evd compleraised
0,lad ttobel Vaona Uovost, had
In r o
MCNMists mired B,A54 b wL, Ibm nsof card pan e[
this umamn came etho dm o O wof o e stations of picketing.
Although the Methodist so Ow of one hundred and fifty years
lonn nTiohvn. Ssoyekeope. 1840
RnDen Belts, Can. 11, 1794.1896 Rachel Bells, 1806/890
Ago would ser
x any minimal by twesent day practice, it
considered to be among mm bruin
e moyl¢m : Its day. As
name u umber of facings hrclopeJ in the township which
waomd to round a Rightly diReretu note.
In 1793 a Along w yded from the, Methodist Epicopal ChumA
A the United 9mor and called themubes "Republican Metho-
dists", Inter changing the nine to "Cbrimians".They weal Joined
by suilus I, am the gmsbldedan and Baptize Churches who Am
afitmr had rvhh their own chanh organization. They had show
mmlimsel
"We am Canyon, to the excision of an the nanos of faction
and pony.
The Blbk is oar rile to the setting of all creed, caymans.
disciplines and articles of faith ever prepared by unicified man
and imposed upon the chmi
Christinl amour et istest of fellowship and earn-
motion
o the exclusion of all shibboleths of party and tests of
bigotry ever urged upon the humble followers of Jesus Christ"-
Iutire spCmO of 1624 Elder C, Morison of Ne Christian Church
visited Pickering for the first time, and by July 25th a group of
people was wady to mcwis a church aaording to the new plan.
"Past Ymrs in pkkering", has tire following: "A P¢md of
the Ush of Crat in Pickering Up Crunch,
Be It remembered that nn the 25 July in the grein of our Lard
1826. A few lJreWem hewn or No met 'm fellowship meting at
the house of James ground. Lot 21. (Can. Vq in the town of
Mckaring" bloomed w a United Empire ra tiler who had
me from new Eastern 'fmvnohips of Quaba, M2. nM was a
pillar of rho Ch isrian Church)
While the brefhern rejected all previous creeds Nry still
undertook m discipline their ow embers. Fur on 16th of
January. 1828, a charge was brought against Ito. Manhets by
Jas. Thereupon for drinking too much liquor ;it Smith's mowing
bee aM `word the experiment of bear to keep sof "In
the same year there was a complaint ugninxt brother Sly whose
wife dead that he twit her by the halt of the hard and utensil
her out of bed and shook her and M took the chair that he sat
in and aware by his maker that I¢ would knack her down but
did not and he timed her out of doors and kicked her." The
brgbarm withdrew fellowship from Soloman Sly.
The Christian Church at Oroughom rumored many new mean -
bars inthe years that followed although it soRerel, as all Amari-
train- inspired institutions did, foam the bivemns which commerce -
led the 1937 whether
Baptists in the township were affiliated at first with the Baptist
ChwA in Markham, bar by 1821 had developed a separate or
-
genistionin ns comer Pickering. The Wines, and Johnmm were
traders in the newly managed congregation, the organization
meeting brand been held at Wixovs.
The rmords st c tient the mason far separation was that me
Wiaons nor nsou ryrying a salary to bider Birthday because they
considered it um,miuml, "as Christ says that an hireling with
of for Na sheep because he is an himliog and not the owner of
thexhku,W, But whether !Itis be the reason or not. (hem =is
soon twenty monhus of the new church who mat for worship
as houses 'I his congregation w related to two others
offer, war, mism,ed in Whhamrch and broader. The Baptist
Rn. Adi Glliau and ;in /radian ,he — /830
Cni bailing which war built on Lot IR, Can. IX, was not
completed until 1851. thirty years after the congregation bad barn
organized,
Meanwhile another group of anthers on Concession VII, who
had mrivca in the early intone, built themselves a meeting Louse.
MINUTES
Or TR.
AALDL.'A.LR:DI
[DISTRICT Or NEWCARTLE1
BAPTIST ASSOCIATION,
HEAD AT MARxnAN am TRE TutnSIE'Tn AND
THIRTY-TtRST JlWWART, ANN FIRST
M FDRRVAIM, 181E
I. MET it Eleven O'clock t. N. Elder ARRA'
AAa STOOT, delivered the lutroductary Sermon
from St. Luke, 19 k W x' Svioe eD finer Ina
tllestrnitgatei for man"I say can; yea, m3(
reek to enter in, and ekau nw be abJc"
2 Chase Elder GEone:E BARCLAT. Modern -
tor, and Brother isenc N. EEan, Clerk.
S. Letters tram the Churches Were read, RMI
the following Est taken.
The trustees, Wm. Tarry Sr., That. Gostick Sr., Chas. Noncan.
Was. Winter, Geo- Stokes, Sam Palmer, Wm. Torrey, Thos,
Cusick Jr., Thos. E, "Racy, Alf. Garber and John Gostick,
opened the place of worship on Aug. 16, I835. Those men wc¢,
far the most pan, immigrants from England and their object in
putting up a building may be read clearly in the deed. They lived
in a strongly religions atmosphere in England, and tried it, bar
they could, to make provision for the same kind of rommmdty in
their new wilderness home.
'rad unable through then' eimighaned circumstances
compost that, weak thry made known their to dome
,hrmbum Inrnds In Rigi who fami,ad that with the am of
BeaBoards matn [hair desired object m that athaving
been dorm by fomdnand rel,[ecomment]
antl
with Mr_ Who [racy, and z or ban oI. in mMimtly meed
a piety of ground and created th"u, bashing, whim Wilding
:mat Broad formal de, , has be,, by him wshol so the
hands of waves m the maim, and to, the vrysse espmsmd in
the deed —The north ma corner of lot 24 Correction VTI —
`Thc eohwl mom or ramming home Be apProprimed as a place
of morning for Diems worship viz: Preaching the Gospel, reading
the Scriptures. Power, and Slming the Raises at the Most High
God, and also for the Religious Instruction and moral improve
meat of children or adults in the neighborhmd. And in pursuance
of these chances me Trustees ore to feel themselves bound to avail
themselves of the resistance of such well disposed and pious
person, as may by Divine Providence be placed within that,
reach, especially those who arc humbly and faithfully devoted to
the seems, work of pm¢bing the doctrines and prcwpe of the
Gnpel of Christ, by which is meant those ecen[ial and im loan
oruths in which the venerable Reformers and Pmimas, ,x Wick-
liffe, LothCq Calvin. Camara, Owen shad Godwin w m agmed,
to the exclusion of Shearson. Antinomian, and Popish cmm% This
Ilmlmtion being introduced as much as possible to powers do ex -
means of fit, anomaly mentioned by our messed! Lord of a
Hoagie divided againstitself, and not with any sectarian mothers
The ewes will therefore hall with ohusum the meeting together
of Christiana ,r Preachers of different denammonans, whether
Independents or Baptist, Presbyterians no EomgdicW members
of the Established Chmcbos of England or Scotland_ But the
Trustees will not pledge themselves to penmi[meeings to we held
n the said School Room or Mroting Hous, for the mroussion of
political or spealadve questions, or subjects not revealed in the
Holy generators'
Pir threat, IFrivinF under He ministration of Rev, Thomas
xpeect m
O gonad lorders
became part of Clmemom Oapllel Clmmh el to 18
gonadal mi settlers Mgan, th eemc into " Chuch in o Ne Imo d sent
and h minister to ce in the Sn¢ymon ter Do of Scellvna sent
Out throe reinsurance w Jon beg yew lama Rev_ t is s national
ived in Goadv and soon began work y who is still known
ns Tork to the
Coraco in in a my Towmhi d He ed chis on
ed
his work to ehe weswoM,in a manwr best described by his gran
pe¢
"With the exception ie a smith hn from acontinuous
d
along dm mmMm frontier, n flew a was men a vol warrelyuo
—The datings were re &w and far h[, me ¢[ with of m
interrupt the may
were
mo the future
re T e for was me with a rely
meptions. Nay wcm yet in the future. Thc mod was made smerely
&or -
by emting and othreat
clearing off e Ne Irca which had they
its was
face. To ble m the Ealy hof meg meM1 az they we
incompatible work with JFc objects of tM m ough and thenaturepaths and
of m work. to had Ji wend nor way my ma a Of locomotion
ocuand
from clearing b enation, where do only ooh lb g place i but on mm. field
has men AvI only evolvement
armin dweNng place bur
c mania felt sbefore
she os, Avoiding had iny like inroad, upon
the few facilities quest
shoes the gospd had tarsobtained a t the
we
prceeehd in gout of Prcsbymeiea re to b wood the leen
wedLrw i would
be lion m m wlwre theContaining
were es be Guy, or justther
would ee So bio Commie wad wrulves to Gab am just ed-
amntl where Fe broke no our rvay"
v On July 5, owns Township
Nat Session of me Pmes Going s ach
ctczk
in Pickering Dunbar
d J hnnstituletl or
James Greig as eve,
held
William Owbar and John Agnew as ship in I X.mb. were
held in SRev. Lys Thoma Two membership c Fent,to r wu
viyhmvn. Sundays at Squire n wasengagedo miniver to Con@
alhmam Sundays p Squire Lays and try) at a M1ouse on Com
Cossion Il .(Tress Wm 2eskim r euro have
m drawn fromeand vi fP5
per ter in:n. Thc congregation te:ie m Fnve whol from Cioas
tenon in the prove in m hoteliemembership
Bartell in 1 lived in Others
on
menon VII appears on to m ourts, is roll in op, J hn Gr on
c Court list me RDun Cozens, JToI flysl,Jean John Greig,
Jean Courts, William Dunbar, Helen your, Icon Knox, Leon
DIaII, David SitWilliam Mc
Quig David Southern. James
Greig, David wot, Rachel Park.
It was during ma
se a period that the
do Church
Pic ri England
comemm being area organized congregation in Pidsrin6 Tawn-
Rev. Li 9'1mrnun —1115
Ship. For ahbomgb it war the endowod Chwch, In the mem of
having Lind set open me Is rase, it NmReed, an did all the otheq
from a Shoran of clergy. However in 1833, par. Adam HNod
tramllW through tin township pmxMng, and ante a more orma
Inc itinermy was established. Rev. H. H. O'Neil vinead both
Maturing and Whitby an 183fi In 1841 they were united at Inc
Charge and the first incumbent, Rev. John Pem and, was appaint-
ed The twoammegans counted to operate as e charge
mobl scpamban
cd in 1864.
The Romeo Convene Church in Piellering was not fault until
1849 and Incomes to that time Catholic families — the O'l.earys,
LW ], Con. IV, founds, Lot 4, Con. TV, OConners, Lm I. Can.
ill, Garlands, lm 33, Cen. III, Catlins. Lm 14. Con. VI, Rev -
Little Lou 26, 6 P_ McCarm; Lot ], Con. IV, and 9mIN; Lot
26, B. F., had to in W church nt St. Pmuls in Toronto there being
e chisel. Several young children of that period were carriedby Neh remems all the way to SL Pools for baptism. In 1841,
Father Korvin built a smash in Cahalan which shortened their
journey a little.
The lapse in time between the eAabGNhment of what might be
called spontaneous or contain and the man
formol ontl criminal deamination is perhaps. iinicnlive, among
other things, of the btugromds from which then members cams.
Thom who had bad a generation or two of pioneuin6 in the
United States set about oryenizin8 their own churches almmt as
soon as they had the fire few acres cleared, while those who arms
in from the British Isles seemed to depend on outside help — a
ravelling monetary oto pift of money from abroad — to far
chu¢h going,
0osh poRical parties were not
organtred on particularly
door lines during the period before the 1837 mbellien although
there we c plenty of political meetings, this bring dm Only
form ofsocial gathering, open from going to church, which
did not include a good dell of hard work. No doubt chopping
Uses; and bum raisings wem oc®sioes for exchange Of views and
nmplaina about delays In obtaining patents for mm, ar better
mads, but it was at the publical mostiegs, where spoken from
Whitby and York told of the activities of the government and its
civil service, that the mthusissm required for outright mbenion
was developed.
CHAPTLR Ix
PICKERING
AND REBELLION OF 1837
Peter Matthews was hanged for taking part in the 1837 rebel
-
lion.Bre Peter Matthews did not represent republican met mvols.
teary ideas. He was a solid Pickering farmer whose father,
Captain Themes Matthews Jim idea an About in the British
trey, discharged at flow add of the American Bevelmionary War
and awarded 350 acres of land on the sixth coMession ofPicker
-
to_g Towmhip. He was grand pa i master at Ne first town mettin
in 1811. But it may be in Nese Iwo fear that there has reason
enough to be dissatisfied with the government of 81r Francis
BondHear
In the het plane, .although overhaul Itis holding in I799, be
s homed in take land five miles from the 0ngston Road and
night acres north of lake Ontario became most of the intervening
land belonged to embers of the Executive Council or their
families. Ia the second, the fact that he was chosen fixate star
raid tem that an insight into the ralrictions which Ne Parisi
and Town alhecn Act of 1793 imposed on those reamed order
its travelers
By this A,[, wy two Justices of the Peace could sarcomas Ire
constable or any phish, township or place to a amble the
inhabitant houmholdI nethe firt Monday in branch each year
for the pattens of chat deak.I eelleand,
alum a we ersue,), a
stain or evicemn aI, IncaYK rIAN magna), fens vi
a pound keeperappointed
and m wardens Itwasthe duly scof-
f ek w appointed h send tau net the Fissional dider-
ed The ins of 'a and r of refiners
a ed at
mined by the tProviver, minicamera, The ohne npeeinted he
Ne tow egiinga es wonly Ila tory m oe Jun of the
Peace o magistrates. The only Im idativd parvo given fe the
Inbebitanr'meating was b ddetmine the hzeht of lsafifl Fences
and to decide if, and when, domestic anil should M allowed
to run at large "is world explain the repetitious nature of IM1e
bylaws passed by early township meetings in Pfuhrim Township
for the oily matter, %Inch aeread to ,adorer the faller, of the
ppromp wee thaw concerned with fenantl hwe9ock. Yet
however small might be the authority actually granted, the wry
fact of Hair creating and chomion dicers and climbing Ne
meag¢ powers town in them, imdually c e people of
wrong democratic tendencies a kern desire and greater ability
for self-government. When they met, discussions cmued rules of
doing public business were evolved, and men Were constantly
brought to think of the necessity and adamitage of lmal admini-
Notatlm.
AN towns and wilms, grew in sin, many of them were incot-
pomted under ordered and srccial Acts of the PronncilFc4a-
intent and accorded powers which wen not in the Act of 1793.
This brought void a Reding, current in rural areas, that in
s of self gown meet they ere under a disorderliness as
on pnacd to imam olatars.
e full and careful Ludy of the "rMers" of the different
District Coves of Coulee Sessions, would do wry much or
explain :rod justify Neit which w so prowlent during
the mat mthea mua nd mete drum sad refusing
authority the Court of Second, was mmpmW of dee Mminmts
of lira Din pu
� All the blic fends veil::blr for the brother
of mads and M1ridjew waste In the funds of these Night or ten men
appointed for life by Ne _ w. In the ani of mads and
bw
ridge, they w interstate and in nmpetmC they nnhhm
knewthe needs of the Da snormally an
supply them m make them moll ruled W open no a new euwvy.
In thematter
of foods and mM1ur pubba work, these road, am
veand wilh larder authority. They presented plea and c
for the bolding of gaols and mm home, o1 wlmever thlurndons
they dwared ht, reacted theft handsel and ordered the people
tb pay the refuse, thus seemed. Their cerebral also nrdemd
what fare the onsoters Award pet and contracted for the sapply
of intensities; they onkrtW what fees He Dldwt 011lw shruW
rgethey had control of public cbadly, _ . l ides this huge
should, aumearity they might Wrote upon
almr say mor le
of Irower: and no v willing Or ends planar
make Woman of
their actions. A body ofpublic officers with such large and
unrestricted powers would aw be considered _ [what
dangcma, even if its members were annually subject to popular
K.4 Ctaw[md. Clerden On011uel Cm'emmn:e Page 26
:Wer Bod.... tried 1W
chadon. hit Iltc IIQ,I[IIr,, who examiled Ilwn
powers in Quarter Sass..... w... Nc appointees of the Qavem�
and of bad ve serge quaWicadoa for public oll4e.
Many of them wart .Id mons ofi¢r; and most of Ncm arm at
aWOelent income A, rend,, them indifferent to Na hardshlos and
wants of the annme btl working weaker .•
The marmot in p,pminion in Pickering Township Ilam 675 in
1613 to 2642 in 1835 Pat national pressure on a system of local
government which ',,portends had critically in fulfJli.gitsobliea
-
mch smaller population. h is not hard m immune ma
demand it
lfor roam, cad bridges which went unheeded At the
level of pro ...rhd government tM some held arra Tim mwvy
was tilling up quickly, applications and demands for land into,,
•L AL Micros. tee Onwrlu iax,nwp 0 eaaea is Qaxlam. oup.dr.
page 27.
transfer$ and sales were Pouring into the registry office and the
delay in Processing and issuing drum, when contrasted with the
efficiency of the tax collettor, must have led to a good deal of
tl1
Over and nano this there w among the n otters. a
Mmg
Over
lm Bdtam and z kwledge of theademands for
reform widen were being pressed on the govemment there. In
the all of the rumors there Samecourts to the British
Must code which remweA me death act from 400 oHevees.
Many of die restrictions me Catholics were removed in 1829, and
from 1820 until the passing of the Reform Actin 1832, there was
mm uws antl growing demand for ao extension of popular
repremmmdov. In IM1e year Nat the bill was passed there were
four mass mmtirre. speeches. rallies and even rims in support of
is At the same time the Taws forbidding workmen to leave the
Under Kingdom, which had Men passed to coneverve the labor
force during the Nalmleome Wars, were repealed. and a Mem of
new mmigrants came to Camara. Edward Phillips, Wm. Donbm.
the Anvam, Trials, Ullchrims, Wilkies, Bmwvs and Lawson,
Vincenm, Gonicks, Winlem, Palmers, Benners, Osboums, Bless.
Famous, Poachers, Mdmyres. Reynolds, VeMons, Wilwus, in
Pickering Township were among the recent arrivals and many of
them w m Refolmns. Some of them were Orangemem as Wein
the Gordon brolhera of Lot 19, Broken Front.
But perhaps it was the mcmah making and rallying around the
outlying tliuncu that gave McKenzie else iden of .singing a march
on Toromo to demand refmmx and no doubt for many a young
fellow, terminated by the talk and the evidence of his own eyes
and bored by the Mrd IaMe of Monier life, it march on Toronto
Seemed more like a lack than ,serious military undertaking. The
terrible fimw which resulted may be laid at the door of the
dividxl authority and imecisivenes of the leaden and the Iwk
of proper tr ning and discipline among the collowers. Joseph
Gould, at one shoe n member ol'do&riding of York Caudy, has
own a triturator of nn elacumn of the thirties— The Gomm-
rnl selected the places of Nomination in the eonulmmemios to
is die si,es. Tax plain thus selected became the places of
Polling, and us there vas only ane Polling Place WMyx d for eah
riding, the poll was kept open for a week ateand !m
qucntly larger_ The law was that she Poll should time,
ekept open
as long ns votes WfcrM, crashed an humeri of an hour did not
Mi without vote being polled. It was only necessary to Poll
sledge vine each hour in order is prolong an election tamest.
It was the season in which the tavern kcepers reaped a rich har-
vest, and it was a common assume with this class of gentry to
It i
P OV v,
Joi Gordon, Oreigemon,1837
Mld a number of voles in reverse, Wagon them up rale at
Time
within IM1e hour when necessary to keep the contest going on.
It was also Ne practice of the candidates, who expected voters
from distant townships, to keep aw If they were WNnd,
this mum was drawn upon to keep theWriteup, so as W allow
me for the arrival of their reinforcements. It was IM1e presence
Nen for candidates In kap open houses, providing recruit
and accommodation for their supporters Them was no restriction
o the sok of liquors, or to Imanng. And as might his swiveled,
them move public houses were bible spots for meeting printout
crops of violence and bloodshed. Broken heads and black -eyes
were ordinary events. And sometimes men were maimed for ISe
or were kilkd outright, at Wase scenes of strife date,- eco airliner
contest. The constituencies were very large, some of them as large
an area so
twof ours. The settlements were new
and very much centered, and We roads execrable The amount
of Receping and pulling and hauling required to get out the "Irce
and independent" voters emailed ananaerobic ot of hard
wink ... The Compl mm had long been a theme to the possibly
disposed at obstruct and, armed with bludgcum, and sometimes
ma arms, used to lake possession of the 0011; and they subjected
those who dimmed from uric in opwlon to all kinds of ILL
ve
n p'•
The discontent while nor m,cial wera, t0 have Oman wide-
spread In the township cu ms lives of United Empire
Loynlish Fng1i$ h iso rem ish :rad American ubiem and down
through the Wide 0l churches set Wal while the tern Radical, or
Reformer earned with ito[ Anrcricernism o
Repub4camsmt itis yrobabtMwmo navy of W. L. Mckmocs
idem bad a swung republican davou and ba'aer, it ws,fashion-
abk among Hngnsh colonial oMcers and Costly Gmwct Anglo-
philes to adopt a mMeseMing mdtude an both the Americans
and the backwoods Canadians who made up the greater part of
the papulation. The edectlooeering of Sir Fmrcis Mond Hard in
1836 and the round defeat he admiolserwim The more modwase
reformers brought We homages to the fart and iuctumed their
determination to d0 something.
Meanwhile in tiro Township of Pickering mcetinas a[References
were hold in the taverns and trnimg under the guise of market
double was being dove In various parts of We mwmMp.
It seems doubdul that mast at those who assembled north of
Toronto in 1937 were clear as to what they were exomed to do.
Many perhaps thought that he cell was for a slgw of fame with
vout bloodshed When Mckenile held his secret heading in StouQ-
ito on @c. 2. 1837, and passed out envelopes of instructions,
the result was that captain Pater Matthews gathered up his for
low¢and oro b m
Modgaerys'u to n Yonge St. (near
r
the present intersection of Elliman Aver): Mandates and sixty
man o burn the Don River bridge, s than would be
the way is
nwmmh reinforcements front Scarborough would mach
Toronto in support of the government.
While this was game on the what, an Yonee Street capitulated
and fled and Matthews card his men seaward, took to due wool
and hid in the Rosedale orange. Here they remained for uveml
days until they wren form 1by cold and burger to walk to the
W. H. xryrin.. hue sad amu a Ralph Gema Temmn 1e61. PaR m
home of Remit James Duncan. close to the German Mills in
Marklvm. They had dinner and it mane skep. During the night
rise house was surrounded, Peter was surprised in his bN and
although it is said that he threw his captor against the door sidle
still in best, be was ovnrome and taken to the gaol in Toronto.
Hem he was kept while his name was added m the list of inset
gents Nwg removed by J. B. MMsuleg Staretary to the GOvaT
no -
and holder of 50 now of wild land adjoining Mmthuws Lmn.
Madmws and Loam were
condemned to death fuvr o
although over 8,000 People pnom ed for their ecau, William
Lyon Mckenve said a him, "Cap. Peter Gustavus was a jolly,
hole, cheerful. ebony chmeked former of Pickering, who limit on
Me own land, cultivated ors own estate and was the father of
fifteen Cuban, who pawn ed the Sullivan, the Dort and
the Robinsons in ,in for that mercy to their faller which they
hememon mut ym implore from a just God. Capt. Matthews
land fought bmvoly for Eric King of England in the war of 1813,
n of m mined reputation. well beloved by his neighbors,
scanning,
modest jn his resources, a baptist, nnfncomy m
high elmr.M1 a undanry, a rare pri and infignind at file
treacherous fraudulent centime of the dnciends Lmn, who in
1837, Demand Gnada. I often got his vote for a seat an the
legldwas, and ulwuys his approbation J" Der Matthews w
the only Toxalship man who was Water. His protein w s then
confirmed by the government and Hannah, the sad wake, and
mother of Peter's fifteen children, left wild nashlnv. Onu or two
of the older children remained in Canada, but the ran.. i with
their mother left for be United Smem, string in Murray,. In
1849 the property was returned to Ne family who roused it to
David Matthews and eller modems until it was add to ilia
supernatant in 1865.
Good Mnnhowx x e fortunate Man his from, and
amcm by Racing to Pickering and biding in a stow stuck until
it s safe to return home. Others wrt, not so nobody. George
Barclay, TovwWdJ Wixoq Randal Wixom, Asa Wixom, Johnson
Sly, Intl Wilson, Thomas Sly, who had been disciplined by his
church for pulling his wife's Fair, John kind, lames Brown,
Asha Wuson, John Rmsenia ill Revlon Wixuo, Ira Andersen,
Thomas Tray, Thos, Soared, were arrested and Randal Wixom,
James grown and Ira Anderson mien rwiin a number of fans
crs from other vans of in,, colony wam transported to Etgland
n chains. Benjamin Wait,, ono of the prisoners de criMl the
sway -fans day voi "Worn the whole number, including
E C faults Low sad 11.11 If l ne PRW0. diseases K. was d70
venty three suite limitations and eleven felons had beat mamhM
and sent below together, and the Imp or batch of The imn gads
Inked down upon us a Beene a draft nion and tumult commenced
which begins dexnPlfon The shams and currom
as the
follows fighting for winegrower mmglul colt theelanL"mg of
chains, aided by IM1e frigid chilliness Of Ne atmosphere and the
damp fetid smell arising form the bilge water. cleated mass
sensations of IT end dread and ambitious . For my own
pa1 felt dam The WI trials of life had arrived ... Then I would
base Oven worlds w have containers my life upon the polar
Some of IM1e prices who had Leen socia d in Ca oda were
mnshipered and went on theirway to exile in Van Dreman lend,
others were taken To Movement prison in lass Some of these
particularly Americans, were later semyroded To lq while the
practices. ha udirs Wimp, had their cam taken up by interr
ailed Englishmen. While there Randall Vision words: his family
Goat Newgate.
His IeRer is addressed, Me Joseph Wiaon, 9 Con. Pickering,
Home fiyrim, Upper Cards, Brougham Post Office.
Honored Father,
It is wo years This day fins Queen Victoria firt amended to
the throne of Great Britain. shove half of which I M1ave been
impdemed bxaase her repremntal in Canada mfumd to Her
subjects there, the site of fnamrm Bonds sabjare, I brief, any
bran in England roneTM1ing more than via months using every
eodeavwr To gain that justice bare which was denied me in my
own tory. I M1ave no doubt every step taken with ort proem..
to ming here will eventually ve ally proto be perfectly o
tonal and illegal frobegnammg to and. But how long n
spay yet be m bring it fairly w The m Tom, c show.
The Government have had my ase before them for nearly 4
weeks and am yet macaroons — IT "plass how TO reform
Ai r and hung on upon me and my fellow products) dust
which am worthy of the Royal clemency I orally du not expect
any thing from IM1e merry of the Government. But from wb-
mining the Jule w a Parliamentary mwetigmion, 1 have hopes
of succeeding, and always how had, The foundation for such ars
ordeal Is now laid. On the evening of the let, Is LOM
Boundaries another a peddan for myself and fellow pdmners in
tlas House of Lords; Accompanying the promotion, with a vary
Intl, though mmewhat starexpmitioo of our illegal mos
. for Jr. nmm.of Lem, modes 11 L, C.
yonaT, nor am, felt 20,
VYlui'Ci fl ui]mm Pi4tmeer lu Eaglnd. (Hun Jul IV hmy 6Ji lww IeIO
inew. on the owning of the 18th. Mr. Under pecacred it
Counterpart to the Nouse of Common, rweriing his remurkx for
Tuesday the with Inst. The G ...res m deemed answering Ford
Brougham simply saying that our cams were on@r the cartel
area of the Government and That they aid not wish anything
mom
saw shoo t at that time, and so me matter fens.
1 have go quite unwell for svernl days and haw been mixing
medicine, but I nm getting somewhat better than I was, —1 will
give you more pamenmrs as 1 team mem daily.
so good evemne.
June star Well goad morning Father. My health is yet bot very
indifferent. 1 shall monsieur to over no agniet sickness and
sorrow and confinement as well as I run i do not think Wert is
much danger of being war for further; — but 1 do think it runs
probable that I may be normal hack to Carl either to give
buil, or to stand trial for High Treason. 1I the latter whould turn
out to he the rase, 1 shall die on the scaffold cheerfully, rather
than submit to transportation and the degradation of dssiging
out¢table imnact w in foreign slavery, Yes. Father, after all
that 1 have suffered, it would be worse than contusions to shrink
from any death that could he devised — By de, Iry, why don't
you write, What are you afraid of. You never write me a single
now, w mote than if you was or fore er world. 1 do think this
is loo bad. So sector this.
Good evening.
June 22nd 1839. Well based morning, i huge you are well; I
am rather hider this morning, though considerably out of Gear
arm _— have a slow imveM fever— not confinW to Find — caking
medicine. 1 went you nW to fail answering this, and telling ne, all
about the whole of you, not forgetting to ttll me about my own
family. Write without disguise at it will wine as me unopened.
1 wry muoh fear there is something 'notice at home, and I have
reason for it. Therefore let them be no mvaby, or crowfoot
ofanything. 1 Im very unwiring that any wrong imprewiwS
should rest against me; and I should be quite as unwilling to in-
dulge in anything of the kind agvnat any other person
1 haw the Six Soverelgm which 1901 from W. MicM4 ovept
15 pence. I am in hopes of having enough if I.tlwuld be liberated
M1erc, to take me near to New York in aeote,
on twice, if n
my more, from which place 1 shall be able to make my way home
me how. f am not without hopes of this yet. and I shall lie,
on prison allowanw (though not very know for a person in bad
health) rather than exhanu my hNe seam.
O Father, you base no idea of the gainers of year unfortunate
— Imprisoned is a fortim land, And all thin without having
committed any real cr Gas. It iz really a hard ¢. But
Gad is good and will do all things well; and aauu it all he work
for my bent good, It 1; heuewec very hying in the mean time.
I do nm 10yeat to call upon GW in my Trouble, now do f Inch
proof that God Mars prayers and Lambency, Amwem.
Goad Recruiter
June Sdm. Groat morning Nothing inoro whim can M depended
Phone M1m ret come to my knowledge. I aninstant! by Rev, Da
TMtnwn no that Mn Ludnr had ... t praised his
urprtr ata LLaHru of Cousin but rvhM1dm
he
modmble not Know certain a most be a mtharmm ul motion
for flood. t i 1 think he must hate lemned something m
mnpeedt the of Got a ale i e, 1 u
not
r think funny Chir of Ih putatthe r q I Buell
mm he surprised at any thins that happens ober enemy eafiuingn.
r bemm In mlMq Mnet.
caaa day.
Me Jet. cool mo sing Well here I vat yet. The weather has
ea
Mer been all shivering chitim i toted err mer aha h moan a in we
have been allrli with the cold. We beer wei m fire in at
Larry since early in May. I neverIreember sceiag noeM1 drill[
that It in July before in my life. 1 really think y a linin two or
that I can hearnothinglin fated you I havewhen nand written two or
three letters o week since I was in Newgate end gat Done except
n package from Roth containing a letter from UsuArnie Joshua,
hisis
one fmm Elder Marsh let also. a gm one from Annie. This in
ell. pull
mat I suppose my letters are g.wordslleave
wete m and I
shell soon not
they van ml an a wining. J from you. made tip
my mina not n. wine any mora Bata f bear from yar
Gm oebl.
Joe,yesterday
'ad
day Goodmorning.
an Lord John (powers)
forfarracbuck
yesterday at s onily we banal a (pnm go o Up Craig,
tlu what unity w Dahl bar Roebuck
meso backed, Upps Gwrin
or thenotex Bute.To tour anr. othertanro`Mylan,
you cannot expect then to Sive any other than unci[ awn per
banal wind Pot *la it; as Meir nm going s t Gnatla, 1 think
they would not *law i t but err m Irmi eno ble. to Sit to Nc
bond
StaJohn,
will think muhat is more n enable." swell, aid
let
a know s you communicate h Mr, Roebuck
the lied in the
act me know she reselldi to whirM1 oe ck conk relaietl in the
and requese.ted
And accordingly our o t. Roebuck called last evening
Whichrequested in he stale bar wishes upon the subject in writing.
Wxich we dna in 0c following noir,
In joy. 1809.
Sir
We the andenlgned an.nnoo :n Shapiro bee leave m start.
in nilly to mem mbmmed to , than m of our being
tuth
set aI nny, we avian order inn, rreogni.m:w, rot any sao that
ropy be deemed It mu I, mona to the Province It
DPPm Convaa, hav rm at presentin�na o do s
We ME, however. that those all be or nbmt to our ask-
ing any a..ngenient want the Colon,,) Govummenl hereafter.
allowing our return To the Province.
Signed= John G, Parker
Randal over,
Lennard Watwit
Finlay Makohn -
Paul Backed
Robert Walker
In, A derson
debts Blanc deal sea,
diagram Naos.
IN, H. Ashman, Fell
We have mare nothing from ens as car Ilan we sn a nim from
pother quarter that the Govemmwt had nearly concluded to
Ilbvr n binding 11 10t 11) go to Cam:du ill
the Stut
of Nov York _ 1. R. AToronto ce
Soup of Toronto en see Mr.
Parker press, by when, Ire heard that Dr Simulate came over
With Ibim w6n u now of turn¢ nude a Bishop. And, also had
Junes Small is II I hope is lllll be in m we m r, My
may servic alowlr. we am all m rSo cloud spirit, you. you
.
may wen aarnme. sn enna msm to ren:.
IDh pn/. It ced us folhm Ne Dom-mr,ml urgau
The Morning CLmnlde". it mi
tra been round in cul iruble
I,, bone the gin", I Phe Pud to trial It Englund f cunlonnirt
ale the maceird he In the edup theminem
of that,
Cupp n( ii,M1eWen
the Goo m k z trined w them that upon o
pe Wren .. not
net to return m uch da,ind they ry front
nt role Car o
we nave not yen t1 hied any such a pa tram me en..
common dirvdrop ed n the c it more then tpmw walk
enc we shn11
bvrn to
dropped I in the Manu of the next utak-11 m, a chap
to be Canada
in a few dura ndnwicted but I da not that I
In return ro Canada a t:norc: and indicted J cannotsay man 1
desire a an o, for a non leen men hnt 1 am cup
be able
wwoad. m a coq i[ I get back m 1forIAmerica, I rand 1 shell
be able to pmare v comfortable IhzliM1ood far tnys<If and ramble
On looking aver what I ban wn n, I land that there e
great marks of weakness, perhaps a in rmtnre. Well, you will be
Add enough to owtlook any hardwaas of Wig sort My health is
considerably better. I wrote to Eunice Sperm by the Livcryaal
Steams last month. during would be more draftable Wan my
filmy. I do not know whether my wife came to Iwm anything
from ore or not, I hope you will sena this m het as son, as ymr
haw opportunity after msding it yourself. May God keep and
member nil of you Your Dutifut Son
Bar Wines
N.B. Jsnu Brown and Ito Anderson tire to good heNW and
wish to L remembered to than friends'
Randall Worm and the Curacao acre become and sailed for
America an the "WmLnglon", loq Yl, I939 but did not mum
to Canada.
Some of We rebels who named random during We adnime on
Toronto esaped cut and crossed Lake Ontario from 1M harbor
at We mouth of ate Rogge reports. '
Moral the ill feeling which had gown no in the towtsmia
as a some of the nuniy between Rebels and loyalists made it-
self felt in all kinds of ways. Mr. Wm. Dunbar and his two sena
and Mr. Geo. White, ap of We Scottish statement at Wnbmton
arched to Toronto, questioned and released The Annmt
homestead on Mature Road was searched for rthb and its two
old chop quos confiscated James Greigo clerk of Session at the
Pmebyterino Lurch, led a onion para to she Leary of Me Poa4
n the second combustion, As they entered, looking for rebels,
they w t dos'smarmy by Pests daughter who, with poker v d
been poker her hand, m split the skull of the first one
who came near. Meanwhile her younger sister, Helen was sent
to wain the registers. As she went one,f the party sentsenta bullet
after bar which buried itself harmlessly to a rce. James Calg
hied in his Session liecoraa an 24th of remember and -reduced
himself from fdlmmiip".
Something of his character is shown in We story of how, after
he married his bmlbcrs widow he me& o habit of keeping vcry
close tab me everything that went or n the Joan. Trading that
the meson was being nand more quickly than it should hrvc been
he added an emetic to the sugar eddy, only in land that tha estate
seem snu measure of ire increasing T,wmhip Browbeat
bowery. m nv
a that one man 9mJlm a v Lake amaan
while Mein cab ...... deal man, c uaga,d from am Rose or Recession
in a memo, arts, hiding m omna> and Janata.
party was poor old uncle Omnlay. who was apparently vying
to sweeten the hard actions under which James operated his
household.
Among thou suspected of migration n'as Rev. R. H. Thornton,
who had begun Imlding Presbyterian services in Pickmine. 11e
hada detachment of soldiers billeted in his house, who, one dark
night, fired on the clergyman as he w air home from
Gumr
Columbus — fw who wly be exaped Injury.
Someof hathio who were ahvitl mWinguch uncleared in the
di rebellion
xM1of the
fiwn the ice of the hom share f the
did not ere
ere
carried of rho oOsweg along the oonh shorn o[ Content
f Oshawa
cried c¢ron to Oswego , he reia Daniel Coned n(ewhe
n the schooner l "Intone". in a remainder us as possible, ssible whzn
Noy mould oud vied N mutein fo i Canada are allknon.
The ,the of the randhollscone s for Canada are wall known. Lord
we
Durham, the Commissioner Earn b in verma:ke the troubles rzc
emud that change m the form of gopemmar was as am long eller the presentation 1841,n perf tax famousand Lo Repan, charge moo Wood
long
in ming. In egish Upper and Lower Canada
yea were united oned
,stain into a Legialadve lining and in the years which followed
outcome dationRclormars,
that, in bringing w pnex Lord DurM1anrs
meow mi sha4
recommendation
reamembeicetV ro he oversted r and
of all ry, should of
be Cov rept 15c Governor with B tish Cons should
be muredGovernor
by every cams known to the British should
be in. -
re Gavlist as the repay an its of the Crown, should ho im
wded that he ho vary an his gnvlature by Lads of tlm
Imrl:wnla, in whams the United no support
floorhall rem i cony
fidenw; and chat be mon te. excforept
t support aw home in any
coolest with Nc Lcgiilvlurc, coapt on pointe invotviny strictly
Imperial interests."'
to say
Who is m soy Ma much a coumry must pry of its Iazdoin^
lcruhwn. To Whom N also Did n[ OUMam, 1819, Monaca pope 301.
CHAPTER X
MILLS AND SNIPS
By the time the Act of UPion was played in IPAI, Narrating
TownsFlp had emwgad fmm the rally pSharing stage and had
begun a period of pronominal Fmwlh, The population bad
Was up from 1718 in 1832 to 3752 in 1 At no while there was
sill much to be done to sitar the land for firming and to open
the conlon ands and rdelays, the township My beginning
take mine
t as a and g nNeo than n prem [ares with a Law
tato, xome mbine and clearing. at ve hamols become
t
to pinkie
b the Kana, t me whlult Fed bocomn p toll road
s planked from Tommo to thin ed a DiM1cct r were d didwas and
Mpmved. and p tray it wagons a began
run mad and was no
gravelled umil IP60, Stage Fegvn mooing from Toronto
Rmrye Hill Toil Cart
t_
Frenc6avans,,Buy. 1890
as early as 1816 and were replaced by Welles repairs in the
1830'x. In Pickering uag lines ran up she track Road and
ross dip sixth and ninth concessions to cormet with Markham
Mmes
poor, stage c aelim etluiPpM with a -
force and by 1834 there were Gvn roaches a weal, Imm Toronto
to Kinp9on. An advertisement read:
"Mnmreal, Kingma and York mail stages leave Montreal,
Kimsron and York every day except Saturday and Sunday at
lour A. M. and arrive the following day. All bagyuge at the
owners risk. Fare from KinF9on m York 5600, buvgag, 30 Has
and under free."
During the summer Lake navigmion was often Rod in prefer -
arm to the coaches which sometimes had a rough passage. In
low places. tog would be used to prevent the muhes from sinking
to the mud,'Whole trimmers of trees were vacrimod to food a
corrugated anmeway or their round trnala, laid side by side. aver
which wagons could as slowly drugged or bumped.. any attempt
at speed lying checked by an ..nmcdi:nc rymmnm of approaching
menhaden of vehicle."'
lPlliam Welke out me Royal Mail line four horse coaches, the
most famous tiny, and personally drove one trio from Toronto b
Montreal (360) miles in 35 hours and 40 minutes, with changes
of horses at mrs; such. ox Sears Comer, Oshawa or Pats Inn, just
east of Pico rmg Village.
11. Twenhmwr molars of Piceaiaenmle 11 Tomwemum.
In 1833 a sten....left PrcanoO ncry J,, lar 1'oronm. Hamilmn
and Niagara her It flee time the popolatioo was not large enough
no make mob a hot orvinable However, by 18401her. were idly
Ile lake. Among the most think, the (,feet
Im a Robin a 400 plying bet t,l'or wW
Ningw wub u t Hamlllon. In 1842 tl,, llavhuna Im,
sh ieled and n hill, line, the Royal Nail line with three ships,
Prinren Rowl, CiA of loon, and Smnelym. They regarded
between King,t1a, and Toronto.
AI Frenchman Ray shipping became more and more impor-
idea s the produces rat the lumber ends, Bart mills and tarns
haeme Bremer. Decks were built at the north end of the bay, in
n area which is maim at present, and in 1843 work was began
opening the channel into Take Ontario so that legal ships
might use it, A horse drawn ekvamr and scoop we used for
Nis margins: but by 1865 the stomach was opened and the docks
built.
Bmmbew of heavy silting at the northern end of had bat', a road
constructed and the which moved to the cast side of file bey.
The nalaafion of the docks and elevator, which brae sit
disappeared, wss on the east side of the bay too, but much acam
Take rateio. With the growth of shipping and dock faaililies.
Formation and the tiny village of Liverpool on the Kingston
Rwd tome into being.
Some roads, such as the road which run dawn between the
Rouge and little Rouge, one used to haul timbers, masts
and
log down to the sawmills or to the docks on Lake Ontario
For the most pan ties mods within the township Overt cut out
and maintained by stahumlabor. The District Road Commiuion-
would Mei& Aar was to be done and what amount of public
money spent and then the actual mark was murds! out under the
subdivision of the puthmnslns chosen at the annual Town meet
ing. As the papulation pew the harbor of two dominate incleascd
and the mads were opened up rapidly toward the middle of the
casualty, Most of Ne Kings College and clergy reserve lands had
been sold before 1840 tad had passed out of Ibe hands of the
Orono into firm of free holders who thus, at a late dao, hernme
holder, of demo fall, the Crnxn.
T:mher was the big capon product of the day, and in 1845
f5dmhg warrant three .1hon fm of [unifier. Them were Mehry,
airships in operation in Piokuring Township in 1846 and wounty-
six
In 1848 so that it is evident that the greet stands of place and
tendered which once covered the township went rapidly bewg
cut way. Lumber was shipped out of Freethinkers Bay nM the
Rooge across to Oswego NY. where it might be taken dorm the
Oswego Coal and the Bde Goalm New York are, or It might
IIM 1, mental in Turned whore it Nuhn of coupled had teem.
Probably the largest somber operator was ]oosen: Pan whac
mill was at Dallas Creek near the Back Road
Tis growth of the mills location a demand for came skilletl
timAmsn. minwlighs. carpenters. joiners and construction men
who did not intend m beware farmers. Often they would build
Louses for thcnmlves near the mill sites. This was eaoaiulh, into
where they womad at the four grin mills as little communities
vrom grow mound Pickering Village. Claremme, Damo otl and
Brougham,
Timothy Rogers mill was located on the pal site of acres-
one
iererane Village in 1807, and was in operation real his death in 1827.
For some years there does not appear H hard bran a gdn and[ In
Picurrng, By 1837 James Elliott had a mill southern lust north
of the village, which at that time had ten ar twelve families Ten
years kir thea were about 130 people in me village and it
homed a summary, a smarmy, several st and warkuhups and
four churches. The Featherman. Roman Catholic Wesleyan and
Darker, St Omrges Anglican, defended at the beymmg of the
fattier undo the tuNlage of the Eaniats was completed in 1848.
DuMns Crack. as Pickering was aphid, nko had a doctor, Dr.
Bums, probably the first in the neighborhood.
At Claremont, Jahn Miden built a mill on the mu vada of
Le 18, Can. VIII, which is south of rho Present village. He men
had a atom .about half a mile with of the present village eross-
mads. In 1847 Thomas Noble kept store W the stone building
still standing on tire south cut of the intorecaioe which
had men built by John Hamilton`The name, "NWles Comm'
me to be attached or the lloge. In 1851 the village obtained a
Post Office antl the name Clatemdnt, ws suggested by W. H.
nn
Michell in memory of his catrel homein Flnnm. The some
year Sohn Michull movM his business into a new brick building
,meet the crossroads and in the may 18505 tin village boosted
Node Same, Past OFtm, alrenem' Hotel mad Maintain Store. It
s still difficult to get to and from Clarcumm and its merchandise
had to he handed by wagon tram Toronto or up the Brock Road
from schooners in Fleishman; Bay. Much of the busiwn was
carried on by batter and it is mid that wagonload of eggs was
hauled to Toronto every raw, days, while butter and Other prod-
vetsre
of hire find weexchanged for travelerstravelersgnmerie,
At Whines], the first had w considered by Jahn Major in
the 182Ps. In 1850 Taman White built a gristmill and added
draper shop, planing mill and mon and door factory, and the
porommion of the village began to grow.
Brougham crimused after Lord Brougham, was dnginally the
name of the Pmt Office at Howells Hollow, wehqust of the
Orchestra village. Hart, on Int 15, Can. V., Mr. Siccly built a saw
and grist mill about 1832. Th, plan, got its name, Howell's
Hollow, from Henry Howell whu bought tin and about 1833. At
on time it was the only grist mill operating; in the Iowmhips
Howell Later built distillery Mae where men could emlmnge a
but of gram for whiskey.
Bentley's al built about 1835 at the back Road samer
attracted v number of industries and gradually cul ran Howells
Hollow is the she of reference. Greenwood developed around
Ne mIDs which Frededot Grove affected in the vicinity from
1343. Knmvn oripinnhy as harvest. it soon took an the name of
,is most incarnated dtlecn. The aids at Greenwood, which may
be considered in have been among the best In the ishowl ie have
been designed by Alan Clerk.
"Oa property, normally patented by Bacterin Hallowell in
1798 and Liter owned by His. lobo Elmacy, an Englishman by
Tim name of Matthew Cmketlinc purchased a millsim of about
101) am, in or occur 1840. The former gentlemen, king wri-
deots of York (Traveling), and intensities modltlons being primi-
hw, it Is highly pmbuble the[ Galvedine was the fust owner In
x the moron which he had privileged This praredy Iry in
the north half of Lot 12 Concession S. and economical in in
whole length the valley of DuG sCreek.
"At u point about a quurtteo4unnile south of the Jamwnt
villageine' n the x side of Ne Gownxvcd owed,
whom the river banks steepen and marrou, to about 150 yards,
this mill -site was selected Hew he constructed his mill -dam antl
will
"Three years loci in January of 1843, he decided to ark this
primly, On Jnnunry 3L Matthew Cmkerlinc paid M the cal
ance of his mortgage_ and three days later an February 3, be
writ the property, mill and water rights to Pmderick Green. Mr.
Green was I
miller by tmdc. o,idmdty from the Tile of Ily,
England. As his milling and property in expanded N the
com
wiry he became known alm' own as 'SgGwen!
"the original data c fus
comm n k
t boa been n
undertaking; with its clearing of the sit, the mmaing and diver
Ing if the, greeter naw of the deer, and the building of the
Aced gales and mill race. The dam remained , timber core over
which the earth was piled to a height of eight to ten fact near the
road, and to a harght of nearly twenty feet a the river bed. it
(retched east and west across (lie narrowing of de valley. At
g
the w end of the dam, we timber food area Granted the
overrun At the rest end of me dam the mill rate was built
parallel to and only a few yuNs from Na road,
"Behind the dam the water linked ep ooc ave
a of r
Los arm,, and old-timers say that it Presented A lovely umein
Ibc wmmcr and hue skating in Ilw winter. Wit rimmed the
forks of the Pond, and x m1mdel of Woo g1clL, nm tnor are
ad119vminor at the site uttile time ofw
'Some tawmy to [,only file yard,, moth of the east red of the
open, It the ted of the mill Eli a lore, at home called
the now of the water to a row :dmre mo u ry of Ife emal
wheel which Earned q,ia.l the de side or me mal. Often the
what! me elders himbled and felt and the tailrace flowing dada-
wul to the Eli to the armh of the aunt The nN mw of
r ��d
forks of the Pond, and x m1mdel of Woo g1clL, nm tnor are
ad119vminor at the site uttile time ofw
'Some tawmy to [,only file yard,, moth of the east red of the
open, It the ted of the mill Eli a lore, at home called
the now of the water to a row :dmre mo u ry of Ife emal
wheel which Earned q,ia.l the de side or me mal. Often the
what! me elders himbled and felt and the tailrace flowing dada-
wul to the Eli to the armh of the aunt The nN mw of
the 4repm commit M ante In mid-sammer, wnerms in the spring
and at Modaimn, the pairs water ata, remd mvm tee WW fault.
This mill became krone as the Lower Mill.
'Sheltered in the ke of de, drum ,IT ngir nt the vhm, of the
n W11, the original milt, n from, b gilding of dune-und-mh,lf
orcya, faced onto the rand end to the .south, It is hatievod they
the fund wheel meet how been well over fi0een feet in diameter.
to opera[, each a leg, mill, aM made of oak It resolved on a
Nick oak -timber axle which disappeared into IM1c title of IM1c mill.
As the flume Tictua tl the flow of the stream over the broad
m, the water tumbled into tiMrer troughs at
cups about three
to four wide sac into the free of the nm.
'Tnaido was the nimble of the mill-sbncs. Them seem three
raor irs of tso
be, with each single stone between four and
five paNO in mutant, uncut a four thick and weighing about el
pounds. R is speculated that ,hoe must have been hauled am,
corduroy roads by teams of oxen from Frenchmmis tray o
tmilar WI't When installed the upper stone moment above me
stationary lower stone. The power from the milbwhcel sale as
tnosferred to that revolving upper stones by a... s
s of pulleys,
wide leather holes land large Womi gears with landsame togs.
Later a number of chevmort were added to Int the milling products
from hopper to bin Nmughout the mill -
"To farmer a gravity food, the gain %as unloaded into
hopper at Ox r
middle slorcy, on the east aide by the tallness,
here it was probably elevated onertorey, and then flowed
downwards to Ne various pans of mill -sone, The grain entered
the pairs of failbsmme by meant of a vihmting sloe which distri-
butN the kemek through a hole in the centre of the upper non,.
As the groovingio the stones ground the grain, it was ordered
atthe side of the lower nwu where it dropped through o chat,
to the reel. The and evnN The bran from the &or, In... were
bagged and r ilaimed at the gromW floor level. This mea[, that
the issue hod to step at des east side for unloading, antl then
drive m,,d to Ne youth side for leading flour.
TO filter early days then ww fees rine in the County, and
it is ,aid that pioneer error, brought their omen to Squire
Greens all from Or or nmtn as &oX Township. The surplus
floor, time and above The nrds of the farmer, was shipped in
bmreh to N, Inkepurt warehouse, at Frenchmun'e Bay and lion
Union rip the 'Top Road from Greenwood and the Kingston
Road Them were two deem rumps of this.
"The Om w e the mope -trade, or bEn'cimakinf. The flour
was shipped in wooden barrels of about 206 pounds capacity, and
in Na chromosome ue !nose a large number of men w anbso-
Gently employed. so of mmnm leer life 1r ash In max mae m lite
weet of the village that it became sale, as Cwpsamum The
world, usually ovk wax secured !mm the!noel bund.
"Tile other resell was the need for additional made It 4 knows
that for a mI of years a indoor existed that ran otthonm
from the ails If the Inver Mill, although n0 ease of It has loop
deal JIFaPPnrW. It P lads, accurate wan the Sixth Gnconxi ..
at v point III the dmzwny, of the Presen urural. II w
not until Inlet that the rlght,A.,ay or the south end of the
'lona Road, only muI wall purchased by ensure
Glenn. In all probabillly the north pmnm did not ,an .min the
Tannery and Distillery were locate along the wen we of it
about 1830,It am therefore be and, amt what h known as the
(returned Road.la m fact a -say i road in its northern extension
`An bmime, ,mmir with the program; whereat, may.
nada to the mill A wiI m1flans was male lu
me east end or me mid cad jailed out over lee mill -ter e, for"ing
n type of rearm mmde at the sauna floor hoes of the mdl along
me ,,did, A t rmy-ana.a.hnu lean -lo "In added I
III w end and to utero ter n .thy was
utimam Millin,
machinery n installed. At a Inter Period r and fork
trent kiln was hull noon of the name building and way of
henen and was connected ib me mill by n law Home, alas.
(This kiln Is Incorporated Into the residence of D, L T Ra¢lay-
which study on lee site of the Lower Mill at the time of I,,
ing.] All them uJJlllon end,
tle pro,, o 1875.
e fAn a¢rpt Torn the article of Ross Johnston which separated
or UumnM, I886, under the not of 'The Traveller a the
schaby Greater ad Chronicle sorer:
`-TM1e wall mill is ..or by Frederick Croure Esq. it Is a
aan'c awmy arm, mill with three run of stone T
s.
dmvn by calor Puwm: nmcnlnda in pond conditionem, (, mainly norma memory an Morels per day. Work done nuc a diad
world, ran oft about l be bushel a day int across
we
mill race r wry
fli dare mill ti mkiug'.r fion m' Ne
mill race tvery slippery' operatian, of
myuires me m FnIX
circumick ( ' In the Iedto arcane oI m, cSquire Germy (The
Prcdcl'ick 7. m ompiin lu is ILc r1xhow n of S,,, econtro l
'In BB]. changed
.. ng an me a ch mi Mill mi decontrolled,edin
and h was canothe ov oatmeal Inial. The mall comiru,J m
it so, nosed to claim is m nowtI floea,;,ad the
dmdam_
h wax senses m dammar, moping n Has xdG dna the y ill the
weed mm cows. The mmenalx being salvage For am m me
Upper, Mill Thus ended an industry at the Lower Mill which had
served iss oers and community wall for over rifty years.
Yrr, Syuirc (ireen4 family purchased what is known as the
Upper st d¢ Lower MJI mos apua¢J by his yotmust son.
Clod,, IL Grsa For a i ,f eight veal's it was bell to
John h tNcll ,pen Ill: death In 1878 of Samuel f. Go". eldm
n of Since (owed Froin about 1886 until It was closed down,
the Lower Mill we, under uparallel of Frederick L. Caere
wMwc Ira Petitioned previously. (FIc,hk L, we, I on
of Samuel L Greon-Indo rc
'Many erosions of GreanwoW, coon in 1961, will well remevt
her the hum of immeng Nm nrI the e. mod north a
the foot of she hill tlonq thedaylight hours of any weekday -
The then of Ne mrvil tram the Blacksmith Shoo and the distant
drone et the limit out d the north end of the Intel cruise! to
blend into a hantermy which Sn s the working
voice of Cmc oad AJd m this heck ohlmlhwd w
id
.the ..mmnt of Nc tt of heclient,,
ag the u.I to
tnmaieo. of n ndd-
r the �itegla of j, , M1ame ' bdU, the no
bleu them statingtrial,or oft uttw and c
Iran the ], d pial cf the ave het life thry s toe pulse of
eM1e villa ea. ],dead, rheum most
hill M1enN h will not soon Upper '9'bech al stomas.. muu of veto, antfailladurry was the Upper
Mill ,hint 9aM ubasily a veto, north of dw beat ba m and
tom
of the uillatt. For easily n oil years this goat barand
indittey domleamd the rmtgn, a aed.:n ether thrushes
the
uunJ it , market
for
t a minfiefarmers o for delay
fWiih it Im Nc
lie lie and a marks from farmersofthe valley. With its hum
Imp in s 37, oil[
an era oft downtwo,
never eg remit.
"lois ndll . r know Greenwoodmnwarrfrom the wryGreenwoodadbeginning.In
r whom tarp Nichnhes Howell arrived in o13,Co andonoln
III
Non acre patch He 1 the l noM1 Iul5 of Lot IJ, of 15, ion V.
ace, orL t ut Lot . end northel ISo macs it Lot I5, wJ 50a-
rcs of Lot Ifi in eha':g, concca:oa. He bolter n P.:irly hat
are known L: awaiiI dollo ng and slka, man in what
banner known war Hawaii rhes HOOaw;' the vellcv mutM1 of use M1i¢
Mlle M1alf-utile well se mrdlnegi, Inte IJ, With this 2, Con
lowering I he purchased ie valley
the wntM1 half of Lot 12, inter
to Ven ntlth anIn1Mwllaym the Y mil It ]huge inter
cam,m. he bulli a as Hondal-half dLI ll. . w t ideal
theOman
_ it o Nicholas Howell Nrimit that ha AW fie
rests
Omen N, of bmsitrq 1855. h it ad last dent leo ch root ie
ape hisenmlceitBY in ], had the lisle to much of tire
property he M1aJ undertaken inv'lodng IM1e mill In Greenwood
(The map of 1895 shows that Howell themam ors still owned
200 seem of Lots 15 and 16, Coalman V, at that tlae.)
"Although records indicate tile[ the letter, Mill property passed
into color ownership, it 6 believed that above 1856 Sti Green
leased this mill and begun to apello it The 6vr owed ofomer-
ship by the Green family was in 1868, when Samuel J. Green,
the son of Smim Gmetr produce] the pmperry, me mill and
same rights front Laurie B, Bickel for S6,500. Restricted in the
Family fat well over me neasercey yeah.
"As nalW earlier, this building was four-.ante[-0alf cloreys
high, and Its engine] dimensions Laws approximately 80 feet long,
40 feet wide and 55 4,W feet high. Itis said that it took three
years to build this mill and the Limits used were hated -leve.
Gem pile have off Howell's land to the west of the village. about
24 ..cher .a4uma and 80 fret long.
"A molar of years Inver an addition, known as the Red Mill.
as brought from a location on the Ninth Cowessloq and Insured
t the ...dome ammo The building was three storeys hgh,
about 36 feet wide, 40 feet long, and formed an el] to the main
min.
"Both buildings war or timber and lmme ms traction with
elnPWnrd siding. The smaller mill had at one time been Painted
red.
'M the wutlwna angle Banned by the two milk, a tworencey
kotto was added At later Lim n ]canto w s added to the
west ode and another m me north side, of me mill In me eastcnd
lean-to was located the office or the off far ,any years
•'Each of the four surreys had n numbs, of windows that en-
imiM me grey, weather-beaten side, of the main mill. A fame
canopy also sheltered some of the fattest Lord almost sparrows and
Pulse in Piessing Tnmahip.
"The mill was powmed by a 73 M1om power, downdraft whet]
which ,evolved on a veniaal shaft mooy feet below the Level of
the ground floor. Its powertransferred
tl to great Llier
,equaled from the grono other; thew ran the length and
depth of both dw uuN mill and the Red MAIL
"Over a periW of many yams a tremendous quantity of milling
ma@iium ms metalled in this Offer Mill wort thousands of
dorms. The multilateral made by caped orchestra known
as mill-wrights. Perhaps the best-known of these ons Ruben
Dram, whose skill in his trade was alumni The we[
pressure to drive the ober was derived from damming OUBm4
Creek some mrtequar]ers of a mile Emmet north, and [tons -
himself me water through the militate an a point at the wnM1-
t so& of me mill whom its head' of fall was an least fomn
fors.
ire ander form fill parri was originally brought down to the
wlwcl by an reduced wooden from; nowever, this was force m-
plaretl by a 3Ginch creel pipe of boiler plate that declared at
an angle of approximately tniny-11w degrees for ewe 115 felt m
the wheel.
"With each a GII and volume of water, it was mora bk to oper-
am mmy m04ng processes at the Upper Mill. A lust of these is
is follows:
(a) poor lung — both billed and plenty, with bppishem of
middlings, shorts, bran, and Graham node. Also bandoliers hunt
was made.
(b) Barley flour milling — pin head, puna and pot barley as by-
products, (also barley fresh). This was milled in the Red Mill,
or Rally III is it was somnimo called.
(e) Ceea6 —Scotch Beret', Wheadets, Oatmeal and Flax and
rolls. Also three grades of corn Mur were milled.
(d) Ga b is — ort and barley cM1op, Maley had and mrom ince.
This Mill Awad three days per whi rhe Lown Mill Wished
owl, week day.
"At the prink of its operations, the Upper Mill bas n gmxred
many thousand dollars per yen,. filling contracts with Toronto and
Morelli films, and at one ante even as far as Small America.
Brand names of the Greenwood Maur were: Gave.. City. Wean,
White Awry, Kurmar. and Bokser Jay.
"Mthm,d] there are noon who can recall it at she time of this
writing, it would appear that the milli and midi sac
originally but have x fee Ii than the parent mariamis
wxWo hidwara The ntmceable , of the older upper just
on or
ehind
the mill-race mu still traceable as is t, I the Iwai rya FeM1ind
the da ,Onowe. as Is tuvnuud that, a1 ibc tipolar when what
Iver win known as a g xcona tDamimber
H m the Lime ohm was cod
Iranian, mac was n ghat umber tome carried
thespanning ll emir, and
az hMm r t e i yet long B tato h e full flow of the
it
n r the Wily, and is said gi have been s hool,a n
orlm
ming Paine! of hi for the young gins from me school, an
oldiimm tains da of his boyM1ocd.
"Tt recently maw dmm spanned armrge. atom 150 len wide. Origin-
ally it eenor an enfM1 dem ere were with timber eir me
MtM1 .vnMo and a is fore There were nand gates near me
c omat fl cud and out p gore near the nam until end. tiub-
snrvent ntirda washed out mentons or 06 dam omni h am,
re-
placed entirely with Nr cement neoaorta. me remnma of which
�stdl 6e seen.
'n i. at this I�oim that meridmt :xnnM he mase of the many
clman who atended nu dam III III Ibe trying and
.groese^n, s daysandnights of t1l It Is said that in mgll fiord
the or me o great that b dro I u at .bu
or the nate only ren fronteachother. Add m Far me blismas
and the buy of a assuming meLv and one rennus the matt@ of
the melt wIm reduced me trying Slide I, ,, Sol ro keep due
milk rr Lord the brtaJninner, of IM1e light e. ring. At
rm,I bod, IM1e dam backed up o'er many hundreds of your,
alamet to the Seventh processor, in re flood hood,
mid lost IM1e wutm mare) through the gate, do to six feel beery
`flowerer, it would be unfair not to minumn the huwy and
the paid of the LEE and inget oadw border Ondilir
The walk along tire road tothe hear orate milMme toate
drum we, too firodurge mostints or may 3 of Mln_cr,
ur a SuuduY ^hoc n Plea whx
oI
"Owr, the mlmH ninny yeah in bins I...I 11th Nlll w
In (111 ou_ domes of aniflers the and labonms' ai w4m flab families
h Ibe vmruge. Some re the n M"Inite millua ImJ AlLod. MI of the
Mar
,hall, ml Gerry,
were. John Mitchell, Fir Lockwad o d, res Mar,
Moor order,Aff Carry, Charlea \ilson...11, Robert
tShowod, Alexander
Moog Alfrtal (hind a E.liowmin, Robc[I Orown (mllbwtlgllt)
James
Ihemat mead man aor).
.busy mat npemter on a inn -hoar daymayor
boor acorn m six, and
,it busy snuam' operated Jay and uiyo,r The grant ml for rho
At
_ ainf mill is he begs per Imue a Soo grant per far At
times like them IM1e loop
Ellie [c would be their op as for base
as[lie
hefront, shoo abJ tla Joru waiting er their turn. a Nero
liters the riept II stood oboe m Mops at the turn
animal.
and IM1e rnnxnt heli,, Indeed, Ny Mill al the tom of the crnmry
in and Ommio x.0 net wimom its slwinl value m the caul
foily: 100
About 200 am. of Jehoul
nbi g. fired an employee of the
Cppnr Mill JI¢werm a fire my'ng. ONer employee M1sJ mer
working bac at IM1e moll huntiles ase find or alarm x summer
and nearby a se ma a my chase land forms tried to was
me
lire. The heavy visible
forand
Mi the Nlmee gale, I. neh. Thu
flamlBoll x SCImm !nr miles. Dire brigade, form Bondthe
handler and ad dont,do iv the xeoa r ALI toy
IM1e
,mouldering
mile f li m, ny able Iho Limorelay Inf Iny a gee
amlleeol a that or or msen W bre. n tats day, themrt the trans
cool oeough for na to lysin In .tele mem- me trim
ImsIde
Yet. he II J el §only id
pa
"Y,v, Nee ollre Itlb only pert of the story. For h, res of me
tory. ask the olJS ua—and lmtrlt their eyes linhtup"
CHAPTER XI
AGRICULTURE AND POLITICS IN TNG FORTIES
In the fodle; a mer the first fierce battles for mr, nl had been
n looked armed dorm and prepared to take Ile next
ship to v fuller and more comfortable life. Because agriculture war
am foundation upon which the township was broader, it war
natural that they should look he improvemcros in farming and
retire rv.ae
sing . of achieving their aims The Bost agri-
halmal
pnp, in Upper Canada was The Autdoh American
o@ro red In I842 by W. G, edmrndwn of Trustee. R
was on followed by Pre Camara error, and Tule Agrierdmrral
and Canadian Journal of Wm. Meetings]].
These papers seem constantly weotaing on new ideas in the
farm world, and at the mate lime advocating free access to the
American market, a stand which would be supported by Flown -
Big expressers. They published market quotations for a list of
products antl attempted le give some analysis of market and crop
interior At o another then papers toyed with the
idea of co-operader marketing by bumers, while at the same
e they deplored 'the monopolies onour m
aware next
or a11m nd ship ownw, m Ihage high Timor for shipment.
Ofmom: they da, preferred We building summa nal saidnies.
RnrWm had Its ma zran m rmdnml mainly In 18" and six
rears later the Pickering Agtmolmral Society was farmed, 'to
amount, Agealmn, HelieWma4 Household Area and the ]in -
partition of motion
The enrichment of bearding stuck W improve farm herds and
the comity of horses hamm, a wry meeidiml type of brown
by Ne mMtllc of the century. The for imearters in the township
were the Millers and William Miller's own worts tell the story
wish
"My first uperionce on the water was along with faun stack.
mrm,muer al inmN Of
In the summer of 1818 my rather loft his native Annandale for
Canada with my other and family, any uIdnt brother John
having gone some four ram before. With uv ,or to, Lo,,,ar
shay, four white some and two di At I,ivcrpml we
aded he [lie barque MUSH for New Ymk — fin cheap aro
lo
deck in the long such swine In a penr disks and children at large
bot they could go into what by counary they called the second
cabin.— the ship was slaw, the winds lscut and it took unicorns,
days to fork, Now York. l'henec we took a nenmbmd to Albany'.
then thmagh the Erie Canal to Rochester (which took a week),
then acme Lake Ontario by bat to Torontq once friends mel
us and think n wagon, through the woods anal ma,thevood,i
Penman — twenty eight miss — ar what is core
Hamilton, Oat..,where my father and brother Jahn bowed o
for us a comfonuhl, hums: and gathered soared cleat fin, nolo
floes, sheep and spirit arguing for the mdVe, in mote pally
days amea the lending breeders of ear lane. Heart
herr and strong nrma like mew made public what site Is to-
day — cheerfully the pride of the New Woad for sbmy in-
depcndenm, real intelligence and successful agriculture
"Some time in me forties my rating, slated Lewis R Allen at
Black Aak N.Y, bringing home four Shormorn heifers and mf
fast wlume of thin American Hard Bonk. One of the heifers was
Kum Ksaral by that sound (aboard fall (Juke of Wallington
55 (3654). Bales bWle wo, bulls men. Kale Kearney was Imd
to Lnp. Captain. It Snitch hull, and produced Lies Larger, the
mother of (bat grand Alba family now zallawl and I fear last.
No Jona impartation of 9M1onhnma Fed hem medo into Canada
,all the Honest Importantsilly a fess that Mr 2d_nk Wade
of Cabwry mmignt from Dailey, 1 think in 1950 to I BR nay
father sent un nNer to Bernard Syme. Reakirk, Dumftles, Rot -
land, for rale Shorthorn heifers and Leicester sheep. The% came
.and the hooter, act grunt.
'Nat yrer. 1853, I an, rent oner by my failure and bmtner
Jona m brains tock At New York 1 took WEE, or the
lulls teleran, a regular uWalyle line, "a n: ermal s wad
'Match, ates. nut Nor 18 days we build or T iesman] :JI nen(
the walk heram Christmas Making my way it, mcfly to Ann
1 examined the Buskirk near mem. and 1 nm Bud it ono of nae
nee4J 1 s: — Army of substance antl constitution for
just
s
eq are
ankles iders nos regular ewedeo— In daljun ifM1 is
we v nhw bJay poly a Mule assay
",our bided', bre if this
reformats herb moon kesuch, bcurr Wm Dl it. After lade my
time moos On Loader , nor k of ng "iter 1 made my
way wmM1 to see Ne Sife mercury
nm knowing well a of R d gar,
as 1 knewliming of Ne but Yllr idJt ill Dmmm
and nothing abroad Ri...printer. but gas
lrhad fond that an I
'tarrid 511 and me hatin 'Ince w c ; ownuuneth • l 1
Carlen elaes for am buts end. full Th Imo o the assume L
tome for rts nem;nn but Poona it had in
In ,, I tend he note
concluded than had n r 1insu lido
with M1euor look mJ had the prim a co to maul and n Ong
specimenwg of eat dwagpl Englishman —n mmmzsid fancier whe
knew a gwli dein help the all
he co, me Mlle him
Has t lormcd
and lees willing m n Bo sur rill omcnnhl. Rome, Sa him i Ory (limned
of Richardand Jahn gain, Thomaskand
Wiygem_.
"C<osW6 me less uker, into s and is with by levy ce hare
ch
rend I visited after
is king caries and sewing Deem an. That
\oltigeor jou afiec M1is famom race with (lying Dutchman. Then
on o the goals 1 wu;i whom at Cannot s of th, Ames 1 bought
twomuy dM Ltimal¢ lop& pact 1 wont to yummy, whom 1
Ilml the planum oI ad spending a law day, win what
I should Nlnk lee oldest of the famed Shorthorn man than brand.
Smnuel Wiley: I e we his nubtl Baum in drimbrecches on
Ili, nrom man cob, diincline to every Jclail of hi. splendidly
actual establishment, 1 think hewnsthan o,or lovely -fire and
oinfo his noted Shorthorn he old the best of hucksters — n
typo o1 M1h on fit,plot
venule fat little rchit, Yark,h little
cards — m fat they vee Idrearcely see Ibought romp from ben.
made my way bal'. to Scotland blue It Iwms Ill
Place, loading Moana. I ant mel Simon Ill aM team food,
my heodgnanms for Stahel The Sachs More Mr, lames
beside, Sidem S uncle, wit], whom Ile lived. had sent as Lal.
tl there bought the Clydesdnla ,albon Rab Roy. one
of
...too.
the fim four Clyde' ever brought to Ammon m far as i
know At the assume time bought Let ..be, old three Ovlloways.
By tees way. 1 was them when William Note c of Tilly bmghl
and look away !mm Newbie two mon excellent Oallmany bell
'Spring was now conal an and we had to start with about
forty sheep, twelve coati a 'finite and maim, Ciydesclnle colt,
,my, Joaka. Irons, ate l want to Liverpool to try to get a smaller
to like dean. but passenger hung would not lake We live stock
and other shows things asked Steil Imighl, m 1 went beak to
Annan Jalcnvined to mil from there. At that flare Armen boll
are five rhills for the tea trade and had two old brute for Huhu
twig micifflas
o Mantel hnl mostly to Oil making u
will a, the sawn and laying op In the winter. On bee e of
hhale. the of He4n year one
ea look passage for thele, She war
huilt on or vf¢nbc lrnr one l l Itleblbathe New borrowers, Time
ml
of Ne best o while riiM1 bull sing do with inch pine nod
carry of larevery 'Priv bcNm leaving port She was se mm
he, boom, hall its broad i long. een hadthe only one close Innocent.
0, M1eams lulow beep bola between the cin and fof some
On theato beams were lois clubs trend the a to named cm of square
timber r make a truly fm ,in, avd aM1eep to on. Sheep
wiso put forward where a w' m low for whichmF eimt Thcv
further aft aelk w gmade
plan, r rum caul, which w m deIl m
the chip, side. 'ILa lotto plow ereclaimay narsme could get ma,
room unwas Ilse tedo whore th, abandon
their horn, rMrve
elect Rest h w arrested mi mar for J;c t back l The after pan
of between ,, decks grew half
m You Fitt buck lorvurJ the nlbin
till it w"n six "mJ one feet.
"On ou we cmaxd and in Polr shape in fifty Jays About the
first of April they consulate at high water by man and house in
haul her from her winter's moaning to the filly where the Annan
joins the Solway In load our stock, but it wag night and they
tuck her on a her where she lay till they rum a ditch had the
tide you lose ten days later. Her Ilat b000m kept her room
keeling over much anal lay on level lined sand on tiro side or the
river out of the channel, so cans were driven alongside and our
friends put on July, story, and turnips. nix was all loose and free
of cost in rcspea of my trillion The feed had m be pm either
below the cabin IT foesusily as more the cattle all liquid man -
n through the WLI onto the antl ballu where wam,
make were buried. Thu time came when they gal her down the
ver to the loading plain, where homes, cattle, and been were
hoisted on boards in slings by hand windlass. It vow a beautiful
April day and the Fair of tire town was Nem to am as off. The
mg took us over the Robin Rig and cast us adrift in the Solway
heeded for the Irish Chnnncl and the Isle of Man. We had fair
weather and Iml only two or three sheep. Even it, along as the
old thing was we would have made Ouches in rose weeks, but in
the gulf we were kept two week by ice,"
William Miller's brother loin, income Pickering s most famous
b ince of Shorthorns and shsp. The family on Lot 18, Con. VIL
expanded until John owned 350 acres, parts of Lot, IS, 17, 16,
Con. VII, and 350 ac scattered about the Towmlap for his
enormous herds of cattle, shop and swine rtginmd a great deal
of feed. His Clydesdales, Rob Roy and Rlaek Omrelas, pmdul
prize and swecmmke winners at Provincial Show, Imo 1863 on.
in 1889 the Monteith herd numbered 50 females and 10 male,
with immune Vice Consul, takwg first P= ..h of TM1e Haven
turce, he woo shown. In 1885 John Miller ,to a yearling call for
82,500_ GpM1usl high, pail up to that time fm Charging bind
Clydesamc.
Some of those who nominated to the mwnNip had had expert
retire with tical fain and pleading nutaM1es and it sea, in the
dasdn or the her that the ploughing match was lnttodtaed into
Pickering.
Rivalry Mlwmn different townships was gams and in I849
Whitby township fated a challenge — open to any IlawvhiP
to send twenty men and £I0100 to scheme toy by unampionship.
Scuboro nmpted. and the contest was held at From Inn, o
Kingston Road, as being halfiwy answer, TM1e Scarb r, man
defeated Nose from Whitby Slid the trtssurms mpnt throws an
interesting oddighl on the event
• IDa areae" 6m1b. N..Cmee, 1894.
too
To bin for dinners at a S. d.
Wm. Palmer, in Pickering L 0 0
Pay for beer in the field 5 0•
Pay for Turnpikes (tolls) 1 5 0
In 1839 Kingston Road. along with Yong, Stuart Ind the
Dootlae Read area of Toronto, became a toll road and was ad-
ministered by Ntee Commrat. In 1849 thew lime ready
yielded a com annual revenue of about $11,000 to the govem-
ment and were a perennial ha porous at every siting of the
legislature. "full gala wertmpopular and while they w -
uatM in such a way that they were difficult to gel around, men
and wagons often clo find a way. The prioeilul byproductof
the use pro was the improved township road as any former
would willingly work out bis period of statute labor on a acal
ship road J 1l meant that he was providing himself with an easy
way to get around n provincial toll gam.
While the lemon might not be considered on ideal place for
a prompting march today, it hosted many events: radioing meet-
ings of the Township Council, wNN, after moving about focal
place to place finally scaled down in 1835 to meet at Thompson'a
Tavern on the earner of the It Road and the fifth conservation.
Ice meednm were held lune for were occurs year. The whAwn
If Chmating inch a rip, arive hall is crown to some doubt as then
habhabituatetiathat su of the gahmnup at Thempwns were
rt
wdy, n say the 4w-
Muni,ipal paramount became in singly important as the
population growam col Early 1 ,oils bad legieraed
oMm fencer and cold, pan,&, bu:auw they ry e denied the
right to handle m mnlmrs, But in 1939, when Lord
Derham made his report on conditions in the colonies he mg-
gmted,'that dm umMuhmmt of a goad system of Mmticlpal
Institutions throughout thew Provinces is a earlier of viral ial-
pomace. A
pomace.A general legslaure, which manages ted Ativan Ontario
of every parishe in addition b due common business of Ne
country, wields a Power which no single Ibody, however popular
in its nsmnficn ought to ham.. . Insmad of ronfil the
whole collection and distribution of all the revenues raised in any
country for all general and local purpose to a single rural
vsmile Mtly, the power of deal assessment, and the application of
Ne funds ansim from ib should be enfmsled to local management
—the premuaion of the Crown should be constantly interim ed
as his Per 11UPnGad Imka6 andand aM1I tt did rmove, egubr¢ dianalbmMtIt wish,
,b, handed elotN me wave
to cher: may accouterment on the ruomi of local caries, until
the people should Mco:m alive, M most worm ly Nry almost
mediately would be, to the necessity or Demands their local
pflvile6m"
Lord Sadsnbam, who came to Conetiv is Garment Gunenl
n 1839 had the dilhwlt task of introducing such parts of Dar,
James' report as had been im ana by lie Imperial Government.
He ma believed that now rynear of municipal government was
of primary imiaartonac to eliminate "lobbing" by the provimial
government.
Hehad down We principle that all purely Inial expenses
should be boom by the Mcalitic Memmlves and that only Theal
worldshould W paid for out of provincial mi
When SydeMam a mu was introduced into the first session of
the parliament or the United footwear in Upper ::fid Lever Can.
arm at Kingston, in 1841, it was opposed on all title.
SyUmham himself whore:
'Toe Tories oriented the measure Micros it gave ton much
power to the profile, the radical, because it imposed checks on
their pow
However the bill passed and Menm, the District Councils Act
of 1841. It provided for the incorporation of each bufia, its
powers to be eurcived by a council composed of a Warden ap-
pointed by the vascular and Councillors elected by the 1nbnbi-
4mt Freeloaders antl Househalden'. Fish township was to elect
one emitter; a township beth more d m 300 broadcast free
hold and hums holders were entitled to two councillors. Corm
millers were actual to be residents of the township they wpi
rented and possessed of hart within the District or adjacent District
to the value of X300 over encumbrances.
District Councils bad jurisdiction road; ad; wager, District
cost acme, costs of admwlslermir jrinKrestablishment and mom
tenance of whorls, Districtolnceas and Towmhip officers salaries.
Their revenue was to came Into tolls of taxes on real or personal
property of both, bar wore Iholbd to 3d on thea reread value
They were required to men quarterly
In 1846 the Act was amended so tM1# clacks, treasoers aM
surveyors could be criminal by the coumils.
Pickering Township formed port of the Hone Dison, which
was composed of some fatty townships, Ne m:mber being re,
duced to Worry four in 1849_ sad W. IT Michell, poet, farmer
and visionary, was Pickering'c lit, representative.
To produce a mare uniform rysann of Municipal Gwernmem
from : 9WI foot of the Par of Damara, 109,
Sol 10 [1111,11 nae.± . 1941, mathe in Coastal. Imine 29.
Mo,_ oamae.a, obdurate
I but spb oalutle known as the Dmawm Aa was marooned in
1849_ At Nc suite Wolm TM1e Ola ll1a, were athAshed red the
Counties became Ne territorial ronii tracer fusion,
among
Almost to
nmonfthe iacdincofthe day, bar
ip grey
the founding
w ural Ontario.Toronto Globe
1Marc ins T1844. P. ourr
Ne Bought
th f of Inc Toronto order Was
on mem er o tire
George
Brown, d founder and first uiuss a member se Ne Reform
rural and wielded Effort
cry iyOnwlLi tun in rt mlemn IM1mufhoul
nam Ontario. his
Deme. ninny rears it wns enn of the rtMlm race,
alone wish fo forty
nip w every opal resident '
Eighteen fortyenine was a been inWn ed for Uppan, for,
me!
TM1e Broad preference hatl been infrared p xna
Rdwin we teams Into a fine trade at the whichmad,many
achum
mlonim tine Mother
er c mining beet that IM1ti w he nciid aharo
of To century
IM1e Mulhcr country. At the sa a the gTacame rvity
of the .worry pas en rapidly as more lana coma lair
emcrownin _ By mu ma o[ the aa:m. pofwhich Pi wring pro-
duced
minden million factors.Mof n t looking into
then o. one hunon, do roffirri Men were no looking mm
frc new decade during
mush aolifamou The rush of manufacturegodhe
fronta Iednnd figure
s too potato,but fumino of here pe had am IM1e
papulation hand h sp e, but many of these people a
Caw it in hatl to start
ew life
notThe load,
, often d to had
ase wish s and to mha a naw fife TM1e Indomobl had to
as IaM1orzrs and farmhands or lake nP has aakable Nmrs on a
It it Charlie on sh. crat it y to no got On... to at iwall and mmvdvl Ford got
Jaw 11 Ln.". Woe round, I You once, I Lmenl and wNy'I ObUe
103
rental bask, but by that of hard work they soon made a place
for themselves mnang the Older sinister
The decade of the cigh ren cordes was an aneasy decade. The
shadow of still hmsg over many households new People were
Pension law the township. The aid days were past and a whole
generation of people w re growing rip who had never known
anything but Pickering eTOwnship- Many of their�a secoM
&nurnion piommr; mil d0 rvRered Ila effects of pioneering.
They had not known the advantages of life in the cities and towns
of Hall or Semiarid or the gentler His of Ne villages of New
England, where schools and Churches were well egablished arm
a firm pattern of living had been built up nam a hundred ycors.
Instead they were bfoupfn up on the moos edge of the frontier
With few ¢hurls and pear lechers, with few churches and with
only IM rostrums of town and alloges. The gentler things of
life, the broke, the music, paw( gx and all these lltings which an
Old commonly, lakes for granted bad Leen domed Nis generation.
They had had to make their town way, and it is not Imposing
that hams mow, fomban and whiskey dI were Use [assume
of auto of dw young backs who spent floi, working days rain
,cer, paling stumps or mhinu the man logs rip or the ams
rural, rvam rotor away at the amiml i
Podl,pa that lon6x could M colied Ilw mldhoo we of Jta
Township, when a our mount Of energy was unleashed, but
who, an in,, know what Ja firmare might W like When Aodrc
Thtmpamn dome his mvem door on the last rnlebmm on New
'I s 5m 1849, he Gale thought IMI he would open it spin on
,decade that ice Camma was to seta new pare in production and
Lk now high In development for the Township of Pickering.
IN
CHAPTER XII
PROSPEROUS TIMES
For twenty yours Rckenng Township bad been going through
the entries of bmamim, rnormal more Nan a primitive sub-
nily, By 1850 it had reached a stop ofdeverop-
t, both sm,,l and political, which as to be the accepted
Ivn.w
w for my ye... n Of nnarze, the mileage made
changes the con but New table enrage me
mutual am, whim fife an the township was bum and so
coker therefore merely in accelemt g a ormess whim was id-
reudY going on.
In 1850, when }lxtor Beaton took the cereus, he found that
them were 6,O74 people in the township of which only 89 were
nem en; of Ne men which had once mode IM1e French afraid to
vmtore norm of Lala Ootano. Certainly the white mm had
tnumphW and his activity was to be wen everywhere. There
were ground Toward. storekeepers, brewers, portion, innkacto
ors, lawyers, shipwrights, millers and many others plying their
mdes in the township. TMrt were 1,616 children walking along its
dusty summer mad, to the claimant schools or helping m gather in
the hay or hunt the rows or perhaps just go swimming in one at
the millponds whab on, to be found up and down the ones,
and stream,
where m'enty6ur as mills pmdmcd over live
million board feet of the world's finest lumber.
An arty report far the Bond, nary listed drum c a tots or
iickaring Township week contained "a great ninny" plus from
8 to 12 feet in circumm mce ad 140 to 170 feet high. Masts
and mymm limber, cm earl, exports, but by tire middle of the
century math of the oak, classic and pint was cul into planks
and board, and shipped o0 to Oswego or Toronto. Some, of
uused by local consumers in Nan
e my line homes and
barn, of the period, many of which still am the township, or in
the all :nods wmm w m leannam to make agricultural m.
plural wagon, and not or by shin a ll on the III
and Ferri Bay_
By 1851, over fifty pertent of the township hall roan Geared
Of t :m me .:uu an me lest of ma alae rvs ,fine :: .
overall seen, year:
Fonunwely mer eta, mill demand far the days of the
e laming ed m. ed. filo mill; xu of
then, no dna of rickety c ricer o rinpwom handle cnna
.endings and managing hundreds of men mmamnm the town.
nipsewmldi alms Their appearance la the tnwvship as entry as
Islo or 19 11 . and by @e of etre I950 was then
tMrlttn mill, on the open branch of Duane Cit and dean,
on and alar barred. Bilroth mill and Pmts wave just been if
rising Village, annual up veto mills abroad by lame Dem
favored dullard, Nicholas Howell lain Sala Boyer Amos 'Mpp
Ind a:Nl1 near the mauN of territory Creek wb'at In the III
John Barry had a mail oil theq side of the Break Road ahnr
M1e1C a mile south of Claremont and the Niehmaudm muN of
AlThiThese mills did nod cwas is circular saws bin's tyle knew, nt
gate sows. ig sawblade
in was suspendetl in n M1ht feet I forme a M1nut
eight as In a up mal saw tight run In motion by
means if Land up netl downwing n 'M1y
of resonance.it
oRtle enter poro or,earnedtl lesson
that gPa of millsoIL wulJ be m¢mtl on all any little ilaes:on
llie i waw fed tnm.Ill (lie mill by bund, by gravity or by a
ratchet decay. Paw of them n:mdied laps more than o s fort
long. They fid nyday fm ,aid "you rind start
o baled, go an and 11110 your but and who you came out the
bawd would be cut oR'.a
Agent however, confirmed to he the mainstay of Pick,, -
mg and the Joan control SI mid or first Spring mfr, In IXSI
or Pmt F ma. Joseph Calera,, Caned BaaW:n, netl Farm Me-
Coaenl:le n thegoarning match Thr ale John Cwrl
wmam miller ala Arda, Pdkir n:, immymu n for bet,
The all for 1951 t rt Fm .. key,. Trust tt. Wlme and
seldom Malar. For the following year Ed, anver BImJI loam
Clerk. WIIIIam began, John planar mal Hama B:Nan w
e
dee d, and a Strong Fnuw s hed :t Peder Heads Homlat
Cmtav Hackedw6 Wage) ,it u PWI rd:mv ata C Steel' s
Node[. Norwsed (Ciceroni
Alan Clark m `Coll maven the soars. free 44.
The minutes of me Socialy, top to frood the decisions or its
officers, also provides a history of agriculture in the township. In
1850 harder the ploughing match. four stallions were gown In
1854 Oc minutes record that there has been "n new importation
of sheep of Oe Leicester and Coaxed heard by William and John
Miller ,it than the imported heavy hi "Orotic Buchanan"
and' Merry Farmer' have WIM1 M1eee wrvim_ the township durwg
his last skean . Then aka rind impro
ml in matrix cultiva ble. Farm mail oma,[, rare shown at no
spring flow, made probably by hlacksmiths ormillwrimas such
a5 Abu Buyer[, whose half built in the 11... or, a1,11 xmnds near the
newm
Claremont consao e area
The Society set up permanent fair grounds in Brougham in
1866 where township fairs wum held moth 1889. An 1867 fair
(here seem cloven claws for hi ranging from saddle Image
to a span of heavy caught horses. TM1ere were two came classes
And in Na northeast suction the following seem shown and p[ius
tige
Wooden Hatmsys let Fred RoaeF
Iron Harrows be fool Roach
Intl John Wilkey
Double lumip diml led John Forfar
Holes rake bar Michael AmkM1ulder
Ind 2owhnriaM1 pollard
gat of draining [Dols le Grow Walters
set or how shoes calked Is Gmas Graham
Ind Jno Wnikey
AM: of team Imrness 1st Sax. Digby
get of single homes Iat los. Digby
2nd Smpcn Groves
One down hand lot recommended I W. McGregor
In the lived clnss:
1O Her mntip wait 1st Alex McKay
end Joe I Davidson
I bushels clover seen Isl Alex McKay
A nate is spender which reads:
Hams — the games exhibited by Mr. Jas. Digby of Clare-
nmerasd a set of heavy substantial le se harness and
breach band, all nicely out nchica Mc Digby has ex-
hibited at Be different township spring fairs this lag sixteen years
and line always h euivnd the fnt prim, aM for such perservence
we certainly think be is entitled to a lot of entertainment "
• From 1867 mpn or any Figedna Auj int index
108
Besides its eHnrs, in maintaining a township fair, tTheSociety
was mnnua ml N bringing in a better class of Lorimar. In
1854 the directors Purchased a prim ball "Lord Photo' from
Cobour8 which dry later sold to I. C. Staling of Greenwood.
In the same wor the Millin of 9magham brought out two
SMMams and one Galloway from S gland winning first prize
t the Provincial Exhibition in Londnn. At the same Lima they
imported Bob - Roy their fins Clydesdale. which was followed
by ••almk Dart', and -Comet
The April Society. recognizing the contribution of such
importers to the improvement of she wmeae passed a orme of
thanks to William Miller for his contribution m apiculture an We
Township.
In the same year the Millers brought out than bar shonhorms,
William Cochrane brought cora Clridesmle stallion ^ear wawa¢".
These evidri of township prosperity wen a plmuant change
after the uncertainties of the 1840's. Eghteren fifty wmal out to
be a good year An early genial spring was loffic lby a delight-
ful sumnmc Tha hnrven was unusually large and in all parts of
the province was gathered m with scarcely any dominate, from
bad weart By 1852 rho ran of depression had been for-
gotten and good limes had o rncd. The mature for prosperity
in Pickering Township ware many. As has been mend ... d about
half die land was cleared nad major eultivatioq We fapWation
s almost as high mit as going to become for another ewsoy-
five yams. from I860 It gradually death until 1914 when
it s about what it bad been m 1840 (4,500): and Low who
lived in the township auto skilful, ingenious and fli to
prosper, At that draw Thmmto wtyal of other towns rumor
than an all encompassing metropolis, aad more than one Beano
document of new Liverpool an tranchmans Ry.
WMIe the repeal of British preferential arriRs in the forties
worked a hardship on wheat measure and exporter for a while_
the growing Mtnican states soon twit up the slack and appeared
t0 have an insuliable appeme for products at tic Canadian and
and torn!.
The inorganic of the St. Lawrence oamb, in 1949 made it
passible for schooners to sail from Cake Onmdn to the seven
as: but for the most prof tmlFe was across the lakes to Oswego.
Barbara, and Rmbestee While the canals and locks were Janne
fault they provided employment for men and hews, but before
their full value to Canada was realized the men and board who
bad built them were vying to put hem out of business by building
the much faster and mom flexible railways.
People who lived in the mitltlk of the [set century were faced
with a more vexing problem In the realm of railways than them
at mid -twentieth ernmry are with their super highways. The rai]-
way increaxd the speed of tmal by 1,0]0 per ant i cream ld
for whereas it was a gmtl team winch, hauling one wagon maid
maintain a 6 mile par hour paceof len or twenty cris
had little Manage In doing forty maks train
hour. Railways could
go where Man could anti were mom fleuble in this xnse and in
the by that they could have nations where they pleased rather
Nan where a suitable harbor offered' they could distrose of large
shipmaon N ow load add mWq of course, carry a hour mmdd¢
of pascngen and be on time regardless of the atonal It hand
t0 many people as though the unfair would proside nn
mawa
W almxt May problem of transportation that was buldingback
the promas of the country. Much village mw unit Mountain a
city and every mill and factory saw new prospects for "million
opening out borrow it.
Besides an meso considerations. Nose never has Man on enter-
post
atenpoise in Canada promoted by Inch a remarkable group of !nen as
come who sold Canada her railways.
The fast railway pmjecmd for this area was the "Port Whitby
and lake Much" Railway which one approved ut a meeting in
Whitby In 1852. It was to van from Whitby to Stmgmn Bay on
Lae Humq and an offer was made by Sykes & Co, to build it
if the newly created County of Ontario would basic a loan up to
IORM) per mile.
The municipal election of 1851 turned Od the railway question
antl Pitman, tworepresentatives to the County Council. Mr.
Louden and Mr. Taylor were elected on an anti railway voh.
TM16 is not surprising as the line was not t0 come closer to the
Township than Whitby or Manchester, and the Rmbaro and
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Wharf Co., and Pickering Honour Company had just �.
i extensive work to nuke Frtntliman's Pay a rival of
The Prom of railway India, nlwa mphasiod Ne fact
Ibm me railway "would no t the urinary u .earns'. although
they waned wwty backm8 for f=l8noll. and nmms firm every
ownshlp and vlllwec vloty the If,, the drool Whitby to
Lake Huron line, m rap dm richrt s of Lake Sri w
Talon had hoped to do in 1680. nils vot�complit,d. but earned
instead forward Pon Fury aad Llnddy, baa- opnnl in I8]]-
Meanwhile the Grand Trunk joining Geduld to S ruin was
being pushed forward rapidly and crossed Pickering in 1855 and
'56 along a line ,]mast parallel with the 1A,,e , On August
25, 1856 tl¢ first p'asego,tn frau Toronto to Oshawa
and was greeted by cheering crowds at every station. It opened
a new eta of prosperity for the mnmhip_
CHAPTER XIII
ONTARIO COUNTY
The tremendous --crown in population and industry in Upper
Canada during the 184WS rasa@tl in the formation or new
couo of as emm[al Osritts along the lekest In 1851, by an
January
at Parliament, 14 &ld county
of York
which vied into force
more
unemy Is,rk, Choose
old rounly of Yolk wxs divided into Nree
churches, York, vimmso and Poel. Hy p[mromvtihe LordNeve Elgin
focused moves
s of Provincial COURCounty. Councils from Nc Neves and
deputy County
go er then County.
Crianry gavemment which began cost
an argument over IM1e
Imntioa a1 the county town and the from
that
t day t county nuinl-
i Became
me Ontam, its u t It (tom Inco rd present.
Bacons Ontario County an sonNernsot,cowardly, soy two
area has
wide y and is 66 miles from north
to lannouth,@esou@em
area ort always had b fighwhich,
h, keep from L iha a map pulesed by
the northern townships,
the which, o decy de not county
Ne population
10
or aren4 neve We voce m tlecitic how rounly luntls me w
be
Mr,
W
Me W. H. County
Printed, cit in io 85 fist representativesedseparation
m the to a
conal County Council in 1851 oppose) be,"submitted
a wase fumy beck,torsc the quefelt tionper M1atl nmanream
K of the York. county
felt r admallyinistrative
ILL the reason bd
new diian tram York canary far vminregale purpwu M1N
new of assessment,
s changed assessment,couldtrow mire of ficquare
av-
dinge o(nmen of m e ruled could throw more otOm fin-
cih burden of the new countywar
iu wuWmnmml mwnahily
which townships
would
population d and the if them while Inc northerly
, Mich woultl dont w the everreown t of t and Ontario
Hawewr
Mt. es Michell's madan went down a defeat and Ings, County,
administrative
raiiv on electoral
old familiar
with two ridings, became an
ed
admiNsative urea. The al:l Ouhitl Courcils had been abolished
n the same year that the new counties look Control, M that now
there was actually a new kvel of government for the Nifilmom of
some of the functions of the old DisWct Councils and now of
Nose of We TmvnsM1lp and the Provminl GovemmrnI For e-
thic the County Cautious bought wine of then ...laminal
mads which had formerly been the responsibility of the Provincial
Government. Townships took over the on mation of whools,
which had been alarge m u District responsibility.
From this time, administratively, mere Cox been little change
in the three level govemmenMI Intent, although the camiug Of
Confederation added nnothcr layerm the afternon in 1862 Flow -
ever the oma, of responsibility whlcM1 tial. ... igned to the various
levels If governmant have changed in importmee over the years.
Reads hmv become major items of expenw, education has taken an
affaising proportion of taxation while the, onfraliumman of
rsat Toronto, of Cowes Gould, the but'(aunty Warden
forced and wrought to wmml, has gone on opaw in spite of the
institution, of tie County between Township and Provincial
Gov
At tl¢ township love) the Conester net longer calls out this
reen
m do their period oftlntme label un the township mode, bur
the eyeasr is busier than when he had to asess chatres along
with buildings and Iwda. The township ales has now to seper-
sea the nctivilies of number of people whercre Hector Benton,
the first clerk under the new freem of administration, calls also
tax ciAlector and reviewer
The Superintendents or Pnhlie schools appointed cam Rev. A.
W. Waddell and the Auditors were P. F. Whitney and Georgy
Begg. The eleoma rctumed W. H. MicM1ell m prove, R A.
Parker as Deputy Ravq and Frederick Green, Peter Taylor, and
Joshua Wins, as Councivors for the year 1850. Although The
County of Oomrio wan created in 1850, County booties oontineed
to be does by the old York County officials for another three
Years.
In 1854 Canada and Yolk Connors w separated for rd-
va purpose, In this Year The Pkkedng Council passed
umber of by-Iaws whicM1 provided fm the local control of local
u1GLs of which Lend Eton had sooken. LNablteds of the mwm
ship were Taxed C400 for the upkeep uI roads, and at the some
Lion it %as made possible toetelabor on the roads
by the payment of two shillings n ad sevenstatute
Pence for each eight
hour day that one was obliged to and.
'faverns and .haps were licensed The fee was 110 for those
on the Kingston Road and 0 for all ethers. Taverns were to
12
no
FMIP-- . __. nliif6
Farrchmam Bny, Tmeni, Muir A,,, existence. 196/1
pmvide six clean comfortable beds, W pmvidc liquor, ule, Le:,
or cider: to be kept by sober respeemble persons and In wa'.oi
the Lords Ony. If the session wne on the Kingston Farm it miehl
has licensed if it lutl four bedrooms, two strong rmms and lour
beds elsewhere. Ssarckecien were not pmmined to sell liquor.
A number M new uhoob seem built in the Rbool 4esrons at
Greenwewi, Oaobanm, Knolls. Audley, CTerrywwd, Brougham.
Mt. lion. Sue Line, Omck Road, Pickcrim Villup and Ilw
Whitby-Pckenn6Tosvnline Union &Fool. Many of thew chant..
III product of oro prosperity andwnmed population e( the
Heads, continued in use for analMr century.
One of the important oeliom taken by the Ad u minionaian
Fad been to set an with which We Township m
et me cost of education. Under the York County by-law which
imposed a tax of E2,279. 35 7d, Preening 'Pown,hip paid
056, 6s, 36 To Make theequitable the nosy was
divided in ahool c web meet inspect and 'ah.
n 1850 The electrical ridings were lobe the lemodarin
Iof Wer churl circuitand nas rw
m wiN on the elrcuh to pay
fair the inspectois for snnttlinn of the pin. Ry -law an. 41
laced by she Township Council In 1853 gogdcd for the wooss-
ment of school sucturu 10 pad achers' salaries. &coon 3. which
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IammM1an ffolnw; teacher, I957
no, pan of Brea 2was esszard £25_ - Fees wemself Is. 96
per pupil per, nmb and harbor, ealaes 301, 180 per year. In
Toronto they were about Md.
By 1860 the pattern of modmo elementary school education
had been pretty well eawbUrbed. Each aGmal scelim eluded its
wb, wee responsible for the maintenance of the mhool
The
tall
and od by
entsera of teacher's' us proAees. TM1e school tax, suppled
med by a Educational
tioncapaliom msain w carr d o t by ted
the
by @e mwnah hard
Lduenloial sInspectors w aped out by the
lair clergy umil Provincial duaravtors u e aoin¢d Even
of the
accrual
memi.T In I867, to,
mn mined a rtheaddbllhy
of lbe 9rofa continuation
on TM1c Principal new development wm rbc addition,
in In 19 of a mnlin ct Hi shM1ool at Claremont. organized
In 1968 u Uleldm High School was orgnnbed wIIM1 a board
m u40 to Naam,m sold ler we
Granmood Stlmo11860.
reserved from county, township, school sudor and village
reprevutadves. Pickering District High School, which opened in
September 1952 was followed by Ajax High &pool and in 1961
by Hartmann High School with a total high school population of
1,200 students.
The churches of the township multiplied dung the first tall
of she century. The following is a breakdown of the census report
of 1850:
Cturch of England — 1,033
Church of Rome — 519
Church of Scotland— 821
Free Presbyterivn Chu¢h of Canada — 60
Other Prabpermn Church — 178
W¢kyau Muhods[s-211
E. P. MethWirts —144
Other MMM1Wisb — 190
Congaegmumal— 66
(umbers -222
Maintains, — 119
AN other Denominations — 161
No Oenominadoa — 1,202
These people wul as their various swims of worship in but
serxn churches which had been built prior to 1850. The Baptist
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church on conagism VII, Presbyterian at erouphnm and one or
Pickerimp Ne Roman CTlholic at Pickering, Friends Meeting
House a Pickering, SI. Campos Angli om at Pickering, a Mi
mat church at Sahara. (Na, awrmptiom sear to Mae and In
schools er in pm'nlc burns.
Boom the foes and siaties ww me faddish of many aware
churches. indeed by 1970 them appear 10 have been Iwenty4wo
ehorchcs mile the vNuges and perhaps amahor tan in the
villnya of the township. This wua mount the park W what
Mgbt In cal4d protesmmism most wild_ for m Use log far krars
d IM mxury there ween a summer of unions among Methodists,
Prtxbytcnans and Rfir which reduced the number of churches
and eonycgmions cm siderably. The earlier multiplication of
congnptmns was as ayrupormatic a the varietl 0600S of We
prople as the latter unions wem of their gradual consolidation
MHO me community. Early orders. and their clergy me, had came
from Ammons, English, Sco1ish and Irish bml¢hes of the va
Is don and attempted an a Io var mve what
they considered! important n their reassure; immune. N time
want on the dim o h mo assuages than read
and Ie s
u of churthea or
f the "me denomination secure
brought gbaam.
Two every; of mid century were important for Weir effect in
launching PielerNB Township on a twenty very period ol pros
-
racily. The Qimean War which began in Ik53 and mind the
price of wheat m $2.50 1 bushel. and the Reciprocity Treaty with
Methodist Church, Schell, 1849
due United States, signed in 1854 which encouraged mhtle to thus
back aid forth memo Like Ontario from the harMn on either
side. Primarily which before with a rise in the price of wheat
soon verflowM into the villagesan am ney became available.
The flour mills, too, sees busy, turning out twenty-five demand
broadly of floor. The saw mills put out five milfmn fact of lumber,
the fulling and caMwg Mills, tweets -five Nousand mumt of wool,
and the tannery ten thousand hides.
Most of the¢ pmdutts were Malcolm out of the township but
Ilium war a number of iMustircy which used loval products and
employed local Inbm. Ahmed, in 1869 had a shoemaker. Robert
Rohettso . who actually made shoes, a carpenter M. Key, a
cabinet maker, Sam Burkholder, and a miller Sam Mainlander,
besides the hotel propnmon Andrew Brown, the leacher Donald
McKay, and Thomas Meridiem the genenl merchant. At that
me Alan was a village with a Post Olhm and Store, Beside had
only a Pon Office, in charge of Robert Dodds, as did Bingos
where Isaac Tumor win Postmaster.
Bromdeam was a thriving community will two drctoq Thome
Assisting M.D., and O. W. Peter M.D. It had two daughter.
Rev_ T Smbhs (Wey w r,) and Rev. ]a. Talton (Carrier) and
teacher, A C Herrick. There was a area manufacturer W.
Bentley, a Names a saddler. two wagon maker, o adults ware
factory, a loaner, a planing mill, loss hotels hourly three general
Mertz and a number of drcs makers.
Kinsale where John Fviness was coamxaor had A wall and
harness maker. a carriage and wagon maker. Claromont had two
clergymen, Rev. C. Snd[urd (Primitive Methodist) and Ree. Thus.
SNbb (Nulryan), aacher.Capitol Hoer ppAnd r umbu, of
industries. drive or a Capitolcommill, a thbglo factory, a saddler two
paper outlets, A shoemaker, Lee milers a pn"pa t
prn a pump miScr n ban taker a until keepef� well
this al m mlm Uunburtn n had 0gal spans,
mddlar uavRA wJur ale¢the, deWor nIntel kryv
u' Atoaster, ] mUmn Holmes, Land In the evemmy war valued
It $50 p umc %J:mh414tam, which had already reached a
pelmirion of IN hatl six dorgymen. pop. Conary human
Catlett), Rev, A. Kennedy (Presbyterian). Rev. Mrckridge
(C of E), Rev_W. Ross (Cha. of Scotland), Rev. Stubbs ( Wes
lc)un), Rev. Williams (Hlble Challenges). Albeit Peter, was the
macho, Clirabmb Whiting n s laelua rcss and there Was
thriving milling Steps" (two mill,), two helps opomted by
Andrew Mown and Richard Leonurk four ur,puAiwy a controls
levo h, wnmm makers, three hlaolstrhba. five general Blares.
three dmkrw ,,, a snuclei two botcher shops as well as mil
linen. Insists wW odmn wlm M1ad bunaems In the village Pott
Union had its hotels kept by The, Laskey and losoph Maan
and William Honminp was the school teacher.
(11,111,0 and Olaebmrtl,
ok
3.
Rouge HE was a Post OMm add Whiment, which was '14
miles farm Whitby, the County Towed, to which place it is can-
ned by daily stager" was a prwperoue m nulaeturing entre.
It award a adding, a planing mill, a women mill, a steam un-
dage money, a cheese factory, a cabinet factory, a wren Shap,
a musemge, a ohm inn o r, v weaver — besides all the regular
tmdesmen, saryentvs, blacksmiths, tailors antl others who were
found in all many town and village.
The days of the ONes and sutiq were mile great On" of the
mills, and were great days to for the we and spinners
Pwple were now wealthy enough that they did of consider home-
spun it they could gm factory made cloth. One of the rally weavers
was las. Howie of &nuglmm who brought his loam fund Sm -
land about 1849. He wove rugs and wool, Plaids, correction.
and fine wwlcm for these who could afford them and many a
acquie or budding pendant prince Simons army trick the
vnahip's earliest totems is arrayed in the product of Howie
hours Covetleu orm often made at hot a late dale,
n the Jacquard looms which ware common even
mo last century,
and many rid families still haw blue and while and red and
whim tied spreads mode on these towns. In 1850 We township
produced rim thomand yards of fulled cloth and eleven thousand
Yards of fimmel under does not Seem to gave been a popular
Product as little Ilea was grown add only a couple of hundred
you& of linen cbtlt appear to ham been made in any year.
No doubt the dinilhey helped to liven many a barn raising or
ploughing match as the township's single distillery lamed out al-
JWot eighty thnusimd gallons of whiskey in 1650 to be divided
tong IN as thousand inhabitants. This would allow thirteen
gnllws for each resident, Including the sitm hundred School
children. But immigrimmigrationpenimmigrationb movements were marketing stronger and.
is is likely not much of the Ideal product was ea earmal
Amusements not all lubricated with spirits. In early listener
there wart may pulls and summing off parties in Ne spring when
the fires were biasing hot under the maple syrup kettles. In
Summer picnics, fairs earn m sing bees and mowing bees pro.
aided a around of rcamm an grating register. form wiener even-
ings were
re whiled away m checkers in in many farm and village
homes .Dancing has .9waw heen Popular and hetet the hi -0, a
fiddle rr a harmoeim or own just a good wbiselu was often
t m
rough to keep ewmad t going for hours a time.
Whitevale and Brougham birth had beau bands in the sibut
antl Claremont a few years later. The Clare,nonl band, recently
I30
Bel Haum, Biwp,4nm
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range Ho"Rix eem in8
raved, used to travel to fwtx and other events in de
own
wagon
which wan lure, sold to a gypsy band, and rumor has it that the
wagon was can years later in North Dakota.
Outdoor sports, swimming and doing were papular with the
generators from very early more, while baseball (zacer) was the
game for dear older brothers. Crktet waz introduced in the
sillies, and nourished for a time in Gteenwwtl, Brougham add
Qafemont Cement also sae played concessively.
But of can=, the heal of all was to drive in the cutler behind
I gwtl fest have, with roar best girl at your side and take Itw
to me box social at the church, For the churches became the
conte of much of me aneial life or the cnnnvnlde as dear formal
natural meeting pence, and the smirch choir, the mans peoples
society, the ladies' aid and the semi annual bees for kn iug up
the church yard, bronchi people heather and provided offer -
enables to meet friends and talk over tie news
Funerals we of m ting for the whole ro
unity and people firms be and wide came to pee mspods. Be-
fare
o-fart darting back home they nsvolly had a Rotch or soppy
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providetl by the friends and neighbor, of the bereaved and the
recession became a kind of room of all Me had frirnds of Me
famJy. In many respects Mie old chairman, which is disappearing
in ur day, am a grant comfort to those who had suffered Me
bss and helped b show Ne eoncem of the whole community for
the br mawment of any me.
Weddings p .... had n marc intent oo for getting together
and the solcmmity of the service was not allowed to dampen the
high spirits of the guests.
Pickering w.'u brought up on a diet of political speeches of one
amid or another cad, arrange a, it may seem tmaay. Latewng to
political oratory was an accepted way of posing Me time. Men
cook their politics seriously and in the abaoce of much news form
the outside world the politics of the command, Me county and the
ptovww absorbed a great doh of nitevdon. It mum sew to many
a township dweller of today that out decanters enjoyed talking
aMtrt what May were or were nM going b do more than actually
Clwc"U'le Much. 1895
Lrsxou consists, 1854-1961
K;nvale hour Build
foriag it dono Be[ we most remember that patterns, moves and
methods of doing thlnpj were being hammmed out in the nao-
month ronmry d ich have become accepted pmaix today, wave
of elect, paham arc almost due for a mexaminatina in the light
or changed circumstances.
mmmas aid dust ammemena the medicine show aw m, does
•x he included. Now medmiw vendors attended all fairs null
provided entertainment for the crowd, but the b¢t of all, perhaps
Infamous, it was mor, was, the anus.
Sllin[e Mill, i'ieled^gp 1970
Z
Ilk
lip I fill
s _ _
,..,.
F (" f rtop
,'`i. ,�
Ilk
un,n lmbeny
On lune 28, 1832, P. T. Rarnums Circus with len elephants
and a baby elepbam and a hundred and ten horses and ninety
en performed m Whiny vad then mored the next day to Mark -
hem. The Rail Rwd, the Rrmk Road and every other road
they travelled most Fave had its harder of wide eyed youngsters
as the dossns of red :rod gold arcus wages; the elephants, the
Iprsemcn and all the bright many main their way from one town
to the other, This was the begimarm of cirrus days, which owe
titsnext half ,mu c bmugm together seminar, riders, flowers,
admd loaner, aW shumos from all over the world
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ROUGE, DUFFIN, HIGHLAND AND PETTICOAT
WATERSHEDS
ABOUT 1861
m1 mTMA4VE wmofvgXcvDC =VAIM
P uJ
CHAPTER XIV
OVER rH£ HUMP
The boom in wheat price produced by the Crimean War came
to an end in 1957 and be ¢mlu of an over opumis is expansion
pogmas began m be felt barnstorm Upper Crowd, and, especially
1n Pick er..-Imn,lop
Lumber price, had ako dy begun m dttline and logs for the
winilh rt te nocturne 'a Brite harder to gel as the Innd was
cleared bvher and further back: winds The normal; of We Bridch
matter to Baltic ober nada the mgr pmdm of Canadian
mills los acceptable than the more mcly finished lumber from
European mots. Harvests, Canadian dcmwd aunihed hand and
the Americans continued to Wks Canadian lumber.
People were beginning to complain that cops rvam not as good
s they had been, War the land was "sunning at However all
We complaints evere soon forgotten with We uhawk of the
American Civil Wer. At first Nine was same uncertainty arms
Canamas position w the conflict but this soon became clear and
r orders from the nothem United Stats kept mills humming
and mccumged fanners to put mom land into wheat.
The American war, in all war; have done, husband]husband]iutlan.
Hibernian and by be time it was formal the day of the schooner
sloganas a competitor no the steamship w almost over. This
"grand ahaMship ons my prospect of ship budding in Nckminh
based an its lumbering industry. The railways, Im, had improved
in very may. Better Boiling, more containable cv nines, larger
fragM con, and heavier melte combined with the experience
which mm had accumulated in Weir question made milmads not
the h rchous dens but the competitors of We Pike carriers.
Pickering bad a much Imger interest he pmmonng Fenchmms
Bay as a pert Wan it had m We Grand Trank Railway, m amoral
starts were made to school send improve the harbor mallow; in
128
T
v
F,eopI oar. 1870
n effort to meet the competition of me noway line. From per
coaly sixties to 1875, the harmor remained almost unseal but in
than yew me tmvnahip spent $],OCD as a boons to the Pickering
former Company of Dr. Wm. McGill and Mr. 1. MCCkllan. The
following year the company got an addiiionnl $6,000 after a
pedaled was presented to the armed by me mammon of the
wnsblp. This moulted In the construction of a paint a
what and a 50,000 bushel elevalor at the Buy. The company
claimed m book spent $60,000 on Impmmmen¢ and wag given
a humid, ken of b30,000 in 1878.
Pvcililics a rise harbor wene used for the shipment of barley
and wheat and red impomation of mal from the United Slates
and resulted for a time in the fragment of a Gale vllam at the
Bay with two botch and nu ties Icomes, some of which am
still being remained by descendants ar the early harbor Wmkem.
William O'Brien was the best lighmouse kceper.
At not, time wagons Used the read from con Bary to liverpeol,
wailing to unload barley for the bmweries of the Unieed States,
llverpool, which its founders hoped would bxmm a rya like
Its namesake, bowed a hotel, a bank and a oulinaph omcc, but
@m impoeifwn of a duty on Barley closed oil the market and
Pickering harbor Began a slow radius which w aemt
aeleed
whenTm'nnm ceased using chummed aice was
the last
slorrehooker compared from the lake.
The lighthouse , do arae ice houses, bailer moms and all the
pilings of me wharf ad gale. But the bay is boli or boats again
as pleasure craft of every sift and show final the sheltered harbor
where Democratic spent a x'et and stormy night in 1687 a fine
Piave to escape mo fury of Lake Ontario
As the American West spread up, wheat mistak ; in Pickering
Towmhip felt the effects of the competition which came from
free land and improved methods of cuirassier, The American
railway of the Pacific Caen was completed in 1869 and won the
gone hard when[ began to How into the cancan market and as
the means rolled west again, they took the families and indi"dwis
who coald n0t afford to buy Ontario farms or who wanted to
make v fear start, out to the new frontier of the American West.
A few years later Western Chard became aompetitor with
TM1e completion of the Canaria. Pacific Rabby in 1885. This
line, prommM by Toronto linanuen and Monvcvl railway mag -
miles underwnnen by the Canadian people, providrd a
necessary link imtwcen East and West. It proved to be an outlet
"TM1e fail" mom is bine Was as a recene
S/TTYTON GROVE
M the yeas 1843 W lanes 1. Davidmn al Aberdeenshire.
Soif.. id partial parof Lal L C'on 8, la Phkan
Township and bail o log haea (m ntr Is
ns
When the land
m 6eAp' cleared the field ensure were put else to be lend In
hapding a Inr4er Glac It a late do¢ 1n 1865 Mr. Dawdso
engaged William Pearson of And, han,a sena......., to hmld las
trim,tell . This lady erae.held i ma.m%t al IIr
h serer raea.ma n. .e e Hill kM a
e
alhis are
do ads aver beewear lmwry lath and Oalnb
the van of 5363.00. 7Te another used in the dais
rwa ernek Tawemnlp ,,it rz oned for 10 ye
,red. Tho back bake nrren and she .rnnp and av
in the cellar and the an, f eplave save, anon
v.d In 1 land io year,, Ti c rhino bah
e added 13 u+ .Ice rdo The
i he
sheIt .
naphea'ot Mr. WNlba Pe.
bmhda,Thee Irk it On addition a less
III, l
well.abowe_
(Or the growing industries at the corruption cantina in Eassan
Canada but it merely Friend We farmers farther back into me
which may had Men Sn¢ 1870. Evrn me muk soon
began demanding ham western spring wheat.
Various eapMients were hard by Pickering farmers to improve
thew lm. The best pine and hardwood had ban maltreated and
Neniant wooblms were cut owe strip and again to try to
Pickupa little mote ready cash. Cardwwd was cut and said and
much of me land, which had remained as cut over bush was net
clean and planted in crops. It is significant that many ,OM [immss"
of the pend are remembered as gold aminate men or that$.
More i iveeshed farming was introduced and a Mmng impetus
given b the development of gwtl horses antl cattle. The alloys
induatry, was just whirling to open cut although coal cattle and
dual purpou aypes had Mvn Popular for mine time. lames 1.
Priicion brought out a ]urge whereas of Shorthorn% signed
bulls and sixteen
we bear] Silly= Swtland in I883. A year
later he brouomout fifty-three. His phase, and that of his herds-
an, lames L junior, his and, is well known among cattle men
of North Amcricn
Arthur founder of Greenwood else imported shorthorns from
S mlmud as well as Clydestlales and pure bretl sheep. The Millen
inmM to expend their cattle branding and impormd a variety
of pritt animals.
Toreador at Lenpy Kingston Road, 1910
1. Geo. D. £cke,. 2. Bob Hom, 3. Ran Clark, 9. Wnt. Allmvay,
S. men Smrcml, 6. DemnlaO'Cwmnr. ]. Bill Gordon. S. Tom
Greg, 9. Satdy Burd. 10. Bob Dilbngham. Il. Geo. Tolima, Il.
Alex CmlAen, 13. Jim Garcia,,, Ii, lot. Callao, 15. A.£orsyohr,
16. Jim Harvey, 17. Torn Lon. 18. Chas. Margtm, 19. Hills, 20.
Name not brawn.
On Tueadag lune 16, 1870, John Miller or off from Whitby
with a tlmh for there hundred Woods and with story fin gold
overcome and foot dollars in his packet to buy cattle. After
travelling around England and Scotland fe arrived back at
Liverpool on Sunday July 31m, prepared to bring Ms livestock
Sunday July 31 1870 — "Liverpool: crowd, on the tlrcms
driving cattle all day I improve for market an Monday, u gwtl
may from Ireland and sheep day. Rooming omnibuses all day
morly, men preaching and lecturing on the streets, cgt0e, sheep
It pigs along way apart. Cargo at value market all bat Iwo and
they are Lies ses iepirximry abrtp we bought tram 04ka hw0.
of Luton St, near wlrcre We v cul is lying, Pigs at Dusts dock,
Five of the sheep don't know where they are.
Monday Aue_ Ist 1870_ Very waran, after badly the pigs at
Date, dock went over m Birkenhead & found the rive sheep.
Bought them ant to the other coal, David Grant and me finding
them all From there we had to go after the pigs & bring them op
o Ne velli & tram then had to go for the cattle. I would leak
it would be oven miles, brought the cattle up and gm 5 of them
an Eomd tonight— Two calves and 2 caws on share. Black on
board all night lying any where and everywhere. It mems Noll
as m coed in my Bfe. It Imo to h done. It appears a hard
raa.r
This. Aug. 2nd. 1870. Stated in again inn when it is gcwng a
little light this m r log for the banner Very warm. Got sheep
dawn m dmes
tile ad had them on de odr & o[bewas Is calm
before any of our own folks came to my ministers. Running nil
over food after that. Paying passage & one thing & another get
back to ship again North American. SWM1s far Quebec at about
2 O'clock afternoon. All right when star, stock on board for my-
self:
4 — 2 -year old heifers
1 — yentlick — 2 better calves
4 — n — 32 ewes, 36 in all
4 — saws, 2 War pigs
Wrote n letter to hale.
Aug. fib — had, tough but not
an
very rough until about 2
dclwk aftere om The, It come ona Perfect gale bound to be
hold. Could all knaked down, nearly, over
ragai
and o n,
ut
breaking oof their places. some of them Expecting
to lose
them ad. Dy', horse got nerdy over M1k glee, had to hold him
up for the warrant pan of him was down. On his head, more Is
him both down several tinier Awful storm, vessel like going on.
du altreptho , sea coming over in all directions, calm broke
boom. I cosmic It horse & ether ,in 1 was drenched as wet as
if I bad been in else sea. Water tanning over a long note.
Theo went to bel thinking bow the novel would be over. Simon
Bomtio, a repand), nor the mon could do anything, Male &
sailors stuck well in.
Aug. ph Smoother this moming bre dil very rough. Cattle &
mmp look very bad, Same of @nn look ns they would net ltve,
especially two of omovns. Men resulted again, got cattle watered
& fed again. Sea calming down sear noon a birds, Eating nothing
myself, act at the table today at all nor supper for night, Sick
all day. Hoping to be home soon from my wry bean with what
1 can get of cath
Aug. 12, Thai clear in the morning, for a Biller and then fog
act n If ship starred again. Cleared IT again nWut 10 a
Stoned about Peruvian came Net Our shin about Boon bound
for Quebec. A great many passengers on board 4 o'clock Rury
a beautiful day row. Ship going an nicely. M N.Ce beat ram died
this mool Qtda doing middlingly end, sheep soma of them,
not doing well at all. Pip doing well. Better a amid deal myself,
better appetite. Saw mote very large ice berg Inlay. Near some
of them_ Sea smooth. Near night one of my beent ams hard I sup-
pom his death nnstM by Nc down lust Manday.
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Aug. 1MF, Monday, come to Point Lucia wharf about 10 o'clock
m. got ¢II mate and deep act of the N, American. Cot them
aboard the (min rmred for Richmond about mo alwk very busy
day and v and at night No end of Paying again, Zse for cal
rum,
Minutestothe mate mi M1ad wine saves foicsxr atten-
of(he storm las( Monday, antl w others fortheir
money o whethe [aloes and digs. @tpeng o mte They
owned nee
some r Rey xeve done for Thiat film(. In rack,lite to have
some paid for. Passaee far three cars m in Qxk.
Tu xdnyht August 17: Bet( rum lying dead in the carthisdisappointment at daylight r and went info it.
lo Urea( Imt and tlThenoabout 5
Sold him for a doom and lhalf le Richmond Then photo 5
even In This morning got bout 4l, left soon afteterrnoon
Nin for d for
rap :ted nr1Il (M1nrc about d o'ebek and
Stoned for
Kingston myll ' o'tlw'k pot after warthog and ndtba.y o oma m
anvmm r( toil ar little
o cut bin nli(aq mo. amA
hfc (lap No sleep end ,a I am to eo f them Things lookine rather
slim no o part of Al the walla (rkoof(hnnl
WNnco Ki Aug Il:—Niloen o'clock
(Lan. dinner
4:'dock
m Kingston about eleven o'dnck and dinner had need of
too, ck Kingston about even life
p. mr on our way for Dulfin's
(heck. Hunts looking bud, wen Ilw (wo es I have goiThurw.
about
August 18:—Arriare It in the Cook this morning
ingb 3 o'clock The third rzwe dead is the rat. The otterlook
got
the bud. to some s, the ewesand one of ter heifers me got
Nem up (o n and go (Lad up Can. 1). had
a e! Bot
breGot tom Neu and ernmend thistle a litand oun ethe neW of i(.
Go( hmne ea th nd that t agoodthing
!after nine all enjoy
ins gold lawn and Na( hat a sofa Mins pour tone welts 1and
05
(wf en5s absence. paha for cane lids
2 calves f 6
36 sxni £108
E3 each.
6 pigs — f 18
myself £ 15
for a man — £ 5
Willie's sheep — £ 30
for other fees
—15 sbillinss.
Total £185, 15 sludiiril
The demand for bailout for the West and for the increasing
Tough: on Toronto greets
made he= Including a lucrative as
well as an Interesting bmincia to bar in. The GnFam brothers
'Takrn you the Mu of fabn Miller in Iwummn of Hoµ Millo.
tlrommew
18a product car Lida demand. They settled at Claremont about
90 and three years later agm to impoa many, -Royal Ex
income', 'Ti Ardmi' and "MacOman", were among their
most famous horses. The iodine each owed a special Whim in
making their businea, prosper Robert was known a an expert
judge of horses all over North America having print classes of
one hundred Russia at Chicago. Tran was the showman and was
always able to bring at the lest pomp in an animal. Old timers
remember Will Graham driving his part winning team of hark -
my stallion to Claremont Railway station each [into the arnin
iniwH with visitors from all over the world who had come to
buy the famous Gmham horses.
Nelson Wag. tanker remain of Claremont wan the Inter-
naonal ploughing match m 1902 for Canada.
In be immediate, as the importance of wheat dslinad, dairying
gradually took in place and dairy cattle as well as fat cable be -
Mine of income for fame". Chwor, and butler se
marketed at first and gradually a market for fluid milk statim,
passible as Toronto entered a period of rapid growth. It was a
marketable crap from a relatively early tint, end many a picker-
mgfarmer set off before daylight with a load of hay to much at
the St. Cawrtnce market at the foot of lam, Street in
time to
catch the buyers from livery tables. notes, and carters who needed
an oncimous supply of this bulky for on prnpol their thousands
W M1os
At be semc time otM1em were tabng apples and separate
hire Toronto.Apple orchards wine planted toward the end
M the century and by 19M almost every farm had apples to ell.
However, the pec, seam and other diseases which affect these
and Ober !mite, instantly restricted apple mla to that who
willing in spay and prune and otherwise take core of their
orchards so that by mid twentieth remury the farm ortbend, as a
anm of income, became words very little
The decline in form prices which at IM township in the
revenal also was hard on the mills imd the link shops and
GGOaes which had sprung hear an, mill area Many of the eddy
buyer men had already moved uew must artsin the
North or West and the men that they had employed bad to look
bewham for work. Jordon Pi mill ceased opemtiw when he
died in 1660 end his five an, all wain to the Uni¢tl States.
Many of be fait time workers went wth the mJb or moved to
Toronto. Most of the fare, handle who had spent theirwinters
n the bueh had now to trawl ,,,on farther be the mine work
at be content to stay at home and try m pick up a link extra
money in aunt ether way.
tie
Some of the Ilonr maiden vied m Inner the dopresacd prices by
Winning Panamanian. SnakeMill m Pickering, a subAancinl five
Gey bfck buiifinE sew 11 111, northern in 1883. This, whnu
completed allowed the call t o hundred barrels of
Unix flour a day. By this re Spanks were bringing w grain by rail
wall shipping Ne dieser out the ame way. In Penang Village at
this tame then woe also two compare a comes who made sheets,
hlankets and Mtl a shop to sell what we might call factory made
sheen and linens. The Village had a couggi 5 a wonfide t, The
Mental News, a Perry amble and two hotels. Honor's mill,
fust south of the village was steam opened. Alarge four stony
hWlNng, It uwtl home gown and informal gran and turound
our about a hundred barrels of flour n day.
The mill[ in Picketing continued to apatite for some years
after made rc n 1883. Spatialm0 u avid to We
Maple Ulf Milling Company early in IM wnmry, was closed
down and wax demolished in the 1920's. Hoover was burned and
rebuilt, routine hands several times. The Gas, the Wckww
and Relations some successive proprietors used the troll was
destroyed by fire in 1955,
The story in Wourvale and Greenwood is a similar story of
fire, destruction, scudding and fioapy disappearance of the built
mg industry ascent for the one remaining in Whiteside. The tvw
giants of the milling industry were built at Winnipeg or Fart
Wtltiam, Beer the source of Manitoba No. 1 Needham or at
Toronto and Moovealen ar Ne customers they ween designed to
areas. fictional seemed unable an make the transition to an to.
dustfialintion which would replace the primary, produces in-
dustries based on lumber and wheat that had brought her pros -
wily, in mid amury.
The population continued to decline until 1915 when a slight
opium began But it wasmdl 1952 met the population
cgualkd Net of 1860. Paolein their thousands went and, somh
and n the city. The villages become sleepy hamlets whom the
Samuel store, the post oRCG and the blacksmith shop — sen
Us be replaced by the gasnlane pump — were the main features
of village life.
Perhaps it might he said met the general st e. bring some -
nor is the bright glare of the supermarket, is the ,nom Permanent
feature of village life. Timothy Rogers kept a store which rob-
ber broke in n 1801 — May have broken into many a store
since, Francis Left, Michael Gleeson, John McNabb, the Loans
-
d coq M¢holls, were scorekeepers.
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Through the year they Lave contributed mom than lust their
e¢M1andising skill to the port of the rowvahin, They have
taken ll¢ir wit in the religious and serial life, the politics and the
prommum of the tonight, from earliest limes.
Perhaps no dogmaper of the pas rentury was more colorful
than Gorr¢ ]tenon of Green River who kept Sam and Post
Office them for many yogis and be has bran described by his
v, C. L. Burton in his book "A Sense of Nipent "My father
as me youngest of his family. From Ns love of ran , good
company and not dollars hates, 1 imagine he m o have bean
allowed as chill certain licence which commonly wcard be, denied
0 older ahihlren. No was a good salesmam lit his b, ,,mc
and worked hard at it wllbm certain Refinadong. lie fact ca
perience of inernM1andisinR was in n Paddling wnymn That met!
eular reality lots not specially high is me racial wale, but in
thou days a peddling wagon was an agal link bnwecn the
early settler and his fellowmen.
The peddling wagon was as familiar a pert of the country wave
s the delivery van of the big stores is in cities today. The itinerant
merchant would drive to Toronto and stock his wagon with can-
mint
aaples, smallwares, handsome, doth in bolts and even obth-
og,and, 4,averalls and work shins. Being mobile, he could snit
his small stock to the seasons. Then he world drive me long mad
book to his familiar temmry, and saw the faros, oracularly
than at a distance Rival the villages, or those occupied byf ears
lied by numerous cl iNren or other circumstances to can work.
He was always wdmme. Many a farm wife watched to, his
ming with his traveling swig as (lie modern farm ambo wmebu
for the arvioul of the resplendent mail anter cahadogme, today, The
mobile memi was infest to draw wherever it Well in his
eagle, and stopped the night with Old hieing along the way. It
war a wonderful way to learn merchandising, for the Paddler
could not buy rasM1ly, beanse of his limited space; and in visiiwg
@e homes of auery variety in his territory, from the wdl-evab-
g and bunter down to the most formicary situated newcomer,
he banal the public cave on the warrant front.
A country general smm in the horse and buggy days served
only a few square miles of mintuy. Meet of the made was by
barley. The paennastersNp carried with it a art of guaranke of
bar and once The mefchant had to keep posted on the se
quiremems of the Signa 's, ensure that big Supplier,' accounts
re paid up and his credit clear, so that he could abeays bay the
o cded supplies.
Heavy commodities like salt, ragas cout and other simple gar-
, nulls and headline, warn shipped in by below Gam the
answer railway station. Markham village; but giants moil cry gias antl
hncygsoceries were personally selmed on trips to the city and
brought home in We light wagon drawn by a goad team of drivers.
A country general store could not pa[ on style". The two
show windows one on each tldc of the deal, were seasonally full
of "cow's brrnkfasts", as the universal farm screw hal am called,
work glows, suds, Inntema, work Im[s. The part office Intl the
$^very won 0, the left, as the c.staler mu md; but immediately
inside We door was ms ubiquitous a sof whips.'t he stu^on Wys
homed m mdr mrmw not m n tomol, tnv' 'too if racy
had bewa, is wns baro her easewa any ndsniet — alae is, a my
Tamm wwo r would
draw.
My (ether would often buy whole arises of sailing woollens,
which meant that for the next taw years all the thing
n children
re all three) alike. As than wss m each clothing,
y country
stores of come days as neatly -made bold doming,ng machine,
with the assistance ec could
a very inferior old Howe ed sawing machine,
and what aid she as tome get film domes.¢ Felt, ling these sound
accustomed to ling outars of different
cos said and
women w m. Foot Wye of d:ofth costs had to
a of the some mmsfW and gen^mhy of 1M1e same waw;
Ncloo umtl c
Sometimes my ray mother would M1ave to chanustomers
ers work, even
meals or Inc wash tub, b wait of wmnen customers owhose
exp seta
wove tw is hotl was
tali occupied
ied o expose
to
znline mends Shia was too busily occupied with her growing
family and I know haw ever to be much use Saks
and I know geese the scot womenwould share quite
fbetter amiliar
arewith byduem in 1M1e score, all f whom were quite
(v Onar with all side,
facts of life.
On be a, fin site, ma rens M pfather d but [rime is chats
from China, Iapvn and Asaam. My father bad a mous ha for
was.blending ten — Oohoe, Yea; loans
asp Omer was as Chinese
s. Many drank man tea; packaged.
Gunpowder was a fvvomc.
The preset day demand for novers =d, ativI, Ital brands After
In-
wor
dia bled: m eid I unkhad bun o Italian Alcor we
mwW to the city reed 1 had gee^ a few }vena at work. 1 n.
amen war
C. IDrrin'x rs with
Sts w snow, in uhleh I number
Salado y efirs[ ntefrom with i6 window morins yi a, a dunce
th ebony n knew
from Indio. Than ecastaabo w u�'teance
that Larkin knew rill about India; or at Inst ninet tlodil ten.
$agog dour, soft, pork and oatmeal ea n barrels. 'and
oak considerable slugging by able-bodied n en to nanJle and
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place there "hevy" growers hems. The great trouble with oatmeal
s the balk of We ams which had to be gut rid of. Minute; of
Tileoabury wars the first to "kiln" dry his wall, and thus gm rid
of the u,pleasant hulls. However, hulls of no hulls, oatmeal was
We u scal,cl Canadian breakfast.
Batter was the normal, everyday method of doing hostages.
Farmers had little or no club. Butter and eggs, hien and wool
re brought into the store when purchases had to be made or
accounts brought up to date Cash Interactions urge the excel,
ties
r.alm than the rule, because pan of IM1e function of the
atry storekeeper, as recently as my eNldlwad, was to serve as
broker for a considerable range of farm products that he could
handle, store and get rid of to buyers who regularly "me thmagh
We country soBedwg these goods form the general stares. In
come also, the country smrelapen would ham mIansport
We produce he took in, in barer, to "a wholesalers in city and
bwu or else handle We dipmmt of it by rel_ Mrtifier on his
routine nips by light wagon and team w formula, to buy his
n stock for the store
wouN Prepay take a Iced of boner,
eggs, more, wool and oan, preface, which he world first have
to dispott of, on his owe behalf, in a process, ye, might say, of
double -lamer.
Compared, themPore, with the smrt keeper of today, who com-
room afaidy simple cash or credit business, We country memmme
of We wgnties and eigliics had a highly complex enterprienterprise on
his hands He was a broker, middleman, agent, as well as met -
chant
in We present sense of We ward. He was integrated into
the community 1¢ spell to a far greater extent than is the case
today. He filed to know We pen not merely of We goods on his
shi sbut the price of We bartered predum he took m exchange,
It wss a ganglia enterprise in more respects than in prices. My
father and mother had a mental catalogue of Woce farmers whose
better and time were above insulation White the myority of the
barmen wrote wholly dependable, and had as much pride in their
produce my parents. M1atl in Weir stow, a IM1e lees buttei-
would sometimes meal foreign influence, or badly shouted
sections in the tubs, bidder, cracks and other containers of buffer
brought into Ne some A bun metal tube War was
inserted into the contents of the rob bringing out a secbon of the
contents for incentives, as a miner's drill, far example, brings
forth the samples of the rock. Aber Waterton, We sample was
re -incurred him We solid bulk sof butter in the tub,
Many a night my mother spent inm,kma over" inferior butter.
My purenn wall knew those farmers whew pmtlum did not
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come up In the mark. The tubs or crocks of butler bmught in by
those iumanity seem not sampled by a simple, shalgM-0own
Neu of Ne buuerl err. Alt, no: the mode his, would be those
into the bulky at different angles, so any to explore the contents
thoroughly. If there were badlychun¢d and poorlyworked but
my mother would remove the conlems into the large wooden
butte-nowl, a son of super mind how[. and with tem baun�sysagi
mall corrugated psddlNilx women implosion, would potently
proceed W "work" the butter, expelling the buttermilk, blending
and salting and bringing the butter to a proper consistency.
Early spring saw bmhel baskets of eggs up and down both sides
of the store, which in my elWtllsh eyes sees any of the longest
aisles in the mercantile world. Everyone had to candle eggs, father,
mother, pare and house help, and even members of the young
f rmity. As far as I can figure, l was only years add when I first
candied eggs. As I claim some ability in telling a bad egg from o
mod one, in more fields than hen fruit, I waribe my powers to
m eatly egg introduction to the an.
A fragment memory of these childhood experiments Nvalves
the hidns which the farmers would bring to the store, n the raw
state,of course, and often auction W high heaven. I can hardly
maglne whet the merchant of today would say or do in such a
se; bat one of my intimacy duties, as general store beeper, was
to sah mese hides and artame, to transport them to Tomato at
the corked opportunity. The spirit of business was that everything
was grist to the mill. And the community had to be served.'
Mrrl tt .
TWLNTH:I'H CLNTURY PICHLR/NG
As Picketing interested the Jubilee of Queen Vinoria, many
ust have looked back over be sixty years and wondered
what vllmm11mry held in does. Toronto was Burning
rapidly butwas still a long way of. Kingston Road was mugh at
times and the Rouge bill was still almost as steep as it had brain
when William Clwwtt was sent out in inspect Asa OvntioM1's
road a hundred years before. Farmers with verses fill plodded
along its dusty milq stoppling at the halfway house to barter
their vegembkv or apples, or going on over the Zang stretch of
road that led past St. Johns, Noway, and down toward the
ee earn
trz of Toronto where market day was a big [ of dw week.
Tar Newtons xcrc still holding down the mwnship cli chair;
but Andrew Thompwns tavern, where Reeser Beaton bad Grd
taken over his duties, was long since gone, a victim, perhaps of
the march of the mmpertnre farces which had deed up the
township in 1977.
The Bona of Temperance had met the alcohol problem head
n than middle of Un mnwry when the pmblem M dunk and
dnmkensattracted attention all ac ss Ilse memory. Tim tory
that there was a bucket of whiskey nd a dipper beside every
cabin in Upper Canada is rationale an enumeration of affairs as
Ne Qualms, the Mennonims and the Mclltodbts, to say nothing of
Ne other religious bodies, had been campaigwng against the
ravages of drink for many years. But there was wnainly plenty of
whiskey and many tikes in ties early days when grog shops ache
dotted sharp the mads about two miles card.,
There were ether voluntary achisciatiore in the mandate that
The Masons had begun to made as early as 1972. Thee years lam,
"ino,in M"o4am. Bkbnof Ki'"k. 031
I'nNrlatiun of IVY 4, 1site I. wrublp_
the Ordinatmn openetl a ladee ami were followed by the Porevea;
Wilted Workmen and the Royal l'anplars of Temperance,
Orange Inches were not in relive. bot transition bad been in the
township same The thirties
In rte eillaaes nooks w v Yearn than ever The carriage
faemm, had less and les to do of the county draw In a close
and Nc ]m'ncis and caryenters were Seldom called upon to make
literature once the and order canals of Tin mhy inton became
wamed reading for every farmersrude.
Some of We Shingle mills were still operating hat Saw mills,
such an them kyCol, did mumm work nnher than mass narwitil
Mills at Whit, ale and Greenwood and Matsuda runup feeling the
Pinch of competition but stili were able to d main a fair Royal of
employment.
As early as 1887, l'. P, White had a telephone in Wbacvalc
and twenty years later than had home cmnmon if not common—
place in the mvn.hip. so that when Ne girls wanted to arrange a
mor on the new church tern¢ court,. they on do so
by tdmnone in 1910.
Wheat priced at the on, if the century had emc up again
after the disastrous low of 64 retur
nts in 1891 d whdcno farmer
call ,at mlmh That by is prosperous at least he was baser off
Nan he had been during tire tough days of the se and
eighties antl the early nineties. Liberals said it was because Lnurio
s Puce, Minister. Tories disemeed The Political anninceit
which had gone on now for half century was still Bond for an -
ober few years as poldoems declared that the Transom was to
be Camara Cmimry.
The men who had gone through the bush trails, acce in bond
renry-five years earlier, cut the coca that made the sawmills
hum, would baso found the twemicto century strange and mm
lining. People stanchbrud themselves more
refined than doh
forefathers bad been and were much cigar in regard to what was
proper and nice. There were cut too many people tike Tommy
Thompson and Peter McNabb, who would down loots any day
and drive down from Claremont to Frenchmana Bay to see if the
pike were biting
The new type of mocker, a graduate of Ne Normul BcMol,
would More little inwin Patrick 8hadiQ who in the
potties hatl been fired for ¢smarms the tavern "moaning, sono and
viv_ht". For Nose who round calcium the University of Toronto,
Pickering College could propane then toticulnte.
This College was War by the Society of Friends on a
earn-
mandfinis hill just north d Ye, Village of Pickering about 1875.
It was a landmark enhanced by all wlw traveled. the old Kfngsmn
Road. Situated upon one of the highest points of the district the
old mllem child be seen for mJn, and the students court over-
took 'the north share of Like Ommih for many miles to Ne east
and west.
It was the successor of a Ffilmds' BmNing School, situated
mar West lake in Prince FAwoul County, which was opened in
1941. The academy was incorporated in 1848 under the name of
The Frkndf or QuakmW Seminary. In 1879, the staff and school
moved into me new building in Pickering. About be sums of
beautiful grounds with a winding unce-Imd drive led up to the
fine red mad white, brik sanctions, crowning the lull.
It was a co-ed auhad whoa primary students, as wall as of&r
pupils werc prepared for a University emrainew The east side of
moms rccupsm the whole of the accrued floor. In fire Pone
a largem study-mawith stage for entertainments, and
the modoms, of do Beauty wrote. On the N¢a dour and fourth
Doo n the don t and club
m
rt mites. The dining ru and
border, with moms tforhelp, as well
as
sinsuad in the basement. The Matron's and the Pracical's
IN
quarters ¢copied u wing to the nodb. In Jaz[, Nn wrong w
well equipped throughout, at a res[ that was a mom moiety of
the asµndimcrred by the big secondary schools of today,
a splendid exampleof which Gas only a cone's tbraw, wetwartl
from me old site
Unfortunately, the college was burned to the ground, among
the Chdatmns vacation in 1905. Needs :11 the records and equip-
ment were destroyed Only die large brick gymnasium building
to the forth-west with the stablm and immediate wmv wvN,
This gymnasium has since been irradiated into the spacious sum-
er home of Mr. and Mrs, E. L. Ruddy, who purchased We
property when the directors of the memories, decided to rebuild
the school at Newtnarkcc
Owed to a lideaaon among the two or three Quaker bodesm
the early eighties, the school at Pickering was closed from 1885
mil 1892. Many well known sensors maty eccupiod the phalli
tions of Pandpal and Bmn. Previous to 1885, Mr. P. Bagsss
M.A., John E, Bryvm MZ., S. Percy Davis M.A., and Wilnw
H. Houston M.A., wor excessive principals. Mr. Dal died
N
while on e mail and his gravelies just inside the main gateway
of the Union partially at Oshawa.
On the [e-apening in 1892, Mr. W. P. Firth M Z„ O.Y„ M
me principal. With bis wife, formerly Miss Ella Rogers 9.Z,
dmagMer of Samuel Rogeq a well known Tommut figme at that
than due school prospered, and broadcast grow rapidly, Students
me from all over the Continent, as well as farm Japan, Rosily
China, Foods, Armenia, Australia, phalli America and the Went
Indict A large number of furniture Strummed from Ne career
Many local students amended both the propensity, as well as the
collegiate departments. In the early nioNm the attendance cued
llte capacity of the building.
While thoronglmess was made of utmost consideration, due
school was pre<mineody a [mining residential member, when
the religious needs of everyday ex a at all Bares cm
phasissd m the daily exercises, and snrP^rtv ivies for athletic ce-
wRmre were mpPlied is the Cymnrtsiom and on the school the
rinks, and the ball fields surrounding the min building. Many
cdcague ball games, with other tasidentirl schools, whas
en-
joyed. Aswdmion comhall as well as rugby, where the rules of
that day wore not so restricted as they am today, were awarded
by the 90M moral atmmphcre of the college.
The Until felt for this msfimtion was never in mart am-
dence,than when he 1894, and Old Boys're -union was held Over
400, hailing farm all parts of the country attended the material
Pldnbtg College Ulervy Sotitly
There were many goomme, From Pickenng Colleges in Picker
ing who have made their mark in the various profesions. Among
then may be mentioned Pad Fred Tmeg Toronto University,
Pri Barker, Jahn Hopkin IJnivorsiy, Prof. C. W. Wright,
School a Practical Science, Toromo. J. D. A. Tripp, Professor
of Maiie Vancouver, De Samuel Lamuraua, Dr. Layfayctm
Weami Oe AMur Darland til WUaVLn University and his
wife. Has, Rescued Clark of the New England Styles, Dr. John
Dollard of California, Rev. Ornament (Jmm of Lunuicn Rnd
Harris and Joe Burns ex M.P. "romnm, and Greece McDonald
of Texas oil heltls.
For nmoy yoery the administrative work of the college was
handled by the Nm A. S. Rogers of Toronto, Quaker tiusicos
rem venous sedien of the province formed the L rd. The camy-
mg act of the drM1aa or operating a century snow "in its end-
less planning and purchases for the rentals of such a inner ethan?,
ass for a long Gino previous to the fin, hwtdlod mon o duntly
by Miss Sarah Dale, a member M a plain inrnt pioneer family of
Friends in Pickering Township. The beading of the splendid
Gymnasium win due to the financial announce of the Rogers
families in Toronto.
It was fell by the many old students and by many of Ne old
friends of the school IM1m the moment to love the Capege
from its controlling position on the all above was a mistake.
However,M1c milees at Newmadw has made a great mntril
hall o Ne reluctant influence of Canada_ But the spirit of the
old Co-ed school in Pickering will live long in the wane of a few
problems -
MostM
the restless and mLellbus spirits and fled Ne towrship
either after the Rebellion or iT, or during the serxeda and
eighties when the wen was caning up. Those who remained were
content W make the Seat of an agicultmal society.
The Sunday Sehool Association important factor in
drawing people together and tnext to tilePoliticians of the day,
We clergy were probably tie a who provided m of Ne
leadership. W. R. Wood in 1911 is credited with arganiarmi and
sing the Township Carbonate] through to a successful conclu-
sion.
eople o[ Toronto were just beginning to discover Pickering as
the century drew to its elate. A few families bad camped at
Revenue on the Cowan place for a number of years. Generally
rt was built up with wagon
out to "last Ne Toronto
ton aRosebank random and bring the weary ciry dwellers our
to the eml commer aide. Soon same cottages appeared here and at
Frenchmans Bay, and the summer invasion had begun. As time
went an wringers built at St i, at Squires' and at Pickering
Beach. The aWnmobile, when it had become popular, gradually
drew warrants away from the day coaches of Inc Grand Trunk.
But dices people bad not wine to stay. September saw them
fleeing the country only to come back with the badss in the
spring. But the Palter was Ming established so that when the
Second World War introduced a makers shell filling plant into
the township at Ajax, many of these co maters, and olners,
winwrized their numbers and began saying for the whole twelve
months . More cottagesa built north of Condition and at
Resolution in the forties, the' at the: Guild, and at Pickering
Beach, until in the tnidde or the century sub-0ivfders were Seoul-
Golden Wedduiy M,'-& Air, Dawul We UmehA A ... R, .1847-1897
frernrvood SNmolbm' — John olele,baAe.
i kpf,... Gas aloes, 1909, Mise Katie Fawkes ant! her MolM1n
m their hater, Pickering Village.
349
Rrown(rzl0 GorCmv,
laking North,
West Ratio,
1961
349
Divers oD-dmre foam Frenchmmu Bay hying undenvo¢r gpee
my the township tribal for cheap land with no restrictions, where
they could make a quick dollar.
Restrictions were tightened and areas of Wear Roug<, Liveesprol,
and Bay Ridges cam, into being. This labor, at present is tire
only reildendal a
, o the worship which has s and
water bacillus, insollNwhen the house, are built, "Posed roads.
and 24 similar, secret, water more, underground wiring
mr strut against and hydra polo immnea along the rem of
each rat wt, that development of 1.085 lob which is to house
11,000 people in ane community In a ounce formol in the
to
nsltip.
no population of Pickering Towoehip which began to drop
abler 1860, roe slowly after the tum of the century. The first
World War had little effect except upon those farcies who had
�1
dW
lormMdr, at Assumption
nr,
College,
Windro,.
men cmc and those who were ares ting with whoever war
work's
Dmwg the prevent century various means had been on, m
nPlce the British army =its in Canada by Canadian defence
fortes. Inkrest was aroused for a time Own the 1837 mbelli=,
at Ne time of Ne Crimean War, aid when not American Civil
War broke out, but early effort prominent a more gWeNary than
active militia, At one time Pickering Township was responsible
for the Stir Battalion of the York militia under Major (lams Col
EAznerer Birrell, (Con. VII). An annual musme day wes hold.
In 1855, for example, on 2811, lues, when Col. Barrel should
have CauM Out, Cals ins Donald McKay, John Birnisher.
John Legs, John Luued= and Paramount Player toemble
their Own, me event was concerned by headquarters. It us =n-
ese = many returns afterward, w that the whole pmceminge
lacked incendw.
A few Canadians went wast to Nc Met µohlli= and a Jew
others to the '85 Ikebellioo. In the South African War, Canada
was represented by a lager=mbee Nan ever before.
But 1916 f=ad moa prople unaware of the maptimM of the
az shat waa coming new them. However their response was
wtl nor Canada which had begun the war with one division,
e urged in 1919 with n corps of four division, Many Pickering
.. n. .. a
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Ind ,yh�e..r y«.,, ,ayp ,.�, m4 LIEUTENANT -COLONEL m r/ i / ✓mG,.
V �' ��!!<>r7AIZId, c%.V .',I.. lu� ji,.,,
rym,. 'a -Ae' V 14 n;w
"'W'04Md'a yne e„
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all f y� �,�aa, o y e
n„t,4fry 1. ,z..a l in eA.4e�i r I/ .AEV. YJ4 ,qy?l.
eoWnelrl Bn,,R lll' nine lflenm_
Defence Indmo-les Limited ¢Grit filling plant Ajax. 1968.
men eveJ. Almon sill rcwmed, but some wore left in gross far
from the telling green M the Township they had known.'
Agricultural prices were faced, but prices of all kinds were
going up rapidly and there wns not men si Srtnt as of profit
s there Imal own during the Amm.n Cecil War. At the
fam,moreand more munimwasa te
beAg mmim! to tm
mg, Visa hopposed a, the unit other irs nmndeMinisters, spreaders, unnamed now¢a takes and
loaders were all from introdutomake
it passible to work a
nnm With las help.
= we Amondix mr owns
The wd=ri adon which brought Toronto out of the world
Of commence and was We world of industry after 1910, tlfew off
many young men who in a previous generation would have had
to make a living off the family farm.
But it was the Second World War which brought the big wave
OF immigrants into the worship, and many of them were Cane.
Boom from other chose and towns to Ontario, Cable and the
Mar rimes and from Western Canada. The Ajax shell Illling plana
employed thousands of workers and many of them moved into
the area from all over Canada. When Newtended and the
plant clued forms,forms,they remawed n
behind SooAjax housed the
vernmv of veterans from Toronto University, and some of them
found bums in the Township. Finally, before becoming a sepm-
nicipalav it was used as a distributing course fat immigrtnes
from Forope 'and the British rales, and some of them remained
ho, so That Piakcriag at mid no m y bad a ccsmopolimm lest
]ones sort, as it had never bed before and new problems of core
totally mamtimtior ouch it was IN wit ipped to few.
Aueelon Sales, Dugold Sumer, Concenhon f/1, 1960.
CHAPTER XVI
PICKERING TODAY
Picketing he moved a long way from toi®rrow More It is
still green and beautiful and as one stands on the rising and five
miles back form the lake, a panorama of ftdds and woode, distant
mokrmeks and the gleaming sparkling blue or Lake Ontario are
spread out Mom his eya.
Farming is still the major sous of wealth within the township.
It has become therebW as notified] with Mat of -five, pioneers
but spuciallmd to, MOnn Pasi , Murray Dmkeld and Without
Wcammy grow soul grain for others to cost. Many have unity
herds of prim stock like Harry Buyer or beef came like Wines
White. Others specia&e 1a Iwupry as dour Hngh Michell and
Hugh S{uiras with thousands of Inherent. There is a nowshrosom
farm on Can. V, which mucks tons of the tasty asides to Toronto.
Some people grow cemuy gimps of peas, co monoplane
noplane
which um handled by Van Cramps at Whitby. The orchardist is a
Mg opera mitre with a of tines like the Rcd Wing or Rein
orchards rand tdth a ontralligni re ainMm smmge Wheat like
Nat of Oavc Lennox at Pickering OrchuMs,
The humble normally occupies many acre of Wound and the
more rent chlmn, Orations and RUNb, grow the hernias for
jnm factors
A numberof nurseries handling stations and roses have appear-
ed such as Schraven's Pickering nursery and drive are marry acres
of scrambles grown for writer. But for most farmers a mixture
s still in noun, with milk b dip, valves to sell and perhaps some
pig and a Own crap to round out the proposal Compuam, is
not neglered as Joseph Tum was Dominion ploughing clnmplan
and Donald passed P,wm,ml transition, In Trade, Fanning has
almost dvappvarcd south of the same nonce and houses
am ukhhg its plainIn nor an,,V,l tiara am hundred, al norm of
155
sln+ngnele, Out. on. n,1960.
wasteland. water planar and sewage systems an under can
-
sWclim and sonny people from ell pans of Canada me finding
Pickering a pleasant place to live.
The organization of a Signal Area in are south west of Nc
ownship has prommed the case of edunGon and brought a
Supervising comment] and a Music Supervisor in In eager in m
mtlinaung the education of public whoot children and d whopum
a uniform standar. There are now ag(s) corgi: mhml chiltlren
tending township schools. ONy two of the hundred war old
schools are sfid he me and they have undergone "Ornmee reno-
an Industry hos begun to rome back to Pickering, although the
most evident farina, that of mining grovel, is the same kind of
wriefive
intl�a'aty that leaping was a final and twemy years
agoand leaves Oren more devastation in its now, CoosotiM¢d
157
Gravel Co., Con. IV, is largest. and Miller Pavma, at whose site
Ne Indian rm®Ins were found he 1957, is also a large Wool
The industry employs at ken 150 men, tbrdoys and W. D. Smith
nrsmaller rators.
aThope
e
&me plant at Clmemont which toms out stimulate
late
supplies gives employmmt W aWut Iwemy Invest At Brougham,
sash and frame factory employs another M1Af down. Tilling;
Windows, making metal sash fomes, on Can. V, is a much larger
operas .
In the south of the township the Canadian OR for North
American Van Lines is lwated on Highway 401. National Alumim
m Products Co. Limhed is on Banister Road and Colnwal
Homans Ltd., our newest plant, on the Baso LIM Road. Tltu in
dmtry moved to Picketing after having Their Scarbore plantpar-
rallydestroyed by fire. The Head Office Butldwg is also in
Pickering now and the Company has 250 people employed in i¢
various operations across Cut Pliurs; continental snowless
and souvenirs at area shop just cast of Sandy Beach road.
In me villages and at comments the servilesalon has replaced
the blacksmith shop and often tlms welding and implement repairs.
Many of the stores which wuwuablishN in the Inst contrary
e sill in the villages. Madilkisa at Albna but
MCNahs store, MCGmN's, We drngm¢ and Coopers Honduras
haw all been in ocarrier for many years. Clarks at Consumers.
Gnhnms at Railcar, Van Nadeom at Whiamale, Domains at
Green River, Murriehes at Cherrywwtl, Woods, Cooks and I,&
n Dnnhron (SlcighNnlmor's Log Orkin his been tarn down),
Matchless at the Brock Road Stical and Moll at Brack
Cooa's, the Trading Post and Mrimma Frenchman; Bay are
all family stores.
Mr. lhah liquor, artd herpuled, Ra, Use Srpchro6 rano¢,, in Rorary Funnvul Alar,
1958.
y k
In Broagham besides Ne faradic Barney more is Mears Hard
-
won in the old Trespassers hall and across the sled k Motors
fol 1. Dan Beer operates his Rural Bus Line from Brougham
and immunity thousauds of schwl children each day and ban-
dreds of Infamous in the summer.
Shopping centms and self =ran stares made their appearance
first in the township with Eerie Slmuse Market, at Ne East Rouge,
Sim that dime a shopping rmtre bas developed semens Ne matl
and another at the West Rouge. But even with these local bull-
ides
me" people go outside the township to shop.
Ajax, which meed a bank prosperous farms into a shell
filling plant during tlw Second World War, became an improve.
event district and then a separate m nicipality in 1950. During
the yet it was Pickaing's largest battery. Surrounded by nine
mil" of fence and guarded by 240 goods it bad its own went wd
Same plant antl produced 40 million shells in your and a half
yams
n town in 1955 and due W the facililia providetl,
and the encouragement of drugs Evans it has grown rapidly.
It has a Urge shoppwg area used by many township shappers,
Pkkering Village, incorporated as a separate recall in
1953, has also grown during the past few years with the pe-
n of water and me development of smsestuive house build
has Charges Block is it, principal history. But its shops and
stores re part of mussel life and McEacbole a part 0f most
formalorriml
Immung Township competitive in many ways with its adjoiNvg
nidpalilies, Agreements regarding the fire services and schools
and hospital services are working very satisfactorily and Nations
a emellem.
Pkkering Township has changed in many ways but its muni-
apal institutions remain mooch No same as may wee whoa fest
eatublidlcd Some refinements have save muted in towel years,
Fiver wards have been established as follows:
Ward 1 23,000 acres 2$00 people
Ward 2 25,000 acres 1,983 people
Ward 3 to," acres 2,600 people
Ward 4 43,11(m aces 4,100 people
Wath 5 45.000 acres 5,500 people
There are 31 1 ninths where IBM voters can cast their
bidders at municipal eleo(mns.
South 01 Canession 111, Ne msexment is $12,000,000 while
north 0f this line it is $6,000,00). With the rapid =pension of
housing m the Freoclunav i Bay area Ne total figure will swn able
Beyond $18,000,000.
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Hmrdicapped Childrrn in Sim Valle), Park Paul, 1957.
In the southern part of the township restrictions an residential
sageness have two in effect Race 1955 and the requirements
haw been raised so that there should L an more get-richyaick
jerry-built housing in the township.
]toning b; laws are being drawn top for the whale southern
area and are steady effi iu the West Rouge, Gun Rouge,
Glendale, Bay Ridges and on almost all land south of Conwssion
111. Andres: wishln6 In subdivide or begin a residential or wm-
mereial dewlopmem m re permission from the Township
Plant Board which c ori with the Municipal Board of the
10
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091
Prov of Ontario and tin Metropolitan Toronto Planning
Board
Many People have felt that No restriction on personal freedom
whish this End of k®sWtion Andorra is unfair rod dixrman.
story; but the results of unplanned and owtlperviud building and
development as an Ml matve are nM ramisint to commonplace.
The Council of Piercing Township haz many duties to per
Iona. It is compored of a Serve — Mr. Shermm 5aµ who is
paid an honorarium of $1,000 and $LOW for expenses. Edgar
James is deputy-neve, Harvey S}mg, Milton 1, MmMay, Harry
Boyer, gas, Deakin and CGQOM Layeoa are counselors. They
reoerve $15 per meetlng plus mileage.
The council appoints send, ms aliry, passes all and
ImPrictimms, SWAS Im laws, prixsaccounts and deals with pefitions
aid catupoadmin. To nthec council a Toumfhio Omit is
employed who rewMs Onesmmu
s of council meetings, turnove
New minimums W wumtil,
Paagendas, by-laws, m15
Out ic
hatcri mils, volae' Uses and conducts elation. He reNshers
Binh; issues marriage Arcane, and buriml permits. During World
War IT he Acted as RaliooNg OBiac
Dough PAta Ne Transit, Collector is required to sliest all
taxes and keep a proar Account of all Township funds, prepare
budgets, mbmit accounts to Coumil for authority to pay, arrange
bank loom and sell debentures. M the amount of stream of Nsss
determine the voting of Ne Township in selling debentures, it
his job ha keep the arrears of lues to a mmimem, even if he
Do W. N. Ta ... Oman. Charismata.
RaaAvuk SNaol X[nMremien Clan. 1961
vse the BaiGR, at other means to collect. To nuke it Bader
beNeeaepayers to keep their Wu up to tem, mxo am notes
out in three imtalments. To unpaid taxes after due date 1%
kenalry pear month is added during the comet year, with 3h%
per month hoom a elect January Ist.
161
mhmr.
D. R plastic, me Assessment Commissioner is responsible fm
making all asmssmcals which hander at present about 9,000. He
commences January 2nd, and completes his Roll by Qlaber lit,
xay Out assessment course about September tooth, arm, which
data saw rmepayer has the right to appeal his assessment to the
"Court of Revisionwithin 14 data Otherwise the assessment
stands and his mics are based on this amuse[ for the following
year. If an nsessmom ie appealed Old the Court of ReAsion re-
du¢s or increases the ax re , this figuwill mind unless
appealled to me County Judge "thin ten may from date of
holies. the last appeal is to the Omario Municipal Board The
Aaumon carry a County Assessment Manual, which is used as
a guide. This Manual sets the sgnaia met rates for all types of
buildings based on replamment value Willi deductions for age and
locadon; the land values arc bawd an train pmdumi m, use and
Radial.
The promote. T. 0. Jefferson, is in charge of au public utilities
and building permits, plans, water and sewage services, and till
drainage, and se s; he assid, witb subdivision plan
Last year the esfm urd ealue of a building permits issued was
aver $6.000.01 E Pnux is building insµ:cwr:
The Read IHpanmml is operated by a Read Superintendent,
lack Chapman, with a AaR of 21 men. He has 236 miles of mad
as mmulam and vies to pave about five miles of used a year. The
Township areas two grovel pits, has a flat of truck; tied main-
mivers, and has six show plows for snow removal. They have a
runty budget of about 5260,00i
Ref
d 4 � Mw
/(mr llel/ CWIi /960 DASA lllumo-AcpOmmHi
Twenty ymrs ago Nis Township aces poGad by one Van4ime
n who steady uxd a Woods for transportation. Today we have
nupto-date police odic at Dumbarton, mi by 13 po&emen
and 3 once gad. They patrol the area smth of Ne Third Con-
wasmir all polite can am radio equipped They agenda on a
budget of about 885,00i Reg, Rnkst, the Chic[ is responsible
to a Polars, Commission, composed of the ba,bi the County
largo and COunry Magistrate. The mrn north of dm find Cant
woban Line is policed by the Ontario Provincial Police from
Whitby.
The Towmhtp has a by -Lw E,,,,,,, nt Department un„i
Ontario Anmresr Softball Axo2n Champlms Paunchiness Bay, Pee Wees. 1960.
H. Ashtoo. A. Goe beads the Welfare Department, and there is
a Dog Control DeparMmt, The letter Department is quite valve
in keeping the canine population under control.
The Target is divided into ax Fre Areas, operated by vol
unity themeq wird a fall dmu Chief, Don Linde, and Deputy
Chief. All areas Love good modern emotional
Om of the most active BOards is the Planning Board, cum
posed of seven memMrs, plus Mo from Council, with a Secretary,
H. Pearce, N the Municipal Olfm. This Board prepares, with the
ministers, of a Planning Consultant, inning by -Lon untl land use
166
Arm law MaPAermn,
Deputy Recall, 1059.
maps, which ILuits xrtaw lands to mono uses. The Secrnary of
De Board deals with and ndnses applicants what lead can be
used for umbos purooxa.
Education is the most costly xrvice given, as the following
figura allow for frAool Anne No 2
leduccadoet 60 Cent, n the tax dollar
County of Ontario 12 Cans on not tax dollar
Felice 9 Cents con the lax dollar
Township Roads 23;4 Cwts on the tax della,
Gardens 6 Cents on the per dollar
Township General 31A Cars on the to dollar
Fire 3 Cern on the tax dollar
Health I Cent on the tax dollar
too
These are now 3,900 public tthool children in IM Township
and in 1960 public school Initiation was b512.1O4.46, which vepre-
n S135.00 average rest per child. There are also 628 high
school students in she Towaship, and high school taxation in
1960 was $200,456.12, which represents $295.00 par queen
The actual act cost par high school puWl is $362:00 and is as -
counted for by using present school popWeGon and lass gross's
It is also likely that public school costs per child for 1961
ws. ill be $150.00.
Alumina them is on, fork, a, Inch schwl slid per fuoNp
mW We"cals, yearly conof one child is $16200, which rtpm
Altona Uorfori Sundal School—aqesr m!(rkednS w.,mhly./9sa-
PIOXMns -Oid Boys m Cememrinl, 19/1,
rents 6090 of tire, Nen any he= owner whose news are less
than $300.00 is not paving his may.
The Assistant start wooden; on lmuary tad, and people mov-
norin after he assessment is made are unknown W the municipal
alhce unless they advise this office , The Clock posts Ne Voters'
List more up from Ne nxesview records in October. These lists
rc Fell in lilt Post offices and it is Ne duty of vown to make
re Nair names are on the list within I< days of footing. No
aliens have the right to vote.
The opening of 80 reams north and war of Grccnwaad by
the Mems, Comer aeon Atrocity is bringing many people to the
Township for weeoends and tbuwas Ne musecian m open in
Brougham. There um also several forestall, operated parks with
foals aM thirst golf courses.
The churches in picketing Township am sWi canes of social
and religious life although pedmpr they have felt the eompanitem
of the Sunday emmge fever which M1v stand many a city dweller.
Other columnar organizations haw sprung no in recant years to
suppinnem the work which has been carried on for many years
by such groups ns the Women's Institutes, without whose InMrs
this book would not haw been passible.
The Red Crass Society has been m imlizW in recent years. a
Society for Railroad Children has built a wheat or Arye. The
emission Association has fmrered immune and athletic proleers.
The Lions, the Banes, and the Kiwanians all have thriving
survice clubs in the township which spend, wgnheq newly
LLD., X.C., O Litt, HLP.
Nanonnl Aluminum Puniness.
S100,00U per your on Charitable and welfare projects. Harsh -
capped children are helped on Neir way to bemmivg healthy
happy cilium.
Pickering is stirring as it has not done fora hundred years. 1t
is of the Pickering of old but a township on the edge of a new
sensors in flying. Railways and highways have sliced up the land
and propose to do ea again, but the spirit of the people, old
handles and naw, hom been azooxtl or never before to make Ne
worship the kind of place they wish to live to
Tbcm arc still many problems to salve. The pull of mMsn
palimn Toronto and its domination of Ne cutlasses half of
Chmaic is very real and most be recoymized Fifty years ago the
Pickering Ieteses t was a popular root and a number of Toronto
pr ork, bad summer collages here. Today there is another move -
n from We city, some haw dome out to homes which are
not only word aspromise
cottages but for w workends to
Unfortunately thistrpc of rcsidmt often name We township and
Snlwbltan6 as much she same way as Pero treated Ne houssr,
as int interesting but unimportant pan of the local rwwc y.
Many of the solid old houses whhh were built in the part
one fillies and sixties of the last century have also been bought by
Tamm, people who ham conduct them to than former glory and
mnde dhem into mmeviers modern homes. But the problem of
living in on and morning a living twenty miles away in
crasher municipally is am whch must plague every commuter.
The difficulty of owning an concessions and a sense of respon-
Abiity for she place where they Eve has always teen present far
Comedians. And perhaps it is oven more difficult to far abortion
for a townsNp than it is for a village or a town. A township is an
selected ler local municipal government and its boundaries
area
often laid dawn wbhaat particular regard to the obvious facts
of geography. Pickering bas a natural main= bauodary, Lake
Lot 19. Conresalmi VI — 1948
Ontario and stretches northward to the watershed. but it
and west boundaries have little significance except for admin
istral purposes. It las always had her problem of a gear
neighbor. As port of York County it had to labour under the de -
thermal of having the county lawn with its registry offices and
courts separated by twenty five miles of bush from the thirown
farmers who were willing the land To -day the same all gown
to
marry limn payments, towers over the township.
The &at settlers on the lakefmot seemel closer b Aachel
New York than to Ihc'vcare caunty lawn, and it w ucb
all to trawl in a boat hesthe lake than to waR through
the woods to York. Dead so far from York vow a serious handi-
cap a hundred and fifty years age, but as the will century
reached it, halfway mink and the citiernx of the township begun
to cause wbar solid be dopa at home this disodvaiage w
slowly w e- At that amu thorn w ron8 a of staff-
sufficiency
But
ma Iv the economro progressed
i and social he of t Irony.
mm as to pull away ra rapidly
in am x nsion of the lnst fa
toed a pull away rapmry in tpo icy of an re tMir the
readiness, rand
:hops. mon ties in a roto this Toronto
or depwas engineered
ere neighbor
ivg ea m favour of Tarawa w mgind M br men
likeother
George
men And Was Allan, true to a and Munn, wa
otter city men. And this is kermillytine pr s degeritee. Butthisis
of the whole answer as on manufa early prosperity was dem on
uploiuve industries and on manufactures for which the dermad
172
has now award. Newetlheless, it has always been difficult Fr
mardistrain anything but an agricultural community in me face of
the ovetwM.lming pull of Toronto's indusWal mouth.
Whether Ibis will continue to be Ne ease demands upon a
umber of faction. No one can change the geographic fact of
narrow, No one now looks to union with the United Seats as a
way of remains the dan ination of the big city. But Pickering
Township need not be a more dormitory suburb where people
who can M afford to da m Bve the most apmsive kind of Ne,
separated from their place of employment by twenty miles of
residand paying For evemodem municipal out of n
ery, xntial assessment instead of dm industrial assessment which
s needed.
The thief problem appears to be in the way we look at things.
Qrtafnly township dwellers Amid take awry advantage of brv�
e of the worMs greatest does
aaeat grass roiatrotation.nat they should also trust that mumofthe skills and abilities
which have brought the city in its present stage of growth are
those whkh are 1Mh own. On, fie wale had faith in God W
guide him thongs the willemees; but he also had faith in him-
self that he would be able to meet the challenge of pionxr life.
perhaps tM narrow obstacle to the sound promess of any town-
ship Iqs in the lack of elf-crnOtlenee and commonly contains -
,on among
ontai us-
mong he people. To realize Flat together they can meet the
Wlloch, of the future is the beginning of a new has.
"Ono rh,pW,d has mhwn us on,
Slowly, unmasingly, always toward our goals,
But we are far two much prowsupied
By the neat blade of grass
To look inward.
It is as though the fortlsman has direct us
O'er No lush and grass, plain
Cam to the Foot of a high mountain
Bat ue Free became tut recrammm
To ageing these undulations with only another
To fallow Ile first, that eve look only as Far
As the hxls of the sheep in from.
A guhde, a signpost is round
To point tie way: Ave each up the NII
And see the shining gosh our purpose.
Germany it the memory soca
not did 1 sem lost without being w
Until mtley."'
\VPS Tal 1959.
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Appendix i
A PART OF THE JOURNAL OF
TIMOTHY ROGER.S. 1756-1827-
I was bore In the propene of Carmine, Notlh Amara In the
Witn of Lime and my father's oe as Timothy Rogers. My
h was on the 22 day of the fifth month in the year of our
Lord 1]56.
As my fortune was to M put out 1 Ilvd among other pupil till
1 was about six years aid and as they told mel was yoused vary
hard than one of my inalwta hunts John Huntby by name
mood about 150 mi6 in, the Hine Fashion in the gmxmment of
Now York =it as he came down Verne I was put o
John Tube lusi that 111.11 abnvH came mid talk oa
f One
and took me mr, to the Nine Fondues where he had began a
law far
But being poor and having a grate land, Put me out a spell
an e bapbs mtoastor whdlive
r I d a Ae Ail m than no Mir..
Then took mehom a spell. Then wheal w,,Vabout ten Mrs; old
he put Inc out by one James GriRen in read place where I wags
well yourd aid was about fl ken or sixteen then Mingpraswaided
to go from him 1 went away and thrughk m larm. A triad but
muni 1 returned to said GriRen agar The a m
came n the barely of my unktl and he and two of M1§ dshun
faaugMsa
died with it thatatioutem the time that 1 w¢s filarand
If yours ohL
M1cuiN g. my mother dve tletl and a 6o a Marnetl a gut
me laming. My roarnt neuro mem nmol 6 n Mistris nd in
about Wce Vela I went
t m ss 6 spull ander Int and be51n m
rcdc by that a. 1 went I a nine scout aI hl to Orn m rite, and
d
slam by that nM whet base
od souls, 1 my
b ade rite sod
to
the Aginhard though t hwe as gangde good my mind doorand
Norman an
I eM1e InN that he created n tlesiar in mem drive a, final the J never got much at Isaw n my day many that, tzn RmI the
cher m lama that I had and did not gin M1ull w mueh ur 1 did
though I hope an ehndofn will try to lam. I dealt drat all paten
of Cambodia will try W hove they childorn hurin6 I em
re ber
when I was roans I o6n round @e vimtlon o1 Gad on my war
and I proud if it Ends he his will that I mite be one of his servants
if it was only the baste of they that shuttle be thought fit I, enter
to the kingdom of his ren (ems CmI My master was not a
strips man though cold it very anent man and of a moth life
and conversance.
As I grew to riper age youthful not and Ne debts of this lire
begw to draw me away and eMut this time wart between pngland
and Amurmn the Unitad Stats broke out and all though at hat
I found a spirit of wait on my mind yet as the I mtl brooks in
in my sold at tims I found in, tintle thoughts under a was a
the gooier dearudion of ovr on the with and yet I would not am
why a man mite net stand in his one defens and I htl found that
the towns of God o ader the old continuum did fight when Gal
did command them. Then I found that Christ and his dempeb
did not go to war bot Christ bar the ,of or men and the pane of
doth for hh Inareau and as a Iamb slay, room the fooMimens of
Elie wotld he we, marble, Neverthe las 1 found a grain e4ogel
in my mind tied m this time in the nineteenth year of my nip and
year or our LON 1]]6 antl ] day of me first month I madvad to
Sarah War the daughter of Ohadiah Wife who was habitis in
[heir prinaobills.
The war spud mind the shwrs of Amamca sum towns win
buret sent probers blocked up. The wmmon Nepal was mind w
I divides whether they shoed AW for King or Congrcs but the
LOM aeon sent his shount oil my and and war me to think why
he should wan men to be created an yeas let Item kip one moref
it such a rate each I found to be Ihfu their one parlutiam and
by the Vint of the waked that cost men to foal which I believed
Christ name b redeom men room, as his Life and doctrine waw
of a lateral loving army and he caught her di,pds to low one
pother and to low their 'Roma telling them ataping time
that it big kingdom s of ams world Ns Economy would fight and
he charged them to bait reviling and an fair from filing was his
commands that if they was node on for choke they was to turn
the carr and mmmanded Item to do good for evil and as they
would have men to do to tlpm [hey should do to all men. There-
fore, I wnkludead all wars was wikW and the welfare milt when
a hard it was for Ne ems of the peril and as I
was not brought up in any profession of rcligon 1 begin m Ninke
'me aceluna ie assom coq Error uunnuamn has hen gaged
What way or among what pepil l mW same God [n an atteptrod
magnor
Now 1 begin to yous the plane*scripmr language which rose!
pored to call m a quaker, Though my aquanlws with that mal
eraa mall very syet ac 1 continued in language
that 1 afrom found
caoppersenity, of viceints name of We saes, or Nae cold
uses ... ...
The meeting ended quiet and well, Planes he to God. File 23 we
JohnSt. Ions Funded about 1 in Nc enhancement found our trend
w Daws with the horses and parted with the trend that had
,mankind us from the grand isle so far in a have, safe. We %set
20 mile tonno on St, Laments: River, found about 410
families and n Roman Catholic meeting house sees...
Found a brig cold rbc Four Ranchers from Loamen board with
eight doweled bodwls of season far Halifax match about 11,
mils from Halmax in Non -show conceded by Cap Geoff
Sarmon. facially and I went nn bard and sent our horses bone by
John Davis. 'titer IS day wet parted fling on bard for w go
about real, hundred mils be waroq about 20 days passig by
motor, My some nin being vary We ahem 2 weeks and loving
vl :forma of wind and rare and fog saving near S. Johns
land than the get of Canna by the iland of Cape Britain and
heated ati gs on 5 days and 1 Face two eery automatic dreams
that gas,n: as of not in :my theory m Far:. 1 had
many bTahiof, cry, for my wife and condom in my spirit as
also for my one sok.
On the 17 day of the 7 me, 1795 we had a pace SOFT tome on
hors We Sat to Danhmoath among our because put up at Seth
Cabman. We had a member of matings being hily favoured in
tesomforly and came atmst No bay of Foody from Digby to the
say of S1. Jons in the mouth of S. Ions ri n the Bay of
Tandy. They say ties tide uses from 30 feet to 70 feet high that
comes OF a From of wind the bay as be very mQ. At St. Johns
wow we landed on the SN day of the all, month, 1795. On the
191h we Went former by trends M1elp to no Daved Unix on
( mpaWlm in the bay of Quady hyo Sa. Credit river. He Two
super loging for nought.To 15 day sea gat to the provers of
Maine.
..... Nate: seseml pages of sermnm omitted here.
As Was waiting an the Lord their was a very pNusant furling
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became zelus Wshow my intent to do right and it import my
mind so strung that I patch "It Owes as if Were will be a live
ming and I can get land where septi may semi an both sides
and a new moray will soon be like an old pias in a newtabor-
bood;-all he moped Wlking as I had been led to say that which
proved weakness; W hire for so it was. And after u long novel 1
gotthem. AUNs gave out More I gm half way and I wed 1111,11
plazas and as L got v days jomy in the wltu ernes, ny NW_ O_
Lake Istruck along maybe 20 miles from any same More, for
w Ihave often done. As 1 gat up before sun rise u very strong
mmhun took hold of my mind he go back W my mail, bot 1 sat
and it wanted to leave me, But I thought 1 sea willing to go bac
or boot or my way if I must — the moshnn war from the Ing but
now long n0 mot event on vers fear urger an the wddoemon
as me as I could tell by my watch and small wgpm clean[ 5 or
six mils and I went fast, the drunk stook me ogee and I went
mediately back to a trend and old aoww" of mine to Yh Day
whcir I Icft my heir :md dun 1t armtl as if I must go to York
in this proven. And by a gmW deal of hard travil got to York w
this proven, said diva went 30 or 40 mile Mc, and following
my eonmrn mend way to apply to GarnetGiminl Hanson' and
John Elsby, 0wfe pees became my trend and all the Ind was
easy by a mmpmy bdom me. I got bac and got a great for forty
(urns of 200 owes each by minding the filings of the Omtl Spirit
an my haft weir naw their is a monthly meting and a half ycrs
cling and 5 wake day mamgs includ'm wheh I now Gv,u and
the Imd wag so wonderful to begin a meting of fmndg at this
place for I met We Surveyor — that bad use the line when 1
agent out going and after I bad conartmed W bring on fatty
females about SOD mita of land, l went on to Ls ke Pry and found
o preprimi maganys one
at Pcons and o at Blue Rik that
made age month meting under the gall Of the wily matins at
Pheledelphy. Ago whll I wag gen N a day or tow our fraud
Samoa] Ltmdy (Samuel Load) come from Peovl and took
joining the lend I had egged for, and took from Sevamment a
great fur 20 !anodes n e jo]ning after u long bogus jomy, and
laying many nights ,low in the wilderness I saw Samuel in my
more to York and Ismue Philips that now is an eldor moved into
York from Ponsalva monthly soting, and as the hotel maw
would be hunts about this began and as all Of us is about 25O Or
SOD mils apart now fMWs wait scatcrd [ince bandied mils. Of
Governor Omeet better.
Joint of late isolated Urdu audience time RmnWy Rngrt wu
•, not beg at Ne time a actual The Negotiate, show, emwtorm
Hero he eat a fees W, Ikn Duey sear ell Downs.
badness I may ey the Lord ad ashamedly help tresxd be his
nmic So I found Rufus and mmmd and got had after about 3
orally ::nd an Oe 15 day of da rukam month 1801 1 pae1W
halosand em the 191 started sewn stays and all my grade and
aeir s ,at My wil'a Sunt had a son just Mror I stared
Nat I Hurd altar the class! made John Elmsley liogecu, and we
had a grate mole and many tryels but got on the ground about be
his of she 5 aboard, 1801 . _ _ .. .
But in 1807 1 Wd a mit plane in N;owin and about this time
IoM birth from Ponape, , recommended m Md in
and took much led, in tm0 nd Won atter Jacob Bin a
lm under on,
c s to Jong St from Vermont,
.Intl then aha crone became a erred trading or rattler 1 can my
but trail as 1 do nth belong thereto, her I have always maid it my
rale if 1 thought any or our members did a mis w as to make me
may to me and tell them and when I thought Minnaor or elder
or overseur
ised it I ge and tell them so that opens a dor and
they toll: with me Reely and it is well non I have M1ad a grace
gift tram the ION to seal newu
votnry. r have mld eight now
farms of pin:nshens laid out one town when I want first I worst
themy mile in the wmemea rad now there k a town on enter our
cold Vargunus that is incorporated as a any rad within lour dark
cold Femssbm rr quotas.
This town 15com lays on aboot the seater of Iske Ontario
chair emrys a fine carne wild Doc Crik. Thu Is a fine science
arm I bill my :nil, m m ionic cold corn 3 mils from Me Lakc Sham
and Ind at my mil dao a fine fisheq is is. Our semen commonly
ves Wor well dressed about 7 or 8 pounds add some 15 ar 20
pounds. We hard a grant wryery a fish in this Inks which is 300
units montes — for grace Ailing and the grate waars Mat make
the river Se larem runs Me My lake and Nygera Fels at the hed
and the carie below Cargo of the outlet and Montreal our fine
see pan. Smith has give history of Uper Canada and sound
avelors Oscar Var and old pardaer Anthony, Mat I refer Mose
o Star w a limber, accounm but 1 only rito to was my mind.
This plan athough very new is about the Semen of trends io
Otter Canada beleve in time will pmduae a yetly mmmg within
ten mile of this spot whale I live on Darns Crik and on the 9 day
of Me 10 month 1808 John Brown fou adding Barks county —
JMn Shumaker in Shumakers town, Abwgan mnmg both m
Pensulvana. Hannah Father of Phcladelphy and Iiebnmr Archer
of Burlington the retry meting for lends for Peuealvema and
New Jarsa to be held as PNladelphy and from the yetly meting
for Ircnds held at N. York. Ann Mainly of New York City Anna
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Ment of Nine. Pull and Rubin Haight of NinpnNnie wall
aril IXhets for pili( mod company. These 1 w muidombil
with and a blcssetl Shut it was to us in Vies, Carl oM in my
last handras of our mo ycrw useful I saw them all and mostly
at then one hems and it was in the pour of tmN that was b he
held at Westlake meting on forth Sty following NC Inst fret day
n the lust mouth at Yong Sume o0 4 day following the last firs
day In the tdghN month select meting.
At my return f fond a Suite cloth on Yung Stmte and had ban
Joel on my beloved fronds family. I mean Jacob ren and mine
for 1 had had foneen eNldmoa, 9 sons and Six dattors, my two
oldest sons that was marred dont helonP a one homes bre a'
utold on Yong Strom, five dmlms tont was muted, an dyed —2
along John eighteen and John goal abnuo nine yers Old and also
the man he was named on the aaunpt of I heir is Md My wif
icily giv us Mmes — my famnly almost half goo I had ben
biWwg gk mJ, sawmill and $card to, then al and from the first
woke t came bene I always wt down to wait on the lord in my on
house an Rist days and John Haight that marred Marsh Rogers
lea far many years Let Nit
xogn bg 11, awg rete heel eon Lot 13, Con, I, wadi at U,Rpu en
kd
ehawh wil11, l in the rule matni, new We .mouth can.mina atNarrow Park
ellbud ,ft, His mills .1m 11 In, mill 'it,enr, a re o
1956, 11" ill Us, 401 e
al me CN It b xis,,
beam touch ooh in his mind although he had Mn very bad and had
ben vary deirsakal in his prineipbck I limieva mine opatlonys I
had with him was m Sued efwr he cargo and set Awn with os
me tires and my wJ ap along in a smanee way and was ablock
to my going o my only amongst fronds, but said if I would boss
a good halls or to her Short 1 mire go n' n 1810 and l l I got
It luntor so I thought to a move. In a short line had a bare and
nsidorabil of charting and the 3 day Of the 1 month 1812 my
mm
Samh read 1 signed to pro to York with me to Sit sem tangs
she wanted in said hour lend me we rode this 24 nd6 she wkW
plexnt and told but wishes and the nese day utcnded to tell and
by and Ntm we had ben Elect awkle mat 6 or y mils up Yong
St. to Wheat Metal for his wife was hue sedation and your us.
Well bye my wife was taken party and complained of chits then
an ague and paw between but brest and oda THE old realion
levery kind as man Italy Nen caner and I ren went to York
d ones Doctor Aspanwall. hoeryrhing was don that man cold
an — we left fare cltildarom at hem. Asa, Wing, Stephen and my
nine only dare, Matilda, it being vary cold 1 was very much for
in go i,trading on M1e,, she limited aloud to the laid and oRon
expmsd mm religus sayings that she had Rest when yang hour
elle had fond tmuds antl wait not wiling a be mmovee and on
LS
the b day of but shares and the 13 day of the 1 month about 8
Wal l in Ne evening she departed this life While I was lay
down a short time, but 1 laid SAM say Mrs. Rome is dying 1
marm and mantle hast bat laerer I got to on she was depend this
life. And 1 sent to my mtold Mildom at the fatcof easy of Yong
BemL They came to bur buret that was on the 17 Any of area firs
month at my one house in Piwran with my three childorn, 8umh.
John and John Blmsiq Bull And now f was tart to move in
my new Jesus with four chill two oldest sons wind at Your
Sttet and Timothy dimand and Stan W the stats. Qo you think
long cars A& my trobel or pen right my sheaf.
1 xm uPowmd with other to go W our yerly meting m New
York, and I mat setating my oumd nfoirs and the lord maid
way and I sold my mills and fifty users of land and paid all my
hares that 1 no of except a marriage on my laud and paid part of
that and kit money do from Rolxd and Demand Penrose and
Timothy Millan road to pay it and Asa Raffir s my law man -in-
law took a pour 14 Antony to mlaU said At and ac no the
said morgaige, and Comely BlOmm being apuimed to go oils to
me to go to Jared. and Govnar Sher to shit lib" and I did so
as year as hollers:
Hedqunress. York 6th, match 1813 —
permit Be ondemamed reasons of the society of Qaken to
Past ova from MRB,tO to the UnitedSNht
s, vs opens
they hove ben apaimcL¢t to stood their fairly meeting of their
slaty in the city of New York — Philip Darlic Jonathan
Bowman, Crmtas Dan", Timothy Aogms. By ctmmand of
His Honor Major Gineril dicaRq Nadhoo C oMn, Cal.
To Can Pearson P.A. D.C.
for Officer Comm&. Kingston.
I man from a man of Any agoanuns on Yon, arm[ (vis)
Them air to mrtafy, that I lmve mew Ne Iffil hewer Timothy
Points one of the the of repel called Quakers that smdlled on
Yong st and one of beds of that sosiety, Be the away of
Yorks sans the ym 18M, and ms be bas been my ny nabm
most of the rime 1 have "own filo at be a very !humor inductors
Anna and the best man for selling a new cormy Nat I was ever
aquaw¢d with and he hath lin my coWaomabel to all of our
lows And regulations as u hoed subject of out Lod the mash.
But he had Ne miafortin to Imo his old compaoan a wonky
wife by def An the minds of Jamwnry 1812 and now is
desire to travel to visit his trends.
Yong st
Febfmry 19 day 1813
wlam Gramm
hums and (Atmel of Meluha
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I also gm from fronts to alio met 1 was clear of m rata;
agagonents as indoor. Timothy Rogers being anointed to alwd
use why meting at New York allowed that he had a dealt or
prospect of visiting can of his relations in the Stats. That may
sho tly that he is a member with as and chair of marsig imeagx-
ments es fur as tabs. Shad is antl by order of Yong Stood
Moathly meeting held by alommeut the 25 dayof2 month 1913
by Thomas Limed Clark, and also frau( our town clock.
To hone it may instant: This isormty that d have ben
emotional with Timothy Rogers forxwril years part and I
mw Lim w be a m'an of vemsaly and property that consist of
air five thousand driver and cleftof dept.
By dated Thomas Hubbard,
at piroron this Town clock for dre lowed of threaten
26 day 6f March, 18 13. Hoed desvik, County of York, and
protracts of Uper Creole.
1 put has sun Ata to mine enh of 290 aeon and a wnsiderabel
of improvement about 16 or 20 mils to Yong Street. Stephen is
to r old freers Tommy and Sarzh Hilbon ny handle to his
mother. Wing to my yang trends John A. Hall mat five up
heir to help take carr of this six hooded tors and so holm. My
damor Metalda at Hendry Nou las and I clo0N them all
exslmay wen for about two years. The was maks me jenny lak
main — but my libel dependans it in the lord having now brat
foromA a short account of things with my one hand I may say
Brat in a few months in the year, 1809 departed of my firmness
by sikness about thirty an and ny Ymbe: Some: had comidembil
rmben In other places On this date and tut foal a brain meth
has gm thin this Uper Cited, First it was cold fie tyros hove,
but hourly we have had the n¢sda by which sem has departed
ibis life, but MMtly it has ben such in onemnon awarded that it
ms to bright did skill at she wisest and best forimm;s. operates
Brown ny heir and wile ie momrto. This d day of the 4th mon lb
1913. I eaenat no elan ton.
Tire door, nu i.r dAwnflowed until the>,u 1827 just before
Omst Rww, din
He the 7 day of the 2 mo 18271 set very sun, my wife and 5
random by me o00o ds pureed Jonathan red 7 Officer in the
Just 6f tau. 1 seemed to feel a plcunt fiew of devinc toy that 1
below to be the but of Had by his am Jesus Christ Then it wan
and is that in r, mn 1n my mind to as to my yeagW sons wine met
has and Uaved Rogan flint was for the kind minx of Dnved Rogers
oe. He is moved and now add TimmM1y to signify my son —
that from This time bis and is dived Timothy Began and
auto his name
is role maven T. Bogen duty ay be understand
Doves Rogers ma of Timothy Rogers So that Drivers name and
his anthers is remembered.
Appendix if
THE JOURNAL OF
WING ROGERS
The following pager art an exact copy of the originals — words,
spelling, punct , etc.
The original book at this data (dao. Jo, 1961) Is in the pee-
xsn of Mervyn End, R.R. 6, Galt, Or,
tatorvyn Patfl, is fire son of the late Hannah Saunders Rogers
(and 1. G- hear daughter or ETho Rogers (and gusaMgh
Cmess) son of Win Rogers (mW — Hughes) son of Timothy
Rogers (and Anna Barred).
this is my bray Arms al n wness. m leave Aelued me.
Wing Rogers Borlyand pan this the lith day W the &h.momh,
1866, & I am now to my 68th wer of my pllgmmage,h bring
a long time eince I have had it ora my mind In write dorm some of
me baptisms & vials, that the Lod,00t of his lander mercies,
hh bmught me through;; ryaim ya his holy n ye
Gall
mmy
tonal ortspreg,rising gercm n, & ye that fear the mrrhat
look town these lines when tl am dead & gone, & may we all
meet an Heaven above, where all is Iowan) see Ns four & sort
his fro rs foxror & Lear Amen, is also 1 haw waste a for
beautiful pixes,that I have found in different oulhs,xlecred
OIL of 90M papertracrs,& star ¢c. In these, 1 have
taken gnat &light & would with my dying bremlt recommend
b both young and old,as also to all Lead baok;whieh point
We way to Zion, for hmks have a Sam onflumcgon the mind
to direct us to the way of the saint, verlaming Inane the way
th lamentation & was. But I study bmnty;althmgh I want to
BE b drew OF federally seeder a little shim my dear Pazonts,
and firsts will strong of my door factor his nn as Timothy
Romor,, and he was born in the Aamy of Concomitant the
stack & des¢odmts of the martyr Min Rogers,mivister of the
gmpel,who was burnt at the amw0.gmilhneW, Loodamin
Us
Queen Marys reign when wife followed him to the smkeµi[h
small cmldwok me at her brest,& my Island father
reforms us Iha his Children are mo tenth gcnentiot from
that statute matlygo! Our dear Land and sa m Jesus Christ
who ampmi over death hell & the plateau We flames,
Holadinalt,prain yeJn Lord.01i my wu1A I want to meet all
Of you, that now doth lin,but awn will be numMM with the
mi that has gone tomarein the bapy Cmoean land I hope,
where them will to all for you & rest for me, & rest For tire
goad soldieglM1at hath Intl his amour by,& when I medim e
and speak of these preshus things my poor soul Arms to be
With Bunyons on lite eliminate mountain with the shepherds
where the nyee is pare & the birds am ever singing, & all
Creation pain the high & lofty one who inlmhim eternity, &
where all the peoples minds & mulsym engaged.bolh by night
& by day,lo reach that Imply home, & converring about their
®joyme is when they atlas ate at that delightful el'unm0n due
other Mile of Jourdifi Lite Motor Oclds of FdegWhere the
rec of life is ever blwndng'ITere will be ren for you. On ye
faithful weary plgrims,&them two the shepherds had telescolin
& Nose that had gad eyes (m nn¢h Jaitlq,rould ase the
Celestial City wbme builder & maker is God,dom July round
& bngtl to the, there their moisture
were,& Nem molt beats
won lh
wammicr do GMs saints arty wonder at it,for 1
read [a
of o of
a arearl nnyMail or
mnL Nat bad asight of that glomus placre Na[ anm
ted
leave bob n nt for all of earthsntohwns full of iuwalr,
of proofing gold @ siwq& molester eunyon lolls of the suram
ming down from Ne Ulenlal CitgwF¢M1 bas built on
very high mountain, with rural baps and all kind, of
instmmeNa OF msn theirtheirbanda,pl.alm me most melodies
elimination mounts ant hembm Conlon mem no to the royal
Lhy,&ahers Iho gates were opened & ha M1oms ul of the bells
ting in that great City,& all of the inhabitants whnu[ welcome
weary prborm M1e wished to be Num,but t sin¢ Andy
impssiatC.unless W1 unly lova that tmhle Polls Followed,
OMs Only Mgouen son luaus CTrin, mommy to be plain, lorewr
& ever mote, J, keep he, strums & mdman,cw ,n a,, harts &
printed in onr 0 .nu36ty is Zeohuiub & ¢Iixubed. who walked
n all of the. Commandments of the Laid. blameless. Oh when
I think of then aretgiuems wmOf Joy which John Burns
leans, with owns well As ,nany mom,mmt moll madids under
the semilimde of dreamy& visions admired by all denominations
then I haw to probe the Lord,for that wood of trutbleft os he
Holy weioub 33 -Chad I<1M1.vcmc For GM speakeN once
184
yaw Iwim yet man permirveth it n a dream in of
the night when deep Meep m
falleth upon him in sh beaog upon
his betl,namely, Me Intel are earths toy ro region, 1 an Irtir
of Heaven may be, Parise ya the Lord Sib my longing
panting soul& I sell[ sing in spirit & tmtbHallaluJah bight
renown be to the Lord God & the Iamb femver as ever,Amen.
Nmv I will tell meph friendly madep that my dem Father was
an orphan Child, Md neither father or mother, both were dead
& gone, & whilst but a young Child he was put out mongst
haran a ewho used him vary bard and cruel& 1 have open haniter
wooden however he lived through the abuse that he world tell
inertia the tear, running down his aged aheekvbm ProvWamwlly
some of this friends gat charge of him he brought him to Dutcher
county in the there of Newyork, to live with an uncle where be
teived gad Erni then he cautioned antlll he grew to mens
a,& them. be was
tied to Snrab Witurny dear eNxeier-
nee Mahvihat batbeen grew no doubt to Labeled Labl Cly.
Wnt 52 warxoh yam,& there r holes W meet Bar with wogs
of the inseminate prum is Hallatim s as high rensuatforever to
M with our Lord W we his have th that dear mothee She Ings
way Imus home to mverve, the awfull stake of death, which she
Met widtin be aircraft cumposs and most of icer retiree..
Love saying.Oh death where is thy aigpb grave where is thy
victory; & directed where she Jmx to here her reforms laid all
beside iter children in NekedrMalmer now Ler xray soul to
Rest in Jesus Arms, Oh let us all arrive to meet there. And that
dear tater and mother hW function king Gudtm,& one sill
Wm and hart I will give their mairicandin, first birthpbadiah
Regms Iames R., Hannah R., Mary R, Lyme R., Sarah R,
Eiseman R., Timothy R., John R.Asa R., Matilda R., Wing R_,
John Dismay R A Stephen R., & abwn mm yeme he(om my
dear mothers dearhmy Parents burned seven children out of the
fomteeo Is most of them were maned & had families, which .was
R grant vial W them Mvbot Particularly so, with molhegl was
young bar 1 can ember of seeing her meet the neighbour
within, & mh5ing of bee troubles & Mat logs, with the tc
ruming down Mr aged face If computing R to fah troublessbut
she park the same diverse,the Tipbus fever when there was none
If that in the land,& "at after tam,& I most shortly believe to
that sw et IBM of east, forever to he with but dear Lord &
master sec. Then after my mothers death my dear father maned
the seek, d lune, W a very fine Chnsim woman, who made
an cxehcm spGSMOder to mG& all of. Fathers Children, by
his Each wife, & she was a grant comfort to him in his declining
mars,hur name was Anna Harnedeof New 1,nayof a coast
rtxµruble family,& she two has SUM, 1 bars, to the City of the
New lewealam,where sickness pain sagging & inrmwe eau never
me,Hallalujub,but my dear Father paimd away a few years
before hen I Unto to M forever with his Lord& rest from bis
toil, both outward &inwardfor he oft had to contend with Pon
-
eipalities ffi power, & spiritual wickednusin high Plnus;he oft
'spoke to the morarrieff
in Zi sora the assemblies of the LondA
slrengthned the weakknees & hands that hang down& it was his
delight to ow IM prespm'ity of factorial ,raved to we her
bother, rnlargcdA her stakes tlrergtM1ened,& bur come lenyhned.
he traveled wane in baa mauefs sum.@ oft times prrclaimed the
glad tidings of much joy at home at his o mummoto the
Seloicice of many brnne,&e. & in the comphr iomte Savimns
bacon, 1 hope he Math loured a redrawid"A my dear mother
Ansa bore my Father rte Cbildretwhme namesme,; Jonuffon
R.Ragq hRWilde eash R Austria ., John R.Oavid "R R., which
n all made many Chddmn. Rat of my own dear mothers children
themonly .0 , 4 ul tM aSmW family loaceas c.
I havo cold mm my father & mother were malumd in ameba,
arty& from thence they moved to Damby,on Ne waters of Lake
Champlaigin a howling wildeiness&them he called ons the mane
of the Lord,& a friends meeting in a few Unbosom gathered
around him_ My father & mother Stam came in amongst friends
by n4ued,mry dear rather was a man that drove much bminess,he
built mills,ffi hem M built a Unaccounted land, kept ebrc,II iR
Some pulses made Serge contract with Ge land pmrvimrs &
Gov make wrlementA always m gather u
the Lara&it was his great delight theme to Mat an Wort to me
Gad Abraham Isaac & Jacot, is from thence he moved to
Vergennes, where n rands o of the largest towns
n the
Shat of Vermmasi In that c entry my God gave me birth, in
the year 1998,10th mo 25th day. My all moved here into the
wildem ss,liat WW"Llont WAA 11 faPidlYA he Became weahhy,
for the God Ina fall had blooded him in basket & in atnre,&
hers also M erected an altar to the God of the wheel tart,
MartorsYrophes & Aportles,whae in n few year; there was
gathered o large meeting of vnlinmsfrr their holy Redeemer,
cause, for all those lighwag , I ofdmes heard my dear tither
ebwR blessd Mame the gnat giver, of all things both temporal
& spiritual.1mllalujah,& now 1M Orphan boysonerming like
Joseph in Egypsfohgot his Infers hnste,he hcame fall As plenty,
with a wJe & Caledonia numerous !army& actual of the ,Meat
of them m riedA be had rvanta & maid wervanu,& he
might have said with Jacob, 01 came owt this Jourdan with my
staff only bat thou Oh God.hash made of me two bands. Well my
father said oat a rim posse:ion there & warned to Canada,weet
five hundred milli rued on Yong str Omar Newmarkq where
Ix mean made asummer
wub the newly moved Governor &
Chief lustice.for to make , settlement,& f offimes heard him say
that be mixed here the first Gwetnm own took his seat, in
Upper CanMa.in me year 1800. He made a bargain with the
anomalies he bring in laity twelve, to vette this howling Miller
verdict shudy it Was then a howling wildemesg,wMre n
fmhml 0ndiamedords vier Ns garden cringes towns Cine; whereas
gmammersboola colleges Aromatic good roads factories of
all kinds both of wood iron tires gold & silver stone & marble;
1s
cu ember when it waz a great Nanave Narrowly to hono
printingo0ice,corm in little yorkss it read to be called.but
Toronto now, & now I presume there are hundred of then in
this Provmce,therc u actively a vilage but there will be two or
those of them. Those brave leieress Iced to go to mill forty -fifty,
and in some plass a hundred mJesafrer there mem a very few
crowd, & in sow cases cut the used, make bridges or same
across wake and SUCH111i indmd comber with thousands of
diRtcultim.that the iMabimnu now are sommarm b; & now i am
grwin to goes the reader little hint merecting our Mid beum,
there were thousands of wote,t sato car foxes wildcatts or
lyom,rvmns& other smaller animals me coverage [a mention
The wales would collect into large companies ofti nw hom, &
barkyeles & amerin, it far,& make several mange noises, yei
old homers ren nv that mue wolf of] mond many different notes
Dough to make the forest rig agi & make the san
n tumble if he w exposed to their wilds. & had �,pm
,
whom, But to me persons that had safely ;rice to the log house
their heating pleased then, nre4 — they debased to heat this
mid musk,ptnbably as mouth as our vain youth delight mrwndeys
to hear what they call the whool brass band Beside mese mon-
sters ofthe fore n.whib mum the dred of winshcep &the dudd
di bean was to be dreaded n xtmcy chance gother into
large companies but they were Iwld & would of attack man, &
they wc materialssmalmaterials & frequently Vanilla mW been
roughlylmadled by them.& king killedAwy also destroy lire
sheep & swine. & other eredums that the new settles knew not
how 10 some. Also me deer.& mmmmas fuhrof many very,
teacher kindowus much usedamood of what every fanner ca
we n his own form for fed,& the esting of the table.
Besfeee we had a hear rummy of foundation made aur 6r¢u ring
with their owner reausi duck,& nese which were an excelent
delta for a few years the nrshe;mat grew in mom furnssin a
bwdrence,made mod] fnW for the cattle & Forsq wevem the
said wlmmvpntil it could Mround by the whrolwns.
In lhwa days titan were a meet manr,ren hmdreds and
Nomunds of forgotten Nativen,who were harmless & agreeable,
& they andcd with the whit people,in many ankles$ when a
boy we were allways effil to see them come m our fathers house
with Brothers formula treys ladles & fish, venison tlucks & geese,
& abogan cremberrimA many more kinds of bevies, & furs &
s0tts &i boo now they are fazt dwindling,& owing out& will in
NI probability ionic furor day be entirely gone as the nations
that are cargo. Welt after my father had lived W fulfill his
,anter with aspect t mrrkment,& had the sadsfacdon to se
great improvementsn tlmse main tarp 'meeting interim, in
the year 180 m -R — he again moored to Pckming whole he
lived until death mmmod[ h®,as the sweet Not mils ,ss,On the
other at& of Inu di the sweet India of adopt hope to
Camteami the free of life isver btoommi There will be
at for thoracic, to any roil any m
hunger or room any in x m. But my deal torpor hval to a
large mi informal around him Jai also in see rhe great
not in Jin string that seta called the Nixlt reputation which
took place in time pansplrour the year 1828 — & a very
wmNll o t it w imined,it news] many pangs of
on both 9des. Busmi
dear father red a pmspect,0f a yearly
meeting N Gorda,& be used to salt his CbilJrcq& his friend, ilea
he thought it would be treated m PiQl,cis acearly 60 years baboon
it sem granted to our Tbam Oummily ancetingennew held in
Upper Gnadgtmmely Warfare, Yeamoma,& Pelham, for ytr
veal requests being made to the Newyork yconley meeting of
Iriendesto which we belonged in those days,Ney oantd b us a
scroll mce( pato he held at Pickering& the Nal meeting in
Ise Mid out 60rrno.w the year 18V — & our term& am mw
makes preparation for It, & a large hick minting hawse is
mildmgon Net of my tethers old fmmpn We very grands hitt
he gave to the exhortatory years Mfore his cbmthsor Ore am of
toeing & a boost BrouM,praie ya the Cord,samth my gootsal-
volian belmgr to car God! with Mary & Elisabeth, 8t Ink
first cb. 66th cerse$ Mary sued, My soul doda magnify live
Lord& my spirit haJa reryiced in God my saviour, &a,&r.'. Md
when but a youW& up to mankind, & the early pan of my days,
was caught hundreds and thousands of 8almogin Dummies Crai
that an through my fa mos farm on the which M built amossull
& gristmill,& also duty were sought in all the ericYS &teams
an 0w hong side of Lke Ouhrio that waw large enough. But as
me fishermen io meni the coup ry became dewed ug&
mitdam[ bomb, which pmvomed them Wm sowing up to spent,
lip
besides all that nets & ss x, & the increase of navigation, o
Nose0 ors a(where do or 80 years boorethen bywas
theya wMtc
man to hsenvJ —id to spa this is a ermon why they NIin;&
also all kinds shrutl N spawn an the inning li the ordinaryre
Imus whitefish sturgeon assurance
into ffi & stten� many m
kinds live: in Net is Ears
run u matters
Cr& suckersthe Fcontrivl
ridle In plane
treate Eo draw he o tof de & else men he Poor uhemex t e Nal area to Naw them re ofd rummaging,
the hoot
I like Nalivcx ofAMreginm,urtfuxt tlimivisldng for which
And vow 1 propose the
thea oh our eft ho a hon about
my Nn uelf & . In the recovery
Iy ra I left home on grant
artems
Cray my self & all the distance ta sary sme, hun Ile Ninepin
nnSchool, Ne Stine,& about
five Fathered milear or in
Dennis�o'bas n unithen considered
Sealy& be the
the twentiethpuable of my
ol
in show rc a then considered to be the m average
[ablerem remarks
of
v Nzrs probably
yearably wourowld
be
[bink tie he boys number. of
¢Fellers probvFly swmld be night
u men, the boys we taught
& taken rote o Orb day & irily act men, &the eir6 by n win
it d¢buys Orb hadentirelyalone by& all apartments, Nere was
t Blustereretingmeeting wo & ca by,& all y i GNNen attendemended
the heefingtwice n vmoSur every haltden day in the ¢met for to
% riot ale Loa of dards, be many
a refi & Glnily met for to
order Ne LOM of limy & ninny n f the pass ssalw a it Nose
render years, like the springing ke UP of the liras;tlld me
Sham Na river of raver m makes be Children shout & sta ons.
tall is Worry forever more. em, had anchor
ounces
cached,& cart
myadebillionaire
ing fathers & mwheg & 1 Fan vy furnace
had through
Abraham my pilbe mcoa to bless & pmisgNe God of Igo Embers Abmbam
Lauc & jthe co m I over wns avimd to this goad sten they
I took
down all the comes of my dear fellow;& ahoolmmter they wart
comin in & guwing out reedy ml of the ti irm Noo may see I
M1ed a great&a many noes. But S have M1ed h them ] of dmw m
marvel,& is all Of et rs Fave that a with Nem In a than I
have, in nbistailke p hose cant makecop with on half of fare
I ever connote teacher
keepf wgIl of the deaths de oreaparts nfthe
anmheq& teacher xe tlawtha s" if us ever pasts of the
day that that of is tarty nm that wo ho m meelpioBr the
day that we left eadt sed¢r at the sshoode ever
fI my heathy
prayers that we may mere. On tile of Li aide of Israeli m the
sweet fields of you, hue the tae of LIIn is ¢vat 6loomlvgthem
will M rem for You.
And num as f was aboutto[cute rbc. sabout ty kind behind,
that [ had made aryoainive enter ta was home
W my Pull was kind evough 10 give mqm rah home b nip Itlendsk
relative;& aequalman«sane following snmficate or recamal
numely—
This tiny inform the Mentis & mlmivea of me beater, Wing
Rogers, who has +pent a year & a halt in the Eoartling School
at Nmepatmma, that wln8t here be has been particularly tint
fol to creative the regulations & rules of the school, kind &
obliging in his dispmitiodby which he has gained the esteem
not only of the enthral teacher, superintendents & body.
Waterloo 7tantonm,39m— Igzo
Andrew Cherokee)
realEarth Height )
Reuben Haws — d'nperlvendent
I fully approve of the nWvek drink In well deaeram it.
James Cong cm,J, Late Teacher
Well kind friend,ahm gelling the f Wve,& selling all arm
meet normally with those new made Gi ust my beast Idled with
structure [or having to leave them,never to meat again on this
unhly build bid Nem adieu,& as 1 have mid all sea nd as
if d was conscious of it,for my youthful[ Lean felt pangs that is
not easy to theories. Mmemoughl I,tm we stairs never ahold
eat again on the shone of time whilst the tears noxM down my
thanks like miq& also every marks of leve on the part of those
left behindf
I also returned home to Canada, much like the groins cot to
Ninepattners,only in the Feat of mmme ,which wm very foursome
in Ne extrounwheo, f found my old friends & subcommittee,
mostly well,bul a few bad gone the way of all the eartb,which
used van serious inflections to pass over my troubled soul,the
smolt hardship of mind A Imurle¢ the War Chang from Ming
to mhml,& sowing lmttlintely into tell beyond my aluminum like
to of record my road bark N of financed in the deep, but
the Lord my pilot suffered no harm to befall media stuW
beside me & suffered none
of Nee Ihingobtainmharmqmeg,I still
will praise Ilia holy time forever & mer_ Or lit ns remember
he bads the blind ivv they rano net,& always for short
sighted main goadR w [awas with me. & Ise me sins with the
sweet poet — green catch against my mal mm m,And grey
dem around an, be butler, Then I'll smile at saves m r%AmI face
U frowning world.
And now a year or mom bad passed as I began to think of
eying mmuf for Jif a in this solemr. underal 1 greatly
crowd to W satirical by Gods holy spirit,& to find a helpmeet
that would gre with me not only through Ws call of tors but
up to that probe City wMse builder & maker is GcxJf ing
Irm
well were that there is an eye that never slumbers nor slapsk
he takes recognizance m all Art man Negri he can bless or
he can blast all of aur fair pmapsp & receivers. Again 1 any
that 1 humbly naked & craved as in the dust asha,Ihat the grant
pilot would direct my little bad into the one hewn of rentor
have cat two travel one mad unless they be ngmq& I thought
that ourmel bliss n misery much departed o r choice
n takingu1pe
a ompanion w Noel with,Nmugh fifes chopmN
same,& 1 still think We samean miller I might say more than
that. I know a gond deal alrout it,& ham sun & heard imundamew
of the sect captain or two being coequally yoked together; just
Audi pulling for the hapy lad of et mal mi the other
for the bitter Intermediate of wi M1ow many dear VATIRIM
ham Near draged down to becoming & go coq& alm how
many husbands by the wife, allhumit site being the owner
must he* acted like Deli4 dict to Samson until she bad actin
him,& whorl families lest by the influence of a wicked lather or
a under indulgent mmhegin all things pertaining to the world.
But lacking the true news that will purchase the greaten Nat
they may anoint their with & ni lack Ne true gold that bath
Bonn teed in Gods !amore which is W Iermalam,or tried on his
altar chat is in Zion — on bow assay are content with half mens
rts hke American & Salim his wife,& allow with & reality
(In 12) w Gods holy sight the m ug s thdid, by indulging
in s & falfirsh ch mspunished
all be ain mnity;Mn
thousands being down upon their head even in this world, the
heavy stroke of Gods worthily not being obedient to that leacher
'Mt canner be manni into a corner& I can say with the swat
psalmist,Once 1 was young bat saw I sm old,but I never mw the
crammer forsakegnar his mad begging bread.
So 1 beseughc Iran acidic to direct me in this great undertaking,
& I Nought he did,& I came to lames Hagheses placom the
mvnship at uabddge,Ne Badly an Mine friends,& osmcca le
poi good neighltounA having a high command of their
of my own age, we epmmutW on the subject of mar mi of
cony other things perming to the Celestial an, &q&c.& wabi
mm cash miters love b he coq& ban to each school& to our
Grillage, joined Fans in wi l,in Warlock bode in the years 1822,
& we worn hapymenally sealing to all of Ne outwit canin-
ces of the Lard We began poor,as to the antward circumstances
as it would be called by poopge to these dayso arked had, law
send early, & Warr many years the dear Lord bleu) us with a
gwtlly hentagq& plentgboth in Some & out doom, boith marry
thinks to him that had compasioo on usss on the fishermen of
old rmesanm mer tailing an night.jerdw ye his holy name. But
1 am for exhibited now,since I have always tried to fill my seal
in his house N prayer, &let as wordly murinus prevent met, 1
do believe IM1n I hied with all of my arra, sMnBth & mig14 to
do what was right in his holy sightto train those tender home;
wournmed m my ehanywfor Cann my dear lam,mt others env
what they mayl know & abundantly confess [list I am but a
poor awing warm of me dot& ran say with the path Publican,
wing he list au his breast, GM he merciful to me e
Yen. I have IivW to see Gads Writing, on any ChIchrr.1mh
temporal &sphimmperave ye his holy name;& he blessed us with
8 Ch dmakwhose names we — Roben,Anna.]cimrHnnma.Hnr-
riu[taXeninah,Clnrksoq& James,', 6 cons & J davartme.& all of
them proper Childreadat is with thanks be to God.had their
natural shape%& abiliues,pmia Ns holy acme.
Again I sayehat 1 study breviusbut 1 msmll a limo oboe
sNchnvingro' ,in the overeat of olives. & en few of in hard
Bnditficroses that w.e had to en in mase days mat
re past and gone,in scrimp in n encounter
entirely new
pm
laea in then wna demms.&r. common mnes,l never did appraove
of much maavingbat we warned in max days & circumstances
to be almost compelled to mwve oftener that we waned to We
War dried after being marimpn a hundred acres of land Save to
me by my dear lather, lying on Duensp 6 ism w or fint
child Raised was bora we had sickness es wee litdu loses &
disapoimmenthm, afar bang them Amp[ Ewa yearsawe moved to
llnbddge,thcre we Ibcd about fmr scan, & there I had a cancer
Sc suHeroi very much with that if in daeeng 14whlch card we
long year,@so even was the ime with me that Iempamd of my
life, & so did all of my dear neighWms around us,but with many
thanks to my dear Lord & mosteehe saw fit to reaom me again
to my little an ily,preisu to the lard. So in this plat, cur eldest
daughter Anna was bums& our revised van EhIm.& after doing
abundma of hand labodans woIX,for the time mount War years,
& suffering muclawas activated to Pickermeto my JmhanAa lake
re of his housgfatm,Caildm rstrck & all they had,whilst father
& mother went on a long journey to Virginnigb me my member
'limmby,& this was in Ne year I1341. Also they made u worry
charitable visit to my dear operation; friends at mladves in
rhe state of Newjermy,which foamed to be the last van they
made in them partite: me moms,n
we and there wrong bntill
mer averaged harem in much harmonyA goad nmersnndinge
MendsNP &lave. And wan often, we convert up to the Emg
send Tomnb Road, & more I look a mhook & them we lived
m
for about four years on a into impression to where the Iemley
creating is few gantetl to Or mainly of fneodyn Cani
(here ser daughter Branch wap hem.I had mind weaviurA mverel
mall businesses,but I thought time of these occupations to be
Nal m normal— fast I was poor& it m would be a tanner, I
most go into the woods affair.
Then in the year 1833 we germiked to the place that we now
gw on, In the urCo, of M,kringwhere we have lived 36 flow,
& hem — flarrimlgPmiimeb,Clarkson &lama was bom,BI do
blast is pmon the God of Abraham Isaac if ]sob who hath also
blessed us with many goad thiagspn0 temporal by spirimal,przise
his holy namn,mi0 my soul. And I have it on my mind to rclam
a few of the many in a, hardships difficulties & vial,
ne
that atly all have toprogramme, that se[k with film a bowling
wiWerneRbomm it can be brought to Cultivation is a fruitful
field, In the first phare. the pioneer has enorce to make a yule of
xgsked or eafgwith an axe in hand,& ase his art As he you s.
If run over lops bushes,& though brooks cracks & swamps &
over hills & ones until with much dangers& difficulties he glitch
at the much desired spot, then he gown to ening down the mere
to make the ahamypr log Indent and before he is bad many,
perhaps to raise lis buiifing,a few haply sells of industry & tail,
mine with it shout that ll make the forest ring, is rise the
iu Ing building; and now Won it is half finished his wife it
cbiNren krve to mnave into this new abode, run the risk of front
sick, or going lheb dnthein many mays. On one arasion door
I hud mooted into a forest riffling to my newly dwelling, stood
a Imp tree that maned over the house,& one tem mmpemnom
& windy oughts that two kept us awake & in much Ownerm.wben
the blast or ple,mook Oat as well as all of the forest about us;
the hens bowN as if they must fallp indeed many did,bm that
one swung over & over our helpless hands unroll daylight came;
in pumps l was rover gladder to we daylight for than I seen got
my axe & laid it Mllowing on IN gourd, but let me ell dice. On
dem formally rcadeq that bi do often fall on the new buJdings,
&eremaimee do most damage to the new hemmer & cripple people
be ink life.
And atom when pleasom spring has tom ,Oe poor mines
now, base to be turned out be me wands to sack thea own
living or stars commonly be will But them until the Calf
emedibut I anways had to build a loan o Oat me Calves
4w& than brunt lasered reason leaves & all for them to
t,which made a grant deal of wmkouther for male or female
W denial with there leaves & a little milk we ntttl to rise army
good calves. But perhaps by die dine mid summer had come the
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Cows would grow careless & lay ouL& after the poor man had
bunted & searched mane &ysandl he was discouragea,he would
ret them go,&IMy wood man dry up,& do him no more good
that ywr; & be world Im obliged or go out to work for n little
buffer bread & meat& aro he would used, for locair¢ & more
pay, &cfor And before 1 got a yoke of cook had m change
work,lhat is give three data work for men & one for men,& in
them days I done all of my chopping armchair in ingeiing 1 had
to give four days work far every one that I got back mairy&
than after that l did get oxen. They world stray off like the cowx,&
might look peradeenmre a weak & not find tbcm when he
most vended Nem. Our m ilcoli luecwauld be a great distance
from uca g^^d nett of Ne milling was performuW by a buy ora
Will gid ommg a home with a bushel or two on his back,& some
tong ^s qil it v knowgm eery there little labial on their
shoulderto �nill.wOWcrs drew a few bushels on a mad or a
ou:bed Sticpwih a yoke of oxen in the summer on We here
auud¢c&e. 't lime arc some of the muff variants & units that
the new maker ohimes M1mh t steer his little bark throupjtpr
founder in the starmlor in other weal he most be mainframe,
he would live & div in poveny,bul thousands get wall off As many
get rich with those spall beginnings, forinduslry & economy is
the way to wealth But I rnmrm ban of much weahh•narther did
I seek it, but my gracious Lard but given me evougulk I naso
moired,fram seeking wealth & w,dry ohnot m & shin thea many
years just at the pend that the soaring commences to he am up
gold.the rum of the which we meq"will In, us against
hinn',rhat its 'if a Iran knowmh bee
is m wJl &tdonh it nal.
he must be healer. with many smipei'aI most Shelly do Im-
liewethat there is hundreds of thousands in this mepcWoing
in the poet talks ns melgl Frim shop his prmhus bland,&
trampled an the sonof Gad, But m go an with my mory,I do
wider all of my worry substance only Irnl la me from tire
LoN,k after he enabled me to get my wildemex fmm cleared up
& well Imcad,woods & all, if a large orchard baring abundance
of fruit& 1 had been or grtm expewe to build bams housm &
ouNomce, & the farm well stacked &qm make my wile & family
comfortable& m leave them in easy circumstances, I se Van do
spend most of any no, oI pllgmmagecmetlngthe fair land of
Comment how my avoid pammh for thee.
On the offer side of lourdnnln Ne sweet field of Edon,
Where tire once of life is ever blwming,There will be rest for
you I mid so muff with the sweet poets v little more egun—I
will march up the Bravely wreet& pound m, ave at Jesus
Net—For the Creole of my ones salvation Fad given me a
change at keep, a leaven to you, & a Fell to shun; & I was
cannot to use be language of another sweet singer, Out
shelf the lass emg.vymg
Should earth against my soul engage,& may darts around me
be Farled,Tbeo 1 will xmlle at same rage,& face a frowwng
world. Should mems Iike a wild dellu8 round me fall, May I
but safely rtanF my Fame, My god my heaven & my allThem
will bacle my weary muffin tons oI mavenmy rc,t And not
wave of sormwe roll acrau my peaceful Social.
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Appendix iii
CENSUS REPORT, TOWNSHIP OF PICKERING,
COUNTY OF YORK, 1650
POPULATION
Pckeimg 96 houses, 4 vacant, 7 ehmchea; 18 Whorls,; 9
s; 12 moahanls' shops, 1,023 heads of familia asysuq 601
Proprietors of real estate 422 nen propricmm; 6,074 residents;
No. of School Children -1,616; Flenm Beaton, conmemtnr.
RACIAL ORIGIN
Native, of England -823; Natives of SwOand-441; Natives
of Ireland -1.035; French Caoadiunc—I1; Naives of Canada
—89.
No. OF ACM OF LAND
HART held by familia; 22,520 user tillage; 7,813 under
pasture; 30,830 woods; 95 unfit for cultivation; Aggregate value
Of cleared las per aae VS5s; Value of wild land 13; Rcpt paid
by tenants SRI
CROPS
Wheat -7,226 acres -102,789 me; fsmk —1661y u —
3,855 be; Ryv-227 acres -3,153 bu; Omo_I.084 ss —
133,824 bu.; Indian Comre 168 acres -4,203 bu.; Baak1bcal-
4011 acres -642 ba., Polateer 345 scros 0,249 1m; Flax-
2901bs.; Maple sugar -36,352 lbs; Wool -29,102 lbs; Ydsof
fulled clo1b—a5,931; Too. of linen Or moan -195; Yds. of nam
nal -11,254; Cheese�c,160 lbs.; Buuer�42,444 lbs.; Bb& of
beef @ pork -162; Nee Cattlti ,759; lhvoas�1,716; Sheep -
9,248; Hogs -5,188.
MILLS
Onst mels (wbml, oats &bads,), 6, run of stones 16. quam
my preduad to bbls. 25,5W; Saw mills 24, quantity in LOW
felt, board me e—,5,230,Oe0; Fulling @ Catling Mills 1P
quan4ty 1a 16s 25,962; Distllentss—I, hogshead, 760, plans
—156; Breweries -1; Tannery 1, IQ000 side.
Appendix is
FAMILY HISTORIES
In the following Panes are a another M historic, M the early
families of PicFerwg Thwart p: They have been gathered from
anchor.Variants Some here wine from Word's "Post Years in
Pickering';. Whers from Ne histories he villages and Marcos in
Me lownaldp and some form surviving marommus of Mom who
cohly sons.
lt maoMay be observed that nOne am included which come to
gluttons; after the mhelfon of d37, By MIs time Me earlier pi
ring was puss. Chrminly there were still many Fargo who
lame
to Canada with dory little worldly wealth and who had to
lake backwoods farms, carried with hush and bring them to pro,
duction by sheer hard work. But if everyone who came at that
period was included it would have repeated a book much longer
Man this to contain the tinily histories alone.
In many MIMM, Macy an similar, No one could have much
comfort when there was little comfort to be had, no mads were
as rough and muddy 6s one man as anomer. The chief oiRer-
must nust haw been in the amount of leap available to do Me
nark that had to he done and the dismatt that different families
had m oarl in order to reach a down or vil
Old allies were bad times but inert were goad Moral in one
sapx at least, and that is that there was marc neighW(n0 than
mere Is tMay, mom remarks, in the tasks of farm and home.
Bots were a part of the social life as well as the economic life and
the tradition M heing able to call on the maimed; to help is
still abroad N Me mwmhig although it is dying before Me as
sault of specialized and n¢cb:miud fmmwg,
Perhaps this section on early families will draw some light on
who Me pioueem none and how much Mom who have come along
in later years owe to Ne earliest M all.
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Anuery— Thomas Alt:m mW his life. IsaMlla Cameron, came
fault PJshiM, Scanlan and settled on Lot 28, B.F, In 1831
and lived lbw' live, Wam.Of their Family 01 eight sons and Nee
daughters. two, lames :ltd Alexander, diad in emildhoM. The
others an Woad, who fuels near manning Village till his
death, Ra lid, pass, tear, (Mex James Andaw], Thomas and
John, Iielen, (Mrt. William Them). living on Lot 30. B.P.,
Isabella, who died at Duvbanon Oct 120, 1910, Pam,, who Mo-
equal llm math half of the old houic,lead, Duvi4 who lived et
Piakcring and Andrew on Lot 22, D.P.
Andrew'a front Donald, Dzcanrs the largest milk Mor
n the Monday, but in 1960 sold his loon to Bay Ridge, develop.
aresod m tad Part of his dairy herd of around two htmdmd
"Lill m Rrmklla lie still farms many hundreds of owned arras
in Picturing, and his derpelus support it number of familia, wM
rtes far bine. His modem funding mnM1W; and Immaadale
m lkwer altsn have men used as illustrations for feed magazine,
In ono day Ibis heal proafted 7,774 Is mdk.
ArvwS— `Charles At d¢ founder of the Arms fatuity, came
form MatlnelmaMly iv 1793. He ferried at whir is now Oshawa
H:rlmo but an July 3016, 1bar, bvuybt form David W. Smirk,
Lot fi, 6F., of Aukcnv; paying P28 tire_ His nen. Leel Andre
tarvied RhuJv, daughterof Roger Cor:: and moved r this
n. Hen they End their 6:11 show or pioneer sync........ grind-
ing mm m a hollow stump mkmg wheat by ewrc, a ¢Rous and
dangerous journey m the Ray ul Cinerea to by a .... d. boring off
wakes from their camp fire with glowing blonds, bouncing mak.
tats, the skins of which thou sold of u York sblllmo mmrwe In
later life, least Arm, moved to Smrimm, whom 6e apron his
raii Yen
Mr. Andrew J. Colonel Son of Mary Annw and Thome
Courriee born at Dunbmlon, I868 write.:
'9n 1861 my Mather, then a widow, called a logging and burn-
ing beo m char a fellow for crop. FlMfran men with six yaks of
R luglme ahalns ha id,pll'ea and evmhvokf. At night wu wars
aygnm having Int. Murk 1n Loyalty. My appearance at the front
doe, hewme for u him to ear rwah d in a near floor mg from my
ticrol
A lite
A
nthere,of the Avvv faintlyhat lies m Port Union. PkN
berg for man years and eldren J. AnnDvnbanon is active 1n
em:n AY Iluin.
RAaeuv — Th, lits. known Scottish ilmmigrant to picketlng was
(Jung, IMMIl y, a vuduale of S1. Attalla University and 1m
amuinm Baptist minister. fie joined the Lou wall of United
Empire Loyalists on the Brock Road in 1817; and was followed
by his wife, J:met Tullis, and 116 !cantly. They settled on the
back half of Elizabeth Matdrewsgrant, Lot 19, Can. VL Broker
Barclay, as he was called, had completed the purchase of this
property as early as. 1819. The family was energetic and warned
to have a Bale more than most as they could buy a few ands
Implement, hmsea me,& and oxen.
Eli Barclay's sons, Georgy, James, Welham, Land and Eli
worked the form while Father improurn W Iles popular, for
many miles around lie travelled on horseback from his home on
the Seventh Contusion and Brod: Rwtl to Uxbridge, Clareacid
Markham and south W Oullins Crack, In 1821 he became Minister
of the piss Baptist Church in Mndham, where the following inter-
change with his flock took place
'Saturday, ear AusuaL 1821. Minutes of Ne proceedings of
omldemde, number of Baptist bmtlumm who were covert
tram the Frtt Baptist GumM1 in Markham ... The secretary
walk for whhh Rr Ames W,,O and due, Raand oKron wan
worried w mods; agmnst Proved salary In Alder
George Barclay, a which lad also been opposed by Brother
Icahn Whom as an mrscrptural practice, as Christ says that
an hinging citron not for the sheep beeuum he is an hireling
and not the owner of the out in opposing this idea a sharp
Made ensued in which Be. Amos and Sister Rachel Wixom
was degraded for Ink of knowledge, called ignorant persons,
and at length ordered W a total silence by Elder Briefly "a
appeared angry. R. Vint
The Barclays were anceduars nt me Reform party and since
they were
active onfomlisls, opposed the Kiieg Colkgc
grams very strenuously Elder Barclay, an ordained unriversily,
ined clergyman from Scotland must have bitterly recanted Ne
Bawer and privileges of another Scottish remained of pwrer
family than be, John designer Barclay n, net showed to
marry his own periNiot¢n who either travelled in Seen, Lap'
hour in Pickering or invited the go chnnumd Lrstive of Pena
as their ham¢ to many them.
The Barclays felt meat strongly about the iniasims not only or
an established Church, but also the poor land whom. prevail
entirely by the senders, ties overbearing awmde of William Allen,
the lakefront measures who asseared the sminr' Yarm, served
out with an much blood swear and tears; who indicated the Wises
and made up the voters lists for York Est, and who in 1835,
arrested Connection tenants her his from, Lot 18, and 19, Range
3. Unquestionably, George Barclay, a deeply religious man of
sairmig charapu most have felt moravy right in caking an
part in the rebellion. He, like all the other rebels who xaru fight -
Ing for an executive reslwnsible to the Assembly, for vole by
hallog chairman for all, was not prom -American and was British
and not pm-mpublkaa There does not seam m is any aidonm
in any of the many family «cards consulted in this book of the
pmAmcricaxism, Mackenzie mutual is later life. The fight in
Pickeirg roomed BE be local, against the Family Compact, wha
had swallowed up sat much of the land.
The Elder Nd not march with Matthews, but his farm was used
moving place during [he summer and fall of 1837. The two
older Barclay boys, George and William, took part in the re
hellion wide Matthews Georg was captured, thrown ono gaol
and condemned to nansportaGon to Van brothers [and.
Unlike the unfortunate Mmlhews family, dm Barclays outlived
the disgrace of re lion and spore. Goal caught school in the
lowasbip instead of languishing in Gaol, Hanks to Lord Fortunes.
Uit the baby, remained on Nc farm after his father died in 1857.
As Me C L Bunan explains In dtcn'bing the fortunes of his
onali s family, in his book, "A Some of Urgency", the Barclays
and [hair mcghbom become pmycraus during the Crinsan War
when wheat mss to SR.BB pe, tribal The farm lands blmomed
with larger cultivated fields. Great b'ams were built and in 1865
Or Barclay, completed his now M1Ome "Ever Green Villa", the
boo Til pica plank house still chinning on the Brnek Road The
large house will' its fircplams, plastered walk, brick chimmys
Exist S80B cash. Wath was done by the family and fncnds. Tax
lovely site, Ngh in platinum! above the lake, was mhuiad by
Mrs. Bardny's large Bower sudden with piano from many pans
of Ontario and the United States. Life became leisurely and cam -
far le.
Mr. Funk Barclay still resides cm part of the property.
BEm — Robert Betts was born he Os[ego Counry, New York
Ate but ws brought to Ouorio. Comda, at in early age by his
fmhv Aaron Bells, who took up land which is part of the Town
If What, Anther son, Henry Batts, inherited that farm sat
Beam looked about and found a farm at Lot 6 Con. fl of
Pickering Township.
He praeeded to build his log house and to clear his laid,
taking unto himself a neighboring gid, Rachel Churchill, for a
wife. They had num chiNren, two of whom died in childhood.
Tire present shone house was built for his growing family co mtg
the years, 1845-07. The older children helped by still and
making their clothes, preserving the wild lorries and plans, while
the allow son, John, became his factor's able assistant in the
fields, for rea had to be indeed and rapt into mils, or heard Into
beans for the new cruseIn fact, the doors area house burry,
1956, are all hand made, a very remarkable workmanship.
Roberts wife, Rachel, tamed over the hwsekeepwg to her
older daughters and plied her Won, providing causes; for neigh -
bars far and all Yet she always found time to stay up at night
with a sick neighbor or to help to bring to fork, the overrun baby;
and ab
rain real passed Hot way who wasn't And, and if
n
rory, housed for the nigh.
Both Robert and Rachel Betts were members of Rarely of
Friends. Never was their work so pressing that they meld not
tend Thursday morning meeting and, of Store. Sunday was a
special day for oawhip.A couple of Serrations ago, Ne Quaker
Church building (now a fine memale Temple), win the Church
with the largest congregation in the Village of P'¢kering.
Ruben Betts war a quiet living man, them am no records of
him dipping into politica. He was far mo busy tummy his wooded
acresarable land that he might feed, clothe, and educate his
famll} His eldest daughter, Eliza, taught the fior school on the
farm of Gems Comet adjoining on the Esst side. Daughters
Caroline and Addie,, nlsom torchebut all three in a few
pears became the wives of s, substantial fsnters. Adelia, the fifth
child, carred an by obtaining all four of her huldren for archer,
of whma, Elect Crook, spent 40 years of her life in He
Ontario schools.
Robert Bath met with a gam loss when his son John, Ned In
his curly 201. Hit daughter Adeli,is husband, Stephen Crank
to the rescue by selling as; own firm in Prince Fdward
Chronic and buying that of his under -in-law, taking Domain,
an he Autumn of 1876. Later on, his son, Robert Crank, aimed
fter bis gmadfmlmr, war taken into partnership, another house
was built on the farm, another family of six childrco nss:W there
antl another 50 acres were added.
Today, Pioneer Robert Real, has three great -grey garb
children honorariums. the Lishman, still trident an the old faro.
Pattern — Cartoon Barrel with been in Scotland in 1901 and
throw to Canada in 1836, locating on Imar 9 and lo, Cw. VH,
his noaie being known as "Maple Hall" For many years he was
one of Pickering, about prominent ci s. He w of
superior education and rack an interestnin all the lie not blue
mountain' He one president of the Asserted Agricultural Society
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timing Ica years 1853 in 1859 and local superintendent of
education am the years 1856 to 1865. Fora time be held the
fashion of Liemnnan-Comma, commanding the sit Battalion d
Ontario Mike. He was a member of Rnkine CTurch. In
later yeas he was an elder and seasonal clot of the Presbyterian
congregation w Claremont, Mreinnll died an refinery 37N,
1888, in the him year of his age. The family were as follows:
Jsss IMrs, Than), Sohn, lames, David and Clan! a Mus
AMor Johnston). In 1961 Mapk Hall is still owned by Ne
Rwanda.
BURE01 — Thomas Burton,a Yorbhhemm, came to Markham
doat 1830 He died in WhimvBk shout 1868, and his wife
Isabella Wilson. in 1875. His Nree cons, Thomas, Isrnd and Rich-
atd,nodded in Pickering.
Thomas Burton m niad Susan MiNgen, daughter of Major
Benj. Milligan, of Mnrkham, and uBktl un the farm. Leser he
az Whi¢saless first parameter, and also conducted hotel for
some years. He died in years. 1900, Hear 85 Israel Burton n rriN Caroline Sleigh, daughter of William
Sleigh. Mr. Burton was a refiner, but tan a butcher business for
heirce time and also at an early permd (about 1855) conducted a
store at Belford. Mrs. Burton died in 1909, aged 83, and Mr. But -
ten losing gm:e to Chicago to be with his coldren, died there in
1910 at the age of 88.
Tbay hum descumbam still residing in shielding.
BuaenomER — Ulrich Burkholder and his wife came from
Proms. owned 1800 and senior on the Smiley farm near Chain
on the third wnasion of Vaughan. They later sold it to Mr.
Smiley and bought Inur hmUmd emes
around Cherrywood. He
died in 1865, aged 83 yeas. His wife, Norman, died in 1863,
Used! 54 years. Bath am boned in the old Mennonite amelory at
FAgely. RE,. Christian Resor protect Mr_ BodM1olders funevl
sermon and in those days it hunk a loam lime on go twenty miles
wish hors, so they land ho stop half way and feed the horses.
and Mr. Burkholder was buried in the ahemwn Names of Ne
children: Ulrich, Abraham and William Uwi s). Samuel Michael,
John, Mrs. Andrew Pem, Mrs. KCRer and Down. Willinm and
Abnormal farmed two hundred acres from the third to the fourth.
Won. formed Ne south hundred and sold ten
acres or land In
Chmles Pcny, Sr.. for v bock ;and are yard and also land Whom
the Ihaml chomh now hands- He cold some land to lames
Mainland which was owned by a daughter, Bele for u number of
l0i
tuna. His and, Thousand built the wuse where Course Gates
lived, Somali was a customs, and also did threshing with one
of that OM slam stamps. He was n 'heir larder. Abraham Burk-
holder worked the north pan of let 31, concession Hl, Wliiam
and Abraham married siderso. Eva and Betty Storm, Abraham
used to do a lot of threshing with Nc old horse Power mncbina.
He raised a large family, Susanna. Joseph, Ban, Margaret, Sarah,
Annie L'uzie, Hannah, Emma, Jane, Ketemh and William.
Cnaumnn —Joseph Chapman and his wife Sarah Sudan, were
friends of Timothy Rogers and mentioned in his Diary some years
more Busy picot the Quaker Colony in Pickering in 1810. They
built log board on Jut II, Com III, shortly after their arrival
bar evidently removed to The United Shies again for came YanaL
1, The I840's they command add purchased Lm 12, Commlim 111.
Gluid Chnpmim, their son Momce a large and influential land
owner, and the family spread to the two adjacent Ida of Con, bbl.
Islli assn, Nelson, marrvd Jam Hall, and aloin children
Femk, Ernest, Miles and Winifred contributed a g¢at deal to
the community and to the Quaker Minting, until in later years
they joined the United Cl u eb of Camda. Frank, 18]11950, was
closed at Pickering College and the Uniformity of Taromo, ro
ving his B,A, singular in 1901. He spent some years in Todaro
as Editor of Formers Maganine for his position as a Potassium
College sehoob reacher Came to an end with Ilse tragic To of the
College in 1905. He also worked as an invashgamr for the Tariff
Bored under Mr_ W. H. Moore, However, he is nrnt"nbered 1st
Pickering for his famous farm, Crossman, wham lie bred the
Jersey hard. which contributed breading stock to Items and
Australia ad well as points mash kroner. He recebed $500 for
the bull which was shipped to Australia. This M1CN, including the
grand champion Peggy Jean and M1eN sire Brampton Gwtlmmigm
Basil, were sold in 1951. Mrs, Frank Chapman still ,alias on
Jon" Amm and is a charter membv of the Women, Issuance,
Cmut Chapman, 1875-1951 o Unread in Pickering and nontrif
bored much time to The Township Contact as a Member of from
til and later as Buffer. His son is presently Aand Superintendent
but has served on Council.
Mks Chapman was active in the United Church, Pickering; he
az Clerk a Session for a number of years. He has served his
Township us a pern of Schwl Board, member of Township
Council and over and manager of me of the finest family gai
mal sora in Ommio. A merchant all his fife, he worked for
Thaler during Ila 1890k. In 19M he purchased the store now
weed by the Labdal after which he tout over Dickie &
Chapmauc to 1921 he hurt the fice afore which femainW in his
bands had 1955 and which has subsequently been outlined to
become Pickering Post Ohba. Me Clumman's sory by bis first
marriage, &ed as a reaWt of war injuries.
Coxxmy — Gervas Cornell arrived in Whitby Tuwmhip early
n the 1820's bat be did not mine to Pickering mnn fir 1835.
lie purchased Let 9, Conmssion H, from King's Colkge in the
early 1840's. During the 18201 they built the large red brick
farm house still coup by David Cowan Tae Cometh inter
-
arricd with ted Quaker families of Pickering, and their ser
Walter, who died at the age of 26, w a the fust Principal of
Picketing Public School. Mrs, N. Bit of Me Whereas Institute,
and her daughter, Mrs. Cliff Berkey, are the desundants of me
Cometh.
Cownx — "Henry Cowart and his wife and family came to We
district of Almon and First Concession in 1832, after seven works
causing We obtain on a wiling ship and losing all of their pay
spassiall; by fire ww barge coming up the SL fswrenre
River. The next year the family moved to lot 32, at Ne nmutb
and mostly west of the Rouge River. One of their sons, William,
as for ymn ell when they came to Canada from March,
Arabia, &attend. lie newer Owned the farm, across she Rouge,
bW it became the Property of his eldest son, namesake of the
first Henry.
"Try Gmndfalher lived there all his cadmium, years but the
hole Henry, died at the age of twenty-nine when h6 daughter
and beh, lanes was only a few months old The daughter, later
Mm. Arthur Fades, owned Ne old Pias for many years and than
sold it to Mr. Cecil White, who disclaimed it with other terms into
the comm hoip of Roogc 011s This is not to be waited with
the Un Rouge Hills, Kingston Road, affair was an old eam
company and land a Post Office by that name, served by Page mach
up until the end of 1915 wilt Me Geo. Top as Post Maser.
"William Cam Sr., bought loft 30 & 31 for his second or,
William, a farm at Greenwood for Robert and a farm at Highland
Creek for the yunngest eon, John. The farm on Lob 30 & 31 was
named Rombank by William. The ROogs River enbmtl Lake
Ontario through this property, the channel being fiwener to the
east when the reihway was built. From a company, and plants
le ack, this Properly electrified into asummer
olt w
cild
muting scratch of first by Galway stationat Port Union, but
shortly had a stop of its own. The fast station house on built by
3W
Me Was. Cowan of Watmank, but during the doubling of the
salary uncles from Pon Union to Whitby, about 1900, the
station bad Mom different laaatmn; finally settling at Ne siderond
which had nM been extended to the south before. During the
doubfng of the milway tracks, the Remge Firm bridge w
east 13 It, W
and the cuttings to e cart once out m 19 0. lower
This eliminated a very heavy Santa which required double header
ongimes. Them want mslowly that u little boy. waning to school
amid title hag way on the step: of tl¢ coMoss
"At one time, Rosebrmk win served by seven passenger trains,
two weigh Irtights as well es Picnic Specials, and the milxay
bad built a welting room we Me asst aide of the trucks which was
later maned to the other side. Stmnb to my, the aeilwny ori ually
rans north and south at this point. On the hill by We big oaks
war parking due mouth of the riveq wsa once an Indian VJh ge
of meet 2,13(h0 people. 1 did not know this when 1 buil[ my first
boom there in 1916; but we were conanually landing arrow heads,
skinning kntvn and iron me heads, each Be brought by la gille.
Bons idemified as Indian, were found in the erosion of Ne lake
bank. Ruebank has had a Pmt Office Item Jan. Isq 1916,
served at first by the railway which Lives us no more, but now
by centers of the rural mate.
"There was a great dead of trnlrs betw o,. the two farms on
either side of the siva, through a toll gate on the west hill. Ouse
my broNer went aver To bring a saddle hors. home, forgetting
the toll money, eco he waited a hong time for old Mr. Luke to open
the gree for someone nd then galloped Unclear. He gain re-
wMrcd that it was Stacey, no ton being eolleGW on tact day.
A lot of this is bemmy. but l have evsy twoon to believe it." G.C.
DUNBAR — Ma William lombap J.P., Dwil anon, who died title
Sap, 186$ was a native of fawfencekim, Scotland. In his youth
he learned the trade of caipeawr and millwright. lie earned on
business in these trades at St. Andrew and Until. He erecad a
statement, bridge over the river Levey. Desirous of bettering him-
self and M1im than rising family of six sons and ane daughter, he
emigrated to Canada in 1831, landing at (Topics afro a tedious
voyage of thiMen weeks. Proceeding to l'omma then Little York,
he Purchwed in connection with another Botham htmity, a piece
of land an the northern share of IDke Onm,o ahem 20 miles
east of Toronto. Rem M confirmed himself and draw around
him n routine of old acquaintances and above firm Sardand,
which gave We Unity its Smttlsh character. About 1849 he Lid
out on Usown land the Village of Donbartan. He trick an early
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and u o man
e remains d social warfare OI me
xvlemaHe was an elder in the church (Scotch Presbyterian)
for nearly 35 yeas, was Reduce of the Pear for many years and
a Commissioner of common xbwls.
Hew v chief m indicating the Pickering Harbour
Company, and one of the heaviest Stockholders and superintend-
ent of the work. He took a deep interest in the education of the
goon& and especially worthy young men who were washing (beer
way to the registry — ranking a Bursary grant to Knox College
fm this purpose.
Extract from Deed to the West % of had 25, laureation I,
Pickering, Upper Canada.
"NTeeas our lieutenant Governor of our said Province hath
with the advice and consent of our Said Executive Council ran -
nodded to sen, alienate antl convey, the lands, tenement, and
M1oreUitnnwnts, hereinafter mentioned, being part a dusaid
Clergy Sneerer addressed to be sold by tile said Intl in part
cited AR nota William Dunbar, His Heirs and assigns at and
for the price of 1125, Inside nevertheless, oven us Our Hairs and
Sneaixmx all mines of soli and saver that shun or may hereafter
be found on any pan of the said Petrel or of Wm (Dwells
Bear follows,. Given under the Great Seal of our said Province
of Upper Canada: Witness our trusty and welbheloved Sir
George Atlbur K M H. Lieutenant Germans of our said Provin¢
and Malo, General remodelling our (ones therein at Toronto.
19th October I840,
By Command of his Excellency in Council.
Cot of Crown Leads. R. A. Tucker
Cam. No. 1113.
Has aWre diihalty, in securing his DeN until nine years after
he had settled in Dumbarton, probably azeoun¢d for fire feet Nat
William Dunbar Sr. and his older sons were all strong immbers
of the Rddmr Party. W. R. Wood, "Part Yeast m Pickering
says on Page 27, 'The scotch settlement in the first and second
examinations rc grnerally known to be In sympathy with the
parry, Of Reform. When, toward the close Of 1837, events
hastesaing to come, Pa2 sent from Treated, to pps
le
hand my who might be targeted of member to support Mac
hold. Mr. George Whim, Mc Duubor Sc. and his two
Alexeotler
and Wiliam were otomy, rhoss arrested and mashed
up the Kingston Road to the ury."
William Dunbar', children were as follows: Brows, William
John, Ale; David. Janet (died w money in Smdand), Rohr
(removed to Britain), rod Pllubelh William Dunbar Jr. intend
me
the property and rortied on an extensive blacksmith business and
working in the rest brick building still remaining ren tie Deal
Romer of the bL Hle son William T., monied on business as
gereal merchant in Pickering from t880.1905. Mrs. S. R. Dalss,
his daughter, married the local doctor and built a hoe¢ on the
property row the home of J. S. Milk uM broadly. William T's We
William, is professor of Engineering, U. of T. and still owns Ne
progress and farm and resides herein she summer. The farm bar
always Bern rented out from cmlioat times and is prtecntly rented
by the Wood family who ship milk.
The Dunbar family are members of Dunbirton United Church
wNch issilveredon land formerly Owned by their family.
G.wOT — Rev. Adam Elliot (Inter Pound Elliott) an Anglican
mandatory farm Credi rid Comply Battered and brotMr of
John Ellim. who lived north cost of Pickering Village founded A.
George's Parish of Pickering Viaran,
Rev Adam Elliot was selected as rector designs of Embiwke.
He had no funds and they wam unable to pay him; hence he
went oar as a building missionary b the immigrants and basiaas
of Upper Camda. As well as tiding falseback final Port Hope
to Yonge Sr, and holding remains at various place; in the year
1833 he made ,primary north through Newmarket Kinn. Tecum-
seh onto Oro. Medome and Penemnauisheoe. On the first Sunday
In Lrnt he held "dlvme service as the home of Mc Mann at
Kempenfeldl Bay". Despite the cold weather many people came
to wervice, mearmis over loss hundred weds. ChWren even
baptissd and Holy Communion was administered to several Rick.
He was inspired by the beauty in Nes parts even in winter. He
left the Indian VIEW of Coldwater until warmer weather as Ne
Onew s so deep and difficult to pass On bOnc-back. later in
tile a
e yehe resiled Mono, Coledon, Chinquaccusy. Erin and
h<ttdro. In October he want Coldwater and again to Pemmng.
By 1934 Mc Elliot was convinced that "ten more clergymen wen
netled for the Home District"He continued in his peregrinations
until 1835 when he was asked So go to Manitoulin as a Micaonory
to the Indians, which he Ad.
Lmar be was a missionary to the Six Nation be fans on the
Gorge River (Bamford). Here he Iabrored among the Mohawk
aM other Indian Tribes for over 40 Dema. His first wife was an
Indian (Raecy by name). His accrued wile was Miss Howell h'mm
England,a sister of the mmhcr of Pauline Johnson (famed Indian
partes.) Itis manes ng to note that G -H. M_Johnson (Pao -
ale's forms) was in mmrperter for Rev. Elliot when Mf. Elliott
manned Miss Howell who brought her younger 9kmG Emily, with
Imo. Here blmsomed the mmanw of Emily aml the young lumbar
chief. Georg, tobacco.
Rev. Elliot and each of his wives were, boned near Brantford,
where his name is still recovered with the merger at that place.
ELLpYTT — John Eliot (now spelled Elliott) an army pioneer of
Pickering Township, ea a from Nichol Forest, Cumberland
County of England in the year 1923 at the ago of 25. Although v
shoemaker by trade he Foci a farm near the fourth am
-
wisdom
kin
uu of Picm, now occupied by Mr. From Wall
Them he built a log house and later married ENth Taylor, who
me from SwRobshire County, England Her parents settled it
'thtb York" on the Don River where they establWed one of the
Largest paper mills of Canada. The Taylom became well known in
the busiwa life of Toronto and udded the manufacture of prnsed
bricks to their other business activities.
Mc Elliott brought his bride to Its farm home, new they lived
the ret of their over. rasing sewn of their mince children. He
cleartd and farmed his one hundred and fifty acres of land, adding
his labour useful making Picketing Township a demmblo place
to live.
Eeuort' — "Chiismpher ENort was boon on the 15th day of
lune 1838 in Pickering Township. About 24A miles north Carl of
DuRms Creek, 00mar County, Canada about 28 miles East of
Toronto. Ile was the second son of IoM Ewalt sad bis wife
FAIR who Poor biter marriage was Fill Taylor ofYork, after -
war ds, end now called Toronto. Christopher Elliott, Ile spelled his
surname "Elliot" had ane sister, named Margaret End, antl seven
Farmers whom named n the ordur of Neir ages were: James,
John Adam, Fri Hawthorne, George, Abraham Taylor, and
William Thomas Mon. Grandfather Elliofs grandstand than con-
signed of a form of 150 xres or more, and, with his family, lie
than lived in a lag house in which Christopher was Mm. He al-
trnd4 the Araby school in the neighborhood, probably unit he
was 15 was old or thereabouts, for In a couple of his school
books his name is inscribed in boyish grim and the date, June
86 1852. He must have then been Id years old The' RokMm"
gmmmer that he studied met have been u Popular text book of
that day for it is said that Linroln ended a similar Former.
When he quitted wasol he had eryuired "a good common school
education" that he made Food use of during his short career.
His L IMPS farm was well adapted to farming anti .stock musing
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and these carved the principal permits engaged in by John and
his neighbors. He was early introduced to work on a farm.
At one time he was associated with his border John in pur-
chasing and butchering livor stack for fire local markets. He lewd
fine stock and raised prise cattle and shore who w
Grandfather swmol m wards which had keen madsum
e hJime al
m
Iteftlh 's for pitwining train and shone. once, soon after her
triage to father. he hwl a line brooded and valuable m
rvm that he was keeping far exhibition professor. Some old ins
gads Tani of doubtful, or no antecedents broke into the enclosure
where the nonince was pnwred and in the fight that followed We
ansedirs'was broken.
9ommreMe prior to his marriage, Contingent mot with a severe
accident. He was coming from Toranlo, whoc he had been visit -
ng his Taylor cousins. It was in the depth of winter and he was
driving it spirited latex hitched to a light sleigh or 'cutter - as it
called, wu
hile r sing a bridge over the Hun River on the
utskirts of Taranto a balking dog ran out and frightened do
horse. The hour Immune fractious, overituared We amish nail
labor was dmwn from than bridge to the ice below striking spun
the side of his head A severe concussion of the burinminimal.
lie was taken To the home of me of Ns Taylor calices who lived
near the Don and there he hovered between life and dcmh for
me time. Hoomen', he eventually recovered in a memous; but
Ws injury probably was in a whasImmue degee one of the causes
that contributed to his early death.
The years good, and in 1860 when Christopher war 22 years
old, he went W Reach, near Uxbridge, about 20 miles north of
his old (tome in Pkkcring and there engaged in (coming.
pofHuetu — Franus FolM1ergill was King's Primer during the
1820's in York. He moved to Pickering N early 18368 W the
present she of Alm, and here maintained a fine natural history
museum aurins many beautiful am rare birds and amounts of
North Anat He wrote hidden and books on Natural history
and built up a large estate mnNining a millaswell asfarm. Sum -
sequently his samily moved to the beautiful stma boom of Wm.
Wright on the Kingston Road now me residence of Harry Arnold.
A grea46mndwn, Charlie, moved W Newcastle twenty.
FULLER — "Robert buffer suit hisyoung wife, Frances ElizabM
Cmimel, arrived in Toronto in the su a of I933. They hod
me from Kent in England and nmmstalked of Seven Oaks mad
I ,b,dg, With, Will near words, In that interval county_
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•1932 was a electric yearwith widespread fear and mend. The
With occurcN on August 9M 1832 Rmo Sr lswrence MaM1aY of
or son aimed lams Chappel Fuller. The family were soon farm -
ng in Pwkmmut township. Teo nwre tens wart Wrm Henry and
William. They ,to tenants tic doubt as the first farm purchased
was SO 1852 when Habeas Fuller bought the south 'A of Cone.
IV, Lot 22, He purchased lots in the village of Thompson in
1859; 1864 and 1866 and builta made and barn sMl startling
and he use. They left the farm and moved W Brougham where
Chun Fuller died in August 1976. Rather[ Fuller married a soil
and war to live at her Lome new Watton; Mary Smvg Tulles. He
died mtl was taken to Picketing for burial in July 1887.
"James Chappell Fuller (1832 to 1921) farmed ns moon[ fast.
Want his maniere in I956 to Maria Willson, dnughmr to Casper
Wilson_ In 1959 in fungicides whh his brother, Hoary, Int put
abroad100 nines S. rt of Lot 22, Cone. 111. They use on this
lead which is sand and quite poor for craps. The elder children
went to the Brock Road School. Tt6 land was sold In 1878, The
James C lamnig free is Wo:ds On us faster cn the 51h,
no and the an the eldest am, ter honer Robert, graduated back-
wards from this building at the age of about 12_ He claimed to
have been ranee with a baeeb'all but in thenad of a rooter who
was prepared to punish him quite wrongly for an offence he had
anomalous In 1880 the James G Folleh left Pickering and
raved to a farm in lawyer Township near Mitchell Ontario along
with his eldest sem than recently memed and one other son antl
four creghteo
Idemy Fuller rvumW ten to Robert (1) national narrowed
his momentum with his brother James in 1969. He with his wife,
the former Margaret Ann Elliott along with Me and Mrs, John
Palmer, the torsos sister to Shipment Ano Fuller loft Canada In
1970 and tested on the border of tlw prairie land in Missouri.
Within five years both Henry and Margaret Aon bad died :long
with is, infant children. The New elder ones burn in Pickering
re Normal hack by their uncle, Loves C. who made the trip vin
MiMmlrol'm He angler back Frances Flim and James to INe
with thaw Wmiftmmna on the 4th, later in Orouyham then sit
Weston.
In the late Wheat of 1880 there came a young man Gem
ro
Min to Claim the hand of C ntu
h Furnace, They were worried
ser Wesson and the brother Jamas Fuller then about 17 went
beck to Missouri along with them. Size Harlan, (Fuller) died at
Salisbury, Missouri 1953 Waving a son, five daughtan and ninny
of Ne grnerations to follow. James Fuller Icor brother died with-
out issue.
Zia
The third eon, Wdham monad Samb Compton, both lived In
arcngbam. He 4i d young saving two children Witham aM
Sarah Elunxs (Delay). William known in "Dakota Bill" married
in Brougham Ne daughter at u ehcemaker, Mmigie Maddock, They
reired a family m North Dakota then moved Gant Bn:m 10 Sort
Corset, Sask. no survivors of this branch an few in number.
"bmh omnibus (Daisy) married a Scroll nn. They mixed a
binary of 101 one, Mrs. J. StePbrnsoq was living recently in
Pickering village Others arc in Toronto or mitered widely burger
Camdv.'
Coding — Sarah Gordon and her three sons arrived from York
to Pickering in Ne early spring of 1837. They had suffered In
Ireland sluing the fighting between Catholics aM Protnmms,
and were Gangrenous. Sumt bought Lm 19 from William Allen
and the boys paid toff dole sobs in William Allen by wmkin8 on
the lake boars, se dint during their early days in Pickering the
family awned all of Lot 19 from the Baseline Road to Ne Like.
They look an active pmt In the s4rmisher brother Matthews.
In later yens they old all but tire nonbcm ninutyounds acres.
Joseph formed this land, made terminate, brit his ho u , whistled
for the dances and had n rollicking li with his foer
es. The family livid in this residence e until rm1958 when the
last Gordon, Mrs. Alex Gordon, movM, to Picketing after selling
her Impact An, the Viking Corlrormon, and the farm baz ounce
been unultivatW. Descrndems still live in Pickering village.
Gasim¢ — Thomas Costiek, sr., was born in 1789 and dim] in
1859. Mrs. Godark was both in 1096 and died in 1884. Their
sand were Thomas and Iehn, Ne former of whom was bom in
1820 and died in 1894, std the latot born 1826 and died 1907.
Two sons of Thomas Gostick fnided in the towvaNg Thomas
Calvert (Lot 24. Con. VJq, and Pnderick (Lot 24, Cry, VII.
antl Ntir deeandents own the old loll std.
Goueun — WJlwm Deaths. a native of derwickshim, rams to
ScarWm in 1832, and theories settled on Lot 24 (rear) Con.
H. He died in 1875 std his wife in 1882. His family were: June
(Mrs. Alexander Dunbar); An (Mrs. Methods); lasts (Mm.
William Young); Rubber, who lived on Cop, IV. Unroll lames,
and Group, who carried the old Household all his death in
1895.
Alm Goodly, a deseendnm, resides on While Side Road.
14a'r — William Handel nae bum in the County of Wex-
ford 4elwd, in this. He dome with his parents to Piekuing at
the :tgc of twelve. In 1822 he umrrhd Phoebe Haight, who was
bum in Pickering in 1810. Mr. Harbor became owner of crn-
stressed Nnd An be immetllmu Aaa :hy of boosting Village. He
was a magistrate far about birds, yams. The old Hamrick hon¢.
stead was built in 1843 and still is in gmtl repair. He died in 1874
and his n'ife in 1982_ He had one ion and two daughters, mr,
William Ifatlrick and Mrs. John Gordon, of Piakcrin8.and Mrs.
land, L neon, Of St. George, Oat.
Hxsatxns — Nathaniel Hustings %%a born in York(Toronm) of
U. E. L. pmenbg, his father being owner of considerable land
in the viomes of what is now Lesbvills. A lot of forty arms
having been lmmfmW to Cadmium, be eschonged it fora yoke
of oxen, a wagon and some implement,, antl with his young wife
to Picketlng about the year 1828, million on Int 24, Cm:.
V. where IS lived till his demb in 1870 in his 6601 your. He uxtl
to relate Nat when a boy be bad his fmheis team ata blacksmith
shop N York and that ionic tnilimry man came along and im-
Pmeml them into the Government striate for conveying men
and supplies Interim York :ted Kingston
His son John Hastings tivN on Lot 20, Con. V, while me old
homestead is occupied by Itis grandson, George Hostmild. The
family still msde on their original farm.
Horunuea — Georg 11011111I Sr. was one of the fou pioneers.
He ownW JM 32, Corrosion 11 He bus the crown decd and it
is still in the Hollinger name. It wworked by Itis gmndeon,
Waller. His family were: Somncl, John. Willium, George, Maga
eq Mary Arm Levine, Kate and I are. Samuel was born on the
old manila ad In 1830. He worked part M Su father s farm. His
children were: Group, Hnmcl, Wi[god, who went to western
Canada, antl George married Edith Sterling Thcir family were:
Tillie, Oda, Norman, Peal and Velaa. Wm, H011inger Su who
was born on the old lmmeaead in 1935 mafaktl Harry Ann Ash
He wa an elder m Son Presbyterian church. Be was a careful
farmer and bmghtlrom his bmlbers the old home9amd. He had
pass n, Welter, who Owned the old fano. Walter burned Deva
Gare , Oldest daughter of Gamgee Gates. Their children weak
Leslie, William, Mark, Murray, Roth, MJdrM, Leonard, Dmie,
Cecil and Kenneth. Leonard lied in the old member and
William bought the Benjamin Repose farm. Another ten worked
be Pap Poles firm which h0 (amber bought. He made a Art
stores of farming. Thcir moderate arc all buried in the Men-
smile secondary at Cedar Grove. Descendants, Leslie and his son,
Bruce, reside N the Almna road and ate active w church and
community.
Hnnvaa — Daniel Hoover, Br. was bom in 1809 and died in
1891. He married Fanny Recent who was born in 1813 and died
n 1878. Tbcy belonged 10 RE Old Mennonite church. They
settled on Lm 35, Consortium IF, PGznng around 1835. Names
of their chill Peru, R Hoover, millet atDickmn Hill, Forest
Hills, Clarkes Holbw, and Orem River. He served as councillor
for Ne Warship and also Justice of Ne Peace. Neat were Abra-
ham, Daniel, herm Deojamw, and Della who married Fnus
Hoover. His »n Daniel named Julia Ann Burkholder. He worked
his fathers farm where Lloyd Taylor mw lives and he also was a
Ihmberr He btleured to rhe Melhodiet church
HIRMOun —Thamm Hubbard, 1759 -1853, W his forday were
Umhtl Empire-Loyabsts who came to Pickering probably in
180, possibly 1799. N any occur Thomas, in 1803, was a mem-
Mr of the corthend Pbkcring-Whltby'rownship Council and le
became the first Clark of cite Township in 1811. For nems noun
the family did not parent Nen In W. Lot 19, Concession V, maul
1821. That is they old not esti a Crown Grant However Nay
activesurner farmers and Andrew Hubbard m 1812 Vale among
Ne htiitiam who oink part the a mmmmu against the
notorious in FAR Lde HE ncand a decoration for alow,
awardined in Dr. BcaddhnF s Memonal Volume, "Toronto".
As well as cleanup their farm and Nretting the work of the
Emancipabtg the NmJy donated to Has small home-made stool
its building site. Andrew, Thomas Hubbard's inn, brown at the
close of the wet of 1812-16, the fiat postman in the ToVrwmp
and he spent many long hours on horseback taking the mails up
the Brock Road to Uxbridge.
The Hubbard property was increased to include parts of lot
19, One IV, where afiord Hobbaof still asides, although the
farm iuelf has bum sold as aEconomic. Andrew GW
ns Lot 19, Concession V, at present and has regarded the
original lrome which still eanhus in the basement its old error-
s apple and Vegetable bins made of hands which me at Ri
hirty inches wide. TM1e house is stall bar in good condition and
hu survived came one hundred and twenty ran of weathering.
The Hubbads were members of the Reform party and were
among the Brougham men who nmrthed in 1837.
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JoxNSTON — Oliver Johnston was born in County innocent
Ireland, in 1803, and came to Canada in 1821. He mNM on
Lot 16, Con, VI, In 1847 hemarried Elizabeth Smith. They
had a family of ten children John, Arthur and William (all of
CNGugwcN Township); Sarah (Mm- Underadtlen); Thoma,
married Anna Rogers; Mary A.: Sopbio (Mrs. Henry Russell);
Martha (Mrs. David Russell, Lot 15, Con. VIE), and Laumlot,
wM marred Hardy Taylor and lived on the old homestead. Oliver
Johnson died in 1897 and his wife in 190.4. Oliver', grandson,
Lloyd carries on the family name in Brougham where he trader
with his ,it and their son. Be has been Clerk or the Township
,imus 1940.
UMonaaux — lames Umoreaux was Retention, in 1812. He
was of Huguenot descent and had lisetl in the United Shies, He
bore acres in the War of Enteprenemo His planar regulators
eluded one or more trips m Kingston with a grist in a Mawhich
had been built on the Rouge Rived Me Peeks and another act -
her were his compniom. The voyage took about three weeks.
MAJOR — About the middle of the eighteenth century titres
moves hearing IM1e name Map, — fond Uriah and Thomas —
emigrated !mm Cwlhill, in Ireland, to the New England uvlany
of Vermont. Hem Joh, who afterwards became the Rieneer_of
the Majors of Pickering, mnrried Margaret Reynolds, with whom
on the outbreak of the Revolutionary War he betook himself Ont
to Nova Seeds and arterwaM to the then fardistant warned'
provivs of Upper Canada.
They soled in the PERU Cemeninn of Pickering mod their
descendants have been nmong the important constituents of the
later population or He township. The village which gradually
sprang up, and is now known as Whilevale, bore for many year,
Ino family name, king known as Majorvilk. The Majora cards -
Find grist and saw mills very early in Wtun ale.
His datyhux Mary married William Sleigh. TM1A, family count
John, Thomas, Camaia, (Mrs. Israel Barton), Hnrtlet (Mei, T,
P. Whim) and Tabalia (Moo William M Mott).
His daughter Hannah married Pete Matthews, who suffered
e at tin spent of the Rebellion of 1837.
xHis son Samuel married Mary Smith. TLA, firmly Amer WA -
mon Edward, Frank, Samuel, Wesley, Margaret and Abigail.
William oohed Emmu While M whom he had the following
family, William. Henry QnI 27, Coo_ VL Loan, Mary Maud
(er Rev.1. N. Robirwri Lyda Gertrude who. Adam Won
son) and Lily (Me, C. A. Ih rmun).
His oil Henry soared land Smith a, his lint ire. Then
Small,
wcrt: Mn n Fr loszlH Va[dmJ, masse 'Ind wife
8idoey. William and wrrmony, ve a owned :n bb second wife
Lydia A, Fit,, (x. rs. MAlmlly, wore: ), Jamscto (Mrs. Herrick),
therm(Margaret Hllcn (Mrs. Mimmust GaltLarry
r James Clns Angeles)Wald,
Paind(MN_L.ohn STnh isolated.
Lew Susan
All (MST. Word,
Conde Risk I, IOM1n 9[I&II 6rnrd ( Susan Co (11 t W. H.
yead,a, N envy ). Albert FAwuti (Lel 20. Con. 1A'), Wnller
ScH and Henry lid by warned
tulel.
He xoo ri the
m reed nod se ra, The. the IM1w Mnjm
bmlhern Alfred
Te me mree smim arsmm TM1omar fames were
(Mas. Alfml Tamer), lune fM¢ Charles GmaM1llll 'Jolla
(MIS, tlnmmn).
Mrs. lie far and ',nun Newlon with box uldhourly still rc
side on the (non ('accmion five. in IM1c Iuamiful oW sbne
farmllnuxe.
MOTnlaws — Although ISN of the United GmPim Lnyaliu
grams bud bell handed Om before Piekminp TownshoP veers "I
veyed, In (M1c districts cast of Clarke TnwmldP and %car of
Niagara Polls. a to' houllies were granted land on Pick crong. deep
n We words on the Fifth and Sud Concessive- Antmy them
,ere the Methanol Tmmnns Malnwvr in I799 w s Elven a
Crown Grant of 350 son,— Lot 18 rod plan of At 2 CON
V1, Pielsting. On this beautiful, bLh tc of fertile black
IS overlooking Inks Ontarin, @c buml)including Ouvld and
Peter carved of a term. They most have wnrkcd endlessly ain[c
they came to Pkkedng and nothing but then Wv personal be
longing,, dm seed grain unit a to, us dummd by Ne Cavern -
room, and their own magnificent nmrale.
In 1811, Them, Matdmws is mentioned In Inc Township
'cords as bekg a member of the Camtdli "as for many years
dwortft[r It pnhmsmr. He was realpmodd, for Ila` Bursa Read
and chnnaed it from so Indian Trail to n path wide s neugh for
ach to n{ nv no and down to Uxbridge. As easy m
UU3. (rohere lag a stage conch rainuilig ^P the Ruling Road to
the Fifth Commssion and then West to NemmalLet The work
done an township road, xitn the exception of tM Klnesmn Road,
s unbind n c hMmmedic
id
r. The meidt landowners than Spent
ore days at backbreaking and making roads wnicM1 ran pan the
wild leads of the racer element landowners who Settled tuatlOn
ON, well as Inbaur.
capula Mathews, as wall as eatablia ng; his Imm, married a
second time, Mary Aaiun and thus acquired an additional 300
acres of land, Lot 19, Coronion VL The family wee therefore
from early times large landholders as well as prominent In mm -
ship and chmoM1 wignis,00m.
The only remaining building on the farm whith dela back to
pioneer days (and wemust limit Ibis pet'iW to 180035) is the
film. A small bankbvm with so4d slow foundation re
The crude lira shanty and later plank house were desist
many years ago. The land itself is truly regardful, and still well
farmed by its prexnt reach, he personal, who base built One
buildings recently. Howeveq we bear learned tram It Matthews
If Ornumilm, that the fust years were very difficult, everything
doae by Faun and an entities walking up and down to the Kies,
on Roatl with grain In be ground it Timothy Rremsr mill after
1807, Pmmf, was turned to York mind it,, several years the
roily solid Ilford a Mme end aeon and life was not so dreadful,
it tied been from 18M 05. The but when crops bad to be
taken to Whitby and York to be sold and Shared Game and
fish shoulder! and life must M1ave been somewhat like a summer
rear during d¢ summer without any of the luxam of rammer
life. Smaller momhers of the family were sent
to fish and
higher berries which abowtled VegetablesJust wthout any
rouble. Out the work of clearing the land continued almost all
of their lives and money was almost n m-cuwam. Fuel, of mune,
aMuvded
The madmen were first wnght at home, but soon the Matthews,
Hubbmds. Majors and Willson, of this neighborhood buds a crude
lag aGcal M1amv on the amne, of the Fifth Catholic, and me
Brock Road, which they n aanw! ,Or of chat, own precious
nh1 well lata the 1800',. Thr, summarily resented this crude
education for their cMldmn — Peter Ind Hannah Major Matthews
had towns ulamina, vad hdr oppononliss were in dreadful coo-
need to the pupils of the District Grammar School in York, con.
ducted after 1805 by he Rev. Gearge ORill &out, a Pickering
apacmcc landowner. When Rev. John Strachan took massMuxa-
it beanie m labor and rtceivM enormous land
moue
grm6 ea reasons,
and
Minimal,
Show rep as v cel[ of he
armyunfairness
mf here subew; lto onlym-eoncan ons,mount
resealed
the cernirnna of sum subsidy to only Rnglican schools and
churches.
TM same bittemestlbelonged
elo d with raved W the Methodist
in i h wb&h the familyhiw yfor Mew Egerton Ryerson ap, rid-
etl in this district on his way from Newmarket to Pickering, rid-
in down the Rrcck Road. Peter MavM1ews is listed among the
droops to the new College at Brilevfue, and he was unable m
carry oar his pledge because of bis Cand. The family behimad
o the Croydon au¢M1 at Brougham error it was built, in Be
1950•; and here Captain Thomas Mandewi lame was placed
after it was removed from the farmyard graveyard on the from
Tim Matthews men were all approvers of Witham Lyon Mar
Kenve who was up mdenl speaker at the meetings Feld a
Financon's Tavernan the Black Road at the Fifth Concession
For almost Ihivyfrve pairs they paid taxes to the Government of
Lipper Gnatla, indicted by absentee landowner William Allan.
Them taxes wee used solely for the support of urban, chiefly
Anglican and Family Compact Govnnt paternalism, far the
meds around York and other govmmem expends. Bottom
me back to the Iowushir in the way of help except s pittamm
for me upkeep of Ne Ismaston Road. which tramafermed itself
into
a good plank Proud as mon m ravelled of of Pickering
and into York. The toll gate was a source of irritation to assay
one Pursing over the Rouge BriJge.
The all took part in the rebellion of 1939 and Peter
Matthews win carbonate.
Peter and M16 ompeniws were matured to Ino Goal In Toronto
and hem be was onmnetl to dent]' for n. Approximately
right toomond sdegeople Portland for the Blease of Lounl and
MalWews but to no avail. They wine sentenced by Sir Gwrge
Arthur.
Dr. Badding IM1e eminent Anglican historian of the Period
writes
Untilof then death; quoting from an eycwhives "We m
Uunt
haanJ solwws at the
rut total sM1 , whim she upon Kele
heuds r on omving m the almspa, although IM1e smla Were
eight. and the anent almost pLeast irrat b they mouth
IM1e surge wlrM1M, h, Icuu duration, deputy
fiat followed by the
though Mat hens did and the Jwith t Mr. Baird Some d ve
by
his RIlt Matthews but
not accord h with mo firmws displayed by
his lelg Pon he but they Jo his memory injustice, for I was
laking upon n rented ns of LMh whM1 inlmx anxiety, to ad
whether each disgaced his name, or the coax in wNete be had
unlike. life,
rr No them was nolo m my vision, IM1e loadinghtest Irepi-
the trap
Loom lurked up f tJ bowed to sl then loading upon
Be Imp les by the ore of o e nurses, h e care was d ovecidr
about
Iheb necks by the raMr and the care pulled over Heir
faces. Ono of the clergyman. ;mal Mr. Richmtlmn, were
a prayer and
in an
casualty.ns
ant after Nett Iwo M1eroic souls were usM1erM into
Their execution was a cruel, Mryh and :moS'emer unnecessary
pmuxtlin6"
David Matthews managed to lift himself shove the hamiliation
suffered by his decd EvEnI tough nstl he mnainW N Patent
ins, for theremainder of 6t, bF, for men Luyl'aywla Matthews
and grnmbon Died continued to insurers the pmih buff of Lot
19, Con, VI during For Income. David also operated a large
hotel In Brougham and h6 widow finally sold this property to
the Township Council for township offices . She Mary Metthewa
moans in Rrougham, the sale remaining Pickering member of the
family.
MCRRAM — Daniel MCBndy we& bom at St. mai s Point,
County Wnyd, Iceland In lone 1818. Immigrating to Comar
in the Spring of 1837 he settled Ont neat Whitby antl then moved
to the Village of Audley where M remained until 1901. In 1847
Ins married Ellen Bfaderick a native of Kilkenney, III Twelve
children were turn m dune Robot (Rev. Moll Mary
(Mother BaNllde); Lina (Mn Conscious tTNeip of Toronto;
Muria (M¢. Cetnld Lang) Whitby; William of Port Anbuf;
and Vincent of Toronto were Prominens in Ibe Law Profession;
Earphone (Mrs. h P. hung) on Chatham; Kate (Mrs. George
Cowan) of Pickering; Daniel of Vancouver B.C.; Allzrt of
Chicago Illinois; Frank of Donor MicMgan; and Lancs Of Pick -
worse Township. In 1901. Daniel and Ellen moved back to
Whitby. Ponied died an January 27fh 1907, and Ellen on lune
6th, 1907.
Robert McBrady, bourn Tommy 24. 1848, was Nen Om child.
At the age of 26, on May doth, 1871 he was ordained in Rome,
Indy, becoming a Imembin an the R:wilian CNn', Vaned in
seven languages as bugle at Asmntpnon Collegeusual in
the Language Department and St Michaels College 'romnta
where In big later years he we, [It ... mcint He died on May 4,
1936 at the age of 88.
Another child Mary MCBndy, cacmd the Lomla Abbey and
was lour known as Mother Batbildo.
lames McBmdy, one of their younger song was Wrn on July
@dt 1867, at the humid homestead In Audlry, where he grew up
and mmll Ellen Mary Goland, of ChertW'ooq so November
25th, 1890. This marriage was temad ebb rtn
audit child; six
gids and two boys a -three gids and one bay used at an early
age; the other children won Josephine, Elia Mary and James.
A well known buffer, temof, was elected to the Pickering
Township Council and latterly occupied the Roger Club. In
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1907 flo fumlly moved to Pon Hope where lames w.0 10,11
Agent fmMassey Holds In 1910 they mored to Ile the, I..
of Oshawa where lie was promoted to the position of Gu+uml
Aguas far the Company He was a very "Lose alwalCr Of Sc
all me Gmal Roman Catholic Chmeh and aro sewed on
the Srpnrum Soared Board Ilor many you. Always ae
Mutant, and CivicMutant, he became Oral Deputy Be...lin
1920 21, wd was apphmW C;firman of the Board of rick
lana died on DanMor 16, 1921 It the nge of 55 and Ills wife
1`I1e1 died an OctObcr 8th. 1957.
Josephine, their alder dauriner. nearjaral Joseph JONon of
Efun, brain, on Jam Was, 1926 in 9t. Grogrry the Great
Remnl Catholic Charm. Calm . Them habil x re born m
them; James, who died In infancy: Pmom fkfts. Walter Mc -
Meant and Tomer the Jordan Yimdly ww rcaida in Oshuxa.
Man, ;raided John F Smllard of elnnlunom in 6t. Guests Na
Creat Romnn Ca ill Church on August 26 1925. both rchill
n blessed this marriage: Neu, who did at drc free of 9;
Patricia (Nits. Garton MurpaID: Dorothy (Mu. O. I -Em; m+d
611 Man,. The SwAmid faintly now acids 5e, earned
Mary, the v0ungest daughter of Jahns and Ellen. married
Anhur 11. Coleman 0o Novon+her 211, 1945, In Our Lady of
Sorrows mal Catholic Church. Toronto. They have six said-
n- Gwen 1Mm. Frank Hickey): All Allan; Camilla (new
reaction i1 , Catholic College in Uganda, Bunch east Atrie t
Robcn: and Gcmga. Mur, (Min. Coolant) Mer ulwO, amen
aadae
in Dale ata Charch aPairs. and is presently the Fhn v1m
ParWarner, o the '1'omnm A[rJtdloccsmn Cuu+¢p u( Catholic
WJa 's our,
James mr,l ,an aura In Flamalt In Detroit S;m, and
of their ;n an, Juuebyp Patricia holt nand 0,19 i0
urri yc u
out l+on;. J+uvq a nrunuln by p+'ufdsiun, Jiod tenure: 20, 1960
MCCnrm;n— Andrew McCreight came from behind in I835.
Ile had tura son,, faces, John and Andrew. lames mora u
Owulwoal In 1898 and m rood Mary Are Brown, who also
call from Ireland. He was born in 1814 and died in lital He
awl+;II of Ne Frsklw Pmsbytorian Chvcn. Name,
of the ehfthem who affrom J Cherrywood school: Mnmy loos.
Margaret, fear, hAbdiu and Elleal He sewed as hoes, 11
Oe Wwnuhip fora number of :.mars and Ww served in the county
council He was Jostlre of 1M Pm,, rot a n,,the, of sears. Ile
bought the farm lot six hundred III the uonA part from Mr.
81mnk of unusual. Ernest Anmd'o.I, all ffinWn+t ecopics the
farm at the present time. He was one that favored higher educe
-
and three N his featurers were teachers and two helped to
keep the home. They w words ending from higher! m
Canada. Lames MCCreight on
Cherrywond after s place in
Irelli
Mowtmav — Ralph Mowbray (whose Ndfirm, Sohn Mowbray.
s native of Ayrshire, Soldiers) was born in Indeed In 1989.
Homamcd Criterion Walker and aferwmd while still a young
Mae Collie
to Brooklyn, N.Y.,mbm rs w
Y., whim a of you
spent. In 1833 they arm, to Cnn:ula, uad heard on lots ] and 8
in IM rove of the ran nationalist of P;rk,ihm the tiro knojng
card and nasi as well as circ lel surmlies, were carried on hie
beck from Bole York, The only smiler near them at tint wa
Samuel Munger_ Whitby was for many your their base of sup
plies. Their family woos: Matilda; Hugh, who died in 1910 of the
no of 87; Eller, who died in 1904, aged 97; Phillip, who died In
1910, ruled 80, and Ralph, who died in 1886, aged 53.
John, above mentioned, married MaNm Hyland and settled in
Reach. His son, Ralph R. Mowbray, w e of I ickesing in
1911, mtnming t0 me tmmsep when a r Mg man of U. and
has been a resident whom It ever sins. He In, served the muni-
cipality in township and county councils for eighteen Yeas. He
occupied the written a chair in 1893 and in 1909. On Sahaday.
May 20, 1911. at the liberal wnvendom or Whitby, he was un-
oosly choice as the orndidam of the party to comer the
rid rg at the next provincial election.
Mowmays still farm in Pickering and mnlinue active in oun-
ail and church. Ralph's son was a member of Council and his
flooding Milton Mowbray, is presently a Member of Conrad,
1961.
Poo.mrn — Sherwood Palmer was both in Scarlwm in 1999. He
married Martha Lamoroaux in 1820 and crown
to Pick criug in
1834, settling On Lot 20, Can. IL Of his family of mq live at -
raised m wre
re years, ne follows ImPabtlo5 fare 1826, died
1892; James I. Palmer, Park 1826, died 1905; Sarah Ann Palm -
ca hmn 1831, died 1893; Sherwood Palmer, boos 1843, died
It sad Civil le, S. Palmer, earn 1846.
Jaama I_ Palnicr when a boy eftmak d school for mme years
in Ohio, whom ono of his ,mp,mions was Low, Omlold, after -
,am Presldaat lames Pelmufor many sees operated o sawmill
to his loan, per north of the Seemed Conversion lino. He .served
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the township a nalmr ;,ad deputy ren olid n lir me
most rure:inanI m mina of ma Diwiplos rAomL on the Klagsmn
Knnd,
James Palmer. a desmnadmi Penalty in Pickering Village at
present.
P:ILIPS —Blared Phillips was born at Bonnas, LmInIw w Pr
4wland, Oct. 51h, 1790 Ind died July 21m. 1945 Mr grand-
million Mary Hailey was tom at 51. loFm, N.B. 1790. Grand-
Imbo and grandmother had ten ahildeno They name to Upper
Canada prior to also BebYlloo of 1837, and with Lite older man
-
fears of the Sandy Ming note 1n obtain weak, nem .mon Comfort
ably shamed After looking u1un4 memlA M1or obtained one of
the line 0r weaker Saint kn n land at that tai who
he tf reed hie faintly and met his male in dr, Pull Pul of his life
by a falling vee and was baled on his Peon farm was, where the
Clifford unit Oni are now laced.
Job, Pride Philips wan the oldest of the Remy. He maarel
n education and taught school eight repay outer wallto ma,
led and settled loon at farming on lot ,2. 5d1 Co,con., Ymkering.
He sea, balm in 181 i. At tea ages or 20 yeah, he way 11mat inler-
"led an the pofinanI unrest Corning In Canada. Canada had a
legiyladve Pal ly luted by me people. The British Oovem-
rosmed by a dominion Governor, uon he wedition]edition]by a am repLcaulatwe Contact and an aw,wiw Call appointed for
lire by the cutout's xupmyantmnv.
'nwr wine frig constantly bounce the down,
ry s a lion
Repretently ten and the People's k, knownttoday. Thum who
consistently maintained that
by the People
rho dd he lithe Powintiimenue
t. a e, the isolewM1Y the gor an thou Councils M1e it 6wwer of
body, rodsthe , tricot of Govrnme tThoswith power of
Vein. mmp.N in super
of Government. Those who opposer
this along w th t e m known it I e Ref this ,hila those mho wine
owwith ddaaCmwry and.I,, adenoidal
d est has unry4 condition were
owe as the L,yeaill ran
n a r e . lily see P— Pvudy Compact
fair Pill o m fnmlihe sea amt .. t path re car
r
the e0tod of lw on Pool TM10 crew Sal too head after
Ne aleuron of s ilia In which the ediamnpm tremor campaign
by 1M1e Councils t t 'I Reformers
mere i the must wrtupt mntpToo
parotin m what the Reformers in No general election
tha TM1e
Reformers or what w would t oil, wentedPropaganda being that the
Saw, Th use act.odisloyal, that they ry most 10 poli the Unitedto
SNms TM1e Compact. cone prevented vary as t a the Polls he
1e The result of Nk prevailed campaign war the defeat of the
Rad orvt Ymg in 1816.
III
Thin was; a very great dooms immenl to Nc Relator movement
Its leaders, Mackenzie and many or the heal others of Upper
Cannot, after their efforts bad Idled to Nae the British Gomr.
many intervene, derided that the only thing passible to do was to
forte the Was. John Phillips was a young man of twenty, 4 pro -
Joel wnvictiom. who pinN the crosade against mis.rvle and
found mora if armnpW agmina the Government Militia at Mtm -
Bmmery's Term an Press 9rcn, 'Toronto on the llh of men
1837. The refile barn poorly aimed. same .mon dispersed, wile
xapin8 with their leader to the UnI1N Smlq other being np-
Lured and hanged as were Loam will MmWexs_
IoM wet lucky to cscu{e and was pardoned atter residing in
the United Stress for Air yeah
Pofv — The for Jordan poll, was born in Connecticut In 1767,
.vented in York, Upper Game&, about 1796. at which time In
marreed Melinda Woodruff of Pickerikey He was a set maker
and ownnd much kind in nc member pan of which is' new (be
Gly of 'Genres. landed and Melinda Steen in Toronto went
named after them. Later, Mr. Post traded 15 acres at the enter
of Yorke and Melinda Brs. for 500 aces in Settlements and
eWed his family in that oma.
George WssM1ingern Post. M1k brother, salted in Pickering very
early u the Whey of lbs Treating. He is fir4 listed as an
ekekd mucase in like mwnsbig ramex of The Town Meeliner of
Masb 6, 1815. He subsequently held many other important town-
ship o0lccs. George Pont died in 1837. wil a family of nm
sons and two daughters. The mm mnu Am, John, Hien. George
and Jordan. TM1e laver, building The Rw nw n Kingdon
Rwd. The Pmt family Mme was formed Iwo mines and of Pieter-
eng vieng ,n mal a, Calk. H, and was for molly yeah a anµmg
stations ,r Inn and the Rene of many ivory ars mlerding limes.
With the udvent of lire Grand Took Railway in 1856, staging
berme outlets rill the le1roMs of Pmts stopping P1oa proud
into mainly. This vern was engineers]engineers]will cM1okm in 1932.
looked For. the reopen, was Mr in 1816, may Will Pmt
Manor me a Nedmely young age of 27, Madldu his tends was 21
at the time. Lod 19, Can, 1, containing 200 sorts bid been
intended to the Honorable David William SmiTM1 on July 16.
1799. In 1837, Ar Pmt, Gmrge's Was, ryrclmW 33 acnx ot
mal 19, Con. 1, wort of rend Moment RaW from Jahn Tesend
member with IM.mnth WE M W 191 Con. 1. film D. W. Smimb.
Laser his Nether Jordan bought We property, time, Jordan nwb
IislxJ a sawmill on Dufen'a Cock at the spot where Joel,
Read craft it He enjoyed return pmaperhn which included an
actioncapon business
to the United Stens. Panhvmrly through
the Oswego, N.Y. area . Jordan died an March I, 1860, :it The age
of 46. Matilda lived on uni APN 9, 1886, being x resident In
the house for 45 years. Two tall grawm Hui mark the spot
whom Jordan and Stands fire burned in the old aneroid in the
south side of Kingston Road opposite and within sight of the
house wNeh, together they had boils and lover
Of the tumily of eight children, only Thee clothiers remained
in Canada. The live song all moved to rho United States, Sunn :
Robert, Charles Asa, prompt George, John Janes, and Walter.
PUeealry — Leone Purloin immigrated from Whitby happen. York-
shire, England. To The Audley charier of Pickering Township in
the year 1851, Taking for his wife Ann Bolted, formerly of
WimninFhnm, Yokel iib.
They Pechased a portion of Let 6, Concession Ill in 1854.
Among many later land acquirements was the Joinable of Part of
Lot 5. Concession III from lames Madill in 1887 where stood a
log house with frame addition Of this union year born away
children— Sarah, R¢hmf John, Thomas. Mary Ani Simon and
Hannah, all taking fasideur :mtl living fall limos with ninny Pres'
ant sawmdants in Pickering Township.
PUGH — Hugh Push was born March 150, 1777, mer Llan.
badnrnfyndd. in the County of Radnor, is Wes In Uniformity,
1805, her married Elizabeth WJfmms, who was taro May eyst
1787. Hugh Pugh coma to Canada in 1837 where he monied and
mixt his son Robert. His family arrived in 1842. Mr. Pugh was
To deacon in Ne Claremont Baptist Chi for some years till
1864. when he Meaine ono of !ho organizing of the Whitmmle
Baptist Churl. His wife died lune 26th. 1870. and he three
ran later, August 4ty 1873. They over the parents of thirteen
chill of whom Twelve lived To mature if.. Hugh, William,
Edward, Dit Josiah, Thomas, Smphery Price. FJim (imps,
Williams Lewis), Mary (Mrs. Cincinnati). Sarah (Mrs. James
Ever) and Bllaabeth (Mrs. James Whim).
William Pugh far home in curly HE, and Ens not been heard of
sOEd ward Pugh mmried June Point in cartoon, and 1847 They
sailed for Chance. but Mrs. Nigh died un The woe. He soulod on
Loc 12, Can. IX. He died at Hinter, in IN94 at the age of 85.
His family were: Edward, who married Ann Linton and settled in
Chiough io,miip, David. wine nowded Mary Mo—dllh and wool
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to MBuerlem Sandy (Mrs Robed Ward. SvssM ISMI. and
Jane (Mn. William Edwards. W famous.
United Pal sonic to Canada in 1846 am lived on Lm IK
Cm IX. His wife as Shamir Evay. Their family woe: David
(mmdad Margaret Morgan), Thomas Omni Such Wal
PAward Uni June Edwards), lune (Mn. Wier), Elimbeth
(Mrs. Thomas Leaper) and Smash (Mn. Percy). Mrs. Pugh died
in 1853, quid 24, and Mr. Pugh in 1954, agd 91.
fired Pugh nomad Jane Morgan anti hived on Lo127. Com.
1V. Of Neter family George 51111 lived m he (am. Emma (M2
HM) m Unbridle Township. Marion (Mn H. E. Paynter) an
hat 25. Coo. IV, and Elizabeth (Mn. Oaulry) :a UMre. Mr.
Pugh die in 1897. ngN 71 yours, and Mrs. Pugh in 1907, aged
)5.
Thomas Pugh married Ann, Evan (daughter of David Evans,
who was for sonic years a prominent Baptist pear and prercher
in Ne township) in 1863. They lived at Int 26, Con. 4. Their
family we : Evammi:e (Mand William Bulabow, charged).
David E. (Law 19. Cosa II). Thermo I. (ol¢vvxd). Alum (Mrs.
A. Antis, indoor A. (Ln 22. Cm. IV). Hugh goon the old
farm) and drum L (Man Rev. E.1. Hawkinge). Mr. Pugh died
in 18% at The age of 71.
Thee nn, still Pughs in PickeHm, active In Council, School
Boards. and idur s.
Reamoswor — JGi Bernard". a Quaker farm Oueenb
County, Intend. omved ci a 1818, with We We antl family
and avoid lot 3. Broken Friend which he pmrinxd from Elizi
hN Beach worse M Smidd in 1824. The ehiertn wart was fol.
bws: Jame. RnMn, John. William, Joshua. Dome (Mn. merger -
010, Caroline (Mm Gm. MCGillvroy), and Mary (Mn. Rowe).
Son lames monied Ellaaldb Valentine. and their children were
as follows: Ann, Satoh, Josiah, Kam, Lifece. Emma, William V,
Mary Ann, Caroline, Louisa. Charlotte, ;and James T.
This enormous Daily pmalmod and by the [Days when the
Ontario County Atlas was Printed. they owned n a thmamed
clmnar tM inert Kind panel N TM Iakefmm and lived m
6ng. Ivnwnnly fnndJcd bomend They we
Tmwship Control. supported the tenor Metdngs, senttheir
chiercn to boarding submit in the Stares in the early does and
greenly to Pickering College Unlike money of the earlier Loyallu
within force the United Stares, they wean educated pound. They
all wane a good kind and their needle -work, et of the
highest standard. The Write of James Richardson, a (urge s orc
muse oThe Willowi', was destroyed when the mel fillnl plant
Took over the lovely Panne of Ajax in 1940N2.
morrow — T M1r Rugrc IM W.'al Uuakar cnkmia aN
preachm. was impossible fur }i rr nR lsecevr follow. M
"Friem6", something nw-0uuors, to Pickering waves Je Sem,
18111-1810. Utet he anumPd the trial gokm mtkm:n
I prop), e.
low pp), settled an vouch cast punion of the Township
IukMrnnr Rogow purchased and mold ever It houcard role, in
land. Inc. his ,to Small Win and their Ilflem children. Crime In
Upper Canada in ISM. and anked in Nexmarket. In Will, In
maned ran 4Iris family to Peening — weal xmw with Heir
familiw rtwLwd or Yung, Si Sarah did inpialk and war,
monad in Pickering in INC. In IS IJ. TimwM Rogers re-marriN
mW mo uhd rive more children. Minyng tire wool number to
Vacant,
wDescendant,
riDexvndan , of'I intnlhY s tougher Jfary, find Asa Roger,. bis
iu-Lw of then nand to Ibc In this dimiew
mil now, the Jentb of Clarkson Rages, In the 1940 a. Mary:
,as Elias. vnled am Nonage Stan[ and his d,sm mi nts have hen
national in OnmwW transient virtla for th, pmt hundred years.
Gnus wm. Elim a Jimr
of Pickering Cotten, MiM,,,lrha
arm RiuniNsdr rang, HK and Rugen' Sa uwh aHw
()aker Mmimg Iluem in what u ar Morlry Park. T'iamm,
rd his footsore. ergot 11 we in& hm his grandsrm
more. willed a Mamifm farm So the Tamale and his eased-
children, m dHb Pickering mad Nomination. garrisoned [he Imps
longer-
L11 Oil CO, destinations a C...dant: ad the Flim Roger, Coal
Company
Nr. Guv IAri kat us the iinalta ly "1),W, poNms we
xluch deal, rano rly mnlementr in Pihcralp Unlnnr ad
early pictures nl IM Tamil, aero Imt in On Iia xNeh desiri
the old historical in Newmarket.
Tinunhy narn-17541829; Mary Rogers-19x2_lxn9 idea
nl ePndvmio in Pickering. Files Rogers—I x116-Ittel
Srsaas — John firms, cane in the century willed nn Ne Inks
share dirctly xwth of the she M Pickering milate, to terming
no form, attach of the wool xm ahioped by %hnmr to AfmNS
York. Ne Sears, worn at Furchmam his hurldine awl to
pairing ehiM then. Salmon, at that time ahumlaot in JLlbn'a
Clock. wen it &topic where of rand and mane of them were mew
Workmm in HIS future capital. that n ,, Ihomm. lames amt
illiam. want Prominent in lake minmm� it generation ago.
Smn:a — Samuel Y. Sai and his wile son will around
1785. They art ware of the firm ankrs who am blood is wine
Raw, similarly. Tev ams farm Pala, and owners Wt ya.
un 11. Pekenng, Their children wine. Christian, Samuel,
Pere, Jmeph. Abraham, Herman and two decisions. They al-
lended are III Moroccan church. Chricom marred Nary
Shank and farmed My acres on LM 39, emission 111. Norms,
of fair family were, Joseph. Manhood. HNeq Fam a, Susan.
Annie, Swww, Meme, Dariq FJias, Leri said For, Youngest
n of aWw martial Matin Burkholder and load on the old
farm. He bare had it to Pascal Canadian. Slim Abraham BmA
lender married MiaabeN Hamer and bought WI 30, concession
111, He Mlongod to the Reesor Mennonite church. He had two
children, Marsha Jane end Jesse whom mad Alia Seer. He
eased to drive the brand wagon for Mnrkhnnl Woo, Around Sorcf
Sr. Lind east of Clarks Hollow. He married Susan Shank and his
children worm Christian. Amos Simmn. Pmmanlm and Fanny.
Chrudan marred Susanna Burkholder. Those children weft:
Allred must Alfred manUna nd Lawson ow, a
and nlia
nd ideas.
NOM Marklum, Fury Lover marciwl Abraham Hoover who
Ahead wham Homer Tadd now View and Franchise Named chip -
howl t urkhal They bad our mo. Harvey. Christian Bork -
harder who married Outlook Hooser was me of IM Md pdm as
He oaded on Lot 35, Comecon, 111. Pickering and bebnged to
His Beeam Mennonite church, their childicn saw: North, Romroa
and MivbeO. Noah married should, Barkin' of Mahhes, He
served as a auLtt fed the wlawl br a number of years. He had
rc a the hu farms M the kwon ip and was a Imd farmer. He
kept computing in it repair- His children whoa Netim. Jamb,
and lmnpat Jacob married Lulu Dimmer and [lead on the farm
unfit his deutM1. He hod one sm, Grant no worked the tarot.
Gnat had one child making He fiBM1 gercrinum of fresMldns
on that farm.
Tarin — John and Particle Teefy canes from Tipperary, Ireland,
to OreenwaW In 1810 Jim was a mbhkr and smyeA at Goes-
wwd Patrick cam Cwmd around 19M and bouslu
Saturn fame mMrryr
Those ndaugMma and o
WJliam, who was she prangmeeHe carried Mary MCGiukev of
AylmurL His dexcndenn still reside In Pickering+md are ashes
in St Francis do Sults Church mganinlinm.
Wax — Asher Willson and his wife cause No Fissuring in
1815. Asher Willson purchased a pan of let 22 ie 1832 and all
of Lm 23 in F&M. TM luau may haw bttn and soon Asher Jr.
A dtu luck. Angeline, win him in 16121 Casper 1814; Oliver O.
m 181]; Joseph 1830; Other children were William; Hiram;
Flilnk Comelim; Polly; Susan and Margaret Mn.
Many of the dams given arwe game hour n¢ form noltea In
the Brougham Certainly_
Carper Wham, HHI4-18881 a .tied Efrain Hubbard.
(BI 1mboth lived 1821 to 18961. They hwa moa Lot, 20 aM RI,
<'ono n', N pan. Gaper am the NV of Lot 21 in I843; Mon -
am, money form ASMr, his father was SB Lamas; His Will is
as hood, In 1896 u atom o Mart Fully, all oral the
tat wort to ThadwardGrumman
Dawson Wilson. Lia cart In entered 938 to
Fndb Marie Gammon and will S Gammon Lot 30 plant
menetl
IM1u Cru Wilson;
a par v' wnt by ♦ : palm 1/. or
E?{. m m I, Willson; TM1eaurown oo Casper 2 and i N W: In
Water form ro FVoll Dmoron Willson In 1682 and In 1986 m
Water,, Gd, , 11856
The family: In I y It Mar ILe is , :'tied to Tuaws
Chappel Colortheya f m of a us forms in The,
riog any owned u fur of Ola, mi Lot 22 un tM1r endred an
proud x' valuahlc spine tLiy IoM. . eleven and
proud as if indiQcrt v Calan rust pro flown n goad
pasmm as it appears I,,wgHothe PWluu Illy flown wur thea the
of, an cfiiMmn. my to the mark Roods�M1wl, It n the
0 ma finished ur 1 aMmlo B it to this Jambi al the age 11
I2. loo :oomW Lmaa Marin OatrJay, youneea Jawfatw of 011
Bnrcl:ry of Lot 19 Cone 4.
Wright - The Wixan familycroed in lweph Could',
"Laan
u d Time,', as huvinp well -on
informed famous with mad Jr.
,hi in the I820s. They were the fire settlers of Claremont.
said plain mcnt memi of the pool CM1meh Joshua Whon
ell on Wt 18, Gu¢rxion IX, Wont 1901, and his Invetor
Joseph leis n I.at 19, Gn n IX, about Ilse
u
Tinrs y "re pioneeof Ne northern part of R'ckcnnatownship
and came from Suuben County, N.Y. TI¢y went of English do-
n. their familiar, having came a ntnry fall (1699) to
the State of Mashers uu', and later moved m Naw York At the
time of ntm mining to Canada [hey were mean In the m e of
rat. scroll. and Joshua of n a bay of six years
Joseph Wixan took up land west of what I, mw in, Back
Road and enaetl his home jam north of wlll the mad Minds
to Ilse cast hetwral the village of Criminal and our Canadian
Pact& Railway station. Later he Is sold to havevw res all the
land on the west of the Brock amd from his home to the olphm
coni A piece of hard *via of his, new the Mnchaanna farm.
has occupied shortly after the coming of the elbonx be Abraham
Townsend, a brother of Mrs. Joseph Wixom.
Loop,: family of Tine were named as follows'. Randall, Town-
wnq Juvph Elmd,fla Mary, Send, Lois and Clans.
Joseph sen Ranson, a founder of the Baptist Church in
Claremont, mmched with Manbetvs and was imprisoned in Bag
land.
Joshua Wixon with his wife, Rachel Fgglestin, sailed cast of
the land taken up by his brother. His first home was womanish of
where Ne Claremont Canadian Pacific Railway Station stands.
Their family w m: Amos, Asa, Joel, Asher, Ruth (Mrs. Syl-
ua Slwrrard), Bohn Joshua, Sulomn, Benjamin and Rachel
(afterwards; Mrs. Mmes Really), Their daughter Ruth is believed
as have Been the first child born of while rumors in die achieved
half of he Lambda.
Joshua Wilson was member of Council in 1851, add 311do,
-
ing the recovering period, did much to build up the beautiful
,arming community of Claremont.
Wommea — A (Lily of this na tiPickering very
In Pickerinvery
Iran after if not before Be opening of the century. In a record of
mages of Clarke township there is the following entry.
9dvhmy-first April, 1807. Marshall John Carr of Darlingness w
Betsy WostlmR of Pickering with the w of her
father. Present Mortis Carr and wife and Me Wml ufPs seen"
One of the pmhmassrs appoimed at the town meeting held in
1811 are Haddam WondruR. In all probability the Three above
numuthostriall our his si Another sister, Melinda, we, a Mrs.
Jordan post and a thirdr. Mrs. Lbm Lyndc of Whitby Noadiah
was born In Pennsylvania'ild I785 mad came to Pickering with
the Friends ad lemma. His home Was in the ,,old concession on
the Ramada mad (now Gtbeat'i rmidaom)_ It a abut that Na
soldiers remark Western Tenoned and lainFtnn at the time of the
war of 1812 were entertained It the home of Norther WevHmR
In 1818 he PurcMSW 2M w,,, of Lal V, Can 11, for h250.
His wife was Charity Powell and their family: Powell. Hawkins,
Teams Harvey, Itimbseh, Notwo, lama, Henry. Lois and
Charity.
Powell Wootlrufi lived in premiums where be ken a ha
Hawkins Naturally named Mary Tool and sealed on Justvern
area IV, but Inter lived south along the Brock Iiwd in the 2nd
Con, His ebmi er, seem EfaaMN, John, Jemima, Zellers Harvey,
Inusha,
National Mary Many Catherine Lois, Hawkins War
me,me
-
Etine f Mrs. W fu Allaway) and Emmet Emslcy.
]slnhs Harvny Wmdmfi died when about twenty -sewn years
of age, leaving a into, antl three cladven:, His widow afterwards
married Smpber Quarter.
228
Elizabeth Wool mares! William Bentley Intl lined Intl
died in Brougham.
Nelson Wouch If Uvea in Brougham. He wv. a ma:Ibe, of ilm
firm of Bentley and Woodruff. wimoIdled a pate memo
factory for so m (Tree of his children — Wauhingtme
Lafayette .nnie veUsed In
n lo0$A
James Woo lived far n [am, ontth, Boats RaluL bol
late,
auvea to Lpaon, wherehe Lca.
Henry Womiinwet to m Lear ss wrt
Gury, vaodr,ff (Mn. Kmlm) lomd n MnhamShe died a
loos.
APPyndix v
HONOUR BOLL OF BROUGHAM. FIRSF WORLD WAR
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rHE SECOND WORLD WAR.
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ROLL OF HONOUR CHERRYWOOO UNITED CHURCH
M
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ROLL OF HONOUR ST. PAUL'S CHURCH, DUNRARTON
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WORLD WAR ONE.
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WORLD WAR TWO.
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HONOUR ROLL FROM GREEN RIVER.
FIRTT WORLD WAR.
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HONOUR ROLL OF SECOND WORLD WAR.
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Game WNv,
Anne, Kdoom.
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WORLD WAR TVG.
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WORLD WAR ONE.
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