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Wednesday, July 29, 1964—Bayfield Bulletin—Page 3
Social Editor
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BAY FIELD—Why do people
like myself, barn in the 19th
century, or the early part of
this century, enjoy Bayfield
and Huron County so much?
There is frankly little to do in
Bayfield. There are no dance-
halls, no bowling alleys, no
roller skating rinks or merry-
go-rounds, no juke boxes and
By ARTHUR R. FORD
Free Press Editor Emeritus
none of the noisyIn(xlern meth-
ods of so-called enjoyment. The
only means of entertainment is
a miniature golf course and an
outdoors motion picture show
at Pioneer Park once a week.
In addition, if you are energetic
enough to like real golf, there
is a course on the edge of the
village.
The chief occupation anr ex-
citement is the morning walk
to the post office for your (tail
paper and the mail. The women
spend their time playing bridge
or hunting antiques and pine
furniture, which is the latest
fad. All the barns and kitchen
sheds in Huron County have
been ransacked for discarded
and forgotten pine furniture,
including milkin gstools.
I have come to the conclusion
that the attraction of Bayfield
for old-timers is that they are
searching for a lost Ontario.
Bayfield is one of the few sum-
mer resorts which has some of
the charm, peacefulness and
quiet of the 01 dOntario in the
days before mad automobile
drivers cluttered up our high-
ways, before radio and tele-
vision were invented and before
the Beatniks and Beatles had
taken possession of the minds
of the teen-agers.
I sometimes think that the
late Hon. Howard Ferguson
was right when he once said
that Henry Ford was the great-
est enemy of mankind when he
perfected the automobile. Mr.
Ferguson was in an election
campaign in Essex County and
was invited to speak at an old-
fashioned church strawberry
festival. He had of necessity
to avoid politics. He noticed
the many cars present and pro-
ceeded to reminisce on the
economic and religious changes
brought about by the introduc-
tion of the automobile. He
feared it would destroy the
country churches. Mr. Fergus-
on had no idea that there was
a Detroit reporter present, but
next day there was a big head-
line in a Detroit paper to the
effect that Ontario's premier
charged Mr. Ford with being
an enemy of mankind. A law-
suit was threatened, but did not
develop.
The old Ontario of the latter
days of the 19th century and
the early days of this century,
before the automobile, 'two
wars and modern scientific in-
ventions turned the world up-
side down, was a peaceful quiet
country, perhaps a little too
Puritanical in its viewpoint.
Social life in those days largely
revolved around the churches.
The old Methodist Church de-
nounced liquor and even frown-
ed on card-playing, dancing and
the theatre; the Presbyterians,
who may have been a little
more liberal in regard to drink-
ing, but even stricter in Sab-
bath observance, and the Bap-
tists, who were a rigid sect,
dominated provincial rural life,
and Ontario was very rural-
minded in its economic, social
and political outlook.
The open Sundays of most of
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