The Huron Expositor, 1973-06-21, Page 44-710 HURON OxposiioR SEAFORTH, ONT., JUNE 21, 1973
JACK'S JOTTINGS
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.By
Jack Riddell, M.P..P. uron
A HEALTHY SPORTSMAN
Waiting for a dream to come true can be along, anxious
time.
Roy is finding that out while lie waits for a mother and father
and a family of his own.
Roy, 11, is a handsome husky lad with beautiful dark eyes,
brown hair and medium complexion. His background is French
Canadian, his language English.
Healthy and active, Roy is keen on sports: He -plays hockey,
football and, baseball and relishes any kind of outdoor fun from
.'riding his bike to camping. He likes reading and music and is
interested in building models.
Roy is in Grade Four, below the average for his age, but
his' progress has been steady, if slow. Though he is not
expected to be a great. scholar, it is felt he can continue
satisfactorily through 'the regular school system. -,
Roy needs patient and constant controls but is basically a
delightful boy, outspoken and honest with a good sense of
humor. ,
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parents. It will be ideal if he can be the only child, or one of a
small family with nobody close to him inage. He will be a fine '-
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' The Ontario Graverament's.
proposed Planning arid Develop-
zuent Act was severely criticized
by Opposition members in the
Legi!lature this week. Deputy
'Liberal 'Leader, Vernon Singer,
called• the bill abhorrent and a
complete, denial of the principles
of democracy. 'He questioned
' whether any minister should be
• • supplied with the powers, in this
' bill. • Liberal Leader, Robert
NiXon, said the bill proves the
, Conservative' Party is a party of
centralization, "This bill is a
Conservative aSseption of naked
• ,central power." The bill would
allow Mr. White to designate any
area of Ontario a development
planning area. When a plan was
developed the Government could
require a municipality to Imake its
by-laws conform to the plan.
N.D.P. Leader, Stephen Lewis,
. called he c nsultative aspects of
the prop al a fraud and said the
GoVerntnent doesn't understand
what consultation in the planning
....„process means. With every
Member of theOppositionpresent
in the House at the time voting
• against the bill, the, House
• approved second reading and the
bill will now go to a standing
committee before third and final
reading.
, • The Legislature's select
committee inquiring into the new
headquarters, preject. for Ontario
Hydro learned that developer
Gerhard Moog, a close personal
\friend of' Premier Davis, was
'given- sfielved plans for the new
office building about four months
before Hydro began asking .the
other, developers to submit, pro-
posals for a lease-purchase
agreement on only verbal speci-
fications 'from Hydro architect,
.Kenneth Candy. Original plan's
for the Hydro headquarters cost-
ing $1,485,000 pad been shelved
17 months earlier for economic
reasons.
The Committee is pressing to
learn how much advantage Canada
„Square, the company owned by
Mr. Moog, gained over compet-
ing deVelopers. Mr. Candy, try-
ing to make clear the reasons'
for choosing Canada Square
Corporation ,Limited over three
cOrtiptting7tlevelopers7 told, ibp
selectcatORJOA04110,WQ
HYdro,wetteirgBiiiekiatlie
a Datsum type of developer for
its new office headquarters. He
maintaified that the other develop-
ers are in the speculative field
whereas Canada Square is more
in the luxury field.
Margaret Birch, 'Ontario
Minister without .portfolio, res-
ponsible for the youth secre-
tariat, told the Legislature that
more than 7000 young people
have been placed in provincial
job-projects for the-summer: The`
Government received more than •
30,000 applications for jobs on
the 17 Provincial programs.
The • Ontario Government's
proposal for a parkway belt
northwest of Toronto was given
approval in principle this week
with both opposition parties vot-
,Ing against the measure. Stephen
Lewis criticized the,•,proposal,
which envisages a series of parks
;and green spaces from Hamilton
to Markham, linked by parkways
and utility corridors, on the
grounds that It contradicts the
Government's own policy for the
*Toronto Centred Region. The
Toronto Centred Region plan
was designed to slow down grbwth
to the west of Toronto and en-
courage it to the east. A number
of the Opposition members said
the belt system included very few
new parks and was mostly roads
and service corridors which
would encourage growth to the
-west, just as Highway 401 was
to act as a barrier between com-
munities to prevent sprawl, but
rather than halt development the
highway encouraged ft.
Last week the Government
'relied its plans for the Niagara
arpment calling for the es-
lishment of a commission
de up of representatives from
the municipalities on its route
from Niagara to Tobermory at the
top of the Bruce Peninsula, and
Government appointees. Stephen '
Lewis, N.D.P. Leader, speaking
&ring second reading of the
Niagara Escarpment Planning
and Development Act, said the
bill 1 s the obituary notice'for
the escarpment.' He said the
plans will do nothing to save the •
escarpment for recreational use,
but will hand it over to deVelopers
and quarry operators. Mr.Lewis
accused the Government-of being
more concerned with protecting
private enterprises on the 200
mile long escarpment than with
preserving it for the people of
Ontario. •
Legislation providing for
Regional Government in Durham
and liamiltcfm•Wentworth was in-
troduced in the Ontario Legis-
lature this week. The bill pro-
vides for a limited number• of
area municipalities and a
regional douncil consisting of the
Mayor:a of each area municipality
and additional members from
each area depending on population
Sire. 'Elie Chairman of the council
Will be appointed for the initial
• •.‘a
term of three years by tne iii.'o-
yince and elected by the council
for its subsequent twd-yhr
terms.
Premier Davis, replying to a
series of questions on wage and
price controls, told the Ontario
• Legislature that he would not'
object to controls being put on
mortgage rates, but' said any othee,controlsc should be'of a
national nature. He said it would
be difficult to separate any Con.-
trots on energy from a wage and ,
price control package and that
such controls shouhfcome fr6m
the Federal Ga'ernment, Mr.
Davis ,added that Ontario would
not object to such a step on con-
stitutional grounds.
Provincial Secretary forJus-
itice, George Kerr, tabled a brief
in the Legislature this week sug-
gesting that persons on bail,
whom police suspect of intend-
ing' to - violate their privileges,
should be arrested before' they
have 'actually done , so. The
problem, as the law now stands,
is that an officer is powerless
to arrest an accused person who
is. to appear in court on 'Monday
as he boards a flight for Eurotfe
on Sunday night. ti
The Ontario Legisrature-gave
a wide-ranging energy. policy
packagv of five bills approval,
in. principle this week after a
lengthy "debate. , The 'Liberal
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and New Democratic parties
gave approval on second read-
ing to a. large portion pf the
legislation, but the Liberals ob-
jected strongly to a bill that
will change Ontario Hydro from
a commission to a Crown Cor-
poration. 7 The key legislation
in the package still needs, fur-
ther debate in the Admmittee
stage and a vote on third read-
ing' before' becoming law. • The
legislation, when passed, will
establish a new ministry<of en-
ergy, change Hydro's status, and
broaden the powers of the Ontario
Energy Board, giving it power
, to review Hydro rate inFreases:
Provincial Secretary for
Justice, George Kerr, said in
the Legislature this week he
will produce a "green paper"
in the fall that will discuss var-
ious aspects of the question of
Sunday openings of stores, and
suggest• 'possible legislation.
Much of the material fir the
green paper is likely to come
from the 1970 repoi ... of the
'Ontario Law Reform Commis-
sion on Sunday ObServance -
islation. The report recom-
mended that SundaY be changed
'from a religious day to a day'
of leisure and that only essen-
tial and convenience stores and
recreational establishments
being allowed to operate. •
Unveil plaque to commemorate
founding of Exeter on Sunday
.Craig, descendants of the earliest
• .) the nearby village. The town 527-02404
Sites Board of Ontario, catered to by a long list of '
plaque. , -
former Minister of the United The bending of the Grand Trunk
Church, Exeter will dedicate'the . line through Lucan aided the
member, of the Huron Historical the neighbouring farmers were
settlers. Rev. Harold Snell, decade „Exeter had become the
Wooden, Principal of SouthHuron makers, saddlers and harness
District High School and a noted • makers,. inns and shoemakers.
local o histprian and D. McClikre, The necessities and luxuries of
by C.V. Pickard and Mrs.Loulse is evident that by the end of the
governmental Affairs; J.L. .. who needed smiths,' wagon
sury, Economics and Inter- of travellers 'oh the. high road
of Ontario, and,Minister of Trea- was equipped to supply the wants
'on Sunday at 2:311.p.M. a quarter south of Hay, where though the upper part of the pre-,
The plaque is one of a series Isaac Carling had opened a store ,sent business section appears to
frid Jury, of London, who will . 1860's when other mills, store's; moment to place an Expositor
torical sites Board; Charles Exeter's growth, outpaced that of To' advertise, just Dial Seaforth McNaughton, former Treasurer,
reads:
Riddell, M.P.P. (Huron); Robert Although both' Orancistown
represent the Province's His- • and churches were constructed, want Ad and be money in pocket.
. view Park, Main Street, Exeter, at 'the crosssroads e a Mlle and were practically one village,
part include: His Worship, J.H. mates the population of the area a populatiaii of 'more than 2,000.
Delbridge, Mayor of Exeter; Jack at 600. ' ' ' ,•
McKinley M.P. (Huron); Dr. wil-
•memorating '‘ the Founding of lished. By the early fiftlesdlow- • and North Exeter (Francistown)
will serve as programme McConnell's mills: Lovell's lous parmanant urban settlement
Chairman. Others invited to take
Bruce Shaw, Exeter Councillor, up in the immediate vicinity of 1950 became the Most popu-
arranged and sponsored by the About the me•another The railway brought further
Exeter Centennial Committee and • hamlet, d 4 Fra=n", sprang , prosperity to Exeter which by
on the advice of the es act among others, registered a ,was eagerly expected arid the
logical and Historic Sites village plan which had been ob..: two villages were incorporated
Colleges and Universities acting Carling and James' Pickard, London, Huron and Bruce Railway
Board of Ontario. tamed following a' survey in June ' as the village of. Exeter with a
Museum§ Branch, Ministry of earlier. 'In August, 1855, Isaac - In 1873 tlifej building of the
vince by the 11 o nd
being erected throughout the pro- Mid tanner and James Pickard have been built, mostly after
Exeter will be unVelleci at River- ever, there was a hamlet of sorts contained nearly 1,000 people and
THE FOUNDING OF EXETER.; between the railways at Clinton
' An historical plaque come- for Hay Township was, estab- and at Lqcan. In 1871 Exeter
The plaque will be unveiled' tradesmen and st keepers. It
The inscription on the plaque
Sunday's ceremony is . being of that year. • population of ' well over 1,000.
growth _of Exeter, since the
chief market town of the district.
stage was the only connection
Canada Directory 1857-8 esti- ' in the Ausable watershed, with
and Exeter developed during the Remember! It takes -but a
a general store, some years 1875. ' ' •
In 1833 the families of James
Willis and William McConnell be-
cathe the earliest settlers in this
area. Within a year McConnell
`had erected mills here' on the
banks of the Aux Sables River
near which a community known
as Francistown developed. South
of the mills near Willis's location
on the "London Road", Isaac
Carling opened a store -and
tannery in 184'7 and James
Pickard a general store in 1851..
Four years later a 'village plot
-(Exeter) was laid Out -'arid"" y
1860 Exeter had become the chief
market centre of the district.
In anticipation of the growth that
the London, Huron and Bruce
Railway would bring, Exeter and
Francistown• were amalgamated
and incorporated as the village of
Exeter on March 29, 1873. -
HISTORICAL BACKGROUND
The settlement of the Ausable
Watershed was conducted under
two systems. After 1826, Lobo,
London,, Adelaide and Warwick
Townships were settled under
, new Crown" Lands Regulations,
while the remainder ofthe water-
shed was developed as a com-
mercial enterprise by the Canada
Company. • The Canada CoMpany
land was disposed of in two Ways -
by cash, or by what was later
known as a land lease system.
The intensive advertising cam-
paign of the Canada Company
tended to attract settlers.' By
1832 letters from settlers had
gone back to England, Ireland
and Scotland and the Canada com-
pany was quick to publicize these.
As a result; some fifty new set-
tlers arrived in the watershed in
1832-33, notably John Willis, who
soon occupied a clearing on the .
London Road. from Clinton' to
London.
"'About the same time, the
family of William McConnell,
an agent of the Company who
had been one of the two men
contracted in 1830 to assist in
the construction of the London
ROad, obtained land on Lots .17
and 18, Concession I, of Usborne
Township. Within two years
McConnell had built an inn and
constructed a sawmill and grist-
mill on the banks of the Aux
Sables River. Willis had pur-
chased Lot 15, Concession I in
'Usborne. Township and the Mc
Connell grant lay to the north
of this. The lots in the immediate
vicinity of McConnel's mills .
seem to have been unoccupied and
uncleared for many years. Pro-
bably this was because these
lots were often under water for
long periods.
The first signs of .a pillage
were noticeable around "Hay
Rost Office" where the post office
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