Village Squire, 1977-10, Page 33famous. Every so often there used to be a
brewery strike in Ontario which would
close down the major breweries. The
Formosa brewery was not unionized,
however, and remained open and thus
became a mecca for beer drinkers from all
over the province. It was spotlighted on
television stations and written about in
newspapers.
All that's gone today, of course. The
brewery was bought from a local family by
a large conglomerate which soon moved
the plant to Barrie but still used the
Formosa Springs name. Today even the
name is gone and the brewery stands
vacant.
One of the other attractions of the
village. the Palace Gardens is still there,
however, providing entertainment on
summer Sunday afternoons and showing
off the artesian well.
Drive through the village and up the
huge hill at the north end and you'll pass
the large church, towering above the rest
of the countryside.
Northward still you'll see the CKNX
television and Stereo 102 transmission
tower. You'll drive along the county road
until you come to the Culross -Carrick
township boundary, then turn almost back
on yourself as you head down the road to
the tower which sits on the highest point of
land in the area. The tower is some 700 feet
tall.
Keep going down the road until you
come to the paved Elora Road, only a
couple of miles along. Turn right here and
drive through some pretty country until
you reach Highway 9, just on the outskirts
of the village of Mildmay. You may wish to
by-pass the village and turn left, but we
took the time to turn right and travel into
the clean, neat -looking village, with a hilly
main street. Mildmay is the home of one of
the area's more interesting weekly
newspaper. The Town and Country Crier
and you can see the interesting shop on
your left as you enter the town. There's
also an interesting example of pioneer
hotel architecture in the Commercial Hotel
on your left.
At the junction of Highway 9 and the
Elora Rd. is the pleasant park, the
Mildmay -Carrick Conservation area and
just outside the village on Highway 9 a mile
or so is another roadside park for picnics.
Behind this park, on private property
someone has done a nice job landscaping
riverside property.
We head along Highway 9 toward
Walkerton, often getting breathtaking
views of the countryside from atop high
hills.
At Walkerton you have to turn on your
left to continue on Highway 9 or else you'll
be on Highway 4 and proceed into the town
itself, which you may of course choose to
do.
We head west of the town on Highway 9
toward Kincardine passing through ham-
lets such as Greenock, and Riversdale and
seeing signs pointing to others with
interesting names like Moscow and Egypt.
This is the area of the infamous Greenock
Swamp, a huge swamp area where men
have, in legend anyway, disappeared
without a trace ever being found.
A little over 10 miles from Walkerton is
the hamlet of Kinloss, once known as Black
Horse locally because of a hotel, there
called the Black Horse. There's little but
the Silver Lake store there nowadays. Just,
before the store there's a laneway that
goes back to Silver Lake. We're going to
take a look at the lake from another view,
however.
We turn at Kinloss onto the Bruce
county road on the left. The road rises and
falls over hills and curves around the pretty
little lake. Take the first road on your left
past the lake, the one that has a sign
pointing the way to Fisherman's cove. It's
a dead end road. We travel past the turn
off to Fisherman's Cove and up on the hill
to the road's end. There you can get a view
of the Fisherman's Cove development on
your right on Clam Lake, a smaller lake
attached to Silver Lake. From this road's
end there are several well-worn paths that
lead down to the water's edge. If the leaves
have gone from the trees or if the water
isn't so high as it was on our trip after
heavy September rainfall, you can find
places where you can see both lakes on
either side of the point.
Back in the car we retrace our route back
to the county road and turn left again
heading towards Lucknow. Along the way
we pass through the hamlet of Kinlough
and then on to Holyrood and two and a half
miles later through what was once known
as Grey Ox. We mentioned the former
community which once housed a hotel
called the Grey Ox and a school, in a
former column and were later informed by
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