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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Advance-Times, 1963-09-12, Page 7halt's Descendant Takes Part in ceremony On Thursday, September 10, 1663, commencing at 2, 30 p. m. , a historical plaque com- trAilorating the founding of rich, will be unveiled in that community's Harbour Park, This plaque is one of a series being erected throughout the province by the Department of Travel and Publicity, acting on the advice of the Archaeol- ogical and Historic Sites Board of Ontario. Thursday's ceremony is be- ing arranged and sponsored by VOTE FOR REALITY! CAMPAIGN PROMISES ARE EASY TO MAKE AND DIFFICULT TO FULFILL The Liberal party is currently promising the people of Ontario a program of startling innovations -- a program which, if implemented, would pile up a staggering provincial debt and an insupportable burden of taxation. John Robarts and the Progressive Conservative party promise only one thing --- continuance of the sound and intelligent kind of government which has placed Ontario ahead of all Canadian provinces in terms of economic progress and has given its citizens en enviable standard of living for a minimum of taxation. the town of Goderich, whose deputy reeve, Mrs. F. M. Mooney, will act as program chairman. Dr. G. F. G, Stan- ley of the Royal Military (.o1 - Support the Party with the PRACTICAL PROGRAM Let's Get Back on the Winning Team ELECT McCUTCHEON IN HURON -BRUCE Premier Robarts George McCutcheon COMMITTEE ROOM — JOSEPHINE STREET, WINGHAM, PHONE 357-3070. Open 10-12 noon; 1.5 p.m., 7-50 p.m. HURON -BRUCE PROGRESSIVE CONSERVATIVE ASSOCIATION We Are Pleased to Announce .. . IT IS WITH CONSIDERABLE PRIDE THAT WE ANNOUNCE THAT MICHAEL McPHAIL HAS JOINED THE STAFF OF LILLOW'S GARAGE AS SALES MANAGER. Mike, as he is known to his many friends in Wing - ham, was a long time resident and highly respected businessman in the locality. Residing in California for the past three years where he conducted his own business, Mike has just recent- ly returned and has accepted a position here, and is enjoying the renewing of old friendships and making new acquaintances. WE CORDIALLY INVITE YOU TO COME OUT AND SEE MIKE. AND IF HE CAN BE OF SER- VICE TO YOU IN ANY WAY, JUST LET HIM KNOW. s ...'::;u,:> :..... ... ......'iii%>°, o';':.•�; �t3��.. P'�'�tt; :�.•.i:>::as... MERCURY PHILCO and ELECTROHOME SALES AND SERVICE TELEVISION HI-FI RADIOS COMPLETE ELECTRONIC REPAIR SERVICE LILLOW'S GARAGE BLUEVALE PHONE 357-3029 lege, Kingston, will represent the province's historic Sites Board. Among those taking part will be E. C. Fisher, may- or of Goderich; Walter Forbes, Warden of Huron County; and L. E. Cardiff, M. P. (Huron), The plaque will be unveiled by Mrs. Yvonne Galt Goodwin, great -great-granddaughter of John Galt, and will be dedicat- ed by the Rev. Canon K. E. Taylor, rector of St, George's Anglican Church, Goderich, In 1821, John Galt, a Scot- tish novelist, was appointed as agent in London, England, to represent inhabitants of Upper Canada still seeking indemni- fication for losses suffered dur- ing the War of 1812. The Colonial Office and the legis- lature of Upper Canada having failed to reach an agreement whereby the necessary funds could be raised, Galt proposed that the Crown Reserves of the province should be sold for the purpose. The Canada Company was organized in 1824 to purchase from the government land to be selected from the Crown Reserves and half the Clergy Reserves. An agreement was reached, but the Colonial Office then unaccountably re- fused to allow money thus raised to be applied to the war claims. Galt, however, accepted the post of secretary to the Company. In 1826, the origi- nal agreement was modified by the substitution for the Clergy Reserves of a large block of land called the Huron Tract which included most of modern Huron and Perth Counties and parts of Waterloo, Wellington, Middlesex and Lambton. That August the Company received its charter and prepared to open its holdings for colonization purposes. FOUNDED GUELPH Galt, who had visited Can- ada in 1825 as a member of the Commission to value the land for purchase, returned here in 1826 as superintendent of the Company. He then secured the appoint- ment ppointment of the colourful Dr. Wil- liam "Tiger" Dunlop as "Ward- en of the Forests". Dunlop, a fellow Scotsman, was a for- mer army physician and an accomplished author. He had seen extensive service in Upper Canada during the War of 1812 and took readily to the boisterous life of the frontier. On April 23, 1827, the two founded the settlement of Guelph. They had given it that name in defiance of the Company's directors, who wish- ed it called Goderich, after Frederick John Robinson, Vis- count Goderich, briefly prime minister of Britain in 1827-28. During the balance of the summer, Dunlop took rapid in- bentory of the Company's wil- derness holdings. In the course of the survey he was favour- ably impressed with the mouth of the Minnesetung (now Mait- land) River as a harbour, and decided to lay out a townsite there as a port and centre for the western section of the Tract. This community received the name of Goderich. By the time Galt arriked there at the end of June, Dun- lop had taken up residence in a new log cabin, called "The Castle" on the bluff overlooi<- ing the lake. There is little doubt that the actual site of Dunlop's home, the first European struc- ture on the townsite of Goder- ich, has long since slipped in- to the lake. However, it can- not have been very far from the present site of the cairn bearing the provincial plaque. In the summer of 1828 Dun- lop supervised the construction of a rough wagon road through the 100 miles of bush from Guelph to Goderich. In 1833 he moved into "Gairbraid", the new house he had had built a short distance from Goderich across the river. SLOW PROGRESS The town grew very slowly. Galt, whom the directors mis- takenly thought guilty of ex- travagance with Company funds had been dismissed in 1820, Dunlop's home in Colborne Please Turn To Page Four Wingharn Advance -Times, Thursday, Sept. 12, 1963 -- Page 3 DISCONTINUED! THE FOLLOWING CHINA PATTERNS ARE BEING DISCONTINUED -- COMPLETE YOUR SETS NOW WHILE STOCK IS STILL AVAILABLE. PARAGON'S `MADEIRA LACE' FOLEY'S "FERNLEIGH" "CORNFLOWER" "CELESTE" "PINE -SPRAY" Don't Wait-Mrder Now! 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