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A nice bunch of boys
In the past few weeks we have heard
much about young ambassadors in
Goderich, There was Kathy Velicevic
and John Gambino from St. Clair,
Shores, Mich. in town for a student
exchange program with Roberts
Memorial School. Recently Nancy
Needham and Ernest McMillen paid a
week-long visit to "St. Clair Shores as
part of the same exchange program and
conducted themselves as true diplomats;
and this past week the torn was
inundated with youngsters from across
the province of Ontario and from the
province of Quebec and Manitoba, for
the 20th Young Canada- Hockey Week
Pee Wee Hockey Tournament.
;The conduct of these young hockey
players was exemplary. The
sportsmanship shown throughout the
tourney was a delight to watch.
Spectators went away commenting on
the , calibre of the play and of the
players which is sornething to write
about these days.
But while praise is certainly due to all
the players and coaches of the teams;
and to the officials of the sponsoring
Goderich Lions Club, a special word
must be said about the boys of the
Winnipeg Mustangs the only team
from the west, and true`y ambassadors
of good will.
These boys were outstanding in
everything they did during the days they
were here. The brand of hockey was
NHL par e cellence; their manners,, on
and off the ice were something -to talk
about. They were , superb. Their
appearance was as neat as a new pin'
even after their tougher games and one
was led , to recall hockey players
certain haircream advertisment.
Their cond'tletaround town was
something parents dream about for their
children and very seldom realize.
The boys of_ the Mustang team from
Winnipeg were a credit to their team;
they were a credit to their parents and
to their team officials and above all a
credit to Western Canada.
The folks from "out west" have a
wonderful reputation for hospitality and
friendship, but rarely does the eastern
side of the country witness such a show
as these 18 young players put oh last
week. _ They won every game in their,
series and two exhibition gamesas well.
That's an_accomplishment that will be
talked about for some time to come; but
the behaviour of the boys will go down
in history of Young Canada Week as
something special.
But the beauty of the whole thing is,
these boys were not aware that they
were anything special, and as far -as we
are concerned, that makes the score just °
that much better. .
They are a great bunch of hockey,
players; 'they are a real team and above
athey are just -a darned nice bunch of
boys.
let credit fall
•The 20th Young Canada Week Pee
Wee Hockey Tournament is over and for
the 20th time somebody is going to -say
how great it was. At least we can assume
credit has been given in the past where it
wag due.
When. first 'arriving in Goderich,
newcomers' are almost immediately
made aware that ,it is a hockey town.
Young Canada Week is well known
throughout the province : and is
becoming better known each year.
There is a large number off -youngsters
enrolled in minor hockey and many
other teams compete through the Winter
months. But the culmination of it all for
the town is Young Canada Week,
sponsored by. the Goderich Lions Club.
. And it- is to the men of the Lions
club that credit is due. This is my first
taste of the week long tourney of
hockey and I hope it will not be the last.
Probably few people realize "just what
calibre of hockey is played during the
tournament by these Pee Wee players, ..
but it 'is superb. Cliff hangers by the
score and fans coming out of their seats
when a goal is scored.
earns, were here from a I over the
province and ,from Quebec and
Manitoba too. Something like 88' teams
in all; 1,600 boys at least, :and coaches,
managers and supporters poured into
Goderich. Better , than 60 men
volunteered their time, at their own
expense to referee the games and every
available referee in the, Goderich area
pitched in to lend a hand. The women at
the Haroo.r,lite Inn' were kept on their
toes, „feeding the .players and local
business certainly . benefited from the
influx of visitors for the games.
And it was the men of the Lions Club
that made it possible. It was the men of
-the-ins committee for the week that
t
made it run as smooth -as clockwork.
The organization was something out of
this world and in 88 games or more, not
one face-off went behind schedule; arrd
after eight days of play the last
presentation was. made on` the dot. It
takes some extra kind of organization .to
come up with a schedule like that.
The Lions, of course, are all
volunteer workers, men who devote
hours of their free time_ to providing
these youngsters with a ihhance to show
they know how to playhockey. And
there were many;, many behind the
scenes, persons who also deserve a lot of
credit. Among them are the Goderich
families that billeted the out-of-town
boys while they were here, the people
who drove the kidsthack and forth from
lodgings to arena and from.arena to the
dining -hall ' and. - from -the dining = half
home etc.' and of course the wives of -the
men who spent most of their time at the
arena last week helping out.
The arena staff did a first class job
keeping the fans filled with hot dogs and
pop and the deck hands were out on
that ice surface every second period to
f-lood:atad ap • the
surface in as good a condition • as
possible.
-In all there are a lot of people who
deserve a lot of credit. And what would
credit be if it was not given to the men
who started it all. Nip Whetstone who
had a dream, ;Lorne Wakelin vvho helped
him• try the dream out on the ice and
Guy Emerson and the' late Nelson Hill
who got together with the two dreamers
and got the thing off the ground 20
years ago. Far seeing men .with an .eye
for kids - good -lids - 'who -only needed
showing the way. Some of those first
kids went on to great things in the NHL;
What better testimonial is there than
that?
ESTABLISHED YEAR
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Remember When ? ? ?
55 YEARS AGO
The old lighthouse, one of -
the landmarks of Goderich,
which, has for over 80 years
shone forth ,its beacon light to
guide ,mariners safely into port.
_is. being remodelled__ Un -de -r...
government supervision, Mr. B.
C. Munnings has a gang of men
working there pulling down_the
residential part, and the tower
will 'be built five feet 'higher to
accommodate a revolving
flashlight, which some time, ago.
the government decided to place
there. Mr. M. J. Eagan is the
government official under whose
-supervision the work is. -being
carried on. It is stated that the
work will take a couple of weeks
or • more. Really This work is
being done as 'the result of the
terrible storm .of last Novernber,
when so many sailors lost their
lives. It was said at the inquest,
• which followed; that the lights
ft) -
lighting or attempting to light
the harbour were insufficient.
March 15th' and 16th, the
Victoria Street Methodist
Church_ celebrates its 35th -
birthday. The . edifice and
__,parsonage is one of the beauty
spots of Goderich. It was erected
in 1878 at a cost of about $9000
and dedicated on December 21st
of'the same year.
25 YEARS ACO '.
:A community hall and
skating arena. with artificial ice,
Nti'as the' project put to the Town
Council and the ' people of
Goderich by Coun. E. D. Brown
at a meeting .of the Council.
This, explained the. former
'mayor, could serve as a -
memorial of the second World"
^War. o
"For•. efficient service"
Company SergtM Major James W.
SheardoWn. Perth . Regiment
THAT'S LICE!
By G. MacLeod Ross
OTHER FACES: OTHER- WAYS
The salary of the Re_rOnal Director of EducatiOn, of Leeds and
Grenville counties is S (i.Utti t per annum.
Last year Ontario .pent' 50 per A'cent-, of .its budget on
education. This year itwillspend 60 per cent:in fact 74 per cent of
wiWho is h� nailsin whom'? The ovc�rnrrrcntll go fear educa�tion•�
yp g g proposes , and the
education boards dispose. The electorate has no more control of thc
vast sums expended on buildings and personnel than has the Nizam
of Hyderabad.
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(Motor), has been awarded the
Canadian Efficiency Medal and
clasp by the Department of
National Defence.
�0Yf4RSAGO
One of . the finest atomic
bomb shelters in Canada -is -being.'
dug here.
To local residents, ' this
A-bomb shelter is better known
as the $8,500,000 rock salt mine
under construction at the
harbour. The Financial *Post
states,, "D,uring 'World `War II
various European salt mines
were used extensively by the
Germans for safe storage of
records, art treasures, and the
like." "Everybody's hoping,
however, that the Goderich mine
will never have to be put to,
similar use."
Mrs.' John McPhee, of Nile,
and Miss Mattie Mcllwain, of
Goderich — twin sisters —
celebrated their 92nd birthday.
• ONE YEAR AGO
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SETTLEMENT OF GODERICH DATES
TO ViSIT QF CRAMPLAIN IN 1668
By A. S. Garrett
Recent Goderich harbor ice and floods focussed
attention -on this Huron County town and rev ,ed the fact
that three centuries and three decades. h e passed since
the mouth of the Maitland River was first visited by a
white man—Samuel De Champlain—in 1618.
The famous explorer and colonizer 'landed • at the
Goderich site while journeying from the eastern part of the
province 'to Detroit; via the Upper Ottawa and Georgian
Bay, thence by Lakes Huron' arid 'St. Clair. At that distant
date., the. Maitland was known by the Indian name of
Nienesetu ng and for the next two centuries was, only
visitedby, the wandering Hurons -and a few "Jesuit
missionaries. '
It was not until. 1826 that two men -W. F. Gooding and
Frank Dechamp-disembarked from the small vessel, which
.they had loaded with merchandise on the Grand River
some time previously, `and built a small log cabin in tlfe �.
present vicinity of Goderich and op-iett 'therein the
,community's first store. Henceforward, the Menesetung
was known as the Maitland River, honoring Sir Peregrine
Maitland, Lieutenant -Governor of Upper Canada.
'The Canada Land Company, incorporated in 1826,
purchased 1,384,013 acres from' the Government, for
which they paid 3s.6d. per acre. Part of the land owned by
the Crown; farther north, were called the Queen's Bush.
The territory in, possession of the Company was held
chiefly for speculative purposes and they realized extensive
dividends on the same, purchasing at around 75 cents an
acre and reselling to the settlers for abour $2.50 an acre. A
We might add that, as late as 1946, the Company still
owned about 12,000 acres and was offering for sale a tract
of land containing some 6,612 acres, fronting on Lake
Huron, near the Grand Bend, known as the "Pinery."
John Galt, the 'Scottish author, had• been appointed
secretary of the company and he determined to establish a
settlement at the mouth of the Maitland, this location
being recommended to him by,Dr. William (Tiger) Dunlop,..
who had previously visited., it
In 1828, other settlers began to locate in the area
by 1833 the hamlet was well established. To facilitate the'
.settlement, the old Huron Road was surveyed and chopped 4
out by a company of men under the direction of Dr.
Dunlop. This thoroughfare connected Goderich . and
Stratford. °
- Upon their arrival, the -road surveyors---laid-out the
townsite in its present novel shape,. all main streets
converging on the park, the nucleus of whichi is the m
community's time-honored municipal building. The plan is
claimed to have,been originally drawn up in thecompany's.
.office in York (now Toronto). • -
The directors of the Canada Company had deci . tQ
give the name of -Goderich to the settlement which later
became the City . of Guelph: complimenting a nobleman w
named Goderich who was ,a prominent company official.
However, John Galt had already given Guelph , the
appellation by which-•• it has always been,_ known,
consequently he conferred the cognomen of Goderich '
upon ' the Huron County settlement in the way of
appeasemnt to the'company's directors.
In 1850, Goderich was directly incorporated as a town 4.
-without having previously passed through any form of
village government. Benjamin Parsons was the first mayor,
having been, chosen for this position by a council
comprising Daniel Henley, • Christopher Crabb, James
Bissett, Horace Horton, William Wallace, James Watson,
Morgan Hamilton; °William B. Rich, James Gentles -and ''r
Dixie Wat bn. , ' ' ,
In time, Goderich won thereputation of being one of
the most pleasantly situated towns in Canada, having an
altitude of m ore than one hundred feet aove the level .of
Lake -Huron:
In the late seventies, the place boasted two, grain
elevators with a combined'capacity of 275,000 bushels and
a flour mill with a run of 400 barrels per day.
n 1866, Samuel Platt, of Goderich, formed a company
to drill for -oil in the vicinity. Salt was discovered instead
rks
, you listen just now to Michigan IV stations ` Channels 4
and "" 'n your dial -- you will hear a very dif ferent story. When a
school board wishes to borrow mond h\ ,I hond issue...the nutter
has to go to a vote of the people concerned. Michigan is one of the
many exartiples .in the. USA where the people are so Concerned at the
mounting cost of education that• they have voted tip to ,borrowing. __
The Boards-are`:Winging—their Tian -ds., telling the prtblic the • schools
will have to close. To date there has-been a stony- silence from the
people. They have the guts to allow the schools to close until a,p1ore
moderate spending policy is evolved. -
*
The electorate oeOntarro—complatsantiy gave up the right to
control the purse some years -ago. A right which it took tbveral
centuries to establish- in English law and a right whiclj4should be
more jealously guarded than any .other. \o `QTc can object to
EDUCATION, butwliat wesappcar to get -i; marbled halls. seeing -eye
•doors. fruit of the loom wall to wall. gymnasia to the nth power and
exercise after exercise for the architectural profession. Are we really .
tering better scholars or more intelligent citizens as a result of -these -
magnificent Buildings? On the face of it we scapi to have exchanged
the three R's o'f' Reading. Riling and Rithmetic for Resistence,
Rebellion and Riot. -
Is there a Daniel in the house to interpret the writing on the
wall? ,
thereabouts. One bf them the "International'.' od by
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