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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Goderich Signal-Star, 1973-03-29, Page 17lq, toot fttt one esilp est to 14, mPl ed 1, hl t;, ludo ssioq teeth idepb Ltid rigs hoz 'Id U hat sped a tht The annual sleeting of• the Alexandra Marine and General Hospital Corporation of Goderich was held at the hospital on Monday, March 19. Reports were heard on the 1972 operations. The 1972 chairman, Harry Bosnel1 repor- ted that expansion of Qut- Patiernt facilities had been ap- proved but has hen postponed due to lack.' -e►f government funds. I)r 1t►char(1 Putter ;Nlinister of Health for Ontario, has publicly ,fated annum al will be given as soon as funds are a\ 0i!able NIr hu -u -Il also stated the hospital still -has full ac credltatioli hitt it Is subject to review again in 197.1. Reports were also gi'eu by F: A ('1'(111) Elliott, Acl- rltjuislator, and Mrs. ('parity McDonald, .Director of 'Nursing :service, The auditor's repor.,t was given-bv Wm. Alcock represen- ting A M Harper. All records were in good order. Mrs. John Berry gave the an- nual report for the Ladies' Auxiliary. Reports of the Medical Staff were presented by Dr. R.W. Flowers, Acting Chief of Staff (continued on page 6A) THURSDAY, MARCH 29, 1973 SECOND SECTION s Chi lewfelt used b ems wet, i the' Ild pro as reit, s C11) awaCauyon.-double first punkt Central ltailwav a1s;i (',myon this year distinction of being ship out of and the ip sailing into the harbor. The salt boat opened Goclerich's season on Tuesday hen she put into har- bor here fur tier second load of salt. The Agawa Canyon had been part of the local winter fleet and was the first boat out of Goderich harbor when she put out with 19,500 tons late last week. !Normally tht• season opens sometime (luring the fiat two weeks of ,April and the first in- coming boat dock, ahout April 1:) The, unusually mild spring of this year ' 'however had cleared the harbor of ice nearly 0 month ago. s1,1 3� ORI, U ma Central salt boat Agawa Canyon opened the, Goderich harbor's 1973 shipping in fine style being the first boat of the winter fleet to leave and being the first ship lb oderich a port of call. The boat left late last week with 19,500 tons of salt and retur- her second load Tuesday morning at about 8:30 a.m. (staff photo) on 10.1)0() tons of sale at the local. mine but head still not cleared the harbor by Tuesday morning when the Agawa Canyon put in. 13v this past weekend the jumble of lake boats and other vessels at the Goderich . h"arbor had been sorted out and the ;hips returned to - their moorings. Estimates of damage now stand at about $200,000 as crews work at repairing caved and dented hulls. The damage was done March 18 when ,winds in excess of 50 miles per• hour slammed into the harbor tear,jng 11 freighters loose from thei moorings and blowing them into the extreme east end of the harbor: The *200,000 figure is seen This aerial photo of former 'Huron County Jail shows the full story behind The Save The Jail Society's fight to maintain the jail as it is at the present time. This beautiful building in octagonal lines from the small 'lookout' at cenre-roof, through the jail proper and out to the stone walls, is truly -an unusual and unique structure. In the foreground of the pic- A , • ture, the proximity of the assessment office to the jail wail can be seen. One can easily see how, if the jail wall adjacent to the assessment office was removed as proposed by Huron County Council, the symmetry of' the jail would be destroyed. (photo by Kelvin Jervis( as' a very general' estimate to include the cost of labor needed to restore t he winter fleet to or- der, replace the snapped wire hawsers and pay for tug' boat •services. Hawsers alone cost The grain freighter Paterson suffered the most damage of any 411 the ships involved in the humping. grinding pile up, ‘Vhen the empty ships: began breaking loose two.,of the other boats hit her how first caving in„ - railings and the upper portion of her hull and punching a hole into the engine room just above the water line.•The canal boat Mondoc• did the most -damage to the Paterson with her high pointed how. As the mess was finally ap- pr•oachi1g order the Agawa Canyon, one of the winter fleet and one of the few boats to stay close to, (t 1 moorings, moved to the domtar chemicals salt mine and- began taking on 19,500 tons of salt. It represew ted. the first load out of., the mine and the local harbor in 1973, • 59 F IO i IRVII OLLS $ FOR 19' 69 19( 1.0' Deputy-reeve St,att Profit and Councillor Dave (;ower agreed. at 'Thursday evening's regular council session to withdraw their (motion which if passe'(, would have granted Huron n County Council t permit to \ demolish part of the ja11 wall. Deputy -reeve Profit said that shier the Huron County Property Committee' had agreed to meet with The Saye The Jail Society "one more time.' and since the Society hadproduced 0 "very good eleventh hour 1ppeaI , and suggestion" it would he ;"inap- propriate at, this tine- to en tertain 0 motion to give county council a permit to demolish 1 part of the. jail wall. Reeve 1)eh S, hew felt suggested to council that the whole matter of the historic jail building might be better left in the hands of the provincial governmeent, butMayor Harry Worsell cut the discussion short it this point. saying' that idea could,. best he handled later, Atlast Thursday's )he'f't ings ) letter was received from Byers and Kenny, Stratford solicitors who are' acting on behalf of The _...___ave The Jail So+, it'ty, The correspondence requested an amendment to the Official Plan to provide proper i.onirlg for future use of Huron County .fail. The matter was turned over to the Planning Board for further discussion. - LaWyer William E Byers was present at the meeting on behalf of the Save The Jail •Society. He told council the jail .was of"value to the province of Ontario and the whole of this country". "The concerti is because this is something unique, not just another building," said Byers. He said the S•IS was Meeting the Property ('ornmittee of county council with "some very \•iable prupos:11s" and said he hoped the meeting w.cruld produce "some solutions to the ((1•ot)lerll ' lavers said that scented prepared to no one commit 1ht'rll'4elf ?1s' far as finances were concerned, hut said he had "a strop(' feeling that provincial funds are ayaila111e. "There are any number of solution,."- promised Evers. "1 ask council's indulgence. The building has stood for, 1;3O years. We hone council will give us^;.t few'months more, until we come: up with the resources to mairlfain It A very lengthy '1111(1 . im- lire .' ea the reten- „l\e app -al (o • ► h titin of the jail in its entirety was given by Dr,: Douglas S Richardson of the Iniver- ity of Toronto. A teacher of architec- tural hist(iry, 1)r. Richardson said the jail was an "extraor- dinarily important building" ''a classic of its kind'`. He satrf there were mane small jails huilt in the 18th ;And early 19th centuries but "very few_ were built_ to .such a high standard'' as the Huron ('aunty former jail. It has "tex- thook quality' he said. Many of these small jails, said 1)r Richardson. were demolished.- The others, he said, were altered or "transfor• med.'. There are "none other in Ontario as well preserved", ;And in fact, the Huron County jad is unique in North America as well As Great Britain, actor• cling to Dr Richardson. "f simply ,do 1101 know of another example so well preser- ved and following the general pattern anywhere," stated 1)r. Richardson. "Absolutely anywhere.,. 1)r. Richardson described the building as having, "geometric purity" and 'international significance" "it is a beautiful huilding,", ;1�(1 1)r. Richardson "It would he a 'great waste to throw away something of high --quality for something of unproven worth. It is probably the hest building in Goderich. • 1)r. Richardson sa.4.d the government of Ontario has given "high priorit\•'. to I)t-ll- clijlg legislation which will provide for the maintenance (.,f such buildings. He said the President of the Ontario Heritage Foundation, Larry 1 '.'tn, had promised to "(10 everything he could to en- courage redevelopment of the building 1)r. Richardson also. spoke hriefly about the very real possibility that -'Private funds from wealthy persons in- terested in the -preservation of o1(1 and hist(irically significant buildings could he located. "I feel (lonfident that funds will be availahleQwhen the -tinge comes,- said i)r Richardson "1 plead with you for retention of the entire structure as it is today." ''1 cannot irllagine '.yhv- it' is thought necessary to demolish part of the jail 'to expand the assessment hulldi-tlg.'' said 1)r Richardson ";A tall 1- not a proper humane lad w It how a iall wall. The wall i'- vitally im- portant to the integrity of the huilding, `,'Without it. the 1011 would he very much damaged . 1)r. Richardson discussed the fact that changes would have 1(, he made to the inside of the ifl►I, perhaps. to'"allow for the flow -of people tht'ough the prerillses "-Alteration Is one thin,;... said 1)r It1( hardson ' 1)eniolition Is another " "Financing is not 0 prohlem at all." said 1)r ltic'hardson "it is mist a matter of finding all InlagmatlAe. 'inY,y.11i4e use for it " Iicev e Deh Shewfelt asked 1)r Richardson if he felt the 1a11 would he "better in the 1land, of the province':. That's nut for ►ue to answered 1)r lti, hardson -10111 Brock. an lr 1)itect from K.'. ll.•- ;(11(1 (,,u H:tt spoke to council a11d toldi 1(11)10 rs a thoimigh 11 -pt•( tow, ,,t the building h;gid i.c , e:,i,,l rt t('p he In \ et \ 4 4,nd11 (,n for :t building o1 ally aye' ''-the 114)ors, wall- :111(1 ever\,thll}g a.re sound, sr11d Brock fie said renovations to the building would in, lode public washrooniti, fumlg;Allon. but- tressing of the portion of the wall next to the a,ses,me nt of- fice, constru( tion of -E1 fire escape. i11-ta1lat1' n special "exit" light, and Minor repairs to the goy error's house. The to11(1 ost, he este red. woul(1 run :shout $2.i.ii(r1,) Brock sao1 that in the first year of operation. It V1.4)llld he entlrel\ fea.lhie 11 open only the first floor= of the 1,111 1 o the public. 'hhis could he done,. Br-nc k estitnated. for ;)hour lie said it would take ;,bout �►il,iinc1 14) make the remaining two, floors read\ for 111s11,ecti ,rr h\ the puhlrc „no :(1,(,11t $1,4)00 to open th('' giPOVerrlor's residency (These prices art' 4!! exclusive of displays 1 Although there \vas no (fiscll-sl)(n at the nit•etlog ( on- cerrling it, a spokesman from the Realty Servl(es Branch of the Department 13 Puhln \c ((rks Ontario to,l(1 th•• signal Star last, w('ek (41111 the I(1' ,\ Ince w(4111)1 tlot -silt' a 1() (.1141111%- ,(lunch for the expanded facilities at the assessment office 111i111 "e\ ('ryont' 1- hlpp\.. • %VIIlia il t;re,,, -,lira t10 province was not Intert'-ted 1'i locating its 11 ron-Perth Regional Assessment ()fine in 1 cont r(VP r•sraI ;trey ER o PA suffering considerable damage when high wind,* the Win and barges loose in Goderich harbor last Thornhill was the second ship of the season out harbor when She put out with 10,000 tons of salt DOMTAR salt mine. The Agawa Canyon Left on With 1'400 tons of salt as the first ship of the season out of the local harbor. The shipping season for Goderich opened much earlier than normal this year due to a very mild spring. The first ships do not usually get out until during the first two weeks of April and the first ships don't get in until around April 15. This year the first ship is expec- ted in around April 8 or 9.(staff photo) General William Dillon Ot- ter's mother, Anna De La Hooke, was the great -great- aunt of „was woman who accordingly has been much ' in- terested in reading the Signal - Star story of December 7 last about ,the "House of Memories'' --the Otter -Lewis - Elliott place. G,en. Otter's father. Alfred William Otter, was the gt`eat- great-grandfaffier of an Australian resident about whom the Signal -Star published a story recently: An- thony Edward Otter Morton, of South Perth, West Australia, son of the late Major-General R O.G. Morton, (' 13 E On the De La Hooke side, Hie descendant. "tis .Mrs. Norman Robertson, 'the former Marion By W.E. Elliott Ue 1,11 Hooke (She spells it with capital 11.014(11,d They are fourth cousins or something like that_ Mr .Morton does not know about it yet. Mrs. Robertson has learned from the .family Bible that Anna 1Je i,a Rooke was married to Alfred William Ot-. ter three days before he, 1,7th birthday_ The ceremony was performed by the father of the bride, Rev. .lames 1)e Hooke, former rector of Grayenhurst, Bedford. England. The baptism of their first- born; William Dillon, was per- formed at St George's here although the Otters at the time 1844 were living ,,in Stanley "Township, just youth of ('lin ton. in the 1)a',•s of the Canada Company, 0 hook by the 1,iiars sisters, contains mention of thOse present. and an allusion to "the heautrfu,1 '‘"rung plot her." St George's baptismal record ,lists two other Otter children - Jacqueline Mary, 1146, and I rederie•k Watson, 1849 Mrs Otter died in Toronto August 22, 19(17, aged 82 1)r. .lames Acland De La Hook, great -grandfather of Mrs. Robertson, was a physician in Goderich He arrived in 'Toronto in 1839 and started practise in Weston, but removed to Goderich the following Spring. After prac- tisin'g for three years in Goderich, he took tip residence on the London Road- n mile from Clinton. There rs no Huron (00004 - tion on the part of Mrs Rt4)1011- sccn', father. Ernest Acland 1)e Hooke. or her grandfather. •IanlesAcland i)e i,a Hooke Her great-grandfather, 1)r James Acland De 1,a .Hooke, was 0 brother of Anna, who married ,Alfred litter (:reat-great.gr(-at-grandfathe r De 1,a Hooke married Ann Acland 111 157'1, and that ap- pears to he how the Acland nomenclature began The name was also known „in Huron in the early years, when Arthur Acland was district judge, 1842.5:3 His wife, Sarah Wijjiams, was connected by marriage with the family of Henry Nvndmaan, sherriff of Huron in the 1840s.