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Home My WebLink AboutThe Goderich Signal-Star, 1975-10-23, Page 21Y• R Lifewus good BY JEFF SEDDON "Goderich must have, been a cesspool around the turn of the century.r.The people here were always complaining • about the rain." Allan`Anderson, a veteran CBC radio broadcaster,,rnade the comment last week when he was in Godetich last week with Betty Tomlinson;" also a CBC radio personality, for a showing of an historical slide presentation the ,two have. r. been working on fr the past year. The presentation was made at the Goderich public library and was the culmination of a year's travelling, collecting and interviewing by the two broadcasters.. The era of Canadian history Gaunt wont seek leadership Murray Gaunt, , MPP for Huron -Bruce, told this newspaper Monday that he will•,not be seeking the'LibeFai Party leadership this time around. He. has prepared a statement which explains his reasons for ,,not seeking the leadership. Most important to Mr,; Gaunt is his family. He feels that his children are too young to withstand the pressures that automatically come when a member of a family is totally immersed in politics, the way Mr. Gaunt would have -to-become- if he were elected leader of the; Liberal party.• .Secondly, Mr. Gaunt" feels that a new leader needs a decidedly urban thrust which his. 'party did not receive in Toronto. Out of 29 possible seats the Liberals could have obtained in the Toronto ridings,- they received only three seats in the legislature. When asked whether . he would consider the leadership in the future, Mr. Gaunt said: "I'd like to take a crack at it before I leave politics, but right now, just isn't the time." it Mr. Gaunt polled 16,561 votes compared to Progressive Conservative candidate7Bill Walden's 5,955 votes and New Democrat's candidate Donald Milne,'s 2,635 votes, in, the provincial election held September 18. Mr. Gaunt has held the seat for the Liberals in the Huron - Bruce riding since 1962, and has been agriculture critic for the Liberals. the slide presentation deals with is the turn of the century. Gleaning information, from post cards issued at that time by the Canadian Post Office, the two historians have put together what they feel is an accuratescription of life in Canada i.n the early 1900's. "The pictures on the cards depict scenes of life in Canada from sporting events to disasters and the in- formation written on the card by the person' sending it, tells of daily life in the country," said Mr. Anderson. A collection of post cards is the basis of the slide presentation. They are the fruits of a year's labor for Allan Anderson and Betty Tomlinson. Financed by a Canada Council grant, the two have been • touring Canada and through the media and conversation with hundreds of Canadians they have collected about • 22,000 post , chrds from the early 1900's. - ut the peoplewer� a GODERICH SI ways sick NAL•STAR, TBURSDAY, OCTOBER 23 19154 -AGR .aA Flowers for All Occasions & 'Distinctive Gifts • 524.2152 Ni4iO�BM��.+MMS.Mr�,�,►�!�M.,MM„MY„iM!Nt'��NiRA�� 5 T S 1 R IBi1ti141t SU18111t111Uiistfa9sip i "They were a real craze back then, a great'fad," said Mr. Anderson of the cards. "The photography was ex- cellent as was the lithography and the people used them all the time. By .1913 Canadians had sent 55 million cards." The post cards,were not the glossy cards that tourists pick up today but rather ex- cellently reproduced photographs of what ca!now be called Canadiana. They served post office customers at that time in much the same way as hasty notes do in 1975. Mr. Anderson recalled his first experience with the cards with which he has now become so familiar. •.i -Ie saw *his first card in an-antigile' store and ' marvelled at its quality and its historic potential, "I began scouring antique „ stores for more cards and would set off some place unheard of to look at some cards someone may have told couldn't get enough in- formation about them. They record, a piece of Canadian history that few people feel is important but -in fact was the Start of what this -country is The CBC broadcaster credited the cards with ,desCribing a booming period - in the industrial growth of Canada. He said the west was expanding; railroads were being built across the country and- the industry in the east was expanding to handle the growth of the west. • REVERT TO STANDARD TIME SUNDAY, OCTOBER 26th Huron County librarian Bill Partridge chats briefly with „,AIIan Anderson (centre) and Betty Tomlinson before the two CBC radio broadcasters presented their historical slide presentation to a' small group at the Goderich public "There were pictures of disasters, sub zero fires, train ,,wrecks; picture of streets that can . help to preserve Canadian architecture and show people involved in daily life with one another. There were pictures of sporting events, skiing, tobogganing, hockey, snowshoeing, all events involving people," he., said:) The letters written on the postcards give the historians some insight into life in the ""ZArly part of the century. Mr. knderson said the comments on the letter describe .a" change inrn Canadian life. People had just come through the depression years and were seeking a better life. "The people,. and I refer to them:like people from Mars, .our 'grandparents and parents, had a perkiness ,• • indicative of a booming period," Mr. Anderson ob- served. "They had a brash self confidence. that was new to this country." "They had problems of their own that are still around today. They worked - long hours and hated it. They were sick, oh so sick. They wrote about little Johny with pneumonia, an uncle with measles, everyone seemed to be sick. They wrote alot about drinking, especially during prohibition. The men avoided marriage and the women tried to trap them. Of course they got married but that was the general .consensus from the cards." The post card collection the two radio broadcasters have- put together is beyond value, accorMpg to 'Mr. Anderson. He feels the collection brings thet-dttadian past to light and library. The presentation deals with life in Canada at the turn of°the century as it was recorded by the people who made it. (staff photo) people who see it love it. He regards it as a ,small scale national treasure and although he loathes the thought of giving + it. up, he feels it belongs in the National Archives in Ottawa. 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