Clinton News-Record, 1984-07-18, Page 31Page 8—Wingham-Turnberry Bicentennial
Turnberry has become
a modern municipality
Turnberry, Huron's small-
est township, never has had
nay lack of the tenacity that
its pioneers possessed in
building the municipality
from dense forest to its
present modern operation.
Those earliest Turnberry
pioneers, Jacob Cantelon,
Alexander Duncan and
James McCullogh, arrived
prior to the 1854 land sale.
Today we only can guess
what the township was like
then: covered in the density
of the Queen's Bush and
abundant in wildlife.
The Book of Turnberry,
published in 1957 to com-
memorate the township's
centennial, states that Dr.
William Dunlop of the Upper
Canada Company at
Goderich named the tiny
township after Turnberry
Castle in Scotland.
Turnberry was surveyed
in 1847 and probably was the
last township in the county to
be surveyed. The Book of
Turnberry states: "It was an
odd kind of survey, with
roads running at right angles
to each other." That is
something which easily can
be attested to by anyone who
has traveled on Turnberry
Township roads.
The Historical Atlas of
Huron County, • 1879, says
"the geographical form of
this township is that of a
right-anled triangle...The
general characteristics of its
soil may be stated as of far to
superior quality."
The Maitland River winds
through Turnberry which
necessitates many bridges,
something past and present
councils easily can attest to.
EARLY SETTLEMENT
Others who were settled in
Turnberry prior to the Sept.
4, 1854, land sale were:
James Henning, Robert J.
Duff, John Gallaher,
Alexander Thompson,
Andrew Mitchell, John
Morris Sr. and Jr., William
Bennett and a Beckett who
started a sawmill at Zetland.
The land sale attracted
settlers to the township with
names like Jenkins, Hogg,
Moffatt, Hislop and Black.
They all settled on the first
concession and their names
adornedbridges, schools,
drains and even churches.
Turnberry's first year as a
separate municipality was
1857. Before then it had been
united for purposes of
municipal government with
Wawanosh, then comprised
of what is now known as East
and West Wawanosh.
That first group of town-
ship officials was comprised
of: reeve, Samuel Black;
councillors, John Fortune,
David Haugh, Walter Sloan
and William Elliott; clerk,
Thomas Fortune; treasurer,
James Anderson; assessor,
Andrew Mitchell; and
collector, Robert J. Duff.
Among the 'first bylaws
enacted by the new council
were: that pigs would not be
allowed to run at large from
'May 1 to Sept. 1; that all
hotel keepers must have at
least four good spare beds;
and that the township would
be divided into six school
sections.
Council members were
paid five shillings for each
day meeting and 30 shillings
for every day they were
engaged, on township
business.
VILLAGES
The work of the pioneers
was hard, but little by little
their farms and the com-
munity grew and prospered.
By 1878 Turnberry could
boast 25,000 acres occupied
out of 'a total of 34,868. The
official report showed total
receipts of $13,119.52 and
total expenditures of
$13,004.82. Taxes collected
that year were $10,569.58.
The population at that time
hovered around 2,500 per-
sons.
Although the majority of
Turnberry residents lived on
farms, and still do, several
villages sprung up to offer
services to the farming
community.
The 1879 atlas calls
Bluevale the "one village of
any pretensions whatever in
the township". The founders
of Bluevale were the Leech
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