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Home My WebLink AboutThe Goderich Signal-Star, 1980-04-23, Page 344 i• Hohnesville Public School was filled with clowns an•d other circus characters lap Friday, designated Circus Day. Grades 2 and 3 classes are going to see the circus in Kitchener in a few weeks and have 'been learning all about circuses at school, Clock - wise from upper left, Miss Down's Grade 2 students Sherrie Preszcator, Cheryl Wain, Joy Johnson, and Steven Fritzley do their schoolwork as If they dressed up that way every day. (photos by Cath Wooden) OF gliperior BARPIINQ's More selectien...more accessories for outdoor cooking convenience. Delicious char -broiled flavour from Superior... the propane experts! 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Mr. -Newlands, vice-president of the Ontario Museum Association, .has written two books - Early Ontario Potters and An Intr oduct-i on. To Canadian Archaeology - and a monograph - The New Hamburg pottery. More than 60 ladies from, neighboring Women's Institutes and Historical Societies gathered in the basement of Holmesville Church to view his slide presen- tation on early pottery in Ontario. Records show that from 1796 to 1845 most potteries were located in clusters, some in Waterloo County and others along the north shore of Lake Ontario; Many were situated along what is now Highway 2, which was the first major military and colonization road from Niagara, the original capital of Upper Canada, to Toronto. The rocky land around Ottawa and other parts of Eastern Ontarie--were not conducive to 'pottery - making.. By 'the time potteries reached their peak, in the late 1870s to the late 1880s, -the densest areas were in South- western Ontario. Huron County alone boasted five or six potteries, while Bruce County had seven or eight. Unlike • commercial artistic wares of today, pieces made by pioneer 'potters •were basic and utilitarian - milk pans, butter crocks, flour crocks, cream pots, water dispensers for use in public places, molasses jugs, tea pots, water pitchers, pie - plates, spittoons and flowerpots. A six-gallon cream pot Cost 50e in the 1860s or 1870s *with one-third off for cash. Potters also sent agents with miniature samples of their wares to stores far and wide. By the time the travelling salesmen took their cuts and one-third was deducted for cash, little profit Was left for the potters. To reduce expenses pnly local clay was used rather than imported or mixed clay. They dug the clay in the fall, made and fired the pots during the winter and were ready for the spring rush. The work was hard. The Canada, were imported from the United States, primarily New York. Ports, such as Cornwall, became practical locations for potteries to accommodate steamers carrying imported clay. After • the 1880s, 'pot- teries declined dramatically. Newlands explained that sons of potters did not tarry on the trade because they found they could make more money by doing manual labor than by apprenticing to ' become crafts men. The stoneware, pot- teries, that put many local potters out of heavy clay .was_ worked buin _wer e by hand; then thrown on threatened in the early a wheel, which the potter 1900s when iceboxes and' activated by kicking with —erea m separators the side of hiss foot. As the wheel turned, the potter pulled the clay up to form a 'hand -thrown' piece. The pioneer potteries were usually one-man' operations,, making earthenware pieces from local clay. By 1849, a change began ,to take - place. Factory -style potteries hiring 20• to 30 men began producing stoneware, which was grey • in color, heavier, denser and less liable to break than the red or browh earthenware.. Stoneware was not mined in Canada in , the nineteenth century. The raw material, the capital and the men, who founded the industry in ' provided other sources for storing food. Canada Potteries in Hamilton operated a large factory until 1947 with clay im- ported from around the world and blended in machines; puthps, dryers and moulds were also used. The skilled potter was no longer needed. David Newlands first carne toI Huron County' ih 1973 to supervise a dig at the site of the David Burns' Pottery on the Maitland Concession. More than 5,800 'sherds', pieces of broken pottery were found. When pieced • together, the sherds represent the typical pioneer pottery - milk pans, pitchers, crocks, R.K. 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