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Money is a powerful tool. ,It can 'Ay the material possessions of
your drearns, cars, boats and the like,
and perhaps ean influence- pecirle arid
win friends.
And a little bit of the old folding stuff
_has been known to prevent the hank
manager from repossessing the house,
the family wagon
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But money- also keePs our country
IP-eotSt*"440M-73: 2" most taxpayerst„
are m fife -belief that •tbe government
spends our tax offerings with reckless
abandon, they really have no idea
where or how their tax money is spent.
Government departments and
agencies ha,ve proven to be most in-
ventive and ingenious in finding. new
ways to spend that tax money. For
every sourQe of tax money there are
five different ways to spend it.
The latest government Splurge was a
,"oto'dollar h/'tbri"`'
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honor of Canada's II kth birPhday, July-
). YRS, a coast,io coat birthday party,
land you are wonderting why the in-
vitation _or komeig_tent_ party hat,
hasn't arrived 3(et.
Well our government saw fit to shell
out at least $4% million for a birthday
extravagianza that was spread thinly
across the country in the name of
Canada Week and' Dominion Day
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wernnemt`o ��-
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expenditure .u veiled at-
tempt
le,ast help it along a stable route over u
rocky road.
Understandably,
ce rations of our
year, eevtainly not
• k»n in our history, in the faceoYour
country's fiscal position.
It is somewhat difficult to com-
lo difficult to
expenditure for
cuyotry'» 111th
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-pr'ehend wh0t takes over 84
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g��u�a�ouYC�
9o�ad�mantHill July 1 in ���gf
Simard -writhes on stage in front of a
coast to coast audience.
_That's fine. But the turning
into -more a an entertainment ea
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tru and hard sell for
day mYreY�ctibo
on Canadian histor b
The hard sell advertising m
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on Cuuadiao unity is /osdog this -
`"=--'w"vu" $80 million. That figure
includes grants through the Secretary
of State for father obscure projects
that publish pupers, periodicals and
• even magazines onau�tytheme.
Everything
takes a Rene Simard or ob McAdory
to lure people to a Dominion Day flag
raiuing. then it speaks highly of our
priorities.
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whirlwind tour of several arid
toyhts in Southwestern Ontario during
Festival Canada. Other Caii-adian stars.
such as Al Waxmart,-Pon Herron and
Catherine MacKinnon toured other
provinces in similar fashion.
is in trouble and the fact that these
Canadian stars travel the country
-has helped to
further that goal. Only their' expenses
were paid and their efforts were
oonnh,eudable,syinb,01 of the freedom he has always
dreamed of and found in his new home.
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But meeting Bob 1V4Adorey doesn't
change a referendum ' in Quebec, it
doesn't help an unemployed miner in •
Newfoundland artd would mean little to
an ethnic immigrant, who with teary
eyes, looks to the Canadian flag as a
Hundreds of Goderich school children turned out for the giant birthday
party held in Court House Park, Thursday. The children were treated to hot
dogs, pop and cake, a menu that met with approval from the young school
_------'.lt took the group of volunteers, under the direction o .,.~^^ ~~u~
more than three hours to serve the youngsters. (photos by Dave Sykes)
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' . �H009[xAY,JULY 8.\H/0
SECOND SECTION
Cheese, salt, snuff, whiskey
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BY W.E. ELLIOTT
'f{onry &YucDocmoou,
froIreland,
in 1864 the St. George's
Crescent lots on which he
built the "Castle." From
that! date the MacDer-
nnufhietory in Oodorich
has always started, but
the account hdok or
Goderich merchant in the
1850u shows that' Henry
was hUying groceries
here eleven ycars earlier.
1-fe and his wife, Mary,
and four children may
have hecn recent arrivals
whononOctober 11. 1853,
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t ' general are no drug s
a|eo
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per" onn
.but oeui o o�ukmaid,, cf Cap
t Robert, punl-^-
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Clark ^o
xcame
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his Colberne farm north ok.
and
on,
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storeaccount or one of his five was another interestingof LnymLonwhich bul928C i circumstances daughters. shopper..She d �i«gce»ztgrwuz grmoon
and 'a���to'role ,»u« Mary ounk/�^�a-' `C85Iex�m lf�noi�.• Jobo.repreoenta the fifth
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s ^"°th/�g `r"°' Anne Crabb and W.E. �nnu"o,*whiskey, "°a-, for a muslin dress, some
generation.Dr.William
notepaper at a Grace. there tern min''"ly 1, 1852, owed 32 alpaca, braid, lining and
came all the
costof one pound,l- ~Rubert Pork. M.B. pounds 4 ohiDbugo, or knives and forks.
• shillings, 7%. pence. Mr.about $150Rev. E.L. Elwood, from Harpurhey, but he
was warden mf Huron and paid up his White and.James Watson, Lots of p*hylo ran up rector of St. George's,
accounts. Bruce from |84rm 1855.uc000' in December, and the probabilities big
|855_int to Watson. December, 1855. John Other purchases included and *»uld�ei»G»d*�cb
The MacDermotts James Watson was Macdonald,"banker,"ofoand|eS. 12 »» county ouomeaa..'. - �",° in /81' to ~"^~g" oW"x 76 pounds, and corks, a half-dozen
came to a settlement *and Ann Watson of
inhabited byfamilies Boxburghohire; Scotland,
whose names are and came to Canada
familiar to this day. The about 1842. At his death in
merchant to whom this 1881 the Hurdn - Signal
account book belonged said he was 'one.ofthe
Set down the names of oldest, if not the oldest
every customer who mercbontintown.'
bought on credit, --and Be had held "many -.-ettfiripanyaa•
on West
with supplies.
ll, here
^corn missioner returning from Goderich opening of a new
ezoemu��o��anuaoro.o .'"",e"=".^"w. he is,in Watson book,"~~~^`~~.
---Oro„ r*d.oi�' ueabeaon of co "~s Chorren Du|aoo'fellow residents," the '0..r_ l ..~~. .~.,..._,_
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not name any of these. It
was not one of^�oe butter,utoothbrush oodo men's and )udiee' Davies
oy coinage. Only Bri'oha bottle of gin."8on^was a ran his'account up to 6' food
^ or s^to9rrce»v~n~-�fhryoc-
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It might be exn
that advertising in
SquireJohn Longworth tumblers, gallons,68. Macdonald was agent whiskey. newspaperpublished at
fou. the Bank of Upper the - time would 'be|p
-Canada, and later se�C. Burton�Davien' who determine the location of��_uwned-Poiu1Fucohefocc'azvruu Of ------
�Bun�andD��.' the famous hotel of that Huron Signal (on film at'7bonoy Mercer Jones' name was built,was the puNicUbrucy)shows
had been discharged late drowned in Lake Huron that retailers did 'not
in .852 as �~---"a on July 22, 1856, while
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silverand copper coi
were in circulation, alon Signal's' best obituary
with United States coins, messenger on one ",
rpounds.
'-the note does not
-tbwbu,h t Y For James Watson vam n;Jacob Secg Miller nq-e'p-o-xe' �1D y epace by
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b,x,,h,hi_�~.,,,Ol,bnuy whether Chester or (����mi\|cr} who in The Sinal in 1852 was
not establish a mint until „ M. C. Cameron, a sub- p u hi i Th1E1' e v &I.:. y
1908. sequent owner, called Charles Widder, having trader between Waterloo Frd y" for 12 shilli,ags
"The Maples," and which also severed connection and Goderich, wos by this •sixipeancef payable •"„at The
In the course of three , with the Company, was
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� yeurooroo.ther�erohuot -----�-- ''-cleu- of building his bjg house"'' ue vi
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the store '»r Luwycro, doctors and
and his clerks O|�d 576
---'-, '' hospital. A Wellington St. north, two vests. ' ��bcrproy�s�onu|p
..,,pages 10 by V\4 inches grandsonShannon, whose,daughter there. He needed six and Colborne townships
was Dr. De�� perhaps o| e d hving Residentsof Goderich inacrted .�cordo ~`and
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'with th- names of people Dorothy married Graeme bottles oysherry wine and patronized this store in '-''en were steady~
who made Rur«n'biuury Watson mfToronto.
a century and a quarter This store -Watson's eyatoo�m or two dozen
lemons.
Scoanoou|dee| rub\e number: advertisers.
James', Gentles
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as Holmes,�obuenrd� p,oJ«oueh'' Huron }»tdbought space
In and out march '''general." It sold band occasion
to announce that
Thomas Mercer Jones,iron to Goderich Foun messenger oeAotoine., George • EfliottJohn
Letnrgo, one of the Sturdy Joseph �Whft-d "Charlotte Gibbons, • my
Dr. Morgan ,Bxmi|ton. dry, flour to the huher, Frenchmen who settled 'David -'. who bought a \ wife- having clan -
Charles widker.William Horton, blacksmith,. on Lighthouse street scyth and a pitchfork:
destinely absentedJohn Galt (registrar), horse nails., to HenryWellington. This en- flour to the store -and herself -from my h»U»e,
and having in. u'vcryRisber Gooding, Rev. lining', material to the between Wellesley and Thomas Ginn. who sold
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Bennett Rich, Alfred bell, and evenUqu'or to a~ ' -`-~'- a '-: threeof
nnatural manner
-0tter. George Brpwn, the old British Hotel. It many of the Frenchmen the Morris brothero, abandoned her helpless .^ Daniel Lizars, George seems tohuve been near
were in the service ofthe James Jewell,. John children to
n'the
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of
Videan, John Macdonald theBbdSh� on Lighthouse Canada Company. ~'}ooeohFiohpr;S. strangers... 'lwill not b«
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and many more. street, and certainly Ikus. Letarge owned thelot at Meiklejohn,'and Lucius responsible for any debts
'nc-0o�k-w� |n�b,oreo. for wety`o �.~~,h~"~^ corner of �Carey, from thE sixth of she may /ncur.^
pounds and to historians 'rnoidcnts often'calledin Commod'/*dces)n�i hthouoo aod Colborne, %6o needed
LouinMcCall, widow . gouDnogneanYnawhi*kaey. the }85O?y."canmu»e| «w1
4nAin°^io worth its weight in twice tay. --n
gold, or maybe platinum. W.F. Gooding, -1who . •.
It belongs ,to Huron traded with the Indians mm�-'.. . '
Historical Sooioty' and before Dunlop and Galt -
care of Mrs. Tait Clark, was the first merchantc~^~~8 is in the .founded Godehch`and- '
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*urotnr.`here,had operated a )
PROBABLY WATSON . Inasniveh-us -he "appears /
store on Wos+ street.
accounts were kept 'purchaser of -groceries in `
carefully 'hmo the 1850o'un, two oc-
, identified. `Rif' purposes casions, he bought- 100
~of this- narrative he is pounds of flour -it is ob-
_Jomeu Wmtson..a.,;(girly v|ouo that he was no '
confident guess, • . longer in business, and it
ACumbdi Alm I•nayl,. be that Watson
1851 lists seven general succeeded him. ,
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.ownjamin PiroonS was . BIG ACCOUNTS _
' �e"' a "dispensing William Bennett 'Rich �^~~ ..' __.__, ,
chemist" advertising advertimb`g for ec_O.
. ntegliCines fdr liver w.ho built' the 14g brick
house at '
wnd&C8mg''s evil, and there Wel1egley.'didnot shop in �^ .~
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Jie'llbe back next week, folksl