The Goderich Signal-Star, 1960-08-04, Page 11rt,
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WHEN INSIDE PRIVATCCAR?
An Oshawa decision that a
private motorcar is not a "pub-
lic place" within the meaning
of the Liquor Control Act had
an echo in, magistrate's court
here on Tuesday. The result
xamand. XDX. ,Den-iet 414Ag--
Adam, eharged-With being in-
toxicated in a public place.
was a passenger in
thear of Richard Littlechild,
g at the previous (court plead-
• ed a uilty to impaired drivin on
July. 23 ali.d...maP4outz.v4
14 clays in jail. There was part
of a *ease of beer in the car
when it hit'a telephone pole al
Cameron and (Raglan streets,
and MaeAdam admitted owner-
ship. 'He was ,fined $15 and
costs for "having" but pleaded
not (guilty to being intoxicated
, in a public place and gave boncj.
for his appearance later.
When 'he came up again on
Tuesday the decision of Judge
Arthur Willmott at Oshawa was
mentioned, and also his honor's
opinioethat an,intoxicated man
riding a bicycle is in a public
,„',7Pjr 0215i(1117W1
that the' ptiblic- flag access" to
a 'bicycle.
An appeal is pending in the
Oshawa case, dhd Magistrate
Hays „set the LMaoAdam case
over.
at Seaforth that, were dismissed
on the ground that a 'man drunk
on someone's veranda, not. a
public place, and being ordered
off wasthen arrested for being
drunk.
Police Chief Fred Minshall,
conducting the MaicAdain,,i.Pase
in absence of Crown Attorney
J. (W. Etishfield, submitted that
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It's a tough life for these dogs, as they wait patiently for
• the. time when th,e ban will be lifted in Goderieh for thein
to roam at large in a 'legal waY. u t until the flower
• gardens are spent:and the Vegetable gardens are up stray
dogs can do -a lot of damage around town.
a policeman doing his
such case and asking the owner
of the premises to tell the tres-
passer to leave would see that
'he'clirk-Thert,anee tre-pameran-
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',HISTORICAL FLASHBACK
It Took Two Months To
Slash Route Thro, Bus
iftom Guelph -A Goderic
(By AfM.G.) • !present habitation. •He express -
When John Galt, as secretary ,1Y said, Je wape. We hired
him
r...zo%the ixaCanacta,wida
Land Company, „
It tra:uLngtole;':unset 'when'
We reWeelit `str
.
,ren e-zvous.
• 18-26, it was with the assigned ;my, eing.wnent teotelide
ta,sk of preparing the 1,100,000IskincoinP, •unelnotred, b and ss
acres for, the unexnployed and ;himself in two blanket -one in
surplus population of the -Brit- 'Ceitic, the .0tIfer in Raman fash-
is'h Isles. His ,alert brain was 'ion, the kilt and the toga. The
buswith schemes for the fu-
ture success,of the Huron Tract.
He was accompanied by the
haler was fastened" on Vie
breast with a spear of timber
that might have served for the
vigorous Dr. William Dunlop. main .Mast to some great admir-
Haying decided that the first al. I kept my state of dripping
project Should be a trunk road drapery. We then with stir
-
through the centre or the dense veyors and' axemen (Yankee
forest to connect the provincial choppers) proceeded to a superb
capital and Lake Ontario with maple tree. 1 had the honor
Lake Huron's shore, he disicuss- and the glory of laying the axe
ed the (project with the doctor 1:0 --the root thereof and soon it
wharf' he knew as the success- fell beneath our sturdy stroke's
ful director of the Lake Simcoe with the noise of anavalanche.
to Penetan'g road. He appoint- It was the genius of the forest
ed him Warden c;f the Forest unfurling his wings and depart -
forever. Being the King's
and &treetop cif the new road. litT4
Speed River Junction !name day, 1 called the _town
In April of the following year ()ltituof whiskyelphofromMfriend drawinghsm, boso ayi
both men with surveyor and io
.axemen set .out and travelled We drank prosperity to the un
about 60 miles to the neightbor- built metropolitan of the new
hood of the junction of1he two world."
branches of the Speed -River. After this historic event and
Mr. Galt writing. from Guelph some progress rhade on the sur -
during the same summer gives veying and clearing an the site,
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•a vivid account of theinactions:
duty in FINED!FOR FALSE
the two men parted company.
Mr. Galt set out to Penetang
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INFORMATION GIVEN "The -site. chosen (was on a where a gunboat Was waiting.to name to be travelled as bestone
'nameless • stream's untroclden take him round the Bruce Pen- aould. But the, traveller of those
False ihformation to police, banks', into the (forest 18 mules insula Gaderich. Dr. Dunlop, days had to be tough,
constitutirig,;‘,41041/c----ihie4 from Gait.4,--a,D,Recatt.,ihttature....411- wit= .the....ssurvemrs..and rg
'cost. Kenneth,A. Calhoun, Port .foun‘lect. by- a friend of mine men, led the ,way Westward to F' raser had to make an urgent
Albert, $50 -when sentence was with a handsorne 'bridge over ward the lake. The- surveyor .
passed •by. Magistrate Hays .orf
Tuesday. He had pleaded guilty
at the preceding court. --
this man on account of he is "This type, of crime 'does not
drunk " Jif investigating a car, often happen," commented the
he ,contended, an officer has ' a magistrate. "The wrongdoing
right to tell'a man to step out is in taking up the time of
of the • vehicle, if he suspects police and sending them on .a
liquor. is stored in it. Then is wild goose chase at the tax -
he obliged to drop the investiga- payers' expenSe."
Lion because the manis drunk? Calhoth reported to the OPP
An interesting feature is.that On June 28 he had been forced "I was accompanied- byfny trees. • Some cherry trees mea -
Robert Laws, who also was a off Highway 21 south of- Gode- friend Dunlop, a lame fat face- sured 50 feet ,from the ground
passengjr in Littlechild's car, rich by a car coming out of a Hous fellow of infinite jest and to the lowest- branch with a
was fined $40 for being intoxi- sideroad, and his vehicle had eccentricity, but he forgot his airth of- 10 feet seven inches at
cated in alaublic place. He gat struck a small trep.. He describ- compass and we lost our way in the height of a man's highest
out of the car without being ed the offending car. Investiga- the .forest. After wandering up reach. Wood .from such trees
ordered and so was in a "publib tion sho ed that he had Parked and down like the babes in the When dressed took ' a polish
place." MacAdam was ordered
out of the car by police.
' The. .first matches -were.
made by John Walker, an Eng-
• lis.lhman, about 150 years ago.
They were tipped with gum,
antimony and potaSh, over a
layer of sulphur. A sheet of
folded sandpaper was supplied
with eadh box. When the luci•
fer lighted, it went off in a sort
of small explosion, with showers
of dangerous sparks,
to' be discovered.
Fish, Pork Toasted
As night came on two men
went. .,,on ahead to prepare a
comfortable camp. A. shatILY-
was built, near a swainfpy spot
to get water conveniently, hem-
lock boughs for beds, and plenty
of dry cedar to make a biazing
fire against a maple log by
which to. make porridge. Fish
i:rid pork was toasted by wooden
prongs: ana,46r..thalcertte-to sin
anyivrthe's•airoury oiler brIelt
from dried leaves.
l)very man roasttid for him-
self- and 'Served 'himwith
self
pork sandwiches 'and tea. Then.
followed an evening of good
fellowk;ship.-aladp:--grik*-,a&I-etash44.-
out 'with feet to the fire like
speon8 these Huron road mak-
ers soon dropped off to sleep
until the first to awake cried •
'Spoon' at which .each turned
over and up, Although the for-
est (growth became denser,'the
men's strong constitutions .and
the extensive knowledge 'end
the experience of the Warden
of 'the Forest stood them in
.,,acd. stead as they traversed the
thousands of acres and wand-
ered finally out of the region
pearly perishing from want 'of
relaxation.
• Lake Huron Sightel
After tw.a.months of slashing
.hrovii, 90 miles of such forest
he gang was glad to see the
waters of Lake Huron on
'Jay 27,. 1827, at the site to be
.s•t'allolished and called Goderich.,
It was the first radical operation,
in the primeval forest and not
a very clean eut at that. Be-
hind them lay the miles of a 12-
foot avenue with knolls and
hollows, with stumps and logs.
The levelling and surfacing, the
ditching and culvert building_
was •
left for a more convenient
,.easiTh. It was a road only in
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The uod rich ,Signal Stu Thursdays, Aug. 4th, 1960 1
the Grand River and of whieh I \vas assisted by' a man -Who
have never heard until it had a understood the (methods of an
.post Office. Early in the morn- engineer and carried his instru-
ing of St. George's Day I pro- merits. Two others carried the
ceeded on feat toward the spot, provisions. Other axemen . cut
having sent forward a ,band or continuously down the surveyed
woodsmen with axes on their line through the wood in which
shoulders to Prepare a shanty a flying level was taken.
for the night -a shed .made of The two mOnths of strenuous
boughs and bark with a great toil penetrating, the Huron for -
fire at the door. est involved the hewing 'of giant'
nniva
on No. --Highway with a load 'wood without .even a blackberry equal, to Mahogany. Still 'great -
of concrete blocks and it had
tipped over, Constable C. A.
_Hardytifi
_ tesed. • Accused had
to console us - m -the ram ranninger to be hewn was the ,beverly
in jubirlee----we came to the hutloak BO feet high and a girth of
of a Dutch settler in which ,no33,feeLSueh&xeeU1ent rnater-
been drinking, the witness said, English was to. he, attained. tial of virgin* growth and .incal.
and was afraid of repercussions However afterimut.eh jabber and !callable value, was used for the
looking at oneanother with•humble cabin,' fence railS,
mouth, eyes and nostrils in ad -,bridges, firewood, and even con
dition to ears, Mynheer gave iduroy roads. For clays the fa -
tongue that he could Speak tiguing work went on with 6c -
from 'his father,,who owned the
vehicle.
Seine of 'the NiVOrSt. weeds be-
• long to the grass family. Wild French, which he did no doubticaSional detours by one or more
oats are a grass very similar to perfectly, as in telling us he ,to gather information in the
cultiVatect oats, but actually an had cleared a• farm in the States seemingly inaccessable forest. It
extremely troublesome weed. which he exchanged for the was groping for clues, a course
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rip trcin ±Lensaii to nisu.ncton
home and unable to., secure a
horse on a ver Y \rainy day in
May, 1835, it took him from
claphreak to dusk to cover. the
.38 miles of tough road.
. To take some of the toughie:Is out of travel for the inwm-
ing. settlers, the Canada Com-
pany offered a bonus to the
first three settlers -i40, £50 and
t'60, respectively, to maintain
kir six months an overnight
st.P.4c,e, Wvern,
a company log house, at
certain points designated by the
company. The first to accept
the offer was Sebastian Fryfogle
living in Waterloo who moved
to the tavern on the 'western
border of Wilmot township in
Waterlo-o...ounty in 1828 'with,
out a noiatbor for miles on
either side.
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The -next tavern ,was at fhe
north' west eorner of South
Easthcpe and thus near Strat-
,forcf. It was taken over by An-
drew Hehner (Ilelmer's Tavern),
la former employee of the Can-
lada -Company. He 'became tav-
ern keeper in 1829. The third
erotessor pr. S. Baike, Federal German Minister of Atomic En- _
ergy and Water Resources on a tour of Canadian installation§,
stopped off at the Ontario Water Resources Laboratories in
subairb,a it Toronto. Dr. Balke is pictured with- Mr. Charles
McNaughto'n,, M.P.P. far Huron looking at a projection micro •
scope. Mr. McNaughton is a Provincial member to the Energy
Board. Photo Courtesi Province Of Ontario.
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tavern was at Seeiaach's Hill ,Line Joint SI7:1i- t'ompany to •
bout seven miles west of Strat-improve the trail. People in -
ford. Other taverna_along the vested for that time the large
deilburg near Clinton, and Hick's 'was -improvecf-froni London Ai) • - - •
Tavern at Holinesville.
IiElginfield with toll gates
Another .convenience fortrav-ithroughout the miles to
ellcrs was the placing of mile-meetthe cost and upkeep. The
posts on • the road. An effort scheme was ,a financial success.
was then made .by the company ,But after some years of tails,
to. make the trail into a roadway 'people wearied and claimed the
1)y enteringsipto a contract with
Col. Van Egrnonci.who, however,.
for want of Ccmpany cash, paid
:the -men with his' own money
and, accepted aereage.
With the aperiing of the main
trail others ,fallowed, Taut not too
.:•tviftly. The Proof Line bisect -1
.ing..J_Andon Township became
an important artery for traffic.,
•and settfcrs arriving at Port
Stanley seeking farms in Huron.
Slowly it inched its way toward
Godcrioh. Its first terminus was
he 16th conceion where stood!
McCannell's Tavern, now „Elgin -
field; then to the Black Settle-
ment, then to Devon (Barkwell's
ITavprn) at the intersection o;
tchiejoCrne.ditorro.ad,.and finally to
to .
,
In 1849; because of the poor
condition of the Proof Line,
Freeman Talbot, as the Middle-
sex Cou-nty•engineer, successful-
ly. intereaaeci some local busi-
nessmen in forming the Proof
mer Store
Open Friday Nights until 9 o'clock
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OTHERS AT $49.50 and $55.00
BOOKCASES
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1 Only -- Reg. $46.00 - SPECIAL $ 34.50
OCCASIONAL TABLES
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tolls were detrimental ,to- busi-
ness. They- sought to abolish
the system by purchase but in
vain. Finally, by common con-
se.nt, the toll gates were assem-
bled and disposed of by fire in
1907.
Mill Road Opened
Among other roads opened
wdre the Mill, road from the
budding village of Brucefield
through Egmondville to the
Huron road in 1837. Prior, to,
that date travellers from Bay-
field seeking to reach London
were 'compelled to follow the
torturous trail to Gaderich haf
order to go south,nstn_a trail
was slashed rthrough Varna to
Brucefield. The latter was not
cut through and continued to
Brewster's Mill until 1860. -In
the mi* 1830s a road was cut
from ,Brewster through Frieburg
(Dashwoad) to the London road
end called the Port Frank road
in an early Canada Almanac
map.
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pen Saturday Nights until 10 o'clock
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DOUBLE DRESSER -CHEST - BOOKCASE BED
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in Sienna Walnut
DOUBLE DRESSER - CHEST - BOOKCASE BED
Reg. $229.50 - Sale Special $16950
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SOLID MAPLE DINETTE SUITE
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OTHER ROCKERS from 04.50.
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Walnut China Cabinet
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