Kinmount Gazette KINMOUNT GAZETTE THE KINMOUNT COMMITTEE FOR PLANNING AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT Municipal Election 2014! November 2014 Volume 7: Issue 1 On Monday October 27 Ontarians went to Township of Trent Lakes Inside this issue: the polls to elect municipal governments (formerly Galway-Cavendish & Harvey) RIENDS EIGHBOURS 2 across the province. Here are the results for Mayor F & N the municipalities in the Kinmount area. Bev Matthews - 2,237 * THE BARTER SYSTEM 4 Janet Clarkson - 1,932 * MOONSHINERS BUSTED 6 City of Kawartha Lakes Deputy Mayor Mayor Ron Windover - 1,722 * SOLDIERS OF THE GREAT WAR 6 Andy Letham 16,055 Rick Aube 1,579 KIDS CORNER 9 Donna Villemaire 4,742 Peter Franzen - 904 THE HOT STOVE 10 Brenda Karagiannis 3,888 Galway-Cavendish Ward RESULTS FROM KINMOUNT FAIR 14 John Macklem 2,338 Terry Lambshead 707 DOROTHY’S DELIGHTS 15 Bill Denby 654 Madeline Pearson 617 * Richard Wackernagel 96 THE CARDEN ALVAR 18 Ward 3 City of Kawartha Lakes (Somerville Councillor Harvey Ward - Peter Ray- EDITORIAL 19 Township includ ing Kinmount) mond Gord Miller 665 Councillor at Large - Dick Persson Visit us in colour at Hafiz Makani 427 kinmount.ca Jim Greensides 96 Municipality of Minden Hills All issues available online Other Councillors elected in the City of Ka- Reeve wartha Lakes Brent Devolin 2,159 Ward 1 – Rob Macklem Brigitte Gall 1,596 Get Results! 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Bring a Food Bank Donation to be entered in a draw for a special prize! @kinmount Kinmount Gazette Kinmount Committee for Planning and Economic Development Friends and Neighbours: Carden Township Carden Township lies to the contained any large villages or munities were reduced to ghost room school described the building north of Eldon Township and even proper mill sites. No major town status in the recent era. thusly: to the south of Dalton Town- rivers traverse the plains of The township also contained 7 Horncastle School was closed in ship. It was named after an Carden but it does have a major school sections. Most of the 1937. There were only 2 students English Naval captain John lake (Dalyrymple). Access was school sections were open until left, and the teacher walked all the Carden famous for his ex- gained to the township via the 1967 when amalgamation closed way from Kirkfield (7 miles) every ploits during the Napoleonic Victoria Colonization Road in the local one room schools. Stu- day. The two students were bussed Wars (1796-1915). Surveyors the east, the Monck Road to the dents were divided between the to Kirkfield school. moved north from the Eldon north and from Kirkfield in the centralized schools in Kirkfield Rohallion survey in 1830, but aban- west. The township residents and Brechin. Another flood of settlers in Carden doned their work after pro- were served by 10 post offices, The population of Carden took a Township pushed north from Kirk- nouncing the township unfit many outside its actual bounda- big drop after 1900 as many set- field in Eldon Township into the for settlement. Most of the ries. The 1890 directory for tlers abandoned their marginal southwest corner of the township. township is a flat limestone Carden listed the following farms and moved west or south. A post office was established in plain with a thin layer of top households by post office: However the farms were not this corner of the township and soil. But in the 1850s the totally abandoned and the clear- named Rohallion after a site in township was surveyed and Victoria Road – 41 ances were converted to cattle Scotland. Rohallion was a famous opened for settlement. The Uphill – 12 ranches. The largest ranch was loch in Perthshire near Birnam settlers were “less fussy” by Horncastle – 14 3,000 acres. Today much of the Wood. It featured a small castle this time and any free land Rohillion – 24 area has been used for quarries and a big legend relating back to remotely suited for farming Kirkfield – 30 or is protected as the Carden the historic Macbeth. was opened up (ie) Haliburton Brechin – 20 Avlar. A school section (SS #1 Carden) County!). Dalyrymple – 45 Horncastle was established by 1861, very ear- Settlers poured in from the Sebright – 29 The Victoria Road enters Carden ly in Carden‟s history. The school south (Eldon) and the west Carden – 9 Township at the village of Victo- section was closed in 1947 as the (Beaverton-Thorah). By 1861 Woodhill – 4 ria Road. In the late 1800s, so population in this area declined. the township had 158 home- many settlers flooded into east- The Rohallion post office was steads. Carden Township nev- Many of these post office com- ern Carden along the Victoria opened in 1889 and closed in Road that there were 3 school 1915. In the 1891 census, Rohal- Clockwise from right: a map of the Carden Township; a typi- sections along the road between lion post office serviced 24 house- cal Carden farm ; an abandoned farmhouse in Hornpayne Victoria Road and Uphill. Half holds. Rohallion was accessed way up the Road in this section from Bolsover (4 miles south) or er lay the cross roads hamlet of Dalyrmple (4 miles north) Horncastle. A school (SS #7 Continued on p.3 Carden) was opened in 1866 and a post office was established also in the 1860s. Like so many other local villages, Horncastle was named after an Eng- lish town (in Lincolnshire). The only business in the hamlet was a general store and post office run by the Millaly family, long since gone. The land around Horncastle was widely cleared for agriculture, but Dalrymple was suitable only for ranching cattle. Eventually Horncastle most of the farms were abandoned and converted into ranches. The Horncastle school was the centre of the communi- Rohallion ty. One student of the one Victoria Page 2 Kinmount Gazette Kinmount Committee for Planning and Economic Development Friends, continued from p.2 Today the Rohallion Road ser- also located along the east vices a number of cottages on the shore of the lake. north side of Canal Lake on the The Dalrymple community Trent Canal. never contained a business sec- Dalrymple tion. Shoppers flocked north to Along the western border of Sebright (6 miles) or south to Carden Township lay a large lake Kirkfield. Orillia was the larg- called Lake Dalrymple. The est centre for shoppers. large, shallow lake is divided in An interesting story concerns two by a narrow spit of land two Dalrymple men who voted called Avery Point. Huron village in an early election. In pre- sites are prolific along the lake Confederation days, each rid- which they called Kechebebob- ing had only 1 polling station. gong, a real tongue twister! The The station for all the north earliest settlers originally called it country was located in Whitby. Mud Lake, a rather uninspiring The two men walked all the generic name. The name was way to Whitby to vote, a two changed to Dalrymple Lake. The day trip down and a two day earliest settlers came from Bea- trip back. Upon returning verton or Kirkfield. The land home, they discovered one had surrounding Lake Dalrymple was voted Conservative and the some of the best farmland in the other Liberal: effectively can- township and attracted the earli- celling each other‟s vote! De- est farmers. mocracy can be messy! The first post office was estab- The Municipal Office for lished in 1870 and was called Carden Township was located Upner. It was later changed to at Dalrymple using the old match the lake‟s name. Dalrym- school. The facility was too small and ple community was concentrated in the 1980s, a new community cen- on the east side of the lake. tre/township office was built on site. Many settlers from the west and The Carden Agricultural Society be- north sides got their mail from gan to hold annual fairs at the com- Sebright.