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Jim Abernethy BROKER ROYAL SERVICE REAL ESTATE INC. BROKERAGE WE PAY TOP DOLLAR "Your friend FOR YOUR SCRAP in real estate" CAR OR METAL 905-261-7788 905-623-5756 Promoter.ca [email protected] Volume 2 I Issue 10 TO over 32,000 HOMES AND bUSINESSES IN CLARINGTON December 2012 Exclusive When Barley was King! Interview with The Honourable Bev Oda PC Read the full interview online at www.claringtonpromoter.ca 2013 Winter Program Information The two men most responsible for the creation and popularity of the Cream of barley Cereal and Park: On the left, Alfred Shrubb (1879-1964) and on the right “Colonel” James Lake Morden (1860-1945). Pullout Section Inside by Charles Taws tunity. Leonard had a chance working with Timothy in 1868 than the competition. Under With assistance from Helen Lewis Schmid to buy land at the bottom of and the grist mill was now him the machinery worked day Lake Michigan for a mere 4 1/2 known as the “Ontario Mill”. In and night to fill orders. In fact, CLARINGTON MUSEUMS cents an acre, but assessing the 1874 it is called the “Soper Mill” in 1894 it was reported that the Inside This Issue AND ARCHIVES land as too marshy and worth- but is being run by Messrs. mill had run continuously, Sun- www.claringtonmuseums.com less came to Canada in 1788. Thompson and Burns. Timothy days excepted, for the last five Peter Hobb. Page 2 The land he had refused to buy died in 1878 at the ripe old age years! Orders came not only When you look at the Clar- eventually became the site of of 90, but Mr. Burns may have from across Canada, but from Jim’s Editorial . Page 3 ington Visual Arts Centre the city of Chicago, Illinois. been a Soper relation. Finally England and the East and West building on Simpson Avenue The Sopers first settled in in 1882, under H. and J. Towns Indies. Local farmers couldn’t Events Calendar . Page 6 you know right away that it Sidney Township near Bel- it is called the “Caledonia Mill”. supply enough barley so he was originally something else. leville. In 1789 their son Timo- It is with this name that the shipped it in from the west. COAA Winter Program Guide. Page 7 -14 It wasn’t always an Arts Centre thy was born (the first pioneer mill now entered its busiest and The barley came in on the train and some will be able to tell child born in that area). In 1795 most famous chapter. and left as a packaged product bev Oda Interview. Page 16 you that it was once a mill. A they came to Hope Township John MacKay was a Scottish by train. He won a gold medal few may even recall that it was where their daughter Pamelia immigrant to Canada and his for a pearl barley machine in Home Cooking with Cathy . Page 18 known as the “Cream of Barley was born (also the first pioneer “rags to riches” life story would the1873 Industrial Exhibition Mill” and it is somehow linked child in that area). In 1805 they make Horatio Alger proud. He at Buffalo, N.Y. For his barley Feature Properties . Page 20 to the famed Bowmanville Zoo; came to Bowmanville. Leonard was born in the late 1830’s and products he won a silver medal however, few may realize its built a saw mill first and then a came to Canada after serving 7 in Jamaica in 1879 and later in grand episodic history and what grist mill in 1806. The land, by years as an apprentice miller. 1902 he was awarded a diploma Visit: www.claringtonpromoter.ca it did to make Bowmanville the the way, was purchased from He was inventive and industri- at the Wolverhampton Industri- town as we know it today. Augustus Barber. He was an ous, some called him a tinkerer al Exhibition. Mr. MacKay died It all started with the Soper early land owner in the area and and he flourished in Canada: in 1902 and two years later the Family. This early Clarington the original name for Bowman- the land of opportunity. He old wooden mill burnt down. Website Link of the Month family is worthy of their own ville Creek was Barber’s Creek. started in Dundas, Ontario and Despite the difficult times article, but they are only at the Little is known about Augustus seems to have been there for 20 The John MacKay Milling beginning of this story. They Barber except that he was obvi- years (1854-1874), then a de- Company Limited soon re- didn’t have a hand in the later ously a man of some worth, ap- cade in Chatham (1874-1884) bounded and a beautiful, mod- developments but it was they pears in the Militia Roll Call for and then finally coming to ern new brick mill (the current who built the first mills on the the year 1812 and then seems to Bowmanville in 1884 and buy- VAC building) was constructed site of the Visual Arts Centre. disappear from the scene. ing the Caledonia Mill. in 1905 (within 5 months of the The Sopers had emigrated from Under Leonard Soper and He equipped the old mill old mill burning). The new mill Promoter.ca England to the United States then his son Timothy the mills with new machinery of his own was originally also called the by the 1760’s. Leonard and flourished. Other names be- design and patents which al- “Caledonia Mill” but that was to Mary Soper of Vermont were came attached to the mill over lowed him to mill barley prod- change for in 1910 John Mack- Visit www.ClaringtonPromoter.ca looking west for more oppor- the years. We find a Mr. Tait ucts in a more cost effective way Continued on Page 5 ☞ with this coupon receive any print or sign order over $100 before taxes print | design | signs | vehicle wraps % Coupon must be presented at time of 66 King Street West, Bowmanville order. Not to be combined with any other 905.623.8001 I [email protected] offer. Limit one (1) coupon per customer. www.jamespublishing.ca OFF Expires December 31, 2012. Follow us on 10 CP NOT INTENDED TO SOLICIT Buyers or Sellers currently under contract with a brokerage. Page 2 ClaringtonPromoter.ca I Visit www.jimabernethy.ca December 2012 Tax, audit & advisory are our forté. Clever ad campaigns, not so much. audit | tax | advisory Planning for the Future ily business. This isn’t the situ- registered retirement savings to enhance your retirement from the company to supple- come tax. On death the life in- ation in every case but we have plan (RRSP). Most of us do this pension. There may also be op- ment your retirement income. surance benefit would also not found enough examples that it for the tax deduction each year portunities to make lump sum Life insurance is a very flex- attract income tax. should be a concern. Having but the biggest benefit is the tax contributions to the plan to fur- ible product that can be used The point of this article is to the bulk of your wealth tied free growth of the amount in- ther enhance the pension ben- for many purposes. One of highlight the importance of di- up in one asset, your business, vested in an RRSP. With a dis- efits. Also, the contributions these purposes is to accumulate versifying your pools of wealth is very risky. If the eventual ciplined approach to contribut- made by your company are tax wealth. An individual, say at to reduce the risk that you may transfer of the business doesn’t ing annually to an RRSP and deductible. The amounts con- forty years of age, can purchase not have adequate financial re- achieve the desired financial starting early in your career you tributed by the company on a whole life or participating sources when you retire from by Peter Hobb result, you may not have many can accumulate a sizeable nest your behalf to the IPP would policy. This policy would be your business. I have provided other options for meeting your egg by the time you are ready to reduce or eliminate the amount funded by monthly premium some strategies on how you may COLLINS Barrow financial retirement needs. sell the business. you can contribute to an RRSP. payments. Over time this poli- do this. There are others. What CHARTERED accountants In this article I will discuss A second similar strategy is For businesses fortunate cy will build tax deferred equity is suitable for you will depend www.hobb.ca some of the strategies that can to have your company estab- enough to be accumulating cash and cash value. On retirement on your personal situation. In a previous article I be implemented to accumulate lish an Individual Pension Plan not needed to fund operations, the individual can take out a touched on the subject of trans- wealth while you are operat- (IPP) to provide pension ben- a second company could be loan secured by the cash value ferring business wealth to your ing the business. I have just efits to specified individuals. established that would acquire of the policy. The individual personal account while you are provided an overview of these The plan could provide pension the shares of your operating would not be required to make operating the business rather strategies. There are pros and benefits to the business owner, company. Cash not needed by any payments against the loan than waiting for a big pay day cons to each and they don’t ap- other members of the business the operating company could over their remaining lifetime.