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Kinmount Gazette KINMOUNT GAZETTE THE KINMOUNT COMMITTEE FOR PLANNING AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT Remembrance Day 2014 in Kinmount December 2014 Volume 7: Issue 2 Clockwise from far left: Gillian Inside this issue: Pearson; Natasha & John Austin; Kelly Lin; R. Wackernagel; FRIENDS & NEIGHBOURS 2 Legionnaires organize the wreaths; HISTORY OF REMEMBRANCE DAY 4 Laurie Scott; Bernice Owens SOLDIERS OF THE GREAT WAR 6 SIDEROAD OF KINMOUNT 6 KIDS CORNER 9 THE HOT STOVE 10 HONEY, HONEY, HONEY 14 DOROTHY’S DELIGHTS 15 SCHOOL SECTIONS 18 EDITORIAL 19 Visit us in colour at kinmount.ca All issues available online Get Results! ADVERTISE IN THE GAZETTE! 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Kinmount Artisans Marketplace Make cheques payable to K.C.P.E.D. 1:30 pm meet Santa downtown Gift Basket Draw! 50/50 Draw! Your name will appear in the Thank Follow him to Kinmount Legion KFM Toonie for first 25 people! You to Our Patrons section on page 15. Gifts for Kids 10 & Under & Family Lunch Christmas Music Night Gingerbread Cookie Decorating Galway Hall - Desserts, Loonie Auction For ages 16 & under Follow Kinmount events on Twitter! Celtic Music with The Family Tye 12 - 2 pm @kinmount Kinmount Gazette Kinmount Committee for Planning and Economic Development Friends and Neighbours: Dalrymple Along the western border of Confederation days, each riding Carden Township lay a large had only 1 polling station. The lake called Lake Dalrymple. station for all the north country The large, shallow lake is was located in Whitby. The two divided in two by a narrow men walked all the way to Whit- spit of land called Avery by to vote, a two day trip down Point. Huron village sites are and a two day trip back. Upon prolific along the lake which returning home, they discovered they called Kechebebobgong, one had voted Conservative and a real tongue twister! The the other Liberal: effectively earliest settlers originally cancelling each other‘s vote! called it Mud Lake, a rather Democracy can be messy! uninspiring generic name. The municipal Office for Carden The name was changed to Township was located at Dal- Dalrymple Lake. The earliest rymple using the old school. The settlers came from Beaverton facility was too small and in the or Kirkfield. The land sur- 1980s, a new community centre/ rounding Lake Dalrymple was township office was built on site. some of the best farmland in The Carden Agricultural Society the township and attracted the began to hold annual fairs at the earliest farmers. community centre. The fair was The first post office was es- discontinued in the 2000s. tablished in 1870 and was The growth of tourism led to a called Upner. It was later change in the community as changed to match the lake‘s Lake Dalrymple became lined name. Dalrymple community with cottages. was concentrated on the east Carden side of the lake. Many set- Carden post office was yet an- tlers from the west and north other abandoned community that sides got their mail from lay along the north boundary of Sebright. In the 1891 census, Carden near the Dalton bounda- 45 families gathered their mail from Dalrymple; the ry. A post office was established largest community in the as early as 1862 and was only township! A school section closed in 1914, There was a (SS # 4 Carden) was opened school section (SS #5 Carden) in the early 1860s It soon had but no businesses or churches. 70 students and a larger, Only 9 families collected their frame school house was built mail at the Carden PO in 1891. to accommodate the area. The school house was located on The school was closed in 1911. the present site of the last school, closed in 1967 and used as a community hall. A church and cemetery was From top: the Dalrymple also located along the east Schoolhouse; a typical Dalrym- shore of the lake. ple Farm House; City of Ka- The Dalrymple community wartha Lakes map showing Dal- never contained a business rymple. section. Shoppers flocked north to Sebright (6 miles) or south to Kirkfield. Orillia was the largest centre for shoppers. An interesting story concerns two Dalrymple men who voted in an early election. In pre- Page 2 Kinmount Gazette Kinmount Committee for Planning and Economic Development Bark Lake Leadership Camp Half way between Irondale and Gooderham lies Bark Lake. The actual lake is several miles north of #503. In the era of the lumber barons, Mossom Boyd lumbered extensively in Snowdon and Gla- morgan Townships. He had a large depot on the south shore of Bark Lake and spent quite a few years logging in this area. Saw logs were floated down Bark Creek to the Irondale River. Supplies were cadged in by a trail from the Monck Road (now 503). To supply the lumber shantys in the area, several pioneers located along Bark Lake. William Spencely was listed on the 1881 census as living at the Bark Lake depot. His son-in-law Sampson Wright followed by 1901. The road was very primitive. It was originally called a ―cow-splat path‖ and later upgraded to an ox trail. The Wright family were isolated over the winter. One winter, the children caught black diphtheria, a horrible virus that caused the throat to swell shut and as- phyxiation to follow. Being highly contagious, quarantines were im- posed on the Wright family. Before it was over, 5 small children died at Bark Lake. They were buried onsite, but later moved to Gooderham cemetery. The heart broken family abandoned the farm. The next occupant was a hunt camp gang who occupied the old depot site until the 1940s. After World War II, the government of Ontario became interested in outdoor education for school children who were growing up in an urban setting. Somebody remembered the Bark Lake 705-488-1349 site and an exploratory expedition in 1947 was impressed with the site‘s potential. The hunt camp was purchased, a reserve of 4,300 acres of crown land created for the camp and the road upgraded by 1948. Dallyn Pickens, a local man, was hired to be maintenance chief. Forty campers were accommodated the summer of 1948. Throughout the 1950s, the facilities were steadily improved. The De- partment of Education operated the original camp. The counselors were teachers who had an interest in outdoor activities such as swimming, canoeing, woodcraft, camping, first aid and outdoor crafts. The campers were students selected from schools around the province who were trained in leadership. They were housed in tents which slept 5-7 boys. The students arrived by train (the good old IB&O) and got off at Max- well‘s Crossing, the nearest flag stop. One year, the railway was on strike and the campers were delivered back to Toronto by truck: riding The Kinmount Tartan on benches in the back of an army truck! That would be a crime today! Men’s Cap - Tartan Scarf Over the years, Bark Lake Leadership Camp pin-balled between vari- Tammy - Men’s Tie ous government ministries, but kept on expanding and upgrading. It Available at Kinmount Artisans Marketplace or provided employment for many local residents, especially in the Contact Diane at 705-488-2635 Continued p. 5 Page 3 Kinmount Gazette Kinmount Committee for Planning and Economic Development History of Remembrance Day November 11, 1918 marked the end of wa was not opened until 1939. da. The poppy symbol was further en- the Great War (1914-1918). This day World War II gave a further boost to the hanced by Canadian Dr John McCrae was originally called Armistice Day. concept of cenotaphs and Remembrance who penned that most famous of war The earliest services were simply held in Day. Thousands of returning veterans poems: In Flanders Fields. McCrae‘s churches as a memorial to the soldiers swelled the ranks of the Royal Canadian words and symbolism are used around who were buried in foreign lands. So Legion, and those not returning swelled the the world on Remembrance Day, and soul destroying was the war that many names carved on the various cenotaphs and especially in the British Commonwealth just quietly paused for a moment‘s re- memorials. Legion branches multiplied after nations. In the USA, November 11 is flection without crowds or fanfare. It 1945, Kinmount branch #441 was formed in called Armistice Day. was a private day of mourning. In 1921 1946 and named after John McGrath, a lo- All the symbolism now attached to Re- the Government of Canada passed the cal boy who paid the supreme sacrifice in membrance Day, including the music, Armistice Day Act which fixed Thanks- 1944. Cenotaphs continued to spread all the two minutes of silence and the laying giving Day, then celebrated the second over Canada, and most communities erected of wreaths has grown up over the years Monday of November as a day for re- one, whether they had a local Legion branch membrance for fallen soldiers.

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