Kinmount Gazette

Kinmount Gazette KINMOUNT GAZETTE THE KINMOUNT COMMITTEE FOR PLANNING AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT Chad Brownlee to Headline Kinmount Fair September 2013 Volume 5: Issue 11 Rising Country Music star Chad Brownlee has round draft pick of the Vancouver Canucks, Inside this issue: been booked to play the Saturday Grandstand but abandoned a hockey career for country FRIENDS & NEIGHBOURS 2 show at the 2013 Kinmount Fair. Brownlee music. Chad Brownlee will be at the grand- joined the Canadian country music scene with stand on Saturday August 31 @ 2:00 pm. COLLINS FANUKY HISTORY 4 a debut album in JOURNEY FOR HEALTH SUCCESS 8 2010. He was nominated as KIDS CORNER 9 Country Male THE HOT STOVE 10 Artist of the Year in 2012, SIDEROADS OF KINMOUNT 13 and his latest BELL OF BATOCHE DISCOVERED 14 album has re- DOROTHY’S DELIGHTS 15 ceived a Juno nomination for GALWAY GARAGE 17 2013 Male Artist EDITORIAL 19 Of The Year. Brownlee was actually a 6th Visit us in colour at Minden Flood Relief Concert a Success! kinmount.ca There were stars in the sky and stars on stage sky and raised money for the Minden Flood as the Flood Relief Concert rocked the Kin- Relief Committee. It was estimated the concert mount Fairgrounds on Saturday August 3. netted between $70,000 - $80,000 for this Headlined by Jim Cuddy and Greg Keelor of worthwhile cause. The very next night, Jim Blue Rodeo, and blessed with superb Cuddy was on stage in Calgary for another ―Kinmount Fair-style weather‖, the concert Flood Relief Concert. Greg Keelor has a long was sold out a week in advance. Over 1,800 time family connection to the Haliburton High- patrons enjoyed a night of music under the lands and in owns property in the county. The Kinmount Fair was proud to be the host for this special concert. A special thanks to Chris Brickman for providing the photos of the After the Flood Concert held at Kinmount Fair- grounds Satur- day August 3. Kinmount Gazette Kinmount Committee for Planning and Economic Development Friends and Neighbours: Oakwood Mariposa Township lies in the suitable for a pioneer‘s friends: lated from the other centres and nesses geared to farming such as a southwest corner of the old the grist and saw mills. There off the beaten path at the time. tannery, wagon factory and a grain County of Victoria. Its name were few, if any, suitable wa- But a ―town hall‖ was built in elevator. Mariposa was a grain- means ―butterfly‖ in Spanish terfalls or mill sites. Therefore Oakwood and to this very day growing township and there were and was picked by a British most of the mills in Mariposa it is still the municipal centre several elevators in the township veteran of the Napoleonic relied on steam power. The for Mariposa. to hold grain. Mariposa became Wars (1792-1815) to add a lack of mill sites also meant Oakwood was originally called noted for its seed production, espe- little variety to township the growth of villages was Tift‘s Corners after the earliest cially clover seed. names of the era. It is located slow and sporadic. Most vil- settler. The name was changed Mariposa, as a prosperous rural in the third row or range of lages or hamlets grew up to Oakwood in 1848 when the farm township, had more than its townships surveyed north of around mills in pioneer Ontar- hamlet was given a post office. share of community organizations. the front on Lake Ontario. As io. There were numerous ham- A town plan was surveyed in In the late 1800s, our society was such, it was surveyed for set- lets in the township, but most 1853. The name Oakwood was flooded by a plethora of groups all tlement in 1821, but no real started as cross roads commu- selected because a grove of oak designed to make their community settlers arrived for 10 years: nities meant to service the lo- trees dominated the hill at the a better place. The oldest society new settlement was still ab- cal farmers. Mariposa despite four corners. When the Maripo- in Mariposa was the Mariposa sorbed by the two township being the most populous town- sa Town hall was built, it was Agricultural Society which held its ranges between Mariposa and ship in Victoria County in the the only building at the site. first Fair at Oakwood in 1848, at Lake Ontario (Cartwright & 1800s, never contained a true Gradually the hall was joined the new town hall naturally. The Darlington Townships in incorporated village or town. by stores, mills, houses and Oakwood Fair continued until Durham County). Much of the Woodville, on the northern businesses. Oakwood was a 2009 and now seems to be de- unoccupied township was border was such a village, but typical pioneer cross roads funct. (Another piece of history granted to absentee owners, it was officially listed in Eldon hamlet: several general stores, gone!) There were many other especially veterans of the re- Township, even if half of the a blacksmith or two, harness farm organizations and clubs ac- cently ended War of 1812, village was on the Mariposa maker, carpenters, shoe/boot tive in the area including: the descendents of Loyalists and side. makers, a school, couple of Grange, Patrons of Industry, Farm- ―friends‖ of the government But hamlets there were in Mar- churches and the ever present ers Institutes, United Farmers of of the day. True pioneer set- iposa. Little Britain and inn or tavern. As the agricul- Ontario, Farmer‘s Union, and tlers were rare, and about half Oakwood were the main cen- tural sector flourished, of the eventual settlers had to tres. Woodville to the north, Oakwood acquired more busi- Continued on p.. 3 buy their lots from previous Manila to the west and owners. Seagrave to the south were Still these lots were valuable boundary villages, shared with because Mariposa Township other townships. Valentia, Fin- contains some of the best gerboard, Port Hoover, Sonya farmland in Ontario. It was a were hamlets while Linden ―farmer‘s township‖ if there Valley, Grass Hill, Cresswell ever was one. Agriculture was and Taylor‘s Corners all had the main industry and still is. post offices and were recog- The township bordered on the nizable communities. But there north shore of Lake Scugog, was no ―big town‖ or village which provided the earliest that dominated the township. and easiest access for settle- Each township had a ment. Almost all the settlers ―township seat‖ or lead centre. came via Port Perry or across This usually meant the village the lake from ―ports‖ like or hamlet contained the trap- Cesarea in Cartwright Town- pings of local government: ie a ship. Despite the fact Lindsay town hall, library, municipal was only a few miles to the office, etc. Kinmount was the east, the early settlers looked township seat or centre for to Port Perry, Beaverton and Somerville Township. Manilla for supplies & com- Oakwood was designated the munications. seat for Mariposa as early as Mariposa lacks rivers to sup- 1844. History does not really ply water power. The only explain why Oakwood won major system is West Cross this honour. It was not the larg- Creek or Mariposa Brook, est or most prosperous hamlet which was small and barely at the time. It was kind of iso- Page 2 Kinmount Gazette Kinmount Committee for Planning and Economic Development Friends and Neighbours, Continued from p. 2 more recently Women‘s Institutes , The Whitby-Port Perry-Lindsay Junior Farmers and 4H. Mariposa line had to pass directly through had them all! Other organizations Mariposa, but picked a course that called Oakwood home as well in- ran between Oakwood and Little cluding :Freemasons (1858), Loyal Britain! Manila Junction was a Orange Lodge (1855), Ancient Order major junction, but it too was set a of United Workmen (1885), Canadi- distance from the hamlet as well! an Order Of Chosen Friends (1889), Thus the railway stations were at a Independent Order of Foresters distance from the major hamlets. (1897) and Independent Order of But the railways did mean prosper- Oddfellows (1876). Some of the ob- ity and the isolated stations Kinmount Agricultural Society scure groups in the township includ- shipped large quantities of farm ed Knights of the Macabees, Knights products. The prosperity of this Kinmount Fair of the Good Templars and Sons of trade can be seen in the fine homes August 30 – 31, Sept 1, 2013 Scotland. that dot the countryside and grace Lindsay was a regional railway cen- the hamlet of Oakwood. Eventual- We wish to thank our many volunteers, tre, and several railways obviously ly Oakwood acquired a larger town “Friends of the Fair” and loyal visitors. passed through Mariposa. However, hall, skating rink and its own bank. the township council was notoriously It was home to the Mariposa Mu- Your support is greatly appreciated. ―tight‖ with railway bonuses which nicipal offices and the cenotaph as www.kinmountfair.net led to some interesting station place- well as a high school. It even had ments. None of the main hamlets its own doctor and veterinarian: a (Oakwood, Little Britain, Woodville, sure sign of prosperity! But in the Manila) actually had a railway sta- 1900s, improved roads and the tion within the village! The Port advent of the motor car ―shrank‖ Hope-Lindsay-Beaverton line delib- distances. Lindsay was a mere 7 erately planned its route away from miles away and most of the ser- Oakwood and Woodville. Oakwood vices concentrated in the larger residents journeyed 4 miles north to centre. Oakwood is even hooked catch the train at Grass Hill, while onto the Lindsay water System.

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