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Kinmount Gazette Kinmount Gazette KINMOUNT 150TH ANNIV ERSARY COMMITTEE A S U B - COMMITTEE OF T HE KINMOUNT COMMITTEE FOR PLANNING AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT August 5, 2009 Volume 1: Issue 10 The Victoria Railway Inside this issue: Railways: the stuff of leg- Never heard of those two or two would be just the ticket ends. In Canada, railways are “vanished” hamlets? to prosperity. NEIGHBOURS AND FRIENDS 2 a part of our history, in- Kinmount is still around The first railway to penetrate grained in our culture, legen- because it had the railway and our area was the Toronto- LEGENDS 5 dary chapters of the Cana- they didn‟t! Nippissing Railway. It origi- dian Experience. Railways Railways were common in nated in Toronto and extended KINMOUNT STATION 6 transformed the scattered & Ontario by the 1850s. It was a north-east through Uxbridge to isolated colonies of British noted fact the iron horse Coboconk. Plans called for SPOT THE SHOT 7 RECAPTURED North America into the coun- brought prosperity to any com- this line to carry on to the try called Canada. They were munity it graced. Lindsay & Nipissing District near North KINMOUNT KIDS’ CORNER 10 the “National Dream”. Peterborough both became Bay. The rails reached the Railways were the National railway towns by 1860. But banks of the Gull River in THE HOT STOVE 11 Dream for the village of Kin- railways, like roads, func- 1872: and never went any fur- mount as well in the 1800s. tioned better with more con- ther. The TNN railway dead- EDITORIAL 15 Before the Victoria Railway nections. The more railway ended in Coboconk, exhausted linked Kinmount to the out- lines into town, the better. & broke. Now it was Lind- Below: Some pics of side world, it was a sleepy North of these thriving eco- say‟s chance to seize the Heritage Week Events. backwoods hamlet on the nomic centres lay the newly golden ring of northern pros- From left to right, Bobcaygeon Road. In 1870, opened Ottawa-Huron Tract: a perity. Talent Night it was comparable to Peter- seemingly boundless area of The booming railway town of Moonlight Mania son‟s Corners or Silver Lake. unexploited riches. A railway Continued on page 3 Music in the Park Kinmount Gazette Neighbours and Friends: Fortescue At the northeast corner of Kinmount. Access to Kin- majestic waters of the local Galway Township stood the mount was by the Galway lakes. Main Street Kinmount settlement of Fortescue. The Road, or more directly, by the The Fortescue settlement pro- settlement had a post office & White Lake Road. Mail came duced local poet Theo Pea- Kawartha Credit Union is a a school. The settlement also from Furnace Falls railway cock, who logged and trapped full-service financial spilled over into Cavendish, station & the nearest “big” in the area and recorded his institution with 19 branches Snowdon & Glamorgan shopping centre was experiences in “Tales of the in North and Townships, making it truly a Kinmount. Trail”, a book of poetry. An- East-Central Ontario from settlement on the fringe. The The settlement consisted of a other interesting family were Trenton to Parry Sound. school was located in Caven- few farming/lumbering fami- the St Georges, remittance dish Township, and was the lies who hugged the shores of men from Ireland. “Exiled” to only school ever operating in White & Fortescue Lakes & Canada by a family issue, they ATM available 24 hours our neighbouring township to occupied pockets of land later moved to Bobcaygeon 705-488-9963 the east. This log schoolhouse along the Salmon Lake Road. (via Kinmount) where they still stands today on the These families included the used their classical educations Join Us! Salmon Lake Road and is a Ford, Peacock, Switzer, Gill, to found a private school that summer cabin. Higgins, White, Flood, Hut- became Hillcroft Hospital. For our official The Fortescue settlement was chinson & Ferren families. designation as an actually closer to Gooderham The area was poor farmland historical site than Kinmount, but because it and by 1940, the last was in the municipality of “farmers” had left the area. Saturday, August 8th 1:00 PM Galway-Cavendish, its admin- They were replaced by tour- istrative headquarters was at ists, who fell in love with the Kinmount Railway Station (Sir William will be proud) The Little Red School House: For Station Agents Of all the job opportunities nessmen & clergy as the top teacher in the community larly shuffled from place to available in a pioneer commu- of the social scale. drove many local lads to place. Blair‟s long tenure in nity, working for the railway “How did one get to be a sta- select railway station agent as Kinmount was unusual. In the was considered one of the tion agent?” The procedure a career path. Bob Blair in- golden age of railways before best. There were several job was simple: you applied, structed his students in proper World War II, station agent classifications: section crew wrote a test and “trained” on procedure for the multitudes could be a career for life. But (labourer), train engineer or the job with an approved of tasks the position of station the age of railways waned, conductor and station agent. “teacher” of station agents. agent demanded. and times changed. The num- The latter was considered the These teachers were exem- The position of station agent ber of railway employees best position available on the plars of proper railway proce- was a transient existence. myth of the old-fashioned railway. Station Agent came dure, with experience and the Agents, especially at the start station agent was consigned with a certain “social status” knack of training newcomers. of their careers, were regu- to the pages of history. in the community. They were One such teacher was Robert the official representatives of Bennett Blair, station agent at the Railway Company in each Kinmount from 1933-1956. community. They were the Bob Blair, the consummate bosses of the railway station, station agent, trained 21 local sold passenger tickets, han- men during his tenure at Kin- dled freight transactions, took mount, the most by any telegrams and were consid- trainer in the Belleville Divi- ered “management”. On the sion of the CNR. old “business directories” For young lads aspiring to a compiled for each town, sta- career as a station agent, Bob tion agents ranked with busi- Blair was the ticket to this good career. There is no doubt the presence of the rail- Page 2 way and such a well respected Kinmount Gazette Victoria Railway, continued from page 1 Lindsay was mortified by the 10 townships from the On- mount, but Peterborough, in a was devastated! Not until 1906 did TNN plans. This rival railway tario Government and was pique of jealousy, refused to Bobcaygeon finally get a railway never went near Lindsay, fun- anxious for a railway to spend money on a railway link, by then it was far too late for neling its riches west to Dur- assist in land sales. centred in the rival town of the mighty Boyd Lumber Company. ham & York Counties. Lind- Railways were expensive to Lindsay. This lack of support Fenelon Falls was the new boom say, the county seat for newly build. It was estimated the so angered the residents of the town. -formed Victoria County, first section (Lindsay- north end of the county that The Fenelon Falls crossing had big might lose out on the riches of Haliburton) would cost 1.4 they literally seceded from implications for Kinmount as well. its back townships. It was million dollars! There were Peterborough County & The new line was to follow the time for a pre-emptive strike! several ways to raise this formed their own county: the course of the Burnt River Valley The businessmen of Lindsay large sum: government Provisional County of north, crossing into Haliburton & South Victoria, sprang into grants, stock sales & mu- Haliburton. Their first act County at Kinmount. The sleepy action & planned a railway nicipal bonuses. Grants were was, you guessed it, a big little village in the valley of the from Lindsay north into the secured & sales of stock in cash bonus for the Victoria Burnt was to be the halfway point back townships: the Lindsay- the new venture were brisk. Railway! on the railway. Somerville Town- Fenelon Falls & Ottawa But then the railway promot- Municipal politics also raised ship promptly granted the railway a (Valley) Railway. As the title ers almost foundered on the its head in other places. The $15,000 bonus, the same sum it says, the plan was to extend shoals of municipal politics. cross the Kawartha Lakes gave the Coboconk line earlier. It the line north into the Ottawa To many tax-payers, railway barrier: Fenelon Falls & Bob- was money well spent! Fell‟s Sta- Valley to tap the rich lumber bonuses (outright grants of caygeon. Using the mathe- tion, Burnt River & Watson‟s Siding trade. The title was quickly money) were a curse and a matical equation rail- all became railway stops. And the changed to the Victoria Rail- burden on taxpayers. The ways=prosperity, Mossom village of Kinmount flourished as way, a more geographically town of Peterborough and Boyd, the Lumber King of the never before. appropriate title. The route of the townships of Southern Kawarthas, lobbied hard for Kinmount now had the tri-fecta for the new line was planned to Peterborough County out- the railway to use the Bob- prosperity: river, roads & railway. cross the Kawartha Lakes at right refused to grant bo- caygeon corridor. But his The sleepy village quickly grew either Fenelon Falls or Bob- nuses.
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