Shipbuilding Tradition Lives On

Daily Journal ■ Record Centennial Edition, Friday, Sept. 1, 1967 OLD SALT Captain James Andrew, who built the first Canada’s Cup win ner in his Oakville shipyard, moved his family into a new Shipbuilding Tradition Lives O n home at 5 William St. in 1891. Shipbuilding in Oakville is an spurred him to found a village the need to conduct his business ment and workers from his Bur Industry as old as the town it here. in his own ships. lington Bay shipyard to The Six Are your floors self. teen. But Oakville and Burlington He was already the owner of NAVY STREET Col. William Chisholm was al were too far up the lake to at five schooners plying the lakes and furniture ready a successful merchant- when he bought the land for the Chisholm’s shipyard was loca tract a sizeable schooner trade importer in the Burlington Bay new village in 1827 and before ted just above the last big beginningto area when the potential of the during the short sailing season, the ice closed navigation that curve in The Sixteen, just be mouth of the Sixteen as a port and so Chisholm had early seen year he had moved the equip low the end of Navy Street, where the water was deep close to shore. The first ship laid down there was a 50-ton schooner built to the same plans as his “ Mohawk Chief” , and was christened “The Didn’t C lean J Trafalgar” since it was the first | vessel built in the township. Contact this man now The second was the “Lady Colboume” , named after the gov- emor-general’s wife, followed soon by the “Mississauga Chief” . His Clothes Other shipbuilders soon set up on the Sixteen, among them John and Melancthon Simpson and John Potter. But by the time these vessels In 1867 were built there were already steam vessels on the lakes, and ] by the early sixties the trans formation to steam was almost complete. But, We Can TIMBER GONE Also, the supplies of timber in the area were almost exhausted by this time, and the town’s BOB B L A D E S master shipbuilders were either converting to the construction of Clean His Grandson's iron ships at other ports, mov He sells ing to the timber areas of the upper Great Lakes, or turning their carpentry skill to other t V u im u t ic building jobs. Today! One of the last vessels built in Humidifiers shipyards on The Sixteen was The low cost of installing a Drumatic the “ White Oak” , built by Dun Humidifier in your home will be more can Chisholm for his brother than offset by the comfort realized by Captain George, and launched on your family. Constant colds and sore Confederation Day, July 1, 1867. throats and nasal passages are common IN JUST ONE HOUR The schooners, killed by the to homes without proper humidity. laws of economics, are gone Electrical shocks bounce off door knobs now, but, surprisingly, there are and furniture falls apart when a dry condition exists. Drumatic humidifiers more sails in Oakville harbor are installed directly on your furnace COMPLETE and in Bronte harbor today than and automatically circulates properly there ever were in the days of humidified air to every room in your SHIRT LAUNDRY he tall ships. home. Controlled by a humidistat The great local emphasis on mounted on a wall in your living area. summer boating has not only pro Call your Drumatic man now! and duced some of Canada’s best sailors, but it has also provided OAKVILLE-BUILT SCHOONER "WHITE OAK' D R Y CLEANING a booming market for boat Launched on nation’s first Dominion Day builders, and Oakville’s ship ON THE PREMISES wrights are again coming into their own. have turned up on boats as far other racing craft built by One of Dodds’ earlier inven away as Spain. Bruckmann, was launched at WORLD FAMOUS tions was a type of hovercraft Metro Marine. Many, like Dick Milman, Eric RED JACKET that was successfully tested on REPUTATION . For Quality Dry Cleaning Bruckman and Hugh Dodds, are The Red Jacket, a sloop built Metro Marine, located at the Lake Ontario. His latest innova becoming known in boating cir by Eric Bruckmann in his shop mouth of both the Sixteen and tion in boating is the Flying Cat cles around the world for their on Wallace Street, has set the Twelve Mile Creeks, is one of Cruiser — a two-ton, 31 foot KNOWLEDGE ..Of Advanced Dry Cleaning skill. racing world on its ear since its the best-known maintenance houseboat that rides on a three About 30 years ago, Dick Mil first season on the water, when shops for both sail and power inch cushion of air and can hit man was the only boat builder in it won 12 of 15 races on Lake boats on the lake. Boats from as top speeds of 35 miles per hour. Methods Manufactured by the Holland who made kayaks — Ontario last summer and two of far across the lake as Rochester Wait-Skuttle Company, which were very popular for rac five in the stiff Southern Ocean have spent the winter in Metro A United States firm has al 359 Davis Road, Oakville, Ont. ing in Europe. This summer at Racing Circuit last winter. Marine’s repair and storage ready taken an interest in the EQUIPMENT.. * Utilizing Modern Procedures Milman’s Speers Road shop, his yard. boat, and may place a standing The early success of Red Jac order for 50 Flying Cats a year workshop turned the 12 Snipes Recently, fibre glass has be ket has led to other jobs for — a large enough order that all used at the Pan American Games come a very popular material in Bruckman. This spring, one of other operations in the Forsythe in Wimipeg. pleasure boat construction — and PERSONNEL,.. Selected and Trained to Serve You last ,year’s crew members on the Street plant would have to be Eurw?. This summer at /Mifr- Aero Marine specializes in boats RedJ Jacket ordered a boat call shut down to meet it. Tw<? months of thei^aumtr atl and other sailing vessels of this his Oitario Yachts waT. fSken up> ed Bnferno' —t the% largest fiSrtr .glasj; boat ever butilt in Carada. material. Dodds mastery o f fibre glaist buiildng a 31 foot,' 5.5 metre Inf>mo was launictud last Local sailors call Hug Dodds has been on display for millions- sailboat that will compete in IEL! a wizard with fibre glass — if of visitors to Expo ’67. Aero next year’s Olymoics. The de spring and is also headed for 595 SPEERS Rl_>. Florida and the SORC this win it can be built with fibre glass Marine built the ultra-modern sign of the boat's mahogany hull OAKVILLE, ONTARIO ter. During August, Avanti, an Dodds can do it. Ontario Pavilion for the big fair. ONE HOUR MARTINIZING was so critical that only planks a day could be placed, Milman said. Early this summer, Milman THE MOST IN DRY CLEANING was approached by a man from two boat designs he wanted 845-6242 368 KERR ST. N. built by Ontario Yachts. Milman has also had orders from Den mark for spars, and his sails J k o t o j s e & r o u n b ANTIQUES OF ALL TYPES A time for cheering... A time for thought... A time for remembering and looking forward, too. A treasure store brimming full of Also in our warehouses, At Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce, Canada’s Centen nial year has a double meaning — a double reason for pride. Victorian Chairs large selection, Household For our bank was also founded in 1867, Confederation year. Grandfather Clocks This year is, of course, a time of reflective pride for all effects, serviced appliances, Canadians. A time for looking back and recalling ttie great Glass, China moments of our p ast But it should be a time for us all to look forward, too. K should be a pause before a new beginning. Books, Paintings do-it-yourslf chests of draw On groundwork laid one hundred years ago we at Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce, like all Canadians, Silver, Brass, etc. ers, chairs, tables, etc., etc. will boita stiff more — achieving a still greater century in the years to come. Full or part estates bought outright or sold by Auction on ours or customer's premises. CANADIAN IMPERIALf a BANK OF COMMERCE 1967- Our Hundredth Year of Banking Service 120 Thomas (cor. of Church) Oakville 845-3541.

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