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Introduction Harold and Helen Ham- mond have been museum supporters for many years. They recently came to the archives to find information on the Bowmanville Creek and the valley that sur- rounds it. The new fish lad- der is a wonderful improve- 3255 Pollard Road, Bowmanville - $874,900 ment to the area, but the Stunning one of a kind property in a private rural setting with four spring fed ponds. Hammonds wanted people to know more about the val- See more details on page 5 or visit jimabernethy.ca. ley’s history and its impor- 905-261-7788 Direct • 905-697-1900 Office tance to Bowmanville. I was When the Vanstone Mill was in operation it harnessed the waterpower of the Bowmanville Creek with a dam. This created able to supply them with in- the mill pond which was a great place to swim in the summer and skate in the winter. See page 5 for more details. formation and pictures and their request is the inspira- houses down that way [in Street. By 1830 Darlington off the north slanting King tion for this article. the valley] and today they Mills had become Bowman- Street and the other half off The Beginning of are all gone except one loan ville. The original name of the vertical Liberty Street. Inside This Issue Bowmanville brick dwelling which was Bowmanville Creek was Bar- This is why you get Division Few people realize that then known as the Williams’ ber’s Creek. It was named and Centre Streets converg- Bowmanville didn’t begin Home…[the valley] was the after early pioneer Augustus ing at Lowe Street. Peter Hobb...... Page 2 where it is now. It began principle business section Barber. He appears to have Two more wooden bridg- as the Village of Darlington of this corporation where been a prominent settler es, about which we know Jim’s Editorial ...... Page 3 Mills in the valley just south besides an oatmeal mill but did not stay in this area almost nothing, were built of where the Vanstone Mill is there was also Jacob Nead’s for very long. It is not clear at the Highway # 2 location. Feature Homes...... Page 5 today. No one today can tell Foundry…A woodworking when the name changed but The next bridge, we know you when Darlington Mills shop, and a machine shop. it happened many years ago. of, to cross the creek was Home Cooking with Cathy . . . . Page 7 actually started but it must All those works got their The Bridge across a stone one with beautiful have been around 1810 or power from the dam be- Highway # 2 arches. This bridge is be- so. The first pioneers came low the bridge…Then there A book could be written lieved to have been built in Visit: www.claringtonpromoter.ca here in 1794. They were was Gifford’s Tannery…The about this bridge that spans 1835, but succumbed to a three Loyalist families from Milne Distillery with its long the valley at Highway # 2. storm in 1876. It is surmised the United States: The rows of cattle shed…The The current bridge is the fifth that the arches collapsed Burks, Trulls, and Conants. soap making works…The bridge to cross Bowmanville but the remaining pillars Website Link of the Month For the first few years they old pottery works on the Creek. The first was much were kept and a new wood- stayed near the lakeshore, west part of the Vanstone further south and it was an en bridge built over them. but as time went on they Pond. The big departmen- old log bridge. No dates However, it is possible that pressed into the unbroken tal Burk Store and the Squair are known about this early an entirely new bridge was forest. The Burks discovered Grocery Store.” pioneer structure, but the built at this time. a site ideal for the erection of In the early 1820’s an en- location of the bridge was On June 5th 1890 a cloud- a mill and built the first mill terprising Scottish merchant soon moved further north to burst to the north created a on the site of the Vanstone by the name of Charles Bow- it current location because surge of water that knocked The Appliance Specialist man came to town. He the grade there was easier out five bridges and dam- Family owned & operated since 1955 Mill. Around this little mill the small village of Darling- bought the Burk Store and for horses to pull their wag- aged two others. The High- ton Mills grew. Mill and the land to the ons over the western side of way # 2 bridge was the most Visit www. ClaringtonPromoter.ca and look for and Here is a description of this east of the valley. He began the valley. This also explains important and had to be click on the Link of the Month tab to enter the early community. It was writ- surveying and selling lots the northward slant of High- replaced quickly. A steel ten by Bowmanville historian and the growth of the town way # 2 as you travel west bridge was constructed by Paddy’s Market website. David Morrison Sr. in 1939: shifted from the valley east- from Liberty Street. Half of “There were several ward along what is now King Bowmanville was surveyed Continued on Page 4 ☞ WRAP UP THE WINTER with fresh new vehicle graphics Order a minimum of $500 worth of print | design | signs | vehicle wraps vehicle graphics & receive 4 - 16” x 24” Lawn Signs 66 King Street West, Bowmanville with stakes FOR FREE! 905.623.8001 I [email protected] www.jamespublishing.ca VEHICLE MAGNETS | VINYL LETTERING | VEHICLE WRAPS *limited time offer*

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☞ Continued from Page 1 try and commercial activity. for power, but as a way to get In the pioneer period rid of their waste products- a the Weddell Bridge Com- the only power available practice that is frowned upon pany of New York State. The was water power so many today but was very common new bridge was 170 feet long mills and factories estab- back then. Goodyear is an and 18 feet wide. There are lished themselves near the American Company, but their many people in town who creek. The Vanstone Mill still Canadian operations here can still remember this old stands as a reminder of this in Bowmanville were actu- bridge as it wasn’t replaced forgotten time. Other early ally a homegrown organiza- until 1973. In recent years industries that flourished tion. It began on King Street the appearance of the new alongside the creek were: in 1896 as the Bowmanville bridge has been enhanced a pottery works, distillery, Rubber Company. They soon with street lights. soap-making works, oat- became the Durham Rubber Valley Industries meal mill, a foundry, wood- Company and moved to their Today, the Bowmanville working shop, machine shop current location in 1905. In Valley is a quiet peaceful and a tannery. The earliest 1910 Goodyear bought them place for a walk. There are hydro-electric plant was also out and expanded the fac- woods and fields to see as built beside the creek. tory. They are still here today, A postcard view of the Bowmanville Goodyear Factory. The original part of the factory was built in 1905 along the edge of you stroll along the path or In more modern times but are known as Veyance the Bowmanville Valley. the creek. But, in days gone larger industries such as Technologies Inc. by the valley has seen a con- Goodyear established them- In 1919 The Ross Can Com- as the “Whiz Building” ever and his creditors, a Montreal today) was the first. siderable amount of indus- selves near the creek. Not pany moved from Toronto since. In later years a flea firm, took over the operation. In 1910 the Town pur- and established themselves market operated from this It was run successfully for chased the Electric Light by the creek. They built a location and today it houses many years by James T. Steele Plant and promptly sold it large factory to produce tin several businesses including and then Allan Lockhart. to the Seymour Light and cans of all sizes. It is still there Kingscourt Catering. Eventually it was sold to Power Company a year later. today just north of the CPR Further south, but north James McDougall and it was They were able to provide Tracks on the west side of of the Baseline a canning during his ownership that much better 24 hour electri- Scugog next to the Bowman- factory established itself. the mill had its golden age. cal service and to continue ville Foundry. They made This was the Canadian Can- James’ brother George ran to supply the ever increas- metal cans until the mid- ners Limited. They didn’t the mill profitably for a few ing demands of individual 1920’s but the building is best make tin cans but processed decades before selling to a homeowners and business- remembered as the R.M. Hol- and tinned various vegeta- Mr. Stevens. It was under es. They provided electric- lingshead Building. This was bles there. It ran from 1912 his ownership that the mill ity for Bowmanville, Osha- an American firm that made to the early 1960’s. In 1962 caught fire (not to be con- wa, and Whitby from their all kinds of automotive oil- the Bowmanville Furniture fused with the Stephen’s Mill plants near Campbellford. based products. One of their Company established them- further north at Bethesda). They built an electrical sta- selves here, but the building Rumblings about electric tion behind Goodyear (the This photo shows the original Durham Rubber Company building (built 1905) most popular ones was a car succumbed to fire in 1979. lights can be found as early building is still there today). on the right side and the newer Goodyear building on the left (built 1910). Also polish called “Whiz” and the Until recently, the ruins of as 1884, but it was in 1887 They had no need for the on the left are the Grand trunk Freight Sheds. structure has been known the foundations could be that the Bowmanville Elec- old Bowmanville Plant so in

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Grand trunk Freight Sheds at the Goodyear Plant. This is where the spur line from the Grand trunk Line (today’s Canadian National) ended. It came up from the main line, along the west side of Hunt Street, and into the Goodyear factory complex. The line was taken up a few years ago. A cement whistle post (a sign to tell the engineer to blow his whistle 12-15 lb Turkey Roasted before crossing the Baseline) was relocated to the backyard of the Bowmanville Museum. In this c. 1910 photo part of Golden Brown 8-12 lb Apricot Glazed Ham the Goodyear Factory is still under construction.

Meals serve up to A-La-Carte seen but were cleared away tric Light Company was es- 1913 they gave it back to the for a new subdivision. tablished on the foundations town for tax concessions. • Turkey - $75 • Dressing - $12 16 people & come Lights In The Valley of the old mill. Water from The former pond became • Ham - • Mashed with 2 of our $80 - $12 Further up the valley in the creek was used to drive the town dump and local • Baby Carrots - $15 • Sweet Potato - $12 Bowmanville about where the dynamos and create florist S. Jackman took over Famous Pies • Peaches & Cream Corn - $15 • Gravy - $9 Jackman Road crosses the power. In periods of low wa- the building in 1917. • Turnip - $15 • Cranberry - $6 creek is the place where an ter a steam plant was used. In 1916 The Seymour Light • Squash - $15 • Famous Pie - $9 early mill was established and Initially they only provided and Power Company was * Prices include taxes and Gratuity * Bowmanville’s first hydro- electric street lamps in town. taken over by the Ontario electric plant was built. The lights were kept on un- Government. It became part Bowmanville merchant til midnight. If a late event of the Ontario Hydro Electric John Brown was enjoying was going on in town, such Power Commission which is considerable success in the as the Annual Bachelor’s the forerunner of today’s On- retail trade, but he decided Ball, arrangements could be tario Power Generation. to seek a bigger fortune and made to keep the lights on. In the next edition of Clar- CATERING go into the then lucrative Bowmanville had electric ington Promoter read about: profession of milling. Mr. streetlights before Belleville, Lights in the Valley, Trains 182 Wellington Street, Suite 6 Brown purchased the prop- Kingston and Peterborough. Across the Valley, and World erty which was then just un- An unsubstantiated claim is War I in the Valley Watch when Bowmanville, ON L1C 1W3 broken forest and built the that Bowmanville was the I continue with The History of road, dam and mill. Howev- third town in Ontario to get Bowmanville Valley Part II www.kingscourtcatering.com • 905.623.4277 er, he over-extended himself electricity. Berlin (Kitchener

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HOME COOKING with Cathy I am so glad to hear that people are enjoying the recipes Operated by the Clarington Older Adult Centre Board which I have had the pleasure of contributing each month to Clarington Promoter. I chose a recipe this month which my good neighbours in Kendal provided. by Cathy Abernethy It sounded like a lovely spring pasta dish with lots of Open: Monday to Thursday 8 am to 6 pm & Friday 8:30 am to 4:30 pm flavour and colour. A tossed salad and some wonder- HOME PROMOTER ful bread is all you would need to make this a complete CONTRIBUTOR meal. I hope you enjoy!! 26 Beech Avenue, Bowmanville Fettuccine with Smoked 905-697-2856 Salmon and Asparagus [email protected] • www.claringtonolderadults.ca • 1 lb. fresh asparagus- cut into 1 inch pieces (cut tough ends first) • 3 Tbsp. butter MURDER MYSTERY DINNER THEATRE(S) • 1 cup heavy cream or 1 cup 2% (Organized in Partnership with the Orono Town Hall Board) milk if you prefer • Grated zest of 1 lemon Wednesday April 11th, 2012 “Candidate for Death” • 4 oz. smoked salmon cut into thin strips Thursday April 12th, 2012 “The Deadly Reunion” • ¼ cup snipped chives • 1 ¼ lbs. fresh fettuccine • ¼ cup chopped fresh parsley • Salt and pepper to taste (Held at Orono Town Hall) Doors Open at 5 pm, Dinner & Show at 6 pm Preperation: Tickets $30 per person per show 1. Bring 6 quarts of water and 2 Tbsp. sea salt to a rolling boil. Limited Seating – Reserve Tickets Now at the Beech Centre 2. Add 1 lb. fresh asparagus pieces to water and cook for 1-4 minutes depending on thickness of asparagus. (do not overcook) 3. Scoop out asparagus from water and rinse right away in cold water. SCOTT WOODS CONCERT - Tribute to Fiddle Legends 4. Return water to boil and cook 1 ¼ lbs. fresh fettuccine according to directions on Wednesday April 18th 7 pm package Held at Garnet B Rickard Recreation Complex (2240 Hwy 2 Bowmanville) 5. Melt 3 Tbsp. butter in a large frying pan. Add asparagus and cook just to coat with Adult: $20 & Child: $10 butter. 6. Stir in 1 cup heavy cream or milk and grated zest of 1 lemon. 7. Drain pasta and add to skillet along with 4 oz. smoked salmon OPEN MIC “FREE” 8. Add chives, parsley, salt and pepper to taste. Sunday April 29 1 pm – 4 pm 9. Toss to combine and serve immediately. Calling all musicians, singers and songwriters to participate in our Open Mic. 10. Serves 4 main course servings. Cash Bar, refreshments, co ee and snacks available for purchase.

SMILE THEATRE “THE GREATEST STORY NEVER TOLD: Ian and Sylvia Tyson THE TALE OF DAN MCGREW” (Held in Partnership with The Newcastle and Newtonville Connections Newtonville Town Hall Board) known as “Ian and Sylvia”. Wednesday May 23rd at 1:30 pm (Held at Newtonville Community Hall) In 1963, Ian Tyson wrote a song called “Four Strong The Yukon Gold Rush of the late 19th Century was one of the most colourful Winds” which became a huge and exciting periods in Canadian history. This new Smile musical combines hit in Canada. The following year he married Sylvia and for the iconic poetry of Robert Service, the fascinating true stories of Dawson a short while they lived in the City’s larger-than-life heroes and villains, and a great collection of period Rosedale area of Toronto. Ian didn’t like living in Toronto music and rag-time piano. by Myno Van Dyke and when he got his first Tickets $5 Newcastle Historical big cheque for “Four Strong Winds” he bought a cattle Society (Sponsored by Ontario Power Generation) farm on the west side of Reid McGuey (now a Newcastle Ian Tyson was born in Victo- Road in Newtonville, Ontario. resident) said they got along ria, British Columbia in 1933. The farm was formerly owned well with Ian but rarely saw In his teens, he decided to by the late William “Bill” Reid Sylvia there. She recalls an EUCHRE EXTRAVAGANZA(S) pursue a career as a rodeo of Orono and before that his incident where her husband rider. He was injured from father Bert Reid. Shortly after, Jack had to assist Ian with a Saturday May 26th & July 28th at 3 pm a fall during the mid 1950s so Tyson purchased the adjoin- calf that was breeched. “The Includes 12 games of cards & a delicious dinner. he started learning to play the ing farm to the south. He veterinarian couldn’t make it, guitar. In 1958, he graduated started raising Hereford cattle so Jack and his brother Dave Win great prizes! No partner required from the Vancouver School and began breeding quarter went over and they worked $10 in advance of Art and decided to hitch- horses. Sylvia apparently for about 2 hours to get the hike across North America. wasn’t too fussy about the calf out. The calf was fine and He eventually ended up in farm life and spent a lot time after that Ian was very friend- Toronto singing “folk music” back in Toronto. ly with us. Ian would invite at various coffee houses. In In 1969, Jack and Ann Mc- us to the horse shows he put Van Transportation ALWAYS available to and from the COAA … 1959, he met a Toronto girl, Guey purchased a 10 acre on at the farm and would visit Sylvia Fricker and they began lot near the Tysons and built just contact the front desk to pre-book your ride! singing together. They were a new log home there. Ann Continued on Page 7 ☞

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