Kinmount Gazette KINMOUNT GAZETTE COM MITTEE THE KINMOUNT COMMITTEE FOR PLANNING AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT March 2012 Volume 4: Issue 5 Legend of Silver Slipper Inside this issue: Not all famous Kinmountians was unimportant; I had nev- of a whip or spur. Sportsman- walk about on two legs. One er thought of him as of any ship! Horses to be great must FRIENDS & NEIGHBOURS 2 such famous resident of the particular colour. His eyes have it. My dream horse with village was Silver Slipper : a were perfect, large, widely- his big heart was indeed a legend in the Horse world. spaced and full of fire, love, champion; he would lose LUCK OF THE IRISH 3 The story of Silver Slipper and the joy of being alive. gracefully, and most im- MYTH BUSTERS 4 began long ago in the 1940s. His legs were long and portant, he would win grace- Carol & Bill Pearson had a strong; he would be very fully. CULTURAL CORNER 8 cottage in the Kinmount Area. fast for the legs I had Ladies and gentlemen, my Carol was a noted lover of dreamed of were built for dream horse! horses; and indeed all animals. speed and strength. And his Thirty-eight years of my life KIDS’ CORNER 9 In her early years, she had heart! The heart I had built had slipped away; literally been a companion of the fa- into that beautiful body was hundreds of horses had come THE HOT STOVE 11 mous Emily Carr. So great so great, so full of courage, and gone. I had deeply loved was Carol‘s love of animals that nothing but a dream many of them, and many I KINMOUNT & THE 3 BEARS 16 that Emily Carr had quipped horse could carry it around. missed greatly; but my dream she had a ―brown paw‖. His lungs were full and still lived and often made me EDITORIAL 19 After her marriage to Bill strong like the West Wind. restless. Sometimes I found a Pearson, they set up residence His muzzle was soft and trait that I particularly admired in King Township outside of fine, like that of an Arab, in an animal I was working on, Visit us at Toronto among the Horsey- and it would snuggle up to and would then be sorry that I crowd. One of their friends me , quivering with the had not made it part of my kinmount.ca and neighbours was Lady same delight that filled me! dream horse, before he was Eaton and the Pearsons often His lovely sloping shoul- complete; for, once he was Continued on p. 5 ―rode to the hunt‖ with the ders proved him a jumper; avid hunters of King Town- strong back, ship. For many years the Pear- flat knees and The Kinmount Gazette & Victoria Pony Club sons were in real estate, espe- good withers cially farm acreages. But Car- all combined ol Pearson is most noted for to evince his her books; Including the fa- great strength. Annual Supper & Loonie mous ―Emily Carr As I Knew A perfect Her‖ and ―Brown Paws And horse must be Green Thumbs‖. The later a good athlete; book contains the 2 chapters he must have that chronicle the story of Sil- faultless coor- ver Slipper. dination and But on to the story of Silver balance, and Slipper. Let‘s let the author the ability to tell the tale in her own Words: work with his Saturday March 3 at Kinmount Community Centre ―Children, eight or eighty, I rider. He must have good news for you: keep have the de- Social Hour 5 pm - Supper 6 pm your dreams alive through the sire to win, years, for you never know and to do his Tickets $12 available from committee members when they will come true! upmost with- For years my dreams had been out being driv- or at Austin Lumber of a certain horse. His colour en by the use PLEASE NOTE CHANGE OF VENUE!!! Kinmount Gazette Friends and Neighbours: Sturgeon Point Sturgeon Point is a famous so the cottagers incorporated community on a point in Stur- Sturgeon Point as a separate geon Lake between Fenelon Municipality: Ontario‘s first Falls, Bobcaygeon & Lindsay. ―cottage community‖. For From earliest times, the local years, it was Ontarion‘s small- natives appreciated the site est incorporated municipality for its waterfront vistas. (The with its own council. In 1997 it Legend of Manita & Ogemah was amalgamated with the is set here). A regatta was City of Kawartha Lakes. held here as early as 1838. In Sturgeon Point was famous for 1876, a Captain Crandall pur- its summer regatta, sponsored chased the famous picnic site by the cottagers association. and built a huge hotel on site. The first regatta held in 1878, The hotel was regularly ser- featured a 2 man canoe race viced by steamboat. Many between the Chippewas of Lindsay residents vacationed Rama and the Mississaugas of all summer at the Point, tak- Curve Lake. The natives far ing advantage of the daily outpaced the local entries and steamboat service. In the late the winner from Rama paddled 1800s, Sturgeon Point was the at 70 strokes a minute! tourist excursion location for A church was built on site in holiday excursions. Over 1888 to save summer residents 3,000 attended an Oddfellows the trip to Sunday services excursion in 1881. To high- elsewhere. The original church light the day, a performance was destroyed by fire in 1915 of the Gilbert & Sullivan op- and replaced by the present eretta ―The Pirates of Pen- day octagonal church donated zance‖ was performed. Spe- by Lady Flavelle. It still holds cial trains often brought large regular services during the crowds from as far away as summer. The present commu- Port Hope for a day excursion nity also boasts a 9 hole golf to Sturgeon Point. course and a sailing club. Foreshadowing the tourism The grand hotel at Sturgeon industry, he laid out a village Point was destroyed by fire site for 40 individual cottages, and the steamboats stopped which were soon completely running. The community be- filled with summer homes & came a cottage community, no cottages. The cottage/summer longer restricted to summer community early recognized only. Despite the loss of mu- Sturgeon Point was nicipal status, Sturgeon Point ―different‖ from the surround- still maintains a vibrant com- ing farm municipalities, and munity to this very day. Help Wanted Full Time & Part Time - Year Round Summer Student Help Must be willing to work evenings & weekends Math skills a must Bring resume in person to Lynn at Gateway General Store & Cafe From top: Sturgeon Point Church, A steamer arrives at Sturgeon Point, Hotel at Sturgeon Point circa 1900. Page 2 Kinmount Gazette Luck of the Irish The Quilters Inn Barb Leffering right word, especially if it means Longarm Machine Quilting Quilting Retreats good luck. A better term might Classes Notions be fortune, which can be either Fabric—over 1200 bolts, wide backing, children’s fabric, panels, blenders & more good or bad. Certainly, Irish Open Saturday, Sunday and most afternoons history attests to plenty of times Please call to confirm weekly hours of ill fortune. For as many men 6 Hunter Street, PO Box 256 Studio 705-887-8499 who found a few nuggets of Kinmount, On, K0M 2A0 Residence 705-488-1312 www.quiltersinn.net E-mail: gold, there were more who [email protected] fought prejudice against Irish and especially Catholicism in the The luck of the Irish is a peculiar U.S. and in their homeland. The phrase that may have multiple Irish have lived in land that was meanings. There is little agree- taken from them, occupied by ment on origins of this idiom. the British, the Vikings, and Some suggest it simply means other conquerors. They‘ve sur- the Irish are inherently lucky, and vived famines, war, starvation, seem to be able to land on their and prejudice, and these are not feet when bad circumstances fortunate things. One thing is occur. Something innate about for sure: The Irish didn't survive being Irish makes such folks in- a potato famine, and being treat- herently lucky. Others trace ed as 3rd class citizens upon origin of the phrase to the US their arrival to the U.S. (till the where especially during the ex- mid-late 1900's) by not having a ploration for gold in the west, positive outlook and a great there were high numbers of Irish sense of humour! who got lucky, and found their Mary - "I was just wearing my ―pot o‘ gold‖ in the gold fields of new shoes today when I stepped California, or were equally pros- in a HUGE cow patty!" perous in silver mining. Yet, Michael - "Tis a LUCKY thing there are others who believe that you were wearing shoes!" luck in this phrase is truly not the Mary - "Yea, Luck of the Irish." This is the original offices, workshops and hangar of the de Havilland Public Transit Aircraft of Canada Limited that opened at Downsview in September Kinmount to Lindsay 1929. This historic and well-preserved heritage building that gave birth to Canada's greatest aircraft such as the DHC-2 Beaver is not Departs from Gateway General Store & Café protected as an historical site and is going to be demolished so a pri- @ 8 AM vate company can build a hockey rink on Federal land. To add your Monday March 12 & 26 name to a message of appeal or for more information visit www.casmuseum.org Page 3 Kinmount Gazette Myth Busters: Home on the Range? On February 16th, snowmo- the farmer bilers and visitors to the Herit- who is set to age Park would have been sur- receive the prised to see a herd of domestic herd at his buffalo grazing on the frozen farm in Que- grass just west of the play struc- bec, was inter- ture.