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Dedication of the new outdoor chapel at Camp Kitchikewana Sunday, July 13, to the memory of Mr. and Mrs. Norman Playfair was almost like an old boys’ reunion, as dozens of former “Kitchi” members turned out for the event. Rev. Len O’Neil of Leamington, camp chaplain, officiated. A portion of the crowd which attended the dedication service at the new chapel is shown. 

New harmony in camp, this new organ will provide music for the new outdoor chapel dedicated to the memory of Mr. and Mrs. Norman Playfair of Midland at ceremonies held at Camp Kitchikewana July 13. New chapel replaces one destroyed by a storm last year. 

   There’s something about the 30,000 Islands of Georgian Bay that’s hard to define or to beat. Seen above is a typical scene at Midland YMCA’s Camp Kitchikewana on a recent visitors’ day. Various forms of entertainment are well illustrated in the picture with swimming, diving, canoeing, rowing, and sailing. Or just sitting in the shade, like the couple in the foreground. 

Saturday saw hundreds of North Simcoe Orangemen Collingwood-bound to take in the big July 12 parade. Among the veteran members of Midland lodges who took part were Mr. and Mrs. John Ney and Mrs. Charles Haines, left, in the upper photo. Other members are seen boarding one of several buses for the Collingwood trip. 

Five of the hundreds of the marchers who took part in the July 12 Orange parade in Collingwood Saturday were these five members of the girls’ juvenile lodge of Midland. Left to right are, front row, Heather Crawford, Audrey Hoy, Florence Chapman; back row, Nancy Thayer, Karen Atkinson. 

“Where’s my other shoe?”, asked the little girl on the left as she appeals to Father Francis P. Sullivan (right background) for help during a picnic at Paradise Point last week. The picnic was a portion of the program carried on by Sacred Heart Church summer school at Port McNicoll during recent weeks. 

Seems that dogs, even as kiddies, must have their “shots” these days, and Sandy was one of the larger specimens that turned up in Midland Wednesday for his anti-rabies vaccination. Elaine Stainton lends moral support, with Dr. T. L. Dale on the business end of the needle. Sandy belongs to J. Stephens of Midland. 

Midland Parks Commission appears to be one step ahead of both the Russians and Americans in space travel. It now has, through the generosity of Midland Y’s Men’s Club, a “manned Sputnik”, shown in the background. In foreground Y’s Men’s Vice-president Cy Ney, Harold Mc Allen, parks superintendent, watch as John Power, chairman of the club’s playground committee, officially turns over the new piece of playground equipment to Wm. Murray, parks commission chairman. At right is Wm. Mutch, Y’s Men’s Club treasurer. Commission hopes other Midland service clubs will emulate the Y’s Men. 

These space aged tads are making full use of the latest gadget for interplanetary (imaginative, that is) travel, the “Sputnik” is located in the playground at Little Lake Park and was donated by Midland Y’s Men’s Club. 

Cafeteria facilities at Martyrs’ Shrine have been greatly improved this year, with sparkling new counter equipment. In lower photo manager Joseph Goetz, right, explains fountain equipment to Fred Cremasco of Guelph, the cashier is Jeanne Sauvé, a brilliant young student from Penetang, now attending U. of T. Setting up wares behind pastry counter, upper photo, are Louise Bellehumeur, Penetang, left, and Marion Lavigne, Midland. 

Eye-filling, as well as creel-filling, was this five-pound, ten-ounce largemouth black bass caught by Bob Gidley Tuesday, July 8. Bob, who lives at 166 William St., Midland, landed the fish (biggest bass he’s ever caught) around 9:30 p.m. at the northeast end of the lake. He was using an artificial lure and a spinning rod at the time. One of the biggest fish caught in Little Lake in some time, Bob will enter it in several contests. 

• The Free Press Herald headline of July 16^th, 1958; Ossossane Group Ired, Urge Beach Parking Ban The “battle of the ditches” being waged on Tiny Township beaches is becoming an increasingly sharp thorn in the side of Tiny council. Cottagers at Ossossane Beach joined in the fray Sunday afternoon when they held an indignation meeting which finally concluded with a resolution to send a delegation to the next meeting of council. Chairman of the group, Mr. Sherry, contended that a road which has been established on the beach in front of their cottages for many years is “not a road for cars”. He displayed a surveyor’s plan which indicated the right-of-way ran to a dead-end near his cottage. “The people below us (Mountainview Beach) have a so-called private beach. They stop cars and have even been reported to have stopped bathers from using their beach. We are forced to take all of the cars, including the filth they leave after them,” Mr. Sherry continued.
• The County Herald headline of July 18^th, 1958; Worst Storm in Years, Park Facilities Hit Hard Termed the most severe electrical storm in years, Tuesday night’s thunderstorm and driving rain kept Midland Public Utilities employees working until the early hours of Wednesday morning to effect repairs. The severe lightning caused power interruptions in all sections of Midland that ran the gamut from momentary dimming of lights to blackouts of nearly two hours’ duration. Probably the hardest hit section in town was Little Lake Park. Parks Superintendent Harold McAllen said the service box in one new cottage was burned out and would have to be replaced; nearly 50 street lights in the park were blown out by the storm. Mr. McAllen said water damage, caused by the heavy rain which accompanied the storm, was severe. Park roads that had been filled and graded before the storm were washed out. One of the major headaches, he explained, was the overflow off Yonge Street which was diverted into the park in a ditch excavated about two years ago by the town’s public works department. The tennis court and property, to the north of it, was covered with six to eight inches of water. Numerous tenters had their bedding and equipment saturated with water and had to be housed in cabins overnight, he said.  The run-off from the ditch also eroded an embankment south of the tennis court. If the surface run-off continues there is every possibility that the tennis court will be undermined and the surface ruined. The sidewalk at the park booth was undermined as well, he stated. The top of one large tree in the ballpark was blown down across the race track, he said.
• Perfect summer weather and the blue waters of Georgian Bay provided a pleasant setting for the dedication of the new outdoor chapel of Midland YMCA’s Kitchikewana on Beausoleil Island Sunday afternoon. Daughter of Mr. and Mrs. James Playfair, Nancy Playfair unveiled a handsome wooden plaque dedicating the chapel to the memory of her grandparents, the late Mr. and Mrs. Norman Playfair. Also dedicated was a new organ for the chapel, which had been badly wrecked by a windstorm early last year. The organ was a gift made by family and friends in the name of another son, Jack Playfair. The senior Playfairs had played a prominent part in the life of both Camp Kitchikewana and Midland YMCA for many years prior to their passing. Outlining some of the good deeds of Mr. and Mrs. Playfair, camp director J. W. “Win” Smith said the chapel was dedicated to the memory of “two very good friends down through the years.” They had been intensely interested, even before the camp actually came into being, he pointed out. It was Mr. Playfair, he said, who led the YMCA group looking for a campsite to the present site of Kitchikewana. He had come there before Beausoleil Island became a part of the National Park system.
• Tay Township council has been asked to issue debentures amounting to $30,000 to cover the erection of a new telephone building, purchase a switchboard, improve the lines, and purchase new telephones where needed. The request was made following a meeting of Tay Telephone System in the public school at Victoria Harbour last week. Some 40 subscribers attended the meeting; along with representatives of the Bell Telephone Company and the Ontario Telephone Authority.
• Midland Citizens’ Band has added new laurels to its star-studded musical crown. At the Orange walk in Collingwood Saturday afternoon, the Midland band won first prize as the best band in the parade. The prize was $10 in cash. The three-mile-long procession was said to be the largest parade North Simcoe has had for July 12 celebrations. More than 120 lodges from southern Ontario centers took part.
• Drivers of two big trucks must have aged several years in a few seconds on Highway 12 near Victoria Harbour early Tuesday morning. The two big vehicles met and passed in the narrow subway underneath the CPR tracks, about two miles west of the Harbour, where ordinarily two cars have all they can do to pass safely. By skillful driving or good fortune, only minor damage amounting to $40 resulted as the two vehicles touched briefly, then proceeded through the tunnel safely. Each was minus the side mirror on the driver’s side.
• Two major Midland industries recently have been awarded substantial contracts by the Department of National Defence. Ernst Leitz Canada Limited, world-famed camera and precision instrument manufacturers, have been given a $60,000 contract for further camera work. Midland Foundry and Machine Co. Ltd. received a contract for $17,483 for aircraft servicing equipment. The firm has constructed equipment of this type for the defence department on numerous occasions.
• Noted author-traveller Ken Wells of Medonte will be interviewed “live” on CBC’s “Tabloid” program at 7 p.m. Friday. CBC crewmen were in Port McNicoll Monday taking pictures of Mr. and Mrs. Wells and their new ship, the “Sea Owl. Later the CBC men shot pictures in other well-known North Simcoe spots for use on the same Tabloid program Friday night. The Wells expect to leave Port McNicoll next Wednesday on the first leg of a tour (down the Trent Water System) that will eventually lead to the Bahamas.
• More than 800 people from widely scattered towns in Central Ontario converged on Penetang Sunday afternoon when Alcoholics Anonymous staged a family picnic, at the new beach park. With free coffee in the pot throughout the afternoon, grownups contented themselves with chin-wagging, meeting new and old friends, swimming, and entering an occasional contest. Children were kept busy with races and a variety of contests as well as swimming and playing on swings and teeter-totters. A quick count of children present was taken when 250 free ice cream bars were consumed in a single round. Largest contingent other than Midland and Penetang groups, came from Toronto, with 25 separate groups represented. Other groups registering came from Whitby, Peterborough, Lindsay, Elmvale, Meaford, Guelph, Collingwood, Orillia, Barrie, Aurora, Camp Borden, Ajax. Most distant Ontario group came from Sudbury, but the big prize for distance went to a member from Washington, D.C.
• Jack Hendrickson belted a triple to the deep right-center field at Town Park here Monday night to give Midland Indians a 7-5 win over Stayner Motormen in a Bruce Baseball League contest before a good crowd of fans. Hendrickson’s blow came with the bases loaded, two out, and Indians on the short end of a 4-3 count at the time, in the 6th The win broke a two-game losing streak, longest of the season for coach “Bun” Deschamp’s men.
• Personals – LADIES — Unwanted hair permanently removed. For appointment phone LA. 6-6570. D. Boyce, Electrologist, Yonge St. W., Midland. Ontario — SKINNY MEN, WOMEN! Gain 5, 10, 15 lbs.; new pep. Try Ostrex Tonic Tablets. For body skinny because of appetite impaired by lack of iron. 6-day “get – acquainted” size costs little. Or buy economy size and save 75c. All druggists. — SEE Paintings by Tony Gendron at John McGuire’s Furniture Store, Penetang. On sale at low prices. — REV. A. J. and Mrs. Lewis will be at home to their family and friends at the United Church Parsonage, Penetang, Sunday, July 20, from 3 to 5 and 7 to 9, to mark the occasion of their golden wedding anniversary.
• COLDWATER — A Fesserton man called on several Coldwater Main Street merchants Saturday afternoon in an effort to sell a live skunk, which he was carrying in a bag. He claimed the animal’s “armament” had been removed. The animal was removed from under a pop cooler, by Joe Barden in the latter’s tobacco store, where it had scampered while the owner gave a sales talk. He wanted $5 for it. The latter draped the skunk around a youth’s neck in the store and later struck out across the road to interview other prospects. Chester Martin firmly declined to negotiate. When the skunk vendor reached Russell’s Corner store, he lost his grip on the sack, which dropped to the sidewalk. As the bag struck the unyielding pavement and opened up, a fog-like mist billowed up from the interior and soon all in the vicinity of the Main Street were thoroughly convinced the skunk was still in full possession of the characteristics provided by nature.
• 25 Years Ago This Week – A rooster raised by an Orr Lake resident that had been killed for the market was found to have a gold nugget in its crop. A few months previously a gold nugget had been found in the crop of a duck from a farm in the Wyevale area. * * * Two Midland youths who went swimming at the Portage had their clothes and wallets stolen from their car. The thieves gained entry to the locked vehicle by cutting a hole in the roof. * * * A total of 127 properties in Midland were listed in an advertisement for treasurer’s sale of lands for tax arrears. Tax arrears and costs against one property amounted to $5,610. * * * Contracts had been let for paving 10 miles, 10 feet in width, of each of No. 26 and No. 27 highways. Paving on Highway 27 was to be laid from Waverley to Fergusonvale. On 26, the hard surface was to be laid from Stayner to Edenvale. * * * For the first time since the highway had been constructed, a motorcycle officer was patrolling Highway 27 between Midhurst and Penetang. The road to Wasaga Beach was also included in his “beat”. The officer was Ray Hodgson. * * * Five large, privately-owned gasoline and steam driven yachts had made Midland harbour their headquarters for a week. Three of the yachts were owned by Americans. * * * Italian General Balbo’s air armada flew over, Midland on the last leg of their air flight from Italy to the World’s Fair at Chicago. There were 24 planes in the flight.
• The Ontario Department of Travel and Publicity has prepared some pertinent information for those who are inclined to scoff at the actual value of the tourist industry to the economy of this nation and this province. Reports on 1957 tourism indicate that 1,550,000 cars entered Ontario from the U.S. All told, these approximately 17 million visitors spent an estimated $250 million in the province.
• At its June meeting, Tay council had directed Clerk Dalton to instruct the owners of four boathouses at the foot of Hazel Street in Waubaushene to have same removed. Waubaushene Chamber of Commerce has advocated the removal of the boathouses off the road allowance to provide boat-launching facilities for residents and tourists.
• Wednesday, two lads appeared in Juvenile and Family Court, Midland, charged under the Juvenile Delinquents Act with committing an indecent act upon a younger child. Sentencing the offenders, Family and Juvenile Court Judge, Marjorie Hamilton expressed deep concern over the pattern of behavior and the gravity of the offence. Each lad was placed on probation and in addition was ordered to be spanked on his bare buttocks by his father, in the privacy of his home, under the supervision of the officers present in court.
• Two Canada Steamship Lines freighters, the Hagarty and the Donnacona; have been tied up at the winter berth in Midland for an unknown period, CSL manager in Midland, J. G. Hendrickson said the ships were forced to lay up because of lack of cargoes on the Great Lakes this summer. Mr. Hendrickson said he had not been advised of any further ships being tied up at the moment.
• As a result of public outcry, at least one large Canadian meat packing firm has adopted more humane methods for hog slaughter. It has installed carbon dioxide equipment which renders hogs unconscious as they pass through a chamber on a conveyor belt. Although the entire operation, from the time the animal enters the chamber until it is slaughtered, takes only 75 seconds, the hog receives sufficient gas to keep it unconscious for six or seven minutes. This seems incongruous in a country that clings to the barbaric custom of the gallows tree as a means of capital punishment for humans.
• COLDWATER — A double funeral service was held at Robinson funeral home, Coldwater, Wednesday afternoon, for Mr. and Mrs. Frank Athron, Sr., of Waubaushene. Burial was at Coldwater cemetery. The couple died at Waubaushene within two days of each other. Both were in their 79^th Mrs. Athron died Sunday and her husband’s death was Tuesday. Immediate survivors are two sons, Denis of Waubaushene and Frank Athron of Toronto, and a daughter, Mrs. Roy Rankin.

   Looking back a bit further to the third week of July 1937. The Midland Free Press prior to the County Herald published a second section that featured the news of Penetang and area. Below are the two headline pages from the 21st of July 1937. Adobe Reader is required to open these attachments and is available free from Adobe online.  

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We can assume that Ken Somers, the Free Press photographer, was on holiday during this week in 1958. The only “staff photos” in the two papers were from the regional correspondents and Penetang staff photographer Vern Farrow, for which we do not have the negatives.

   We will cut and paste the photos of interest but this will be a sparse edition. 

  Formalities of his induction as minister of Midland’s St. Paul’s United Church behind him, Rev. Wilson Morden enjoys a cup of tea with J. W. Smith, Mrs. Morden, and Mrs. T. M. McCullough. Despite the hot July night, there was a good turn-out of St. Paul’s members and visitors from other Midland congregations present to welcome the successor to Rev. W. R. Auld.

 

• The Free Press Herald headline of July 9^th, 1958; Cottagers Tempers Flare in Beach Ditch Battle. Two ditches dug across Mountainview Beach from the lot line to the water line are about as hot an issue in Tiny Township this week as was one other “ditch” in the Near East about three years ago. One of the Mountainview ditches was filled in Saturday afternoon on orders issued by the Tiny council. By Sunday morning, another had been dug within 50 feet of the first. Local resident Mr. McDermott claimed the ditches had been dug by owners to prevent cars from driving on the beach. Mountainview Beach is situated immediately south of D’Aoust’s Bay. A section of the beach had been used as a roadway on the beach front. The cottager said that, on the previous Sunday afternoon, “hot rodders” were making a “drag strip” of the beach. “These young punks race up and down going at least 60 miles an hour and cut figure eights,” he claimed.
• The County Herald headline of July 11, 1958; Land-use Survey Report Urges Forest Expansion. The four townships were examined by a group of foresters in 1952-55, who made a survey of the woodlots and who examined the land area for forest crop production. Appropriate ratings were suggested for forestry, agriculture, and pasture for different land characteristics. A brief historical sketch of the area shows that prior to 1650, a moderately large portion of the area was cleared and farmed by Huron tribes who at one time numbered at least 30,000. Many of their needs for food, medicine, clothing and building materials were largely supplied by the forest. Between 1650 and 1800 the area was largely uninhabited and returned to forest. Settlement of the area began along the main access roads just before 1800 and was increased after the War of 1812. Today the survey area, more than 284,000 acres in extent, has more than 159,000 acres (56.07 percent of its area) of land used for agriculture, nearly 93,000 acres (32.67 percent) of natural woodland, and nearly 11,000 acres (3.8%) of planted forest. The remainder is roads, railways, towns, inland water, scrub, and swamp area. Writers of the report feel that the total forest area should be increased by about five percent. Rural population in 1955 was 11,613 and the urban population 16,607.
• A new Sputnik is in orbit at Midland’s Little Lake Park. While it won’t contribute anything to the International Geophysical Year, it’s giving local youngsters a whale of a time. The Sputnik is the newest addition to the playground equipment near the Indian village in the park. Made of metal tubing, it resembles a rocket on a launching pad with a round earth satellite at the tip. It is designed so children can clamber up through the rocket and drop to the ground from its tip. Dozens of children were lining up to play on it as soon as it was firmly fixed in its cement base. The attraction is the gift of the Midland Y’s Men’s Club, first of the town’s service clubs to respond to an appeal by the parks commission for assistance in providing playground equipment. Parks Commission chairman W. Murray said more help was needed to equip the popular playground. (I saw the spaceship in a backyard along the Old Fort Road a couple of weeks ago.)
• Between 600 and 700 members of four Orange Lodges in Midland are expected to take part in what may be the largest, “Glorious Twelfth” parade ever held in Simcoe County, at Collingwood Saturday. Held as part of Collingwood’s centennial year, the celebration is expected to attract hundreds of lodges from Simcoe East, South and West County lodges. All but one of the 14 lodges in Simcoe East are expected to march in the parade. The four Midland lodges are Maple Leaf LOL 947, Lady Parkhill LOBA (Ladies’ Orange Benevolent Association), Orange Young Britons, and the girls’ juvenile lodge. Other Simcoe East lodges included Penetang, Coldwater, Wyevale, Waverley, Vasey, Elmvale, Allenwood, Warminster, Uhthoff, Orillia, Hawkestone, and Craighurst.
• Two former members who played a large part in the history of both Midland YMCA and its famed Camp Kitchikewana are to be honored in ceremonies at the camp on Beausoleil Island Sunday. A new chapel at Kitchikewana is to be dedicated as a memorial to the late Mr. and Mrs. Norman Playfair of Midland. Several friends and relatives of the Playfairs have contributed funds towards the restoration of the chapel, badly damaged in a wind storm last year. (Photos next week)
• Sharon Park, daughter of Mr. and, Mrs. Clive Park, Midland, suffered minor injuries Thursday afternoon in Little Lake Park, which required a few stitches to close a cut in her forehead. Sharon, apparently, was pushing her bicycle downgrade from the trailer section in the park when its weight became too much for her and she ran into the back of a car owned by Rev. M. E. Rueber of Stratford. She was taken to the hospital, treated and then released.
• Midland’s award-winning Citizens’ Band presented its second concert of the season to a bumper crowd in Little Lake Park, Sunday night. Estimates of the crowd, which was seated in front of the bandstand and in hundreds of cars nearby, ran from 800 to 1,000 persons. The band directed by Bandmaster Al Hume and for one number by the new Midland Salvation Army Officer, 2^nd Lieut. George Swaddling played a varied program of hymns, marches and classical selections. They received their greatest applause and car-horn ovation after playing Holiday Sketches, the Waterloo festival test piece for which they won the senior division brass band title.
• Since Stephen Leacock’s death 14 years ago, Orillians have never ceased to perpetuate his fame; and to bind it to the town he loved. So said William Arthur Deacon, Globe and Mail literary critic, at the luncheon preceding the opening of the Stephen Leacock Memorial Home there Saturday. “Your first effort,” recalled Mr. Deacon, “was the establishment of the Leacock Medal for Humour”. Today there are 15 national, annual literary prizes; but only one bears the name of a famous Canadian writer.
• Births; Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd Simms are happy to announce the birth of their daughter, Dianne Lea, at St. Andrews Hospital, Midland, on Saturday, June 28, 1958, a sister for Margaret Ann. Mr. and Mrs. Ken Snider are proud to announce the arrival of a son, a brother for Kathy, at Penetang General Hospital, July 2.
• “The best piece of copper we have found on this site to date”, was the comment of Dr. Wilfrid Jury as he displayed an Indian spearhead found this week on the Forget site, southwest of Wyebridge. The spear point was turned up in the ‘dump’ of the centuries-old Indian village where students at the University of Western Ontario Summer School of Indian Archaeology are receiving field training. The Penetang girl who unearthed nine pieces of copper during last year’s “dig” was no more excited and thrilled than Patricia Teeple of Tillsonburg who made the latest find. The new discovery is believed to be of Lake Superior copper which had been forged cold from a single piece of virgin copper ore. “The Indians of that time had no knowledge of smelting, and although at times they would weld two pieces of ore together by the simple expedient of hammering, this one is all one chunk,” Dr. Jury said. The spearhead is seven and one-half inches in length overall and one inch at the widest point. It is excellently tapered from the narrow rolled helved portion at the base to the widest point about midway. The head then tapers again to a sharp point.
• High school student 16, requires any kind of summer job. Apply 119 Hanly St., Midland.
• Editorial – The Barrie TV station, which was seeking a reporter in the Midland-Penetang area, seems to have found the answer in the columns of this newspaper. On the station’s late local newscast the other night, two stories which appeared in the July 2 issue of the Free Press Herald were read word for word as published the day before. Up to the present, the news coverage for the telecast has been credited to the facilities of the Toronto Telegram and the station’s staff. Now it should include “and the Free Press Herald.”
• Editorial – With the train to Mariposa now a thing of the past, and a cut in passenger service by rail to and from Midland a distinct possibility of the near future, the iron horse will soon be as scarce in this area as old Dobbin.
• Penetang’s share of resurfacing Robert Street W. will amount to approximately $900. The total cost of the job is estimated at $8,000. This fact was brought out at Monday night’s meeting of Penetang council when an agreement between the county and the town was read. The agreement calls for one and one-half inches of hot-mix asphalt over present pavement which varies in width from 57 feet to 19 feet. Total length is given at 3,494 feet with a total of 97,000 square yards. The portion to be paved runs from the Main Street corner to the CNR tracks. It is likely some attempt will be made to eliminate a serious depression in the same street near Penetang’s water pumping station, while the resurfacing is being done. (It would be interesting to know how much has been spent on Robert St. W. over the years.)
• A number of Tay Township taxpayers have protested the erection of eight new buildings of the summer cottage type on Parkside Drive, just west of the Midland town limits. Clerk Ralph Dalton read a petition bearing 17 signatures at Tuesday night’s meeting of Tay council at Victoria Harbour. The group asks that council halt work on the buildings on the grounds that sections of building bylaw 1692 are being violated. Cottages are being built by Mac. Perrin, Midland florist. Two were near the completed stage by Tuesday night, the council was told. Mr. Perrin said yesterday that, when he bought the property 18 years ago he had every intention of building a home on it for himself. But he said he had changed his mind and after a number of summer cottages had been erected along the street (Parkside Drive). He said he used it as a garden for a number of years until the land became “overloaded with septic tank fluid. Then it was of no use as a garden.” The Tay Township building inspector had examined the buildings and found that the only breach of the township’s building bylaw was that cement block pillars supporting the cottages were only 18 inches in the ground instead of 30 inches, Mr. Perrin said. The Midland florist felt the cottages being erected were as good and in some cases better than some of the cottages on the street. (I think Parkside Drive is the present Noreene St. but maybe Pat Cowden can clarify that?)

 

Going back to March 29, 1900 are some newspaper ads from the King Street merchants of the day. The paper is the Midland Free Press which appears to have been in pretty rough shape when photographed.