Each week, the Gazette looks back on stories from the past. Here is what happened this week, by year…
1910:
Mr. John English of New Orleans visited Matthew Mulholland and sister at Rose Lawn Farm, Greenbush.
The open season for wild ducks and other water fowl having been changed from September 1 to 15, the superintendent of Game and Fisheries trusts the common sense and manliness of the sportsmen of the province to respect the change.
Mr. Parker R. Young returned last week from a six weeks holiday trip to the Northwest. He was as far west as Edmonton.
1940:
Accommodations to feed and board several hundred men have been set up by Crawley & McCracken in the old A.C. Miller factory building on William Street, Picton.
Another contract has been let in connection with Picton gunnery and Bombing School. King Paving Co., of Oakville, has been awarded additional contract at $23, 750.
Canada has a potential army of almost one million single men, with roughly one-third in Ontario. This figure does not include the 60,000 men who have enlisted in the Canadian Active Service Force.
1970:
Picton Town Council Tuesday night backed a proposal for a County library system, but only by a slim majority of 5 to 4.
On Friday, the Women’s Hospital Auxiliary is holding a regular meeting at the home of Mrs. Ken Carson, R.R. 4 Picton, in the form of a Pot Luck Luncheon.
A small group of delegates representing the recently formed Pollution Unwanted group was refused admittance to the meeting with Canadian International Paper officials.
1980:
Four persons were injured Friday in the latest of a series of accidents at the intersection of County Roads 1 and 2, about four miles north of Wellington.
Guy Sarault of Picton went to the streets Thursday last week to raise money for the cancer stricken Terry Fox. By the end of the weekend, he had raised $3, 623.32
The Canadian Bankers’ Association (CBA) says that loans by the banks to farmers have increased more than five fold during the last decade.
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