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Pear Mr. Editor ":1 listened with the utmost "dismay and disbelief to the bin-sow announcement on radio in late November, that CJBC 1; to be changed to a French language station. This is a mon- ;Menhl piece of dictatorship on he part of Mr. Ouimet that would be hard to equal in Can- faflian history. Without consid- yeration six million people in 'sbuthern Ontario are to be de- prived of a radio station in which they are the sharehold- M8. If there was a sufficient aud- ience for French language radio broadcasts in southern Ontario Dear Mr. Editor iducaiional Demands Soaring 2 THE LIBERAL, Richmoch Hill, One result of the population ex- plosion in this area has been unpre- cedented demands for school accom- modation, with large sums of money required for capital as well as running costs. With educational costs consum- ing almost 60 per cent of every tax dollar, every ratepayer in the area is feeling these demands where it hurts most â€" in the pocketbook. “As a dormitory satellite of Metro- politan Toronto Richmond Hill has been settled by a young residential population with a very high number of children per family. This has placed an extraordinary strain on the educational system,” Richmond Hill’s brief to the Goldenberg Com- mission on Metropolitan Toronto will claim. The same statement may truly be made about surrounding commu- nities. Richmond Hill Planning Board should not rush into any quick de- cision which would permit a trucking terminal in the Newkirk Road area. Planning Director Harold Deeks re- ports that a trucking firm has made preliminary inquiries regarding the possibility of locating on Newkirk n__1._.- Qtunnl' our] Capital costs for public schools has e apparently reached their peak, wi h an addition to Beverley/Acres School the only major project sche- duled for the immediate future, but the demand for secondary school accommodation has forced immediate and long-range plans of ‘York Central District High School Board to almost unbelievable levels. Many of these persons are known but no doubt there are many more who have not yet applied for help, not realizing that something might still be done for them in spite of long-standing disability. If our readers know of such persons, please suggest to them that they write to the District March of Dimes office at Toronto Rehabilita- tion Centre, 345 Rumsey Road. There are some people who cannot be rehabilitated for various reasons but the March of Dimes is anxious to be sure no one is missed who can be helped. ' At present a secondary school is well underway at Langstafl“. It will The goal for the March of Dimes on February 3 in Richmond Hill and district is $4,000 this year. Funds are badly needed to carry on the vital work of rehabilitating the adult disabled of this district. [file Nevdvkâ€"hjlivérea is adjacent to Mrs: Norman A. Todd, chairman An Independent Weekly: Established 1878 Octâ€"{0' LE Subscription Rate $3.50 per year; to United States $4.50; 10c single copy Member Audit Bureau of Circulations Member Canadian Weekly Newspapers Association J. E. SMITH, Editor and Publisher W. S. COOK, Managing Editor “Authorized as second class mail, Post Office Department, Ottawa" Council moved to temporary contusion Committee procedure a la profusion; Great depths of Canada‘s plight â€" starkly revealed one Monday night: "No motion to table" (Walter S.) â€"â€" helping exploit the national mess: "Proper procedure â€" move a vote" he continued. beginning to gloat. To councillors it could not Occur rules of guidance to defer -â€" And people’s parks to create NOW â€" by learning to amalgamate. Sincerely. Royston J. Packard. 277 Emerald Isle Court CJBC Trucks and Children ‘NO MOTION TO TABLE' Dear Mr. [ditor 2113132 liberal T0 TABLE' mporary confusion ure a la profusion; ada‘s plight â€" ne Monday night: ' (Walter S.) -â€" a national mess: â€" move a vote" .nning to gloat. 1d not Occur to defer â€"- .0 create ng to amalgamate. Sincerely. Royston J. Packard, 277 Emerald Isle Court. 4 t It It the first to discover this would have been commercial interests and to date there are none. rissued a press statement dated December 20. It is sent out to anyone writing to CBC about the proposed conversion. This statement is misleading, in my; opinion, and the propaganda content is obnoxious and level- led at a witless intellect. In reply to one of the statements (No. 6 on sheet 2) I can say that there are, most certainly, alternatives to converting CJBC and still allowing for French language programs for the very limited number of French list- eners in this province. Day after day newspapers print many al- ternatives from CBC share- holders. He also states. very sanctim- and to date there are none. The one program to be left to English speaking audiences is “The Learning Stage." This program is one of the finest ever devised for radio listening and yet it is to be kicked down to late night listening, and as an added insult, is to be short- ened by half an hour. Because of the lateness of the hour. serious youth and most adults will be deprived of this mag- nificent program. As a result of so many com- plaints concerning the proposed conversion of CJBC, Mr. R. C. Fraser. vice-president of CBC. He also states, very sanctim- oniously. that CJBC programs will be heard in the future on CBC and that the Don Sims Show will soon be heard on CBL. The Don Sims Show is not CBL's type of programming. I don’t want to hear him or any of the CJBC programs on CBL. The two stations are dif- ferent in content and character and cannot possibly be fitted harmoniously into one. We six million English speaking people in Southern Ontario have had two CBC stations for years We are expected to submit (Continued On Page 12) As a result of so many com-l plaints concerning the proposedi conversion of CJBC. Mr. R C. Fraser, vice-president of CBC. Ontario, Thursday, Jan. 30th, 1964 No truck terminal should be allow- ed to locate so close to residential and park areas. The very fact council would have to amend its present legislation in order to permit such an operation is ample proof a truck terminal was not among the uses contemplated for the industrial area when it was originally set out. large residential subdivisions with a heavy proportion of children. The town’s new park located at the corner of Crosby and Newkirk will add greatly to the number of children in the area. If the proposed Centen- nial indoor swimming pool is built in the park this again will add to the safety problem as the pool will serve not only Richmond Hill but will draw many children from the surrounding area. provide much needed accommodation for 550 students in September 1964, at a contract price of $1,404,698, and work is well ahead of schedule. Thirty teachers will be required to staff this new school. Also being planned is a 490-student addition to Bayview Secondary School which will cost $850,000. Local rate- payers will have to find only $37 5,000 of this amount, with federal govern- ment grants paying for the shops which are being included in the new building. Nor is this all â€"â€" the board fore- casts that in 1966 it will be forced to spend $2,100,000 with $1,000,000 in grants for another school, site undetermined as yet, and the same amount in 1968 for a high school in Markham Township. It has also been hinted that future requirements may demand that a junior college be built to serve the area. of the 1964 March of Dimes com- mittee for Richmond Hill and district reports that a workshop in Toronto will be expanded. Any patient from this district who needs the training this workshop provides will be taken to Toronto for it. It is hoped that the high school board will continue to: exercise the concern they have evidenced in the past by eliminating all “frills” from these projected buildings â€" that they will persist in obtaining maxi- mum value for dollars spent and continue to provide the best possible education available to prepare the young people of this district to live in tomorrow’s world. Posters and coin collectors have been distributed to local stores and 250 women have volunteered as Marching Mothers to properly can- vass the area. The one-hour blitz is scheduled for 7 to 8 pm. February 3. The Marching Mothers of the Richmond Hill area are out to see that every disabled person in this district will get a proper chance at life. They can make this a reality with the co-operation of every per- son in the community. On February 3, welcome the Marching Mother on your block and be as generous as possible. In the year 1963, we were fortunate in having a contribution to this column by the Rev. Mr. F. C. Jackson, the assistant-minister of Holy Trinity An- glican Church in Thornhill. According to the story, Mr. Jackson had travelled from one end of the Canadian Arctic to the other... on foot... by canoe and sternwheel steamer. The latter part of his sojourn in the Arctic was as district accountant for the Hudson’s Bay Company. In this capacity he travelled between the fur trade posts on the MacKenzie River, the Peace and Athabasca Rivers and Great Slave Lake and Great Bear Lake, Hud- son and James Bay. It was the usual thing in those days to travel 1000 miles during the winter on snowshoes, along with Indians or Eskimos with dog sleds and sleeping in open camps in the bush 40 degrees below zero. Now that the Arctic is being developed through travel and freight carrying aircraft, Fred Jackson realizes that he was just a couple of generations ahead of his time in the Arctic. In those days before radio or aircraft, it was a case of live off the country or out of the can. People could go five years on end without fresh fruit or fresh eggs as it was not possible to keep them fresh on the slow river steam- ers without refrigeration. ' “We Used To Do“ The Hard Way In The Land Of The Midnight Sun” . . . Rev. F. C. Jackson On the lower MacKenzie River, mail reached them twice a year, once by boat and once by dogsled. Mr. Jackson said: “What a great occasion was the arrival of the boat that brought the mails and the year’s supplies both for fur trading and personal requirements. It was kind of tough if you forgot to include any item in your purchase list for the following year... you just had to manage without it... toothpaste for example." Back in the 1920’s Fred Jackson staked an oil claim at Fort Norman just alongside what became a producing well during World War II. He staked gold claims in the Nahanni River and in the Great Bear Lake region. All these claims lapsed for lack of development in those days. In contrast his friend A. W. (Bill) Bolvand who remained in the Arctic to trade furs with the Eskimo from the Coppermine and the Barren Sand areas sold his two claims on Great Bear Lake to a Mr. Labine. These particular claims became the “Eldorad‘o” for the uranium and pitchblende which was processed at Port Hope, On- tario. Below the Arctic Circle, the reg‘ion is known as the “Land Of The Midnight Sun” in the summer and by the same token, the sun does "mot ris for a corresponding nun‘iber ‘of days or wdeks in inter depending on how far north of the Arctic Circle. Rambling Around An interesting feature of the Arctic twilight (not darkness) is that there are no shadows cast, therefore no delineation, particularly of white obâ€" jects, examples are snow banks and hummocks of if<ie thrown up on the pressure ridges of moving ice oes. Mr. Jackson managed to get in his fair share of hunting and fishing while there. Each Septem- ber when he was living at Fort Simpson (at the junction of the Liard River and MacKenzie River) his party would take the scows and canoes to where the fish run to deep water in Great Slave Lake. In four days a team of 10 men would catch in the net 10,000 Whitefish each over 4 lbs., for man and dog food for the winter. The fish freeze as soon as they are taken out of the water. They are put up on stages outdoors. The snow and the frost that comes in September stays until the following May. “Down the MacKenzie,” said Mr. Jackson, “we called this nine months winter and three months tough sled- ding.” Mr. Jackson spent eleven years in the Canadian Arctic altogether. In his time the dwellings were snow and log huts. Now you can find modernistic buildings, fully insulated with central heating and modern conveniences. The aeroplane has removed the obstacles of communication by speedin carry- ing passengers and mail to and from the Arctic and the food supplies are also brought by the aero- plane and they are now able to have fresh produce when desired. As Mr. Jackson said he was just a couple of generations ahead of his time, but one thing Mr. Jackson has is a fund of interesting stories of the Arctic of yesteryear.. “Even the birds cannot see the white obstacles,” said Mr. Jackson. “1 have known times when each morning we could pick up ptarmigan at the foot of the white wall. They had banged the wall with- out seeing it. So we had our breakfast as a gift without even having to hunt for it.” We went out Saturday to visit Parawan Gap a few miles north of Cedar City, to view the Indian hieroglyphs on the sides of the canyon wall. As I examined these strange writings I thought of other strange writings, the ancient Egyptian and Phoeni- cian writings and that there was something similar about them. In my imagination I could almost see the war parties coming through the Gap and paus- ing to leave a message of warning for a following band. It hardly seemed possible to me that the Indian Braves were just amusing themselves by carving these messages on an idle afternoon. Hie- roglyphs will always send your mind wondering into the mysterious past. In addition to the fish they would or four hundred ducks and geese for for the winter. “We really travelled the hard .way,” said Mr. Jackson. “In the winter we went by dog sled and snowshoes, in the spring and fall by canoe, paddl- ing or sailing in a fair wind. In the summer we used sternwheel steamers and full tunnelled motor boats.” Utah is saturated with Indian and Mormon history. The Mormons were the first settlers and several Indian tribes predominated in the territory of which the State of Utah was a part. There were the Navajo, Ute and Piute clans who were many (Continued On Page 12) November (From The Journal) by Elizabeth Kelson shoot three fresh meat Flashback Colonel Bridgford contacted Colonel Moody and the two men set out on horseback for York. In the neighbourhood of the tavern, they were challeng- ed by a rebel sentry. Cautious Bridgford turned back but Moody attempted to crash the barricade receiving a wound from the sentries' musketfire which a few hours later caused his death. Bridgford reached Fort York by a circuitous route and delivered his warning which enabled the garrison to attack the forces of William Lyon Mackenzie and scatter them throughout the country side. Colonel Mount who was the military commander of the rebels had served with Colonel Bridgford in the War of 1812. and when he and his group of insurgents passed through the settlement of Richmond Hill he recognized the local resident and took him into custody. Later Colonel Bridgford was released on his promise that he would go home and stay there. As the day wore on and more small groups of men, armed with scythes, sickles. pitch forks and the odd firearm, were observed heading south to the rende2vous at Montgomery's Tavern (south-west corner of Yonge and Montgomery in To- ronto) he felt as a patriotic citizen that Governor Sir Fran- cis Bond-Head should be warned. lvvug .. Arrangements for this meet- Saturday, April 18 is the day,;'sundav Feb_ 2 “It Happened At The World's Fair” ing were culminated last Sun-‘and a very full day it will beishown' at 6 and 9 40 p m_ gday when the district executiveslindeed. Beginning with twist-i“ ' S T '1 . .3 t 8 m {nlv 1met with Branch 375 officials. ration of visitors and delegates, 59‘ en 9215 0 Cams ’ a _ p' ' V ' ' ., inttatgendance were gack fH‘afi-iand {alleged by a bulsllntess‘ Mon_ Tues. Wed_ Fem-“ally 3-4-5-1 t‘\.' e . istrict comman er 0 - meeting t e morning wi er: . - n ‘liston, Bob Jeffries, deputy dist-Eminate with a parade to our!“It Happened At The Worlds Fa" Show! at 6‘45 irict commander of Bracebridgeflwar memorial for the placingland 10.15 p.m. "‘ iErnie Roberts. district secret- of a wreath in honour of those “Seven Seas T0 Calais" sh0wn at 8.30 pm. only. ary of Creemore as well as who made the supreme sacri-‘i iof Woodbrldge and our ownl (Continued On Page 12) | In last week's column we stated that the current year would see our branch take a leading part in legion affairs. It is with a great deal of pride we announce that, through the invitation of our executive un- der President Frank Barrott. the executive of District “E” have elected to hold their spring district zone meeting at Legion Court. It was a bit of a relief to learn last week that the Prime Minister had arrived in Florida for a holiday â€"â€" with Mrs. Pearson. After the way he and President Johnson were trying to top each other in that Washington gift-exchanging session we half expected Lester might have wound-up with Ladybird. And, while Cuban communists were being blamed for the revolution in Zanzibar and the riots in other new East-African republics, Fidel Castro was on a ten-day visit to Russia... setting up an alibi; , J v Premier Castro was reported to be smoking cigars constantly during his visit â€" even in Khrush- chev’s presence. This may account for Russia’s sudden need to purchase 2,700,000 pounds of Ca- nadian tobacco. Or it may be that the Russians are planning to invent lung cancer... And, just by the way: What do they call “King Size” cigarettes in Russia? ‘ One of the differences in the Football Hall of Fame being built in Hamilton or Toronto is in the name. In Hamilton it could be a hall; but in To- ronto,‘with any Argo trophies, it would be a mu- seum. We can’t understand all the scofling over the O.P.P. taking courses in etiquette and the socia graces. There’s no reason why they shouldn’t be oflicers AND gentlemen. A Toronto minister who recently used a jazz quintette to present a “Jazz Liturgy” says he had a ten-fold increase in attendance and the reaction was generally favourable to his modernized service. But we’re wondering just how modern he expects to go when he adds: “... and we’re going to try to keep Sunday nights live.” â€" If the churches start taping their services on Tuesday, we’re in trouble! Advance news about the arrival of Liz and Dick stated that special details would be assigned to them from the Metro Police, Ontario Provincial- Police and the Royal Canadian Mounted Police..., so they would have protection in any circumstances. Seyyid Abdulla, the deposed Sultan of Zanzibar, says, “It would have been far better if we had remained a British protectorate.” The sultan is staying at a London hotel with his wife and his retinue of 57 other refugees and the British govern- ment is footing the bill of 500 pounds a day and muttering, “You can seyyid again, Seyyid!” Real Caouette has been fairly quiet of late with the funny quotesuBut who cares? So long as we have "Rail" Lamport. That Richmond Hill residents played an important part in the “Rebellion of 1837" has long been known to readers of “The Liberal". Tales of On more than one occasion our columns have recorded the ride of “The Two Colonels", Bridgford and Moody, to the seat of government in York to warn the governor and the garrison that the “rebels were coming”. Items gleaned from files of “The Liberal”, the home paper of this district since 1878. In years Gone By BY GEORGE MAYES Yesterday’s news is not necessarily dead some of these re- your legion Reports Branch 375. Royal Canadian Legion By N. McDermott 0“? of the late David Wilson. It recalls that as a child Mrs. Beswick and her sister. Mrs. Thomas Medcalf, who died in 1906, carried despatches from the military headquarters in Toronto to the look-out quart- ers at Colonel Wells' house. To avoid the Mackenzieites. the two little Wilson girls went out ostensibly to “pick her- ries”, and Mrs. Beswick being the younger, carried the des- patches sewn in the back of her dress. On one occasion Mrs. Medcalf hid the notes in her stockings. fugees being hidden in barns, mills and homes are part of the folk-lore of this district. “The Liberal" has also re- corded in recent years a prev- lous warning carried to York by a young man from Thorn- hill which was disregarded. This is understandable since the bearer of the warning wearing women‘s clothing must have appeared demented. Another young heroine, nam- ed Cordelia DeGrassi. “The Maid of the Don", traversed the woods alone to Montgome- ry’s, headquarters of the rebels, and back again, with informa- tion of their councils, move- ments and numbers, several times, rendering “very impor- tant services to Colonel Wells and other loyal leaders". The February 6, 1908, issue of “The Liberal" notes the death of Mrs. Martha Ann Beswick of Toronto, daughter George Wood, deputy zone commander. These gentlemen met with our own officials to complete arrangements for a very auspicious day in the life of Richmond Hill. Upwards of‘ two hundred legion officials from all over Ontario. a great many accompanied by their wives. will make our fair town their home for a day. ‘ [SATURDAY MATINEE 2 PM. - Feb. 1 ‘ “ Caflle King 7' n; Richmond Sun. Mon. Tues. Wed. 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