History of Halton Author of the alitor I Ben Case of the Sflvcrwood are log house construction For over one hundred and twenty five years agriculture was the main a vocation in Halton County and it would be in order here in brief the life of the farmer from early pioneer days to today a mechanized methods of tilling the soil We have already seen how the set tiers arrived with little of this world a goods and for the first few years It was a constant struggle for survival the pioneer main object being to keep himself and family from The Acton Press Wednesday August Obituar Nelson Anderson dies buried Ebenezer cemetery One of the first members of the Acton Golden Age club a highly respected Acton resident Nelson Anderson died in General Hospital on Tuesday August 18 after short illness Mr Anderson resided at Main St Acton for the past years altar retiring from far in Nassagaweya township Hf lived in the township for 72 years Bom October 10 1888 the deceased was well known in the district He was the son of John Robinson Anderson and his wife Catherine Cameron Hitching He attended school at S No school in township and was a member of Ebenezer United Church Mr Anderson had many friends a quiet unassuming nature and was widely Obituar respected He was married on March IB 1914 In Nassagaweya His wife predeceased him He leaves three children Mrs A Diamond 2 Roclcwood Mrs Freeman Campbellville and Douglas Anderson Acton Five grandchildren and seven great grandchildren also survive The funeral was held from the Rumley Shoemaker funeral home Acton Friday August with Rev Russell of ficiating Interment was in Ebenezer Cemetery Pallbearers were neighbors and friends he knew from his farming days and since Including Irwin Little Cal Mclntyre Charles Fatt Charles Thomson Lester Miller and Charles Cheyne Alda Dobbs dies at Whitby Viola Dobbs nee Gulley grandchildren Stephen Marie passed away suddenly at Whitby and Mary Lee Ann of New on June in her year She Toronto was the only child of the late Funeral service Richard Gulley of Grand Valley and Viola McLaughlin Gulley N of Erin township In the Acton area The late Alda was bom September 1917 in Toronto From the age of 11 to 18 she was confined to a wheel chair She held June 18 in Sunderland Baptist Church conducted by her pastor Rev D Guthrie Interment was in Eden cemetery Mariposa township Pallbearers were close family friends Brumwell Keith Bob and Peter Doble Bill was educated in Toronto where Stewart of Sunderland and Harry her father was a carpenter and Diament of rooming house landlord Her mother a nurse was always willing to help the less fortunate Early in 1942 she married Eli Carman Dobbs of Parry Sound in Toronto In 1943 they moved to Mariposa township in the say area She is survived by her husband and two sons Ross Alexander of New Toronto and Richard Lome at home three JOHNSON DOCTOR OP OPTOMETRY MILTON AND ACTON Hows Your Hearing III to llio hear but do nit unit words has nil ant in Billot 1 n home without of kin lt frit It of a rHnJtl irt to kit an i I a at ir cl from to hi ail ThiK mi frw writ for now Atam wi i no cost rite to Ifcpt tone Victoria Chicago III I J I MACKENZIE SON LTD LlitUHUt IUWN i TEL m II CHURCH STHEETJ Ft tt IMC IB ACTON ACRES CHOICE RED BRAND FEDERAL INSPECTED AT J M SCHNEIDER AND SELECTED freezer specials WuV FRONT OF BEEF CARCASS OF BEEF lb CLIP THIS PHONE NUMBER FOR FUTURE REFERENCE 8530185 SIDE OF BEEF LEAN SI OF PORK DAY NITE IF NO ANSWER CALL ACTON ACRES cog starvation The County Atlas of 1G77 states Of the trials and privations of the pioneers those of their successors who have reaped the benefit of their labors con form little conception The first task would be to provide a shelter for the family and fortunately there was plenty and to spare building material ready to hand The neighbors were generally ready to form a bee for this purpose as It presented one of the few op port unities for sociability and diversion The fact that whisky was procurable for twenty five cents or less a gallon was an added attraction and no doubt aided and abetted the willingness to lend a helping hand to the new neighbor The logs were cleverly notched at the ends so they dovetailed together at the cor The settlers from the Niagara Peninsula being mostly descended from several generations of American frontier life would be much more adept at this work than new arrivals from Europe The roof would be for mod possibly by grooved boards of split logs overlapping inch other to be replaced later by hand split cedar shingles or shakes A fireplace of stone with mud as mortar if lime was unavailable would make the structure livable for the time at least After the felling or as many trees as could be accomplished In the limited time available another bee might be called for burning the logs and brushwood to clear the land for the first planting among the stumps The next Step would be to get the wheat thus raised ground into flour and this often necessitated carrying a sack of wheat on one s back for many miles to Iho nearest mill If this proved practicable sometimes rude mortar and pestle using tho hollowed out stamp of a hard wood tree was resorted to resulting In very coarse flour as one can imagine However by we have seen that there was one grist mill In Trafalgar and this number would Increase with time and with the growth in population in this and the other townships the opening up of the bock country for settlement and the building of dams for water power for grist and suw mills the salmon coming up from the Atlantic Ocean were unable to get up to their spawning grounds at the headwaters of the streams and also with the dumping of the sawdust in the running water wo have the first case of water pollution For these two reasons the fish began gradually to die off In addition the game also began to disappear from the settled country so that hunting and trapping were no longer profitable Accordingly tho were in time persuaded to give up their lands at the mouths of the rivers On August 16th 1B27 a sale was held of their holdings at the mouth of the Sixteen Mile Creek ting to acres purchaser being W Chlshoim and the price twentyone shillings and three pence per acre The money was applied to the completion of village of log huts about a mile up the Credit where the Golf Clubhouse now is situated Most of the lands of the Indians for a mill on each side of the Credit had been previously sold but the proceeds hud been Insufficient for tht completion of the buildings on the site reserved for them am MEAT So rem Ibt a i It might be worth while to make mention of the subsequent history of the The village at the Credit was largely built up under the leadership of the Peter Jones whose father was the early surveyor Augustus Jones and his mother a His great object was to improve the lot of the whose condition bad sadly deteriorated through contact with the white man partly through the ravages of disease particularly tuber against which they hod little resistance and partly through the sale of fire water by the traders which the Indian resist The Indian lands on each side of the Credit were sold about 1B20 and a village started with a church and school peter Jones elder brother John drying taught In the In 1826 there was a total of Indians in the village The village progressed for some years and at one time there were five hundred acres cleared and cultivated However more and more Indians sue to consumption and In the late the Government removed the Indians from the Credit most of them to the Grand River Reserve See Credit Valley Gateway by Betty pages and It is worth noting that an article In the Toronto Globe and Mall of March 1968 describes the progress of a band of six hundred Misslssauga Indians who have been living quietly on a jix thousand acre reserve near llagcrsvUle Ontario close to the Mohawk Reserve Chief Fred King officiated at the naming of the new town of Mlsslssauga formerly Toronto Township The article continues The Mlsslssaugas have always been known as an Industrious people quite capable of looking after themselves The band members today are carrying on that tradition All are employed and the band welfare costs are nil Many are busily engaged in their off hours building them selves modern housing a new school and a community hall Apparently after they moved away from the proximity of the white traders they found their proper niche in society Undoubtedly these people are the descendants of the early of and Peel T a to Boy now and save Use your Walker Option Charge ST OPEN THURSDAY FRIDAY TILL PM