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Newspaper
Barrie Examiner
Location
Barrie, Ontario, Canada
Date
Aug 17, 1922
Page
4
Orange Order Jubilee Rally Highlights Barrie Event
Large gathering at Agricultural Park praised by Col Currie and speakers for defending British institutions. Orange Order leaders and families from 32 lodges attended, with races, baseball, and prize awards as Barrie hosts celebrate the tradition and unity of Black Knights and Orange Young Britons.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Derry
Col. Currie
Col. Wurrie
Toiday
John Best
Orangeville
M.P
Gor Dufferin
Thx
Orange Order
Orangeman
Weitty
Yunthos
Editorial Comment Motor Tourists to Canada
Barrie and nearby towns on the Provincial Highway see a rise in motor tourists from the U S and Canada. The Cus toms Department reports 617,285 touring cars entered Canada and the Interior Parks estimates over 108 million dollars spent. Barrie, with a fine summer resort location, could capture more of this traffic if town leaders act now this fall and winter.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Barrie
United States
Canada
Customs Department
Parks Branch
Department of the Interior
Photographic History Collection Highlights Collingwood Institute
A visit to the Hur on Institute in Collingwood reveals a basement museum with over 6000 photographs and exhibits detailing town history. The collection, largely assembled by the Bulletin editor, is praised as a rare and growing historical record for Canada.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Huron Institute
Collingwood
Public Library
Canada
Bulletin
Williams
Canada offers bond renewal on favorable terms
Holders of five and one half per cent war loan bonds maturing December 1 1922 are invited to exchange for new bonds of five or ten years with the same rate and a bonus of one month’s interest. The operation is domestic and can be arranged at chartered bank branches. Cash payments will be made for those not reinvesting.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Weather to January would ease coal worries and prices
The piece argues that mild weather could reduce coal shortages, while critics say the coal strike lets operators discard surplus goods and charge the public. It cites a ABA report on murders and burglaries, mocks hotel tours, praises farm buildings in Simcoe County, and quotes German marks inflation data from the Journal of the Canadian Bankers Association.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
North Pole
The
Canadian Bankers’ Association
Road bumps suggested to slow autos at railroad crossings
The Petrolia Advertiser notes the yearly rise in automobile fatalities at rail crossings and proposes installing eight to ten inch high bumps at least 100 feet from each crossing. Built from highway material, the bumps would warn drivers and enforce slower speeds for years.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Petrolia Advertiser
Welcome signs greet visitors to Acton
Acton welcomes all visitors with new roadside signs inviting them to stay, shop, visit, and feel at home. The message emphasizes hospitality for travelers, shoppers, and holiday visitors, with warm assurances to return.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Acton
Proposed $5 penalty law to boost voter turnout
The Guelph Herald argues that coercive measures outperform persuasion for elections. It suggests a law fining nonvoters five dollars to make turnout meaningful, predicting a 30 to 40 percent rise at the polls and a potential political upheaval if voting is enforced.
McConkey Family Reunion Draws 150 to Niagara Falls
Barrie Ontario relatives gathered on Goat Island for the McConkey reunion in Niagara Falls New York with about 150 members. Officers named Fred McConkey of Buffalo as president and R M McConkey as vice president. Toronto and Calgary attendees joined the event that set Barrie as the 1928 meeting site.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Barrie
McConkey
Niagara Falls
N.Y
W. A. McConkey
Helen
George McConkey
Bert McConkey
Charles McConkey
Mary
A. W. Smith
Isabel
Blythe McConkey
Milton McConkey
Fred McConkey
Buffalo
R. M. McConkey
Stroud
Lillian McConkey
Toronto
Ontario
Calgary
Alberta
Fred T. McConkey
Innisfil settler Thomas McConkey remembered on Penetang Road
Dants of Thomas McConkey, who settled on the Penetang Road in Innisfil about a century ago, are noted in a local remembrance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dants
Thomas McConkey
Penetang Road
Innisfil
Northern survey itinerary after Ontario tour
The commission plans a northern survey visit after completing its tour of older Ontario this week. The itinerary includes Muskoka Algonquin Park and the Georgian Bay district as planned stops.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Commission
Ontario
Muskoka
Algonquin Park
Georgian Bay District
Orillia Man John Peters Reaches Century Mark
John Peters of R R No 4 Orillia is in good health at 103. Born in Mayo Ireland in 1819 he became a centenarian three years ago last January. He has three children and twenty three grandchildren and is noted as Orillia's oldest Old Boy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Peters
R.R. No
Orillia
Mr. Peters
County of
Mayo
Hotels Commission Visits Barrie to Gather Hotel Data
The Ontario Hotels Commission, touring the province for hotel accommodation data and hotel-keeper suggestions, has not received work yet for its Barrie visit but is expected to convene here soon as Barrie is on its tour route.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
A. W. Smith
Barrie
Provincial
Hotels Commission
Ontario
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Mazda
ST. Lawrence Sugar
Arrowroot
R. P. Black Knights
Mark Derry
LIEGE
Chas. Moffat
W. A. ‘Reid
Barrie R.B.P
Black Knights
D. Yisoke
A. Vaughan
M. Gorton
FH. Watson
R. J. Reburn
T. Eaewin
Lisle
Wes
Reid
Hawsett
Morrow
S. N. Hurst
Bar‘wae
Alex. Hall
Newmarket
J. Moore
Midland
Ford
Branton
Watson
Ross
M. Ferguson
C. J Moeley
V. Patterson
M. Mosley
Irene Hines
L. ‘Ullis
F. Dunn
B. Dale
Miss Ferguson
Miss Wiseman
Miss Mosley
Eosworth
Geo. Clark
Fred. Armstrong
Cecil Tuck
E. Miller
North Bay
Grand Minster
Royal Black Knights
Gravenhurst
Macon R.B.P
Saskatchewan
W. J. Steel
Hawkestone
Albert Paddison
W. Preceptor
C. M Siigley
J. Gorton
C. Moffatt
R. Vaughan
W. A. Reid
W. D. Minnikin
R. E.P
O.Y.B
Creemore
Samuel Summers
Alliston
S.N. Hurst
St. Catharines
London
Allandale
R.B P
Agricultural Park
Royal Black Preceptories
Cookstown
Mono Mills
Laurel
Severn Bridge
Allandale-Barrie
Huntsville
Beeton
Nobleton
Shelburne
Bracebridge
Mansfield
Aurora
Feversham
Sundridge
Markdale
New Lowell
T. H. Bullock
Ontario West
Thomas Bassett
J. Donnelly
C. Bailey
J. D Vanstone
Examiner
American Bar Association
Land of
Good
Agnes McPhail
Agnes
Simcoe County
Board of Works
Dunlop St
Elizabeth St
Morro
Acton’s
Guelph Herald
Niagara Falls, N.Y
Paris
Jim
Hurlburt’s Shoe News
Hartt, Slater, Model and Blachford’s
the Hurlburt Shoe Co
Niagara Peninsula Growers Limited
Grimsby
Brennan’s
Brennan
Asl
Max Slesser
Mrs. Here
Mr. W
Renda Patterson
Maing Holiday
Hutchinson
He John Livin
Suni
Pur Assistex
Geo
Chaser
Johnson
Johny
Frances
Laura
Millie
Irene
John Maw
Acian West
James Dixon
Gladys
Elizal
Manning
Mack
Gillett’s
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