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Lake Ontario Development Assn elects Banting president
The Lake Ontario Development Association elected Elmer T Banting of Bowmanville as president at a May 7 meeting in Peterborough. Banting, a longtime director and former Lions Club president, succeeds Alderman Gordon Powell. Other officers named include J D Burnet Cobourg mayor as 1st vice president L W McKenzie Omemee as 2nd vice president O W Larry Trenton as secretary treasurer. The group plans a 1957 58 work program and discusses canal locking hours to boost traffic and tourism on the Trent Canal System. The finances show over 29 000 spent on promotional work with assets of 5 284 and a two year surplus of 2 724 67. Coboconk and Deseronto joined as new members. The manager reported twenty six communities visited in seven weeks.
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Lake Ontario Development Association
Peterborough
L.O.D.A
Elmer T. Banting
Bowmanville
Ontario
Banting
Gordon Powell
Millbrook
J. D. Burnet
Cobourg
L. W McKenzie
Omemee
O. W. Larry
Trenton
Board of Directors
Trent Canal
Lakefield
Balsam Lake
Lake Simcoe
Harold Matthews
North Monaghan
Department of Transport
Ottawa
Lake Ontario
Coboconk
Deseronto