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(Continued from page 8) "There weren‘t many summer jobs back then except occasionally picking strawberries, or in one of the two canning factories, hulling berries," he said. "Most folks mowed their own lawns." There was a certain amount of boating, of course, he said. Dan had a little sailboat of his own and belonged to the Royal Canadian s , the § Oakville Club. Allan Chisholm was a distant cousin, Dan noted, but he never got to know him. But yes, he knew Hazel (Hart Matthews) and her sister Dr. Juliet ille Beaver Weekend, Sunday, July 3, 1994 â€" 10. kvi c Ao e C3 o fo w € o un Chisholm. Down at the bottom of Howard Street was a resort hotel calléd the Village Inn, a popular place for dancers. "People came from Toronto for those," he said. Victoria Hall (on Reynolds Street, now the Curling Club parking lot), also had dances and other entertainment. There were baseball games and fun fairs in Victoria Park. "Victoria Park was renamed Wallace Park after Mr. Wallace â€" one time owner of the basket facâ€" tory â€" put up lights in the park for night games," said Chisholm. Not uo 5 47 6 o ul We everyone was delighted by that turn of events, he allowed, though the lights were clearly a welcome addition. Dan was always a quiet, unpreâ€" tentious, selfâ€"contained individual. He likes to work with his hands; to fix things. He worked in Art Heaven‘s shop on Main Street (then Colborne Street, now Lakeshore Road), repairing radios. It was 1938 that Dan finally married his wife Isabelle â€" Elsie to her friends â€" though he would spend the war years, 1940 to 1945 in the army as a member of the Lorne Scots Regiment, first in Ottawa and then England. He was in Italy when the allies stormed the beaches of Normandy on Dâ€"Day in 1944, and he finished his tour of duty in Brussels when the conflict was over. Back home, Dan became a beeâ€" keeper and spent several summers in Blakeney, Ontario, near Ottawa. It seemed to be the kind of tranquil occupation he needed at that point in his life, though eventually he had to give it up because lifting the heavy, 100â€"pound trays of honey got to be too much for his slight frame, a wiry fiveâ€"footâ€" eight. Chisholm has seen many changes in town In the 1950s and 1960s, Dan became the secretaryâ€"treasurer of several town planning committees in Oakville, Bronte, and Trafalgar Township. Certainly, there were many issues to deal with in prepaâ€" ration for amalgamation in 1962, not the least of which was sorting out street names! Meanwhile, Elsie and Dan raised a family of three, Robert, Janet, and George. They now have five grandchildren. As the family grew, he spent a lot of time buildâ€" ing the twoâ€"bedroom addition onto the back of the charming Regency cottage. He got great satisfaction from his handy work. He also made furniture and maintained it, a man of simple values and pleaâ€" sures. Elsie‘s pride and joy was her garden, still is. In the parlour stands the old upright piano his parents brought with them from Galt. On the wall is a picture of the schooner which belonged to his grandfather, and went down the year of Confederation. He‘s seen plenty of changes in this town since he was a boy of five in 1910, and the population was about 3,000. There were maybe two motor cars in the whole place and Colborne Street (Lakeshore Road) wouldn t be paved until 1915. Doesn‘t it make his head spin to think about it â€" the incredible growth, the acceleration of pace, the advances in technology? Not really, he chuckled. It just kind of happened over a lifeâ€"time. Oh sure, he thinks Oakville has been a good place to live and raise a famâ€" ily. It has always been home. "Nothing ever came along to draw me away," he mused, "except keeping bees." 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