cbe report final_hr - Haliburton County Community Cooperative Inc
cbe report final_hr - Haliburton County Community Cooperative Inc
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concerts and bazaars. In 1920 the building was transferred from the IOF to the<br />
Orange Lodge. The Orangemen had moved their club from Essonville to<br />
Wilberforce. IT now became the Orange Hall. For another forty years it was in<br />
constant service. Women in the community highly valued the social centre, and<br />
kept it well and raised funds to pay for taxes and hydro. Finally it fell into disuse as<br />
other buildings were constructed to take care of local activities. In 1971 the<br />
Township appropriated the land and old Faithful was demolished. In its place<br />
stands the Monmouth Library. Possibly no other piece of land in the township has<br />
served so many members of the community as well as this 336 square yards.<br />
(Monmouth Township 1981)<br />
The site of the historic Orange Hall – The Library took its place in 1971 - 2010<br />
In Gertrude Miller’s book, she talks about the Orange Hall being packed with tables of<br />
people playing progressive euc<strong>hr</strong>e. (Miller, 2000)<br />
• Victory Garden in the Wilberforce schoolyard (Miller, 2000)<br />
• The first Wilberforce school located in South Wilberforce (circa 1890) was replaced<br />
in 1911 by a two-room consolidated school built several miles to the north. (Miller,<br />
2000)<br />
• Riley’s Boarding House, store, and post office was built in 1910 after the previous<br />
one burned<br />
• Poverty Lake now known as Wilbermere Lake. It was called Poverty lake because<br />
the farmers that lived around it were poor. (Pope 1985)<br />
• H.S. Mulloy’s water-powered mill on the Burnt River in South Wilberfoce. (Pope<br />
1985)<br />
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