Bowmanville. William Humber

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СКАЧАТЬ positions in this new community. From 1866 to 1874 Frederick Cubitt was Bowmanville’s mayor while William Climie published the town’s leading newspaper. Though separated in age by twenty years they were, nevertheless, both at the peak of their emotional, physical and public powers. The collision, like those occasionally reported in that century between trains on the same track, was inevitable.

      It’s not clear where it started. The elements were all there, but this was after all a small town. People met on a regular basis. They shared a common interest in their community’s welfare. They socialized and played outdoor curling in conditions that would bind even apparent enemies.

      In his role as the town’s magistrate, Cubitt dispensed justice for matters involving vagrancy, drunkenness, using abusive language on the highway, obstructing streets, using blasphemous language and causing a disturbance on a public street.¹⁵ Liquor was often involved in these offenses and the colonel was often seen to take a tolerant position. On this one issue Climie would accept no backsliding. The mayor’s nearly eight years in office were drawing evermore ire from The Canadian Statesman which viewed him as not only soft on the liquor issue, but also in Climie’s words, “. . . a faithful paymaster to himself” and a man who could not match the challenger F.F. McArthur in appealing to the town’s business interests.¹⁶

      Bowmanville’s fortunes had been on an upward spiral. By 1867 the town was said to be in a period of modest prosperity. “The harvest has been plentiful and the trade of the neighbourhood is . . . in a flourishing condition. . . . This is a turning point in the history of Bowmanville. It is the flow of the tide which, as Shakespeare says, leads on to fortune. We have some good public buildings. The new Ontario Bank is an ornament of the town. We want an increased number of private dwellings of like respectability and comfort.”¹⁷ The town’s public infrastructure including sidewalks and roads, however, was in need of significant improvement, most particularly Liberty Street which “. . . was not safe enough to walk along in the day time and certainly not at night.”¹⁸

      Through the 1870s the town entertained grand notions such as a railway from Bowmanville to Georgian Bay¹⁹ and another to Bobcaygeon by way of Lindsay.²⁰ Both would allow the hinterland regions to take advantage of Bowmanville’s Port Darlington Harbour and its access to American markets particularly for the shipment of grain. In 1873 F.F. McArthur, manager of the Upper Canada Furniture Company, reported a large increase in his business over the previous year. The decade also marked the arrival of the Dominion Organ and Piano Factory which by the end of the century had a world wide reputation.

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