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Goshen's railway station once served 1--The Mercury, Renfrew, Ontario--Aug 7, 1985 y r r v rs | n ragrrporrrrratrrretro------o--------mmmtrpapgarre en omm mm mm emmme mmmmennsemmm mm emmmmemmm mm mm ripiimSIn T =~------ --oosSSneiiampnseanmmenmenaneereammenrrcoommanmntnennemenemenmsnamensrdinonetntt-- o« Mdo----WEODD limkie __ _ WI since 1940, Dewar talked _ days of Goshen Corners a log by Wanda B about this once thriving little home in the community, From page B--1 -- Mercury reporter community, its pioneers and _ owned by David Carswell Sr, S C , 1 p the early days of the institute _ was the centre of activity as it the Canadian National "With grateful memories to all its .mem ers, past at her Renfrew residence last housed a small grocery store _ Railway (CNR). This system and present, as well as much gratitude to a once week. and post offi.c% calle.c:{ ended in the 1950's, bringing ho s -- f Goshen which "In the early 1860' 'Carswell'® wit mail to an end the era of local thriving farming community of .Oh f Goshen Corners consisted of _ delivered once a week. This -- train travel in the communi-- revolved around a country store with a post 0 ~ four dwellings, including mail had to be put off at the _ ty. fice named Carswell, a Goshen hall serving houses, a blacksmith shop _ Mayhew Station on the EPLR Another famous landmark M cial demands, a Goshen and a hall which was built by Railway and t.ranSQOFtC. J -- for many years at Goshen Ch.ur ch affe a{r s and So CNR Ottawa to Parr the Sons of Temperance, an _ horse and sleigh in WINIET _ Corners was a little square railway station on the HIaWa 10 .y active lodge for many _ and horse and buggy in SuM-- log house owned by a Mr Sound, two schools called the Russell School in _ years," Dewar said. mer. | led b Nesbitt who was a weaver by -- Goshen School in McNab Dewar explained the land '"'The mail was carmied 0Y trade. In this little building Horton ?"ownshlp and Go . ' for the hall was donated by _ the postmaster when the many yards of wool goods T ownship. . John McGregor, who owned _ roads were impassable,"' she and woollen blankets were | ' a farm, but in order to obtain _ said. i turned out to meet the needs . . a corner property is a deed for the property a However, the mail SYStEM _ of the thriving community. This cairn, constructed on die S property smal sum of money had to be _ changed when a well known In the early 1920's rural donated by Barkley and Mauaie Stewart, Son ?f paid. David Carswell, owner _ Ottawa lumber king, JR _ mail came into being with a Andrew and Jean Stewart, store owner and in of property across the road _ Booth, built .abralllv.va).' n _ mail box at the end of each . John E Miller, on the east §1de, paid the sum 1890 to .hlS timber_limit in lqne. Carswell Post Office [QVIng memory Of Ruby a.nd ,0 o. q of twenty--five cents. Algonquin Park. This ll.ne disappeared and a rural mail pivots of much community Inspiration an The Goshen Hall became _ was known as the ArDPN!OT carrier brought the mail in guidance from the former store home. the centre for community ac-- _ and Parry Sound Railway . from Renfrew around by ' tivities and was used for When Goshen ?tatllon was Burnstown and Goshen , , meetings, a Sunday School, _ built it had two local tT@INSs . became Renfrew RR 1. The Goshen Women's Institute con?mefzfis our St ur C{y prayer meetings and met all _ stopping each day, On€ EOME _ Carswell Post office building pioneers for this cairn of their citizenry within social demands. It later _ east and one west, as WEll as became known as the "post he Goshen community." became the heart of institute _ freight trains with a Goshen _ office home.'"' the Uo , ° h activities for many years. ticket agent in the office. Very important in every 's In---- institute not long after the "In 1914 the Goshen community, Goshen Corners j'hc-:t Goslllennv gloen;en Sand turn of the century. Women's Institute was _ Part of Grand Trunk System _ also had its own blacksmith étldt}l teda laque on a cairn The dedication ceremony organized. In 1924 'these The Arnprior and Party -- shop which was operated by C 1;2;16 p P inscription on culminated over a year's women bought the famous _ Sound Railway Was l@atet _ James Campbell. with the a (J)vfl 27 as their planning and countless hours _ hall for forty dollars and it _ linked to he Canada Atlantic "History tells us the Sqlt)urday, thliey foneers who of research and work for again became the hub of _ Railway and became part Of -- blacksmith made a big lock 1t ]mde'mGoshgn Corners in -- three members of the in-- community life,"' Dewar the Grand Trunk System In -- and a very large key for the 56"618'80, and to COM-- stitute, Edna Dewar, Mary stated. | 1914, which in 1932 became post office home," Dewar the Sh 70th anniver-- _ Seeley and Amelia Yantha. But that's getting ahead of noted. Igf;nc())rfattiet fi)unding of the A member of the Goshen _ her story. In the very early See poge B--4 S ,