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Echoes from the Past
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This article first appeared in the "Echoes from the Past" column of the The Low Down to Hull and Back News.
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Tenaga *
This small area of the landscape came about because of the construction of the electric dam at Chelsea in 1925-1928 when a number of cottagers were forced to vacate because of the rising water. Tenaga seemed a likely alternative.
Some of those concerned with the move joined the people already established there, Jeness, Coady and Beatty being three of them.
The movers included Benoit, Watson, Buckley, Greene, Saunders, Rowe and McIntyre. Bud Orange who supplied this information "winterized" in 1974.
It was thought by the owners it would be expedient to incorporate as a legal body. Those who came from Chelsea bought their land from Thomas J. Nankin, who with his wife Jennie Gertrude (Chamberlin) occupied the house at the corner of Scott Road and Highway 105 (old No. 11).
The "Tenagans" had at various times these amenities: a par 9 hole golf course, tennis courts, a clubhouse, a tearoom (Blue Bonnie) a bowling green. The timber used in construction was that used in the building of the dam. They also achieved a swimming beach.
The road off the highway is known as Station Road. The Blue Bonnie was at the left as one enters. The inhabitants maintain their own road - quite a hamlet!
- Tenaga is, it is understood, means water tank in Spanish, where the old trains stopped for water after climbing Mile Hill (grasshoppers made the rails slippery). The name Station Road honours, no doubt, this action.
Thanks to Bud Orange and Lorne McIntryre for assistance.