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acquired lake front properties. It held its final service on 30 December 1973, and its congregation voted to unite with the
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on 15 October 1954. The school building opened in June 1955, and 100 students started classes there in September. Stanley Mann served as superintendent for the Pickering Beach School District during the 1950s. He died in Florida, around 1960.
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348:(the beach is now called Paradise Beach, and is located in the town of Ajax). He sensed a business opportunity to build a cottage community, and bought the lakeshore farmland between a natural marshland in the west and
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