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Ec. Dev. department
reviewed by council
The Huron County Museum is
looking for community partners to
share personal migration stories for
an upcoming exhibit to coincide
with Huron County’s 175th anniver-
sary in 2016. Museum staff would
like to hear firsthand stories from
families that moved to Huron
County between 1945 and 1985,
including but not limited to, families
and individuals who arrived as post-
war immigrants, labourers or
refugees. Current residency in the
county is not mandatory.
The exhibit will profile a handful
of migration stories in detail, sharing
why the immigrants left their previ-
ous homes, how they came to choose
Huron County, and whether they
received sponsorship or local sup-
port to come to the area. Participants
can also share their point-of-view on
their first years living, working or
attending school in Huron, including
both obstacles and happy memories.
Contributions could include oral his-
tory interviews, written memories or
stories, and/or the temporary loan of
personal artifacts or photographs for
exhibition.
For initial research, staff are seek-
ing individuals who arrived before
1985, but the exhibit will also
include more recent immigrants to
Huron County thanks to collabora-
tions with the local Immigration
Partnership.
“We’re looking to shed light on
some of the unique and diverse sto-
ries about how and why our commu-
nity members came here. The muse-
um is well-known for its incredible
collection of pioneer artifacts, but
this exhibit presents a great opportu-
nity to also spotlight stories the
museum has never told before about
more recent arrivals-from Dutch
farm families to Indochinese
refugees,” says researcher Sinead
Cox.
If you have a story about moving
to the County of Huron, or sponsor-
ing/helping another family to move
to the area, get in contact with Cox,
Education and Programming
Assistant at the Huron County
Museum in Goderich before
December, 2015. Reach her
by e-mail (sicox@huroncounty.
ca) or phone (519-524-2686
ext 213).
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perhaps those who use the service
could pay a special tax. If it meant
that arenas would remain open
throughout the municipality, he sus-
pected residents wouldn’t mind pay-
ing more.
Steffler suggested that councillors
stop referring to the centres as “are-
nas” and refer to them as communi-
ty centres. The buildings are centres
of a community, he said, and are
much more than a sheet of ice. They
can’t be viewed as simply a cost to
the municipality, he said.
Councillors need to remember the
importance of these buildings to res-
idents all over the community for a
multitude of reasons.
EC. DEV. DEPARTMENT
In discussing planning services,
many of them are handled at the
county level, meaning they’re out of
the municipality’s hands. The only
service in this category that is con-
trolled by Huron East is economic
development.
While some councillors, most
notably Larry McGrath, who voiced
his opinion that the department
should be eliminated earlier this
year, feel the department is unneces-
sary, the majority of council voiced
its support for the department.
Councillor Kevin Wilbee called
economic development an essential
service as the economics surround-
ing jobs and urban growth continue
to change and rural areas need to be
creative in order to remain competi-
tive.
MacLellan also spoke in favour of
the department, saying that
Economic Development Officer Jan
Hawley’s Win This Space initiative
earlier this year was one of the
brightest economic development
projects undertaken in Huron
County in the last five years.
Certainly, there have been some
“misses”, he said, but for the most
part he felt Huron East was spending
its money wisely with the economic
development department.
Blaney also supported economic
development, but he focused on the
television segments created through
Rediscovering Canada, which
attracted millions of viewers. That
kind of advertising, he said, would
have cost Huron East hundreds of
thousands of dollars and it appealed
to people interested in heritage com-
munities.
Steffler acknowledged that coun-
cil has made it difficult for Hawley
at times, namely with the lack of
industrial land. Hawley said it’s
important to focus on manufacturing
and agriculture, both of which are
huge in Huron East, as well as small
business, the importance of which,
she said, shouldn’t be overlooked.
With Huron East budget delibera-
tions set to begin in a matter of
weeks, Knight said council’s com-
ments from the service delivery
review will be compiled by staff and
presented as a report in the coming
weeks. That way, he said, the com-
ments can be considered at budget
time.
Museum seeks migration tales
Remembering them
Members of the Blyth Legion held their annual Remembrance Day church service on Sunday
at Trinity Anglican Church in Blyth, marching to the church from the Branch. Allan Livingstone,
Interim Parish Priest and Archdeacon of Huron-Perth, conducted the service after Pastor
Perry Chipka moved on from Huron County. Livingstone will be serving as the church’s pastor
until a replacement is found. He is also the chaplain for the Goderich Legion. (Shawn Loughlin photo)
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