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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1977-04-13, Page 9r RE FIRST PRIZE CHEESE — Annette Blok is proud of her first prize winning display, on different kinds of cheese, at the science fair for students at Grey Central School in Ethel. Annette is a grade 6 student at the school. (Photo by Lang lois) Huron group enioys Heritage Canada speaker: Rotary Tillers John Deere 31/2 - and 6-hp Tillers prepare dep, fine seedbeds ...save hoe work. Turbo tines mix and mulch thoroughly to 7-inch depth ...13- to 24-inch widths., Reverse gear backS'tiller from tight spots. Pressure- activated safety clutch—release it and all action stops. Extension tines available. FRED McGEE AUTO ELECTRIC LTD. SAL ES BACKED BY SERVICE WING.HAM 357- 4 op• Wingham Memorial Shop QUALITY SERVICE CRAFTMANSHIP Open Every Weekday Your Guarantee for Over 35 Years of CEMETERY LETTERING Box 158, WINGHAM JOHN MALLICK THE BRUSSELS POST, APRIL 13, 1977 —9 'PS safer tinting once Build Now- Pay Later There's no need to wait for that house you want. Get the money you need in a mortgage from Victoria and Grey Trust. You can pay your loan back in easy amounts while you enjoy your new home. Call in today at Victoria and Grey. WCTORM and VG GREY TRUST COMPANY SINCE 1889 D.N.Lefebre, Manager Listowel, Ontario Ken Kelly of Heritage Canada was a dynamic speaker at a meeting of the Huron Branch of the Architectural Conservancy of Ontario at the Little Inn in Bayfield last Thursday evening. Mr. Kelly said that Heritage Canada is a national foundation, sponsored by the Federal government; the Secretary of State and the Ministry of Indian and Northern Affairs. It operates on $1.5 million each year; which is the interest on the 12 million dollars endowment; individual and corporate gifts and membership fees. Created in 1973 by a number of people in the business community, the 14 member board, including Pierre Berton, have 4 objectives in mind! (1) to promote area conservation (con- sentration on older buildings in urban and rural communities); (2) pressure the government for better legislation; (3) to support local groups; (4) to create awareness on the part of the public. Mr. Kelly said the Rideau Street Convent in Ottawa was designated a National and Historic Site and three days later it was demolished by a developer. There is no legislation to prevent that sort of thing; because it's designated does not mean it's going to be preserved, said Mr. Kelly. In the late 1800's there was a move to more awareness on the part of the public to preserve. heritage; especially those things dealing with important people and important events, such as the cottage of Anne of Green Gables and the Sir John A. MacDonald home. Mr. Kelly spoke of the tremendous restoration done at Dundern Castle since it was started as a museum in the early 1900's. He also praised the work of the people responsible for saving the Goderich and Fergus jails and said they were most important to an era in their own right. Small communities across Canada are trying to recapture the past and in 13arkerville, B.C. that community has restored as much as possible Of what existed there. It was settled in the 1860's and the restoration began in 1956. He mentioned too, Upper Canada Village, Morrisburg; Heritage 'Village, Calgary, Lower Fort Garry and to Burnaby, 13.C. Where none of the old existed; the townspeople reconstructed what had been there at three-quarter scale of the original. Fort Edmonton in Alberta had been preserved many years ago by dismantling and numbering • each piece; and carefully toring it for reconstructing at a later date. When King George V ascended to the throne, the townsfolk of , Edmonton held a celebratory bonfire and burned all the old Fort. Now it is reconstruc- ted; but of new materials. Mr. Kelly said that the best reconstructed projec in Canada is at Louisbourg, a fortreis on the eastern coast. In 1938,, the Federal Government designated the site of Louisbourg and in 1960 they starred to move on the restoration program to reconstruct. To-day they have reconstructed the fort and about one-fifth of the town. It is possible today in Louisbourg to have lunch in the same fashion it would have been served to you in the 1500's. Mr. Kelly spo ,ke of the restoration of the Benmiller Inn;. Union Station in Ottawa; the Grand Trunk Railway Station in Petrolia; the Liquor Control Board Outlets in Elora, Ridgetown, Niagara-on-the-Lake and Front Street in. Toronto. He credited the LCBO with saving these buildings ab ove mentioned. Kingston City Hall, Downtown Halifax along the waterfront; Christ Church Cathedral and the Orpheum Theatre in Vancouver. The foremost is Vancouver's Gastown area with its cobbled streets and gas lighting; the main street in Kincardine and Ridgetown were also mentioned. Mr. Kelly showed some beautiful slides of Dawson City founded in 1889 and by 1896 it boasted a population of 30,000. It was a "rough and ready" town with its miners and gambling, etc. The government is planning to spend $25 million in the next ten years to restore it. The people during the gold rush came to Dawson City by stern wheeler and it was the home of Robert Service when he wrote such poems as "The Shooting of Dan McGrew" and the "Cremation of Sam McGee". His cabin still stands and has been preserved. It is ironic,. said Mr. Kelly, that in 1953 the government gave an emphatic "no" When asked for aid in the restoration of Dawson City; however in 1974 they reversed their decision and said 'yes''. Mrs Kelly did the' narration of all the slides and comparisons of yesterday , and today; the good and the bad; the restored and the fallen. Huron Conservancy president Nick Hill informed the group that $300.00 had been received from the John Galt Branch of Heritage Canada to match the $300 raised by the Huron County branch of the ACO to finance a photography exhibition on architectural con- servation in Huron. Kelvin Jervis of Clinton showed some architectural photographs at the meeting. Mr. Jervis has been 320 lists commissioned to do the work for the exhibition. The display will consist of older buildings in the county.