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Council looking forward to Huron history book
Mark Noakes
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The year was 1830 and times in
Huron County were grim.
A year earlier the stock market
crashed and the North American
economy was sent into a tailspin.
It wasn't long before desperation
set in and farming communities
faced a crisis of their own.
Jim Donnelly, the author of a
Huron County history book, says it
was during that time that two young
men entered the Brussels bank with
a shotgun and stole $6,000.
Later the men were charged, sent
to the Goderich Gaol and spent two
years there and endured three trials
by jury.
However, each trial ended with a
hung jury and the money, which was
a huge sum for the time, was never
recovered.
It's those kind of stories that
Donnelly hopes to explore in his
upcoming history book, which he is
hoping to have completed and in
print by Christmas next year.
Donnelly stood before county coun-
cil last week and updated them on
the progress of the updated history
book, a project he started working on
last year.
Donnelly told
council he's spent
a year searching
through histori-
cal documents
and has uncov-
ered a wealth of
information
about the region.
The county has
provided
Donnelly with an
office in the
Goderich library
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He is being assisted by Barbara
Griffiths, a secretary he hired many
moons ago when he worked as a
lawyer and she was 16.
Now, both are gray but Donnelly
insists he "struck gold" when she
agreed to work with him again.
Donnelly added the book will be
factually accurate and a manuscript
will be in the councillors' hands by
this time next year.
"I'm working my backside off for
you and need more money," he joked
before concluding his presentation.
Warden Doug Layton commended
Donnelly on his hard work and said
helooked forward to reading the
manuscript next year.
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