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Exeter Times -Advocate
Wednesday, November 3.1999
Huron Histoncal annual dinner features new Nunavut territory
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BRUCEFIELD -
Featured at the 36th
annual meeting of the
Huron Historical
Society at : the
Brucefield United
Church Friday evening
was a presentation of
computer resource
material on the new
Nunavut territory put
together by four multi-
media students at
Central Huron in
Clinton.
Central Huron staff
member Steve Oliver
and former Hensall
Public School principal
Dave Kemp explained
the computer driven
project is a. resource
and not a course.
Kemp taught in the
north from 1967 to
1974 and has made one
trip back since that
time.
He said the Inuit pop-
ulation thrives on tech-
nology and related the
story of one Inuit who
has a spear belonging
to his grandfather
hanging on one wall
with a computer at the
other side of the room.
Nunavut has just
recently been organized
as a territory. The new
government has 19
member councillors
from across the wide
and expansive area and
is non-partisan without
any party affiliations.
Nunavut is, a large ter-
ritory covering an area
to the north from
Newfoundland to
Alberta, but has only
one time zone.
Friday's presentation
revealed the great
' advances the Inuit peo-
ple have made in com-
parison to the slides
shown at the same
meeting a year ago by
Rev. Arnold Ruskell
who spent the early
1940's in the north.
This Friday afternoon,
November 5, a plaque
commemorating the life
of the late Hon. William
Proudfoot (1855-1922)
will be unveiled in
Goderich at Maitland
and Nelson streets,
jointly by the town of
Goderich and the his-
torical society.
Proudfoot was born in
Colborne Township and
educated at Goderich
and Osgoode Hall. N"
rose to prominence as
lawyer and serve 4
the provincial legis
ture from 1908 to 1919.
For the last two years.
he was leader of the
Liberal opposition in
the assembly and was
called to the Senate' of
Canada where he sat
until his death in 1922.
The 1999 Huron
Historical notes focus
on the early military
history of Huron County
from 1793 to 1914.
Editor Jens Schoenbank
says next year's notes
will complete Huron's
military history cover-
ing the period from
1914' to the closing of
CFB Vanastra in 1971.
Some of Huron's mili-
tary sons not only
helped form the nature
of the country; but also
contributed to the
expansion westward
and participated in
every military crisis up
to the Great War.
Schoenbank contin-
ued, "In preparing the
material for this issue I
was again drawn into
the debate of what
makes history - great
men or great ideas.
Here we have fodder
for both sides of the
argument. Colonel
Anthony Van Egmond
resorted to rebellion to
further his idea of equi-
table, democratic par-
ticipation.
COUNTY OF HURON
NOTICE OF PUBLIC MEETING
CONCERNING A PROPOSED BY-LAW
AMENDING THE COMPOSITION OF COUNTY COUNCIL
Take notice that the Council of the Corporation of the
County of Huron will hold a public meeting on Thursday,
November 4, 1999 at 11:00 a.m. in the Council Chambers of
the Court House In Goderich to consider a proposed by-law
to change the composition of County Council.
The current composition of County Council is that the reeve
of each of the 26 local municipalities sits as a member of
County Council. County Council works under a weighted
vote system, whereby each member has one vote per 1,000
electors to a maximum of four votes.
The proposal le to change to a County Council composition
whereby the head of each local municipality sits as a
member of County Council;_ with each additional member
from area municipalities sitting on County Council dnv the
basis of each additional 4.000 electors. •
Any person may attend de public meeting and/or make
written or verbal representation either in support of or in
opposition to the proposed by-law. The Council may make A
decision concerning the by-law at anytime following the
public meeting.
Additional information relating to the proposed by-law is
available for inspection during regular office hours at the
County offices (519) 624-8394. Copies of the proposed by-
law are also available by contacting the County offices.
J.A.Murray
Clerk -Administrator
County of Huron
Court House
Qoderich, Ontario
N7A 1M2
The idea of "liberat-
ing" Canada, possibly
exchanging it for a free
Ireland, motivated the
Fenians creating the
scares and invasion of
1866. General Sir
William Otter, born just
south of Clinton, started
his active military
career in that fracas
and went on to .take
part in the suppression
of the. Northwest
Rebellion and in the
Roer War; his ideas of
.Jilitary efficiency and
effectiveness pervaded
all his efforts to create
a Canadian army. Then
there is the idea of
Empire, inculcated
through the school sys-
tem, creating a whole
generation ready to
fight "the war to end all
wars."
David Yates of
Goderich, president of
the Huron Historical
Society was chairman
for Friday's dinner
which was catered by
the Brucefield U.C.W.
Paul Carroll is past
president. Council
members from South
Huron include Joe
Hogan, Exeter; David
McClure, RR #1,
Crediton and Janeth
Sangster of Hensall.
Shown reviewing the program at Friday's annual dinner of the Huron Historical
Society are from the left, guest speakers Steve Oliver and Dave Kemp, society
president Dave Yates and past president Paul Carroll. photo/Ross Haugh
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