Books

The second Kidd Schoolhouse book has arrived.  We will do one more book.  It MUST contain a picture of our historical society members.  Every one should look at them for comments on new things to include before we order a third book.

Now, Heritage Day is Sat. Sept. 12.  We are going to produce one Mac book on this event.  This will include any ads, location of ads, food, quantity of food, food processors, visitors, events, etc, etc.  For example, Agnews is going to provide a cooking pot, this must be mentioned and a picture taken.

The book should be all inclusive.  I will be looking for people to supply photos for the book, at the end of Saturday!   For visitors, we'll tell them we would like a photo for our book, so they won't be surprised to hear of a picture of them in a book.

Thanks for shoes

Someone has added two pairs of horseshoes to the Bamford Pits.  They have colours of blue on one pair and white on the other.  Thank you.

When the horseshoe stakes get welded onto wheel rims, they will complete the process and be buried in 'ditch-harvested' sand.  Then it's time to get a 'league' operational.

Two people from Cardiff visited our museum site and are planning on building a pit for their community.

Plein Air Arts Festival

The following site will give you information about the Sept. 10-13 outdoor painting activity.

Consult highlandseastpleinair.wordpress.com for  complete outline of the activity.

Next meeting

Friday, July 24, 7 pm at the centre to discuss Heritage Day.

Coming Soon

Thanks to Carson Bamford for donating lumber and Donny Bamford for donating patio stones, a second horseshoe pit is being made.  Hopefully by mid July the Bamford Horseshoe Pits will ready for heritage action.

Nice screen door purchased.  Bill is applying varnish.  The door should keep mosquitoes out.

Some training has been received for the New Horizons Program.  We should be able to post pictures and information directly from our computers.  The site, through the municipality, looks great.  Adele is going to come to HG for more training.

News and updates

Adele Espina, organizing the New Horizons project, has sent us a reference to WW1 soldiers.  It is great.  Click on it and you are taken to a map and locations of individual locations of soldiers.  We will be able to include this in either a 'veterans' book or 'cemetery' book, or both.  The following is from Adele.

One of the maps I created during last year's Cultural Mapping project, and that we are going to expand on for this project, is the "WW1 Veterans of Highlands East" map.

Here is the link you can click on to go to that map on the Highlands East municipal website:
https://www.google.com/maps/d/viewer?ll=45.000738,-78.281708&t=m&source=embed&ie=UTF8&msa=0&spn=0.436973,0.8638&z=10&hl=en&mid=z_xs6HwvLgnI.kWZDKqJnmTJA

You' ll notice that I created a map point for where each of the veterans lived in the townships, and that there is a list of those veterans along the left hand side of the web page.

I have also created a WW2 Veterans map, but it is rather sparse at the moment, so not yet visible on the internet. We will be working to add names and information about WW2 vets to that map during the course of the project.

Elva Bates' book "A Journey Through Glamorgan's Past" lists WW1 and WW2 veterans in the Gooderham area on pages 235 to 237.

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Donny Bamford is going to fund a second horseshoe pit.  He will provide the patio stones and weld the stakes onto wheel rims.  Carson will provide the lumber for marking the pit.  We still have to get a photo of Donny and historical members along with Suzanne Partridge and/or Cam McKenzie.

Highland Grove has a Rec committee, although they may not have been active lately.  There may be some money in their transfers to the municipality.  We are asking if there are funds to get us one or more picnic tables for the horseshoe pits.

Irene at the municipal office printed out up to date records of the Deer Lake Cemetery.  These are at the HG centre. 

News Update

Dates to remember:

Friday May 29, H. G. Historical Society 7 pm
Sat. June 27, Strawberry Supper, 4-7 pm
Sat. Sept. 12, Heritage Day and Doors Open
Sun. Sept. 13, Doors Open

News

Donny Bamford will fund another horseshoe pit.  We'll set up a time for our society to meet with Suzanne Partridge and Donny for a photo for the newspaper.  Everyone will be contacted.

Irene Cook, municipal clerk, has printed off a complete list of burials in Deer Lake Cemetery.  The list will remain in the centre.  The numbering system for the cemetery seems a bit complicated, but perhaps can be learned.

It seems that there are LOTS of photos about the Kidd Schoolhouse being moved and renovated.  If members  can gather the photos it will be a great book.  The amount of labour that went into the building is really incredible and should be celebrated for historical  purposes.

Adele has been told that we would like to swap a PC for a Mac.  In addition, it was suggested that since all our members have cameras, perhaps we could swap the camera they want to give to us for a scanner which we do not have.  She is approaching the New Horizon people.