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.