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The Voice of North Grenville
Vol. 2, No.21
May 28, 2014
Back to School - Fifty Years Later
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Jumpstart BBQ See page 12 Doug MacDonald and Amanda Gould As part of the Dandelion Festival, the North Grenville Historical Society put on a display of documents, photographs and artefacts they have gathered in the Pioneer Schools Project that will result in a book later this year. For more details, see Beth Nicol’s article on page 11. In the picture above are Doug MacDonald, who is supervising the project, and Amanda Gould, the new Director of Archives at the NGHS. Amanda is a local resident who works as a conservator for the Cana-
dian Museum of History, and she heads the Society’s Archives Committee which is partnering with the Museum on developing our local archives and museum in North Grenville. The Society has also been blessed with the services of a summer student, Michelle Carré, who is a History student at Carleton University. She has been a tremendous help in the Archives already, and was responsible, with Doug, for preparing the Dandelion Festival Exhibit. The Kemptville Fire Service very kindly loaned
Photo by Beth Nicol the NGHS a memorial plaque in honour of James Ault, who died while fighting the fire which destroyed the old High School in Kemptville in 1936. It took pride of place in the section dealing with the High School which James Ault had attended as a student. To add further to the occasion, outside the Court House was parked the 1914 Fire Truck which actually attended at the High School fire in 1936, along with James Ault. This, too, was provided for the event by Chief Paul Hutt, to whom
the NGHS is very grateful indeed, and to Bill Kinnear, of the Fire Service, who delivered the truck and brought it safely home again. The Society put on another event at the Festival, when Dr. David Shanahan, the Society’s Historian, gave a talk on the history of old Downtown Kemptville from the stage outside the Library to a large group of local residents. All in all, the North Grenville Historical Society certainly helped visitors to the Festival to Discover Our Roots.