7 Sep 2018

Historic Goal Presentation – September 19

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St. Joseph and Area Historical Society Presents
Behind the Bars The Huron Historic Gaol
Wednesday, September 19, 2018
7:30 pm
St. Peter’s Church Hall, St. Joseph, Ontario
Light refreshments.
This is a free event – Bring some friends.
Curious about the history and stories of life within the walls of the Huron Gaol?   Join Senior Curator, Elizabeth French-Gibson,  to discover life at the jail beginning in 1841 and stories of the men, women and children including criminals, the ill and the homeless who spent time behind bars at the Gaol.  Volunteers from the Huron County Museum and Historic Gaol’s popular summer Behind the Bars programme will also tell the stories of the historic characters they portray.
 
25 Aug 2016

Breakfast in the Park 2016

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Click for Breakfast in the Park Gallery
Click for Breakfast in the Park Gallery

 

Thank you to the friends and neighbours who celebrated Breakfast in the Park with us this year. Again the weather was wonderful and the volunteers exemplary. A very special thankyou to our sponsors and donors.

20 Aug 2016

St. Joseph Memorial Park “Monument Beautification Project”

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2016 Memorial Change
The society has been Hosting a Remembrance Day Memorial service at the park for the past 5 years, 2016 will be our 6th annual service. The park has a memorial monument to honor and recognize those men and women who have served our country for several years which was built by Tony LaPorte from beach stone and cement. Each year the attendance has been growing where we are now getting between 75 and 100 people in attendance.
At one of the monthly meetings of the St. Joseph and Area Historical Society a discussion was initiated to see what we could do to create a greater awareness and provide a higher profile of the monument in the park for the Remembrance Day Services.
After some investigation we discovered that VAC, Veteran Affairs Canada had a Cenotaph/Monument Restoration Program where you could apply for grant funding for not-for-profit organizations as well as provinces, territories and Municipalities.
The funding program was initiated to provide funding to repair, restore or expand a structure that was erected to commemorate Canadian Veterans or war dead.
Based on the criteria for qualification the SJAHS filled an application to VAC for funding for our project. At the same time a presentation was made to Municipality of Bluewater to advise what the Society was planning to change at the park and to request support through a grant application.
On March 08th, 2016 the Society received confirmation that our grant request was approved, subsequently the Municipality of Bluewater approved our grant application and the project was on its way.
As of today the Monument Beautification Project has been completed in the park. The total budget for the project was approximately $7,000.00. The project was completely funded through the generous financial support of the following;

Lakewood Garden Centre
McCann Redi-Mix Inc
Municipality of Bluewater
Murals in Metals
St. Joseph & Area Historical Society
Veteran Affairs Canada

16 May 2016

Society President, Mike Miller, Wins Award

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Mike Miller, President of the St. Joseph & Area Historical Society, was recently honoured with the Ontario Volunteer Services Award in recognition of his 15+ years of continuous service to the Society since it was founded in 1997.

Miller wins Award
13 Feb 2016

Society wins award for St. Joseph Memorial Park

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The St. Joseph and Area Historical Society of St. Joseph, ON placed third in the annual Communities in Bloom 2015 Gardens of Remembrance program with their submission, the “St. Joseph Memorial Park”. The garden in St. Joseph’s Memorial Park was the only Ontario award recipient in the Garden of Remembrance program and the Historical Society was presented with a $100.00 gift card from Home Hardware.

The staff and owner, Gary MacLean of Home Hardware, Grand Bend are pictured with St. Joseph and Area Historical Society representatives, Martha Mungar and Mark Tucker.
The staff and owner, Gary MacLean of Home Hardware, Grand Bend are pictured with St. Joseph and Area Historical Society representatives, Martha Mungar and Mark Tucker.