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Oct 24, 2024 · Yates and Kuiper had originally approached Huron County Council for the project on a non-profit basis, hoping to cover costs and then return any profits to the county. However, with the Huron Heritage Fund discontinued, council turned down the request and the pair went back to the drawing board with the project sitting dormant for a time.
Jul 20, 2024 · Yates says Huron County has thirteen cenotaphs, plus the one in Luckow that recognizes soldiers from Ashfield, and what he and Kuiper decided to do is write a history of those fourteen cenotaphs. Yates says each one of those cenotaphs tells an important part of the story of that community and how they opted for the cenotaph that they did.
Jul 10, 2024 · Every community in Huron County has a unique story about their cenotaph. Huron County’s cenotaphs vary in age, with the oldest in Hurondale from 1919 and the newest in Clinton from 1966. The not-for-profit project will use Kuiper’s photos and Yates’s stories, with any profits going back to preserve the region’s cenotaphs.
Jul 8, 2024 · Jul 8, 2024 | 4:00 AM. Goderich Cenotaph. Two Huron County residents are looking for funding that would help celebrate and preserve the memory of those who made the ultimate sacrifice for our country. David Yates and Conrad Kuiper made a presentation to county council asking for $5,000 in seed funding for the Cenotaph Book Project.
Jul 8, 2024 · David Yates and Conrad Kuiper made a presentation to county council asking for $5,000 in seed funding for the Cenotaph Book Project. The pair felt it was necessary to recognize the sacrifices made ...
May 20, 2020 · Throughout Canada, no other piece of public art evokes such powerful emotions as the local cenotaph that commemorates that community’s war dead. Wingham was the last town in Huron County to erect a war memorial but it chose its design well. It is the closest thing Canadians have to sacred art that’s still capable of moving the Canadian soul.
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Oct 21, 2024 · Oct. 21. by Bob Montgomery. Huron County Historian, and former high school history teacher, Dave Yates, is releasing his newest book this week. The book is called Never Shall Their Glory Fade, and Yates explains the title is derived from one of the inscriptions on the Goderich cenotaph and refers to the names that are on that cenotaph. Yates ...
