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History of the
Greater Harvey Historical Society
The first
meeting of the Buckhorn Historical Society was held on September 27,
1984 with eight
members in attendance.
At the
next meeting in October of 1984, the name of the society was changed to
“The Greater Harvey Historical Society” to
include the entire town of Buckhorn (part of which is in Smith
Township) and surrounding areas.
The
members of the society decided that they would like to publish a book
on the history of Harvey Township and started to collect information on
churches, schools, cemeteries, early events and many family
histories / photographs, and began interviewing people from the
area.
In 1992,
the society released their historical book titled “Harvey Township – An
Illustrated History”. With
the profits from the sale of our books, the society erected two
commemorative monuments, one at Nogie’s Creek Cemetery and the
other at Sandy Lake Cemetery.
In
1999, David Kemlo was approached by the Buckhorn Library to become a
director of the society. Pam Dickey, David’s wife attended with
him and was soon nominated to become the President. A
position that
she held a number of times in the past 6 years and now hold again in
2005. David has remained as a Director of the society for the past 6
years and recently received an award for his hard work and dedication.
Both David and Pam along with numerous
individuals work endless hours
for the benefit of our community.
When
Pam became president, she found that the society had collected over a
1000 family photographs, many of which still remain unidentified,
along with a number of family bibles and interesting
artifacts, one of which is the original deed for land owned by Sir
Sanford Fleming
with his original signature.
With
the merging of Galway, Cavendish and Harvey, and the growing interest
world wide in family genealogy, the executive decided it was time
to charter a new course. One of our
primary objectives was to find a ‘home’ were we could
share our wealth of data.
The
Township council was kind enough to provide us with a large storage
room in which we preserve our archives along with the areas we now use
as our library, research facilities, and computer room.
The Greater
Harvey Historical Society and Archival Centre has continued to grow,
due to dedication and
hard work. We continue to collect family histories, books for our
library and
have received numerous heritage items from many individuals
who like us wish to preserve their heritage, yet keep the
items in their community.
Due
to the fact that we are 5 minutes out of Bobcaygeon we also include the
surrounding areas within our research, extending into the Victoria
County Region.
What
started as a small group of individuals trying to preserve their
heritage has turned into a large group of
individuals who enjoy receiving our wonderful newsletter, attending our
functions, and helping us collect and preserve information, not just
for ourselves, but for our children’s children and for
generations to come.
For Further information about the GHHS please contact
info@harveyhistoricalsociety.ca
1-705-738-0100
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