Milton Heritage Awards, February 1992

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Media Type

Image

Item Type

Photographs

Description

1991 Heritage Award winners - left to right, Dr. William D. Finlayson, Barbara Fullum, Bess Robinson and Father Mark Curtis.

Notes

Heritage Education Award - Dr. William D. Finlayson, executive director Museum of Indian Archaeology, London, Ont., pioneered digs at Crawford Lake, which led to a major education effort there to tell people how Indians lived here in the pre-European era; Visual Heritage Award - Barbara Fullum for preserving a large collection of portraits of 19th century Miltonians, all clearly captioned; Heritage Writing Award - the late Mel Robinson (represented by his wife, Bess) for a series of remarkable columns in The Canadian Champion in the late 1970s and early 80s, showing how families lived here during the first half of the 20th century; Architectural Award - Holy Rosary Parish Church (represented by Father Mark Curtis) for preserving and restoring a classic historic Martin Street house as a rectory for the parish's priests.

Date of Original

23 Feb 1992

Dimensions

15 cm. x 10 cm.

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