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Nov 12, 19 •
0 Views • Feature Story, Local News • Sarah Schofield • No Comments
Cadets stand vigil at the Chatham cenotaph on Nov. 11. This year’s Remembrance Day Service held by the Downtown Chatham cenotaph may have been the snowiest in recent years, but that did not stop citizens from honouring and showing respect to...
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Oct 29, 19 •
0 Views • Feature Story, Local News • Bruce Corcoran • No Comments
The call is out for volunteers to stand vigil around the Chatham cenotaph. For the third straight year, the Christ Church community is organizing the vigil in advance of the Nov. 11 ceremony at the site on King Street. It began in 2017 as a commemoration to...
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Nov 12, 18 •
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Chatham-Kent police have turned to the public for more information regarding a disturbance Saturday night near the cenotaph in Chatham. About 9 p.m. during the cenotaph vigil, a 66-year-old Dover Township man was standing at the monument holding vigil when he...
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Oct 17, 18 •
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Christ Church Chatham is again asking for support in standing vigil at the Chatham cenotaph. In honour of the 100th anniversary of the First World War Armistice, Christ Church is calling on service groups, churches, businesses and individuals to stand vigil...
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Nov 15, 17 •
0 Views • Bruce Uncorked, Feature Story • Bruce Corcoran • No Comments
It’s heartening to see the crowd at the Remembrance Day crowds at the cenotaph in downtown Chatham growing seemingly every year. After all, when you think about the conditions so many of our fighting men and women endured over the years, a little cold...
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May 25, 16 •
0 Views • Feature Story, Life • Bruce Corcoran • No Comments
Chatham-Kent’s heritage committee has no problem with Chatham’s cenotaph and the iconic “Johnny Canuck” statue atop the monument getting a good cleaning. At the May 18 committee meeting, members heard from local historian Jerry Hind and C-K manager of...
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May 11, 16 •
0 Views • Feature Story, Local News • Jim Blake • 1 Comment
The question of the scope and method of restoration and maintenance to the Chatham Cenotaph will be going back before the Municipal Heritage Committee. Committee chair John Taylor said additional information on the subject has come to light since the group...
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May 4, 16 •
0 Views • Feature Story, Local News • Jim Blake • 2 Comments
Confusion over whether the British “Tommy” atop the Chatham Cenotaph should be cleaned has a Chatham historian and cenotaph expert concerned the municipality may be ignoring the advice of experts. Jerry Hind said a proposal sent to the municipal heritage...
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Nov 18, 15 •
0 Views • Feature Story, Local News • Jim Blake • No Comments
The federal government is urging Chatham-Kent to seek up to $25,000 in funding to correct a decades-old spelling mistake on the Chatham Cenotaph. Readers of the Chatham Voice noticed the word remembrance spelled incorrectly after a photograph appeared in the...
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Nov 18, 15 •
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Editor’s Note: This is the second of a three-part series on the history of the Chatham Cenotaph by Jerry Hind: The third part will follow next week. Chatham and the County of Kent, along with the rest of post 1918 war Canada were trying to get...
