On Sunday, May 30, 1971, an historical plaque commemorating the Addington Road, an early colonization road, was unveiled in the village of Kaladar. This plaque is one of a series being erected throughout the province by the Ontario Department of Public Records and Archives, acting on the advice of the Archaeological and Historic Sites Board.
Participants in the ceremony shown left included: Mr. Arnold York, a long time resident of Kaladar; Mr. Clair Benn, Reeve of the Townships, Mr. John O’ Donnell, grandson of one of the councillors of the Townships’s first council; Mr. J. R. Simonett, MPP (Frontenac Addington); Mr. Merrill Denison, noted author; Mr. Damon Bryden, a former Reeve of the Townships; Mr. Douglas Alkenbrack, MP (Frontenac - Lennox), Mr. Cecil Kidd, Warden of the County of Lennox and Addington; Mr. Roy Holtzhauer, President of the Land O’ Lakes Tourist Association; and Prof. W. S. Goulding, representing the Province’s Historic Sites Board.
The Fina Gas Station is in the background.
Part of the Cloyne and District Historical Society Album.
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