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Gilberts: Chatham-Kent set to mark Heritage Week

February in Ontario (and many other places) is generally considered to be the month to focus on our heritage.

February in Ontario (and many other places) is generally considered to be the month to focus on our heritage.

Heritage Day was originally designated as a national day to celebrate our heritage and in the early days, the hope was it would become a national holiday.

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In 1974, the Ontario Heritage Foundation, later renamed the Ontario Heritage Trust (OHT), set aside the third Monday of February for that purpose. But in 2007, when then-premier Dalton McGuinty turned that day into a statutory holiday, he named it Family Day instead of Heritage Day. So, though we get a holiday that day, it is not officially to celebrate our heritage.

That hasn’t stopped the OHT, though. Since 1985, they have designated the third week of February as Ontario heritage week,........

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