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Gilberts: This Dresden story deserves to be better known

The province created the Ontario Water Resources Commission, which began to regulate and provide financial help to develop things like water treatment plants.

I was born in 1957, at the height of the baby boom. In those days, babies weren’t the only thing that was booming. Canada had by then recovered from the dark days of depression and war and was moving full-throttle toward the modern lifestyle we enjoy today (some might say at our peril). Governments throughout the developed world were beginning to build the modern social safety net that is still in place, albeit not without holes, today.

One marker of that modern welfare state was safe, reliable drinking water. To that end, the province created the Ontario Water Resources Commission, which began to regulate and provide financial help to develop things like water treatment plants. Dresden was one of the first towns to receive funding to build a facility like that.

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To that end, the Canadian-British Consulting Engineers........

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