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Since 1956 when Ontario’s historical plaquing program was begun, more than 1,000 markers have been erected throughout the province.
The range of subjects commemorated is astonishing – from mining rushes in northern Ontario to the invention of the socket-head screw … from Harold Innis to Stephen Leacock … from the typhus epidemic of 1847 to the discovery of insulin. Popular culture is also well repr...
Since 1956 when Ontario’s historical plaquing program was begun, more than 1,000 markers have been erected throughout the province.
The range of subjects commemorated is astonishing – from mining rushes in northern Ontario to the invention of the socket-head screw … from Harold Innis to Stephen Leacock … from the typhus epidemic of 1847 to the discovery of insulin. Popular culture is also well repr...