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HISTORIC BUILDINGS & PLACES (Those interesting little hidden corners.)
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Old Mortuary in Old St. A's
Pic # 4
**nice wine color has been added to
the front entrance doors and sealed windows.
Trim will be redone in white.
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Old Mortuary in Old St. A's
Pic # 5
**A nice front view showing how
the building is starting to look much
fresher with some bright fresh paint.
**The end of the building where the round
wine colored disc is, shows where the original
stained glass window was before being
damaged. Parts of it still remain under the
wood disc cut to protect the rest of it.
**Hopefully the window will be replaced with
a new stained glass one in the near future.
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Old Mortuary in Old St. A's
Pic # 6
**Showing the end and backside
of the building. The metal eave trim
still needs to be finished.
The top arches of the building are
in urgent need of repairs as they are
starting to deteriorate fairly quickly now.
**They will need to be repaired by someone
who truly knows how to do such work.
**Originally there were crosses on
the top of the arches.
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Photo by Unknown. Courtesy of Frank VinkPhoto of the Old St Anthony's Mortuary known
to be WW1 time frame. It's believed to be the
official dedication of the Mortuary or a
St John Baptist Day event.
We believe however it may be an actual photograph
of the opening of this building.
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MAUSOLEUM
*Storm caused some damaged to the modern Mausoleum,
late Sunday July 18th, 2010, causing a large rotted tree to snap
off a few feet above the ground. It crashed down on the corner
of the Mausoleum, with damaged being done.
McTavish Tree Service Ltd. of Blenheim, Ont., tended to the clean up.
*photo taken July 19th, 2010
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MAUSOLEUM
Modern Mausoleum damaged in storm
late Sunday, July 18th, 2010. Large rotted
tree, crashed onto the corner, with some
damaged being done.
*photo taken July 19th, 2010
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The "RED BRICK BUILDING"
*this building next to the
bridge leading into
Old Maple Leaf Sections
of the Cemetery near the
Catholic Section named
Old St. Anthony Cemetery.
**mainly used for storage
**More information is being
sought about past uses of it.
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Old Maple Leaf CemeteryMAUSOLEUM
*the Old Mausoleum
built abt 1913 ~ 1914 is
a magnificent piece of architectual
history in the Chatham~Kent area.
*built with stained glass windows and
vents for releasing gases it is a most
interesting building of design.
*you will find it on Maple Leaf Drive,
down the road next to Old M.L. Ward B.
*it contains crypts with a lift, that was used
to lift the caskets to the top level resting place.
*still in fairly good repair
**Open only upon appt. or occasions
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The "OLD MORTUARY" in 2011
*this old chapel type building consists
of 3 separate rooms.
*the rooms were listed as~~
the Rest Room, the Tool Room,
and the Morgue.
*the ceiling in the Rest Room
still exists~~tongue & groove hardwood.
*remanants of the original, round
stained glass window, still exist
within the original framework
**now used for storage
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Old St. Anthony's Cemetery, ChathamUrsuline Sister
MOTHER XAVIER
(Yvonne Le Bihan)
1814 ~ 1896
***is listed in this Album
as her work in the Chatham
area was some of the most
"Important History of the
Religious Orders"
in the entire area.
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MAUSOLEUM
* a modern mausoleum
*find it along Maple Leaf Drive on the left at the
entrance to the Maple Leaf & St. Anthony Cemeteries
*photo taken July 15, 2010
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LEGION MEMORIAL CHAPEL
*erected September 26, 1970
*on Maple Leaf Drive
*before the stone pillars
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