cbe report final_hr - Haliburton County Community Cooperative Inc
cbe report final_hr - Haliburton County Community Cooperative Inc
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CARDIFF<br />
The potential interviewee for the township of Cardiff is Tommy Elliot.<br />
The township of Cardiff is a former mining community, with uranium being<br />
the chief mineral mined, for several years beginning in 1956. Cardiff’s main village site is<br />
Highland Grove. Also mentioned is the village of Chedder. The areas of interest in<br />
Highland Grove are listed below with a brief history of each site:<br />
Highland Grove<br />
Kidd School House – Genealogy Museum – 2010<br />
• Built by a man named Walter Kidd, the original schoolhouse was constructed<br />
around the year 1890. Although the details of its history are unclear, according to<br />
Smith the building was bought by a hunt camp, which used it for a long time before<br />
the township bought the schoolhouse in the 1970s.<br />
Cheddar<br />
really pointing nowhere.<br />
Forgotten for more than half a century except for a faithful highway sign<br />
“The title, ‘ghost town’ is perhaps a little too grand, but despite<br />
the fact that such places now exist only in the memories of old-<br />
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