Lucknow Sentinel

Special air quality statement includes parts of Huron County

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HURON – Environment and Climate Change Canada has issued a special air quality statement as smoke from wildfires in the west begins clouding the Huron County area. The June 5  statement encompasses southern Huron County, Bluewater, Goderich, northern Huron County, Wingham and Blyth. According to a press release from Huron Perth public health, wildfire smoke […]

Goderich Signal Star

Farmers unite! The Patrons of Industry in Huron

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In early November 1890, at Ashfield Township’s sectional school No. 5, the first lodge of the Patrons of Industry was formed in Huron County when 35 farmers appended their name to the charter. It was a radical movement that sought to combine farmers, urban labourers and tradesmen into a united movement to fight tariffs, monopolies […]