{"id":1197,"date":"2013-04-02T14:20:01","date_gmt":"2013-04-02T18:20:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/?p=1197"},"modified":"2013-04-16T11:46:30","modified_gmt":"2013-04-16T15:46:30","slug":"pet-cemetery-should-have-national-designation-says-historian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/pet-cemetery-should-have-national-designation-says-historian\/","title":{"rendered":"Pet Cemetery should have national designation, says historian"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Brock Weir<\/strong><\/p>\n

Few in Aurora would question Aurora\u2019s collective love of pets, but the Town\u2019s historic affinities to furry friends could be emphasized if heritage advocates get their way.<\/p>\n

Aurora Council could consider a request from the Town\u2019s Heritage Advisory Committee (HAC) to put the wheels in motion to designate a plot of land in the south end of town near Ridge Road historic as the Town\u2019s first pet cemetery.

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Elaborate tributes to beloved pets can be found on the site.<\/p><\/div><\/p>\n

The pet cemetery, which some historians speculate might be the very first specially allocated piece of land for that purpose in the country, was recently considered by HAC. Committee member David Heard said he had been quite interested in the property as many headstones date from before 1930 and even bear the names of some of Aurora\u2019s founding families. <\/p>\n

\u201cI would like to see this designated as a national historic site,\u201d he said. \u201cIt is potentially the first in Canada and there is a lot of support for this in the area.<\/p>\n

The Committee tasked the Town\u2019s heritage planner with recommendations on how a pet cemetery could be designated, with additional background information on the site\u2019s history, a \u201cpreliminary idea\u201d of the significance of the site and \u201canything that might be available to establish some timelines and get some background information so we know as a Town [what it is.]\u201d

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And the names of many prominent early families.<\/p><\/div><\/p>\n

A special designation, Mr. Heard added, would add to the already considerable heritage \u201cbase\u201d many Aurorans don\u2019t even know exists.
\n\u201cWe could make Aurora a destination,\u201d he said, speaking of many of Aurora\u2019s famous firsts. \u201cThis will make people incredibly proud of their community.\u201d<\/p>\n\"Facebook\"<\/a>\"twitter\"<\/a>\"mail\"<\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Brock Weir Few in Aurora would question Aurora\u2019s collective love of pets, but the Town\u2019s historic affinities to furry friends could be emphasized if heritage advocates get their way. Aurora Council could consider a request from the Town\u2019s Heritage Advisory Committee (HAC) to put the wheels in motion to designate a plot of land […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1197","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archive"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3D2k4-jj","publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-22 13:36:08","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1197","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1197"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1197\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}