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To-do list for Perth, Ontario: edit · history · watch · refresh · Updated 2009年01月11日


Here are some tasks awaiting attention:
  • Expand : more info in several areas - there are guidelines in the WPCities project page
  • Infobox : needed (adapt from similar Canadian settlements)
  • Verify : needs inline citations to demonstrate reliability
  • Other : add relevant categories (check similar Canadian settlements)


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Perth is for winnars.--Duesling 00:11, 19 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Added the http://shop-heritage-perth.com link: this is the latest Downtown Heritage Perth Business Improvement Area site to promote the downtown area.

I added Daniel Daverne to the list of notable people in Perth - he was the first secretary/storeskeeper in 1816 - being appointed from Kingston to take over this position in Perth. Somebody name Zaxby immediately removed this before I could add anything more saying I need am authoritative reference. I am not sure what reference would do. I have produced a documentary on Daniel Daverne (http://DanielDaverne.com) - and can refer to documents in the National Archives of Canada, the Canadian Conservation Institute who restored the recently discovered copy book of Daniel Daverne (1816 - 1818), acticles from CCI discussing the restoration, the restored journal itself in the Perth Museum, but what one would be authoritative? and how exactly would I "reference" them in an authoratative manner. As to whether or not he was a victim of a conspiracy (that I put in the note ) I can refer to hundreds of documents from the 1800's in the hands of the Daverne relatives on the farm he purchased for his parents in 1815 - but would these be considered authoratative. How would I refere to them. I could refer to a history book - not yet published that documents the conspiracy.... but this is history unfolding. However, it is a historical fact that Daniel Daverne is the secretary/storeskeeper in Perth in 1816 - which is all I put in the entry on Perth. I am curious as to the method for so quickly deleting my entry - I didn't even have time to see it before it was gone. Hugh Chatfield (talk) 02:55, 17 August 2009 (UTC) [reply ]

Somebody removed the reference to the Mammoth Cheese saying it wasn't produced in Perth. That's news to Perth. Perhaps there is confusion because a web search will uncover several "mammoth cheeses" each claiming to be the biggest. However refer to these PDFs from the town of Perth. Seems pretty clear to me the mammoth cheese was produced in the rail yards in Perth.

http://www.town.perth.on.ca/files/%7BE5595F9A-D494-4618-8850-AF8FCEBE96F2%7DMammoth%20Cheese%20Press%20Release%202008.pdf

http://www.town.perth.on.ca/files/%7B23F58C8F-0414-438E-8C41-7639D2FE5041%7DMAMMOTH%20CHEESE.pdf

There are photographs of the cheese underway to chicago from Perth with the Perth Town band in attendance. There is a last piece of this cheese on display in the Perth Museum. There is a new monument to the Mammoth cheese just erected in the Tay Basin in Perth. Whoever deleted the reference was wrong.Hugh Chatfield (talk) 03:11, 17 August 2009 (UTC) [reply ]

I finally found an authoritative reference to the issue of Perth's "Mammoth Cheese": Journal of Dairy Sciences, Vol 43 No.12 pp1871-1877 - Mammoth Cheese - G. M Trout - U of Michigan.Hugh Chatfield (talk) 01:07, 14 September 2009 (UTC) [reply ]

The text "This town was the site of the last fatal duel in Canada. Robert Lyon, a law student, was killed on June 13, 1833 after fighting over a woman with a former friend, John Wilson. John Wilson was then tried and hanged for murder." is incorrect. John Wilson was not hanged for murder. Will find an authoritative reference for this.Hugh Chatfield (talk) 00:00, 26 April 2010 (UTC) [reply ]

I presume that http://www.urbanmarket.com/all-about-perth/Merchants.html will eventually be a replacement for the dead link to a PDF, but it's just a placeholder at the moment. —Eric S. Smith (talk) 21:23, 12 October 2009 (UTC) [reply ]

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