Neys Provincial Park APPROVED to receive a Canadian Historic Event Plaque !!!

Left:  Neys Camp 100                        Right:  Neys Highway #17: Entrance

Historic Sites and Monument Board of Canada - announcement:
We were notified on January 30th, 2012 at 4:43 pm that Neys Provincial Park,  has been approved as a location for a historic event plaque.  As many of you know on July 21, 2011, the Minister of the Environment, approved the nomination of the event titled:  "The Detention of Second World War Prisoners of War and Enemy Aliens Sent to Canada from Great Britain" on the recommendation of the Historic Sites and Monuments Board of Canada.  Today, the plaque location was announced in an email to us as the nominators on record for this event.

Many of us have been working on this project since June 10, 2008.  Neys was the location of Camp 100 during WW-II.  With today's announcement, we now know that a plaque will be located at the site of PoW Camp on the north shore of Lake Superior.  Neys was one of 29 Camps holding 33,798 PoWs. 

With the announcement today, the next steps are:
a)  Sorting out the wording for the bronze plaque.  This will take sometime as numerous stakeholders will need to be consulted.  We are one of the stakeholders.
b)  Once the plaque is approved by the HSMBC, then the plaque can be made.  The next meeting of the board is July.  Casting of the plaque takes many weeks.
c)  The unveiling ceremony date and time will then be sorted out.
d)  Parks Canada will soon be in touch with Ontario Parks to discuss arrangements.

Thanks to everyone who supported the nomination, wrote letters to the Government, and provided encouragement and support during this long process.  We hope we will see many of you at the unveiling ceremony (date and time to be determined)

We are pleased with today's developments especially when we confirmed that we could announce the news.