{"id":181614,"date":"2024-11-15T18:33:35","date_gmt":"2024-11-15T23:33:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/doppleronline.ca\/rwddev\/huntsville-residents-donate-columbarium-for-madill-church-cemetery\/"},"modified":"2024-11-15T18:33:35","modified_gmt":"2024-11-15T23:33:35","slug":"huntsville-residents-donate-columbarium-for-madill-church-cemetery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/doppleronline.ca\/huntsville\/huntsville-residents-donate-columbarium-for-madill-church-cemetery\/","title":{"rendered":"Huntsville residents donate columbarium for Madill Church Cemetery"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"float: left; margin-right: 14px;\"><strong><broadstreet-zone zone-id=\"45658\" keywords=\"\" soft-keywords=\"true\" zone-alias=\"\"><\/broadstreet-zone><\/strong><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><em><strong>From the Town of Huntsville<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Town of Huntsville recently commissioned the Madill Church Columbarium, generously donated by Helen and Wilf McQuinn and featuring a central monument memorializing Helen\u2019s parents, Etta and Wilson Cairns, and Wilf\u2019s parents, Gladys and Bill McQuinn.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe Madill Cemetery is a very important part of the history of our Town\u2014a place of remembering those who have gone before, including some of the region\u2019s early pioneers. We are so grateful for the donation of the Madill Church Columbarium by Helen and Wilf McQuinn, in loving memory of both their parents. We hope that this monument will serve not only as a lasting reminder of the McQuinn and Cairns families to our community, but also as the cherished final resting place of other Huntsvillians,\u201d said&nbsp;Mayor Nancy Alcock.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>The Story of Madill Columbarium<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Huntsville\u2019s Madill Cemetery was featured in the book \u2018Old Canadian Cemeteries\u2019 for its beauty as a place of memory and was acknowledged for its significance to the region\u2019s pioneers. Helen and Wilf McQuinn recently donated a columbarium to the Town of Huntsville, a gift which provides means for an additional interment service, granting the cemetery better economic viability.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Madill Church Columbarium was received as a wonderful and lovely contribution to the community. Helen and Wilf McQuinn, Colleen MacDonald (former Manager of Parks and Cemeteries) and Signature Memorials owner Steve Sanderson collaborated, seeking to achieve an overall meaningful appearance. The columbarium units selected are spacious and of high quality, with noticeably thick granite. The columbarium features a central monument memorializing Helen and Wilf\u2019s parents. This monument also denotes historic significance by a meaningful image of the Madill Church inlayed on black granite. The apex features a monumental carved capstone perfectly modeling the church\u2019s cedar eve and lintel. Design elements used were graciously provided by the Madill Church Preservation Society through Rob Leverty, Ontario Historical Society. These considerations have given the cemetery another fitting point of interest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The cemetery is a sight to behold lately with the bustling church reconstruction and dozens of trees planted, all of which were donated through the Ontario Association of Cemetery and Funeral Professionals (OACFP) on behalf of the Huntsville Hospital Auxiliary. Madill has benefitted greatly from these good-spirited contributions. The Town has prioritized operational care and maintenance with capital improvements such as a new roadway and fence. The Madill Cemetery has these things all coming together at once. The Columbarium has been well received and is much appreciated.<\/p>\n\n\n<h5 style=\"text-align: center;\">Don\u2019t miss out on Doppler!<\/h5>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Sign up <a href=\"https:\/\/doppleronline.ca\/huntsville\/dont-miss-out-on-doppler\/\"><u>here<\/u><\/a> to receive our email digest with links to our most recent stories.<br \/>\nLocal news in your inbox so you don&#8217;t miss anything!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a style=\"background: #5cb85c url('https:\/\/d1iczxrky3cnb2.cloudfront.net\/red_logo.png') no-repeat 37px; color: #fff; text-decoration: none; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; display: inline-block; font-size: 16px; padding: 15px 38px; padding-left: 75px; -webkit-border-radius: 2px; -moz-border-radius: 2px; border-radius: 2px; box-shadow: 0 1px 0 0 #1f5a89; text-shadow: 0 1px rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.3);\" href=\"https:\/\/donorbox.org\/support-huntsville-doppler\">Click here to support local news<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><broadstreet-zone zone-id=\"45657\" keywords=\"\" soft-keywords=\"true\" zone-alias=\"\"><\/broadstreet-zone>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Town of Huntsville The Town of Huntsville recently commissioned the Madill Church Columbarium, generously donated by Helen and Wilf McQuinn and featuring a central monument memorializing Helen\u2019s parents, [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1904,"featured_media":181615,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-181614","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.8 - 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