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FEATUREThe role of the Waterloo Region Hall of Fameis to recognize and honour the contributionsof the hundreds of extraordinary people whomade our community what it is today.PHOTO: KRAEMER WOODCRAFTPHOTO: EXCHANGE MAGAZINE14 | w w w . e x c h a n g e m a g a z i n e . c o mCurator Tom Reitz, left, and Chair John ThompsonPHOTO: KRAEMER WOODCRAFT
FEATUREHONOURING THEEXTRAORDINARYPEOPLE WHO BUILTWATERLOO REGIONBY BRIAN HUNSBERGERThe Waterloo Region Hall of Fame has a new home in theWaterloo Region Museum“How do civilizations imagine themselves? One way is for each of us to look at ourselves through our society’smost remarkable figures. I am not talking about hero worship or political iconography. That is a danger to beavoided at all costs. And yet people in every country do keep on going back to the most important people intheir past.”These words were written by John Ralston Saul in the introduction to a series of biographies he commissionedabout 20 “Extraordinary Canadians.”There is an adage to the effect that “We can’t know where we’re going if we don’t know where we’ve comefrom.” So how do we learn about where we’ve come from, what our community was like before our own lifetimesand who the extraordinary people were who built and shaped that community?Locally, such collective remembrance is greatly enhanced by institutions like the new Waterloo RegionMuseum on Homer Watson Boulevard in Kitchener. An important message is inscribed into the museum’scolourful walls. As indicated on the museum’s website, the panels contain “a hidden layer of meaning” translatedinto hexadecimal code used in mathematics and computer programming. The combinations represent lettersof the alphabet that spell out these words from a 1905 speech of then Prime Minister Wilfrid Laurier. “Wedo not want, that any individuals should forget the land of their origin or their ancestors. Let them look to thepast, but let them also look to the future; let them look to the land of their ancestors, but let them look also tothe land of their children.”When travelling the road bearing his name to visit the new museum, how many of us know, or give a secondthought to who Homer Watson was? The renowned Canadian artist lived most of his life in what was then thevillage of Doon (now part of Kitchener), a stone’s throw from the new museum and the 1914 era heritage villagesurrounding it.As well as artifacts, achievements and events, we need information about people, we need to learn aboutthe most important people in our past. A significant part of the information about the key movers and shakersof our community is housed in the Waterloo Region Hall of Fame (WRHF), now located in the new museum atthe historic crossroads of the Huron Road and the Grand Trunk Railroad.A visit to the WRHF can introduce you to the aforementioned Homer Watson, who died in 1936.N O V E M B E R / D E C E M B E R 2 0 1 1 | 15
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