The tarp is off and the sign is there for everyone to see. As of Saturday, the building housing the Timmins Museum is the Michael J.J. Doody Centre for Excellence.
“It’s just been a tremendous journey for me to be a member of the museum and what we have,” he told the crowd of about 200 people.
Doody has been involved with the museum since its inception in the 1970s.
He came to Timmins as “the little guy from Val d’Or” in 1959 to work in radio and never left. He’s been a long-time city councillor and even the mayor in the early years of amalgamation.
It was Doody’s day, but he used his time to speak paying tribute to a lot of other people, not the least of which are his wife Charlene and their family.
Among the tributes was one to local members of parliament, Charlie Angus and Gilles Bisson. Doody called them ordinary people who know what we go through in Northern Ontario.
“…to make our living off people who work in the mines, work in the forest camps and from that we have evolved into one of the finest communities in Northeastern Ontario.”
He also credited museum director-curator Karen Bachmann with bringing the best displays in Canada to the local facility. She is president of the Canadian Museums Association.
(Bob McIntyre, MyTimminsNow.com Staff)
(Bob McIntyre, MyTimminsNow.com Staff)
(Bob McIntyre, MyTimminsNow.com Staff)