Vankoughnet

Location:  N 44° 59.230 W 079° 03.431  Found in Village Park, a small community park dedicated to those who served in the Second World War, and to the early pioneers.

Stone slab with a bronze plaque, dedicated in August 1945, reads as follows:

VILLAGE PARK

DONATED BY
WILLIAM NELSON BOYES
TO THE TOWNSHIP OF OAKLEY
AUG. 28TH, 1945

DEDICATED TO THOSE FROM
THIS COMMUNITY WHO
SERVED IN THE WAR OF
1939-1945

TOWN OF BRACEBRIDGE



The park also features an Ontario Historical Plaque, dedicated to Victoria Cross winner George Richardson.
Text on this plaque reads:
GEORGE RICHARDSON, V.C. 1831 - 1923

Private Richardson won the Victoria Cross while fighting with the Border Regiment of the British Army in northern India during the Indian Mutiny of 1857-59. As part of an attachment sent to dislodge rebels in the hills of the Kewarie Trans-Gogra district on April 27, 1859, he displayed "determined courage in having, though severely wounded... closed with and secured a rebel Sepoy (Indian soldier) armed with a broad revolver". An Irishman by birth, Richardson came to Canada in the early 1860s. During the 1880s and 1890s he lived on a farm one kilometre southwest of here. He held numerous township offices, including Reeve of Oakley Township (1895-96).