More information about our Committee:

Current Members

Executive
President: Lara Maynard
Vice President: Jeff Green
Secretary: Brian White
Co-Treasurers: Cathy Boylan and Jim Eustace

Members at large
Linda Lalonde
Anna Piercey
Laurie Dempster
Eleanor Robson
Patricia O'Brien
Leo Ryan
Bernadette Parsons
Councillor Pam Evans

History of the Committee

Below are some quick facts about our committee. If you’d like to become a member, please E-mail us at torbayheritage@nfmail.net

• Our committee was formed in 1975.
• Our first president was the late Dr. Jim Tague. Vice president was John Ryan. Original founding members included: Claire Tapper, Gerald Manning, Genie Tapper, Marie Evans, John Molloy, Frank Ryan, Judy Watts and Don Cole.
• According to the late Don Cole, “The group was formed as a heritage and library board but eventually the heritage side branched out.”
• One of the original mandates of our committee was to produce and maintain “a display of historical artifacts and to preserve and protect the heritage of Torbay,” said Mr. Cole.
• We established a small showcase in the town hall, which was in effect the precursor of the Torbay Museum.
• Museum Curator Jerri Pellegrinetti first began volunteering with the Heritage Committee in the fall of 1987.
• Our Heritage Committee’s constitution was signed on March 31, 1988.
• In the summer of 1988, we committee oversaw the opening of the Torbay Museum in the town hall. When the museum opened, Pellegrinetti was hired to run the day-to-day activities in the museum.

Aims/Mandate/Constitution

1.      a.) To provide the Town Council of Torbay with recommendations on all matters pertaining to restoring, preserving and implementing projects for the furtherment of Torbay Heritage.

        b.) To solicit from Torbay residents and from ex-residents advice, recommendations and artifacts for recording and visual display.

        c.) To provide documented information of Torbay’s history to interested persons or groups through means of briefs, speeches, slides or other means.

        d.) To insure that names of early settlers or of those who contributed to the Town’s well being are remembered in street or landmarks e.g. Pulpit Rock, Frenchman’s Ridge, Piper Stock Hill, etc.

2.        And all other efforts necessary to insure that past history and contemporary history is documented and maintained for posterity.

The Heritage Committee’s Constitution was signed on March 31, 1988.