The Henderson Digitization Project is a one-year, grant-funded project to digitize a collection of images documenting the history of WWII air training in Huron County, Ontario. Project work was completed between April 2013 and March 2014. All photographs featured in this project were taken by Goderich photographer J. Gordon Henderson and represent a small part of the large collection of Henderson’s professional work held at the Archives at the Huron County Museum & Historic Gaol.

By digitizing the collection, publishing it online, and developing educational programs, we aim to increase awareness of J. Gordon Henderson, the Archives at the Huron County Museum, and Huron County’s role in the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan. This project also serves as a model for developing future digital collections at the Huron County Museum & Historic Gaol.

Funding for the Henderson Digitization Project provided by the Government of Ontario. The views expressed by the Henderson Digitization Project are the views of the Huron County Museum & Historic Gaol and do not necessarily reflect those of the Province.

Site Credits

Project Team

Project Direction

Meighan Wark, Director, Cultural Services

Project Management, Cataloguing, Research, and Education Programs

Jenna Leifso, Archives Research Assistant

Digitization, Metadata Wrangling, and Website Coordination

Emily Beliveau, Digital Archives Assistant

County IT Liaisons

Marian Doucette

Mike Mason

Jacob Stevens

Site Design and Development

Conceptual Pathways

Stakeholder Group

• Sinead Cox
• Rhea Hamilton-Seeger
• Carolyn Parks Mintz
• Pat Rowe
• Ted Turner
• Brock and Janis Vodden
• Karen Webster

Special thanks to:

Barbara Hainsworth, for supporting the project and sharing memories of her father, J. Gordon Henderson.

Mike McLean, for sharing extensive and enthusiastic research contributions related to No. 12 EFTS, Sky Harbour.

Reg Thompson and Elaine Blair at the Huron County Library for research support and compiling the annotated entries in Additional Resources.

Jeremy Allin, for creating the audio clips in the Media section.

Education Advisers

• Marion Leifso, OCT
• Amanda Saxton, OCT
• Colleen Caesar, OCT

Text Editors

• Jennifer Zoethout
• Claire Carter