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show, however, severance or transfer of the property on which the Russell Post Office sits. Mayor J.P. St. Pierre has been in contact with the Ministry of Infrastructure, the branch of government that handles prop- erty sales. He reports the ministry said in September they were looking into it. Even with proper title there is a process by which property must be declared surplus and an Order in Council needed for disposition. Declared a heritage property by the town- ship in 2013, if it goes to public auction, that designation must be respected. A newly formed cultural committee is interested in working with other local or- ganizations to purchase the property, said Greg Rokosh, a Police Village Trustee also involved with the Russell Community Sport Centre. The committee envisions the build- ing as a cultural centre for dramatic produc- tions, art shows and other arts events. The price the propertywould sell for is cur- rently unknown but it is valued at $362,000. The registry office itself moved to Embrun when Service Ontario changed their service outlets. Until that time the building was one of a handful of original registry offices still in use in the province.
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RUSSELL l Potential uses for the Russell Registry Office building, one of the village of Russell’s earliest remaining buildings, are under consideration, but so far there are no firm plans for its future, for reasons including an apparent Land Registry error. The Registry Office was one of Russell Township’s few buildings surviving the 1915 fire that leveled much of the town. It was built in 1875 of high-quality locally produced brick and stone with steel and stone fireproof doors and vaults. According to Stanley’s history book, From Swamp and Shanty, the county council sold the prop- erty in 1875 for use as a registry office, but, “there was never any deed to the county registered for the lot.” With the modernization of Land Titles and digitization of records it is now impossible to locally search the original documents. A faint copy of a Quit Claim Deed (transfer) shows the property was transferred from the United Counties of Prescott Russell to the Province in 1968. The deed does not
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Having difficulty hearing? This will change your life! The Russell RegistryOffice building is one of the oldest remaining buildings in Russell Village, and one of the few that was rebuilt after the great fire that leveled most of the village in 1915. The building has been unused since the registry and land titles services were moved to Embrun as part of the Service Ontario reorganization and its current fate is unknown.
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