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EVT-3 MIXED · THE ARITHMETIC DUG, THE CELEBRATIONS STANDING
The checklist asks how Walkerton has marked its own centuries, and the record answers in arithmetic more readily than in bunting. The town's founding dates leave no room for doubt about when the anniversaries fell: the centennial of the plat of 1856 fell in 1956, and the sesquicentennial in 2006 — and the town's standard article records that Walkerton celebrated its sesquicentennial in July 2006. For 1956, no centennial observance stands in any source this section could reach: not in the county histories' later editions, not in the open record. The Independent's 1956 run is the event's only possible settler — a centennial in a town with a weekly newspaper leaves a summer of front pages or it did not happen — and the item prints the line at exactly this strength: the 150th attested at article strength, the 100th standing as a named gap with the Independent's centennial-year run named as its settler. The anniversary the town demonstrably keeps is not the plat's at all but the fall festival's — Falloween counts its own years (the eighteenth in 2026) with more public arithmetic than the town has ever given its founding — and that observation, printed plainly, is the centennial line's honest end.
Principal sources: the plat record (Howard 1907 — the arithmetic); the town's standard reference article (the July 2006 sesquicentennial); the negative 1956 run of this section, with the settler named.