Local firefighters get appreciation day
On Wednesday, May 4, people around the world celebrated International Firefighter Appreciation Day. An event hosted by Kemptville Retirement Living helped to make sure...
Mayor Struthers reports on ROMA conference
Mayor Doug Struthers attended the annual Rural Ontario Municipal Association Conference (ROMA) in Toronto at the beginning of last week. He believes that the...
Merrickville’s pioneer newspaper part 2
Thomas Alexander Parnell was very much a churchman of his time. In the nineteenth century, the Anglican Church in Canada saw itself as the...
Wolford in 1818
For the first decades of the Nineteenth century, the four townships of Wolford, Oxford, Montague and Marlborough were administered as a unit, with a...
The Settlement that passed us by: Part 3
The plan to bring in settlers to farm the lands around the Rideau, and so provide a barrier to any future American invasion, ran...
TNIM presents plans for Community Centre renovation to council
Theatre Night in Merrickville (TNIM) has submitted a request to continue their renovations on the Merrickville Community Centre.
In 2018, TNIM spearheaded and completed renovations...
The Settlement that passed us by: part 6 The importance of the Military Settlement...
The importance of the Military Settlement project between 1815 and 1820 cannot be exaggerated. Although the actual numbers of those who settled in Leeds...
Historical Society take a pause for thought about the future
With the cancellation of so many events and regular activities because of the covid pandemic, the Merrickville and District Historical Society is not alone...
Council gathers information and public input on Cannabis retail stores
Merrickville-Wolford council held a special meeting on Monday, January 7, 2019 to gather information and public input about allowing cannabis shops in the municipality.
The...
New Official Plan in works for Merrickville-Wolford
The Municipality of Merrickville-Wolford is currently undergoing the process of updating the Municipality’s Official Plan. A draft Official Plan was made available on the...