Did Red Squirrels invent Sugaring?
by Dr. Fred Schueler - Fragile Inheritance Natural History
In 1974, James Pendergast of Merrickville was upbraided by fellow archaeologists for suggesting that an ash-rich...
The Harp and the Maple Leaf
The impact of the Irish on Canada goes well beyond the immigrants who arrived here in droves throughout the Nineteenth Century. Most of those...
South Gower: a strange and changeable township
When the Township of South Gower was amalgamated with Oxford-on-Rideau and the Town of Kemptville in 1998, it officially ceased to exist. But that...
Oxford’s First Family
It takes a huge stretch of the imagination to visualise Oxford-on-Rideau Township in 1800. There were no roads, no houses, no residents. Think about...
Early days in Wolford
Life in the early nineteenth century was hard, dangerous, and often without the little luxuries taken for granted by later generations. The population was...
Angles and tangles
On February 22, 1791, Samuel Holland, the Surveyor General of the Colony of Quebec, instructed Deputy Surveyor, Jesse Pennoyer to:
“proceed to Montreal without loss...
The early references to the South Branch River
Debate continues about whether a certain stretch of waterway should be called the Kemptville Creek, or the South Branch of the Rideau River. What...
The making of municipalities
It is surprising, in a way, to discover that life was not always the same as it is now; that boundaries and laws and...
Charles Ferguson, medic and politician
In this series of men and women from North Grenville who had an impact beyond the borders of their community, Charles Ferguson is a...
Merrickville’s lost legacy, 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...