Clothier Hotel, 9 Water Street, Oxford Mills
Here is a building that no-one but older residents from Oxford Mills will recognise. It was constructed c 1835 of timber frame and served...
Walter Turnbull: Man at the top
Walter James Turnbull probably had one of the more interesting lives of anyone who grew up in Oxford Mills. His mother, Sophronia Williams, came...
Looking back ‑ How times have changed
by Ralph Raina
I thought the readers might be interested in a bit of nostalgia about the town of Kemptville. Rudi Finzel and I have...
Kemptville’s Cold War secret
At the height of the Cold War, the Canadian Government took steps to ensure the Continuity of Government in the event of a nuclear...
Dorothy Dumbrille rediscovered
by Doug MacDonald
In the summer of 1908, eleven-year-old Dorothy Dumbrille, along with her parents, Rupert and Minnie and her siblings Miriam, John, Helen and...
Party politics
Canadians, when they think about the Fathers of Confederation, which is rarely, probably imagine them as rather stern and colourless individuals. They see the...
10 Water Street, Oxford Mills, Ontario
Every house has story: a tale of families who built it, lived in it, raised families and filled it with life. The house in...
The Windows of St. James
by Doug Macdonald
On July 25, 1880, St. James the Archdeacon Patton Memorial Church, designed by distinguished Canadian Architect William Tutin Thomas, was officially opened....
The Hollywood connection
Over the past year or so, we’ve been doing a series called “Sons and Daughters”, profiling people who lived and worked in North Grenville...
Kemptville Business Directory:
This is, in fact, quite a selective list of businesses which were operating in the North Grenville area in the 1860's. A much fuller...