Thanking God for 150 Years
by Ken Gehrels
Did you know that it was a last minute decision? It happened in London, England, shortly before parliament was to pass the...
Additions to history noted
by Doug MacDonald
The Archives of the North Grenville Historical Society (NGHS) have created a “Daniel and Charles Pelton Collection” from donations of original and/or...
Kemptville High School
Here is a building that looms large in the memories of many people in North Grenville, for good or ill. For over 80 years...
All the latest news from 1865
by Doug Hendry and David Shanahan
Kemptville only got its first newspaper in 1855, and it only lasted a few years. A second paper arrived...
Methodist Church and Cemetery, Clothier and James Streets
As so often in North Grenville, some of the more interesting and historic locations are now empty sites where once there stood the earliest...
Burritt’s Rapids
The photograph dates from around 1905 and shows the rapids which gave the village its name, along with the mills which gave it its...
Echoes of Kemptville Past update
by Melanie Low
As a follow up to my original post concerning my antique book The Popular Art Instructor, inscribed "Maggie C. Banks Kemptville 1887",...
A tale of two Buildings
by Tricia Habberjam
The year is 1875, and Oxford Mills is a thriving community clustered around the South Branch of the Rideau River in Eastern...
From College to Campus: a landmark in Kemptville
The Municipality of North Grenville has joined with the Kemptville College Alumni Association to celebrate the centenary of what we now call the Kemptville...
Hang together – or hang separately
It is said that the thought of being executed in the morning concentrates the mind wonderfully. The outbreak of the American Civil War in...