PARLIAMENT HILL
There are very few more potent symbols of Canada and Confederation than the Centre Block on Parliament Hill, with its magnificent Peace Tower, which...
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...
Stephen Merrick House
It is believed that this house was originally built by Samuel Langford for Stephen Merrick, a son of village founder William Merrick. It has...
Grahame’s Bakery
Grahame’s Bakery was originally the site of a house built by Asa Clothier in the 1820's, and was at the centre of what was...
North Grenville at Confederation
When Kemptville separated from Oxford-on-Rideau Township in 1857, its population was not officially large enough to qualify it as a village. That required a...
The Ferguson House, 506 Prescott Street, Kemptville
This lovely house is a reminder of Kemptville’s past. In 1844, John Clothier sold 9 acres of land to John Rath. This property covered...
Happy 90Th Birthday Rideau Glen
by Cecile Fortier
Born from the ashes of the Jazz Age, through the waves of social enjoyment, into the bleak throes of the Great Depression...
Whose land was it anyway?
After the end of the American Revolutionary War, about 50,000 refugees sought refuge in the lands still held by Britain. Most of these went...
Rideau Canal saga: Looking for security
As the War of 1812 was coming to an end in late-1814, the British authorities began to turn their minds to potential future conflicts...
The central role of cheese
At the turn of the Twentieth Century, cheese factories were a major part of the Ontario economy, and North Grenville and the surrounding area...