Kemptville District Hospital at the Crossroads part 4
by Lynne Clifford-Ward, KDH Foundation
The Kemptville District Hospital Foundation is in the process of raising $2.2 million to bring a CT Scanner to the Hospital....
Buttergate
It had it all: the initial incident and then the cover-up. The involvement of political influence at the highest level. Disappearing evidence and prosecution...
A Common Sense Revolution
Municipal politics is definitely in the news these days, with an election just past and a Council ready to go for the next four...
Electoral confusion in Grenville County
Elections are in the news these days, along with matters of voter suppression, a lack of voting places, and fears of tampering. This is...
Indigenous status in 1950
On 13 May and 16 May 1946, respectively, the House of Commons and the Senate passed parallel resolutions to establish the Special Joint Committee...
Dead centres of the community
There would seem to be little to say about local cemeteries. But those gravestones contain the names of some of North Grenville’s famous citizens,...
Odd Fellows Hall, 119 Clothier St. East
Built in 1859 by Joseph Bower, a leading merchant in the community in the latter half of the century, it was run by Bowers...
Roads to nowhere
Early in 1863, British Americans were still recovering from the effects of the Trent affair. The British Empire had almost been drawn into a...
The Mysterious Mr. Henderson
Part 1: From war to Kemptville
On December 28, 1837, a man called John Henderson, then living in Ogdensburg, New York, wrote to William Lyon...
G. Howard Ferguson: Apprentice Premier
George Howard Ferguson is, at the same time, one of North Grenville’s most famous and most unknown sons. This local boy made good was...