G. Howard Ferguson 1: Wild young man
In a series on Sons and Daughters, it is impossible not to notice G. Howard Ferguson. This local boy made good was Ontario’s ninth...
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...
The Great Coalition
The politicians and the people of the United Province of Canada looked with something close to despair at the apparently hopeless state of affairs...
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...
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...
The Man Who Built Churches
by Doug MacDonald
Almost two hundred years ago, in 1826, the Church of England established the Rideau Townships pioneer mission Parish of St. James. The...
Larry and Anstace Esmonde-White
Long before the current interest in local food initiatives, two residents of North Grenville were spreading the word on television across North America and...
Vigorous encouragement
The story of Confederation had reached a dead end. New Brunswick had voted against the entire scheme, and, without New Brunswick as a physical...
The Bridges at Oxford Mills
by David Shanahan
When the signs went up a while back announcing that Factory Bridge in Oxford Mills would be closed for a couple of...
Minerals and Treaties
The British and Canadian Crown has many reasons for entering into treaties with the Indigenous peoples, none of them for the benefit of the...