Burritts Rapids and a problem in history
In order to write history, historians need reliable sources. Unless you have information, dependable and supported by documents, letters, diaries, maps or whatever, it...
Conservative? North Grenville?
Since Confederation, North Grenville has elected Conservative Party members, almost exclusively, at both the federal and provincial levels, for all but 19 years in...
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...
Ferguson Forest Centre Saved
The recent news that the Ferguson Forest Centre was threatened with closure reminded everyone how important an asset it is to this community. But...
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...
Charles Ferguson, medic and politician
In this series of men and women from North Grenville who had an impact beyond the borders of their community, Charles Ferguson is a...
Party political papers
There is a rather unfortunate idea around these days that newspapers have to be “objective, balanced, not opinionated”, an idea that we assume is...
On the brink of war – again
As the Maritime delegates arrived in Quebec City in October, 1864, ready to continue the talks that had begun in Charlottetown, they were in...
Merrickville’s Famous Woollen Mill
by the Merrickville & District Historical Society
Following the American Revolution the first Loyalists arrived in Canada, settling first along the St Lawrence and then,...
Mightier than the sword: Newspapers in North Grenville
The rulers of New France had a very strong rule about the society that they wanted to see in Canada. For that reason, they...