Local newspapers of the past
A viable local newspaper only really became possible with the advent of the telegraph from the 1840's, and the development of good roads and...
10 Water Street, Oxford Mills
Every house has story: a tale of families who built it, lived in it, raised families and filled it with life. The house in...
Leslie Hall
Leslie Hall has served the community for over one hundred and ten years, opening its doors to the most varied collection of activities one...
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",...
The Irish are coming
The years surrounding Confederation in Canada were ones dominated by a menace, a threat to safety and security among all the people of what...
Slavery in Canada
Canadians know about the Underground Railway, the network by which escaped slaves in the U.S. could cross the border and find freedom in Canada....
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...
Emergency War Classes for women at Kemptville School
In 1941, women in the area were encouraged to apply for special Emergency War Classes being offered by the Kemptville Board of Education. But,...
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,...
South Gower: a strange and changeable township
When the Township of South Gower was amalgamated with Oxford-on-Rideau and the Town of Kemptville in 1998, it officially ceased to exist. But that...