L’histoire des Acadiens et des Cajuns
La fête nationale des Acadiens est célébrée le 15 août. Ceux-ci sont éparpillés de part et d’autre au Canada, même dans notre municipalité de...
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...
Country roads
When Oxford-on-Rideau was first surveyed in 1791, a grid pattern was used to divide the land into concessions and lots. That sounds simple, doesn’t...
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...
Canada Day History
Canada Day has become such a central part of the Canadian year that it is easy to forget that it is a very recent...
Revolutionary resolutions
The Quebec Conference of October, 1864 is where the famous 72 Resolutions were drawn up. These, in turn, became the basis of the British...
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...
Treaty Facts
June is National Indigenous History Month, and the Times will be publishing articles and information to promote the aims of the Truth and Reconciliation...
Moving on up
In 1901, reports began to appear in Toronto newspapers that G. H. Ferguson, Reeve of the little village of Kemptville, intended to run in...
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...