The Streets of North Grenville
by David Shanahan
These days, Prescott Street is considered the main artery of downtown Kemptville. But before 1872, it was just developing as a commercial...
North Grenville History- Beckett’s Landing Summer Resort
This was the Beckett's Landing Summer Resort, built by Cecil Beckett in 1927 and a favourite place for boaters and swimmers on the Rideau...
Henry Patton Pioneer Missionary of St. James
by Doug MacDonald
The distinguished older gentleman in the portrait is the Venerable Henry Patton, Archdeacon of the Diocese of Ontario.
In 1826, the Church of...
The founding of a town
There is a long historic truth of land occupation that pre-dates written historical records of the area. Archaeological information indicates that Algonquin people have...
A Future Built on Our Heritage – work of Heritage Advisory Committee continues
by Michael Whittaker
When considering the heritage of North Grenville, many people think first of the arrival of Europeans cutting farms into the forests along...
A quiet green spot in Kemptville
As so often in North Grenville, some of the more interesting and historic locations are now empty sites where once there stood the earliest...
Early days in Wolford
Life in the early nineteenth century was hard, dangerous, and often without the little luxuries taken for granted by later generations. The population was...
The Wild Man of Oxford
There is no doubt that, over the decades that North Grenville and its predecessors have been in existence, many fascinating and colourful figures have...
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...
Happy 90Th Birthday Rideau Glen
by Cecile Fortier
Born from the ashes of the Jazz Age, through the waves of social enjoyment, into the bleak throes of the Great Depression...