Dead centres of the community
There would seem to be little to say about local cemeteries. But those gravestones contain the names of some of North Grenville’s famous citizens,...
Obstacles and opposition
When the delegates returned home from the Quebec Conference in late 1864, they must have felt that they were on the brink of achieving...
We are all Treaty people…
For thousands of years before Europeans arrived in this area, the forests, rivers and lakes knew other people: people who lived with the land,...
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...
Finders Keepers – The Doctrine of Discovery
Imagine a typical Canadian family packing up and heading off to the cottage for a few days. Naturally, it’s beside a lake, very rough...
The Harp and the Maple Leaf
The impact of the Irish on Canada goes well beyond the immigrants who arrived here in droves throughout the Nineteenth Century. Most of those...
A celebration of service for the Kemptville Lions Club
As we celebrate the 150th anniversary of Confederation, Lions Club members also celebrate a century of service. The first Lions Club was established in...
Whose land was it anyway?
After the end of the American Revolutionary War, about 50,000 refugees sought refuge in the lands still held by Britain. Most of these went...
It was 20 years ago today…
Societies have always seen natural phenomena as portents, signs of good or ill, marking some major historic event. If that’s the case, then the...
The Advance Building 206 Prescott Street
Until around 1900, the lots on the west side of Prescott Street south of the Asa Street junction were part of the Anderson &...