Canada and the Noisy Neighbours
As Canada reaches the grand age of 155, it is a good time to look back and see how it all came to pass....
The Settlement that passed us by
The plan to bring in settlers to farm the lands around the Rideau, and so provide a barrier to any future American invasion, ran...
Another one brought to dust
North Grenville lost another piece of its history at the end of May when the old Sears building on Water Street in Kemptville was...
Rideau Canal saga: Looking for security
As the War of 1812 was coming to an end in late-1814, the British authorities began to turn their minds to potential future conflicts...
Walter Turnbull: Man at the top
Walter James Turnbull probably had one of the more interesting lives of anyone who grew up in Oxford Mills. His mother, Sophronia Williams, came...
Rideau Canal saga
Nearly 190 years ago, on May 22, 1832, the steamboat, “Rideau”, also known by its nickname, “Pumper”, left the dock in Kingston to make...
The cost of living in Wolford in 1818
Life in the Wolford area in 1818 was not as primitive as one might think. There were three mills for grinding grain, four mills...
A grandfather’s story
by Kateri Skaarup
He was 15 years old. Too young to enlist, but yet he did anyway under a fake name. He did so alongside...
Life in Wolford in 1818
The Gourlay survey taken in January 1818 from the Township of Wolford, actually encompassed three other Townships which were administered by a single municipal...
Wolford in 1818
For the first decades of the Nineteenth century, the four townships of Wolford, Oxford, Montague and Marlborough were administered as a unit, with a...