- 2026-10-08Born at Thurlow, Upper Canada, and educated in medicine, Canniff served as Medical Officer with the Royal Artillery during the…
- 2026-10-08Born of a Loyalist family in the state of New York, Merritt became a pioneer merchant and industrialist on Upper…
- 2026-10-08Born in England, Kirby emigrated to the United States in 1832 and to Canada in 1839. Having lived in Quebec…
- 2026-10-08Born in Scotland, Mackenzie came to Upper Canada in 1820. He became a prominent radical journalist and was first elected…
- 2026-10-08Mackenzie King, grandson of William Lyon Mackenzie, was born in Berlin, now Kitchener, Ontario. As a public servant he organized…
- 2026-10-08Born in England, William Saunders came to Canada in 1848 and became a pharmacist. A recognized expert in scientific agriculture,…
- 2026-10-08An Anglican clergyman who left the ministry in 1891 to work for most of the rest of his life as…
- 2026-10-08The canals at Farran's Point, Rapide Plat and Galops were known collectively as the Williamsburg Canals. All three were built…
- 2026-10-08Here, 1669-1670, wintered Dollier and Galinée with seven other frenchmen, the first Europeans known to have ascended the Great Lakes…
- 2026-10-08This township hall, erected in 1859, survives as a symbol of the development of self-government in rural Ontario. Following the…