- 2026-10-08At the 1954 Royal Agricultural Winter Fair in Toronto, William E. Breckon of Burlington won the World Wheat Championship with…
- 2026-10-08Born into a prominent Brantford family, Lawren Harris began to paint as a child. At the University of Toronto, a…
- 2026-10-08This College was founded in 1877 to prepare men of evangelical conviction for the Anglican ministry. Four years earlier a…
- 2026-10-08The shortest route between the upper and lower Great Lakes lies between here and Georgian Bay. For John Graves Simcoe,…
- 2026-10-08The Mechanics' Institute movement began in Britain and soon spread to North America. Its aim was to teach workers the…
- 2026-10-08In 1796, Thomas Mercer, a Loyalist, acquired some 200 acres of land in this vicinity. James Hogg, an enterprising Scottish…
- 2026-10-08In December 1806, a group of German settlers from Berlin, Pennsylvania, led by Jacob and Michael Keffer, arrived in Vaughan…
- 2026-10-08Erected as a school in 1904-05, this building became a centre for minority rights agitation in Ontario early in the…
- 2026-10-08A leading spokesman for Canadian agrarian and co-operative movements, Good was born and raised on Myrtleville farm. He early developed…
- 2026-10-08The first professionally trained lawyer appointed a judge in what is now Ontario, Powell was born in Boston and educated…