- 2026-10-08On September 21, 1812, a United States force of some 200 regulars and militia under Capt. Benjamin Forsyth attacked Gananoque.…
- 2026-10-08In 1830 Sir John Colborne, lieutenant-governor of Upper Canada (1828-1836), settled several nomadic bands of Indians on a reserve stretching…
- 2026-10-08For over two centuries, the Ottawa River was part of the main canoe route to the West. Some of the…
- 2026-10-08On Old Fort Island a half mile north of here, the Hudson's Bay Company erected a stockaded fur trading post…
- 2026-10-08The only facility of its kind in Ontario during the Second World War, No. 1 Technical Training School, St. Thomas,…
- 2026-10-08Opened in 1887, this charming two-room brick school, built by local contractor Fred Taber, replaced a smaller wood-frame building. School…
- 2026-10-08In the summer of 1790, the Hudson's Bay Company sent James Sutherland from Osnaburgh House to establish a post on…
- 2026-10-08One of Ontario's most striking geological formations, this cuesta has at its base granite rocks formed deep in the Earth…
- 2026-10-08This is the site of one of the bloodiest clashes in Canadian labour history. In January 1963, a contract dispute…
- 2026-10-08Regiopolis College, incorporated March 4, 1837 by an Act of the legislature of Upper Canada, opened in the central portion…